Wainy316

You're cracking me up. Sound just like my dad. There are some better sausages here nowadays if you pay a little more, but I do like and miss the taste of British bangers. The beans seem utterly no different to me, that's funny, but maybe I've got out of touch with. We can buy English beans in specialty sections of the grocery -- cost about £2 GBP a can/tin! For beans! Making me laugh with your comment about gravy lol. My dad says EXACTLY the same. Again, at speciality shops, you can get OXO, etc. Here's the thing that you will find truly appalling but that I love more than any other British food: Tinned Fray Bentos steak and kidneys. They are like tinned coronaries, I know, but I love love love 'em. When I lived in England, I never got even mildly tired of them. I preferred them far above the fancy pies at expensive London restaurants -- had no use for those. Fray Bentos please lol. Here they are sadly very hard to get. When my wife travels to England, she always brings a bunch back but that's about the only way I can get them. I know this will sound kind of weird, but there's a kind of mid-20th century British post-ration era, industrial comfort food thing that I find so charming. I realize it's unhealthy and all that, but there you have my guilty admission. Have you ever had a Balti pie from Villa Park?

I think you'll need a history from this year by a cheap QPR ticket just incase. I'm in Ireland though, If I buy a ticket and don't go what happens then? Nothing. You've paid for it, it'll be on your booking history and we'll all point at your seat and sing "empty seat, my Lord".

Got it in about 21 seconds.

The missus' sister is at a pub quiz tonight and is texting through the questions for her to give her answers. I have refused to have any involvement.

You're using the tragic death of hundreds, including children and infants, to make a point about your feeling of victimhood?That's actually made me a little angry. Disgusting. Do you have no sense of decorum? Or is your apparent victimhood more important right now?No he's not.He's making a point about the way the media covers stories differently ( I think).I'll be honest here, when they said "the co-pilot deliberately crashed it" I immediately thought "I hope it's not another Muslim crazy thing". Which probably makes me a bad person. Or maybe it means the endless stream of anything and everything bad being immediately tagged as "potentially suspected Muslim extremist/brainwashed" before any evidence exists has made me think like that.It's not about apparent victimhood - the victims are sadly spread over a mountain, or the families and friends left behind. It's about the way that religionists are responsible for all kinds of horrors, and that fears of Muslims are being stoked up without consideration for facts, as a result.When it's non-muslims, religion doesn't get mentioned.The point is the same. I take issue that the first response by the poster is 'see, not all tragedies life this are done by my people, so stop saying it'. I see that as lacking class, and projecting perceived victimhood ahead of the tragedy faced here. There may be a valid discussion to be had there, but in the immediate aftermath? Your first port of call is to make a blunt and somewhat aggressively/sarcastically made point? I should add that this is against a background of similar comments in previous discussions in recent months, as well. Im not using the deaths of those people at all. They tragically died, now the media is talking about the investigation into why, my point was about the media bias and the co-pilots religion not being mentioned. This is a forum and this discussion is about the plane crash and anything related to it so im free to post my opinions. Most Germans are religiously apathetic, so until stated otherwise, that is the default view of him. A generalisation itself.

Yeah man! Sorry.

You're using the tragic death of hundreds, including children and infants, to make a point about your feeling of victimhood? That's actually made me a little angry. Disgusting. Do you have no sense of decorum? Or is your apparent victimhood more important right now? No he's not. He's making a point about the way the media covers stories differently ( I think). I'll be honest here, when they said "the co-pilot deliberately crashed it" I immediately thought "I hope it's not another Muslim crazy thing". Which probably makes me a bad person. Or maybe it means the endless stream of anything and everything bad being immediately tagged as "potentially suspected Muslim extremist/brainwashed" before any evidence exists has made me think like that. It's not about apparent victimhood - the victims are sadly spread over a mountain, or the families and friends left behind. It's about the way that religionists are responsible for all kinds of horrors, and that fears of Muslims are being stoked up without consideration for facts, as a result. When it's non-muslims, religion doesn't get mentioned. If it was revealed to have been done in the name of religion then I'm sure it would.

