GaryKelly wrote:What they actually meant to say was "The stuff you Europeans drink over there is crap, by jingo, and we're keeping the good stuff for ourselves!"
Which is really annoying, by cracky!
what a hideous display of jingoism!!!!! (in a warped way...). By jingo, you should sue the pants off of them! Although I will say, Gary, that Folgers HERE more than likely isn't any better than what you have over there. By jove, it's swill. You should get some of the good stuff. Newman's Own Columbian Especial from Green Mountain Coffee....now that's the stuff!
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
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izzarina wrote:what a hideous display of jingoism!!!!! (in a warped way...). By jingo, you should sue the pants off of them! Although I will say, Gary, that Folgers HERE more than likely isn't any better than what you have over there.
Can't sue them Izzy, they're right. The stuff that passes for coffee in the UK is dire indeed. Mostly instant too, and all the "filter coffees" I've tried really don't come close to FCR. By jimminy, if there ever was a reason for us to claim our colony back, it's the coffee!
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
kvetch \KVECH\, intransitive verb:
To complain habitually.
noun:
1. A complaint.
2. A habitual complainer.
People kvetched when someone else wouldn't relinquish his position.
--Barry Lopez, "Before the Temple of Fire." Harper's Magazine, January 1998
They begin to look like malcontents who kvetch about the weather so much that they don't notice the sun coming out.
--David Shenk, "Slamming Gates," The New Republic, January 26, 1998
Time for my biennial kvetch about the West End theatre.
--Simon Hoggart, "Hose bans, petrol mania: saying 'don't panic' always triggers chaos," The Guardian, November 4, 2000
"He's just a very up person," she says, which is odd, because he is also a big complainer, a class-A kvetch.
--Penny Wolfson, "Moonrise," The Atlantic, December 2001
He had difficulty getting American publishers for his later novels, partly because of his self-created image by then as a crusty old kvetch.
--Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "What Kingsley Can Teach Martin," The Atlantic, September 2000
Tell us something.: A long time chatty Chiffer but have been absent for almost two decades. Returned in 2022 and still recognize some names! I also play anglo concertina now.
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
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