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They still air Angry Beavers(n some of the other older nicktoons) on the Nicktoons channel from time to time.



Nick Arcade was tight.


<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I loved "Kenan and Kel" and that show "My Brother and Me".</div>

True that.

*here comes the Smitty looks like Kenan joke*
 
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Bahir, your country has great healthy foods. My fianc?e and I plan to go there in a few years. Family on my father's side originated from the north near Lule? a very long time ago.
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Yeah, husmanskost we call it.

These are some of the most common ones:

Meatballs with potatoes and cowberry jam, and some brown sauce
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Falukorv (special sausage)
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Blood pudding (usually with cowberry jam, not in the picture below though (although there are cowberrys in the picture))
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Might not look delicious, but it is.
 
Aha, I used a translator program since I had never heard what they were called in english.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingonberry
Names seems to be lingonberry, cowberry and foxberry. They are not cranberrys though.

We call them lingon in Sweden. Tastes kind of sour, but goes great with different foods.
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Yeah, Sweden has some of the best food, but a lot of people never care to notice. Plus, much of it is healthy for you as far as I know of and from what I've had so far it tastes great. Bahir, I love the meatballs and potatoes dish. Also, Falukorv looks good, can you give your opinion on it? My favorite countries in the World for food are Belgium, Italy and Sweden so far. France is also good, but if you want the best you have to pay a lot to get it. The US has good food too IMO, but we have a bad rep thanks to fast food.

<div class="quote_poster">Smitty Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">They still air Angry Beavers(n some of the other older nicktoons) on the Nicktoons channel from time to time.</div>

They did air the Angry Beavers on Nicktoons TV around noon CST, but they were removed because the network doesn't like them. Anyone else like that old cartoon from England called Kipper? For some reason I've always liked that cartoon because of the simplicity behind it and the well spoken characters and cute stories. They don't make kid's cartoons like the old stuff anymore where even the adults can enjoy what is going on.
 
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, Sweden has some of the best food, but a lot of people never care to notice. Plus, much of it is healthy for you as far as I know of and from what I've had so far it tastes great. Bahir, I love the meatballs and potatoes dish. Also, Falukorv looks good, can you give your opinion on it? My favorite countries in the World for food are Belgium, Italy and Sweden so far. France is also good, but if you want the best you have to pay a lot to get it. The US has good food too IMO, but we have a bad rep thanks to fast food.</div>

I think falukorv tastes best fried in a pan (not fried as with french fries), together with macaroni stewed in milk. That's actually my favorite dish of all. You can also cut scores on a whole sausage, and put tomato sauce and cheese on it, and bake it in the oven. I don't like that one though...

What's good with this type of food is that it's cheap and you can make it yourself without much trouble.
 
<div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I think falukorv tastes best fried in a pan (not fried as with french fries), together with macaroni stewed in milk. That's actually my favorite dish of all. You can also cut scores on a whole sausage, and put tomato sauce and cheese on it, and bake it in the oven. I don't like that one though...

What's good with this type of food is that it's cheap and you can make it yourself without much trouble.</div>

Seems like something I would make. I'll have a look around here at Bobak's (Polish food market) because they sell a lot of foreign meats and cheeses. I also fry all of my food this way on the pan with extra virgin olive oil from Italy. I'm going to post the chicken recipe later today, you should really give it a try, though it will be difficult to find the stuff I use such as the sauces and spices. However, knowing where you're from you should be able to find a very nice substitute for the sauce. You won't need sauce if you make the chicken into a sub sandwich.
 
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">



They did air the Angry Beavers on Nicktoons TV around noon CST, but they were removed because the network doesn't like them. Anyone else like that old cartoon from England called Kipper? For some reason I've always liked that cartoon because of the simplicity behind it and the well spoken characters and cute stories. They don't make kid's cartoons like the old stuff anymore where even the adults can enjoy what is going on.</div>

Really? News to me. That sucks.

I think I might have seen Kipper before..what channel did that come on?
 
<div class="quote_poster">Smitty Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Really? News to me. That sucks.

I think I might have seen Kipper before..what channel did that come on?</div>

Kipper used to be on that morning Nick Jr. programming around noon just before they switched to the afternoon line up for two hours of Nicktoons. This was around 6 or 7 years ago now, if not more I would think. The last I seen Kipper it was bought by Sprouts and put on during odd times of the day like 1:45 pm and then again at 5:25 pm. I'm going to just buy the Kipper DVD collection, not only for me and my fianc?e, but for the future when we decide to have kids.
 
