Where did you have the dodgiest coffee?
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A whole thread dedicated to coffee.... i like this place already!
Had some interesting coffee experiences in Kyrgyzstan last summer. All hot drinks come with 3 spoons of sugar as standard... Either that or with a couple of spoonfuls of jam added - coffee with strawberry jam in it is a very odd thing.
Had some interesting coffee experiences in Kyrgyzstan last summer. All hot drinks come with 3 spoons of sugar as standard... Either that or with a couple of spoonfuls of jam added - coffee with strawberry jam in it is a very odd thing.
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Well the Italians make wonderful coffee. The French are no better at making coffee than we are. The Swedes make coffee that you'd want to go back to Stockholm for some more of, and the German approach to making coffee is, well, interesting.
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Coffee with strawberry jam. I may give that a try.
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Well the Italians make wonderful coffee. The French are no better at making coffee than we are. The Swedes make coffee that you'd want to go back to Stockholm for some more of, and the German approach to making coffee is, well, interesting.
Jay
You have no idea how it cheers my Scottish heart to provoke sucvh a reaction by my euro badge. I was going to revert to St Andrew, but I think I'll let you enjoy the golden stars a little longer.
Coffee with strawberry jam. I may give that a try.
Andrew
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Hehe...
No .. you have to break it up and respell it to make sense of it...and realise that the language is based on Creole ie French grammar. So a trini/Jamaican would say I going or I coming and drop the am.
So Idem is actually I and dem I and them
Trodding is a corruption of treading
so we have "I and them are treading" .... ie we are going.. treading meaning treading a path.
In the context used above, its the same as asking if a group of you are going.
We in England would slangishly say, if we saw others looking at their watch, "You off then?" which is totally incomprehensible to a Trini!
Also they don't quite get "See ya!" when we part from someone.
What gets me totally wound up though, is when a Trini dashes off somewhere and yells over his shoulder "I comin' now" while high tailing it in the other direction. This is meant to mean "Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back!" which is supposed to soften the blow that they will, in fact, meet a "partner" (mate) decide to lime (Chill out, spend time with) meet up with some more partners, decide to go to the beach, have a barbecue, swim a little, chill out, return to where you are 5 hours later beaming and saying "I tole you ah wouldn't be long!" ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
It is enough to drive a time conscious Brit totally mad! Though I did have a few last laughs. I was supposed to be meeting someone at work at 1.00 pm on my day off.. it was to sort something about work permits I think, and he was to take me to the requisite office. By this time I was getting the hang of things, so I arrived about 1.30...
"Wha time yuh call dis!!" he exclaimed, tapping his watch. "Chill out, mon, " I said " "I Trini now" "Huh, no you ain't you is British an' you keep to time! Ah been waiting here for yuh since 1.10!!!"
Hehe!
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No .. you have to break it up and respell it to make sense of it...and realise that the language is based on Creole ie French grammar. So a trini/Jamaican would say I going or I coming and drop the am.
So Idem is actually I and dem I and them
Trodding is a corruption of treading
so we have "I and them are treading" .... ie we are going.. treading meaning treading a path.
In the context used above, its the same as asking if a group of you are going.
We in England would slangishly say, if we saw others looking at their watch, "You off then?" which is totally incomprehensible to a Trini!
Also they don't quite get "See ya!" when we part from someone.
What gets me totally wound up though, is when a Trini dashes off somewhere and yells over his shoulder "I comin' now" while high tailing it in the other direction. This is meant to mean "Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back!" which is supposed to soften the blow that they will, in fact, meet a "partner" (mate) decide to lime (Chill out, spend time with) meet up with some more partners, decide to go to the beach, have a barbecue, swim a little, chill out, return to where you are 5 hours later beaming and saying "I tole you ah wouldn't be long!" ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
It is enough to drive a time conscious Brit totally mad! Though I did have a few last laughs. I was supposed to be meeting someone at work at 1.00 pm on my day off.. it was to sort something about work permits I think, and he was to take me to the requisite office. By this time I was getting the hang of things, so I arrived about 1.30...
"Wha time yuh call dis!!" he exclaimed, tapping his watch. "Chill out, mon, " I said " "I Trini now" "Huh, no you ain't you is British an' you keep to time! Ah been waiting here for yuh since 1.10!!!"
Hehe!
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We had a friend staying with us for a few weeks when she was doing her Uni exams. Everyday she used to sit and revise all day long at home and try not to be distracted by the cats, whilst SWMBO and I were at work.
Every evening when I got home from work our friend asked me if i wanted a cup of tea and flounced off to the kitched to do so. Each time bringing back a mug of hotwater with milk added and a slight hint of beige to the colouring.
After four days of this I came home and again she asked if I wanted a cup of tea, to which I replied "XYZ you have had a long day revising, how about I make you a brew? So how do you like your tea?" , "Oh hot wet and brown like builders have it!" she replied.
I was astonished.
So I asked her "so err why do you make tea sort of tea-less", "Why" she said "I didn't know how you liked it and was scared to ask".
I was speechless, she had been living with us for a few days at that point, we had known her for years. And she was scared to ask how I wanted a cup of tea!
Every evening when I got home from work our friend asked me if i wanted a cup of tea and flounced off to the kitched to do so. Each time bringing back a mug of hotwater with milk added and a slight hint of beige to the colouring.
After four days of this I came home and again she asked if I wanted a cup of tea, to which I replied "XYZ you have had a long day revising, how about I make you a brew? So how do you like your tea?" , "Oh hot wet and brown like builders have it!" she replied.
I was astonished.
So I asked her "so err why do you make tea sort of tea-less", "Why" she said "I didn't know how you liked it and was scared to ask".
I was speechless, she had been living with us for a few days at that point, we had known her for years. And she was scared to ask how I wanted a cup of tea!
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