Haven't they started sneakily replacing cod with pollock now as it's cheaper?

Yes, I think my dad pines for it. But like a lot of ex-pat English people here, he finds little ways to get his goods, but he's so parsimonious, too, that he'll only go so far if it doesn't cost too much. I used to love some of the breakfast "sarnies" I would get on my way to work in London in the morning. I still try to make versions of them here -- a lot of HP on top. I don't know. It's very hard to say about English food here and its marketability. Because of the overfishing issue, some of us are really trying to limit our cod and haddock eating. I don't buy cod anymore in stores as I feel it's unethical. The "cod" from China they sell here -- no thanks! Too many risks. But I do sometimes have it at restaurants -- I can't resist -- and long story short, it's a niche market and no one -- and I mean NO ONE -- does it right here. It's always wrong. And they can't do chips here, either. There are some surprising outbreaks of British food. In one small part of the country, the "ploughman's" style pies are big. But that's strictly a regional thing. Have seen nowhere else. And you probably already know, but Hersheys gives us a horrid version of Cadbury's here. It's inedible to a "good English boy" like me, raised by a father from Brum. (At Easter, my American religious mother would make chocolate bunnies and egg with strictly imported Dairy Milk alone, which she would get way in advance. ) And here's the thing: no one here seems to like the Americanized Cadbury's, either. I know so many Americans who just want regular Cadbury's chocolate. Plus, Hersheys is trying to block imports. I have to go my local Indian grocery to get Dairy Milk. It's not marketed as British chocolate is it? People do know it's not really Cadbury's don't they?

Not according to my English dad. He buys Canadian bacon, which is closer to English, he says. He ridicules bacon here. I have heard Americans say Canadian bacon, so that means 'back' bacon that we have then? That incidentally we call 'Danish bacon' Yes, I think that's right. Don't you call American-style bacon "rashers" there or something like that? It's been a while for me. Each individual piece of bacon is a 'rasher'.

Not according to my English dad. He buys Canadian bacon, which is closer to English, he says. He ridicules bacon here. I have heard Americans say Canadian bacon, so that means 'back' bacon that we have then? That incidentally we call 'Danish bacon'

Plastic Man, does America have real bacon?

Those? Yes, sneakers or "tennis shoes." Fair enough. but sneakers is a much more general term isn't it? So sneakers doesn't JUST refer to that type of shoe does it? Whereas "pumps" only refers to that particular type in the UK (afaik) That's right. And pumps here are women's shoes with tall heels. High heels? The odd things about the clothing name differences is not that they are different but that they are all mixed up, with the same words meaning another thing in each.

Further to the 'key code' and '2 in the cockpit' discussions earlier', from the press conference.... http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/mar/26/germanwings-plane-crash-investigation-press-conference-live-updates-4u9525

In a way it has relaxed my renewed fear of flying because it was nothing to do with the plane. Hit pretty close to home with it being German and the fact that German things don't tend to break. Still an awful tragedy though, even more so considering how avoidable it was.

Didn't they say it wasn't a completely abnormal rate of descent. I think the site of the pilot desperately banging on the door will have initially started the panic.

At least they mean something. A lot of peolle just have random skulls, serpents etc. for the hell of it.

Jam must be used to some degree in the US...

if there's any way of getting in, we are back to square one with terrorists getting in A keycode known only to the pilot and co-pilot?

Or a way of guaranteeing access to the cockpit for the pilot should he leave. A key code or something.

Aren't New Yorkers famously even more stand offish than Londoners?

Now comes the question, 'why'? They did say the other day that a German airliner doesn't just crash whilst at cruising altitude.

Erm, how are Man City and Chelsea ranked higher than Arsenal for crowds?

Got my ticket for this.

I don't get either. Never understood the sugar/savoury convo. Also, American bacon is terrible. Have you tried PB and J? It's delicious! (assuming you like both things individually, obviously) Is jelly just jam? I don't like either enough to love it but they're both passable.