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THE BRITISH THREAD II

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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 13 Mar, 2011 01:26 am
@McTag,

How ethical is it anyway, to buy fruits & veg out of season?

Kenyan beans, Israeli fruits, South African flowers.

Smorgs is right. Buy turnips and swede. Except the supermarkets drive them about 500 miles between farm, distribution and shops. That's how the swede gets soft. Better if you steal them straight out of the farmer's field, as we used to do when we were kids.
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 09:57 am
@McTag,


I've got an avocado. Should I have it with mayonnaise, or vinaigrette?

(pea-wet? Ecch)
spendius
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 10:11 am
@McTag,
Liquidise it and rub it all over Mrs Mac's delicious epidermis and then lick it off.
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 04:41 pm
@spendius,

Spendy! Behave.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 04:48 pm
@smorgs,
smorgs wrote:

I was in Toronto - never been so cold!

And there's me - arriving in my best Marks and Spencer long cardi...

Loved Toronto though - went for brunch in The Four Seasons, troughed like mad!

x


in Toronto and didn't call?

what kinda friend ... we coulda shown you a good time

din't call


harrrumph
djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 04:54 pm
@ehBeth,
probably couldn't find a
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_184/11895970001Pq81S.jpg
Razz
ehBeth
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 04:55 pm
@djjd62,
ha! there's one right at the corner of King and Simcoe , kitty corner to Roy Thomson Hall
djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 05:00 pm
@ehBeth,
oh, well then she's just a horrible person


Twisted Evil
spendius
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2011 06:21 pm
@McTag,
Quote:
Spendy! Behave.


Well-- Jean Paul Sartre liked that sort of thing, although not with an avocado, and he was a clean cut atheist I believe.
McTag
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2011 04:19 am
@spendius,

Epidermis or mayonnaise, it's a tough call.

Anyway the private lives of honourable members, and the nature of the fruits and/or vegetables they may (or may not) employ in the pursuit of their activities, should remain the purest conjecture in the minds of all.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2011 02:49 pm

We had the avocados, I got some prawns and a lemon and we made a kind of Marie Rose (is that right?) sauce and blobbed the mix on top of the peeled fruit.
Very nice, and we ate them with conventional cutlery too, none of that Sartre nonsense.
Maybe another time.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2011 03:00 pm
@McTag,
Not with prawns and lemons though I trust. Liqueurs are best. The orange flavour. Or Black Magic coffee cream.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 16 Mar, 2011 03:18 am

Onwards, Britons!
Say not the struggle naught availeth.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 18 Mar, 2011 03:35 pm

Have you noticed when driving in the city, and you're trying to have a good look around to make it worthwhile, there might be a pretty girl across the road or something, and a galumphing great 4x4 comes up alongside and you can't see anything? Or you're following a box van and your view ahead is next to nil?

I hate that.

I would propose making all cars the same size, the size of my car, and limiting commercials to between the hours of 06:00 and 08:00, and 21:00 to 01:00.
That ought to be enough.
spendius
 
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Reply Fri 18 Mar, 2011 06:08 pm
@McTag,
Obviously Mac your nurse tested the temperature of your bathwater with her elbow during the phase Freud said set your attitudes in stone.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Sat 19 Mar, 2011 02:43 am
@djjd62,
I AM NOT A HORRIBLE PERSON!

I just didn't have time to canvas who lived in Toronto before my trip. Otherwise I would have gladly met up with Ehbeth for a brew and chinwag - sorry Ehbeth...

x
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 19 Mar, 2011 02:46 am
@smorgs,
And I would have been more than happy to have met you recently. But since you've been in Toronto ...
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smorgs
 
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Reply Sat 19 Mar, 2011 02:47 am
Thank you Walter - kiss kiss
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 19 Mar, 2011 02:51 am
@smorgs,
... but we've been to some other attractions, though Wink
McTag
 
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Reply Sat 19 Mar, 2011 08:20 am
@Walter Hinteler,

Smorgs is an attraction? Is that not a tad sexist?
 

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