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Old Jan 9th 2013, 10:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
You squirt cream out of an aerosol.
when you squirt cheese out of an aerosol
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Originally Posted by lisa67
When your drink of choice is iced tea (with plenty of ice!)
In six years I have refused to allow one drop of such a foul and odious concoction passed my lips.
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you begin to think perhaps the bacon isn't that bad after all.
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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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No - not backwards. I've been here so long, drinking stronger and stronger double oak barrel aged imperial blah blah beers that I realized recently that I'd started looking down on plain old 6% IPAs or - heaven forbid - anything weaker.

The gorgeous US craft beer movement has seduced me and officially turned me into an alcoholic.
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Originally Posted by lansbury
In six years I have refused to allow one drop of such a foul and odious concoction passed my lips.
Same here but make that 17 years.
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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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I've not been assimilated enough it would seem
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Oh for ****'s sake, can't we turn that dead horse into glue?
I imagine that comes under the First Amendment...?
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Old Jan 10th 2013, 12:18 am
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Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
My mother would have been appalled... And believe me, you did NOT want to cross her.
My ma wasn't that fancy, I guess

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I imagine that comes under the First Amendment...?
I'm not much of a fan of that one either quite a lot of the time if I were being honest.
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you accept that donuts are a typical food choice for breakfast meetings along with Bear Claws and Dr Pepper
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Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
you accept that donuts are a typical food choice for breakfast meetings along with Bear Claws and Dr Pepper
My missus tells me that my breakfast of choice, jam toast, is just about the same as doughnuts. I get told off for giving the little one jam toast.
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Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
you accept that donuts are a typical food choice for breakfast meetings along with Bear Claws and Dr Pepper
At least that keeps you from having to eat the bacon ...
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Originally Posted by kimilseung
My missus tells me that my breakfast of choice, jam toast, is just about the same as doughnuts. I get told off for giving the little one jam toast.
Nonsense. Toast is a wholesome slice of bread that has been, well, toasted. Doughnuts are lumps of sugared dough that have been deep-fried and saturated in fat.

I had the best doughnut of my life in Chipping Camden. Though perhaps that observation belongs in the random comment thread.
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Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
you accept that donuts are a typical food choice for breakfast meetings along with Bear Claws and Dr Pepper
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
At least that keeps you from having to eat the bacon ...
And those clammy mini muffins and mini bagels that always how up at breakfast meetings, too.
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Default Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...

Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
you accept that donuts are a typical food choice for breakfast meetings along with Bear Claws and Dr Pepper
Originally Posted by kimilseung
My missus tells me that my breakfast of choice, jam toast, is just about the same as doughnuts. I get told off for giving the little one jam toast.
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Nonsense. Toast is a wholesome slice of bread that has been, well, toasted. Doughnuts are lumps of sugared dough that have been deep-fried and saturated in fat.

I had the best doughnut of my life in Chipping Camden. Though perhaps that observation belongs in the random comment thread.

You know you have been here too long when you forget how to spell doughnuts
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You take the car to go somewhere that is 1/4 mile away.
You drive between stores built around the same parking lot.
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