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klsallee wrote:

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

Speaking of the candy brand, "Negro" I heard last week that the factory is leaving Hungary , think going to Germany.

I heard they were moving to Turkey: Cheaper labor.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

Asked why they candy was called NEGRO.
I explained to her that it was named after chimney sweepers in HU.

Negro is simply "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, from the Latin "Niger". Sweeps wear traditionally black cloths. It is really the simple.

That is not quite true, all the chimney sweeops I have known have worn any colour they want. They GET black from all the coal dust. My mate Ally wore wzite overalls....l to start with.

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Filipino person should know that Negro means black.  Tagalog is heavy on the Spanish influences.

Yes and of course "Negra" for the feminine, as it is an adjective. The point I was tr4ying to make is that words are not offensi ve, only the sentiment of them is offensive.

As if language doesn't change over the years.... I tend to reserve swear words for special occasions but for example on my left big toe I have what in my youth would be called a "black man's pinch" the blood under the toenail where I somehow dropped a hammer on it or tripped up my stairs., Now that would probably considered a big insiult, but that is what we called it with no insult intended when I was a lad.

Hmm, not going to mention what we used to call Brazil Nuts when I was a small child.My mom however would  not think twice of hitting us across the head with whatever she had in her hand at the moment if she heard us say rude,"racist" remarks" that we may of heard from other children.
She swore like a sailor but bless her heart, anything even semi- "racist" was not allowed in ear shot of her or you were playing with your very life.
She was raised by her Mohawk granny and 2 half Mohawk/ British aunts .
They often were called rude names in public in the 1920's in Conn.
Even rudely "told" no t"asked" to leave shops even during the depression years when they had money to spend in the shops.
When my tall blue eyed blonde German grandfather dated my half Mohawk grandmother he usually ended their dates with him being arrested.
He would take my granny to a decent place to eat and the server would gladly hand him a menu but totally ignore my grandmother. He would get so darn mad that he would pick up the dinning tables and toss them around the room. She had to bail him out of jail, such sweet romance...

Suppose I have no clue what she went through because I'm pale as a ghost most time but my darker skinned relations could give one an ear full of horrible tales.
My half bro ifs often mistaken as a Mexican in S. Ca. even had a hard time getting into the US from his holiday in Mexico once. Showed his Cal. driver  papers etc, but still they gave him the 3rd degree before letting him come home to the US.Don't think he has returned for a holiday in Mexico since then.

If anyone even had a clue what they were doing they could easily see his bone structure  and build was no way near what you average Mexican is.
I really tend to look at bone structure and facial features on people because I used to do hair, skull shapes must be considered before doing any hairstyle.
Even cutting one side a slight bit shorter then the other can make a huge difference in a "look"
No one's face is perfectly even.
Totally getting too technical here...
I personally am very glad I took after my father and am very fair skinned, seems my brothers have had so many troubles for no reason at all.
One works as a mechanic for a major US airline, he is able to move the planes around the tarmac by himself but when he enters he place of work, most guards give him the 3rd degree, thinking he is a "trouble maker" he is so over it now but still it just goes to show how people are judged by their skin tone. Not sure why I've ranted about this topic.

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Filipino person should know that Negro means black.  Tagalog is heavy on the Spanish influences.

Yes and of course "Negra" for the feminine, as it is an adjective. The point I was tr4ying to make is that words are not offensi ve, only the sentiment of them is offensive...

I don't think it was directed back at your comment. It was about the sweets/candy called Negro.

google sends you round the houses if you are not careful eh.

I hgave now completely forgotten what bollox i wa meaning to post.

i had australians staying here last week, they came to Budapest or Hungary rather for a holiday but also one wants to get citizenship. Stayed at mine, I slept on the sofa bed while the two Gabors sorry gay boys slept in my bedroom. (Have no problem with being homosexual, was just a pun)). Yet they wanted to "eat hungarian food" then ordered pizza and burgers and that kinda stuff, from the little scottish restaurant I know (McDonald's). well i had a pőrkolt on the go and Hngarian food is SLOW, LASSAN,. so you go and order a pizza while I am cooking a slow roast dinner? Never mind, the cat enjoyed it.

SimonTrew wrote:

.............well i had a pőrkolt on the go and Hngarian food is SLOW, LASSAN,. so you go and order a pizza while I am cooking a slow roast dinner? Never mind, the cat enjoyed it.

I always thought it should be cooked the day before and re-heated.

