Subject: In East Asian cultures
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Posted on: 2023-03-14 16:06:25 UTC
Valentine's Day is only for one side of a couple to send gifts. March 14, a month after it, is for the other side to return the favor. Both sides giving gifts to each other on the same day is seen as transactional.
Don't know how widespread this day is in Western countries, so I decided to start this thread.
From the reply thread to the original, excerpts from the dress rehearsal, which didn't exactly stay on task.
ANTONY. Friends, Time Lords, Gallifreyans, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise her.
I mean, honestly, why would I ever do so?
PINDARUS. Seriously? What's with the burying?
I only regenerated; I'm standing right here.
SECOND CITIZEN. Weren't we going for 'peace'?
PINDARUS. Yes,
But then people started throwing insults around.
ANTONY. It's as I said: no praising here.
The evil that men do lives after them,
And continues ever to annoy their fellows;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. Particularly
The part about internment.
PINDARUS. Oh, come on!
(I still want to either write more of this, or write A Midsummer Night's Dream in the First Age of Middle-earth. She-nan-i-gans.)
hS
That sounds awesome. I think I would like to be in on that, if it happens.
Looks at irl craziness and other stuff going on Drat. At least you can borrow Rebecca, who has expressed interest in joining HQ's thearer group as of this thing from the Mailbox game we did a while ago.
... that Rebecca has wrangled a place in the cast of A Doriathrin Night's Dream, as the only person who's not either from Middle-earth or tagging along with someone who is. She's been cast as Tuor, aka Starveling, aka Moonshine (actually my role when I was in the play way back). She's part of Team Baffled, along with Alice, who is a horse playing a dog playing a spider, playing a man playing a lion.
~
Huan: Have you the spider's part written? pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Morwen: You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
Brandir, Huan, Tuor: Spiders don't roar.
Morwen: This one does.
Turin: Let me play the spider too: I will roar, that I will do any man’s heart good to hear me; I will roar, that I will make Barahir say ‘Let him roar again, let him roar again.’
Morwen: An you should do it too terribly, you would fright Emeldir and the ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough to hang us all.
All: That would hang us, every mother’s son.
Niniel: And daughter.
Huan: And dog.
Turin: I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us; they proved that by their willingness to murder Luthien. But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an ’twere any, to pick a word at random, nightingale.
Morwen: You can play no part but Eöl; for Eöl is a dark-faced man; a bitter man, as one shall see in a tangled wood; a malicious, curséd-seeming man: therefore you must needs play Eöl.
Turin: Gee, thank you, Mom.
Morwen: You chose your path, Turambar; deal with it.
~
(Starveling's best scene is at the end, I'm not that far yet; but I can confirm that in the play Tuor/Rebecca is playing his/her own wife Idril.)
hS
Valentine's Day is only for one side of a couple (or friends, coworkers, etc.) to send gifts (usually female → male). March 14, a month after it, is for the other side to return the favor. Both sides giving gifts to each other on the same day is seen as transactional.
Say, are meat pies as awful as they say?
Then again, it depends on how they're made.
I agree with Linstar that chicken pot pies are good.
That said, we Americans don't exactly eat many other meat pies.
-Ls
Chicago-style pizza-pie! {= D
(But Chicago thin-crust pizza is best, fight me. {; P )
Seriously, though, there are non-chicken meat pies to be found in this country! There's a pie company in my area that does amazing savory pies as well as sweet. I don't think I've even tried their chicken pot pie, because I like the pork-apple-sage and curry-lamb ones so much. And the pot roast pie is good, too.
Shepherd's pie is also a thing here, though it ranges widely in quality.
Plus, if we're including hand pies, there's empanadas!
~Neshomeh will never forget having a laugh about eating Cornish pasties in Bath, Somerset. <3
While not a meat pie, I had quiche once. It was delicious.
I gave chocolates to my coworkers last month, so now I'm reaping the rewards! I got several bags of chocolates. What about you?