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You beat me to it Krop. I was gonna say the same thing...last time I was in Texas and ordered Tea, I was expecting a nice bone China teacup and saucer, with a hot teapot full of earl grey....what I got was a glass of Brown piss like water with ice cubes in it. I said " I can't possibly drink this ...., i'm English for gods sake "
You beat me to it Krop. I was gonna say the same thing...last time I was in Texas and ordered Tea, I was expecting a nice bone China teacup and saucer, with a hot teapot full of earl grey....what I got was a glass of Brown piss like water with ice cubes in it. I said " I can't possibly drink this ...., i'm English for gods sake "
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Tea is the devils work!!!
Nuff said!!!
Nuff said!!!
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Dr No
I'm certainly not a clever man but I can take little steps from milk to cheese like this.
Just try and do little steps between drinking coffee made from cat .... or monkey .... or whatever and pouring brandy up your arse.
This is not having a crack at you. I just can't make little steps between any start point and arriving at "I'll make a hot drink from cat ....". It happens, I am just sure there is an illogical non sequitur ...... up step in there.
It is as logical as .... pie.
When I was in hospital the nurses used to come and give me suppositories at 6am, often without gently waking me up and whispering in my ear.
.... me didn't THAT used to snap your eyes open. I also had a few enemas, internal bleeding, drugs and so on. I have to admit that I think brandy tastes like .... but pouring up my arse to meet its cousin never occurred to me.
One of the nurses (Jane the supermodel with warm hands) used to gently wake me up, whisper, apologise and her long hair would drape all over me. So I have this long hair thing now...Sorry, just oscillating and reminiscing.
I'm certainly not a clever man but I can take little steps from milk to cheese like this.
- []Milk comes from ......., human and bovine and it is good .....
[]Don't taste too bad either
[]Cow make too much
[]About 10 to 20K years ago we started living in villages and discovered/invented agriculture.
[]we tried to store milk and it went off, refrigerator is very modern
[]off milk went mouldy, we ate it anyway - we was hungry, it tastes good - hey I just discovered cheese.
Just try and do little steps between drinking coffee made from cat .... or monkey .... or whatever and pouring brandy up your arse.
This is not having a crack at you. I just can't make little steps between any start point and arriving at "I'll make a hot drink from cat ....". It happens, I am just sure there is an illogical non sequitur ...... up step in there.
It is as logical as .... pie.
When I was in hospital the nurses used to come and give me suppositories at 6am, often without gently waking me up and whispering in my ear.
.... me didn't THAT used to snap your eyes open. I also had a few enemas, internal bleeding, drugs and so on. I have to admit that I think brandy tastes like .... but pouring up my arse to meet its cousin never occurred to me.
One of the nurses (Jane the supermodel with warm hands) used to gently wake me up, whisper, apologise and her long hair would drape all over me. So I have this long hair thing now...Sorry, just oscillating and reminiscing.
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No. Cheese is exactly like pouring brandy up your arse. Exactly.
Anyway, me and too much dairy = not that much different to you expelling that enema. Except I have more skill as being sick and having the runs than that lightweight Casey.
What I was trying to point out is 'wierdness'; that social conditioning makes some foodstuffs acceptable and others not. To wit; the horsemeat kerfuffle.
Note:
The original idea behind Luwak coffee was that the civets would only eat the beans of a certain age/oil content or something. Hence if you found a nice clump of beans'n'poo (the beans remain undigested), you could be pretty certain of the consistency (consistency as in conformance, ahem) of the beans and hence the coffee. It was rather obscure and not something particularly favoured....then marketing got involved. It's the "I drank snake blood"-lite of beverages.
Anyway, me and too much dairy = not that much different to you expelling that enema. Except I have more skill as being sick and having the runs than that lightweight Casey.
What I was trying to point out is 'wierdness'; that social conditioning makes some foodstuffs acceptable and others not. To wit; the horsemeat kerfuffle.
Note:
The original idea behind Luwak coffee was that the civets would only eat the beans of a certain age/oil content or something. Hence if you found a nice clump of beans'n'poo (the beans remain undigested), you could be pretty certain of the consistency (consistency as in conformance, ahem) of the beans and hence the coffee. It was rather obscure and not something particularly favoured....then marketing got involved. It's the "I drank snake blood"-lite of beverages.
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Mick D
Whilst in Vietnam many years ago I picked up the habit of wine and crushed ice. Brilliant. We did a trivia night in summer at Terranora public School and did wine Vietnam style and got so thoroughly stonkered that they suggested we shouldn't do future ones. I love it.
Whilst in Vietnam many years ago I picked up the habit of wine and crushed ice. Brilliant. We did a trivia night in summer at Terranora public School and did wine Vietnam style and got so thoroughly stonkered that they suggested we shouldn't do future ones. I love it.
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LOL! The English and their tea. If you read up on the history of tea you will find the only reason tea came to Britain was because after dumping tons of opium on the poor Chinese - the British cutters had insufficient ballast for the return home. They'd had good green tea at homes of Chinese merchants and decided to buy tea (packed in enormous ceramic jars that are to this day seen in many British homes) for the purpose of weighing the ships down. But the Chinese merchants who hated the British for the forced dumping of opium in their country - got the last laugh. Instead of selling the ignorant Brits good, high quality green tea regularly imbibed by Chinese people of means, they sold the Brits, stale old brown tea leaves and twigs considered to be in-digestible, the dregs from the warehouse floors; not good enough to feed to pigs. Naturally the British who have no taste buds took to the tea craze as quickly as they did tobacco. English tea snobs. Pffft! Ha!
