Cajungal
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I like biscuit sandwiches, but English muffins are better at playing the part of sandwich bread. I can't eat a sausage biscuit without getting covered in buttery crumbs.
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GasBandit
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It was because of that discussion that I went to check things out for myself today, on the way home from work. Hence the "I can confirm" part.[DOUBLEPOST=1446317422,1446317373][/DOUBLEPOST]...Didn't we just have the whole biscuits vs muffins discussion? Market research showed one was more successful in one part of the country, and the other in the other; stienman had a nice post about it
The issue with McDonald's breakfast is not the taste, you bizarre non-country living personAlso, our McDonalds are open 'till 5 am but who in their right mind would ever want to have McD for breakfast? Silly 'mericans
I live in a place called Dixie County, you can't get more southern (and awful) than that!
I mean... ok, maybe I was born in Tampa, but that's technically further south, at least geographically.
Feeling a little depressed today/tonight. Plans had been made for Halloween. Had a costume bought and everything. But those changed about a month ago.
It just...it makes me feel lonely and depressed and guilty and...fuck, I don't know.
It just...it makes me feel lonely and depressed and guilty and...fuck, I don't know.
I'm also spending my halloween alone. Stay strong.
Make sure you have some sort of plan for Christmas and/or New Years. You probably already know, but the holidays are among the worst times of the year to be alone, especially fairly recently, as everything and anything reminds you that you should be "together" with "close" people and all that jazz, and all the "warmth" of family and so on and so forth. Seriously, make some sort of plans. Spending Christmas with your parents might not be ideal, and spending it at a therapy center, convent, YMCA style thing, or a homeless shelter may sound even worse, but they're all vastly preferable to spending all day all alone, believe me. (And while it may sound crappy, spending Christmas Eve/night as a volunteer for homeless or otherwise poor people really is a good thing, as a selfless act, as a way of contributing, as a means of feeling somewhat good about yourself, as a way of remembering what Christmas is supposed to be about, and as a social thing - I don't think I've ever had a Christmas I had more of a feeling of "belonging".
That aside, hey, I'm spending Halloween doing the graveyard shift with a coworker I hate, wanna trade?
Pardon my ignorance, but is Halloween really a thing in Europe?
It goes up and down a bit, but sadly, yes.
I was actually having a discussion about this on a Belgian political forum and was looking for a place to vent, so thanks for the opening.
Yes, it absolutely is. Due to American TV and movies, there's been an enormous Americanization of large parts of Western Europe's culture. I was actually arguing "against" the cultural value of Halloween in Belgium, and the dips...I mean, the person arguing the other side, said that it was important because trick-or-treating allowed children to go out, make plans, meet the neighbours. He seemed to genuinely believe "trick-or-treating and going around dressed up" didn't exist here before Halloween came around. Which just goes to show local traditions are really disappearing at an alarming rate and being replaced with easy American "holidays" geared towards commercialism. The combination of peer pressure, what children see on tv, and how Halloween is pushed by shops, means it's become one of the biggest holidays as far as sales go over the past 20 years.
Now, I don't mind Halloween in and of itself. It's a perfectly fine tradition. Around here (depending on the region a bit), we had other traditions surrounding the 1st of November (All Saints) and 2nd of November (All Souls) though, and Saint Martin the 11th; trick-or-treating and dressing up was done on Epiphany (6th of January) or New Year's Day. Dressing up as all kinds of stuff was for Carnival.
Back when I was in primary school, we had maybe one or two hours at school spent on Halloween - in a "we celebrate like this, but in some parts they celebrate like that" sort of way. Heck, I remember a lesson where we had to learn the difference between Halloween, Cinqo de Mayo, Bakr-Eid, and various other "festivals from around the world". Now schools devote weeks to Halloween, with Halloween-themed classes, a dressing up party, Halloween-themed handicrafts,...
Much like Santa, which is a bastardized version of our Saint Nicholas, Halloween is an American cultural thing replacing local customs and traditions, in the ever-growing monocultural Western world, and it's a damn shame.
An increasing adoption certainly doesn't take away previous traditions though, does it? Just because more people are wanting to celebrate Halloween doesn't stop you from observing any or all previous traditions. It sounds like you're upset that people aren't observing the things you want to observe, but you could just... you know... observe them.
It does. There isn't time to celebrate and Halloween, and All Saints, and Saint-Martin, and Saint-Nicholas, and so on. Many of them are also double-up. There's no point in having two white-bearded red-clad old men coming down the chimney to deliver presents in one month's time. And it's not so much about what I want to observe myself, it's about what festivals or feasts "dominate", which traditions color the city, what unites people. Local traditions disappear in favor of imported faux traditions (because our Halloween is completely empty of any deeper meaning or interest, other than selling games, dress-up clothes and candy; I'm not saying the same is true for the American version of it, though that's no doubt still considered empty by Irish standards, and so on).
It's just a complaint about a loss of diversity. The world wouldn't be a better place if everyone had the same clothing style, spoke the same language, celebrated the same holidays, and lived in the same type of house. It'd just be more generic and boring. "Big" traditions - Rio Carnaval, Mardi Gras in New Orleans - survive and become tourist draws, smaller variations die off and disappear. The world's a poorer place for it.
Not if your costume is a nudist.
No trick or treaters tonight, thank goodness. It'd be like if I sent my hypothetical kids 'round to your place at 4am.
No real point in doing a costume for work, since I'm basically alone for my entire shift. And after the first hour Halloween is over anyway. Not to mention the time change where I get an extra hour of work.
No real point in doing a costume for work, since I'm basically alone for my entire shift. And after the first hour Halloween is over anyway. Not to mention the time change where I get an extra hour of work.
And some traditions, like Krampusnacht and Beltane, find new, enduring life from people searching for a holiday for their needs. Two decades ago I couldn't find a Beltane gathering, now they are everywhere.
I bet you've got Jethro Tull to blame for that.
Me too. I was up late, too. Went to bed around 3:30 AM. Woke up at 8:30 AM. 5 hours sleep and yet I'm wide awake.
Yep I probably fell asleep around 12:30 my time, woke up at 6 when I could have slept till 7.
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Cajungal
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Whaaat did I do to my back? Standing is uncomfortable, sitting is uncomfortable, and I don't feel muscular pain. It's this dull ache above my tailbone. Might just have hurt myself from all that sitting during PT conferences, but damn. I am moving slowly. I hasn't taken me this long to stand up from sitting since... never. I had some coworkers describe what a bruised tailbone felt like, and I don't think it's that.
*pulls the needle out of the Cajungal-like voodoo doll*
Huh. It worked. Didn't think it would. Sorry about that. Is it better now?
But...I was just joking. There is no spoon.
But...I was just joking. I didn't take the pin out.
I am so very bad at time zones and then Saskatchewan has this....I never know exactly when my meetings will really be
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Check and see if it's your SI? Evil stuff.
Cajungal
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I just googled "SI back issues" and got pages about old Sports Illustrated magazines.I am so very bad at time zones and then Saskatchewan has this....I never know exactly when my meetings will really be
Check and see if it's your SI? Evil stuff.