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RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 28, 2017 at 3:32 am
(October 27, 2017 at 7:23 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (October 27, 2017 at 5:15 pm)wallym Wrote: I didn't mean an actual monarchy. I just meant you have that old lady you trot around and many brits seem to be crazy about. And the princesses and dukes, and all that weird stuff. A big old birthday parade every year too. Is the queen on your money? It all seems a bit silly.
The point I was making though, is that she seems to be a symbol that the folks of England like to rally around. Rather than a person/position, the US likes flags and songs.
Oh, no no no no no no no wrong!!! wrong wrong wrong!!!
England? Ok, I am working in the UK, now, but my homeland is a nice patch of land on the south-western tip of the old continent.
The best place in the world... bathed by the gulf stream while it's still warm, a place of great beaches, mountains, plains and rivers. Great food (definitely, not England!), friendly people (definitely not Germany), and a language that foreigners claim sounds like Russian (but definitely not Russia)... must the the R's; we have trilled R's and throaty R's... the Enligsh R's barely count as R's, for us... it's like y'all are going to say an R, but abort it before even reaching 1/3 of it.
You should visit my country. It is the one place where food tastes like itself... We don't need no stinking gravies, or sauces, or ketchups, or hot sauce, or anything to make food taste "good". We actually enjoy the natural flavor of each ingredient... heck, there are even commercials about how something they want to sell preserves the natural flavor of the food you're cooking.
We eat fish, lots of fish.... also squid, octopus, cuttlefish. We eat pork, lamb, goat, beef.... even piglets - the famous Leitão da Bairrada.
We eat soup at every meal.
We have a proper Mediterranean salad, too, at every meal. Also, no sauces! Just salt and the golden ingredient, olive oil (some people put vinegar, but I detest the stuff).
Cheese.... cheese.... no need for fancy molds and crap to make it "tasty". From fresh cheese to very cured cheese. Cheese from cow's milk, sheep's milk, goat's milk, any mixture of the three... from smooth cheese that looks melted, to very hard cheese that needs to be cut very thin.... they're just so good!
Bacalhau, the fish that can be cooked in a million ways - my favorite is with chickpeas.... but I'm a chickpea nut, so... 
Then there are the things I don't care much about, but many people enjoy - wines... lots and lots and lots to choose from - you can spend a lifetime sampling them all.
And the famous Port wine... more liquorey than winey, but that's how the world likes it.
Do come visit... you won't be disappointed!
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RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 28, 2017 at 8:13 am
(October 28, 2017 at 3:32 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (October 27, 2017 at 7:23 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh, no no no no no no no wrong!!! wrong wrong wrong!!!
England? Ok, I am working in the UK, now, but my homeland is a nice patch of land on the south-western tip of the old continent.
The best place in the world... bathed by the gulf stream while it's still warm, a place of great beaches, mountains, plains and rivers. Great food (definitely, not England!), friendly people (definitely not Germany), and a language that foreigners claim sounds like Russian (but definitely not Russia)... must the the R's; we have trilled R's and throaty R's... the Enligsh R's barely count as R's, for us... it's like y'all are going to say an R, but abort it before even reaching 1/3 of it.
You should visit my country. It is the one place where food tastes like itself... We don't need no stinking gravies, or sauces, or ketchups, or hot sauce, or anything to make food taste "good". We actually enjoy the natural flavor of each ingredient... heck, there are even commercials about how something they want to sell preserves the natural flavor of the food you're cooking.
We eat fish, lots of fish.... also squid, octopus, cuttlefish. We eat pork, lamb, goat, beef.... even piglets - the famous Leitão da Bairrada.
We eat soup at every meal.
We have a proper Mediterranean salad, too, at every meal. Also, no sauces! Just salt and the golden ingredient, olive oil (some people put vinegar, but I detest the stuff).
Cheese.... cheese.... no need for fancy molds and crap to make it "tasty". From fresh cheese to very cured cheese. Cheese from cow's milk, sheep's milk, goat's milk, any mixture of the three... from smooth cheese that looks melted, to very hard cheese that needs to be cut very thin.... they're just so good!
Bacalhau, the fish that can be cooked in a million ways - my favorite is with chickpeas.... but I'm a chickpea nut, so...
Then there are the things I don't care much about, but many people enjoy - wines... lots and lots and lots to choose from - you can spend a lifetime sampling them all.
And the famous Port wine... more liquorey than winey, but that's how the world likes it.
Do come visit... you won't be disappointed!
Portugal.
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RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 28, 2017 at 8:31 am
(October 28, 2017 at 2:39 am)pocaracas Wrote: (October 27, 2017 at 8:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Portuguese sounds like Russian? I've always been told it sounds like french. Your Portuguese doesn't sound like mine.
I've watched too many Brazilian tv shows... Not only some grammar is different, and some words are used differently, but the accent makes it sound very different overall, specially to someone who doesn't understand the words.
Quote:Poca, what is typical portuguese food?
Prepare to Google!
- feijoada - beans, even different kinds of beans, and pork and some cabbage all cooked on the same pot.
- arroz de marisco - shellfish in rice (some people are considerate and remove all shells prior to serving... Some claim the shells retain flavour so the person eating is the one who should take care of them)
- bacalhau à Brás - the signature salted fish in small chunks, cooked in a pot together with very thin fries (thin as a toothpick), some scrambled eggs thrown in the mix and topped off with parsley and some olives.
- anything with bacalhau, actually.... There are books with tons of recipes for it.
- along the coast, you find lots of grilled fish.
- caldeirada, a stew with several kinds of fish thrown in.
Should I say anything about all the sweets? Many developed by bored nuns with access to lots of sugar, eggs, and cinnamon? 
Same as Brazil then.
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RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 28, 2017 at 8:38 am
(October 28, 2017 at 8:31 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Same as Brazil then.
It's what you get for being colonized
No need to thank us. 
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RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 31, 2017 at 2:05 am
(October 26, 2017 at 11:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (October 26, 2017 at 10:22 pm)Court Jester Wrote: I hope there are riots because of that.
You would. Anything to give your pig cops a free fire zone, eh?
Haha. No. I just enjoy seeing retarded people tear up their own shit. That's about it really.
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