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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:10 pm
by perkalerk215
stanton wrote:perkalerk215 wrote:and im not a dude. im a chick.

guess i should add a pic or something.
Yes, I guess I should add a bowler hat to my picture.
and you have to add a cup of tea....then youd be the poster child for your country!
....kidding, before these serious people bite my head off.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:18 pm
by daggus
perkalerk215 wrote:word. so i get the whole tradition thing and all, but it still is just so odd to me that the whole country like sets aside "tea time" with their crumpets and all. it is a nice idea. and cool people care enough about their history or whatever. o
can't say i know anyone who regular sits down for crumpets & tea. Only time i hear of crumpets coz someone is takin the piss. Know plenty people who enjoy a good brew tho!
But i live in Scotland tatty scone & irn bru instead maybe a square sausage as well braw

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:41 pm
by dutty yuppie
Perkalerk, I wasn't being serious and no disrespect taken. I think it's quite charming that that's how we're perceived! Mind you, I know the other perceptions you have of us which aren't so charming (teeth for example)
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:46 pm
by stanton
Dutty Yuppie wrote:Perkalerk, I wasn't being serious and no disrespect taken. I think it's quite charming that that's how we're perceived! Mind you, I know the other perceptions you have of us which aren't so charming (teeth for example)
Hey watch it mate, I've got teeth.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:48 pm
by dutty yuppie
Me too! Just remember an episode of the Simpsons where they were taking the piss out of it.
I love being British me.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:49 pm
by dutty yuppie
Anyway, why aren't Coltrane and Miles Davis mentioned on this thread?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:30 pm
by enzyme
I spent a year in university in England, but I never remember eating a single crumpet. In my dorm, I was taught the traditional English tea & spliff time, which I thought was vastly superior the tea & crumpet concept anyway...
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:32 pm
by jim
Dutty Yuppie wrote:Anyway, why aren't Coltrane and Miles Davis mentioned on this thread?
Coltrane was a saxophonist!

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:04 pm
by FSTZ
Charlie Parker wins!
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:11 pm
by perkalerk215
oh yes, the teeth stereotype! that one is funny to me. although i know a lot of people from overseas there and seriously they all have weird teeth. not missing, just fucked up. not to say americans have perfect teeth.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:17 pm
by tempest
like louie armstrong played the trumpet ill hit that bong and break ya off summin, sooooon im gunna get my props, cops, comin try to take my crops
louie wins
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:00 am
by misk
im not to down with tea time, or any american ritual as much as i'm down with the siesta. I dont know what they call it in the middle east (besides just "lunch") but i love the concept.
You close your shop, take a long long 4 hour lunch break with friends and family. relax, smoke, drink turkish coffee or tea and eat sweets. take a nap, then open your shop again at like 4 PM. then you just stay open till like 10 pm instead of 6.
I had a kuwaiti friend who lived down the street from me in kuwait city. sometimes i'd go over to his house for lunch. His mom and the maid would cook elaborate lunch meals that were just amazing, and we'd just hang out afterwords (having a maid to clean up the dishes helps too

)
good times, for an even greater country. i love the middle east

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:10 am
by perkalerk215
Misk wrote:im not to down with tea time, or any american ritual as much as i'm down with the siesta. I dont know what they call it in the middle east (besides just "lunch") but i love the concept.
You close your shop, take a long long 4 hour lunch break with friends and family. relax, smoke, drink turkish coffee or tea and eat sweets. take a nap, then open your shop again at like 4 PM. then you just stay open till like 10 pm instead of 6.
I had a kuwaiti friend who lived down the street from me in kuwait city. sometimes i'd go over to his house for lunch. His mom and the maid would cook elaborate lunch meals that were just amazing, and we'd just hang out afterwords (having a maid to clean up the dishes helps too

)
good times, for an even greater country. i love the middle east

the middle east is crazy. im down with the long lunches though. to me, its the only time im actually starving for food and able to eat without running around. and its probably the best meal out of the day(i know breakfast is cracked up to be the best, but lunch is like early enough you dont end up eating all late, but early enough you dont need breakfast)...its great.
how about we take a full day for lunch and close everything all day. no one do shit all day. laziest fuckin country in the world will be my country someday.
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:30 am
by misk
heh i hear ya! when i finally settle down it'll be somewhere where people dont do shit for an extended period of time each day.
that is SUCH the way to live life. nice and simple, and with an emphasis on the values of the individual.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:57 am
by perkalerk215
exactly. how do we brainwash people to believe this as well and actually follow through with it. im def gonna make sure i get to be lazy as shit for hours out of my day when i end up setting up a home somewhere.
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:33 am
by stanton
Dutty Yuppie wrote:Anyway, why aren't Coltrane and Miles Davis mentioned on this thread?
I have to have
something to do at work today... Davis/Parker I reckon. Can anyone think of any other foods that sounds vaguely like musical instruments? I need fodder for photoshop.
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:36 am
by misk
trombone/toblerone?
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:39 am
by misk
oboe/snowcone
bassoon/macaroon
bugle/bugles

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:56 am
by stanton
you're a genius mate! Know any famous Jazz oboeists....?
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:58 am
by little boh peep
Stanton is winning this thread.