It "ages" nicely for the next day when it's well rested.

probably not..... i am just getting back into the swing of things here at expat.xcom and are probably treading on people's toes.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

.............well i had a pőrkolt on the go and Hngarian food is SLOW, LASSAN,. so you go and order a pizza while I am cooking a slow roast dinner? Never mind, the cat enjoyed it.

I always thought it should be cooked the day before and re-heated.

It "ages" nicely for the next day when it's well rested.

Yes and you get cheap meat from the proper butcher, some shank or some cheap cut, so that it can cook slowly with a decent bit if fat,. Whacck in some paprika obviously, and maybes some krumnpl to add some starcch, nit of onion t,and there you go.

A bit like in England we used to have bubbe and squeak, well that is completely different as a recupe, but that just throw anytthing in there as a cheap meal, that is how you do it,.

in Hungary there are only two kinds of potatoes. There are "red" potatoes (Piros borgonya/krumpli) and "white" or rather "yellow" potatoes. You can't get a King Ted or a Maris Piper, your choise is red or yelllow.

Please excuse my bad spelling but my eyesight is not so good. I can see my mistakes after I type them. Really should get new glasses. I am really struggling with these.

My mother always said I would go blind if I continued doing that,.,.,.,.,.

my recipe for porholt.


First take one cat, throw out the house so he dont eat ingredients.

Cheap cut of pork, sdhang or back, with a bit of decent marbling. Stick in pot.

Add a bit of paprika, add some spuds (krumplii) to give it some starch

then whack in a  few stock cubes, add some chilli or whatever ou have to hand, doesnt really matter.

stir it all up leave it for two days, then you have proper porkolt.

oh also whack in a bit of very cheap read wine, just to get it going. not pricey stuff jut the cheapest bottle of wine you can find, Spar do two litres of red for 495 forint, whack a bit of that in. Check taste of course for consistency. Add wine to self, and to slow cooker. Check once again for self.

Well that is my recipe.

the ads on here tonight are a bit weird, Ford Credit keeps trying to offer me a loan. The ironic thing about that is my wife works for Ford Credit. I  would not have to go very far to get it.

one of those stupid interview questions from Microsoft so it is said (I think many others do it) is "how do you tie your shoelaces?2 My reply is always, exaactly the same way I tie my bowtie. It is exactly the same knot. Some fool from China worked out there were i think at last count 89 bowtie knots, but there are not, there is one bowtie knot, and it is exactyl the same knot as you tie your bootlaces,.

But nobody ever knows how to tie his boootlaces. We learned it so young that we forgotten, it is "+improntted" is that the right word? We do it subconsciously, unconsciously, that we dont know how to tie our bootlaces. Left over right and under, right over left and under.

I was in the Boy's Brigade and am a dab hand with a bit of Brasso. Stléll cannot find Blanco in Hunggary....á

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

We are pretty much OK, but its just to fire it up before its mega cold. Then when it is, its just a simple switch on and everything will be OK.

Sounds like a pre-launch sequence. 

Mrs Fluffy and I do not know how to work our central heating.   We have this fancy controller neither of us fully understands.  And we've read the manual but remembered nothing.

I was a bit stupid. I should have got a boiler controller than worked via a PC or Android with a decent interface.

We had an old dial thermostat/timer. That packed up so replaced it with a digital one. Was quite simple to fit it and wire it in. Had a small manual which even with 20/20 vision would have had trouble reading it That was a few years back. Still can't get my head around it and that was even with going online and get printing out an A4 version. Anyway, why can't things just be simple.....?

I don't want to program it to come on up to 10 times a day Monday - Sunday, then have another setting for the Saturday & Sunday. Why 10 settings per day

I could have had one that we could have used a mobile device, I wish I had got that one now. Would have been a lot simpler to program.  Oh well I might upgrade one day

SimCityAT wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

We are pretty much OK, but its just to fire it up before its mega cold. Then when it is, its just a simple switch on and everything will be OK.

Sounds like a pre-launch sequence. 

Mrs Fluffy and I do not know how to work our central heating.   We have this fancy controller neither of us fully understands.  And we've read the manual but remembered nothing.

I was a bit stupid. I should have got a boiler controller than worked via a PC or Android with a decent interface.

We had an old dial thermostat/timer. That packed up so replaced it with a digital one. Was quite simple to fit it and wire it in. Had a small manual which even with 20/20 vision would have had trouble reading it That was a few years back. Still can't get my head around it and that was even with going online and get printing out an A4 version. Anyway, why can't things just be simple.....?

