Pet Peeves?
Jan 1st 2012, 4:42 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Having had our re-run Christmas lunch for our delayed guests, which was a great success - they really enjoyed it...
... My peeve is that they so liked the way we cooked the potatoes (roasted was a new experience for them... Would this be typical?)... now the roasties have all gone, along with the Christmas pudding they also really liked... And the after eight mints though I suspect Mrs HTS is the real culprit there!)...
... all these are my favourites !!
Other peeve is allegedly corrupt police sherriffs... Who go stumping for GOP candidates (and nutty ones at that) while their department is under the microscope for all the wrong reasons...
... My peeve is that they so liked the way we cooked the potatoes (roasted was a new experience for them... Would this be typical?)... now the roasties have all gone, along with the Christmas pudding they also really liked... And the after eight mints though I suspect Mrs HTS is the real culprit there!)...
... all these are my favourites !!
Other peeve is allegedly corrupt police sherriffs... Who go stumping for GOP candidates (and nutty ones at that) while their department is under the microscope for all the wrong reasons...
Jan 1st 2012, 11:10 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
You know, I can't recall ever having roasted potatoes before I moved to the UK. It may be it's a regional thing and people enjoy them more often in another part of this country, don't know. However, they are very good and I learned to make them. Now if I could just figure out the Yorkshire puddings, my husband would be a happy man.
we would have roast potatos with lamb and pork.
Jan 2nd 2012, 8:21 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Bloody IRS.
Now, Form 8938. Er.. isn't this the same information that I'm submitting to the US Treasury on Form TD F 90-22.1? Couldn't you guys get together and share the one form? Why do I have to fill out two completely different forms with essentially the same information??
Now, Form 8938. Er.. isn't this the same information that I'm submitting to the US Treasury on Form TD F 90-22.1? Couldn't you guys get together and share the one form? Why do I have to fill out two completely different forms with essentially the same information??
Jan 3rd 2012, 12:49 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Having had our re-run Christmas lunch for our delayed guests, which was a great success - they really enjoyed it...
... My peeve is that they so liked the way we cooked the potatoes (roasted was a new experience for them... Would this be typical?)... now the roasties have all gone, along with the Christmas pudding they also really liked... And the after eight mints though I suspect Mrs HTS is the real culprit there!)...
... all these are my favourites !!
Other peeve is allegedly corrupt police sherriffs... Who go stumping for GOP candidates (and nutty ones at that) while their department is under the microscope for all the wrong reasons...
... My peeve is that they so liked the way we cooked the potatoes (roasted was a new experience for them... Would this be typical?)... now the roasties have all gone, along with the Christmas pudding they also really liked... And the after eight mints though I suspect Mrs HTS is the real culprit there!)...
... all these are my favourites !!
Other peeve is allegedly corrupt police sherriffs... Who go stumping for GOP candidates (and nutty ones at that) while their department is under the microscope for all the wrong reasons...
Don't know what part of the country you're in, but in our neck of the woods, roasted potatoes are a "new" thing. Jacket potatoes are quite popular, as is mashed and scalloped, but, for the most part, the roasted thing is unknown. My US family always lumbers my OH with the roasted potatoes for food gatherings and there are rarely any left! NObody I know knows what a Yorkshire pudding is, much less know how to make one (including me).
My newest pet peeve is that the usually barely tolerable morning news program on CNN has been replaced with a new interview program starring Soledad O'Brien. So far, no news, as such, only interviews with politicos. Even more Boooooorrrrrrrring than the old CNN programming!
And --- if your After Eight mints were the real thing, I don't blame you for being p.o'd! Saw a package at a store here that promoted itself as After Eights, but they didn't even LOOK the same and I doubted they'd taste right so I didn't buy them.
Jan 3rd 2012, 12:55 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Glad your "re-do" was successful. Your US guests may have been a little leery of English cuisine and likely pleasantly surprised that it was tastier than English fare is usually touted over here.
