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Giving 10 centime already hurts me and you're talking about few euros.
lol! I just got 5 rolls of quarters ($0.25x40coinsx5rolls=$50) and put them in my car because some parking meters I use don't take credit cards. I'd happily give them away on Halloween.
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Giving 10 centime already hurts me and you're talking about few euros.
IKR, I think Antidote thinks everyone is as rich as he is.
I would think this was probably the most popular Halloween costume this year.
I'm sure these did really well at party stores.
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IKR, I think Antidote thinks everyone is as rich as he is.
Yeah,we don't all sleep on gold like @Hamartia Antidote
I would think this was probably the most popular Halloween costume this year.
I'm sure these did really well at party stores.
LOL!
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IKR, I think Antidote thinks everyone is as rich as he is.
Lol! It may be cheaper to give out quarters than purchasing candy.
Lol! When was the last year you could buy a candy bar for around $0.25. 1980's? haha!
Even at the local wholesaler the lowest price was about $12/package. We bought 5 that were not the lowest. So that's way over $60. That's over 240 quarters.
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New England Patriots vs Oakland Raiders tomorrow at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
Pats on their way to a 6th super bowl victory need to squash da raaaiiiiidaaaas.
So the NFL commissioner was making $40 million a year and is negotiating his new contract with the NFL owners for $50 mill per year but this time around he also wants a private jet for not only during his tenure as the commissioner, but FOR LIFE! lol. Any one of us could do this guy's job, literally! What a great country!
Report: Goodell wants $50M salary, private jet in new NFL deal
http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/report-goodell-wants-50m-salary-private-jet-life-new-nfl-deal/
Pats on their way to a 6th super bowl victory need to squash da raaaiiiiidaaaas.
So the NFL commissioner was making $40 million a year and is negotiating his new contract with the NFL owners for $50 mill per year but this time around he also wants a private jet for not only during his tenure as the commissioner, but FOR LIFE! lol. Any one of us could do this guy's job, literally! What a great country!
Report: Goodell wants $50M salary, private jet in new NFL deal
http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/report-goodell-wants-50m-salary-private-jet-life-new-nfl-deal/
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...k-finding-turkey-and-all-trimmings/869775001/
Thanksgiving in Europe: Good luck finding a turkey and all the trimmings
GENEVA — For many Americans living in Europe, pulling together a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings requires much more than patiently watching the timer on the oven.
First, there's the bird. In much of Europe whole turkeys are only available for Christmas. One exception: the United Kingdom, where they are widely available online year-round from major supermarket chains.
The other typical foods for the uniquely American holiday also are hard to come by — particularly ingredients for pumpkin pie and yam soufflé.
To top it off, Thursday is a regular workday here.
In an international city like Geneva, frozen turkeys can be found in some supermarkets, but are generally smaller and more expensive than their U.S. counterparts. A 7-lb. bird costs the equivalent of $30. In the United States a turkey twice the size costs about $20.
That’s why some expats rely on family connections and social networks to get a fresh, reasonably-priced turkey.
Dorothy van Schooneveld and her friends turn to a French wife of an American expat, whose cousin has a chicken farm in the Bresse region of France. The cousin’s friend raises turkeys. “So we were able, via a roundabout way, to obtain a turkey for Thanksgiving,” said van Schooneveld, who lives in Amancy, France.
And rather than costing a lot of money, this particular bird was paid for “with some bottles of wine produced by another cousin,” the Troy, N.Y., native added.
Meanwhile, Jeanne Matthey is on a hunt for an organic pumpkin puree in Budapest, Hungary, so she can bake a pie for Thanksgiving but time is running out.
Last year, the Chicago native scooped, boiled and blended two pumpkins. It “was a laborious process that I don’t want to go through again,” she said.
A lot depends on where expats live. While cranberries, sweet potatoes and pumpkins (though not ready-made pumpkin pies) are available in most European cities, in some places they may be scarce. Last year, Matthey could not find any yams, so she improvised by “mashing together regular potatoes, carrots and bits of pumpkin, and adding sugar.”
“It wasn’t as good as the real thing, but you have to be creative,” she said.
To compound Matthey's problems, she was told that the turkey she had ordered at a local farm was eaten by a fox that night. The farmer offered her a rooster. But she said no and her family carved a chicken instead.
Acquiring a turkey is just part of the challenge. A common problem with large birds is that European ovens are too small to accommodate anything bigger than a standard chicken. This was a lesson Jo Bartley learned the hard way, soon after she arrived in Amsterdam and had a 15-lb. bird delivered to her apartment.
“I didn’t realize the ovens in the Netherlands are no bigger than my daughter’s toy one. I had to cut my turkey into several pieces so I could bake it,” she said.
When she took the decimated turkey out of the oven, “I could cry. This wasn’t the Thanksgiving I wanted to have,” added Bartley, who is originally from Baltimore.
More seasoned expatriates like Jeff Steiner have learned to handle such limitations. Steiner, who has been living in La Roche sur Foron, France, for 18 years, doesn’t attempt to cram large birds into a typical French oven. His turkeys “are only about 10 pounds each. Maybe less,” the Los Angeles native said.
Given all the challenges of preparing a traditional U.S.-style Thanksgiving abroad, many expats say cooking is for the birds. Those in cities with large expat populations opt for dining out for the holiday — a good way to get the turkey and all the trimmings without the hassle of shopping.