I don't want to program it to come on up to 10 times a day Monday - Sunday, then have another setting for the Saturday & Sunday. Why 10 settings per day

I could have had one that we could have used a mobile device, I wish I had got that one now. Would have been a lot simpler to program.  Oh well I might upgrade one day

I am going in rather the opposite direction..... i have an electronic wired timer on a relay etc to the boiler and I can't work out how to program it. I want a ood old fashioned kinda clock with A B C d where I know where it turns on and off.


Also it lies, because it is in the only part of the house without any sunshine, so it constantly under-reports the actual temperature both inside and out. I have to keep telling it what the temperature actually is from a hundred forint alcohol thermometer.

But then I am very old fashioned like that, technology judt baffles me. This is somewhat paradoxical as I have been a software engineer for what, 34 yyears now but the last thing I want to do when I get home at night is to have to program a microcontroller - that is my day job and I am fed up with it by then.

SimCityAT wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

We are pretty much OK, but its just to fire it up before its mega cold. Then when it is, its just a simple switch on and everything will be OK.

Sounds like a pre-launch sequence. 

Mrs Fluffy and I do not know how to work our central heating.   We have this fancy controller neither of us fully understands.  And we've read the manual but remembered nothing.

I was a bit stupid. I should have got a boiler controller than worked via a PC or Android with a decent interface.

We had an old dial thermostat/timer. That packed up so replaced it with a digital one. Was quite simple to fit it and wire it in. Had a small manual which even with 20/20 vision would have had trouble reading it That was a few years back. Still can't get my head around it and that was even with going online and get printing out an A4 version. Anyway, why can't things just be simple.....?

I don't want to program it to come on up to 10 times a day Monday - Sunday, then have another setting for the Saturday & Sunday. Why 10 settings per day

I could have had one that we could have used a mobile device, I wish I had got that one now. Would have been a lot simpler to program.  Oh well I might upgrade one day

YOu mean "downgrade" Thoreux said "simplify, simplify". Whyx should it think I wanted different temperature for my bathtub on a Sunday than I should want on a Monday: It is just technology for tehnology' sake. There is no need for it. Then I have to stick a bit of paper next to it to do it in the old fashioned way recording the stuff with a Biro of where I have set the thing, it is not as if it will TELL ME what times I have programmed into it, so that I can keep a record, so it is then just guesswork when it might swith on or off. Stupid thing.

And at least with old fashiopned ones visually impaired people like me can actually feel and work out the timer settings. With these digital ones were are absolutely stuffed. But nobody thought of that. It has an LCD display i can't read, I can't feel it, and the old ones I could do it on my fingers. But nobody thought of that, that is "advcance" for ysou. Nobody thought that the visually impaired can't use smartphone because they have to feel things rather than see them. Never mind, it is technology going backwqards.

Glad to say we will be going on holiday soon.
About time too!
I've indulged myself watching the sickest thing on U Tube ever ,last night.
For some lame reason a site of a 500 lbs women eating like a pig was offered for review.
I thought What is this? I have to take a peek. Sorry to say it was fascinating as well as disgusting.
Watched in a mindless stupor for about 90 mins.
Late night viewing.
She scoffed through family size meals of pasta, a bucket of chicken with gravy and some shrimp with noodles all in one sitting!
She was getting "high" off of it. I liked reading the comments from viewers.
Things such as, "She's eating for all of Africa", "This is the sort of thing you switch to porno to when someone else enters the room and catches you watching". " This is sad" etc. Only a few made comments like," Your so sexy"... Not going to visualize what they may of been doing while she ate!!! Yuck!
Like some sick voyager I watched. I've always watched what I've eaten and thankfully have never been able to over eat.
She had no shame or care other the downing her next bite of food.
Moaning and groaning with every bit she shoved in her face.
I felt both sad for her and disgusted at the same time.
She had 97,000 subs to her channel!
Guess there are allot of "chubby chasers" out there.
Some people thanked her because they needed the motivation to start a diet.
I always get "instant karma" whenever I do anything that isn't kind, seriously, always either tripped and ripped my stockings if I thought I looked all that in my youth, dislocated me knee when I thought I was a good tennis player etc.
Anytime I feel self righteous and my ego gets too big, I get shot down. Ok so after watching her "pig out", seriously had no idea I had been watching for 90 mins, it was like I was in a coma watching her eat.
I got up to get a glass of water and when I walked back in my room to hop in bed, I tripped, fell and bruised my arm( slightly bleed) and made my hip black and blue. Almost like I got high from just watching her eat and eat and eat.
Today due to a mix up in dates, we are having a early BD for my husband at our neighbors home.
Suppose to order out for food, not sure i can get the image of that chubby women with her take -away food out of my mind.
Not very hungry today, not in the least.Thinking of fasting for a month!
It's amazing how anyone can get a U tube channel and make money doing just about anything, not going to venture into the dark corners of U tube again! 90 mins was enough!

