I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

covertanjou

Blue, thank you.

Athena, I was in Fort Lauderdale.  Absolutely gorgeous.  I was right across from the beach.  My balcony faced the ocean, and as Barbara just wrote, there is a constant breeze.  

Barbara, living on the beach!  AHHHH...I would just LOVE that.  Maybe one day....sigh 

1Athena1

I like that part of Florida. I lived in South Beach for 1 1/2 years and the ocean breeze was wonderful. Central Florida is strangulation by heat.

crazy4carrots

Cold poached salmon with mustard-dill sauce, baby potatoes, fresh Ontario asparagus and salad greens from the garden.  Some fresh strawberries for dessert.  Just wanted to keep us all up-to-date with menu talk, folks!

Wabbit

Chicken soup ... hubby and I both seem to have acquired a stomach virus.  Ugh ...

The only pack I belong to is with my doggies ... I recommend it.  They are loyal, trustworthy and mostly can be counted on to be well behaved. 

Step-daughter and grandkids are in Florida.  We have learned to go in October/November or early spring to avoid the oppressive heat ... and the crowds.  We did the condo on the beach thing last time and that is the way to go!   

Bren-2007

Mary .. I'm glad to see you're back.  I am so sorry for the troubles your parents are having.

Don't know what's for dinner ... Tim's on the road this weekend so I'm left to fend for myself.

Why does Patzee keep posting PM's in this thread.  I think it's very odd.

Hope all are having a good day,

Bren

Enjoyful

*Waving to all from a boat in Ireland*

Mary, I'm so sorry to hear of your parents' illnesses.  I'm hoping for a swift recovery!  How are you doing with it all?

Blue a bully?  Hahahahahahaaaa!  Blue stands up for herself and doesn't hesitate to voice her opinion or challenge a mistruth, but a bully she is not.  

Dinner tonight:  scromelettes with the whole refrigerator thrown in, bread toasted in the pan, half-bottle of wine, and a pot of tea.  Tomorrow we leave the boat, visit relatives, and head for the Cliffs of Moher.

*waving hi to Barbara!!*

E

BarbaraA

Oh E, you are having a nice loooong visit. How wonderful! Shrimp sauteed with garlic, onion, mushrooms and roma tomatoes over rice pasta. Bren you can come on over.

Alpal

Black bean and rice burritos - smothered in cheese. One of my faves and sooo easy.

BarbaraA

Patzee, what on earth are you talking about? Bullying because we talk about what we are having for dinner? I seriously do not get how you came to that conclusion.

Ang7

Patzee~

I have been reading this thread for a long time.  There has been "what are you having for dinner" talk long before you arrived on the scene.  No link to bullying...

bluedahlia

ROFLMBO!  You guys better stop eating.  Dinner Menu = Bullying.  Did you know that Your personal IP number can be subpoenaed. Civil or criminal action can follow.

BarbaraA

Blue, I knew that from somewhere. It is, after all, Friday and it is a full moon.

AnnNYC

Please note -- Bluedahlia's references to subpoenas, etc. is "snark" -- otherwise known as sarcasm!

Alpal

I haven't received a pmail since last night and it wasn't from a poster on this board. I don't know what you're talking about. You're welcome to subpoena my pmails. Anytime.

bluedahlia

Mine too!

Wabbit

Or you may be getting your information from sources that do not have your best interests in mind.

This thread has always been about chitchat about anything and everything ... including food.  I don't see where you get the idea that the whole tone of the thread should change just because some anonymous person on a message board sent you a PM?  Did you ever consider that maybe they have been unsuccessful in causing drama themselves and are now sending you in to do it for them?  Just a thought to be considered ... 

-angel-

patzee9, would love to know who sent you that PM .. it could be very telling!  Why do you even believe it?

Wabbit

Now if Linda was my mother and was forcing ME to eat asparagus that would be a whole different kettle of fish 

desdemona222b

OMG - you mean to tell me that when you don't have a good response to a post, you talk dinner menus?!?!  How AWFUL!

Alpal

Sounds like grounds for a law suit to me!

Alpal

There's a whole thread on here about what's for dinner. They must really be bullies!

BarbaraA

Anyone is welcome to view any and all of my PM's. I have nothing to hide and have never been mean to anyone even when they deserve it (much to DH's dismay).

desdemona-I think you are drinking koolaid if you think we discuss dinner because we do not have a good response to a post. Come on! If you read the thread, you would know we love eating. 

Alpal

Oops - we cross posted!

bluedahlia

I can't even answer that post it is so absurd!

