Dinner time in the US
Oct 22nd 2013, 3:48 pm
#46
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Re: Dinner time in the US
This is where our Dining Room table used to be...
http://yaypics.smugmug.com/Category/...DSCF2653-M.jpg
There are a few others kicking around... Laptops... Tablets etc.
http://yaypics.smugmug.com/Category/...DSCF2653-M.jpg
There are a few others kicking around... Laptops... Tablets etc.
What were you thinking
Oct 22nd 2013, 3:49 pm
#47
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Oct 22nd 2013, 4:24 pm
#48
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Re: Dinner time in the US
Surprised food isn't just dumped in a blender, so you can drink it.
Would save time on chewing too.
Would save time on chewing too.
Oct 22nd 2013, 4:33 pm
#50
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Re: Dinner time in the US
b) We have blinds for that
c) Nobody can see into the parts of my house in which I might be found naked, without being on a stepladder in our back garden. In which case, they deserve to have to see my arse.
Oct 22nd 2013, 11:16 pm
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Re: Dinner time in the US
This is where our Dining Room table used to be...
http://yaypics.smugmug.com/Category/...DSCF2653-M.jpg
There are a few others kicking around... Laptops... Tablets etc.
http://yaypics.smugmug.com/Category/...DSCF2653-M.jpg
There are a few others kicking around... Laptops... Tablets etc.
Oct 22nd 2013, 11:39 pm
#52
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Re: Dinner time in the US
How did I not see this thread? Wow, do I have a treat for you. This is too effing funny. A Finnish friend sent this link to my husband. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CiOpZVCUI
Oct 22nd 2013, 11:47 pm
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Re: Dinner time in the US
There really are some nucking futters out there, aren't there.....
And anyway, I think he was wrong about AHO meaning sorrow....I'm sure it was something less savory, just with silent SS LE.............
And anyway, I think he was wrong about AHO meaning sorrow....I'm sure it was something less savory, just with silent SS LE.............
Oct 23rd 2013, 1:14 am
#54
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Re: Dinner time in the US
I've noticed, it seems quite an art form for some Americans to eat a meal. It may be the way they are taught, I don't know, but it seems to involve either cutting all their food up first, or, more delightful to watch, cutting up a piece of food, then swapping the fork over to the other hand to use to eat the food, then swapping the cutlery back to the other hand to cut it again. Just one of their idiosyncracies, maybe, but it still gets the job done, just a bit slower!
Holding the fork in the left hand toddler style, hacking off some meat then placing the knife down and putting the fork into the other hand to eat. Then repeat.
Oct 23rd 2013, 1:20 am
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Re: Dinner time in the US
What do parents actually tell their kids to do when they first start eating proper meals? Some of my daughter's friends look like it's the first time they've ever handled these perplexing implements (and I'm talking about high school seniors).
Oct 23rd 2013, 1:41 am
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Re: Dinner time in the US
I just lost my office, its the wife's now, as she is working remotely, I got to put the download computer for media in a cupboard and control it via a tablet, but no more playing around with media programs for a while, until we plan something new, even the big screen laptop has given up the ghost after many replacement parts. I think I will have to petition for a nice new laptop and some wirless cards and set up the extra computers in the basement and garage.
Oct 23rd 2013, 1:47 am
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Re: Dinner time in the US
Oct 23rd 2013, 2:12 am
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Re: Dinner time in the US
It amazes me that most Americans, well the ones I have seen, have no idea how to use a soap spoon correctly, they just spoon it in as if it was a dessert.
Oct 23rd 2013, 2:33 am
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Re: Dinner time in the US
I married into a red neck family (divorced) and it was mind blowing what went on, my step son at the age of 14yrs would pick his veg up with his fingers, that trick came to an abrupt stop, my ex husband would lick the plate not only at home but in a restaurant double
My pet hate is when you eat out and the server takes the plates/plate away when others are still eating, big time piss off from my end!
not only at home but in a restaurant double My pet hate is when you eat out and the server takes the plates/plate away when others are still eating, big time piss off from my end!
Oct 23rd 2013, 2:58 am
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Re: Dinner time in the US
I just lost my office, its the wife's now, as she is working remotely, I got to put the download computer for media in a cupboard and control it via a tablet, but no more playing around with media programs for a while, until we plan something new, even the big screen laptop has given up the ghost after many replacement parts. I think I will have to petition for a nice new laptop and some wirless cards and set up the extra computers in the basement and garage.
....for one of these threads that's hanging around here somewhere, just not sure it was this one.......