Also, wore the watch with the face on the inside of my wrist, the better to avoid banging the watch on walls or whatnot. This evidently infuriates some people.

Heh. Yeah, that kinda' bugs me too.

Now I'm wondering why I'm so anal about watches....

I did have a nice watch that got all scratched up. That was sad. My current watch has a titanium case, so it's proven to be very scratch-resistant.

Nilly, coriander leaves and cilantro are the same thing.

I mean, it's made of coriander, right? We do have that, and I even use it (the leaves) in cooking, but nothing else. So I still am deep inside the big cilantro mystery.

nilly, for some crazy reason, in English, the plant is cilantro (so in cooking with the leaves you are cooking with cilantro.) and we use coriander to describe spice made from the seeds of the same plant. Like you, I called them both coriander until I was shown the error of my ways by a foodie boy.

Me:
Cilantro - whatev
Grapefruit - yay
Olives - yay
Root Beer - yay
Bacon - yay
Tomatoes - yay
squid - boo
Pineapple on pizza - yay
Beer - boo
Scotch - boo
Tequila - boo
Fernet - boo
Wine - yay
Rum - yay
Sleep - every which way
Fork - right hand
Watch - Left hand
I am right handed
Must try Montreal bagels, but really my food likey list is long enough.

Since Nilly is here to Jewish mommy Tom I'll just point to her post.

I mean, it's made of coriander, right? We do have that, and I even use it (the leaves) in cooking, but nothing else. So I still am deep inside the big cilantro mystery.

coriander and cilantro are the same thing. Over here, we call the coriander leaves cilantro and the seeds coriander, which is used as a spice.

It's just a terminology thing.

Another trivial thing that bugs me - people who drive convertibles with the top down but the windows up. It's aesthetically wrong!

And I can't believe we're having the fork-switching conversation again. I love you people and your crazy repetitive obsessions.

And I didn't respond to it this time! I feel I've grown as a person. alien freaks

Now I at least know that I don't know what it tastes like, because I'm not sure I ever encountered it here. I mean, it's made of coriander, right? We do have that, and I even use it (the leaves) in cooking, but nothing else. So I still am deep inside the big cilantro mystery.

Hi Nilly. Yes, it's just coriander leaves. 'Cilantro' is simply the Spanish name for the plant.

nilly, for some crazy reason, in English, the plant is cilantro (so in cooking with the leaves you are cooking with cilantro.)

Not exactly. In English it's coriander, in American English it's cilantro, derived from the Spanish.

I gotta wonder though...*why* does the wearing the watch on the inner wrist thing piss people off? I mean, I had my reasons for doing it and I didn't see that it was so aesthetically offensive...

I guess I'm pro-choice through and through. Keep your laws off my Timex.

I gotta wonder though...*why* does the wearing the watch on the inner wrist thing piss people off? I mean, I had my reasons for doing it and I didn't see that it was so aesthetically offensive...

I dunno. I was young and impressionable when I developed my views on how watches should be worn. Now I'm old and cranky and stuck in my ways.

I dunno. I was young and impressionable when I developed my views on how watches should be worn. Now I'm old and cranky and stuck in my ways.

Okay, I guess I can relate to that.

"Get offa my lawn!"