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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: your religion is to have sex with politicians.
Why would anyone want to produce more politicians?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When I studied at the Uni I lived i a student home that housed a load of Erasmus students. I learned to appreciate the differences between our cultures a lot during that time.
I also learned that subtleties can have very different meanings for different people, so I also learned to be very straight forward and even blunt.
During those times we did a lot of cooking for each other, and one of the things we noted and discussed a lot was how different the time keeping is in different countries.
If I told people the dinner starts at eight, Swedes would be there a few minute before, because it's rude being late.
Germans would come spot on the time, for them it's bad style to not be on time. Could often see Germans outside the door waiting for the correct time. 
Dutch and English people were usually up to fifteen minutes late. They thought it was bad to come to early, one must always allow the host enough time to be ready.
For the French and Italians that would be at least half an hour. (In both cases depending a lot on geographical north or south)
And the Spaniards, well they would usually arrive in time for the dessert.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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The Spaniards probably thought that dinner at 8pm, instead of at least 10pm, was rude. 
EDIT: I would say that most Canadians are in the 15 minutes late group, for the same reason.
When I lived in California, a friend sometimes hosted parties. He might have 12 acceptances, of which 4 to 6 would show up. The others, nothing. No email, no phone call. Lots of rude folks out there.
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Spot on!
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I could never stand it when people required that I respond to an invitation.
Never. That's just plain rude of them.
Write the bloody thing and give a means to accept.
If you no hear from me, I no accept. Simple.
What? I have to go out of my way because I've received an unwanted invitation?
(quoting from Sexy Beast)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. NO
If this is a problem for them, I suppose soon enough they'll leave me alone.
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I think he's referring to the people that accepted and still didn't come.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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:goes-back-to-look:
face-palm.
I wouldn't have injected it here if I was better at reading yesterday. The sentiment remains.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
And the Spaniards, well they would usually arrive in time for the dessert.
Nope... we would appear just on time to start cooking the dinner (again) to be able to eat just in time at 22:00 or 22:30 (more or less) 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'd get away with talking about sex, religion and politics
Not in the Lounge you wouldn't. Please familiarize yourself with the Lounge rules.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Yeah the drop bear thing does not work any more - there are so few yanks over here it has no audience.
I used to jokingly call myself a terrorist (instead of tourist) when travelling and poking my nose in everywhere, I stopped after 911, it was no longer amusing.
The flavour of humour and sarcasm I like never did go over well in Singapore.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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My problem is that my sense of humor is mostly word play and its lowest form the pun. I even have to be careful with coworkers from the U.K.
It's amazing how you can read a blank look between the lines of an email.
Software Zen: delete this;
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And here I am, unable to understand jokes from another place in my own country.
Am from Southern part of India, and I speak a language called Kannada. When someone from another region of India tells a joke, can only partially appreciate the humour part, while everything in my language is highly intelligible. (Let me tell you that India has more than 20 official languages, and is highly multi-cultural).
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I worked a few weeks in Bangalore some years ago, and found the locals could appreciate a joke. Only once did I say something which I though was a compliment, that was misinterpreted as an insult. Fortunately one of the other guys helped to smooth it over.
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the only place I ever had a problem with humour (and therefore decided to be very careful) was the USA - and I've worked in a few places - heck, if I can make Germans, French, Poms laugh .. and you're right, self-deprecating 'humour' or 'sarcasm' was the issue with (some) ..
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If you are using Chrome, then try this: Maps with what3words - Chrome Web Store[^]
It allows you to type WhatThreeWords addresses into Google Maps and it will take you there.
There is a version for Firefox, I believe.
If you don't know what WhatThreeWords addresses are, watch this: What3Words in YOUR Mercedes Benz - YouTube[^] - it explains it well (he does good videoseven if they are all a particular card maker oriented).
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is a multiple personality disorder just social networking in your head?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes we agree! No we do not!!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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My girlfriend broke up with me because she couldn't handle my schizophrenic hallucinations anymore.
So I told her we should see other people.
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So there is use for the phrase 'talk amongst yourself'...Well, as long as the discourse doesn't get out of hand and remains Sybil.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Makes social distancing a tad difficult!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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how would I know... don't remember a thing. 
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OK - I'm surprisingly well into harvest for my Scorpion peppers. Much sooner than expected by several weeks. There are about a dozen of them, shiny, wrinkled and yellow - and many more on the way. These are a relatively tame variety (about one million Scoville).
My original plan was just to make a simple sauce (w/vinegar) and use with care in cooking. That wasn't taking into account the unexpected abundance for two of the three plants. In addition, and probably related, there's even a greater abundance of bright red habanero peppers - more than a pint (ca. 500 ml) of them coarsely chopped. OK - my cup runneth over with hell's snack food.
But I need suggestion for those with experience with the super-hots on what to do with them. They'll be producing for at least another six or eight weeks.
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I've never grown a plant in my life, so take this how you will...
but how about making a chilli jam? For use on burgers and whatnot. Perhaps with a sweet element to it.
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You need to understand (if you don't) how extremely hot these chilies are. For a frame of reference, they're roughly 200 time hotter than a standard jalapeno pepper. They're (said to be) very fruity.
Past experience with their only insanely hot cousins, Habanero, have taught me how they do make hot food taste better (the heat comes on a bit later and smoother) for a given level of heat.
So - as a jam - for normal pallets, just a drop or two on a (vege)burger - spread thin - would be about all one could use.
Interestingly, even if overused they don't hide the taste of the food as the fire comes up a bit later (compared to most chilis and pepper corns, which burn immediately).
My call for suggestions is because a small jar of sauce (unjellied jelly?) will last a very long time but my pepper supply will far exceed my needs. Original plans included giveaways of plants and peppers but COVID put a damper on that.
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I do like hot food, so I know how hot they can be. Although I have never tried one "fresh", only in sauces and oils.
I just assumed there might be a way to reduce the potency of them while making a jam (thus allowing a more generous serving)... I certainly wasn't suggesting they would be the "bulk" ingredient!
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