These days most lobster pounds and people cooking them at home in the their lobster pots make a sharp stab to the back of the neck before dropping them in hot water (literally) thus delivering an instant fatal blow.

Wonder if that would work on Trump?

I digress.

The grockle topic and the Mainer topic are not one and the same. One is about tourism, the other about pride and a running joke about being "from away" as they call it here.

How can you be racist against "tourists"??? Tourists are not one race, Park Road.

Anyone living in a high tourism area, whose livelihood doesnt necessarily depend on it, probably aint too please about a massive influx of people in the summer.

Also I simply said people from Maine dont consider you a true "Mainer" lest you were born there. That hasnt got anything to do with racism, Park Road, its related to the pride people feel in what is a unique state in these lands, and is kind of a local joke here.

This thread's getting confusing now.

If you stay in Maine you're a Mainer, but if choose to to leave Maine, then return to Maine, you become a re-Mainer because you chose to leave.

Thanks for the enlightenment... like I was being serious? But I think you half got that...

Personally, the thought of yokels trapped in a quaint English wilderness that, is so far removed from reality, being racist themselves, and associating it with pride and uniqueness... amusing.

Can we get back to Brexit please

Can we get back to Brexit please

I saw a sticker on a van only today which featured the Cornish flag and this message " Cornish by birth, British by accident, English never".

They take it seriously here, albeit with a smile and the tongue firmly in the cheek. Nevertheless they always support Wales in rugby games against England.