Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
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Howard I personally hold you responsible for asking for more detail, I'm going to save it for bedtime reading!

Arte et Marte
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I'm not keen on anything Italian, Howard.
And I haven't got any contact with anything Italian either.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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No pasta in your cupboard then Alex?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I believe that pasta originated in China and was brought to Europe by Marco Polo in the 13th century, not a lot of people know that.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Are we now going to have an in depth discussion about pasta versus noodles, it might be more interesting than some of the recent long winded posts on the forum.

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Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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I'm not particularly religious but the way this thread is going it's appropriate to say if I was I would probably be a
Pastafarian.Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I've been wrongly presented on here as not being English but Italian.
I do not appreciate that in any way at all.
I have nothing to do with Italy or anything Italian.
This was about the English Church and the Fair Lady. BRITANNIA.
So if now someone is sounding off with "long winded posts", then I suppose it is time to say good-bye again.
I don't know why this had to be transformed in to "admiring all things Italian". and "long winded posts".
I guess I am just not appreciated on here on account of being who I am.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Aren't votive offerings more a Roman Catholic pastime?
Arte et Marte
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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I made a votive offering on polling day. There were no Pirates on my voting form (Italian or otherwise). Why not ? I hear you ask, or not. I had to write my own pirates on the two forms to be able to vote for them, I am appalled. As a footnote, some might say that the pirates got elected anyway.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Howard, if YOU are keen on all things Italian, why don't you keep it for YOU instead of trying to ram it onto me?
I don't appreciate being falsely presented in public in the exact opposite manner of my real character.
Contrary to you, I don't ride two different horses at the same time.
Instead of being about ME, this statement of yours should be about YOU.
You should have written: "I, Howard Mcsweeney, am keen on all things Italian".
Please keep me out of it!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I must be the only Italian that cannot stomach pasta in any of its various shapes.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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dose that include spaggetti hoops howard,

Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Alexander seems very anti-Italian. Definite case of over compensation in my view!

Arte et Marte
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I don't know what you're talking about, Reginald.
I don't speak Italian, have never been to Italy and don't intend ever going there.
I don't know any Italians either.
I believe in the English Church and am not currently interested in anything else.