Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Who else but a Nintylifer would buy a 2DS?!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I wouldn't feel too bad, it took me a few weeks to find my way out of the PS4 section!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy 🤔... I cannot argue with frugality.

@Rudy_Manchego Good grief, eggs on pizza?! What in the world are you British doing over there? What next, blood pudding tacos? Yuck.

@Th3solution A Fiorentina (or occasionally a Florentine) is normally spinach and an egg in the middle, and quite nice too.

@Thrillho I stand corrected. Let’s get a consult from the Italian - do they put eggs on their pizza in Florence? @andreoni79

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Don't worry, I did the same with my 2DS. Happy with the choice and if you own a 3DS or 2DS you are defo a Nintendrone. Welcome! Plus, saying no to a Hawaiian is the admission fee.

@Th3solution @Thrillho It is a legitimate pizza in that you can get it in restaurants but to me it is an omelette with an identity crisis.

@Th3solution I've seen pizza carbonara in Italy (with eggs on top); but even that sounds like an insult to both pizza and pasta carbonara

I've been to cities in northern Italy like Trento and Bolzano, and you'll find pizzas loaded with various Austrian sausages. But I guess that area isn't famous for its pizzas either; it was pretty good though.

@Th3solution "blood pudding tacos" - you mean black pudding? That could be a game changer! Black pudding goes with everything!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I only really got it cus my DS broke and to play Pokémon X & Omega Ruby though...

I stopped reading after that and assume you loved the SNES and had lovely things to say!!!!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy since it's Friday evening and I'm tired from work, jokes like that are enough to make me giggle

@Th3solution I'd rather put an egg on my PS4 than on a pizza. If someone is selling you a pizza with an egg on it in Florence, he's mocking you.

@Octane You sound prepared, man! In summer I work in Trentino and I love their mix of italian-german food.
Pizza : American pizza = Bratwurst : hot-dog

@andreoni79 Yeah, I'm going back this summer, but to Liguria. I've been going there since as long as I can remember, so it always feels like coming home in a way.

True story:

@KALofKRYPTON I didn’t know there was a difference between blood pudding, black pudding, and blood sausage. It all sounds revolting, to be honest.

@andreoni79 That’s a pretty good analogy. In the States it even applies from one area of the country to another, where the northern US completely ruins Mexican food, and the seafood in the Southwest is so far removed from what it started out as that it’s hardly even the same dish as what one would get in the Northeast.
And I’ve seen a lot of really questionable things called “hamburgers” as well. Like burgers with fruit on them. I did have a burger with a fried egg on it actually and it was marvelous.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Maybe the comments from the royal family (I forget who it was .. Prince William? Is there a Prince William? I’m showing my ignorance of basic British Royalty right now) about banning Fortnite is not too out of order.
I’ve never played PUBG and don’t play to, but I’m glad I don’t live in Nepal. That’s a very slippery slope to start.

@Th3solution But I thought McDonald's was the same throughout the entire US

@Th3solution Prince William is the eldest son of the Crown Prince and third in line to the throne who will probably eventually be king he has never expressed a controversial opinion in his life in public.
Prince Harry is the Crown Prince’s youngest son he is sixth in line to the throne and enjoys doing controversial things like wearing Nazi uniforms and calling for popular things to be banned. Prince Harry was the one who called fortnight to be banned.

@Octane Unfortunately, yes. McDonalds is the same throughout. Except I’ve been to a few that I’m pretty sure recycled food from the garbage to make my burger.

But in France, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is called a “Royale with Cheese” 😂
At least that’s what Samuel L. Jackson told me.

@Ryall oooooh. 😮 Yeah, Prince Harry. That’s right. I get the two of them mixed up.

I guess the question is, does William toe the line and stay buttoned up in his public persona because he has a higher pecking order toward being king, or is that just his natural disposition? And is Harry more rebellious because he knows he is further down the line and likely doesn’t have to worry about appearances? He’s the one about to have a kid too with the girl who is American or maybe part American? My knowledge of the royal family is literally made up of whatever headline might be splashed on the cover of People magazine that I inadvertently see in my peripheral vision for 5 seconds as I check out at the grocery store. That’s about all the investment I feel I can put into it.

Edit: and to be clear and not come across as elitist or something, I put the same or less interest into American politics. I avoid it like the plague. Modern government is ... frustrating to deal with, to say the least.