Maybe I am just owning up to myself that I am visually impaired or perhaps legally blind. I feel things more than I see them. I can still see colour etc but need a lot of light and the missus is always turning lights off, when she is here, to "save energy" (it is all on LED lamps now, to "save energy". I don't know what she thinks about the second law of thermodynamics but an incandescent bulb doesn't "waste" energy, it warms the room up). LEDs are great and far better than those fluorescents which look so ugly, but it doesn't "save" energy because then I just have to turn the heat up more, when she turns the lights off, and close the shutters on the front windows where there is a streetlamp right outside giving me orange light from a sodium lamp.

But it is OK for her to use a hairdyer for five minutes instead of wiping her hair with a towel, or do three stacks of washing on a weekend, or fly around Europe spending a load on kerosene and hotels and airports, that have the lights on. But I am not allowed to have the lights on.

That is my rant for this morning

SimonTrew wrote:

.....
Please excuse my bad spelling but my eyesight is not so good. I can see my mistakes after I type them. Really should get new glasses. I am really struggling with these.

My mother always said I would go blind if I continued doing that,.,.,.,.,.

I've got an 24" add-on telly* (monitor) for my laptop which is much larger than the laptop display (obviously).    I use a larger font on the add on so it's easier to read.  Two screens definitely more useful than one.  Put it on 60 Hz refresh - more relaxing than 50 Hz, easier on the eye.

BTW, top tip today is always buy an LCD TV and don't buy a computer monitor only. Works the same but has the TV bit as well.

* telly: UK slang for television.

SimonTrew wrote:

..... or fly around Europe spending a load on kerosene and hotels and airports, that have the lights on. But I am not allowed to have the lights on.

That is my rant for this morning

I bought some difficult to find car parts from Germany.  These were heavy cast "core" parts. Core means buy the new parts with a deposit and return the old ones for repair, refurbishment and eventually resale.  There's a "green" element to that, probably even legislation that demands it.   

Presumably the car parts I bought came by plane to Budapest, then were shipped to us by van.  If I sent back the old ones, they will go back on the plane as well.   There's no local recycle option, they have to go back to Germany.

So basically, all of that energy is being expended sending car parts backwards and forwards in the name of being green.   I expect it's a net increase in energy used.  Bet the legislators never thought about recycling internationally.

I'm still investigating if I should send them back or just let the core charge deposit go.

SimonTrew wrote:

the ads on here tonight are a bit weird, Ford Credit keeps trying to offer me a loan. The ironic thing about that is my wife works for Ford Credit. I  would not have to go very far to get it.

It's not ironic, it's technology.

Install an ad-blocker in your browser and change Google or whoever to not scan your e-mails.  They are looking at your data streams, detecting Ford Credit and thinking you want that.  It's insidious.

I've been conducting a long term experiment inserting the word "dinosaur" in all sorts of searches and e-mails and even on my phone.  I've opted out of as much advertising as I possibly can.  So far it's been working as I have not been offered anything dinosaur themed once.  Or all the dinos are sold out.

I've unexpectedly spent the afternoon at Budapest Zoo. 

They have knocked down nearly all the Vidam (Amusement) Park and they are building a "Biodom" (Biodome) there which will be finished at the end of next year.  The wooden roller coaster is still there but looks unused.

There seem to be more animals now at the zoo than there were before including two hippos. I don't remember them before.  Quite a few kangaroos, some oddities like giant otters, echidnas and a very odd looking ant eater.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I've unexpectedly spent the afternoon at Budapest Zoo. 

They have knocked down nearly all the Vidam (Amusement) Park and they are building a "Biodom" (Biodome) there which will be finished at the end of next year.  The wooden roller coaster is still there but looks unused.

