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SultanOfSwing

Dec 8th 2017 1:57 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 12396076)

I can suffer briefly if the payoff is worthwhile.

You truly are an inspiration to us all ... :p

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 12396076)

In Nutopia this dream will become a reality.

:lol:

scrubbedexpat097

Dec 8th 2017 2:42 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 12396076)

I'm not actually sure.. Gonna go look..

If not I can send you some;)

Nutek

Dec 8th 2017 2:53 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Sugarmooma (Post 12396110)

If not I can send you some;)

Hello.

:wave:

md95065

Dec 8th 2017 4:47 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 12396075)

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Originally Posted by zargof (Post 12396073)

He'll be fine. I'm sure his Mini will fit down the aisles at Kroger.

It'd be like a Top Gear challenge in real life. I can only presume he'd be Hammond.

Isn't "being Hammond" pretty much incompatible with "being fine"?

scrubbedexpat097

Dec 8th 2017 4:58 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 12396117)

Hello.

:wave:

:nod::thumbup:

Anian

Dec 8th 2017 8:16 am

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TV advert for the Salvation Army. Story about a girl who buys a new coat, then meets a poor homeless without one. Does she give the new coat to the girl? No. Does she give her old coat to the girl? No. She returns the new coat and gives the money to the Salvation Army because eventually they might give that homeless girl a coat.

My four-year-old niece pointed out how dumb this was. I'm betting that someone at the ad agency just wanted to push how stupid you have to be to give money to the Salvation Army.

Pulaski

Dec 8th 2017 8:20 am

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Originally Posted by Anian (Post 12396350)

Obviously they haven't seen this. :lol:

scrubbedexpat091

Dec 9th 2017 4:08 am

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When family treats another member of family like 2nd class citizens for no reason other then that is what they do...Pisses me off.

Steerpike

Dec 9th 2017 5:44 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 12396353)

Obviously they haven't seen this. :lol:

Steve Hughes on homeless people

Wow; I had to really turn up the volume to catch all he said, and eventually turned on closed captions. He may be a good comedian but he's not the best in terms of clarity! Some of his phrases were easy, but he has bouts of racing through his words.

lizzyq

Dec 9th 2017 1:21 pm

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 12395351)

Cant find it anywhere around here. Amazon I suppose.

Blackcurrants were banned in the USA for years, but are now allowed again.

zzrmark

Dec 9th 2017 2:39 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by lizzyq (Post 12396954)

Blackcurrants were banned in the USA for years, but are now allowed again.

For a moment there I thought WTF, either this is some racial joke that I don't understand or some other kind of nuttiness courtesy of the NAACP but no you were right. I am now Wiki enlightened, figures that big business had a hand in the banning of currants!

Steerpike

Dec 9th 2017 5:20 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by lizzyq (Post 12396954)

Blackcurrants were banned in the USA for years, but are now allowed again.

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Originally Posted by zzrmark (Post 12396962)

To clarify, only the growing was banned due to potential disease spreading from a fungus on the bark; not the distribution or sale of the fruit. I've been happily buying blackcurrants at my local stores for 20 years. Now that I've read up on it, I do recall many of them are from Canada. I have a big (Costco size) box of them in the fridge right now; just looked at the label and they are from Peru! Who would have known ...

They are awesome fruits!

robin1234

Dec 9th 2017 7:36 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Steerpike (Post 12396983)

I think all of that family are still banned in New York, including gooseberries. We have wild gooseberries popping up everywhere in our yard, very tasty they are too. I assume it's only an offence if you cultivate them, rather than benignly allow them to grow wild!

Ah just looked it up - apparently NYS repealed the ban on gooseberries in 2003!

Pulaski

Dec 10th 2017 12:21 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Steerpike (Post 12396983)

..... I have a big (Costco size) box of them in the fridge right now; just looked at the label and they are from Peru! Who would have known.

:wave:

A very large amount of fruit eaten in the US comes from Chile and Peru.

Grapes are a well known example, but many other fruits are cultivated in Peru including blueberries, citrus fruits, olives, pineapples, guavas, bananas, apples, and pears.

The range of fruits from Chile is less - notably grapes, apples, pears, and peaches, but I believe the quantities imported into the US are greater than from Peru.