“Oh, I can’t import them? Never mind, I’ll just have a picnic.”
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And now we have another Panettone at home. (I was going to buy one today anyway, but the reminder was good)
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Pannetone is just European fruitcake. It isn’t good there and it isn’t good here.
Though I did once schlepp a single fruitcake through several European countries before bringing it home to the states.
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Mmm, panettone is the bounty of heaven and I could eat an unhealthy amount of it any day of the year 
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Fruitcake gets a bad wrap. There are at least 3 types of fruitcake:
- A light, fluffy cake with fruity bits in it to add flavor and texture.
- A boozy cake that is really just a delivery mechanism for rum.
- A dense brick of a confection crafted to survive years in a survival bunker.
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Panettone does make an excellent substitute for bread when making French toast.
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Looks like I have several people happy to receive any and all of my uneaten pannetone.
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q is always earlier in the alphabet than I expect it to be.
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If you have Panettone, then you get a second, is that Panetttwo?
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I just bought a medium sized one with chocolate bits and paper packaging 
The previous one was with pistachio filling, that was very good.
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Well they don’t call it pannetino, do they.
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“Somebody Told Me (The User Provider Should Use An Adaptor To Proxy The Query Factory Builder)”
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One of my neighbours keeps having packages delivered to me.
It’s not a case of misdelivery, they’re using my flat number as the delivery address across multiple retailers.
It’s an “off by 10 error” but it keeps happening despite me writing “not #(x+10)” on them when I drop them round.
Will have to see if I can catch them at some point and ask them to stop.
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I know someone with a common-ish name who was an early gmail adopter (so he has firstname.lastname@).
There is someone presumably with a similar name who keeps using that address to try to sign up for things. There’s never enough information in the confirmation message to let him get in touch with this person to say “you keep typing my email address rather than yours”. It’s been going on for years.
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Yeh, I’ve seen a lot of people with a similar setup have that problem.
Working user support for a website used by the public was an eye-opener as to how many people don’t know their own email address.
College/university addresses, it was somewhat understandable as they’re often rarely used and have arcane formatting schemes (including student numbers, etc), but not knowing your own personal email that you set up??
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I have this problem! At least two people who have the same (not very common) name as me keep using my gmail to sign up for things 
The one in the US only signs me up for mailing lists, but for someone in the UK I have mistakenly received reminders for a dental appointment, etickets for a show at the Birmingham Hippodrome, and a retirement gift (a garden centre voucher). For important things I do respond to the sender to let them know I definitely don’t , e.g., have a dentist’s appointment in Kent next week, but it’s quite annoying.
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