Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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Aug 16th 2007, 12:57 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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oh right and you knew that all along, didn't google it

Nope I knew it.

Aug 16th 2007, 12:59 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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there's a newbie on here called lanky and he lives in conroe, wonder if it's the same guy coz not many brits live way out there i don't think - no one in their right mind would live out there

why call it cornhole, did you ask him?

I guess he thinks about the same of it as you do, cornhole isn't a very nice nickname!

Aug 16th 2007, 12:59 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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A torch that uses a combination of gasses (mine uses propane and oxygen) to cut steel.

Looks like this:

And what would you be doing at home with that?

Aug 16th 2007, 12:59 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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Nope I knew it.

I'm impressed!

Aug 16th 2007, 1:00 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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I'm impressed!

Maybe it's because I came from the best steel capital of the world.

Last edited by Jerseygirl; Aug 16th 2007 at 1:09 pm. Reason: forgot to say 'best'

Aug 16th 2007, 1:01 pm

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And what would you be doing at home with that?

I cut steel with it.

Aug 16th 2007, 1:02 pm

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Maybe it's because I came from the steel capital of the world.

I thought you were a Brit?

Aug 16th 2007, 1:02 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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My wife's is a bunch of tiny stones, little diamonds and emeralds mixed up in a white gold ring as she doesn't like yellow gold. I couldn't afford much, I was 22 years old and working as a janitor when we married. The stones kept falling out and we kept having them replaced. Eventually there was so much solder on the prongs holding the tiny stones in that you can now see more solder than stone. Last year I asked her if she would like a new one as I can afford a (slightly!) better one now, maybe a single stone that's big enough to see anyway. She said even as it is, the ring means more to her than any other ever could and she didn't want another one.

So I used the money to buy a cutting torch instead.

Good on you. Cutting torches are useful.
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Aug 16th 2007, 1:03 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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I thought you were a Brit?

Oi....I'm a Sheffield lass. My grandfather had a steel business.

Aug 16th 2007, 1:04 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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I would guess he means an 0xyacetylene Torch.

You certainly know your torches, you obviously have another career.
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Aug 16th 2007, 1:07 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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Maybe it's because I came from the steel capital of the world.

don't you mean the best steel capital of the world

Aug 16th 2007, 1:08 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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don't you mean the best steel capital of the world

Of course...thanks for reminding me...I'll edit.

Aug 16th 2007, 1:10 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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Maybe it's because I came from the best steel capital of the world.

No, no, no. Pittsburgh has that title.

Aug 16th 2007, 1:11 pm

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No, no, no. Pittsburgh has that title.

No its Miami?
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Aug 16th 2007, 1:11 pm

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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome

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Oi....I'm a Sheffield lass. My grandfather had a steel business.

Well, that's what i thought, but when you said "steel capital of the world" I was thinking Pennyslvania.

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