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Actually, the primary reason why I started home brewing myself was that thirty years ago, there was hardly any beer import at all, and all domestic beer was of the lager type. On trips to GB I acquired a taste for bitter, and since you couldn't buy it here (at least not in the grocery store on the corner), the only option was to brew it yourself.
It must be admitted that one thing that the North Sea Oil has given Norwegians is a much higher alcohol consumption. A significant part of our oil money goes to having others do what we once did ourselves. Like illegal moonshining - there is very left of that nowadays (earlier known as Norway's biggest home industry). Nowadays we import both spirits and beer, to avoid the hassle of making our own.
One of my colleagues, an American fellow, invited our entire department to participate in a home brewing project, for making special beers - he is on the hobby expert level. And he was very eager to have his own poultry operation, to get egg that tastes like egg rather than nothing, and hen that tastes like hen rather than chicken that tastes like whatever spice it is soaked in. I follow him a long way, although I haven't set up my own chicken house yet. Then, a couple weeks ago, another colleague revealed that the reason why he had developed such an expertise in making your own food is that his parents are so dirt poor that they would starve if they had to buy all their food. Their son, who is an excellent, highly educated professional thanks to academic grants, goes to Norway to earn money to send home to his parents in the USA for them to buy food...
I am offtracking a little bit here, but I would put in a recommendation for a really funny children's book that won a "Newbury Medal" (awarded by the American Library Asocciation). After reading (and chuckling throughout) this book, I wrote a letter to the author, Susan Patron, asking if the poverty really could be that bad, or if it was meant as sort of a dystopic world. She returned a very nice letter, telling that lots of people have that standard of living (or lack of...) in the desert districts of Cailfornia. If you read the book, you will understand why I bring it up here. And do read the book! It certainly deserves the medal!
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There's a lovely line on poverty in The Poor Mouth by the great Irish novelist Flann O'Brien: "All I had before me was a plateful of hunger. And not even a bit of salt to go with it!"
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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No no, it's John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever nebula
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Is Lip Sync Battle just a kissing show in France?
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is that a thing?
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Maybe French kissing in the USA
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Can one lip sync to a mime performance?
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Infoworld's "Off the record" blog[^]?
It's now almost a year since the last story was posted.. The signs are clear, most likely people nowadays rather sell their stories themselves to the media instead of anonymously feeding my lust for entertainment and stories about horrible workplaces.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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They're called "whistle blowers" now...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The Register does a couple of weekly features on similar lines - On Friday they do one called "On Call", usually about dealing with moronic support calls, and on Monday's it's "Who, Me?" which is a mea culpa about royally stuffing something up.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Wake up Griff!
The reason I didn't put a note in my calendar to post the CCC today was ... I didn't win.
@petepjksolutionscom (pkfox) did - he posted about one minute ahead of me.
I plead stupidity brought on by a head cold ...
Pete, do you want todays? Or leave mine up there?
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Was just about to say that
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Well done for posting - I plead stupidity for having amnesia and a head cold
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Quote: I didn't win. You clearly were involved in a fight again
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Qualified to be right or wrong (11)
Sorry about that - I forgot to put a note in my calendar...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Qualified to be right or wrong
Politician?
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Didn't know:
1) They ever were right.
2) They were qualified for anything!
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Is this the proper CCC or is it conditional on whether pkfox responds or not.
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If it's proper, you just won and are up tomorrow...
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It seems it's the proper one: pkfox is in the same condition I am ... The Lounge[^]
So you are the winner, and you are up tomorrow!
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@OriginalGriff
Where's the CCC?
Oops ...
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Even though Sheldon doesn’t see what Booker drew on him, he still is feeling better
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