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Au contraire, @mike carey, you can do Thanksgiving in Australia if you don't mind a little traveling. . Gman Why One Australian Island Celebrates Thanksgiving There's pumpkin pie, but also multiple banana dishes. By Anne Ewbank NOVEMBER 21, 2018 Norfolk Island is tiny, both in size and population. An Australian territory hundreds of miles from the mainland, it's home to fewer than 2,000 inhabitants. It has sparkling blue waters, unique flora (the famed Norfolk pine is displayed on their flag), and a stranger-than-fiction origin story: The island was populated by the descendants of mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty. The British mutineers and several captive Tahitians had fled to nearby Pitcairn Island in 1790, and by 1856, their descendants moved to the larger Norfolk Island. The islanders have long history of cultural melange, with many speaking a combination of Tahitian and 18th-century English, called Norfuk. They also celebrate unique holidays, such as Bounty Day, and, strangely enough, an American-inspired Thanksgiving. While various harvest festivals and days of thanks fill fall calendars around the world, Norfolk Island's Thanksgiving is actually based on the American tradition. Norfolk Island has always been a stop for seafarers, from the island's first Polynesian inhabitants to 19th-century American whalers. In 1887, one Norfolk Island resident, Isaac Robinson, even became the American consul, making him a diplomatic representative of the United States. One year, the story goes, Robinson wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving. He observed the holiday by decorating the pews of the All Saints Church with palm leaves and lemons. When Robinson died at sea, the islanders kept up the practice, which was shored up by American sailors in later decades. These days, the tradition continues much in the same vein, although Norfolk Island celebrates on the last Wednesday of the month rather than on a Thursday. The island's churches hold Thanksgiving services (the day is a public holiday). At All Saints Church, the pews are decorated with tall stalks of corn. Norfolk and church attendees place fresh fruit and vegetables along the aisles, a testament to the local practice of almost complete agricultural self-sufficiency. Despite the harvest symbolism, though, November is springtime on Norfolk Island. After the service, all the bounty is loaded onto tables and sold as a church fundraiser. Then, it's time for feasting, whether with family or the community. The TASTE Norfolk Island Food Festival takes place annually during the week of Thanksgiving, and includes the holiday's unique feast on the program. The Thanksgiving meal is a fusion of traditional Thanksgiving foods and Norfolk Island cuisine. Turkey is generally not on the menu, but cornbread is. There's pumpkin pie, but also multiple banana dishes. As Tom Lloyd, one Norfolk Islander, told NPR, there's banana pilaf, "green bananas cooked in cream, and dried bananas." Past celebrations have included a TASTE Norfolk Island banquet of "roast meats, traditional Tahitian fish salad, corn, coconut bread, and salads." This year, festival guests will attend Thanksgiving Day church services before going to a local home for a feast

Christmas is a very big deal here in the USA. If it's even bigger in Canada--WOWEEE!! Gman

I'm not sure if you are serious or not, Mike. I could go on and on about it. But let me cut to the chase and have Wikipedia do it. The quick answer is that the USA's major secular holiday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States) The Canadian Thanksgiving is a bit different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada) Gman

I think I tasted non-sweetened almond milk once-never again if I can help it. I think Hershey's has some milk components in it. So I don't know how that plays with being dairy free. Gman

Do you mind if ask whether your therapist is gay? If yes or no, did you purposely pick her for her sexuality-whatever it is-and for her gender, or were you happy getting any sexuality and any gender? My last 4 or 5 therapists (one wasn't a therapist but my internist) have been gay males. I chose gay males because I thought they might understand my feelings better. At least 4 them have been very handsome. I, not being handsome at all, have thought it might have been easier for them to be gay because they've always been desirable. It's another kettle of fish trying to accustom oneself to being gay knowing not a lot of people are going to be attracted to you-knowing that if you were straight -women sometimes aren't as focused on looks. But years ago I had an acquaintance with a different take on things. He purposely chose women as therapists. I'm not sure whether they were gay or not. But he chose them so he wouldn't have the danger of feeling any attraction to them. Gman

It's French meaning sadness-ultimately from the Latin word "tristis" meaning sad. The Spanish word for sad is "triste"which is also derived from the Latin word Gman

Sadness after orgasm = La Petit Mort https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort Gman

Apparently Sam isn't the only one on the show with a very nice physique. This is Graham McTavish, who once played his uncle Dougal MacKenzie Gman

There are some porn guys who never really plan to escort like Colby Keller (sigh). But some use it the opposite way of what you describe. They seem to like escorting and use their porn career to increase their demand and their fees. Look at the retired Andrew Justice. He was escorting even while he continued to do porn. He's just one example. Rafael Alencar is another. He was escorting even when his porn career was hot. Gman

It doesn't matter as I have no money to hire. Plus he's a bit on the twinkish side for me even if I had money. Gman

I know where you are coming from. Sometimes I feel an escort's hair is just too "fabulous" for me to feel comfortable with him. Gman

Please don't be a Cool Whip hater until you've tried the recipe with it. I've made it that way for years. And it's delicious. Even my sister-in-law complimented me on how good the pie was a few years back. Gman

