The Cult's very own Melting Pot Celebration!
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Yeah, good luck to anyone who wants to attempt making fun of someone that speaks that many languages.
I'm not so sure I'll have the balls to speak in all the languages I know, haha. Dutch and Norwegian should be fine though.
Do it!
EDIT_
Imke said "shit"! Tee hee!
You have the exact same voice I pictured for you 
Oh god, I said 'middle Europe' instead of 'central'. And verbally typoed a few times ('there are' instead of 'there is' and 'according to its surface' for 'by its area').
that was cool, irina. I speak spanish and french, it would be interesting to do this.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
That's the first time I've heard you speak. That was fantastic. It's absolutely wonderful to hear all those different languages come out of the same person. And you've got a great voice. I'll make mine later, because right now I have to go to work. Unfortunately
okay, here's me saying the word really way too much and trying to teach you guys some cajun. I sound like a popeyes chicken commercial.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Hahaha when you're really drunk where?
i must watch both irina and cam's videos, later.
Imke's is gone! It wouldn't play for me before.
Irina is such a smartypants.
Boo, it wasn't working well earlier for me either. I was about to watch it and now its gone.
I like the Cajun stuff Cam was saying.
Edit: I don't think I've seen this thread before, although I thought I did. I would partake, but most of the Mexican stuff has been covered.
I like the Cajun stuff Cam was saying.
Edit: I don't think I've seen this thread before, although I thought I did. I would partake, but most of the Mexican stuff has been covered.
You can cover Chicago culture and Sarah we need some Kiwi love!
I'll give ya some Kiwi love on Thursday.
But I want it now!
[Insert Veruca Salt tantrum gif]
If we are covering city culture,
There was a huge halabaloo about this sign, a portland icon
It was eventually changed to this, with much grumbling from all parties
I always thought it was ugly and didn't really care so much, but then it would be so odd at the same time to be heading into downtown and have it missing from the skyline.
A tram that every one is afraid to ride, to the point that you must tell everyone you know when you finally do it (I have not)
Which lead up to OHSU, one of the best teaching hospitals in the world and which is on a hill over looking downtown
My favorite local venues are the Crystal Ballroom (the floor bounces!)
And Dantes
McMenamins pub's/brewery
Max trains that kill about a dozen people every year and help transport crime and drugs easily across the length of the city from east to west ans now, against the voters wishes, north to south
The Oregon Museum of Science and industry, better known as OMSI (pronounced Ahm-Zee)
Which hppens to be home to one of my favorite exhibits ever- one of the largest collection of preserved human fetuses available for public viewing, covering almost every one of the forty weeks of gestation- all in a quiet circular room
plus other great interactive stuff
We even have our own TV show, which you all already knew, because we like most of all to make fun of ourselves
Cool!
What's that big Mountain?
The ballroom is very pretty, but the fetus thing freaks me out.
That is Mt. Hood, to the east. You can also see Mount St Helens to the north
We have that kind of tram here, too, but not in Bucharest. Only in a few mountain cities and at the seaside. We call it telegondola.
Portland looks nice. And yes, what is that mountain?
I took these pictures of Mt. Hood from the park across the street from my house and then from the end of the block, a year or so ago.
Pepper those are great pics. Me, my husband and kids stayed in Portland for a month when he and I were both touring with Phantom. This was back in 2002. We loved it there. I have some pics from that stay and will post later when I'm on the desktop at home. I am at the Liscence Branch with Jack. He passed the driving part and is now doing the written. Fingers crossed for him.
Whatever Whore!
Chicago is known for many things like their shady history like
The Mob:
Capone is buried in a local cemetary. He has a simple tombstone amongst other non famous folks.
http://www.nejman.com/todiefor/capone.htm
Michael Jordan (and the Bulls):
and our food:
But a lot of people don't know that out city is also rich in old and new architecture and a decent melting pot of nationalities.
Chicago has more Polish citizens than Warsaw (the capital of Poland).
Every St Patrick's Day everyone in Chicago is Irish (AKA as Chirish):
The Chicago River is dyed a bright green (as opposed to its dull dingey green the rest of the year) every year as well.
Along that same river you can see some of the most beautiful buildings.
Both old:
And new:
And a combo of the two (Soldier Field where the Bears play):
As well as some modern art.
Thats all I got right now.
I love all those buildings!
Yeah, I totally want to go to Chicago!
Yeah the Chicago skyline rocks.
Staying with this theme, Chicago is pretty famous for being the home of a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. Wright was famous for his philosophy called organic architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
These are some of his famous homes scattered around the city and the suburbs.
