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From: Dave Frightens Me on 26 Sep 2006 03:10 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:47:18 +0100, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: >Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >> David, you frequently don't understand what I'm saying, although I'm >> not sure just why! :o) > >I didn't understand what you said about the US. As far as I can see, >it's societal pressure there which helps the ban works where it's in >effect. If Americans all blindly obeyed the law, drivers wouldn't exceed >the speed limit, for one example. Well, we get into murky territory there, because speeding comes down largely to enforcement, of which American cops are probably a whole lot better at! I was passing comment on the differences between US and Italian culture in regards to the observation of laws. An unpopular law is much more likely to be observed in the USA than Italy in my opinion. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: B Vaughan on 26 Sep 2006 06:21 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:11:36 +0100, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: >> > However, boiled egg with _soldiers_, that was something I hadn't had >> > since I was a child! :) >> >> Huh? Translation, please - for the benfit of us ignorant >> Americans who've never encountered that particular delicacy? > >Read further down! :) What do you call them where you're from? I don't think anybody in the US eats soft boiled eggs. My grandfather used to have one every morning for his breakfast. (He didn't make my grandmother prepare seven, though.) He used to give me what he called the "tappy", the top bit that he cut off to get to the gooey insides. My parents ate them also, but my family was Irish. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: B Vaughan on 26 Sep 2006 06:21 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:13:47 +0200, Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:11:12 +0200, B Vaughan<me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >>Children, especially, are eating tons of unhealthy carbohydrates. TV >>advertisements push various Kinder (Italian, in spite of the German >>name) and Mulino Bianco products as breakfast foods and after-school >>snacks for kids. These are all basically sweets, not the basis of a >>healthy meal. The Kinder products always advertise milk as an >>ingredient and the packages always have pictures of glasses of milk >>being poured into the sugary cakes. However, milk is down there with >>the flavourings if you check the ingredient list. > >Nice British spelling of "flavourings"! ;o) > >These products are just fine, as long as they burn off those calories. >I start the day with a sugary dose of that stuff and a long sugary >coffee, and don't suffer obesity. These kids need to be kicked outside >to play or walk to school. Around here, I don't see any kids walking to school. Even if it's only 100 meters, they take the school bus or their parents drive them. Actually, my husband's studio is right beside the town's elementary school. Sometimes we see a kid get picked up by a school bus on the road leading into town. As soon as he picks up this kid, the bus puts on his turn signal to turn into the school driveway. I just can't believe it. > >>The difficulties are 1) that now they are sedentary, and 2) that the >>bread and pasta now has a much higher glycemic index than it did in >>their grandparents' day. > >I don't know about the second one, because it's not my area. > >As to the first, I spent a lot of my youth sedentary playing video >games, but never suffered obesity. Generations of tv watchers did the >same, so I am not so sure that's a major cause. Then again, I always >liked walking... >-- >--- >DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com >--- -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: B Vaughan on 26 Sep 2006 06:21 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:03 +0200, Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >I was passing comment on the differences between US and Italian >culture in regards to the observation of laws. An unpopular law is >much more likely to be observed in the USA than Italy in my opinion. I don't think you know the US very well. Enforcement of many laws is much more rigorous in the US than in Italy, and it is that, and public opinion that keeps people on the straight and narrow. Americans probably pay more taxes than Italians, but the IRS doesn't play around. If they think you owe them money, they impound the boat and the Jaguar and the house in Vail in the blink of an eye, and you can get them back 10 years later if you can prove that you don't owe them anything. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: Giovanni Drogo on 26 Sep 2006 06:19
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Ian Burton wrote: > > Note on sandwiches. I suspect you'd mean by sandwich more what we'd call > > tramezzini, made with sliced bread. > > I'm glad you mentioned "tramezzini." When is it used in the singular? I'm > given to to saying "prendo un tramezzino," but although the order has never the singular "tramezzino" is grammatically correct. > been misinterpreted, I've never been sure if it's that's correct. The > sliced sandwich bread is almost always cut in half and, as a result, there > are two pieces to what I call a "tramezzino." Should I be saying "prendo > due tramezzini"? Only now that you make me think about it, I realize that "tramezzino" derives from "tra mezzo" (lit. between [the] middle). So one takes two (square) slices of breads, piles them up, cuts them along the diagonal and obtains two triangles. Are they one tramezzino or two ? Seems a phylosophical question :-) Have you ever seen one trouser or one scissor (just to take two words which also in italian exist almost only in the plural) ? Sincerely I've never thought about it nor had any "problem", I usually find tramezzini only at a party, and they come in piles there ! No need to order ... :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nospam(a)mi.iasf.cnr.it is a newsreading account used by more persons to avoid unwanted spam. Any mail returning to this address will be rejected. Users can disclose their e-mail address in the article if they wish so. |