Oh... and it was the Indians who taught the Brits to make tea with milk, sugar, cardamom and ginger. The word "chai" used regularly by the British working class to describe tea back in the '30s and '40s, is like many words in the British lexicon, a Hindustani word originally.
Sorry to go off on a tangent - but a my age you end up becoming the guardian of all kinds of fun facts that nobody gives a .... about. :wheelchair:
LOL! The English and their tea. If you read up on the history of tea you will find the only reason tea came to Britain was because after dumping tons of opium on the poor Chinese - the British cutters had insufficient ballast for the return home. They'd had good green tea at homes of Chinese merchants and decided to buy tea (packed in enormous ceramic jars that are to this day seen in many British homes) for the purpose of weighing the ships down. But the Chinese merchants who hated the British for the forced dumping of opium in their country - got the last laugh. Instead of selling the ignorant Brits good, high quality green tea regularly imbibed by Chinese people of means, they sold the Brits, stale old brown tea leaves and twigs considered to be in-digestible, the dregs from the warehouse floors; not good enough to feed to pigs. Naturally the British who have no taste buds took to the tea craze as quickly as they did tobacco. English tea snobs. Pffft! Ha!
Oh... and it was the Indians who taught the Brits to make tea with milk, sugar, cardamom and ginger. The word "chai" used regularly by the British working class to describe tea back in the '30s and '40s, is like many words in the British lexicon, a Hindustani word originally.
Sorry to go off on a tangent - but a my age you end up becoming the guardian of all kinds of fun facts that nobody gives a .... about. :wheelchair:
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And those same jars used for ballast are now worth a small fortune.
Especially now China has a middle class wanting to buy back their heritage.
£20 ten years ago and some are worth well in excess £10,000 now
Funny eh!?
Especially now China has a middle class wanting to buy back their heritage.
£20 ten years ago and some are worth well in excess £10,000 now
Funny eh!?
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Andy Roo
Wine slushies... don't tell 7-11... they rock!!
Keshav
Uhm Kesh... why would the British be bringing opium to the Chinese via boat? It is an asian drug. Poppies are prevalent from Afghanistan to Laos... Even during the opium wars main transport is by ground not sea... Bit of a brain fart or googlitis... Ballast issue my hairy butt... bringing .... back from the orient was the main goal of the traders... finding .... to put on the boats in England was much more of an issue than "finding ballast" for the trips home...
Wine slushies... don't tell 7-11... they rock!!
Keshav
Uhm Kesh... why would the British be bringing opium to the Chinese via boat? It is an asian drug. Poppies are prevalent from Afghanistan to Laos... Even during the opium wars main transport is by ground not sea... Bit of a brain fart or googlitis... Ballast issue my hairy butt... bringing .... back from the orient was the main goal of the traders... finding .... to put on the boats in England was much more of an issue than "finding ballast" for the trips home...
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Not that it invalidates your point about ballast, but I thought that the deeply moral chaps of the British East India company who controlled the poppy fields of the Raj smuggled the opium into China via the shipping routes they'd developed for their other trade.
Not that it invalidates your point about ballast, but I thought that the deeply moral chaps of the British East India company who controlled the poppy fields of the Raj smuggled the opium into China via the shipping routes they'd developed for their other trade.
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Mick D
Read - The opium wars: The addiction of one empire and the corruption of another.
You make the assumption that all opium is/or was made.... in China. Not true. Most of it was being made in India.
If you read up on the history of the opium wars you'll learn that the Chinese desperately tried to keep British boats
from bringing opium into China. They built coastal forts etc and had fierce battles with the English over this - but
the Brits were militarily superior and very organized. No Bro - did NOT learn about this from Google or Wiki. It's
actual history.
Also FYI - In Asian countries, having a hirstute butt is a sign of barbarity. :yuk: :winkiss:
Read - The opium wars: The addiction of one empire and the corruption of another.
You make the assumption that all opium is/or was made.... in China. Not true. Most of it was being made in India.
If you read up on the history of the opium wars you'll learn that the Chinese desperately tried to keep British boats
from bringing opium into China. They built coastal forts etc and had fierce battles with the English over this - but
the Brits were militarily superior and very organized. No Bro - did NOT learn about this from Google or Wiki. It's
actual history.
Also FYI - In Asian countries, having a hirstute butt is a sign of barbarity. :yuk: :winkiss:
Andy Roo
Red wine with ice and coca cola... Barcelona speciality
Took me a while to 'cope' with the fact that people were performing such a travesty, but it makes sense. It's lunchtime, it's hot, you want a drink but have to go back to work later...
I won't say that I do it to a glass of Wolf Blass Yellow Label or such, but if you are drinking Chateau C'Ardbord, fuggit.
Red wine with ice and coca cola... Barcelona speciality
Took me a while to 'cope' with the fact that people were performing such a travesty, but it makes sense. It's lunchtime, it's hot, you want a drink but have to go back to work later... I won't say that I do it to a glass of Wolf Blass Yellow Label or such, but if you are drinking Chateau C'Ardbord, fuggit.
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back on topic.....
I found Krops RV :thumbs:
I found Krops RV :thumbs:
