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Wielder of the Literary Lead Pipe
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Somewhere in the Nevernever
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PSA: People I like who offer me their couches should be prepared for the extremely high likelihood that I will take them up on their offer. And pet all their doggies. And kitties. And probably not be boring, though I can't make any promises.
Also, no matter what Para and vfury say, I actually can cook. If nothing else, I do the dishes.
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Becky -
![]() I still have to fit that one into my budget. I keep forgetting to do that! Dys, that tea sounds amazing. I love rooibos tea. Nom. Quote:
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a wishin' and a hopin'
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Somewhere in the Nevada desert
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I had to read this several times because it doesn't say what I thought it said.
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bedazzled /bootay shaker!!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: southern cali
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dys, it is. it was a tough decision
last summer, but i'm glad that we did this. and apparently, para is the only brit who doesn't like tea and i'm the only chinese who is allergic to acupuncture. the gods, they laugh. =)
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Kansas City, MO
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useless idiot
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bristol, England
Posts: 9,082
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Wielder of the Literary Lead Pipe
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Somewhere in the Nevernever
Posts: 2,464
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![]() Also, damn, I think I need to learn Russian. Now that I've officially made British English foreign language number eight. (My little brain was overheating and there may have been lots of fumbling for words that don't get me thwapped or laughed at over there.) Russian can be nine, I suppose? In the meantime, to google translate! ![]() ETA: Also, it's okay, Para. More tea for me. |
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has finally arrived
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 7,094
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I don't have any dogs or kitties, but I do have a small child. You are free to pet him if you can get your hands on him.
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The Girl in the Steampunk Hat
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Non carborundum illegitimi
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I don't care for rooibos. Or green tea. I like tea and coffee the same way: STRONG and plain. This includes herbal peppermint tea. I do make exceptions: Constant Comment, even tho it smells better than it tastes, for some reason; Celestial Seasonings cinnamon apple spice; and jasmine. altho I am annoyed that the only jasmine I could find was a green tea base, rather than a black tea base. At times I feel like the American Food Industry is shoving fats and sugar down our throats with one had while washing it down with pseudo-healthy drinks with the other. /rant
Dear God, Dys, you are scary smart! If I had a spare room, I'd invite you. I am a true Italian in at least one way: I can cook up a storm. The other way is: lots of dark hair. Everywhere. Women should not have mustaches. And it HURTS to pluck hair from one's upper lip. Owie. |
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Has anyone seen mah bunniez?
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: doesn't play well with others
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Sue, who just about remembers how to read and speak a little Russian.
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bedazzled /bootay shaker!!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: southern cali
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*crawls into pod with para* =D
i am not keen on tea but hub is. (being a brit. =) but i DID take on the habit of drinking some tea with him when i lived in london. 1995--the world seemed more innocent back then?
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Flying blind on a rocket cycle.
Join Date: May 2009
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I'm teasing EVERYONE with Purgy meet-up pr@wn. I figure if enough people come to visit over the years, at least one of them will feel obligated to make sure we don't get stuffed into a shitty old folks' home and bilked of all our hard-misered coin.
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I drink a lot of tea, usually without sugar now. The one I've been liking the best lately is Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice.
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Wielder of the Literary Lead Pipe
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Somewhere in the Nevernever
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Hahaha, Lily, I
Also on the smart, really, I'm just good at BSing. Para asked me to say something in Italian and I completely blanked on anything other how to say my name, how are you and hey, I like you. My language skills are pretty much limited to freaking the fuck out of people who think I don't understand them only to discover that oh yes, I do and I occasionally even talk back. ~ Dys, years out of practice at some of this stuff. Yeah, go ahead, laugh. Also, thanks for making me feel all kinds of better. I
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Plot Ninja's on the loose!
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sorry, That's Classified...
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Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 3,188
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I loathe tea.
There. I said it. *makes out with Nespresso machine* |
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Treguna Makoidees Trecorum SadisDee
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: MA
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Fire, yep
I'm on something like the fourth unit now of their Russian course. I can read it pretty well, and my pronunciation is getting better if I try to read aloud, but can't synthesize sentences of my own very well. And I'll be damned if the various declensions make any sense.eta: *high fives Blond* Count me in with the tea-loathers. Hubs drinks gallons of the stuff. One whiff of bergamot and I'm gagging.
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The Girl in the Steampunk Hat
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Non carborundum illegitimi
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Blond, you and Para and xiao have other qualities that make up for it.
Besides, who said it upthread? More for the rest of us.
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Wielder of the Literary Lead Pipe
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Hmm Rosetta Stone. The program that makes my Foreign Language Prof run screaming.
I should give it a try some time. My grammar-obsessed German friend looked at me like I was the antichrist when I told him they were teaching us a proficiency-based approach rather than a grammar-based approach to language teaching these days. We'll see how that pans out when I actually get victims, er, students to try this out on next spring.
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It's never too late to dream big
Join Date: May 2008
Location: one foot in US and one in Oz
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Here's our group, in a much more subdued moment, although GJB does look very mischievous...or coquettish.
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useless idiot
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bristol, England
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bedazzled /bootay shaker!!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: southern cali
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aww, lily pie! and yes, more tea for you!
i am smell sensitive and i love tea smells. drinking it, not so much. i DO love chai, however. lattes at least. eta: yay the foto is up! =D gjb is always up to a pock chop no good. haha! rick, i know for a fact, is without internet during the day.
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Plot Ninja's on the loose!
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sorry, That's Classified...
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I drink hot tea only if I am feeling icky... Sweet Iced Tea on the other hand is a STAPLE in ANY southern home...my grandma would come back from the dead and beat me with a switch from the yard if I didn't keep it in the fridge...and for eating fried chicken with a fork... *who does that?*
boggles... Also. I am doing my best to tempt Dys to move to TX via reps ... Muahahahaha |
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The Girl in the Steampunk Hat
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Non carborundum illegitimi
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Now brewing: HUGE Tracts of Land tea. A blend of gunpowder and jasmine, for people who like their tea strong but with a hint of delicacy.
*I think that IRL the gunpowder would completely overwhelm the jasmine, so this would be teaFAIL* |
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Has anyone seen mah bunniez?
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: doesn't play well with others
Posts: 8,528
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Brilliant SD purgy photo!
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The Girl in the Steampunk Hat
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Meetup pic is, of course, blocked.
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