Let’s do a meme

[nou]

Let’s do a meme! Pop a comment below, and I’ll either tell you something that always makes me think of you, or tell you something that one of the recent public posts on your journal reminds me of.

If you can’t think of what to say in your comment, just put a “.” or your username.

If you want my reply to you to be private, put “private please” in your comment and I’ll screen it, which will make it and all replies visible only to you and me (though others will be able to see your initial comment until I see your request for privacy).

Comments

[watersword]

Hello!

[nou]

I’m going to break the rules straight away and do you backwards, because while dim sum doesn’t immediately make me think of you[0], seeing your username always reminds me of our lovely chats about dim sum on my Chinese menu blog.

[0] It mainly makes me think (a) I bet I’m going to be in charge of cutting up the turnip cake again, and (b) how am I going to persuade the newbies that we have to eat the fried dough cheung fun before it goes soggy.

[watersword]

I still miss that blog, I learned so much from it, and I think of it and the time we got to have dim sum together everytime I get some of the dishes it introduced me to.

[nou]

I miss it too! It was an awful lot of work though. I’m glad I did it, but also glad I stopped.

[cosmolinguist]

This is a good idea!

(I know we don't know each other that well but at least I have plenty of recent public entries to comment upon. :) )

[nou]

I would like to know you better! I do read your posts and should put more effort into commenting.

Your bus woes remind me of how terrible the bus service was when I lived in Wales. Sometimes the bus stops wouldn’t even be marked — you just had to somehow know where the buses stopped and what time they came. I’m still amazed at how great the buses in London are in comparison.

[angelofthenorth]

Hello, I'll bite :)

[nou]

This one is bittersweet, because I know so few Welsh people these days that you’re one of the people who come to mind when I hear someone speaking with a Welsh accent. I don’t speak Welsh myself (I’m South Welsh and also fell into the gap where it wasn’t mandatory to learn at school) but I love seeing your posts in Welsh.

[angelofthenorth]

Awww. Thank you. If you heard me speak it would amuse you - I speak English with a softly northern accent, but Welsh with a Yorkshire accent :)

[nou]

I’m not sure I’d know the difference between a northern accent and a Yorkshire accent!

[angelofthenorth]

It's the flat vowels that are different

[nou]

Ah-ha, thanks.

There used to be a point where I could only really distinguish two types of English accents — posh and non-posh — whereas I could tell with great accuracy exactly which Welsh valley someone was from.

[oursin]

*Waves*

[nou]

Whenever I see something on a menu that mentions an interestingly-flavoured oil, I think “I wonder what oursin would do with that!”

[ewx]

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[nou]

I’m afraid it's going to be the highly-obvious answer of rot13 :)

[ludy]

Hello:)

[nou]

Anything to do with sensory play for children makes me think of you!

[ludy]

:)

[wildeabandon]

Me, me, pick me :)

[nou]

Posset makes me think of you, because you gave me a recipe for yuzu posset a while back and I still make it from time to time (or variations — particularly lime).

[liv]

I would be very interested in connections like this, please.

[nou]

You’re getting two answers, because two things immediately came to mind and I couldn’t choose between them.

Whenever I go past that dome on North End I remember you asking about it at one of the early Croydon Fun Weekends.

And your latest post on interfaith study reminded me of an interfaith event my chapel took me to when I was a kid. There were talks by various Jewish people and then we could ask questions, and I remember someone asking about converting and being told that wasn’t a thing, because why would anyone want to be Jewish when Jews were so badly persecuted, and in any case Jews were chosen, not made. That confused me for ages, but then again so did a lot of things relating to chapel.

[bob]

beep!

#tripeoftheday

[nou]

I was going to troll you by saying YAML, but then this recipe for honey-garlic tripe showed up on my RSS reader and I realised that tripe makes me think of you.

[emperor]

*waves*

[nou]

Your posts about Whisky Advent remind me that it’s been several years since I last tried to like whisky, and perhaps it’s time I tried again. The problem every previous time has been that the flavour I don’t like about whisky seems to be present in every whisky. But tastes change over one’s lifetime, and maybe I’d now be able to enjoy it?

[booklectica]

Yes please!

Something that reminds me of you (to turn it around) is being very drunk - because on the evening when I was the drunkest I have ever been, in our first year at college, you looked after me and fed me toast and let me crash in your room, and I really appreciated that.

[nou]

Aw, that’s lovely, thanks. I have no memory of this event, but it sounds entirely plausible!

(Am I allowed to say that paper plates occasionally remind me of you, for similarly college-related reasons?)

Rainbow-coloured things make me think of you, particularly if they’re associated with something extremely joyful and/or enthusiastic.

[thekumquat]

Hello Kake! Would be nice to see you for more than a minute sometime soon.

[nou]

I often think of you when I see something in Arabic on a shopfront, since you’ve helped me with translation in the past.

And yes, ditto! I think I forgot to tell you that I didn’t see your Croydon Fun Weekend text until I’d actually seen you in the flesh — I think you sent it about 1 or 2 minutes after I decided nobody else was going to turn up so put my phone away in order to make more room on the table.

My health is still a bit dodgy at the moment, but maybe once it improves we could have another go at Tai Tung dim sum?

[nanila]

I like this idea. Yes please.

[nou]

You’re actually the person who inspired this meme! I had pancit for dinner the other evening, and pancit always makes me think of you, which made me think of thinking of people, which made me think of doing a meme about it.

(The pancit was from Kubo, and I had it with a fried egg and pork adobo.)

[nanila]

This was the nicest thing anyone's said to me all week. Thank you. <3

[nou]

<3

[mrs_leroy_brown]

I'll take a thing that reminds you of me :)

[nou]

Oh gosh, so many things! The 468 bus was actually the first one that sprang to mind, but I think the most frequent thing is when I see a menu with interesting vegan options that don’t rely on mushrooms, because I always think “I must organise a trip here with mrs_leroy_brown some time”.

[mrs_leroy_brown]

what a lovely meme!

back atcha: Croydon generally, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) its many tasty dining establishments :)

[nou]

<3

I tried a new cafe today — Cafe Faith in Delta Point near West Croydon bus station. The owners were so nice!

[mrs_leroy_brown]

Hooray for nice owners!

Now that my financial situ is more stable, it would be nice to have a Croydon lunch at some point and maybe we can go there (or another place!) depending of course on your schedule :)

[nou]

Once my health is reliable enough, that would be great!

[ceb]

Can I still say yes me please? :-)

[nou]

Of course — never too late to join in.

Interesting hand-made books make me think of you. In fact I was at a craft meet the other week talking to someone who used to work in the art world, and when they mentioned books-that-are-art I could say I knew someone who made them :)

[fluffymormegil]

Hi, kake! I would like to be told one of those things, if it's practical.

[nou]

Roguelikes make me think of you :)

[fluffymormegil]

Yay! I'm quite flattered by that :)

[doseybat]

Hello this is a comment

[nou]

It is indeed! Surrey Street Market reminds me of you, because of sugar cane.