The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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sidevalve said:
now you understand one reason why I prefer America - you still have pride. On a facebook group I am in an English biker made a T shirt regarding English bikers remembering English soldiers - no disrespect to anyone else indeed no mention of anyone else at all. Simply an Englishman remembering England's fallen and was IMMEDIATELY abused by scots ["I seem to remember there were Scottish soldiers there too"] Welsh [same] Irish [ditto] and every other sad bleeding heart who had an axe to grind. It seems if a scot is proud to be Scottish or an American is proud to be American etc etc [pick your country] that is fine but if you are English you have to say [if you dare say anything at all] that you are British - well no I'm English and if that alone [ no disrespect to anyone else - just me being proud of my country] makes me a racist fascist or some sort of nazi then so be it. I disrespect no man's country but I expect the same in return and that is something we over here seem to have lost. Further I believe IF we could all be a little more proud of our own country and culture then maybe we could accept and understand someone else's better
Sorry for the rant again :oops:
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Yorkshire Born n'Bred, buttered in Ireland.
 
Yorky said:
I prepared the stock up front and left it in a jug in the sink. Half way through my vegetable stir frying my wife arrive in the kitchen to clean the used dishes. "Have you finished with this?", she asked, as she slopped soap suds into my prepared stock. From then on I was completely out of sync with proceedings.
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My son did that to me when I had some homemade custard cooling in the sink ready to be made into icecream!
 
Lullabelle said:
I have an ear infection :(
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I hope you're feeling better now.

We have 4 new mouths to feed...

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When I worked for Lowe's Christmas trees began arriving about this time or maybe last week. IDK if the P.C. crowd had an impact in Europe regarding Christmas greetings. Here retailers forbade their associates from saying "Merry Christmas" to customers. They were instructed to say "Happy Holidays." I told my store manager he would have to fire me. I refused to participate in such foolishness. Back to Christmas Trees. A week before the first shipment of trees are scheduled to arrive stores receive signage. One year all of the signage touted "Holiday Trees". Two weeks later corporate shipped out all new signage for "Christmas Trees". That was a financial bust for the company.

Stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
 
Seriously I fail to see why it should be offensive to be wished happy christmas. It is no comment on your religion or non religion - simply someone wishing you well from an important point in theirs. If I were to be wished happy xxxxxx by a muslin / sikh / jew etc etc I would simply be pleased by the courtesy. If you live in a christian country you must accept it - trying to bury a culture to please everybody all the time is a dangerous path. Further I find it offensive to be told that I can't wish someone a happy christmas - or is that not important to the PC zealots.
 
sidevalve said:
Further I find it offensive to be told that I can't wish someone a happy christmas - or is that not important to the PC zealots.
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I WAS offended! I created a stir with management by refusing to comply with stupid corporate edicts. I kept my job because I was the top Kitchen Design Specialist in the district.
 
Went on our trip to the Bistro - absolutely brilliant :hungry: Food - perfect [INCLUDING my well done steak !!] Garlic mushrooms - perfect, mussels - perfect, wine [a bit expensive but worth it] very nice, service fast and courteous and overall cost not bad at all. We will DEFINITELY:D:D be going again
 
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