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Post by Mari on Feb 24, 2016 13:20:36 GMT
Why is the temporary Christmas board still here?
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Post by JoeP on Feb 24, 2016 13:36:41 GMT
Because Moosie is not allowed to delete things.
If you know what I mean.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 14:12:55 GMT
Better to keep it, yes. Besides, we only need to wait about 6 months before the first Christmas things will be in the shops again.
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Post by Moose on Feb 24, 2016 21:19:19 GMT
Yeah ... only ten months till Christmas Eve!!
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 26, 2016 23:50:12 GMT
Not particularly Christmassy, in my opinion!
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 22, 2016 15:53:40 GMT
And yet....and yet....The "temporary" forum seems to have taken on a "permanent" cast. Rather like Lenin's Tomb in Red Square. This is the sarcophagus thread.
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Post by Moose on Aug 25, 2016 1:04:03 GMT
But there are only four more months to go ..
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 25, 2016 2:43:13 GMT
So...It's not really a 'temporary' forum at all, is it then?
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Post by Mari on Aug 25, 2016 6:50:11 GMT
No, but with Moosy's love for Christmas did anyone really expect it to be?
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 25, 2016 15:05:12 GMT
Um...The forum is entitled with the term 'Temporary'.
In the parlance of the Christmas-addled, that means tidying up by removing the torn wrapping paper and ribbons, taking the tree down and removing it so that it does not become a life-endangering fire hazard, packing the lights and decorations away where they don't distract the addled, destroying all recordings of music associated with the holiday to return a semblance of sanity, and moving on with one's life. Store it all away in the attic. Or, the basement. Or, just toss it out in to the dustbin.
Put. It. Away. At least until, oh...Thanksgiving. American Thanksgiving. That's the last Thursday in November.
If you'll do that, I'll work on shortening the American presidential election cycle. Deal?
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Post by Mari on Aug 25, 2016 16:11:52 GMT
I can do you one better: no Christmas tree till after sinterklaas. That's on December 5th.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 26, 2016 20:09:57 GMT
I like.
But allow me to advance a counter proposal: Nothing Christmas until after the Solstice. Then, everything needs to be put away before New Year's Eve.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 27, 2016 2:46:22 GMT
This year there won't be much christmassing for us. We're flying to VIetnam on xmas day. My brother is getting married.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2016 4:13:53 GMT
No Christmas and international travel? That sounds like a win-win to me!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 27, 2016 6:21:24 GMT
I like christmas though. I get yummy food. But hopefully we'll get some good food in Vietnam. I hear mixed reviews. People I know seem to all complain that the food wasn't that great except for the pho and banh mi, that they prefer the Vietnamese food here. But then when I read travel forums they talk about all sorts of deliciousness.
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Post by Kye on Aug 27, 2016 12:26:24 GMT
The coffee in Vietnam is WONDERFUL! I knew nothing about it before I went, but I was converted on the very first day. If you like it, bring some back. I don't know about in Australia, but it's impossible to get in Canada.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2016 17:49:37 GMT
The coffee in Vietnam is WONDERFUL! I knew nothing about it before I went, but I was converted on the very first day. If you like it, bring some back. I don't know about in Australia, but it's impossible to get in Canada. Is that the heavily sweetened iced coffee, with lots of cream? Or the French-style hot coffee served in huge handleless cups and flavored with hazelnut essence?
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Post by Kye on Aug 27, 2016 19:00:36 GMT
Neither! It's a dense hyper-caffeinated coffee with chocolate undertones. They drink it either with fresh milk (my preference) or unsweetened condensed milk. It's also great iced. I had no idea before I went that Vietnam was the second largest coffee producer in the world --only behind Brazil.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2016 19:27:03 GMT
Well, Java is within spittin' distance. As is Sumatra. The chocolate undertones has that French feel to it. I'll bet the French greatly contributed to the presentation.
