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06 Mar 2007, 5:36 pm

May I suggest the traditional beer for the café?

http://www.theakstons.co.uk/ales/view_detail.php?id=13

Mild has a reputation as a bit of an old man's drink in England. It is lovely though.

Now where's my flat cap?



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06 Mar 2007, 5:42 pm

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I'll try some too, have some Kona still on, care to try some of mine?

Thanks! I actually live near Kona, and have cousins that pick the coffee beans. But even here it's expensive, and I prefer a stronger brew. Love that chicory!

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The thing I like about this place is the different ways that others that are somewhat older have done. I mean my last job was in a fast service store, I dealt with people in lines. I shook hard everyday before I would go to work. Why did I do that, I mean what the heck was wrong with me to even think of such a thing? As I look back over my very wild work history, I did it all the time. I know how I did it, but could only do it for about a year, year and a half if I was lucky. Then I had to go into almost complete isolation to recover. There are some exceptions to it, if I was on an obsession and the people fit closer to the way I'm wired. I lasted longer at that endevor.


But did you know when you took the job about AS? If not, then it's more understandable. That's one of the reasons, like I said, that I wish I'd known earlier. I would have chosen the career path I'm just now starting on, at age 43.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:44 pm

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Hope no-one minds someone as young as me joining in the fun. If I'm not welcome, feel free to show the door.

I'm 18. I've often been told by people that I come across as far, far older than I am. People can never quite believe my true age when I tell them. So I'll probably fit in quite well here.


Why you're not even old enough to drink tequila! Oh, wait, I forgot, the rest of the world doesn't have that stupid American law...



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06 Mar 2007, 5:45 pm

I swear I need a translator to understand the English :( Love the slang. Love the humor.


Lol, nice dino Lau, just noticed the change. Never would have guessed your age, great attitude. You rock.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:45 pm

Musing...

Common market, European community, common agricultural policy...

Over here in Europe we've got these weird things... a butter mountain, a wine lake, and so on.

I just got to wondering what we'd have, if we had a backlog of spam to get through?

A cliff of spam? ... Doesn't sound right - it has to be more... flexible?... slippery?

A spam-slide.

A spam glacier. (Living in the spam age?)

A battleship-ful of spam. (Think can, but a little larger)

An estuary of spam. (Might be close... the texture is right)

A Mississippi of spam.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:45 pm

Lau got lost. Or else he's puking up the spam sushi...no, he was composing an ode to the stuff. Still wondering how it came to be on your avatar.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:50 pm

Spam sushi? God, man, spam alone is bad enough. Never had sushi. You just rustle us up some nice kippers with bread and butter like a good little boy and we'll forget the whole thing.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:55 pm

aylissa wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
I'll try some too, have some Kona still on, care to try some of mine?

Thanks! I actually live near Kona, and have cousins that pick the coffee beans. But even here it's expensive, and I prefer a stronger brew. Love that chicory!

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The thing I like about this place is the different ways that others that are somewhat older have done. I mean my last job was in a fast service store, I dealt with people in lines. I shook hard everyday before I would go to work. Why did I do that, I mean what the heck was wrong with me to even think of such a thing? As I look back over my very wild work history, I did it all the time. I know how I did it, but could only do it for about a year, year and a half if I was lucky. Then I had to go into almost complete isolation to recover. There are some exceptions to it, if I was on an obsession and the people fit closer to the way I'm wired. I lasted longer at that endevor.



But did you know when you took the job about AS? If not, then it's more understandable. That's one of the reasons, like I said, that I wish I'd known earlier. I would have chosen the career path I'm just now starting on, at age 43.


Aylissa

Picking Kona. That would be like picking blueberrys to me. I'd eat more then ever got in the pail. I picked strawberrys once, Still can't eat them now with out a slight wince.

No, I didn't know untill very recently. My current doctors and the ones before, were going with a Bipolar. It still makes some sense to me. Aspie fits like a glove. We'll be looking at the Bipolar thing from a different way very soon. One good thing is a lot of the drugs used to level out Bipolar are used for AS.

Lau,

It is very commonly known through out the world the English have no sense of humor, now stop it, you're making my eyes tear up.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:56 pm

Lancashire, eh? I've no idea where that is, but I'm reading a book right now that is set partly in Lancashire. I noticed it in particular because there's a great Beatles tune (A Day in the Life, I think...), that has something about '4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" (had to google that one), and I always thought it was spelled Lancastershire, like Worcestershire. Sorry, I have word obsessiveness.



