zil Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 You can describe your dinner as: "The Great Salad of 1810". Just_A_Guy, MrShorty, NeuroTypical and 2 others 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just_A_Guy Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 15 minutes ago, zil said: You can describe your dinner as: "The Great Salad of 1810". Resulting, of course, in “The War of 1812” (spoiler: the wife won). zil, unixknight, MrShorty and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 (edited) You get reminded of 'Britain's finest hour' (according to Churchill, 1940) when we alone defied Hitler, and reminded once a day, instead of not all. Best wishes, 2RM. Edited April 7, 2019 by 2ndRateMind NeuroTypical 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Dinner is at XII:XLV, but you keep missing it because you don't speak Roman. mordorbund, unixknight and zil 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted April 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 2 hours ago, NeuroTypical said: Dinner ? Not lunch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just_A_Guy Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 36 minutes ago, zil said: ? Not lunch? Dinner, not supper. zil and mordorbund 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said: Dinner, not supper. It's a class thing, in the UK. The rich (or those with such pretensions) call dinner, lunch. and supper, dinner. I have to admit, however, and with no little embarrassment, that I have been brought up to refer to lunch and dinner, despite the fact that I do not intend to become rich, and if I ever did in some accidental way, would use the good fortune to do what I could lift the abject poor sustainably out of poverty with my windfall. But such are the pettinesses of the class struggle, and how we seek to distinguish 'people like us', from 'those like them'. Presumably the division is meant to separate people who deserve class advantage, from those that don't, and thus justify a lack of charity. Best wishes, 2RM. Edited April 7, 2019 by 2ndRateMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 1 hour ago, zil said: ? Not lunch? It was a long day. zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fether Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 17 hours ago, zil said: You can describe your dinner as: "The Great Salad of 1810". I really appreciate the title suggesting there are multiple reasons for using military time, but only offering 1 reason... yet that 1 reason is better than any comprehensive list one could possibly come up with zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted April 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 2 minutes ago, Fether said: I really appreciate the title suggesting there are multiple reasons for using military time, but only offering 1 reason... I was thinking others could help build the list. Some are obvious (there are actually 24 hours in a day, not 12; time math is easier; you don't have to ask whether "at eight" is AM or PM; etc.). But some are fun - like The Great Salad of 1810. Fether 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fether Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 1 hour ago, zil said: But some are fun - like The Great Salad of 1810. This is the only reason I need zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted April 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 2 minutes ago, Fether said: This is the only reason I need But what about Cheeri-0745 for breakfast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnsonJones Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Dinners is typically the largest meal of the day (so, whenever you have the largest meal, that would be dinner). If that tends to be around noon, than that would be Dinner. If your largest meal is late in the day such as around 5 (1700 for this thread) then it would be Dinner. Lunch is normally a lighter meal, the same with supper. Morning or afternoon Tea is almost never called Dinner, and Dinner or supper in the evening is invariably after Tea Time if you have a meal after Tea at all. SilentOne 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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