Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Spymaster]

To serve.

To dream, the impossible dream?

 

[danny la rouge]

That is my quest.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

To serve.

It's a cookbook!

 

[Spymaster]

That is my quest.

No doubt you have stellar ambitions.

 

[danny la rouge]

No doubt you have stellar ambitions.

I'm always tilting at windmills.

 

[DotCommunist]

I plead childhood trauma though. On Sunday afternoons my dad would announce that he and my mother would do a Guardian crossword. Mum would flap about with dictionaries as my dad read out the clues dressed in his raggedy dressing gown that always exposed his balls to the whole family, shouting at any child who dared to disturb him. I've always felt they were a perverse and selfish pursuit because of this

Its reading things like this that make me realise being beaten for getting water into the family toothpaste tube was perhaps not so bad

 

[Spymaster]

I'm always tilting at windmills.

I fight for the right, without question or cause.

 

[danny la rouge]

I fight for the right, without question or cause.

Like Peter O'Toole.

 

[gosub]

Reading Terminal Market is an amazing place, like Borough Market x100 but without the pointless hipster stalls (or at least it used to be, it may have them now).

When my mum and sister came over to visit, they went there and just wandered around pointing at prawns and saying "is that a prawn? really? it's so big! it's like some sort of lobster!"

Thank you, been looking for decent prawns since I moved back down from Leith. Welch's another thing I miss

 

[gosub]

They also got wasted on Long Island Iced Teas in the hotel bar because they didn't realise that mixed drinks in the US actually contain proper measures rather than weaselly little fractional ones, so a Long Island Iced Tea has four decent shots in it.

They don't read Urban, I'm safe here.

Mate did a large bowl for his wife's birthday a few years back, I'd had two pints before he explained what's in it. V tasty and lethal (actually think it was k. that did for me that night, but 3pints long Island didn't help. Good party though from the little I remember

 

[Spymaster]

Like Peter O'Toole.

He and Don Quixote, marching into hell for a heavenly cause.

 

[danny la rouge]

He and Don Quixote, marching into hell for a heavenly cause.

In a Honda.

 

[Spymaster]

Prelude ....

 

[danny la rouge]

Keep a civic tongue in your mouth.

 

[Spymaster]

Some sunny day.

 

[Miss Caphat]

It can't be the paper, as paper just can't smell that vile. Unless it is the crap oozing from the sandwiches onto the paper which is then being vapourised. It has to be something to do with the food, as it smells really chemically and unpleasant. Unless the staff are also doing unspeakable things to the food too, which in combination produces that horrible miasma.

the reason I think this is there are some products I've bought - such as a frozen spanikopita or lasagna that come in a paper tray that is suitable for oven cooking...but it smells terrible while cooking, similar to the chemically Subway smell. Just a theory.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I didn't start the thread or barrage you with questions. I also haven't insulted your food culture either. You are quite happy when it's the other way round and you're taking the piss out of the UK because of snow or wind or heat or whatever.

I was having a laugh as I thought we all were and I've apologised if you were insulted.

I just think you misunderstood me. I wasn't trying to give you a hard time. It pisses me off not just that crappy US food chains invade your country, but then on top of that to offer inferior service and/ or product. That's what was bothering me, not anything you said, and I wasn't questioning your understanding of the process.
That's all, and I was having fun w/ the thread too.

But tbh being an American on here you just get constantly trolled, so if I do troll back occasionally about weather and whatnot it's to be expected, I think. I wouldn't dream of saying such things to a British person irl (unless they were trolling me about US stuff irl) or if one joined a US web forum.

 

[Miss Caphat]

re: broiling...

yes, it's grilling. There is either a pull out "broiling" drawer at the bottom, or it's a direct heating element on the top inside the oven. Both operate separately from the main oven setting, which is convection, right? If one's oven has it on the inside top element, you can move the rack from the oven and put it up higher so it's right under the direct heat or flame.
hope that makes sense.
the settings on the broiler have typically just been "low" or "high" but ovens are getting all kinds of complicated with fancy digital interfaces & shit so there might be more settings on new ovens.

 

[DotCommunist]

But that sounds just like my oven that can convect or be a grill. Does this mean I've been stealth americaned? will I have to begin smoking malboros and driving now? this is all so confusing

 

[gosub]

But that sounds just like my oven that can convect or be a grill. Does this mean I've been stealth americaned? will I have to begin smoking malboros and driving now? this is all so confusing

Tony Blair is your new best friend forever.

 

[DotCommunist]

Tony Blair is your new best friend forever.

well, now at least I have SOMEONE to bomb people I have never met on my behalf. Don't know how I managed that beforehand

 

[gosub]

Tony Blair is your new best friend forever.

Sorry, too many West Indies porters, that was uncalled for and a step too far, even as intended, in jest. I whole heartedly apologise and retract my foul slur.

 

[Vintage Paw]

You'll be saying aluminum and faucet before you know it, dotty.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'll be looking for Waldo

 

[Vintage Paw]

Interestingly, faucet comes from an old French word, and tap comes from an old German (then Dutch) word. Both mean almost the same thing etymologically, and cross-reference each other in their definitions. Faucet and spigot used to mean the screw and the tube of a tap, respectively, but have since switched their meaning, but commonly now faucet is used to describe the whole apparatus, and as we know tap has continued to refer to the whole apparatus as well.

 

[Orang Utan]

diapers vs nappies

 

[DotCommunist]

Interestingly, faucet comes from an old French word, and tap comes from an old German (then Dutch) word. Both mean almost the same thing etymologically, and cross-reference each other in their definitions. Faucet and spigot used to mean the screw and the tube of a tap, respectively, but have since switched their meaning, but commonly now faucet is used to describe the whole apparatus, and as we know tap has continued to refer to the whole apparatus as well.

another example of what we think of as yanqui words actualy being simply usages that gained greater currencey within that population. Like fall instead of autumn lol

 

[fishfinger]

diapers vs nappies

I don't think dottie wears them any more.

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't think dottie wears them any more.

i reckon he does

 

[peterkro]

Interestingly, faucet comes from an old French word, and tap comes from an old German (then Dutch) word. Both mean almost the same thing etymologically, and cross-reference each other in their definitions. Faucet and spigot used to mean the screw and the tube of a tap, respectively, but have since switched their meaning, but commonly now faucet is used to describe the whole apparatus, and as we know tap has continued to refer to the whole apparatus as well.

Actual the English word has always been cock,even those of little brain know what it means.