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06 Mar 2007, 5:59 pm

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It is very commonly known through out the world the English have no sense of humor, now stop it, you're making my eyes tear up.
? What's he doing? Did I miss something? And where were you guys yesterday when I was really jonesing for a cigarette and trying to get to 1000 posts?



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06 Mar 2007, 6:04 pm

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Lancashire, eh? I've no idea where that is, but I'm reading a book right now that is set partly in Lancashire. I noticed it in particular because there's a great Beatles tune (A Day in the Life, I think...), that has something about '4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" (had to google that one), and I always thought it was spelled Lancastershire, like Worcestershire. Sorry, I have word obsessiveness.


Ah, now you be talkin about The Man, he's a huge hero in my eye. I don't cry much, but I did that evening. He could do in a 3 or 4 minute song and say what some of the greatest teachers in the world had been saying for centurys and do it with sound as well as words. One of a kind, he'll always be in my heart. In that song it's followed up with "I'd love to turn you on" he wasn't tallking about drugs. 8O



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06 Mar 2007, 6:06 pm

aylissa wrote:
postpaleo wrote:
It is very commonly known through out the world the English have no sense of humor, now stop it, you're making my eyes tear up.
? What's he doing? Did I miss something? And where were you guys yesterday when I was really jonesing for a cigarette and trying to get to 1000 posts?


He's making me laugh my butt off. Yeah the English have gotten a bad rap about not having a sense of humor, probably got it from the French, who have no sense of humor either. :lol:



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06 Mar 2007, 6:07 pm

Ah! I always preferred Old Peculiar.

I used to work for the Admiralty, inside Bushy Park (a Royal Park, with cows and deer, just across the road from Hampton Court, where I played tennis). Lunchtimes we'd sneak out down the road to a pub next to some place that "The Water Rats" hung out at. This is on the banks of the Thames, just up from Teddington Lock. I forget the name. Lovely pub. Lovely food. Lovely beer.

However, Old Peculiar is a beer that looks like, and even tastes quite like, flat Cola.

Three pints just slide down and the afternoon passes quite dreamily.

Four pints and you don't really see the afternoon.

I tended towards the four pints. It just meant I got in the habit of doing eight hours work in the space of three hours (OK, so I arrived late as well...).

We didn't go there every day. Both Young's and Fuller's breweries were just down the road, and there were lots more nice pubs serving their beers.

(Where's me kippers! Gimme, gimme.! !!)



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06 Mar 2007, 6:08 pm

aylissa wrote:
Lancashire, eh? I've no idea where that is, but I'm reading a book right now that is set partly in Lancashire.


Lancashire's a great county. You have the big towns like Preston and Blackburn, the lovely cathedral city of Lancaster (the county town) and the wonderful countryside and fells of the Ribble Valley. I live in a little town called Longridge, just inside the Ribble Valley. The accent ain't bad either, though you will get some daft buggers from Yorkshire who insist that their accent is better. ;) You can see more of Lancashire on my photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancashire/).

The avatar I bear is the red rose surmounted by the Queen's crown, by the way. :)

And by the way: I've been to Worcestershire. I wouldn't go back unless I had to... :D



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06 Mar 2007, 6:10 pm

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aylissa wrote:
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It is very commonly known through out the world the English have no sense of humor, now stop it, you're making my eyes tear up.
? What's he doing? Did I miss something? And where were you guys yesterday when I was really jonesing for a cigarette and trying to get to 1000 posts?


He's making me laugh my butt off. Yeah the English have gotten a bad rap about not having a sense of humor, probably got it from the French, who have no sense of humor either. :lol:


I was being sarcastic, postie.

I agree with you about John. I didn't know that he wasn't referring to drugs in that line. Ah well. I remember the moment I heard he'd been killed - I turned 18 that day, and was at a train station in Paris, all by myself, on my way to meet my Dutch family. I almost started crying (being an aspie and all, if you know what I mean, I couldn't actually cry. But I felt almost as if I might've.)



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06 Mar 2007, 6:15 pm

I think there is some very strong evidance that John may have been an Aspie.