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  1. This weekend is the annual ice cream festival here in Palermo.Later than usual for some reason, they have taken a gamble with the weather, but hopefully it will be fine today! Forecast is about 21° which is still ok for eating ice cream.

    Later on there’s also a big birthday celebration for my uncle,so it’s going to be a day of eating a lot… we’re all going to a restaurant rather than celebrating at his home.

    If you go out to celebrate someone’s birthday,who usually pays in your country? I know in some places it’s traditional that everyone pays the share of the birthday person.

    In others the opposite, the person celebrating invites and pays for everyone.

    Or you just split it like a normal meal in a restaurant?

  2. This weekend I will play volleyball tournaments with my team.vwe don’t win every match, but we do win some matches. The one today is with our actual age group, and the one tomorrow is with the age group over. We have to play over because our team only has 4 players in that age group and we need at least 6.

  3. This weekend we are celebrating Mårten Gås (Martin Goose) in Scania. Even though the real feast day is Mårtensafton (Saint Martin’s Eve) which is on Monday, most people choose to celebrate now during the weekend instead and many inns and restaurants across Scania serve big traditional Mårten Gås dinners this weekend which are very popular to attend. It is a heavy feast and one of the most cherished and distinct annual cultural traditions here in Scania.

    As the main course for the Mårten Gås feast is served a big Scanian goose along with potatoes and brown sauce with goose fat. Before this main course is traditionally served a starter of svartsoppa (”black soup”) made primarily from goose blood, wine and spices. And for dessert is served a traditional Scanian äppelkaka, which is a kind of apple pie, together with vanilla custard. Alongside is also generally served a traditional Scanian spettekaka, which is a hard cake made primarily from eggs and sugar and baked on a rotating spit.

    The Scanian goose (Skånegås) is an old traditional domestic goose breed that has long been one of the most prominent and beloved symbols of Scania. This goose is the largest and heaviest of all traditional Swedish goose breeds. It has a characteristic plumage with a grey head and back, a white belly and a bright orange bill.

    It is also this very goose breed that has become immortalized through the classic educational children’s adventure novel “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils” by Selma Lagerlöf.

  4. I read that James Watson died. I guess it’s a good time to remind people that Rosalind Franklin’s work was essential in uncovering the structure of DNA, but went largely unrecognized during her life time and while the two men got the Nobel Prize, her name wasn’t even mentioned (though she should have been awarded the prize as well). Anyway, they were all great scientists. It was a different time, or something, I guess.

    How often do you guys buy CDs or DVDs? I bought a DVD recently (old movie) and I still buy them for films I can’t access easily otherwise. But I don’t have a CD player 😣 

  5. 2016 me knew Brexit would be bad. What I didn’t anticipate in 2016, however, was that Brexit would cause the UK to join the ranks of such international titans as Greenland, Western Sahara and North Korea as a perpetual “No Data” country on [comparative maps of Europe](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/Bzn05yfGwc) (especially ones that source their data from Eurostat).

    It’s especially infuriating when the map is about social attitudes in Europe (things like “%age of people saying they’d feel uncomfortable shaking hands with a black person”) and where I’m trying to confirm my internal biases about my country being a post-racial utopia while our troglodyte maritime neighbours – that’s to say, *one particular troglodyte neighbour immediately to the South of us* – remain backward.

    2016 me (who initially joined Reddit almost exclusively for MapPorn) would be turning in his grave to see what his country has become

  6. The cranes around here really hate being social. I remember seeing one slowly move away from me while I was like 10 m away. I’ve never seen a crane together with another crane, and they tend to stay away from the geese and ducks as well.

  7. I was watching an episode of Six Feet Under with English subtitles on, and for some reason every fuck was replaced with shit in the subtitles. There was a scene where one of the main characters has a really emotional and tender evening with his ex, they go back to his place and he tries to make an advance on the ex. However the ex is in a new relationship so he rejects him, saying he thought they were just going to talk. The main character person says “I don’t want to talk, I want to fuck”. But in the subtitles it said “I don’t want to talk, I want to shit”.

    If any hearing impaired person has watched that with those subs they must have been really confused about what’s going on.

  8. I can’t believe how early it becomes dark now, every day is a race against the clock to manage to get out just for a walk while it’s still daylight. Sun sets around 16 here now and it’s just getting eaten more off every day till solstice. I would do badly even further north.

  10. So,we just came back from the ice cream festival.

    There were around 50 different stands, many from other parts of Italy but also a good representation from East Asia, Canada and the US.

    Few Europeans this year though.

    I tried about 20 different types, mostly mini-cones…I don’t want to see any more ice-cream for a while!

    The most unusual one was maybe onion with balsamic vinegar,it was actually very good! And cream of geranium, which tasted just as you might expect..of flowers.

    My favourites? There was one from Canada that was maple syrup and carob flavour, really good.

    One from Taiwan… peanuts, brown sugar, popcorn and toasted rice, that was really unusual in texture but excellent.

    Maybe my personal #1 was one from Northern Italy, that was based on a traditional griddle cooked biscuit from the area around Verona,Fogassa.

    It was pretty simple…milk, flour, sugar,egg, grated lemon, olive oil and a touch of salt.Wonderful flavour and consistency.

  11. A few days ago, the report on how the EU candidate countries are doing was released.

    And Montenegro’s doing really well. 7 chapters are already closed, some more are planned to get closed in December. Half of the chapters are already marked “good levels of preperation”, the rest are mostly on “Moderately prepared”, with only 3 left on low-level of preperation.

    Didn’t think we’d get a new EU member before 2030, but (from my very limited understanding) it’s looking actually realistic now.

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