My experience hanging out in HO
Oth European & APAC board have the best vibes
Thank god for the advent of other forms of social media as alternatives to food forums
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Thank god you found them.
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Who? What? Where?
What’s APAC?
Me thinks Asia Pacific.
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The reason there are so many special interest blogs and forums is. er, because there are so many special interests. There is something for everyone.
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I wanted to look up insular.
1.ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience.
“a stubbornly insular farming people”
Similar:
narrow-minded
limited
blinkered
restricted
inward-looking
conventional
parochial
provincial
small-town
localist
small-minded
petty-minded
petty
close-minded
short-sighted
myopic
hidebound
dyed-in-the-wool
diehard
set
set in one’s ways
inflexible
dogmatic
rigid
entrenched
illiberal
intolerant
prejudiced
bigoted
biased
partisan
sectarian
xenophobic
discriminatory
parish-pump
blimpish
borné
jerkwater
claustral
Opposite:
broad-minded
tolerant
relating to or from an island.
“goods of insular origin”
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That’s what the man said.
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Welcome back, @shrinkrap 
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I was ok with being labeled in that manner, Shrinkrap, but I am most definitely not Blimpish!
Just want to set the record straight.
LOL.
The OP obviously has issues with some of us, and I am ok with that.
I have issues with me, as well.
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I’ve been waiting for @Sgee to elaborate on those issues as I am confused as to what conversation (s)he was hoping to initiate 
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I’m wondering how @Sgee knows what we all do in our spare time that makes us insular. NSA, CIA?
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Sometimes it’s just hurt feelings. We’ve all been there.
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I like adding words to my vocabulary! I am working “parish-pump” into a conversation this week
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I had to look it up but it is a useful term!
And all politics is local according to the late Tip O’Neill who ought to have known…
Collins Dictionary##
parish pump: British English
ADJECTIVE
of only local interest;
Synonym: [parochial]
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Credit to @bbqboy for calling parish-pump out, from a very long list of similar words ; I had not even noticed that one! I love that it brings us to parochial.
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“borné”, now there’s a conversation stopper.
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Umm maybe, but sgee was offering these vibes recently .
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