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Freehold's dream come true...
i'd wager it's 7.5/10 -- insufficient numbers of milkmaids in the classroom.
EDIT: this is not a bait-and-switch
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Freehold's dream come true...
Finally cracking the right skulls!
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Sometimes GothBard's optimism impresses even me.
She ordered pizza delivery. In England.
So yeah, after that atrocity she's out at a pub getting something edible.
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delivery?
In
The land that avocados? Oh! Oh! Oh!
maybe she couldn't eat the pizza because it had avocados on it, or the closest thing we have, namely particularly bulbous and scaly courgettes
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...pub...edible.I don't know that those words belong together...
OMG. If you haven't traveled the British countryside eating at their out-of-the-way pubs, you don't know what you've been missing. GothBard's best meal in all the isles (Ireland included) was a lamb stew at a pub in Wales, where the future ingredients were peacefully grazing just outside the window.
Pubs are Great Britain's response to a millennium of terrible dining choices.
(That and curry houses. You can go pretty much anywhere in England and get a solid curry. Do not get a curry in Scotland.)
My take on England and anything involving tomatoes is thus:
(1) The British are quite erudite, and therefore correctly identify the tomato as a fruit.
(2) As a fruit, the British use their single decent fruit recipe and make tomato marmalade.
(3) They use this tomato marmalade in place of pizza sauce and wonder why foreigners hate their pizzas with such a passion.
I swear, if Italy weren't such a worthless world power throughout history I'd've expected some kind of major war between Britain and Italy over crimes against the tomato.
We hit the Spaghetti House in London and that was pretty dang good. I'd guess London pubs don't measure up to the rural ones, but we didn't have a lot of chances to see much else, having to get to Scotland fairly directly after.
Makes sense. London is "international" enough that we did "real" restaurants the whole time there, so didn't do any London pub food that I can recall...
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Pubs are Great Britain's response to a millennium of terrible dining choices.
(That and curry houses. You can go pretty much anywhere in England and get a solid curry. Do not get a curry in Scotland.)
Seconded. The best pub food I've ever had and the best curry I ever had were both in small towns in Wales.
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I’m a British person, born and bred, if that helps anyone here.
Nessie.. is that you?
There was an Italian restaurant in Manchester, that was perfectly acceptable. It was part of the hotel we stayed in.
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Nessie.. is that you?Nope, I’m down in England. Just a few hundred miles away from the Natural History Museum.
“A shadow on the door, of a cottage on the shore, of a dark Scottish lake.”
Bad weather and bad general contractors mean that our entire project schedule for at least the next month, possibly the rest of the season, is seriously jammed up. Looks like our crew is going to be working over at the demolition company for a while...
The 'gastro pub' phenomenon is quite recent, though you do also get family-run pubs where the owners take their food seriously; most settlements will have their fish & chip shops, curry houses and/or general takeaways, mainly run by South Asian people, but sometimes Turks, and Chinese takeaways.
Inward migration to the UK means that, even outside London, you often don't have to look too hard in/near a large-ish settlement to find a particular kind of "real" restaurant you might want.
I’m a British person, born and bred, if that helps anyone here.
Don't forget I'm fifth generation Californian. You won't find higher food and wine snobbery outside of France.
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delivery?
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That's how the battle of new orleans wound up being fought 2 weeks after the war was over... :)
Bad weather and bad general contractors mean that our entire project schedule for at least the next month, possibly the rest of the season, is seriously jammed up. Looks like our crew is going to be working over at the demolition company for a while...
You could always see if they'll send you our way we could use another guy with hardscape experience I think.
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Impus Minor made the observation that it's disturbing how many ju jitsu throws start with a simple handshake.
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It's also disturbing how many conversations with your pets can get you arrested.
"Good afternoon, Unconscious Girl! Doing OK? OK, then..."
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By the lambent berde of Saint Michel, I hath broken ynother sworde! Ye pomel sheerdeth clene off when I wath fyhgtinge anne Italiano armed ywith an scymytarre, and what ys worse, 'tis longe out of Warrantye.
You could always see if they'll send you our way we could use another guy with hardscape experience I think.
I'll consider it--for the last year or so, I've been toying with the idea of seeing if my boss will send me over to train with you guys for a week or two. Right now, I'm going to give it a couple weeks before I make any major decisions, we might have some small jobs booked as a stopgap.
If this doesn't work out and I end up leaving Iowa permanently, I think I'll probably head back east, though. The Northeast-to-Midwest culture shock has been hitting me pretty hard.
You could always see if they'll send you our way we could use another guy with hardscape experience I think.I'll consider it--for the last year or so, I've been toying with the idea of seeing if my boss will send me over to train with you guys for a week or two. Right now, I'm going to give it a couple weeks before I make any major decisions, we might have some small jobs booked as a stopgap.
If this doesn't work out and I end up leaving Iowa permanently, I think I'll probably head back east, though. The Northeast-to-Midwest culture shock has been hitting me pretty hard.
How different could it be?
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Chat GPT is complimenting my adjustments to its translation.
I am suspicious. Is it trying to lull me into a false sense of security?
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There are no words in any language that can properly express my rage.
There aren't even enough flammable petrochemicals the world over for a struck match to provide "a halfway decent start".
