Hive For The Holidays!

[Relique du Madde]

Well some Americans might like their toast burnt black, but not me. I like 'gently toasted'. Warm enough to melt butter and just a little stiff.

Burnt toast..... o.0 I never got people who liked it that way... Toasted brown is one thing but charcoal toast is not good no matter what you put on it.

 

[Blackrat]

Oh, I just realized something that's been bothering me for a while. It's about english language. When you guys talk about "butter" do you usually mean real butter or is the word also used for margarine? I mean, in finland, use of real butter on bread is pretty rare, so it has always struck me odd that english speakers use the word so often...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Oh, I just realized something that's been bothering me for a while. It's about english language. When you guys talk about "butter" do you usually mean real butter or is the word also used for margarine? I mean, in finland, use of real butter on bread is pretty rare, so it has always struck me odd that english speakers use the word so often...

In the US, we have butter AND margarine.

 

[Blackrat]

In the US, we have butter AND margarine.

Yes, but what I mean, in general speech, do you use the same word for both?

 

[Blackrat]

...illuminati...

I'm getting a fuzzy feeling for this game. I think I might have to try it someday...

 

[Relique du Madde]

Yes, but what I mean, in general speech, do you use the same word for both?

A lot of people do, unfortunately. In fact I don't think many people in the US know the difference.

 

[Blackrat]

A lot of people do, unfortunately. In fact I don't think most people know the difference.

Ah, okay. Now it makes more sense to me. (Yeah, it's not like it's unheard of in here either, for example the finnish word sandwich would be directly translated as "buttered bread" eventhough people rarely use real butter anymore.)

Butter is usually reserved for baking and such, whereas margarine is used on a more daily basis out here.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'm annoyed. My Dark Knight Poster is about to fall off the wall... For some reason the tape doesn't want to stick to the wall's paint. I don't want to put it in a frame, but it looks like I'll have to.

 

[Blackrat]

Well, at least you've gotten it up in the first place. Ever since the move I've been meaning to put my various game maps in frames and up on the walls. Like the maps from Forgotten Realms and Eberron Campaign Settings. It's been a year now, and I haven't even bought the frames yet eventhough everytime I go to the supermarket I walk past the isle with frames .

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I'm annoyed. My Dark Knight Poster is about to fall off the wall... For some reason the tape doesn't want to stick to the wall's paint. I don't want to put it in a frame, but it looks like I'll have to.

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