There seem to be more animals now at the zoo than there were before including two hippos. I don't remember them before.  Quite a few kangaroos, some oddities like giant otters, echidnas and a very odd looking ant eater.

We went to the zoo a couple months back, had been a few years since our last visit.
I loved it,it looks really good and it was peaceful.

SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

Negro is simply "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, from the Latin "Niger". Sweeps wear traditionally black cloths. It is really the simple.

That is not quite true, all the chimney sweeops I have known have worn any colour they want. They GET black from all the coal dust. My mate Ally wore wzite overalls....l to start with.

True. Very true.

But the "stereotype" sweep of yesteryear (i did say "traditionally") had black cloths. Either because anything they wore eventually became black from the soot, or they just selected dark or black clothing to begin with since modern cleansers to wash white cloths back to white did not really exist (or cost too much for a poorly paid sweep).

And Negro candy is black (the original one -- not all the others that now exist). And a black chimney sweep (traditionally black) was the logo they picked. I am sure there are other reasons for the logo, as in the flavor helps clear the throat like a sweep clears a chimney -- but I am only guessing there.

Took our son to the old amusement park when he was 2 years old.
He wouldn't get off the rides, he had so much fun we had to keep him going round and round until he moved on to the next kiddie ride.
The zoo is great but the rides were fun too.

We used a card given to people over 60 in our district .
We never use it for discounts etc. but we used it to enter the zoo, weren't sure they would actually honor the card or not but they did.
Entered for only 700 forints each!Can afford to go there everyday at that price.

I'm waiting to see if yahoo shuts me down or not.
I looked in my spam messages and saw one from yahoo.
Opened it up and it said they would close my account one hour after opening the message, of course I told them I didn't request this.
I have a disgusting feeling i know who is playing a trick on me but  no trick or treas for me, I don't really care, can always open another account, not hurting me at all.
Have to be careful who you let into your life, seems not everyone is who they present themselves to be on first glance.
I have learned allot since moving to Hungary, not as trusting as I used to be, for good reason.

Had that early BD thing at our neighbors flat yesterday.
It was a bit sad at first, the old 87 ( not 86) year old lady had buried her baby sister aged 84 the day beforehand.
She was in good spirits after her first little cry, can't blame her at all. she is the last one standing now.
As far as being the only "elderlY" one left in her family.
Ordered from that Trofea Grill.
Honestly it wasn't all that good. My husband enjoyed a pork dish he requested but my meal wasn't what i expected.
I ordered a side of red cabbage although it didn't really go with my order, just wanted to try theirs.
Not as good as  the batch I made 2 days ago. Weird to say mine is so much better then the grills version.
Had potato salad as a side dish, the ladies ordered that and I always love, "Tater Salad". Not very good salad at all, huge chunks of white onions with too much dill, not sour enough and not enough salt.
We went through just 2 bottles of wine for 4 people, not feeling
so great this morning, tummy troubles from that meal...
( Ron White's Blue Collar Tater Salad comedy tour, sorry I don't cut and paste)
Cake was very good though, we didn't ask for the BD cake from Trofea, it wasn't the actual BD date for one thing.
Sad to say I / we like home cooking best, my tater salad always tastes good, I least I think so, Red onions or grate up the white ones, huge chunks of raw onions aren't so great for anyone's digestion  system!
Where's my Pepto!!

Harvested of some of our nuts got 3 x 10-litre tubs to go.....

klsallee wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

Negro is simply "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, from the Latin "Niger". Sweeps wear traditionally black cloths. It is really the simple.

That is not quite true, all the chimney sweeops I have known have worn any colour they want. They GET black from all the coal dust. My mate Ally wore wzite overalls....l to start with.

True. Very true.

But the "stereotype" sweep of yesteryear (i did say "traditionally") had black cloths. Either because anything they wore eventually became black from the soot, or they just selected dark or black clothing to begin with since modern cleansers to wash white cloths back to white did not really exist (or cost too much for a poorly paid sweep).

And Negro candy is black (the original one -- not all the others that now exist). And a black chimney sweep (traditionally black) was the logo they picked. I am sure there are other reasons for the logo, as in the flavor helps clear the throat like a sweep clears a chimney -- but I am only guessing there.

No, you're correct that's how the candy got it's name from the black clothing of the chimney sweepers.