Wow, I love the first and second pictures. Beautiful homes
(I'm bored at work)
And now for tourist attractions:
Navy Pier
Wrigley Field
Sears Tower (now called Willis Tower but a true Chicagoan won't call it that), the tallest building in the United States
Observatory at the 103rd floor.
North Beach
Chicago River Tour
Michigan Avenue (aka the Magnificent Mile, home to many of our museums, parks, shopping areas and other attractions
Grant Park
The Bean
Marilyn Monroe Statue
The Brookfield Zoo (aka Chicago Zoological Park)
Adler Planitarium
and finally The Reyes House of Debauchery
hay frank, my friend is moving to chicago in like 4 days for grad school at u of chicago.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Chicago is one of my favorite places.
Staying with this theme, Chicago is pretty famous for being the home of a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. Wright was famous for his philosophy called organic architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
These are some of his famous homes scattered around the city and the suburbs.
Those are all beautiful.
I have to brag too, James could build those. Genius carpenter.
Nederland.
It's flat.
We're proud of our flower fields.
Food wise, cheese is very important.
Fries with MAYO (Get over it) and other fried foods.
Stamppot.
Other than that, we tend to enjoy ice skating.
We love bikes.
Lots of kissing.
1. It is common practice to greet people with kisses.
2. Kisses, however, are not indiscriminately dolled out to anyone; they are strictly reserved for friends and relatives only.
3. The norm these days is three kisses on the cheek.
4. These kisses are, however, are not actual kisses on the cheek; they are more like air-kisses and your moist lips dare not actually touch the other person.
5. The three air-kisses are used to greet someone and used again to say goodbye.
6. Women are all about the kissing. Women kiss women. And women kiss men.
7. Men generally only kiss women (apart from their relatives).
8. Two men greet instead with a very manly and firm handshake.
9. Kissing follows the pattern right cheek – left cheek – right cheek; don’t dare go rogue or you are sure to cause a face-on collision.
10. Even with all this daily kissing going on, it is still not the norm to french-kiss in public. The Dutch would rather you left that type of kissing at home.
That's all I can be bothered with right now.
Likewise. Great great town.
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There are no foreigners in Canada. No matter how foreign someone looks, they're probably just a Canadian.
Fiend: You know, Americans say we end every sentence like we're asking a question.
Fiend2: That's weird. I mean... that's weird?
I... I just can't! Ewww!
But that's okay. I doubt many non-El Pasoans would go crazy about the Chico's tacos I posted awhile back. I didn't like them very much the first time I tried them.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Now I've got that Frank Sinatra Chicago song in my head!
Imke that kissing thing is funny. I always find it weird and awkward when people try and do that air kiss on the cheek thing.
Once you've met a Mexican, you're going to get a kiss. Usually men shake hands but women get a kiss on the cheek. Women greet each other with kisses as well.
Isaac, I would do naughty things to those tacos. Naughty things.
and our food:
I just finished eating a slice of that today.
fries with mayonnaise are glorious.
Finally, someone who can appreciate how good it is!
I like them too!
weeiiiiirrrrrrrrrddddddddd
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Fries are also good with tartar sauce and I love to dip them in a chocolate milkshake. Go ahead, try it! Fries + Milkshake = Yummy!
Whatever Whore!
McDonald's fries dipped in a McSundae are the best thing.
Two words: Apple sauce.
MMMM.
As tomorrow we celebrate Easter, I'm going to show you a few of our traditional foods.
Eggs
The second type are made with hot wax and the technique is super difficult. I tried it once and failed miserably. Most people paint their eggs plain colours, though, like mum will, once she finishes all the other types of food. Which leads to...
A lamb dish
Wikipedia says: "Drob is a traditional Romanian dish similar to a haggis made of minced lamb's offals wrapped in a caul and roasted like a meatloaf. At Easter, is customary to sacrifice a lamb, so the drob de miel (lamb's drob) is served at Easter as a traditional Easter dish." I don't like it and I always eat chicken for Easter.
Sponge cake
Made with nuts, cocoa and/or Turkish delight, it's pretty good and we mostly eat it at Easter and Christmas.
Pasca, a mixture between sponge cake and cheese cake.
This is in the oven as we speak and mum made two, because we love it.
Amandine
Best chocolate confections EVER. They're super soft, drowned in sugar syrup and covered in chocolate and sugar icing. They are NOT like brownies.
The last two made me drool.
I want that meatloaf thing with an egg in it.
You can have some of ours, mum made two.
Yay! I love this thread.
I miss Puerto Nuevo and eating all the lobster with refried beans,rice and fresh flour tortillas
I have a lot of old timey pics that I'm gonna want to share in this thread but I won't get to do it til maybe the end of the week.