Things you recently bought or got

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  1. Naomasa298

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  2. Iain Aschendale

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    Sounds like a pR0n shoot, but I'll take a look, thanks :)
     
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    Iain, that comment was unworthy of you.
     
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    That article is wrong. I used to meet a co-worker at a Dunkin' Donuts shop every morning on my way to work at my first civilian job after I returned from Vietnam in 1968. They didn't change their name from Mister Donut in 1990 -- Dunkin' Donuts bought out Mister Donut.
     
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    Agreed. Let's keep our negative opinions of nations/races/cultures to ourselves, please.
     
  6. Naomasa298

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    I don't know about the US, but I was specifically referring Iain to Mr Donuts in Japan.

    Anyway, I didn't bother to read the whole article, I was just looking at the menu.
     
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    the article isn’t wrong you just misread it, he saying that the mister donut shops in the US changed their name to Dunkin after Dunkin’ bought out mr Donut

    but mr donut persists in Japan.
     
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    A Lucky Charms bar. Those are tasty
     
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    Apropos, but not trying to suck up to the yanks, promise...

    Recently bought a fast track passport.

    After three years I miss America desperately. I miss Dublin. I even miss Heathrow and all those generic foreign hotels they book for conventions.

    I don't miss Charles de Gaulle though. I'm not mad.
     
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    What's a fast track passport?
     
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    I like CDG.

    Well, I like the Air France lounge there. Nice bacon.
     
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    Well, Thursday's the big day. Traveling to Minnesota to close on my vacation home.

    I'm surprised I'm pretty calm. By far and away the single largest money drop I've ever done. Just about a year's pay for me for the down and the closing. So many things lined up and bound to have at least one partial disaster. That and the added bonus that I've never physically been on the property. A lot of people have called me crazy for that. I suppose I am.

    But it's valued higher than the purchase price and climbing. And it's my dream. So I'm just going to pray it's the right decision. Infact I'll preemptively say it was the best decision. Anything less and I'll probably lose my mind.

    Secretly, I kind of hope it turns into my main home. As far I can tell, it's perfect. Double the square footage of my current one, two two car garages, lake access with dock and lift, and tons of other goodies.

    Okay. Head first it is.
     
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    Congratulations: All the best with your new property.
     
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    Its exactly the same as a normal passport except you have to pay three times as much to receive it, in return for skipping the queue to be sent it.
     
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    I suppose I should see when my passport expires. I have no plans to go out of the country, but you never know what the future might throw at you.
     
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    New eyeglasses. The world is so sharp again!
     
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    Congratulations. Don't cut yourself.

    I bought my grandson an Icee. Icees fix a wide variety of childhood ills and sorrows.
     
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    Childhood? Icees are a modern day panacea, good for children and grown-ups alike. The only thing they can't cure is brain freeze.
     
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    As in spectacles? Never heard them called eyeglasses before.
     
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    In the UK we tend to use the abbreviated form - glasses.
     
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    I know. I’m from the UK. But if I’d said glasses people would have been saying, “No, that’s what you drink out of.”
     
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    Not me, I'm dead common, I drink from cans.

    Of course if an American read that I was drinking from the can they would be rightly revolted for different reasons

    Language. Tsk!
     
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    I'm an American and I generally drink tall boys. I can suck down four or five of them if I'm thirsty.
     
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    I actually thought about saying "spectacles," but I didn’t want to sound too British. ;)
    And that's why I specified "eye-". I put a lot of thought into my writingforums posts!
     
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    Ah, but if I saw a spectacle, am I witnessing a spectacular event, or did I just see some eyeglasses? Or perhaps some spectacular eyeglasses?

    If I only watched half of a spectacle, did I witness a monocle?
     
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