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Old Jan 9th 2013, 8:04 pm
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When you stop trying to convert $ to £ every time you buy something.
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...when you break ground for that new bunker.
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Old Jan 9th 2013, 8:29 pm
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When you don't have any knives in the utensil draw.
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When your drink of choice is iced tea (with plenty of ice!)
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??? I think you've got it backwards. Rather, when you start to believe that Bud, or Heaven forbid Bud Light, is actually beer.

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You turn up your nose at beer below 8% alcohol declaring it to be "gnat's piss".
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But wasn't it determined in another thread that knives, and other cutlery, are not utensils?

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When you don't have any knives in the utensil draw.
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You squirt cream out of an aerosol.
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Old Jan 9th 2013, 9:33 pm
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Originally Posted by jeffreyhy
But wasn't it determined in another thread that knives, and other cutlery, are not utensils?

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No, we didn't. We demonstrated that all cutlery are utensils, but not all utensils are cutlery

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You squirt cream out of an aerosol.
We did this back home too. My lot presumably still do ...
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We did this back home too. My lot presumably still do ...
My mother would have been appalled... And believe me, you did NOT want to cross her.
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The Tories look quite sensible.
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You present a grown woman with a little teddy bear along with the bunch of flowers.
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A domestic long weekend feels like a dream vacation.


When going to work when you know you will make everyone else sick, is just one of them things.

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Originally Posted by jeffreyhy
??? I think you've got it backwards. Rather, when you start to believe that Bud, or Heaven forbid Bud Light, is actually beer.

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Which reminds me, someone left some "Bud Lite Lime" in my fridge and I don't know what to do with it.

The wife tried to mix in V8 to make a michelada but I wasn't convinced by it.
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Originally Posted by sir_eccles
Which reminds me, someone left some "Bud Lite Lime" in my fridge and I don't know what to do with it.

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
The Tories look quite sensible.
HaHa, yes, never thought I'd see the day when I thought that.
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