SimCityAT wrote:

Harvested of some of our nuts got 3 x 10-litre tubs to go..... [img align=C]https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42878917_10156472664472279_1399560482615984128_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&oh=40b8cb9ffdd1bfd0e6edad36e5a292a8&oe=5C1605D4[/url]

They look great, nice and healthy, brain food, could use some brain food myself!

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

....We used a card given to people over 60 in our district .
We never use it for discounts etc. but we used it to enter the zoo, weren't sure they would actually honor the card or not but they did.
Entered for only 700 forints each!Can afford to go there everyday at that price.

Apparently we were at the zoo for a school project on flamingos as there are some baby ones born recently.  That's the story I was told. I supposed if I'd pushed it, I could have interrogated the teacher for the truth about the flamingos to see if on balance she had a leg to stand on.

It's 8400 HUF for a family ticket - 4 people.  Adults without concessions, 3000 HUF.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

I'm waiting to see if yahoo shuts me down or not.
I looked in my spam messages and saw one from yahoo.
Opened it up and it said they would close my account one hour after opening the message, of course I told them I didn't request this.
I have a disgusting feeling i know who is playing a trick on me but  no trick or treas for me, I don't really care, can always open another account, not hurting me at all.
Have to be careful who you let into your life, seems not everyone is who they present themselves to be on first glance.
I have learned allot since moving to Hungary, not as trusting as I used to be, for good reason.

It's spam Marilyn.  Yahoo would always address you by name but even then exercise total caution. They want you to open it, click a link in it so they can install a virus or keylogger or something like it on your PC.   You should always delete those messages without opening them or any links inside them.   The links to any pictures inside the pictures are specially tagged for your e-mail so they know your account is alive. Opening the message will bring more spam!  Be cautious on smartphones with Android - many of the images are shown automatically.    If you opened a message or accepted any downloads they tried to automatically install in your browser or other e-mail client, you should run your anti-virus scan as soon as possible.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

....
Ordered from that Trofea Grill.
Honestly it wasn't all that good. My husband enjoyed a pork dish he requested but my meal wasn't what i expected.
.....Weird to say mine is so much better then the grills version.
Had potato salad as a side dish, the ladies ordered that and I always love, "Tater Salad". Not very good salad at all, huge chunks of white onions with too much dill, not sour enough and not enough salt.......
Cake was very good though, we didn't ask for the BD cake from Trofea, it wasn't the actual BD date for one thing.
Sad to say I / we like home cooking best, my tater salad always tastes good, I least I think so, Red onions or grate up the white ones, huge chunks of raw onions aren't so great for anyone's digestion  system!
Where's my Pepto!!

I've never had Trofea delivered and I've always been at the restaurants.  I can imagine it was a bit average.  For tourists or large parties, it's worth going there as it's relatively cheap especially with the free booze. 

You can just say it's someone's birthday and the cake is free.  Doesn't actually have to be anyone's birthday of course.  In the restaurant, they play the Hungarian birthday music and put a firework on the cake.  Of course everyone watches. It's a great marketing ploy.  I was  in Trofea in Obuda - it's a bigger venue with an outside garden - and every 10 minutes it was someone's birthday and the cake routine!

SimCityAT wrote:

Harvested of some of our nuts got 3 x 10-litre tubs to go........

That's a lot of nuts. Must have taken you ages to get the shells off.

I usually do just delete mail I am not interested in reading but I messed up this time, seems all good for now. At least I'm still using yahoo.
That's a bit much 3,000 a head for the zoo, but not sure, I know in the US the zoo prices are "banana's"! Not monkeying around at all.
The Budapest zoo is sweet, just large enough for some fun without killing yourself trying to see everything.
San Diego zoo could take days to get through.
My sister volunteers at the Min.. zoo only a few days a month.
She loves it plus she can volunteer to show people their seats for rock concerts that are held on the grounds.
She has seen some good concerts for free.
My husband wouldn't enjoy people singing Happy Birthday to him, he dislikes attention allot.
Our son never learns, he always praises his father with things like your the best dad, your the smartest, you can fix anything, this only makes his father suspect he wants something out of him, just can't take any praise at all, way to humble at times.
Yesterday was a perfect day to go to the zoo, the weather was great outside.
Heading out for a walk today, was nice visiting our neighbors yesterday but all that sitting around really is too much for me. We were over for a good 6 hours and neither of the ladies speaks English...

fluffy2560 wrote:

That's a lot of nuts. Must have taken you ages to get the shells off.

My mother had a nut cracker that she used all my childhood. I think it still works.

