Re: Barbara

On 18.12.2023 20.45, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arizona?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> happies applies wherever she is.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Geez!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you asked
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> me if she was in Arizona. A fact I do not have.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a real
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> place in the world... 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was less a question and more an offering.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, thank you then - but no thanks. I don't want
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arizona. I understand that it's full of elderly
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Americans... Not really my thing. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think you'd fit in perfectly.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> With a bunch of old people who most likely drive around in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> golf-carts and complain about everything? And eat dinner
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at 17:00? I think not... 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okie dokie.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {Nope. Won't fit in at all}
>>>>>>>>>>>> Well I certainly don't eat dinner at 17:00... that's about
>>>>>>>>>>>> the time I might grab a bit of lunch if I feel peckish.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Which is lunchtime in their time zone.
>>>>>>>>>>> This is all working out well for you!
>>>>>>>>>> That will only work as long as the jet lag persists.
>>>>>>>>> And then what happens?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Then I will want to have dinner at eight and everywhere will
>>>>>>>> have already closed down. And locked up the golf cart parking,
>>>>>>>> one assumes. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You'll have to change your habits. Or go to IHOP for dinner.
>>>>>> Point one: NEVER! Point two: pancakes are for breakfast (or
>>>>>> sometimes for dessert, preferably with ice cream). Pancakes are
>>>>>> not proper food for a growing boy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had pancakes for dinner.
>>>> Yea, but you're an exotic canadian. No telling what strange customs
>>>> you have...
>>>
>>> Sounds like a yummy custom to me!
>> Perhaps, but strange. Dinner is potatoes and meat and such... Or soup.
> 
> Dinner is based on the people eat, not the food itself.
But but but... different foods belong at different times of the day.
Think of *breakfast* cereal and *lunch* meat and sunday roast *dinner*
where all the family reluctanty interacts. Clearly pancakes are a
dessert - or possibly for afternoon coffee instead of cake.

> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example there
are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi course meal.
Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert - cheese or how many
of those you wish to include.

> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want when you 
> want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000 calories and then go 
> to bed.
Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of port
after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a nightcap.

>>> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
>> Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.
>>
> So I need to ask a tourist if there are any weird Danish customs.
> Years ago, when I was on Reddit a lot, one the threads concerned 
> Americans who had a Swedish immigrant friends growing up. A lot people 
> posted that they would be playing at the Swedish kids house and when the 
> mother called the kid for lunch, the American kid was not invited to 
> eat. they had to either wait outside on the doorstep or stay in the 
> Swedish kids bedroom while the family ate. Weird. 
Yes well - that's the swedes for you. Weird. Or maybe they served
something strange that they didn't expect the other kids to want to eat
anyway. Like lutefisk or surströmming.

> My mother would have fixed a plate for the visiting kid. And we were 
> poor.
I have no idea what would have happened in my home. I never had friends
[over].

>>>>> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
>>>> That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange but
>>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> You should have the Mooshu pancakes.
>> I would need to find a chinese restaurant first.
>>
> Google is your friend.
Not if the nearest chinese restaurant suggested it 100Km away...
(I don't know I didn't check but there isn't one in Bigtown so likely
quite far anyway.)

>>>>> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
>>>> Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.
>>>>
>>> Waffle cones are thinner and crispier.
>> Obviously. If they were all soft an wobbly the ice cream would fall
>> out. 
>>
> I feel like you would have consumed it before that happened.
That would depend on the wobbliness of the cone. It could all end up on
the ground. In any case I only eat one ice-cream per year.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>>>>>>>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And?
>>>>>>>>>>> You make some new friends.
>>>>>>>>>> Eeekk!
>>>>>>>>> It will be good for you.
>>>>>>>> I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the
>>>>>>>> neighbours dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden
>>>>>>>> work. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when
>>>>>>> working. It is also my understanding from tv shows that if you
>>>>>>> have an accident, the dog will run to the neighbours. "wroof"
>>>>>>> "wroof" What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?
>>>>>> I would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of
>>>>>> someone so easily distracted by a stick...
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sometimes you have to take what you can get...
>>>> OR - and this is the correct choice - stay off the roof.
>>>>
>>> Agreed. Stay off the roof, it upsets the dog.
>> Reason enough for me. Any reason is enough for me to stay off roofs,
>> really. Ladders too.
>>
>>>>>>>>>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You new friends can do that.
>>>>>>>> But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5
>>>>>>>> o'clock dinner time?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course.
>>>>>>> You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.
>>>>>> Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a lot of
>>>>>> soup in Arizona - one would think it would be a little hot for
>>>>>> soup. 
>>>> I have no idea what they eat in Arizona. They could be eating
>>>> pancakes for supper for all I know. Also even chicken soup will
>>>> develop skin given enough chicken fat (or ageing I suppose).
>>>>> They make cold soups too, like gazpacho.
>>>>> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
>>>> So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in festive
>>>> colours.
>>>
>>> The kind with leather elbow patches so you look scholarly.
>> Obviously. And if at all possible also cast metal buttons with floral
>> patterns. Pewter maybe.
>>
> I have a sweater with those. We could repurpose them.
You would give up your pewter sweater buttons for me? I'm touched.

>>>>> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating ice
>>>>> cream in the winter. Right?
>>>> Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is what
>>>> one should really drink when it's  hot. Too much (or too cold)
>>>> drinks will hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's heat
>>>> regulation. I expect soup is similar.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My body regulator is already broken.
>> You probably need to have it serviced. It may just be the thermostat
>> that's stuck. It happens sometimes.
>>
> Is this where you fix it but thumping it with your fist?
Lard no. Thermostats are delicate and sensitive instruments. You have to
carefully wriggle them back and forth a tiny bit. Repeatedly.

>>> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
>> I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.
>>
> I bet more people eat ice cream in the winter than jump off bridges.
Possibly. Jumping off bridges is more of a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. Eating ice-cream in winter just requires that the ice-cream
shop is open. And money. And thermostatic misalignment.


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BeH

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