Thanksgiving in Europe: Good luck finding a turkey and all the trimmings
GENEVA — For many Americans living in Europe, pulling together a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings requires much more than patiently watching the timer on the oven.
First, there's the bird. In much of Europe whole turkeys are only available for Christmas. One exception: the United Kingdom, where they are widely available online year-round from major supermarket chains.
The other typical foods for the uniquely American holiday also are hard to come by — particularly ingredients for pumpkin pie and yam soufflé.
To top it off, Thursday is a regular workday here.
In an international city like Geneva, frozen turkeys can be found in some supermarkets, but are generally smaller and more expensive than their U.S. counterparts. A 7-lb. bird costs the equivalent of $30. In the United States a turkey twice the size costs about $20.
That’s why some expats rely on family connections and social networks to get a fresh, reasonably-priced turkey.
Dorothy van Schooneveld and her friends turn to a French wife of an American expat, whose cousin has a chicken farm in the Bresse region of France. The cousin’s friend raises turkeys. “So we were able, via a roundabout way, to obtain a turkey for Thanksgiving,” said van Schooneveld, who lives in Amancy, France.
And rather than costing a lot of money, this particular bird was paid for “with some bottles of wine produced by another cousin,” the Troy, N.Y., native added.
Meanwhile, Jeanne Matthey is on a hunt for an organic pumpkin puree in Budapest, Hungary, so she can bake a pie for Thanksgiving but time is running out.
Last year, the Chicago native scooped, boiled and blended two pumpkins. It “was a laborious process that I don’t want to go through again,” she said.
A lot depends on where expats live. While cranberries, sweet potatoes and pumpkins (though not ready-made pumpkin pies) are available in most European cities, in some places they may be scarce. Last year, Matthey could not find any yams, so she improvised by “mashing together regular potatoes, carrots and bits of pumpkin, and adding sugar.”
“It wasn’t as good as the real thing, but you have to be creative,” she said.
To compound Matthey's problems, she was told that the turkey she had ordered at a local farm was eaten by a fox that night. The farmer offered her a rooster. But she said no and her family carved a chicken instead.
Acquiring a turkey is just part of the challenge. A common problem with large birds is that European ovens are too small to accommodate anything bigger than a standard chicken. This was a lesson Jo Bartley learned the hard way, soon after she arrived in Amsterdam and had a 15-lb. bird delivered to her apartment.
“I didn’t realize the ovens in the Netherlands are no bigger than my daughter’s toy one. I had to cut my turkey into several pieces so I could bake it,” she said.
When she took the decimated turkey out of the oven, “I could cry. This wasn’t the Thanksgiving I wanted to have,” added Bartley, who is originally from Baltimore.
More seasoned expatriates like Jeff Steiner have learned to handle such limitations. Steiner, who has been living in La Roche sur Foron, France, for 18 years, doesn’t attempt to cram large birds into a typical French oven. His turkeys “are only about 10 pounds each. Maybe less,” the Los Angeles native said.
Given all the challenges of preparing a traditional U.S.-style Thanksgiving abroad, many expats say cooking is for the birds. Those in cities with large expat populations opt for dining out for the holiday — a good way to get the turkey and all the trimmings without the hassle of shopping.
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New England Patriots vs Oakland Raiders tomorrow at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
Pats on their way to a 6th super bowl victory need to squash da raaaiiiiidaaaas.
So the NFL commissioner was making $40 million a year and is negotiating his new contract with the NFL owners for $50 mill per year but this time around he also wants a private jet for not only during his tenure as the commissioner, but FOR LIFE! lol. Any one of us could do this guy's job, literally! What a great country!
Report: Goodell wants $50M salary, private jet in new NFL deal
http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/report-goodell-wants-50m-salary-private-jet-life-new-nfl-deal/
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That was a raaiyydaaaarrs crushing!
All those Pats fans in Mexico and blue shirts all over the stadium that was fun. Surprised there's no Pats haters here on PDF?!Sensation in Mexico.
Mexican Gronk and Mariachi Bellichick looool.
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I was formerly one, but its repressed for time being coz my gf is from vermont
That was a pretty astonishing game last superbowl by them though.
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I was formerly one, but its repressed for time being coz my gf is from vermont
If the lovely Misses is a Pats fan, you better walk the straight line, my friend.
Most people hate them because they can't stand Brady being such a stud and a winner and married to the biggest supermodel and....oh yeah, all those phony cheating accusations. 
That one and honestly, the 2014 one against Seattle with the Butler interception at the goal line to win it. That is right up there too but last year takes the cake. That was ridiculous.
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Post your Turkey stats!!
Store: MarketBasket
Turkey: fresh
Stats: 23.04lbs @$0.89 = $20.51 <- LOL!! So little for so much.
Store: MarketBasket
Turkey: fresh
Stats: 23.04lbs @$0.89 = $20.51 <- LOL!! So little for so much.
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. And Black Friday right after.
What a find going a bit out of control is the push for Christmas sales getting earlier and earlier, as in Christmas songs in malls and stores and offices a week or two before thanksgiving!? To the point now, with this new iPhone/millennial/Facebook/whatever generation, when they go out and buy a nativity set for Christmas decoration, this is what they're getting.
The "Hipster" nativity set! Times have seriously changed!
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