Florida, California or UK?!
Feb 11th 2014, 1:55 am
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
STOP PRESS raining stopped!! I am alive!.....bloody cold though, gets right in your joints...thankfully I don't have arthritis.
Question: why do you see 70 plus yr olds in Florida riding Harley's?....why are most 70 plus's in UK stuck in a depressing care home, abandoned / dumped by their children ( this doesn't happen in China or India or Spain for that matter)
So apart from our weather, ethics, treating old folk disrespectfully, running out of money, very poor NHS, far too overcrowded and getting worse, the UK is ok and has some nice castles.
Question: why do you see 70 plus yr olds in Florida riding Harley's?....why are most 70 plus's in UK stuck in a depressing care home, abandoned / dumped by their children ( this doesn't happen in China or India or Spain for that matter)
So apart from our weather, ethics, treating old folk disrespectfully, running out of money, very poor NHS, far too overcrowded and getting worse, the UK is ok and has some nice castles.
Feb 11th 2014, 1:56 am
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Are you a Daily Mail reporter by any chance? If not, you should be.
And what a load of rubbish about 70 year olds - my father is 70 this year and still rides a motorbike! He also cycled over the Andes past year and is celebrating his 70th by walking 700 km across France & Spain on the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela. And he's got Parkinson's!!
Even my 98 year old grandfather was still living independently and going to the pub for lunch every day up until 6 months before he died.
So yet again, another pointless sweeping assumption from you. Perhaps the 70 year olds you know are sat in care homes feeling sorry for themselves. The ones I know are having far too much fun to waste time doing stuff like that.
And what a load of rubbish about 70 year olds - my father is 70 this year and still rides a motorbike! He also cycled over the Andes past year and is celebrating his 70th by walking 700 km across France & Spain on the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela. And he's got Parkinson's!!
Even my 98 year old grandfather was still living independently and going to the pub for lunch every day up until 6 months before he died.
So yet again, another pointless sweeping assumption from you. Perhaps the 70 year olds you know are sat in care homes feeling sorry for themselves. The ones I know are having far too much fun to waste time doing stuff like that.
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Feb 11th 2014, 2:11 am
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
But its a FACT! You must be mistaken!
Feb 11th 2014, 2:14 am
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Hi LucyBell33
Thanks for the great article on Artisan Toast, it's really interesting. My hubby is the one who is passionate about sour dough and other artisanal breads. He has been baking for several years now and created his own starter, so no yeast is used, all organic, just flour, salt and water and makes the best bread I've ever tasted.
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Thanks for the great article on Artisan Toast, it's really interesting. My hubby is the one who is passionate about sour dough and other artisanal breads. He has been baking for several years now and created his own starter, so no yeast is used, all organic, just flour, salt and water and makes the best bread I've ever tasted.
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Sorry if I misunderstood, but you seem to have the impression that bread can be made without yeast.
Also, just because a bread is sourdough doesn't mean it's artisanal. RiteAid (open 24 hours, mega market) also sells it. It's artisanal because your husband makes it himself.
Feb 11th 2014, 2:15 am
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Isn't artisanal just a word used so you can charge more for it?
Feb 11th 2014, 2:19 am
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
Are you a Daily Mail reporter by any chance? If not, you should be.
And what a load of rubbish about 70 year olds - my father is 70 this year and still rides a motorbike! He also cycled over the Andes past year and is celebrating his 70th by walking 700 km across France & Spain on the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela. And he's got Parkinson's!!
Even my 98 year old grandfather was still living independently and going to the pub for lunch every day up until 6 months before he died.
So yet again, another pointless sweeping assumption from you. Perhaps the 70 year olds you know are sat in care homes feeling sorry for themselves. The ones I know are having far too much fun to waste time doing stuff like that.
And what a load of rubbish about 70 year olds - my father is 70 this year and still rides a motorbike! He also cycled over the Andes past year and is celebrating his 70th by walking 700 km across France & Spain on the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela. And he's got Parkinson's!!
