Posts by kateb2121

Original Post by lysistrata:

Sure, you can find fantastic food in London.  In a french restaurant.  :P

British food is fantastic. Apple pies, toad in the hole, roast dinners, Full English breakfasts, cottage and shepard's pie, bakewell tarts, chicken casseroles, bubble and squeak, fish pie, Ploughman's lunch, spotted dick pudding, sticky toffee pudding, Eton mess, fruit crumbles...so much more to add.

The stereotype of our food being gross isn't right. The food is comforting and healthy and only someone who hasn't been to England very much would say something like that.

"Funny, I would have thought the reason that the Brits are so unhealthy is because they eat so much crap in such large amounts."

Uh, please don't stereotype and be rude about British people. I find that insulting and totally false. If you want to do that, please don't do it in my thread. It's unnecessary. I'm not automatically an unhealthy person just because I am British. How insulting.

This thread was about appreciating tea, yet it's become a thread about insulting the British?

Original Post by ignayshus:

All the sisters I know that aren't more than 10 years apart in age are or were pretty awful to each other growing up. My own daughters are starting to really get into this cycle of being really sweet and then without any rhyme or reason (as far as I can tell) being really mean to each other from one minute to the next.

Does anyone female here have a great relationship with a sister who is relatively close in age? How did it become that way or was it always good? Did your parents help foster this? What did you guys do together as sisters?

Me and my sister were never really close as children but it's natural to grow apart which is what we have done. We are hardly in the same room as one another anymore. Arguements usually ensue now if my family are in the same room as one another. I have one of those families, unfortunately.

Original Post by roxysparkles:

Posted on facebook by the new proud parent(s).

Does anyone have a problem with this? Yes, no? Why or why not? Don't care?

Thoughts/opinions/discussion.

I would suspect most people from most countries are absolutely okay with it. Except in America, nudity seems to be forbidden and extremely frowned upon. No idea why. 

If the baby were posing with toy guns, I would doubt it would make as many people feel on edge like it would for me. I'm being presumptious of course, but that's just what I've observed from the American culture.

Nothing wrong with little baby bottoms and it doesn't make people freaks for thinking they're cute.

Original Post by furrybelly:

I am sorry. ANYONE who is serious about tea will drink only loose leaf tea, brewed in a tea pot. Tea bags are foul inventions of the devil

Why? What is 'serious about tea'? Loose tea doesn't taste any different than bagged tea to me.

Yorkshire Tea is also another favourite but can get boring after a while. I tried Tazo Chai but it was too tangy for my mouth. Interesting blend though so I can see why people like it.

Original Post by ntesan:

It just hit me out of the blue.

One of my good friends just mentioned I was one of the prettiest girls in my workgroup at the university. I was taken aback a bit and ralized I've never heard anyone call me pretty. Well except my parents. Even my boyfriend stopped saying that I was beautiful beacuse it made uncomfortable. It's not that I think I'm ugly or anything like that. Usually I get comments about my hair, how I don't look 30 etc.

I also realised whenever I said to my girlfriends that they're good looking, they also get a bit weird. Like they're not really sure if I'm serious.

It's being pretty not really a compliment or we just have such high standards for beauty when we think about ourselves?

Maybe it's a cultural thing. Do you have the same experience?

I absolutely cannot take a compliment. It really annoys my boyfriend but I don't think it's normal for me to get compliments. That's the way it is for me.

Original Post by lostpumpkins:

No.  Never.  Not under any circumstances.

I dated a guy who lived down the street from me and it was nearly impossible, so I wouldn't recommend dating anyone you don't live with.

Ha...That's a joke, right? 

Absolutely. When your heart is in it, you can make anything work. I'm in one and have been since 2009 but you have to keep thinking the waiting is worth it.

Original Post by lostpumpkins:

Dislike:

Taylor Swift.  I am just getting tired of the cute, innocent little sweetheart act.  I don't buy it.

Tom Cruise.  I've never understood his sex appeal.  And I am always resistent to like things or people that are so universally popular.  Plus, his acting sucks.

Jay-Z.  If I hear "most talented rapper alive" one more time, I swear.  He is not that talented.  Even before I knew who he was or had an opinion on him as an artist, I disliked every rap I ever heard him on.  I see no skill there.

Cameron Diaz.  Rubs me the wrong way, eh.

 

Likes:

Rachel McAdams.  Very talented and so gorgeous.

Agree with your choices. Rachel is so effortlessly classy and beautiful!

Taylor Swift is a weird one because I think she seems such a sweetheart but I don't like her image. Too sickly sweet to the point of seeming fake..

I had roasted red pepper, vegetable rice, chicken and roasted tomatos. I only ate half of it but I love roasted peppers.

Original Post by Chellybattag:

Wait to have sex! .... You don't wanna have sex too young! I lost it at 17 and still wish I hadn't. Especially young in highschool you will get a rep.!

Women will always get a reputation no matter their age. Men never do.

Pearshaped. Woohoo for pears!