Every darn one I buy breaks. Lasts less than a year. They just don't build them like they use to.

I have move to using a plastic headed hammer. Benefit is, pound on nuts helps as a way to vent frustration.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

Harvested of some of our nuts got 3 x 10-litre tubs to go........

That's a lot of nuts. Must have taken you ages to get the shells off.

A hammer, good music and good wine.

SimCityAT wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

Harvested of some of our nuts got 3 x 10-litre tubs to go........

That's a lot of nuts. Must have taken you ages to get the shells off.

A hammer, good music and good wine.

Ah, slow burn approach....very dry nut shells make quite good fire starting material.  We keep them for that purpose.  We've got a few bags lying around here from the MIL/FIL.

Industrially, they use ground nut shells as material for "shot blasting"..  It's impressive to see how quickly it works and the finish is excellent.  Nuts are rather eco-friendly although I wonder about the potential for the surfaces removed to be toxic.  Obviously caution advised over nut allergies!

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yesol86 wrote:

Oh, what a sad sad life you must have to be this sour. I honestly don't give a damn if I was wrong about that info, it happens. You made a research and corrected me, cause you obviously got way more time on your hands than I do. You know, being busy with living my life and feeling good, stuff like that. Feel very very proud of this victorius moment of yours on the internet over someone you know nothing about. I might be a super nice person, I might change lives, I might do even more than you. I was wrong about a number? My mistake to mislead thousands.  Good thing you're here so save us all!
And no, you don't hate to say it, you like to feel superior. You like to put someone down. Just say it, be honest. And just FYI, I perfectly got what you meant for the first time.. I was sarcastic to show you, I don't give a damn, to me all it matters, that I had a good impression of the city. Facts? Anyone can look that up. Personal experience and impressions? Not so much. I was led by good intentions, you were led by your ego. I don't have no problem you trying to correct me, I got a problem with your judgmental attitude. You know NOTHING about me to call me irresponsible or judge me as a whole based on one comment I wrote out of the excitement seeing the name of my favourite city. Fuck you, sincerely.

Interesting comment.

I quoted the above so my comments below can be fully and honestly placed into the above context by anyone else reading this.

yesol86 wrote:

Oh, what a sad sad life you must have to be this sour.

A cliche, that has been so overused by those who can not accept being corrected it has become comical. And so can not be taken seriously by any thinking person.

A really new, original and witty degrade I may actually applaud, if for nothing else than its artistic value.

But this? Please. Don't waste my time or yours.

yesol86 wrote:

You made a research and corrected me, cause you obviously got way more time on your hands than I do.

Well, you obviously have enough time on your hands to write a rather long, scathing opinion about me.

yesol86 wrote:

You know, being busy with living my life and feeling good, stuff like that.

Okay. But.... Did your acidic post toward me make you feel good?

yesol86 wrote:

Facts? Anyone can look that up.

You are correct.

So why did you not look up the fact yourself to make sure it was correct before posting? Do you assume the rest of the world should be your fact janitors? That others are there to clean up after you drop non-fact litter all over this forum? If so, is that not rather self centered and selfish of you?

yesol86 wrote:

I was sarcastic to show you, I don't give a damn

I think you not giving a damn is pretty clear to everyone.

And, so, if you don't give a damn, why should anyone trust anything you write? Are you not then telling everyone that your posts may be just "don't give a damn" diatribes? Don't you see you are actually doing yourself a disservice by degrading your own potential public legitimacy by such comments?

And if you intentionally were sarcastic to me, well I might be justified to consider that in effect a basic insult to me. And if I were to do so, I might wonder why were you trying to insult me? Maybe for committing the hideous crime of daring to correct you? One can but wonder.

Finally, if you ask a question, meant in sarcasm or otherwise, it is not really appropriate (IMHO) to be overly upset if someone actually has an answer for you that you may not have expected (or liked). And further, and especially, not appropriate (IMOH) to complain about other's "tone" when you are the one that started with a "sarcastic" tone. But of course, that is just my opinion.....

yesol86 wrote:

You know NOTHING about me to call me irresponsible or judge me as a whole based on one comment I wrote

I did not judge you as a whole. My comment was specifically about your post. No more. No less.

But since it appears you actually did take it personally, and out of its originally designed context, I can assure you this was an incorrect interpretation. Such was not may intent or design. If my intent was not clear -- well I can accept error there for not being clear. I hope you accept this clarification.