Even my 98 year old grandfather was still living independently and going to the pub for lunch every day up until 6 months before he died.
So yet again, another pointless sweeping assumption from you. Perhaps the 70 year olds you know are sat in care homes feeling sorry for themselves. The ones I know are having far too much fun to waste time doing stuff like that.
Daily Mail...hardly that's the most right wing paper in the world....
Feb 11th 2014, 2:22 am
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To me, it means something made by an artisan, or something to that effect. Artisan is the person, i.e. the craftsman. So if you think saying "baker bread" is OK, (not baker's) I guess it's OK to say artisan bread. Because I don't think artisan means artisan's.
Feb 11th 2014, 2:28 am
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Are you a Daily Mail reporter by any chance? If not, you should be.
And what a load of rubbish about 70 year olds - my father is 70 this year and still rides a motorbike! He also cycled over the Andes past year and is celebrating his 70th by walking 700 km across France & Spain on the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela. And he's got Parkinson's!!
Even my 98 year old grandfather was still living independently and going to the pub for lunch every day up until 6 months before he died.
So yet again, another pointless sweeping assumption from you. Perhaps the 70 year olds you know are sat in care homes feeling sorry for themselves. The ones I know are having far too much fun to waste time doing stuff like that.
And what a load of rubbish about 70 year olds - my father is 70 this year and still rides a motorbike! He also cycled over the Andes past year and is celebrating his 70th by walking 700 km across France & Spain on the Camino trail to Santiago de Compostela. And he's got Parkinson's!!
Even my 98 year old grandfather was still living independently and going to the pub for lunch every day up until 6 months before he died.
So yet again, another pointless sweeping assumption from you. Perhaps the 70 year olds you know are sat in care homes feeling sorry for themselves. The ones I know are having far too much fun to waste time doing stuff like that.
Feb 11th 2014, 2:29 am
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Re: Florida, California or UK?!
Feb 11th 2014, 2:33 am
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I have no choice as our eldest couldn't stay under our E2 Visa.....I don't despise it ..I was expressing an opinion that if this couple have a choice & financial security then there is more to offer than the UK....Some people took offence to my honest remarks - stating our weather is poor and its overcrowded.....
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Feb 11th 2014, 2:34 am
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But what I said about the meaning of artisan and artisanal also stands.
By the way, I love bread.
Feb 11th 2014, 2:35 am
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Why are you on here if you're so anti USA?....you can argue all you want but what I have written is accurate...ok so some 70 yr olds live a happy life in UK...of course ...what you get in Florida is free; sunshine, sea air..all known 'facts' to help with ageing conditions...hence there more healthy older people ....Seen the film Cocoon?...Filmed in Naples Florida....why do many US Multi Millionaires & billionaires (snowbirds) have second homes in Naples and other parts of Florida?...They are certainly not coming to Berkshire...Aren't Reading, Bracknell & Slough in Berkshire....Lovely places (not) !!....bloody depressing M25 commuter towns full of 1960s architecture and office buildings....yes please would love to relocate and / or have a holiday home..can you hook me up with an estate agent?
There are about forty-nine better states than Florida to live in in the US. It does not have the exclusive rights to sunshine in the country and who wants to live with a bunch of people who are too much of a pussy to stay in the north when the mercury falls?
Neither can you base the whole UK on the London Orbital Motorway. Not everywhere looks like Milton bloody Keynes.
Get yer head out of yer arse, mate.
Feb 11th 2014, 2:36 am
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Feb 11th 2014, 2:36 am
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"artisanal" still makes me chuckle.
It's one of those words where your brain just can't stop your eyes focussing on the rude bit - like when someone says "naughty" and you can't stop yourself thinking about rubber and black stockings.
Everyone else is the same, right?
It's one of those words where your brain just can't stop your eyes focussing on the rude bit - like when someone says "naughty" and you can't stop yourself thinking about rubber and black stockings.
Everyone else is the same, right?
