Not a link, but I saw this on Facebook:

"Socialism is the Fire Department saving your house. Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim."

Nope. Socialism is the Fire Department not having the necessary funding to save your two-room shack that houses 18 people, which is the best home you'll ever be able to afford.

Wait until they find out that elves don't really make Keebler cookies!

Canadian Bacon not imported from Canada. Hungarian Goulash made in the USA. Polish Sausage not made in Poland. Lebanese Bologna processed in American meat houses. Buffalo wings not made of Buffalo meat.

I'm shocked, totally shocked! I'll sue everybody and see if some company with deep pockets will pay me to avoid the aggravation.

> elves don't really make
> Keebler cookies!

Take it back, Charles!

I just love those giggly little fuckers.

Why not go back to "freedom fries"? I doubt the French want credit for them anyway.

Their more doubtful product is the hamburger, which first showed up in Chicago, not Hamburg -- want a Chicagoan with fries?

I doubt the French want credit

No, they don't.

My understanding is the French call "polish kissing" what we call "french kissing", and that "french fries" are from Belgium.

And French toast originated in England. God knows why the English wanted to give their millennial enemies the credit.

My understanding is...that "french fries" are from Belgium. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 1, 2021 10:40 AM

That was my understanding as well. In Britain, french fries are called "chips." In French, they're "pomme frites" or "fried potatoes" - well, literally "fried apples" since a potato is a "pomme de terre" or an "apple of earth."

It's worth noting at this point that not even the Belgians consider themselves "Belgian." As Belgian socialist, Jules Destree, wrote in a 1912 open letter to King Albert I, "There are no Belgians.... There are only Flemish and Walloons." A diplomat posted to Brussels notes, "I have lived here three years and I have only heard the Belgian national anthem played once."

And French toast originated in England. God knows why the English wanted to give their millennial enemies the credit. ~ Patrick at January 1, 2021 11:50 AM

The British named many things after their enemies, mostly to insult them. "Going Dutch" mocked the Dutch as cheap while "Dutch courage" intimated that the only bravery the Dutch could muster came out of a bottle.

The French call it "pain perdu" or "lost bread" since it's generally considered a way to rescue stale bread and make it palatable.

Legend has it that french toast, like german chocolate, was named after its inventor. Joseph French is supposed to have formally presented the recipe in 1724, although the specific preparation of those ingredients dates back to the Roman Empire, where it was called "pan dulci."

The British sometimes eat it with ketchup. Ugh. Things like this are why British cuisine is considered barely-edible by the civilized world.

The french kiss, on the other hand, was actually invented in modern-day France.

The french kiss, on the other hand, was actually invented in modern-day France. ~ Conan the Grammarian at January 1, 2021 12:45 PM

Actually ancient Brittany, which is part of modern France.

I just love those giggly little fuckers. ~ Crid at January 1, 2021 8:06 AM

It is probably not the best idea to house a hot oven inside an oak tree. (See the opening scenes of the movie, Elf.)

Next you're going to tell me to stop probing the fleshy midsection of the Pillsbury Doughboy with my fingertip, or to quit soothing my skin with the warm, downy pelt of the fabric softener bear.

Or to quit hate-fucking the insurance lady.




Here's the best possible reason to stop paying attention to the Star Wars franchise: It'sOld People entertainment!

The writing is too neat and clean and the spacing is perfect for a graffiti.

This type of vandalism has to be done in the middle of the night in a rushed manner and from the looks of it it was done with care in a timely manner.

https://mobile.twitter.com/FogCityMidge/status/1345084099447328768

I know, I know; I spent too many words to describe a hoax.

Is she womansplaining?

https://mobile.twitter.com/weather_katie/status/1344302907823415296

> British cuisine is considered
> barely-edible

Friends, kind, loving and sociable people, selected this famous Santa Monica eatery for a Sunday breakfast. My selection, a "bacon sandwich," arrived with a thud on its own plate: A big, knarled piece of pork on a large and uninteresting piece of vaguely toasted/desiccated sourdough, neither element dressed with seasonings or garnish of any kind.

I tried to imagine eating it with bad teeth. Well, even worse teeth.

Funny, one doesn't hear that much about ketchup in the U.K.

But when it comes to other condiments...

From the "Adrian Mole" diaries (Adrian is 15, in the early 1980s. Adrian is always reading and one day brings home Friedrich Engels' 1844 "The Condition of the Working Class in England." Dad sees him reading it.)

" 'He said: 'I don't want that Commie rubbish in the house.'

"I said, 'It's about the class you came from yourself.'

"My father said, 'I have worked and slaved and fought to join the middle classes, Adrian, and now I'm here I don't want my son admiring proles and revolutionaries.'

"He is deluding himself if he thinks he has joined the middle classes. He still puts HP sauce on his toast."

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For those who don't know, HP sauce is like steak sauce.

And, this is GREAT - it's from Brit-Think, Ameri-Think (1986) by American humorist/journalist Jane Walmsley, who moved to England:

https://studfile.net/preview/6313230/page:35/

However, in another chapter, she said Britain has the world's best Italian and Indian restaurants.