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Post by tzarine on Mar 22, 2023 19:38:24 GMT 2
As sun and showers
There had made a lasting Spring.
– Henry VIII Act III, Scene i
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Post by Netsuke on Mar 22, 2023 20:33:10 GMT 2
I ate French fries. Does that count as a cultural activity?
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Post by tzarine on Mar 23, 2023 2:09:15 GMT 2
I ate French fries. Does that count as a cultural activity? absolutely, cher nets as does eating chocolate
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Post by Netsuke on Mar 23, 2023 5:28:28 GMT 2
I ate French fries. Does that count as a cultural activity? absolutely, cher nets as does eating chocolate Merci mon ami.
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Post by Netsuke on Mar 23, 2023 6:27:20 GMT 2
Looking at the bigger picture on a cultural basis, if I eat Brussels sprouts French fries Frankfurters Chicken Lahori Afghan salad
Chinese gooseberries
Tunis Cake (A Tunis cake is a Madeira cake topped with a thick layer of chocolate and decorated with marzipan fruits. It is traditionally eaten at Christmas) Swiss Chocolate Viennese Coffee
That is nine countries involved in one dinner. I’d say that was culturally diversified.
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Post by Voy on Mar 23, 2023 14:54:08 GMT 2
And would lead to a shape like a globe !
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Post by tzarine on Apr 1, 2023 6:49:53 GMT 2
2 kids who grew up in cali decide to pick up american mexican food @ taco bell which was made for us by a team originally from bangladesh as later, we watch a hollywood classic, psycho
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 1, 2023 8:48:14 GMT 2
Love the cultural hodgepodge, tzarine!
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 2, 2023 2:46:28 GMT 2
Yesterday I visited a family member we had Chinese for dinner. Today another family member is flying to Turkey for a six week visit.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 2, 2023 14:32:22 GMT 2
My friend came back from southern Italy last weekend and she had brought tree branches for this Sunday's palm Sunday celebrations.
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 3, 2023 5:17:39 GMT 2
My friend came back from southern Italy last weekend and she had brought tree branches for this Sunday's palm Sunday celebrations. We’re they especially treated Annie? I’m surprised she was able to get them through customs.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 3, 2023 11:23:27 GMT 2
My friend came back from southern Italy last weekend and she had brought tree branches for this Sunday's palm Sunday celebrations. We’re they especially treated Annie? I’m surprised she was able to get them through customs. Maybe they were treated as religious items. On the Greek island of Tinos we saw a woman filling half a dozen bottles with water from a well. She was planning to fly back with them in her cabin bag. Surely this was against the rules. It is holy water, she insisted, so they must allow me to take it in the cabin.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 3, 2023 13:15:20 GMT 2
Why would they not allow them through customs, Netsie?
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 3, 2023 14:14:14 GMT 2
Why would they not allow them through customs, Netsie? There are strict import conditions relating to biosecurity, Annie. The items need to be pest free and preferably treated (e.g. painted or varnished)
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Post by Voy on Apr 3, 2023 14:30:04 GMT 2
Netskie - when you land in Oz, do they still come thru the plane with the "flit" ? and spray everyone?
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 3, 2023 21:09:06 GMT 2
ah, ok... although you cannot take everything through customs, especially if you're alone in the car (you can bring in more if you're 2), this was not considered a biohazard here. Some types of plants cannot be grown here because of some of our crops, but not the ones she brought.
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 4, 2023 12:57:24 GMT 2
I am watching Korean television programs, wearing a hair ornament from China and UGGs from Australia and taking medicine from New Zealand. That’s almost a League of Nations.
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Post by rikita on Apr 12, 2023 0:48:28 GMT 2
Why would they not allow them through customs, Netsie? There are strict import conditions relating to biosecurity, Annie. The items need to be pest free and preferably treated (e.g. painted or varnished) i would suppose there is quite a difference if things are transported by plane to a place far away from their origin, or if you cross just one border, on land, so lots of animals and plants on both sides of the border will be similar (or cross the border on their own or be transported by the wind or similar) ...
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Post by Voy on Apr 12, 2023 1:08:58 GMT 2
Hey Netskie.... what about that "flit" - are they still doing it?
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Post by tzarine on Jul 8, 2023 1:27:34 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 22, 2023 17:08:49 GMT 2
Finished watching the fourth and last episode of "Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World". I had to take a break for a few months in the middle.
It was excellent, pretty comprehensive and I learned a lot,
But FWIW. I don't think that the numerous spokespersons had any sort of credible response to the in-bedded misogyny, for sure it wasn't all like that, and there were great female artists, etc., but that does not make amends any more than the boilerplate, "Some of my best friends are { name a persecuted group } crap.
ETA: I missed out an important negation.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 22, 2023 21:21:17 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Jul 22, 2023 22:15:26 GMT 2
Having loved the movie about the lady who figured out where Richard II's bones were -- tonight we are going to see Richard II by who else but Shakespeare.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 31, 2023 6:56:55 GMT 2
had curry listened to aretha now watching wire in the blood
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Post by tzarine on Sept 11, 2023 20:51:22 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Oct 31, 2023 3:17:14 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Nov 6, 2023 0:33:45 GMT 2
went to a guy fawkes bonfire
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 3, 2024 22:44:12 GMT 2
Went to the cinema with my mom. we went to see a Swiss comedy, so it was in multiple languages, and definitely not high brow. good fun.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 4, 2024 3:36:23 GMT 2
eating french chocolate while watching endeavour wearing made in usa fruit of the loom t
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 15, 2024 23:14:27 GMT 2
Yesterday, the neighbours suggested mom and I join them visiting an exhibition of some of the paintings of Albert Anker.
Mostly oil on canvas, some of the details would come at you out of the frame.
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