What the f uck are you having for Dinner thread..

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I was always told it's dinner if it's a proper cooked meal and so you are dining. Otherwise it's lunch or tea.

Packed lunch not cooked
School dinners usually cooked
Dinner ladies cook the food
When you go for lunch it's usually a sandwich
Dinner is usually a proper meal

Basically if you have a cooked meal in the middle of the day that's dinner, if it's at the end of the day, also dinner. The other one is lunch / tea. AFAIK it comes from back when people could only afford one proper cooked meal every day. Weekdays that was in the evening, weekends it was during the day. Hence the confusion.

Fountainous enough for you sweats? <ok>
 
<laugh> Fair assessment I'd say.. <ok> though I was looking/hoping For at least a thousand word appraisal as to it's origins backed up with historical data and facts..
 
It's font of all knowledge, not fountain.




Or is it that midlanders say fountain and us northerners say font (correctly)?
 
In all fairness I thought fonts were also fresh water springs.. Near where my folks live they have the fonts de laguar which are fresh mountain springs..

I actually believe both terms to be correct..
 

I know, just having a bit of fun.

Pretty sure both font and fountain come from the Roman water features, which were all called 'fons'. The ones that spray water then became called fountains, whilst the ones that were just bowls of water became called fonts, and are now used by Catholic priests to try and drown babies.

Hence fount of knowledge, as knowledge is infinite, and font of wisdom, as wisdom is limited by human understanding. Probably.
 
Lots of similarities between French Spanish and Italian languages.. Loads of words in all three are very similar..

They are calle the fonts of fontillies.. They filmed a bounty advert there in the 90's under one of the water falls.. I have a pic of me there on my fb page looking just like the advert holding coconuts..