The only true grace note of humor in all of it that is worth sharing:
"Voting for [obvious redaction] just because you don't like [the other obvious redaction] is like eating $#!7 because you don't like broccoli."
Fortunately, both $#!7 and broccoli burn.
...this trip has been very...not good.
I'm sure we'll all laugh about it some day.
Today is not that day.
Neither is tomorrow.
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I have almost walked into a pair of board on my way home from the session.
For a moment, my brain tried to process what those two fuzzy brown blobs walking out of the bushes next to the sidewalk are, and for a moment misidentified them as a small bear or two (dog was quickly crossed out of the list of possible silhouettes), because the darkness and leaves covered parts of their shape.
Thankfully, there were no piglets around, and they were as surprised to see me as I was to see them. I backed off a bit, going around a bus stop, called a warning to a man coming from the other side, and waited a bit.
For the record, I only started to make photos once they were at a safe distance. Sadly, it means those are not good photos.
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Any boar photo you can live through is a great one.
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Boars are significantly more dangerous than (black) bears.
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Boars are significantly more dangerous than (black) bears.
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Boars are significantly more dangerous than (black) bears.Worse than sharks apparently...
Well, the boars do frequent the more spacious and green parts of the city I live in. I have yet to hear about shark encounters here.
On the other hand, while I heard of boars showing around here before, it was my first time encounter with them. Deers, sure, multiple times quite nearby from the spot, both during the night and in the evening. Also foxes, but no boars until now.
We have peccary (aka javalina), deer, coyote, foxes, coatimundi, but no boars.
In my immediate neighborhood it's skunks, raccoons, possums, deer, and rats (plus many smaller rodents). Just two blocks up you get coyotes. A few more blocks and you get the occasional bobcat. A couple miles up and there's a very occasional puma sighting, but they're so rare that it's something like once per 10 years.
We have bats, one or two foxes, a family of rooks roosting in the house next door, the occasional owl, and some of the fattest wood pigeons you have ever seen.
yesterday there was a nest of house sparrows IN the siding and today they are on a ladder siding adjacent. Mom and dad are still around so either they're still trying to look after the kids post move and/or they're plotting revenge.
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Boars are significantly more dangerous than (black) bears.
More reasons to choose the bear.
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The sheer variety of hangover and jetlag cures astounds me.
Back when I traveled for a living it was easy: Get in after 3:00 pm, get to your hotel room, go to bed, and force yourself to stay in bed until normal wake-up time (6:00 am for me) the next morning. Yes, you burn a ton of time lying there awake in bed, but I always adapted to my new time zone immediately, even if it was 1/3 of the way around the world.
At a colleague's recommendation, GothBard is taking the exact opposite approach, getting in at 3:00 pm, and then staying up until at least 10:00 pm to force herself into exhaustion then sleep in the next day.
We'll see how her way goes.
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A wacky theory notion sometimes crosses my mind that since (anecdotally - I don't have enough data) it often feels to me that jetlag hits harder losing than gaining time, it might be fun to try just heading west and rounding the globe to try to cheat, but I will never be the sort of person to be able to afford such a lifestyle. :)
(And as a tree-hugging hippie elf I feel guilty enough about flying in general that short of a grand tour style of itinerary, I don't think I could bring myself to it even if my purse wouldn't weep at the very thought.)
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Boars are significantly more dangerous than (black) bears.
Racist!
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Well, the boars do frequent the more spacious and green parts of the city I live in. I have yet to hear about shark encounters here.Boars are significantly more dangerous than (black) bears.Worse than sharks apparently...
so, keeping sharks out of the neighborhood? That's even more racist!
We have peccary (aka javalina), deer, coyote, foxes, coatimundi, but no boars.
direct boar exclusion! Aargh! Aargh!
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yesterday there was a nest of house sparrows IN the siding and today they are on a ladder siding adjacent. Mom and dad are still around so either they're still trying to look after the kids post move and/or they're plotting revenge.
My money is on revenge
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Wisconsin's major invasive predator is the ever ubiquitous Flatlander.
But there's nothing we can do about that, besides being passive aggressively polite about everything.
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Wisconsin's major invasive predator is the ever ubiquitous Flatlander.
I'm assuming you're talking about people from Illinois?
The way I've always heard it, "Flatlander" is one of those highly non-specific regional definitions, somewhat similar to E.B. White's definition of "Yankee*". I've heard people in the UP call people from northern Wisconsin "Flatlanders." (To be fair, Wisconsin is pretty damn flat...)
It's also used pretty heavily in inland New England, where it simply means "anyone not from inland New England" As in, "Oh, you're from Denver? Welcome to Castleton Corners, Flatlander."
Wisconsin's major invasive predator is the ever ubiquitous Flatlander.I'm assuming you're talking about people from Illinois?
The way I've always heard it, "Flatlander" is one of those highly non-specific regional definitions, somewhat similar to E.B. White's definition of "Yankee*". I've heard people in the UP call people from northern Wisconsin "Flatlanders." (To be fair, Wisconsin is pretty damn flat...)
It's also used pretty heavily in inland New England, where it simply means "anyone not from inland New England" As in, "Oh, you're from Denver? Welcome to Castleton Corners, Flatlander."
Yes, in Wisconsin flatlander is synonymous with Illinois.