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The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

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    #1052
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    According to sources, Brussels Sprouts are going to be subject to a windfall tax at Xmas times to alleviate carbon and methane emissions


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    #1053
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    Do you find that you sit on your own a lot? :)
    Floating a couple of inches off the seat like a hovercraft would be more like it.


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    #1054
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    On the subject of sprouts (which are great), my source tells me...
    ...the average Irish person will eat 11 Brussel Sprouts.

    68 percent of Irish adults said they want them on their plate, 24 percent said they would take or leave them. Less than one in ten (8%) said that Sprouts ruin their dinner plates.


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    #1055
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users Posts: 21,913 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Vile things mince pies .
    Brussel sprouts are delicious, little balls of goodness :D


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    #1056
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    On the subject of sprouts (which are great), my source tells me...

    Is that tomorrow's question? :D
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #1057
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    Is that tomorrow's question? :D
    I was going to ask what percentage of people wanted them, but as we saw on day 1 the "what percentage" questions just gravitate to 50%, so they've been culled. That does mean I don't have enough questions now, see if you can spot when I get desperate :D


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    #1058
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    On the subject of sprouts (which are great), my source tells me...

    Well my source tells me your source is wrong and over a lifetime we will eat 1008 sprouts or over an average lifetime 16 per year


    EDIT

    And having just read the rest of the article I fear my answer to the number of pies is out by a factor or two


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    #1059
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Well my source tells me your source is wrong and over a lifetime we will eat 1008 sprouts or over an average lifetime 16 per year
    I trust no sources, that's why the scores are based on your answers. Because I trust you lot.... no wait, that's not right :confused:


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    #1060
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,433 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Someone is eating a heck of a lot of sprouts to make up for me and my family then!


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    #1061
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Every year I buy mince pies and Christmas pudding. When I unload my shopping, I dump the mince pies and Christmas pudding I bought the previous year and put the new ones in their spot in the cupboard.

    Every year!

    Ooooh, I love Xmas pudding too!


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    #1062
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    looksee wrote: »
    Someone is eating a heck of a lot of sprouts to make up for me and my family then!
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    #1063
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh hey guys, just eating my normal breakfast..

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    So what's today's question?


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    #1064
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,344 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    :D:D:D


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    #1065
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    On the subject of sprouts (which are great), my source tells me...

    Is this per sitting? That can’t be right, surely you just gobble up those delicious green balls of loveliness?

    For anyone in Mayo, On The Way Cafe in Killala do the best mince pies I’ve ever tasted, yum


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    #1066
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,541 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    giphy.gif

    *not at you, the pies! Ugh*


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    #1067
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    looksee wrote: »
    Someone is eating a heck of a lot of sprouts to make up for me and my family then!

    Don't take a lift from EN

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    #1068
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Lunchtime bump, 33/47 answers in
    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Q9: How many mince pies, on average, does the average person each Irish adult eat over the Christmas period?


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    #1069
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,332 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    I’d eat Brussel Sprouts all day every day.

    Mince pies - meh

    I, in the other hand, would eat mince pies all day every day.

    Brussels sprouts- meh.

    Where does that leave us??


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    #1070
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,433 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Is anyone else having problems with PMs? I sent a guess and a revised guess in and they seem to have gone ok, but conversation with other posters seems to be going round in circles?


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    #1071
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    looksee wrote: »
    Is anyone else having problems with PMs? I sent a guess and a revised guess in and they seem to have gone ok, but conversation with other posters seems to be going round in circles?
    Just to confirm that I got both your PMs :)


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    #1072
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Plenty of sproutaholics on here it seems, that helps explain all the hot air :D


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    #1073
    ShaneU
    Registered Users Posts: 14,845 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    For a long time I thought mince pies had actually mince in them so I never ate them.


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    #1074
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,332 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    ShaneU wrote: »
    For a long time I thought mince pies had actually mince in them so I never ate them.
    Mmmmm.


    Savoury mince pies.


    Even better!!!


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    #1075
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    ShaneU wrote: »
    For a long time I thought mince pies had actually mince in them so I never ate them.

    What?....so what is actually in them?


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    #1076
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Kolido wrote: »
    What?....so what is actually in them?
    Mints, its a typo


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    #1077
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    ShaneU wrote: »
    For a long time I thought mince pies had actually mince in them so I never ate them.

    Mmmm, delicious meat...

    ***takes a bite of a Mince Pie for the first time***

    Ewwww... it's a warm assortment of fruit...

    Why would anyone do this?

    They ruined the fruit...

    Now I know where the term "Hot Mess" comes from


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    #1078
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,433 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    *Puts on instructer hat* Mince pies used (middle ages) have mince in them, but also dried fruit, gradually the contents changed till only the suet was left along with the sultanas, currents, candied peel (mmmm candied peel) and spices. They are the ones I remember from my youth. Now the suet has pretty much gone too in commercial mincemeat and mince pies, so its a kind of fruit jam that is in them.


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    #1079
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Mince pies can get in the bin.


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    #1080
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    looksee wrote: »
    *Puts on instructer hat* Mince pies used (middle ages) have mince in them, but also dried fruit, gradually the contents changed till only the suet was left along with the sultanas, currents, candied peel (mmmm candied peel) and spices. They are the ones I remember from my youth. Now the suet has pretty much gone too in commercial mincemeat and mince pies, so its a kind of fruit jam that is in them.

    INGREDIENTS: Vine Fruits (34%) [Sultanas, Raisins, Currants], Sugar, Bramley Apple, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Glacé Cherries [Cherry, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sugar, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (Radish, Carrot, Cherry, Sweet Potato, Apple)], Ruby Port (2.5%), Brandy (2.5%), Palm Oil, Orange Peel, Treacle, Preservative (Acetic Acid), Lemon Peel, Sunflower Oil, Cinnamon, Coriander, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Dill, Fennel, Clove, Ginger, Nutmeg.

    That'll teach all the nay sayers


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    #1081
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,565 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I felt like I was quite conservative and realistic with my guess today.
    I also have a feeling this may have been a colossal mistake!


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