Yeah, I loved hey Arnold as well. I loved the bully's character, I forgot his name though.

Anyways, I had to work in a factory today through my agency. There was a bunch of newcomers there today and unfortunetly for the first 7 hours of the 8 hour shift, I was stuck on one of the hardest/demanding jobs for the factory.

Basically, you got these huge shipment of boxes with Mini-Wheat cereal boxes and they would be glued together, so you'd have to rip the flaps open with your bare hands (they did give gloves, but it didnt help that much). After ripping the box open, you have to lift it and flip it in a certain way (there way 2 assembly lines and for each one you had to flip it a different way...thankfully they only made me flip to one line after the first hour or so). So, you rip it open, lift the box (I would say about 15-20 pounds, maybe more), flip the box, take all the damn mini-wheats and shove them down to the assembly. Now the problem with this was that the lady working the assembly, all she had to do was put a toy in the box and she'd be done. On the other hand, the guys doing this (3 assembly lines, 3 guys) would have to keep up by doing the whole flap/lift thing even quicker. After the first 4 hours, I couldn't feel any part of my body cause it was so sore and all of our hands had started to turn purple and the skin started ripping off cause opening the boxes became pretty difficult/painful after a while. Finally, after 7 hours, I got to switch to another job which was basically to pick up boxes and shove them down this automatic-tape thing that did most of the work. Needless to say, the last hour felt like a peice of cake. I've never had such a workout in my life.

Well, I'm back at that place again monday. I don't mind the jobs, as long as people keep switching (people do, newcomers just didn't know about it).

Going through this made me realize two things.
One: I never ever want to be in the position that I have to work in a factory when I'm older/out of University, and Two: I miss my old jobs when all you had to do was serve people things and basically talk your co-workers the rest of the time.

Edit:

Oh, and one more thing. I never wanna see these things again for the rest of my life. There was enough cereal boxes there to feed the entire world it seemed.

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My first factory job was at The Bay's warehouse. I worked the night shift (from 6PM to 2AM) and basically unloaded trucks full of different merchandise (could be as easy as lawn chairs to as difficult as dryers) and onto skids. That was the most brutal job I've ever had. The trailers were absolutely filthy and full of dust (my snot was black when I was done) and the hours just messed you up for the rest of the day. While it wasn't the most physically demanding job I did that summer (I was unloading fridges, washers, dryers, mattresses at the Sears warehouse), it was the most frustrating and crappy. They laid all the temporary employees off after a week because of some financial issues, and I couldn't have been happier.
 
Strawberry Mini wheats are CRACK!

* 2,000th RTT Post!! *

Horray, you win the prize -

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Your friend,

M Two One
 
I don't know whether or not God exists, but if he does, I believe he invented basketball. It's really food for my soul. I spent most of this week just hanging out and smoking a lot of pot, because I didn't have training Mon-Fri this week. Even though I don't have to go back on a regimine until tomorrow, I just went out there for about an hour or so to shoot some hoops, and it really made me feel better. It's hard to explain, but I feel more complete in life when I'm on a basketball court. I think I should probably steer towards a career that deals with basketball in some sort of capacity (minor league player, writer, coach, trainer, etc.), because life just isn't worth living if I can't hit the court on a regular basis.
 
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I remember I had a dream in December of 2005 that the Knicks traded for Steve Francis. Then a few months later he was traded to the Knicks.</div>

You must have a good intuition like me.

I've had premonition's about so many things in my life its not funny. The most recent one being last Monday, I was coming home on the bus, and out of nowhere I just started thinking about what happened to this girl group who won the show Popstars over here like back in 2000 or somthing like that, then on Wednesday night on this news and current afairs show, they did a story on the group on what they are all upto these days.
 
<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">You should think about cooler things then, like sex with super models.</div>

.. With big breasts. That's better.
 
