Short trip back to UK - observations

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Oct 28th 2010, 2:17 pm

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

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Plus I need to go back to that seafood joint in Seaside that serves the best lobster casserole I've ever tasted.

Can you remember what its called? Always looking for recommendations down the Oregon coast.

Oct 28th 2010, 3:05 pm

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4) This was done to try and stop the fraud where they make a copy of your card while they have it away from you. This way your card never leaves your sight and is therefore more secure. Seems like a good thing to me.

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Is this where they bring the little machine to your table, pop the card in, you enter your pin and you're done. I like it - and a darn sight more secure than the system here where any mickey mouse signature can authorise a cc payment...

Agree 100% - that's something I wish was standard in the US. After having my card skimmed in NYC last year, I prefer to have my card stay in sight.

Oct 28th 2010, 3:59 pm

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Oct 29th 2010, 4:28 am

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Can you remember what its called? Always looking for recommendations down the Oregon coast.

I know.. I hope she does. I can't think of a thing!

Oct 29th 2010, 5:01 am

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

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Originally Posted by Lothianlad

Well, if your AMERICAN spellings is anything to go by then many of you psudo Yankee EX Brits are VERY wellcone to remain JUST that- EX Brits. American Eenglish is a bastardised versdion of OUR lovely ENIGLISH language born in ENGLAND.

I just love it when people take this attitude and can't spell/write/construct a sentence worth a damn

Oct 29th 2010, 5:22 am

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

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Well, if your AMERICAN spellings is anything to go by then many of you psudo Yankee EX Brits are VERY wellcone to remain JUST that- EX Brits. American Eenglish is a bastardised versdion of OUR lovely ENIGLISH language born in ENGLAND.

Remember to log out next time, LL.

Oct 29th 2010, 5:22 am

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

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I just love it when people take this attitude and can't spell/write/construct a sentence worth a damn

I thought he was being ironic

I think you spelt one of your smileys wrong there though, but I can't be sure

Oct 29th 2010, 5:25 am

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

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I know.. I hope she does. I can't think of a thing!

Glad it's not just me. We were in Seaside in May and I can't recall seeing anything that fits the description.

Oct 29th 2010, 5:25 am

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

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I just love it when people take this attitude and can't spell/write/construct a sentence worth a damn

You missed out...psudo and Eenglish.

Oct 29th 2010, 5:26 am

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You missed out...psudo and Eenglish.

There was a wellcone also.

Don't think I've ever seen a sick one, now I come to think of it . . .

Oct 29th 2010, 5:30 am

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Tea drinker.

I like coffee too...but don't see the point in all that faff... espresso is one thing...but people get into way to much of a faff about coffee these days....

Oct 29th 2010, 5:33 am

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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations

And maybe "bastardised" depending which side of the pond your dictionaries from....

Mine's a bit soggy at the moment cos sometimes its over there, sometimes its over here, and sometimes it falls right in the middle - yesterday I bought termaydoes for the first time....sad day....

Oct 29th 2010, 5:37 am

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I like coffee too...but don't see the point in all that faff... espresso is one thing...but people get into way to much of a faff about coffee these days....

had to laugh this morning at the local coffee shop - lady in front ordered a 24oz vanilla latte with extra vanilla, 4 pumps of caramel, 2 splenda and whipped cream, then turned to her friend and said "i love the coffee in here - they make the best espresso in town"....err like she could taste it with all that cr@p on top - may as well have been folgers instant...!

Oct 29th 2010, 5:59 am

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I like coffee too...but don't see the point in all that faff... espresso is one thing...but people get into way to much of a faff about coffee these days....

I'm a purist ... pure latte - just espresso and foamed milk (no sugar, no sprinkles, no extras). I got addicted to this in Italy. If you get the foaming just right - the texture of the foam can be amazing. Not unlike, perhaps, the 'head' on a Guinness or certain other beers/ales/etc. Each sip brings just a touch of the 'head' with it, all the way to the bottom of the glass/cup, IF ... it's poured (Guinness) or foamed (milk) right. 95% of places don't know how to do it so maybe you've never had the experience

. I recently paid $600 for a machine that has the 'umph' to do the foaming correctly (those cheapie home jobbies don't have the steam pressure to do the job).