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Old 03-05-2012, 12:28 PM   #1
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Yeah, tell me about it.

Some threads have, like, 2 or 3 pages of activity while I'm asleep, and then maximum 1 page for the duration of my waking hours.

Gives me plenty to read in the mornings, or when I first come online if the morning is busy, but not much in the way of company a lot of the time.

We should fire up the barbie and waft some of the scents overseas. Who wouldn't wake up for a free sausage sizzle, I ask you?
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I'm awake!

Mmmm sausages. Anyone for an egg and bacon sarnie?
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Same here coming in from southern Africa -- but I do like waking in the morning and finding 10 hours worth of posts waiting for me to read!

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I'm awake!

Mmmm sausages. Anyone for an egg and bacon sarnie?
Oh, buggery - we don't do sarnies, do we Cliff? We do sangers... I'll have one of them


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Old 03-05-2012, 12:44 PM   #7
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Would you hate me if I said I didn't like egg, IRU?

I've recently come to enjoy bacon though. Maybe a piece of very fresh white bread, a sausage and a rasher of bacon, topped with Heinz tomato sauce and maybe a little onion (but only if it's well cooked - cold/raw onion ruins it for me).

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Old 03-05-2012, 12:46 PM   #8
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And yes, we do sangers.

Personally I think the word derives from taking the "wich" from sandwich and implying that witches go "ger".

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Old 03-05-2012, 01:06 PM   #10
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I've recently come to enjoy bacon though. Maybe a piece of very fresh white bread, a sausage and a rasher of bacon, topped with Rosella tomato sauce and maybe a little onion (but only if it's well cooked - cold/raw onion ruins it for me).

Mmm...
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Blasphemy!

Okay, stilton and bacon toastie? Sarnie of kings/presidents/insert Big Cheese of choice.
Gonna assume that stilton is kind of like Coon cheese, right?
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Gonna assume that stilton is kind of like Coon cheese, right?

Lawks, no. What are you, heathens? ()

Interestingly (or not) if you make Stilton in Stilton, you can't call it Stilton.
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Old 03-05-2012, 01:19 PM   #14
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Lawks, no. What are you, heathens? ()

Interestingly (or not) if you make Stilton in Stilton, you can't call it Stilton.
Nah - we're only teasing. We even have pecorino down here... pungent though it is.

You know what we don't have though? We don't have Mornington Crescent. (The game, not the tube station.) We should have - it sounds like fun.
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Old 03-05-2012, 01:21 PM   #15
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I'm not a cheese buff.

Basically, anything that gets nice and melty in a toasted sandwich is generally alright with me... Not that I've tried blue cheese...

I don't eat cheese often, but when I make a cheese toasty, I usually use more cheese than is necessary. I'm like a binge cheeser.
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Well - just between us...

Twenty nine years ago today, I had my first baby.

*sigh*

Dear little chap.
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Twenty nine years ago today, I had my first baby.

*sigh*

Dear little chap.

Well happy birthday to your first baby and many happy returns.
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I remember that (as a Kiwi currently living in the US). i used to get up, read all new emails and posts, respond--then close the internet until the next day. Not a huge amount of real time interaction.

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