They didn't have 'cafe noisette'?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Aug 30, 2016 9:58:33 GMT
I've heard they are big coffee producers, but I rarely drink coffee. I might try some while over there though, good tip. No idea if you can get it here or not, we have a very large Vietnamese community and a very large coffee drinking snobbery as well. So that could go either way.
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Post by Kye on Aug 30, 2016 13:32:09 GMT
Well, Java is within spittin' distance. As is Sumatra. The chocolate undertones has that French feel to it. I'll bet the French greatly contributed to the presentation. They didn't have 'cafe noisette'? No café noisette that I saw. There's not a lot of French influence left in Vietnam, from what our guide was telling us. It's seen as definitely passé and old school.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 30, 2016 14:44:02 GMT
Well, Java is within spittin' distance. As is Sumatra. The chocolate undertones has that French feel to it. I'll bet the French greatly contributed to the presentation. They didn't have 'cafe noisette'? No café noisette that I saw. There's not a lot of French influence left in Vietnam, from what our guide was telling us. It's seen as definitely passé and old school. Hah. Give it ten or twenty years and they'll be celebrating their Frankish cultural heritage.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 1, 2016 10:19:20 GMT
Depends on where you are too. Of course, they still have french style bread (I cannot wait to eat Banh Mi like every day!) and the older generation speak French. My brother's finace's aunty speaks to my brother in French (she doesn't speak English). He doesn't speak any French, but I guess she figures it must be closer to English than Vietnamese?
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 1, 2016 17:02:39 GMT
Depends on where you are too. Of course, they still have french style bread (I cannot wait to eat Banh Mi like every day!) and the older generation speak French. My brother's finace's aunty speaks to my brother in French (she doesn't speak English). He doesn't speak any French, but I guess she figures it must be closer to English than Vietnamese? Heh...She figures right, but that is not going to make anything any more intelligible. Does DG's Netherspeak get you any mileage in Indonesia? I'm assuming here that, in your peregrinations, you've traversed parts of Indonesia....
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 1, 2016 23:30:53 GMT
I haven't yet been to Indonesia. Which is shocking I know! I'm probably the only Aussie not to have been to Bali. But I did learn Indonesian in high school and there are some words which the Indonesians must have picked up from the Dutch - like bioscop and apotek (cinema and pharamcy). I am not sure if my spelling is correct but Indonisian is pretty phonetic which makes it easy to learn to spell. And the Dutch use the word "nasi" to mean fried rice, which always amused me because in Indonesian, nasi just means rice. Nasi goreng is fried rice.
IIRC there isn't any similarity in sentence structure.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 2, 2016 1:19:01 GMT
Yeah...Bali, along with Borobudur, Ganung Pudang, and sailing the Molucca Straits are all on my bucket list, but very, very low and highly unlikely because of distance and aversion to tropical climatic conditions. It is one of those things which, should I ever make it to Australia, I'd probably have to try to make it to Singapore, Sumatra, Java, and Bali, but even then, it would be a struggle.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 2, 2016 1:52:46 GMT
You could probably find a carrier that flies via southeast asia from the US to Oz, especially as you're in the northern part. I believe most in general, most flights between US and Ozgo via NZ or Hawaii.
Not sure what you could do about the tropical climate though, that is going to stay awhile. Just go in the drier season perhaps? But you might then end up with it being summer in Australia which is also not ideal if you prefer cooler climate.
Knowing how much you want to see NZ, I think you'd be better of doing an NZ/Oz trip seperately and making use of the cooler months; and then a seperate trip to SE Asia. They're not really so close together. Depending on what parts of Australia you want to see, you're talking about 7-8 hours of flying to get between Melbourne/Sydney and most of the major cities in SE Asia. For some persecptive, Darwin is closer to SE Asian cities than any city in Australia, and Darwin is an Australian capital.
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Post by Moose on Sept 12, 2016 23:12:00 GMT
*points out totally apropos of nothing that it is nearly Christmas again*
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Post by tangent on Sept 13, 2016 8:40:25 GMT
*disagrees*
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 13, 2016 9:10:12 GMT
It's still over a quarter of a year away.
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