I'll bite -sorry it's such a late response but I didn't see the post until someone just made a response to this thread. I will have to refute your claim about gay escorts. For the most part I always hired either gay or bisexual escorts (as much as you can tell by their self-declarations as we know even guys who say they are straight may actually be gay/bisexual or guys advertising as gay/bisexual may actually be straight (although in this case it seems to me more likely a scam is going on)). I think it must be selection bias in the type of gay/bisexual escorts you have picked because I'm an old (well middle-aged although I'll admit that I don't know anyone who is twice my age at 116) bald, fat guy. I'd say at least 80% (possibly more) of the gay/bisexual escorts I met with lived up to their promise. Now not every encounter was excellent but they were in most cases at the very least satisfactory. And these sessions included oral, Fr kissing, and a lot of body contact. And at least 90% of the time, I topped them. And while it probably was my bad luck-but the one guy I definitely remember being straight-he never explicitly stated on his Rentboy ad. He had checked everything on the "what he was into section" which seemed to imply that he was gay. I unfortunately hired him for a weekend. When we met he kept talking about a woman friend of his who had given him a ride to the airport. The subject came up, and he said he saw women too. I asked which he liked better. And he said women. He didn't like kissing when it was clearly listed on his ad. I asked him why it was listed. He said someone told him to check all alternatives to increase his client rate. Strangely enough he did ask me if I wanted to top him. But I had the feeling he hadn't really bottomed before. And I was so disgusted at being with a straight guy for a weekend-plus I am not a good top with inexperienced guys who can't relax their sphincter-so I didn't even attempt it. Gman

I've always found that looking at how little money I have in my bank account is an incredible libido lowerer. Gman

Hmmm.... Gman

I was joking in my response to @azdr0710. But except for the fact that everything is really about sex, sex is not really the point of this thread. I was hoping for some more Thanksgiving related comments. Gman

Please be respectful. That may be my Mom's writing-although now that I look at it, probably not. Still... Gman

I also want to send retrograde Best Thanksgiving Wishes to our Canadian Brothers/Sisters. I'm sorry I missed saying anything last month in October. And in celebration of all things Thanksgiving-I offer the following. Also back by popular demand (ok it was only demanded by me-but still...) here is my famous no muss Hershey Bar Pie Recipe which is almost always a rousing hit-although if memory serves at my family's last Thanksgiving Feast, I don't think it had been in the freezer long enough as it melted almost immediately on taking it out- but it still tasted delicious. And that's the most important thing, right?-of course right!!! A few notes on the recipe. 1. When my sister-in-law makes it she actually makes whipping cream. I take a short-cut and use a tub of Cool Whip. It may be blasphemy to say. But I'm not sure I can taste any difference or at least not much. 2. The Hershey Bar size you want is the Full Size. You can buy them in a packet of 6. 3. As an historical note-this recipe is so old-my Mom's original recipe either on a card or cookbook says " 6- 5 cent Hershey Bars." Needless to say Hershey bars haven't been 5 cents for a very long time. 4. To jazz up the recipe try adding (as a starting point) 1/4 tsp of mint or peppermint extract. I've also added General Mills flavored coffee before. If you add coffee remember to dissolve it in a small amount of warm/hot water before adding to the chocolate mixture. 5. While I've never done it, (I've thought about it)-you could add some type of berry coulis either on top of that pie or the plate you were serving it on. Another idea I've had would be to have a berry sauce layer applied to the graham crust and possibly -let that freeze in the crust so it will harden. And then pour the chocolate mixture over that and freeze as above. In case anyone is interested, here is a recipe for fresh (or frozen) raspberry sauce which seems very simple and has a lot of good reviews. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/241308/fresh-raspberry-sauce/ May you all have happy family/friend festive meals!!! Gman

No problem. It gave me a chance to clarify my post. Gman

I was told once I had sweet cum. I was wondering if it was because I was prediabetic. Gman

I thought so. The reason I brought up this thread is that this escort used a picture similar to this one (without any other face pictures as I recall) for many years-possibly over 5. He's now removed the picture that was similar to this. And really I don't know if you showed me this picture whether I could have told you it was a picture of the the same guy who is currently advertising as Hung Long One. I have no idea how good an escort this guy is. I think it's strange that he's been advertising as long as he has been and only has only 2 reviews. Plus the current crop of photos to me seem to show him at many different ages (if we assume the pictures are all actually of him). Personally I'd advise anyone wanting to hire him to make sure what he actually looks like now by having him send a picture with a date on it. Gman

I always wonder if an ad is a scam when there is a disconnect between the ad copy and the statistics. This guy says he is a top in the ad copy but then lists himself as versatile. Gman

Why does he think he is muscular? I'm willing to give him defined-and maybe the very beginning of athletic. Gman

Could it have been Vinnie-and did he advertise as having been done Corbin Fisher or one of the other similar sites? Otherwise it says he's advertised since 2013 but only 2 reviews. That seems a little odd. Not to mention that his pictures (if they are all of him) must have been taken years apart, as he looks extremely different from picture to picture https://rent.men/Hunglongone/#platinum Gman

While I don't have anything specifically to ad, I used to work with a woman who had hyperhidrosis. I don't know if she had a problem with perspiration. But she could flex/extend her hands out, and you could see the wetness start to coat her palms when seconds before they had been dry. It was freaky. Gman