Don't know what part of the country you're in, but in our neck of the woods, roasted potatoes are a "new" thing. Jacket potatoes are quite popular, as is mashed and scalloped, but, for the most part, the roasted thing is unknown. My US family always lumbers my OH with the roasted potatoes for food gatherings and there are rarely any left! NObody I know knows what a Yorkshire pudding is, much less know how to make one (including me).
My newest pet peeve is that the usually barely tolerable morning news program on CNN has been replaced with a new interview program starring Soledad O'Brien. So far, no news, as such, only interviews with politicos. Even more Boooooorrrrrrrring than the old CNN programming!
And --- if your After Eight mints were the real thing, I don't blame you for being p.o'd! Saw a package at a store here that promoted itself as After Eights, but they didn't even LOOK the same and I doubted they'd taste right so I didn't buy them.
Don't know what part of the country you're in, but in our neck of the woods, roasted potatoes are a "new" thing. Jacket potatoes are quite popular, as is mashed and scalloped, but, for the most part, the roasted thing is unknown. My US family always lumbers my OH with the roasted potatoes for food gatherings and there are rarely any left! NObody I know knows what a Yorkshire pudding is, much less know how to make one (including me).
My newest pet peeve is that the usually barely tolerable morning news program on CNN has been replaced with a new interview program starring Soledad O'Brien. So far, no news, as such, only interviews with politicos. Even more Boooooorrrrrrrring than the old CNN programming!
And --- if your After Eight mints were the real thing, I don't blame you for being p.o'd! Saw a package at a store here that promoted itself as After Eights, but they didn't even LOOK the same and I doubted they'd taste right so I didn't buy them.
(didn't realize just how much crap there is on morning TV)
Jan 3rd 2012, 2:28 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
OMG - how could I have forgotten? Right after we got the computer cleaned up and a new router and everything! ! ! (This comes under the heading of having a headache and someone having to remind you to take an Aspirin.) 
Jan 3rd 2012, 4:28 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Unfortunately the missus does...but it's not in her knitting/sawing bag 
Anyway, pet peeve for the day, extended family....they really know how to mess with your head.
And speaking of extended family, how one is waiting around on local doctor rather than being pro-active and either go to Waterville/Bangor/Portland or even Boston to sort things out. Went to the doctors for a sprained ankle last September and was told it might be either arthritis or leukemia. It's now between LGD, leukemia or something else but they are still faffing around with inconclusive test results and the local doctors not having a clue.
WTF, pull your fingers out people and get to a proper hospital, sod the potential cost of knowing, you've got 2 young kids to think of.
Anyway, pet peeve for the day, extended family....they really know how to mess with your head.
And speaking of extended family, how one is waiting around on local doctor rather than being pro-active and either go to Waterville/Bangor/Portland or even Boston to sort things out. Went to the doctors for a sprained ankle last September and was told it might be either arthritis or leukemia. It's now between LGD, leukemia or something else but they are still faffing around with inconclusive test results and the local doctors not having a clue.
WTF, pull your fingers out people and get to a proper hospital, sod the potential cost of knowing, you've got 2 young kids to think of.
Jan 3rd 2012, 4:31 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
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Jan 3rd 2012, 4:53 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Sometimes people can get quite rude about British Food. As I'm not overwhelmed by the American (Texan) "cuisine" of hamburgers and hotdogs, this is one of my pet peeves. I do sometimes point out that the nation that invented the corndog (and feeds them to their children) shouldn't really criticise what other people eat.
Jan 3rd 2012, 5:21 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Sometimes people can get quite rude about British Food. As I'm not overwhelmed by the American (Texan) "cuisine" of hamburgers and hotdogs, this is one of my pet peeves. I do sometimes point out that the nation that invented the corndog (and feeds them to their children) shouldn't really criticise what other people eat.
Fortunately, the other poster seems well aware of the greatness of British cuisine.
Jan 3rd 2012, 5:53 am
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Sometimes people can get quite rude about British Food. As I'm not overwhelmed by the American (Texan) "cuisine" of hamburgers and hotdogs, this is one of my pet peeves. I do sometimes point out that the nation that invented the corndog (and feeds them to their children) shouldn't really criticise what other people eat.