Lol, pics of the Suns press conference introducing their draftees:

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<div class="quote_poster">Run BJM Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Lol, pics of the Suns press conference introducing their draftees:

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Oh yeah, I had a job interview this morning, and I got the job!
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During the St. John’s orientation I met an international student, a junior, who lived in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. They him call Evo (the first three letters of his really long first name). I was just making small talk and at the end of my sentence I said “Ya dig?” Then he goes on and asks me if I met with the school disciplinarian and suggests I might have multiple meetings with him during the semester. Before I was going to snap at him, someone told me that in his country everyone is blunt and he really isn’t racist or stereotypical, just an observer. So I let that one slide. Then he goes on and says some stuff like black people always wear brown clothes (I happened to be wearing a brown shirt that day) and white people do not. To that I just started laughing because it really didn’t make sense. Then he says something like black people love Sprite. He said, and I quote, “If you were to put a bucket of all types of sodas, a black person would furiously look through the bucket for the Sprite and would complain if it is depleted.” It also so happened I was having a can of spite at the time too, while eating Chinese food (sesame chicken). He also said black people love chicken (can’t really argue here).

Then we started talking about different stuff like his country and what they eat and he said something like Moussaka (sp?) and it has potatoes and other stuff in it. Then we started talking about Harlem and he said he tried to get to Columbia University (116th and Broadway) and took the wrong train and ended up in Harlem (116th and Lennox). It was funny because he ended his sentence with “Ya dig me?” I definitely lol’d and then we decided he would take me to Bulgaria and I would show him around Harlem. He’s a cool dude although sometimes he comes off a little outlandish. I guess that’s how people assimilate to different cultures.
 
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">During the St. John’s orientation I met an international student, a junior, who lived in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. They him call Evo (the first three letters of his really long first name). I was just making small talk and at the end of my sentence I said “Ya dig?” Then he goes on and asks me if I met with the school disciplinarian and suggests I might have multiple meetings with him during the semester. Before I was going to snap at him, someone told me that in his country everyone is blunt and he really isn’t racist or stereotypical, just an observer. So I let that one slide. Then he goes on and says some stuff like black people always wear brown clothes (I happened to be wearing a brown shirt that day) and white people do not. To that I just started laughing because it really didn’t make sense. Then he says something like black people love Sprite. He said, and I quote, “If you were to put a bucket of all types of sodas, a black person would furiously look through the bucket for the Sprite and would complain if it is depleted.” It also so happened I was having a can of spite at the time too, while eating Chinese food (sesame chicken). He also said black people love chicken (can’t really argue here).

Then we started talking about different stuff like his country and what they eat and he said something like Moussaka (sp?) and it has potatoes and other stuff in it. Then we started talking about Harlem and he said he tried to get to Columbia University (116th and Broadway) and took the wrong train and ended up in Harlem (116th and Lennox). It was funny because he ended his sentence with “Ya dig me?” I definitely lol’d and then we decided he would take me to Bulgaria and I would show him around Harlem. He’s a cool dude although sometimes he comes off a little outlandish. I guess that’s how people assimilate to different cultures.</div>

I guess he just comes from a culture with few black citizens, and it was probably a culture shock to him, so he internalized it and instead masked it with racism/bluntness.
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It's cool that you're meeting people from different cultures though. That's one of the coolest things about college, along with the newfound freedom.
 
It's my mates birthday today, going to party hard tonight
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<div class="quote_poster">Skillz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yo MrJ, You got accepted to St.Johns?</div>

When'd you get back?
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Cool avatar. Reminds me of something just can't put my finger on it.
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lol like 3 days ago. And yea its a rip-off of GS, but we believe too.
 
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">“If you were to put a bucket of all types of sodas, a black person would furiously look through the bucket for the Sprite and would complain if it is depleted.”</div>

LOL....actually a more stereotypical comment would be that blacks like "grape soda"....or kool-aid

Me and my friend were actually talking about how certain individuals display their racist/stereotypical feelings about another group of people....not to say one group of people is more racist than another, but I've noticed that minorities are more blunt with their racism when confronting other minorities.
 
For those of you that know: about how much would you say a normal college, in perhaps California or Florida, costs in the US per year, expenses for living (food, rent etc) included? Big difference living on campus or not?
 
<div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">For those of you that know: about how much would you say a normal college, in perhaps California or Florida, costs in the US per year, expenses for living (food, rent etc) included? Big difference living on campus or not?</div>

I'd recommend living on campus as not only a cheaper alternative but as a more fulfilling one as well. I coulnd't imagine living off campus; there's so much going on around it.

As for tuition, Tulane, for example, is $28,900, but room and board is $7,925, the required fees are $2,310, and the books cost $800 on average, so you're looking at around $40,000 a year. Most prestigious private schools will be the same, although public schools (ie: the UC's) run cheaper, because they're state-funded, but that only applies to in-state students, otherwise, they're generally just as expensive as private schools and generally not as good educationally.
 
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