Re: Barbara

On 31.03.2024 22.39, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> On 12.03.2024 14.30, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>> On 24.02.2024 21.56, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>> On 11.02.2024 15.49, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 14.01.2024 16.02, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I can eat pancakes whenever I want.
>>>>>>>>>>> Try and stop me.
>>>>>>>>>> Barbarism!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yelling isn't going to make me stop.
>>>>>>>> I'm not yelling. I'm not a great fan of yelly...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did you say jelly?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who? I don't know any Jenny.
>>>>>
>>>>> Excellent! Your hearing is going!
>>>>> <mutters something>
>>>> Speak up you young punk *shakes walking stick at you*
>>>>
>>> *stands on your lawn*
>>
>> Gedoff! I don't tend that lawn every month in the season just so you
>> can stand around on it. Lawns are for looking at and having a nicer
>> one than the neighbours.
>>
> 
> Really?
> 
> Well, when I'm your age, I'm going to let people stand on my lawn.

You say that now, but just you wait...
I was a 'stand on my lawn all you want' kind of person once too.

>>>>>>>>>>> What if someone works the night shift and their breakfast is
>>>>>>>>>>> at the same time as other people's dinner? Pancakes cover all
>>>>>>>>>>> the bases. 
>>>>>>>>>> Breakfast is the first meal after sleeping no matter how
>>>>>>>>>> someone's 24 hour cycle is organised. That's when you want
>>>>>>>>>> some high carbohydrate foodstuff to get the motor running, so
>>>>>>>>>> to speak. Dinner is when the high protein food should be
>>>>>>>>>> ingested to regenerate muscles while resting after a day of
>>>>>>>>>> toil. 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I have chicken and waffles for dinner, the chicken part is
>>>>>>>>> protein. 
>>>>>>>> Yes. And the waffles are incongruent.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don't knock 'til you tried it...
>>>>>> I've tried waffles. And chicken. They don't go together...
>>>>>>
>>>>> But they do!
>>>> Only in the same way that pastry and guacamole goes together.
>>>>
>>> That is also yummy!
>>
>> *internal screaming*
>> No Merlyne. That is not "yummy" - that is cursed and/or satanic.
>>
> 
> You say that about everything ...

Not true. I only ever say it about things that are cursed and satanic.

>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Or waffles and chicken.
>>>>>>>>>>> What does the order of food matter?
>>>>>>>>>> Tradition! It's how it has always been done.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> then it's time for a change.
>>>>>>>> Do you know what change leads to? Communism, that's what. And
>>>>>>>> total collapse of society. Cats and dogs living together, people
>>>>>>>> marrying box-turtles and women wanting to vote...
>>>>>>>> Is that what you want!?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [X] Yes
>>>>>> Well then, what can I say except: onwards to the barricades. Vive
>>>>>> libertê. Stuff like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Stop touching yourself.
>>>>>>>>>> I wasn't. It was metaphorical touching. By your kindness and
>>>>>>>>>> sacrifice. 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You're lucky I'm such a nice person.
>>>>>>>> Truly blessed, indeed. Did you mail the buttons?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not yet. I should do that soon since I heard postage rates are
>>>>>>> going up because nobody mails anything anymore.
>>>>>> Nobody but the very rich, like banks and the gubbernment
>>>>>> sometimes... Also a <100g domestic letter(B) here is 25DKK
>>>>>> (~4.90CAD) for delivery within five (5) days. Next day delivery
>>>>>> (A) is 35DKK (~6.85CAD). Fcsking politicians with their
>>>>>> profitability requirement and selling the institution to the
>>>>>> swedes... 
>>>>>>
>>>>> Too funny!
>>>>> The businesses that mail stuff out get the bulk rate which is way 
>>>>> cheaper like 17 cents a letter.
>>>> I know. Also packets of things one buys on the internet. But
>>>> returning something is the 'standard' postage.
>>>>
>>> Plus the 'restocking' fee.
>> Why would they need restocking if they get their stuff back? That
>> makes no sense...
>>
> 
> Exactly!
> And yet they charge it all the same...

Sounds like a scam to me.

>>>>>>>>>>> Can't you buy ice cream at the grocery store there?
>>>>>>>>>> Yes, but I think that's just left-over stock from summer. The
>>>>>>>>>> Ice cream stalls with the freshly baked waffle cones and the
>>>>>>>>>> extensive selection of ice cream flavours for scooping close
>>>>>>>>>> for winter, I'm pretty sure. It might have changed nowadays
>>>>>>>>>> what with all the foreign tourists and their strange dietary
>>>>>>>>>> habits. 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You need to be more open-minded about food.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'll have you know I'm very open-minded about food. I once ate a
>>>>>>>> plateful of calamari.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yuck!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You need to be more open-minded about food.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I will be if you will be.
>>>>> Also. I have a fish and seafood allergy.
>>>>
>>>> You have an excuse for everything.
>>>
>>> It's also about chosing not to die.
>>
>> There's that too I suppose.
>>
> 

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BeH

"No nation can be free if it opresses other nations"   - F. Engels