Mittens 2008 - l'édition Français | 15-22 August 2008

[AGA]

Guys.. can I come?

There are 6 spaces left, so I don't see why not.

[Radiant]

There are 6 spaces left, so I don't see why not.

Well, if he has a dual name, doesn't he require two places?

[m0ds]

LOL!! And pay twice as much

See you there
See you there

!

[DutchMarco]

One thing I'm curious about, being a MitteNewbie: How are boring but essential things like food etc. arrranged? (speaking of dinner, breakfast will usually be eaten in the chateau I presume) We'll eat out I presume? (does that make sense in English?) / get some takeaway / what have you

[Disco]

The frequency of dinners out have decreased as the quality of accommodations has increased. In Greece we had provided lunches included in the overall price, but ate dinner out every single night if I remember right. Spain was mostly snacks until dinner time when we would have no choice really but to eat out, but did use the campgroud's bar/restaurant a couple times. Canada was the opposite since we had a big cabin with a kitchen and cooked mostly at home, though we did eat out occasionally in the town and on longer trips.

To make a short story long I think we will probably be making most of the meals at the chateau, with the isolated  meal out at times.

It's not really boring either, cooking as a group is fun and can be a source of interesting situations (i.e.- "Huh? I thought I had 5 beers left :/", "WHO THE FUCK ATE MY HOTDOGS!!", and of course "Why is Disco covered in ketchup?")

[DutchMarco]

I see. I hthought about eating out because, it might be a hoped miracle to find someone willing to do all the cooking and cleaning (I'm willing to at least do some cooking, I have a nice recipe for pastasauce which I'm sure you'll like - we sleep in dorm bedrooms right? I'll cut down on the garlic then.) and with cooking comes washing, but I suppose we could all behave like responsible adults :o let's hope we can do that during Mittens dishwashing time, too, and not just at work!

[Grundislav]

Dishwashing? At Mittens?  That usually happens on the last day before we have to clean up or get charged extra!

[Creed Malay]

 The standard diet at AGS meets consists of oven pizza, cheese slice sammiches, eggy bread and home made soups, the contents of which are endlessly argued over, and which CJ keeps trying to put an egg into.
You are meant to put the skins of the veg into the soup, because they have the most vitimans and flavours in them, no matter what Scotch says.
You are!

[The Ivy]

Cooking isn't really necessary when most of the purchases are chips and beer...

[DutchMarco]

I must admit that it seems appealing to negate the necessity to cook, but I'm trying to think of my health here (and will be trying to do so over there as well). So, just for the sake of breaking our fast in a sane manner, I would suggest we also get some orange juice and similar non-alcoholic beverages, the beer can wait until lunch. I recall hearing during my holidays in the US the term "peanutbutter and jam", so wouldn't that do for breakfast? 

I'm sure we'll survive, don't take this post as " OMG, he's serious! what's he thinking?" No, I'm notserious, I'm only joking (and I AM  thinking, thank you very much).

[Pumaman]

I don't think we've ever planned our food arrangements in advance of a mittens, and yet we've also never starved to death. Well, except that one time at the 2001 Mittens, but we promised never to speak of that again.

The standard diet at AGS meets consists of oven pizza, cheese slice sammiches, eggy bread and home made soups, the contents of which are endlessly argued over, and which CJ keeps trying to put an egg into.

But soup wouldn't be soup without egg, and you know it!

[jetxl]

DutchMarco, I don't think you realize how casual and spontanious Mittens is.
I'll predict that you'll visit the local shop almost daily. And for the stuff they don't sell there you'll visit a big supermarket (may I suggest Leclerc, they are hure!).
You'll buy your own food and drinks, though others will treat you on food and snacks as well.
Despite the rumours, Mittens is not a beerfest and I'm sure some mitteneers don't even drink.

But what do I know, I'm not even going.

[Dualnames]

Paying twice... damn I should change my nick then to onenames.. Mods stop making a fun of my nick because .. because.. because...

[Nikolas]

I love it when I know who to blame for the joke!

[Dualnames]

Said the man who had taken the glory of my name for 7 hours.. as well as SSH did that day.

[Nikolas]

You were timing it??!?!?!?!? WOW!!!!!

:p

Anyways... Get back to organising your beautiful get together! I hate you all!

(Ps. I met with mash potato and auriond, and lemmy and binky! on 2 seperate occasions and I'm quite proud that I had huge fun! TAKE THAT! (not the band please...))

[DutchMarco]

DutchMarco, I don't think you realize how casual and spontanious Mittens is.
I'll predict that you'll visit the local shop almost daily. And for the stuff they don't sell there you'll visit a big supermarket (may I suggest Leclerc, they are hure!).
You'll buy your own food and drinks, though others will treat you on food and snacks as well.
Despite the rumours, Mittens is not a beerfest and I'm sure some mitteneers don't even drink.

But what do I know, I'm not even going.

Don't worry, I understand (from the neture of this website) and am glad that Mittens isn't a tighly regulated thing, I was just wondering. Since this would be my first Mittens. Hypermarchés are very common in France (and usually stuffed away in a remote area of the village, so you'll need a car to get there, but since I didn't expect us to have a schedule for who does the chateau-travail (housework) and when, so I thought we would be going to restaurants.

It's a French tradition to buy freshly baked bread every morning, and throw away what you can't eat because there's always something left
BTW my English vocabulary doesn't seem to have an entry for the word "hure", it keeps brining up the substitute "huge" - It's not just the Leclerc ones which are huge, Casino and any other hypermarkets are hure as well!

[Dualnames]

Nikolas.. no need to wow I just played it random with the hours.

[m0ds]

Hypermarchés are very common in France

I love hypermarchés! So much stuff!!! When I was younger & went to France with my parents there always seemed to be the most amazing amount of decent stuff for the computer. I bought a hints & tips guide which had a guide to Flight of the Amazon queen and The Dig, plus hundreds of other cheats. But it was in French! LOL. Somehow it still helped. That reminds me of the time I bought a mini-golf game I loved the first time I was allowed to go away from the beach on my own. 3D Ultra Mini golf by Sierra I think, I loved the wacky commentaries in it. But again it was in French LOL with no language selection. Darn it. So I'm looking forward to buying something French for the PC that I won't understand this year round

[AGA]

Hey Dualnames, check your PMs!