Jamal

@"Merkwurdichliebe" posted mostly very low quality, nasty comments. There was rarely anything of substance. It was a good decision. You can be anti-le...

The Spanish timezone is more crazy than that. The Greenwhich meridian goes through Spain but you’re UTC+1.

You're welcome :groan:

:yum:

@"Noble Dust" All I did was I poured over boiling water like the Chinese do, then left it out to dry for an hour, then seasoned it inside and out, the...

Talking of fatty seepage, there was a lot from this: /uploads/resized/files/39/v3d94u8ogahpcso8.jpg

I am Homeric in some ways. I like pork chops and beer. And fat, well, the fact is that fat helps to make things delicious. But there's a limit. Fatty ...

Looks delightful. I especially like the fatty seepage shown in the second image.

I've avoided spirits for a while now because I can't handle them, but I thought I'd make an exception for Christmas. I specifically asked my wife for ...

Nothing much. Maybe stuff it with oranges. Any advice?

I went to a lunchtime party once on Christmas Eve and they were serving oysters. I didn't even know until today that it was a Christmas Eve tradition....

You have us. Merry Christmas!

You’ve opened a can of worms.

Now that you've set things out, I understand the distinction you're making between chocolate bars and candy bars, and I apologize. You're right: I've ...

I forgot about port. Not sure I've even had any this century. Cheers.

Sorry about this... /uploads/resized/files/kd/mz7srj4hpia9gatj.png

Ya, more precisely. Otherwise yeah, the alphabet's the easiest thing about the language. Don't get me started on the conjugations.

Alas not this time around.

If it's any consolation, I was impressed by your multi-layered Wittgenstein humour yesterday. You can read Russian? The closest I come to reading Russ...

No you haven't broken any rules. The only thing I'd say is that you should put a blank line between paragraphs to make it more readable. Welcome, Beve...

Even if it were true, they can't really be blamed for deprioritizing concerns about snow on the Costa Blanca. Ha! It's a sign.

Yes, there was something about it I didn't like. Maybe in those days my nut love had not moved beyond peanuts out to hazelnuts, I don't know.

In 2016, the year I moved to Spain, it snowed in Denia, which is a much rarer occurrence than it is in Madrid. The story going around was that the aju...

I would say "boo" if I were submitting one myself.

You missed it: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-01-10/Joy-amidst-chaos-Deadly-snowstorms-hit-Spain-WWoPscRTkQ/img/20331b3c5bdf405abf4630bf26c1cb62/2033...

That's interesting: I don't remember the Cabana at all, even though according to Wikipedia it was around in the 80s, which was my main chocolate bar d...

First I discover you're disgusted by chocolate with nuts, and now it turns out you've never seen a snowman with a carrot for a nose. But thank you for...

:grin: True, my compatriots would hang me, if only they could catch me. But note that I’m mainly Scottish, which is not a form of English. I do like s...

Yeah, travelling students must be a minority. My experience is that in France, Spain, Italy, and Russia, English is only spoken in the touristy parts ...

Not that it matters much, but this is not remotely the case, unless you just mean that all European countries have significant numbers of English-spea...

You do you, of course, but I can’t help but think less of you.

Sickly sweet with an unpleasant, sticky texture.

Feel free to discuss the topic, but if you have any more complaints about me, take them to Feedback.

Ok, you have the twix.

I’d have eaten you first.

I would eat one to prevent death from starvation at the very last minute.

It’s a bad bar. Toffee Crisps are fine but not great.

That’s my kind of chocolate bar. Looks a bit like two British ones, which happen to be among the best British chocolate bars: Lion Bar and Picnic. @"u...

When I crack open my own on Christmas Eve I'll drink to you and your crappy chocolate bars.

Second day of rabbit. The soup tasted more rabbity, and the roast legs tasted like turkey.

I can't take your whisky chat seriously, knowing that you have so little chocolate bar discernment. Mars bars indeed. My edgy opinion is that grown-up...

Personally, I treated it with derision partly because I'm in a scraptious mood, and also because I'm upset by the stupidity that surrounds me: bigotry...

"Savouring the harvest" to me sounds deliciously evocatively delicious. That makes me think of my Siberian tea, which isn't really tea. It looks like ...

I had Valor chocolate a few times when I was in Spain but was not blown away. I don't think I tried Huesitos. Kit-Kats are crap.

You've been living under a rock if you're shocked and surprised by the concept of chocolate mixed with nuts! It's the classic chocolate combination. E...

Visually there is nothing to distinguish it from chicken soup, so a photo would be useless. I can show you a photo of my online rabbit order though. O...

It occurs to me that rather than short-sightedness, Sicilians are much more famous for a culture of vendetta, which involves conflicts that last for d...

Good to know, thanks. https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/elmer-fudd-gun-1.jpg

I suppose folk linguistics, as exhibited by @"I like sushi", is actually pretty interesting as an anthropological phenomenon. The question I have is t...

Your original claim was that one determined the other: Did your mysterious linguist present evidence for the link, or just the lack of tenses? Nobody ...