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myforeverforever
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Date: Nov 26, 2008
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| Jadie wrote:
American food is sooooo good. I mean yum! Hershey's Chocolate Bars = heaven. My college teacher went to America and bought a load of Hershey's Kisses back for the class but being from the UK and all, nearly all of my class didn't like them claiming that they tasted like 'cheap, diet chocolate'. On the plus side, I got a bag of unwanted Hershey's Kisses to myself :)
Oh, and i'm not gonna lie, i don't like American chocolate. I side with your class. The best chocolate in the world is from Switzerland. AKA Lindt. My mom has swiss friends and when they visit they bring chocolate for all!
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Izil
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Date: Nov 27, 2008
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I like chocolate from the other side of the pond, but the majority of it is so horribly sweet that I can only have a few pieces before my stomach starts doing flips in protest.
Kind of how my friend from Japan feels when she tries to eat an American cake. Way more sugar in that than in cakes in her part of the world, she says.
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MolyneuxRoberts
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Date: Dec 1, 2008
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I'm going to visit New York in February and I'm so excited because I've only ever seen America on Friends. On there, parts of it look like deprived Greater London suburbs, but dirtier and with fewer parks. Anybody know of any good shops in New York? I'm planning on going mental in Sephora (I've been to the one in Paris, on Champs-Elysees, and they had some amazing nail varnish colours) but are there any other cool shops which I should visit while I'm there?
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Calliope
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Date: Dec 1, 2008
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I love the random shops in Chinatown.
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Kitty Fire
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There's some good shops near St Marks.
And then there's Rat Yellow Bastard, which is a good shop with a cool name.
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Izil
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Date: Dec 1, 2008
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| Though I'm sure I mentioned in ages ago, there's Trash and Vaudeville, which is in St. Mark's Place.
You can find useful info such as the address here: http://www.nycgoth.com/shops/trashnvaudeville/
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Kitty Fire
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I went in there. I'm sure I went in there. I think I got an old fireman's shirt from there.
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Calliope
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Trash and Vaudeville is awesome!
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gravitys.rainbow
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Date: Jan 2, 2009
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We definitely have chavs here in North America! Except we call them wiggers. And the Aero bars are not even proper to eat. Crap Chocolate. In fact, most of the bars here consist of chocolate AND peanutbutter. And yes we have S&V chips.
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Kitty Fire
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Now, I was thinking this earlier, but why do American call crisps chips? I mean, we get it pretty much right, as they are crispy, but they're in now way chips. More like slices. So why don't you call them slices?
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gravitys.rainbow
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I'm not sure why North Americans call them chips. That's like us wondering why you call sweaters, jumpers.
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Kitty Fire
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We invented the language, we get to choose the names for things. :p
But why would you want to wear something that makes you sweat?
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Undertaker
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You have to pay for any hospital treatment in America, don't you?
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Izil
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Date: Jan 4, 2009
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We can get insurance, but basic coverage is not made automatically free to all citizens like it is in most other industrialized nations (meaning the closest we get to a health-care system is the government telling us to fend for ourselves). At a certain age we'll either have to buy it ourselves or acquire it through our workplace, assuming our workplace(s) has/have a plan to offer.
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Bebe Baudelaire
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Date: Jan 9, 2009
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I was doing an essay on a Bill Bryson article, and it said about him going to the supermarket to buy something called "Fluff"?? It's described as spreadable marshmallow...stuff. Has anyone actually bought/tried any?
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Calliope
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Date: Jan 9, 2009
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I call it marshmellow creme, and yes, I eat it all the time on sandwiches with peanutbutter. Those types of sandwiches we call "Fluffernutters". They are also good fried in butter (even though it's not the healthiest thing...).
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Alka
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| Bebe Baudelaire wrote:
I was doing an essay on a Bill Bryson article, and it said about him going to the supermarket to buy something called "Fluff"?? It's described as spreadable marshmallow...stuff. Has anyone actually bought/tried any?
You can get it at Sainsburys (and other supermarkets I expect) in the baking section. It's so sugary you practically die afterwards lol.
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Bebe Baudelaire
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Date: Jan 12, 2009
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Or your teeth fall out in protest? :)
I'll have to have a look-see next time I'm down there...Don't think I'm brave enough to try any though, only sweet thing I like is chocolate!
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DuckTapeBunny
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Date: Jan 26, 2009
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Holla.
I live in Chelsea which is so close to Boston there's no point in really differentiating them.
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Calliope
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^ I almost went to school in Boston. I wanted to go to New England Conservatory. Yes, I like Boston.
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drama hippie
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Date: Jan 28, 2009
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I live near boston, that would've been cool. We could have met up.
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loserbuttercup
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Date: Jan 28, 2009
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And we wear pants AND trousers.
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That's not strictly true for all of England! My family in Lancashire call trousers pants :|
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Milky Josephine
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Date: Jan 31, 2009
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are they really? why do we have Mars AND Milky Way here then?
You know, I just thought the same thing. "But in Australia, we have both exports.." lol. |
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apple juliet sherry
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Date: Feb 24, 2009
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Oh, me!
And yes America is not all that cool as it could be. I live on the west side. We're in a depression, but you know that unless you've been under a rock. I too fondly wish to travel.
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Calliope
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Depression, really? That's not an exaggeration, is it?
We're in a recession last I knew... I live in Alabama... things are bad, but not to the point of depression. Not here anyway...
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Kitty Fire
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Date: Feb 24, 2009
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Still a recession, not a depression.
Because I'm incredibly curious, I decided to find out the difference. A recession is generally when your Gross Domestic Product, i.e., what your country's economy is making, falls for two consecutive quarters. So, instead of your country making money, it loses it over at least six months. In the UK we hit that in December.
A depression is when this drop is by more than 10%. The depression in the Thirties saw GDP fall by 33%. Nasty. The worst we've had since then is in the early 70's when it fell by 4.9%.
Then there's the economists joke (i.e, not all that funny) that a recession is when your neighbour loses their job. A depression is when you lose your job.
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Date: Feb 27, 2009
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We joke here that when Wal Mart goes down, then we're in a depression. But the economy was so bad I could have sworn we were already at that point! My econ teach said we were. Hmm...
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Elmo.
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Date: Mar 1, 2009
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Hmm is it liek really difficult to get alcohol and shizzle underage in america?
I know it sounds weird but like every american teen movie they make such a big deal out of itLol.
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Calliope
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No, it isn't "like" really difficult. They just exaggerate everything in those types of "like" movies. American teenagerdom is nothing akin to that. I hate those types of movies.
I could get it really easily if I actually wanted to (I don't drink). A lot of places don't card, and if they do, just ask a person to buy it for you... or go down to the nearest frat party and get toasted...
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