Wabbit

Just when you think it can't get any sillier ...

crazy4carrots

Perhaps it's time to change the subject, since talking about food seems to be a bit bothersome.  Someone several months ago wondered why Canadians on this thread are so interested in U.S. politics.  Here's a brief explanation, written much more persuasively than I could:

U.S. profligacy endangers CanadaJEFFREY SIMPSON | Columnist profile | E-mailFrom Friday's Globe and MailPublished Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 3:00AM EDTLast updated Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 3:02AM EDT76 commentsEmailPrint/LicenseDecrease text sizeIncrease text sizeFrancis Fukuyama, at the end of his latest remarkable book, The Origins of Political Order, offers this aside about his own country, the United States. “The United States seems increasingly caught in a dysfunctional political equilibrium, wherein everyone agrees on the necessity of addressing long-term fiscal issues, but powerful interest groups can block the spending cuts or tax increases necessary to close the gap. The design of the country’s institutions, with strong checks and balances, makes a solution harder,” he writes.MORE RELATED TO THIS STORYIs the U.S. headed for another Great Depression?Romney still bankable as Republican frontrunnerIn The New York Times, the moderate conservative columnist David Brooks writes of the forthcoming presidential election, “the core issue is the accumulation of deeper structural problems that this recession has exposed – unsustainable levels of debt, an inability to generate middle-class incomes, a dysfunctional political system, the steady growth of special interest sinecures and the gradual loss of national vitality.”Note that Mr. Fukuyama, the academic, and Mr. Brooks, the journalist, both use the same word to describe their country’s politics: dysfunctional. When those outside the U.S. use that word, however, they are merely borrowing for explanatory purposes a description thoughtful American commentators use so frequently that it has become a cliché.Cliché or not, U.S. politics is stalemated, but the country’s fiscal problems are not. Instead, they grow worse – appreciably worse – with every passing month. Yet, it has become common coin that nothing serious can be done, or will be done, until after the next presidential election – or several trillion dollars of debt from now.The U.S. is plagued, Mr. Brooks argues, with a range of deep structural challenges but seems to lack the appetite or capacity to discuss these challenges, let alone do much about them. Instead, U.S. politics is characterized by shouting, slogans and large doses of sheer nonsense.The other night, those who have declared their candidacies for the Republican presidential nomination appeared together for a “debate,” the first of the marathon. What a collection of third-raters they were for a major national party: fringe characters (Ron Paul and Herman Cain), dullards (Tim Pawlenty), social conservative ideologues (Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann), egotists (Newt Gingrich, whose campaign staff just quit en masse over his eccentricities).The possible exception to this list of the politically challenged might have been former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. But even he, the supposed front-runner in this race among the Republican lame, has drunk the Kool-Aid that the answer to what ails the U.S. is still-lower taxes. As Mr. Brooks says of that approach, it “is stupefyingly boring, fiscally irresponsible, and politically impressible.”Mr. Brooks is correct, of course, but the Republicans have taken flight from the reality that the deficit must be – indeed, can only be – confronted by a mixture of tax increases and spending reductions. This is what two bipartisan commissions recommended, but their advice has been completely spurned. The Republicans’ answer to everything is lower taxes, and massive cuts to discretionary spending which amounts to only a small share of total government spending. Democrats are not much better, trying to preserve as much spending as possible and refusing to seriously examine broad-based tax increases on the middle-class.What the U.S. does to itself is that country’s business, but the profligacy of the world’s largest economy influences the fortunes of other countries. No country is more exposed to the uncertainties flowing from U.S. profligacy than Canada, because no country is more dependent on that country’s market and currency.If another country had conducted its affairs in such a shoddy fashion, it would have been punished by economic forces that swirl around the world and prey upon the weak. As it is, the U.S. escapes the full brunt of its own bad governance and dysfunctional politics by remaining the custodian of the world’s reserve currency.Part of dysfunctional politics is the flight to the past, as if in the original Constitution, or the battle of Lexington, the solutions reside to the complexities of today. It is one thing to be proud of the past, and to draw lessons from it; it is another to flee into the past to escape serious discussion of the problems of today and, more tellingly, tomorrow.

What that flight does is reaffirm the old adage that for every complicated set of problems, there is always one simple solution that is invariably wrong. 

RetiredLibby

No need to subpoena my dinner menu. Half a bag of Hershey's Miniatures and some water. I ate last two Klondike Heath bars last night. And I don't like the Special Dark miniatures, so I give 'em away. Oh... Wait. It is a little early for dinner, so I guess the minis were tea. Hmmm... I may have to hit the salmon after all...



Libs

desdemona222b

Is it okay if I just say I'm eating Starburst (cherry flavored) right now, or is that close enough to talking dinner menus to be in danger?

AnnNYC

BTW, this thread is located in a forum entitled:

"Forum: Growing our Friendships After Treatment
For those who have finished treatment, but want to continue growing your cybersister friendships."

So friends talking about dinner seems entirely appropriate.  Some of the food is even healthy!

Alpal

Linda - are you calling my family dysfunctional?? Is that defamation?