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 Post subject: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 21:41 
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I'd just like to wish the Caerphilly Yank Happy Thanksgiving for tomorrow.

And also register my total disinterest to British TV executives. Please don't run Thanksgiving themed shows tomorrow.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelvance
PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 21:42 
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And if anyone wants to correct my infantile spelling they can just carry on.... *ahem*

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelvance
PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 21:43 
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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelvance
PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 21:45 
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I thought thanksgiving happened a couple of months ago.

Thanks for manhattan, guys we ethnically cleansed!

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:45 
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for some reason I know that it happens on the last thursday in november. I don't WANT to know this, but US culture has infected my mind and it's too late to change that now, pardner


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:26 
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I told my American chum that I'd go out and get a turkey sammich or something in sympathetic celebration. :DD

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:30 
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I'm taking my wife to Hobbycraft, TK Maxx and Homebase, then we're going to get some pizza from Dominos.

That may not sound like much, but we don't normally have the money to, like, go to shops or get pizza, so this is a big day.

We have to do something a bit special because this is one of the worst days for her missing her family and country, for obvious reasons.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Be sure to point out that TK Maxx is called TJ Maxx in the states and was changed to avoid confusion with quaint poundstretcher rip-off TJ Hughes. It'll give her a taste of the home country :)


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:09 
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davpaz wrote:
Be sure to point out that TK Maxx is called TJ Maxx in the states and was changed to avoid confusion with quaint poundstretcher rip-off TJ Hughes. It'll give her a taste of the home country :)


We've always wondered why the name was changed.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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TJ Hughes is a northern thing though isn't it? Any of you southern types got one in you locale?


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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davpaz wrote:
TJ Hughes is a northern thing though isn't it? Any of you southern types got one in you locale?


Yeah, there's one in Maidstone - not too far from TK Maxx, as it happens.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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I had Thanksgiving six weeks ago, you must be confoozled.


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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MetalAngel wrote:
I had Thanksgiving six weeks ago, you must be confoozled.


I thought that was when Canada had their Thanksgiving?

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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So why would you celebrate it then, Yankee Doodle Dandy?

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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WTF are Canada thankful for? Other than "not being American", that is.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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myoptika wrote:
So why would you celebrate it then, Yankee Doodle Dandy?


I wouldn't. But to suggest I would is a hilarious joke that I certainly haven't heard before.


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Really? I'm disappointed.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Do you prefer Thanksreceiving Day?

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If anything, Meaty would celebrate Bastille Day.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Mr Chris wrote:
WTF are Canada thankful for? Other than "not being American", that is.


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Mr Chris wrote:
WTF are Canada thankful for? Other than "not being American", that is.

I think Canadians share that thankfulness with us actually.

They are also thankful for the world's longest coastline (a yank I know told me that crapfact).

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Myfinger wrote:
They are also thankful for the world's longest coastline (a yank I know told me that crapfact).
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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Should I know who that picture on your profile is Meaty? She looks really pleased (and naked) to be holding that blue cup....

I suspect the way you have cropped the pic hides some nastiness or other....

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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You can't measure a coastline.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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AceAceBaby wrote:
You can't measure a coastline.
Sure you can, it's a classic worked example in any book about fractals.


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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You must have a really fine tape measure.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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AceAceBaby wrote:
You must have a really fine tape measure.
Note that I mentioned "fractals".


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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myoptika wrote:
MetalAngel wrote:
I had Thanksgiving six weeks ago, you must be confoozled.


I thought that was when Canada had their Thanksgiving?


Ahh, that'll be why I was confused then. Canadian housemate from Canadia must die.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
AceAceBaby wrote:
You must have a really fine tape measure.
Note that I mentioned "fractals".

So are you measuring with those fractals, or are you calculating? Because you can't measure a coastline.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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I used to watch Survivor Series. That brought the Thanksgiving references.

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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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AceAceBaby wrote:
So are you measuring with those fractals, or are you calculating? Because you can't measure a coastline.
No, I'm being fatuous. I know that a coastline is fractal and hence cannot be accurately measured as such -- the finer the detail you measure in, the longer your answer, However you can make reasonable comparisons of two coastlines at an equivalent resolution. It's not necessarily nonsense to say one country has the longest coastline.


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 Post subject: Re: Thanksgiving Irrelevance
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
It's not necessarily nonsense to say one country has the longest coastline.

Merkin in not talking nonsense shokka!

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