The only other option is you are simply trying to excessively play a victims card here as defense and attack against me. I hope and trust you are not playing that game.

yesol86 wrote:

I was led by good intentions

I think we all know what road is paved with good intentions....

yesol86 wrote:

you were led by your ego.

Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

But.... Ironically, who is now making "whole" judgements about someone else?

yesol86 wrote:

I wrote out of the excitement seeing the name of my favourite city

It is wonderful that you are excited about a topic.

As for myself, I am excited about fact checking. You allow yourself to be excited about something, but ridicule mine and seem to want to deny me my passion. Is that fair? Is that not egocentric of you?

yesol86 wrote:

I might be a super nice person, I might change lives, I might do even more than you.

Well, aside from again taking my comment far out of context, and way too personally in a way that was never intended, you may indeed be right. You may change lives. You may do more than me.

But, by ending with a salutation of:

yesol86 wrote:

Fuck you, sincerely.

One might legitimately ask if you are really a super nice person.....

In other words, despite your accusations of such, I am not judging you as a whole person. I don't need to. Simply the more you write, the more anyone can start to see who you really are.

Think about that. Just saying.

As for me, I really don't have more time to spend on you or your comments on this topic. Cheers.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

That's a lot of nuts. Must have taken you ages to get the shells off.

My mother had a nut cracker that she used all my childhood. I think it still works.

Every darn one I buy breaks. Lasts less than a year. They just don't build them like they use to.

I have move to using a plastic headed hammer. Benefit is, pound on nuts helps as a way to vent frustration.

Maybe this is your chance - develop a better nutcracker. 

Add Bluetooth to it and social media and sell it to an IT company for $3 billion.   

Instacracker, NutFaceCrackerBook, MicroCracker,  CrackerSoft, AppleCracker..... iCracker....ecoCracker....McCracker...Cracker King...

Hmmm,...not my best work....

yesol86 wrote:

Fuck you, sincerely.

Sargeant Prendergast in the film Falling Down also has a way with words.

SInce it happens to be around the time, I have just realised hiow stupid the lyrics to "Green Door" are,.

I do have  green door but I have giiven it  a nice coat of matt emulsion so need to do gloss tomorrow.

But "Midnight, one more night without sleeping" is not a very good start is it. I mean, what night is it? saturday or sunday? I thought we changed days at midnight., And why would you be awake at midnight? I am a nitght owl so I know why I am, but that is stupid lyrics. Should be something like "Ten in the evening, time to get your napper down".

Well most of these old songs that I sing along to make no sense when you actually follow the lyrics,.

Like take Irving Berlin's instruction for how to get dressed..... "Top hat white tie and tails.. So I'm putting on my top hat, doing up my white shirt, putting on m  tails,. I'"m putting on my cuff-links doing up my white tie, polishing my nails".... I'm stepping out my dear to breath an atmosph.....

not a word about trousers/pants,,,,, you would not think it beyond old I. B to whack in a line like "I'm putting on me trousers". No wonder I keep getting arrested.

SimonTrew wrote:

.....not a word about trousers/pants,,,,, you would not think it beyond old I. B to whack in a line like "I'm putting on me trousers". No wonder I keep getting arrested.

I always thought it was about a problem of messy desserts....Puddin' on my trousers....

This is a blank post I want to delete but there's something odd about how this system works that I cannot delete it. It also gets confused when you have multiple windows open.

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klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

You're not running for membership of the US Supreme Court are you?

There you go. Proof. Donald was right. The world is laughing at the USA.

Now....

Ironically, because of his decisions. Or, to quote him: "Sad". 

I think Christine Blasey Ford was sincere but it makes you wonder why she took her time.  On the other hand, I was listening to abuse counsellor on the radio describing how abused people struggle with what happened and it can take years to overcome the trauma and to reconcile the experience such that it can be talked about.

But yes, we are laughing at the USA and Donald T. But in some ways we're fearful as well in case the Donald T version of lunacy is contagious.    The appointment of a "conservative" to SCOTUS could rebound.  A lot of common law systems take the logic of arguments from other jurisdictions including the USA. No balance to it and appointment for life, hmmm,  perhaps the model thinking means some groups of people will become marginalised. 

I hate to say it and I'm pushing my luck but I was thinking about the parallels of SCOTUS and the Guardian Council in Iran.

Maybe these guys should have fixed term limits - say 7 years.

But it ain't my country.