Monday 18 Apr 2011 at 2:27 pm (GMT+01)
This should hopefully speed things up.
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With zero comments, it loaded very fast! Now that I am leaving one, it will probably slow right down again, LOL
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Valérie,
“Now that I am leaving one, it will probably slow right down again”
Lol. The page still comes up fast but I don’t have much to say. I saw a very good movie yesterday, “Affair Necklace”. I wouldn’t mind a necklace like that one, I wouldn’t need to work for the rest of my life, just invest some of the money into shares, and spend the rest living like a queen.
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Barb,
If you read this…
I see that you posted a couple of comments in the previous article. When I say “I see”, it’s because the tiny excerpt on the main page in the right hand column shows it.
However, I cannot get to them. The internet connection here is particularly lousy, and most of the time I simply cannot load the whole thread. If you can, copy / paste them and repost them here.
Stiletto,
“I wouldn’t mind a necklace like that one, I wouldn’t need to work for the rest of my life”
Lol. Yeah, I saw that movie too; excellent.
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Stiletto,
“Lol. The page still comes up fast but I don’t have much to say. I saw a very good movie yesterday, “Affair Necklace”. I wouldn’t mind a necklace like that one, I wouldn’t need to work for the rest of my life, just invest some of the money into shares, and spend the rest living like a queen.”
Oh, I like that movie, I just watched it recently
It was based on a
true story that led to the French Revolution. I never lost interest in the movie, which is rare, British period pieces put me to sleep.
Hilary Swank is a fine actress, don’t you think?How are you babygirl?
Valérie,
“With zero comments, it loaded very fast! Now that I am leaving one, it will probably slow right down again, LOL”
Nah, it’s wonderful. Hanging out with the swans lately? I love it when you write about that.
WhyNot,
Muchas gracias/Merci beaucoups . Did I spell it right? The French, not the Spanish, lol
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Nunya,
“Did I spell it right?”
Nearly; you don’t need the “s” at the end; it’s just “merci beaucoup”.
“Hilary Swank is a fine actress, don’t you think?”
Which role is she playing? The countess or the queen? But whichever… it doesn’t really matter, all the actors play their roles really well. Even the asshole archbishop (or cardinal, or whatever the fuck he was).
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Sitletto,
Oops, my bad on the spelling of beaucoup.Hilary Swank played Reanne St. Remy de Valois, the main character.
She s won an Oscar for “Million Dollar Baby,” the movie with Clint Eastwood who plays her boxing trainer. I think the movie that I liked her best in was the one about women’s fight for the ability to vote in elections int he US. That movie was called “Iron Jawed Angels.”
So? How are you?
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Nunya,
“Hilary Swank played Reanne St. Remy de Valois, the main character.”
ok. Yes, she is very good. I haven’t seen either of the 2 movies that you mention.
I saw a few days ago one of the “Die Hard” movies of Bruce Willis. What an idiot this guy is, lol.
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Stiletto,
” I saw a few days ago one of the “Die Hard” movies of Bruce Willis. What an idiot this guy is, lol.”
lol, lol I coudn’t agree more. I never was a Bruce Willis fan. He was married to Demi Moore. She is now married to a guy who is much younger and MUCH cuter. . They are currently in Ohio trying to raise awareness about the human traffikking problem
I liked Hilary Swank in “Million Dollar Baby.” I just saw her in another movie, probably one of her earlier ones and the part was a joke. She’s a bright woman, born in the midwest and grown up in the northwest, from a poor background in and the part was a ditzy rich girl from southern California. Not her finest moment, that’s for sure, and a waste of her considerable talent. Only 4 other actresses has been nominated only twice for Academy awards and won both times.
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Nunya, Stiletto,
“lol, lol I coudn’t agree more”
Ditto. Although I vaguely remember seeing a movie called “The fifth element”, and I think he played in it. From memory, in that film (very good, by the way), he didn’t put on his “I’m a big macho fucktard” suit.
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WhyNot,
“he didn’t put on his “I’m a big macho fucktard” suit.”
LOLLLLL. I remember that film a little bit. I can’t remember who played in it, but I remember it was an interesting science fiction film. Normally science fiction leaves me cold, but that one was quite good.
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Ok, somebody please grab and upload this picture.
http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/8411/Obama_got_bin_Laden.jpg
It, and the humor of the guy who unwittingly tweeted the attack are the only things that made me smile today. Like 48 hours ago he had 750 followers, now he has 82,861.
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Nunya,
“Ok, somebody please grab and upload this picture.”
Lol, is Bin Ladden really dead? Are some idiots in USA still moaning and groaning about his nationality (Obama’s)?
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Stiletto,
“Are some idiots in USA still moaning and groaning about his nationality (Obama’s)?”
Probably. Any excuse to blame him is good enough. Think of the horror of the situation… a black man, i.e. a fucking negro, being president of USA! What next, eh? A trained chimpanzee?
Nunya,
“are the only things that made me smile today. Like 48 hours ago he had 750 followers, now he has 82,861.”
I know the feeling exactly. Yesterday, only 1,000 gorgeous babes were lining up at my front door to jump into my bed; today it’s over 100,000, and the day’s not even over yet!
Anything new and exciting out your way?
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Stiletto,
” Lol, is Bin Ladden really dead? Are some idiots in USA still moaning and groaning about his nationality (Obama’s)? “
so, Obama still has idiots saying that he’s not a US citizen and he won’t release pictures of binLaden’s body. I would like to believe that binLaden is dead, but since I wasn’t part of the Seal Team 6 I can’t tell you for sure,lol.
Probably lots of dumb girls in this city will fall for the “I’m a SEAL, and I helped kill Osam binLaden” bullshit. We have SEAL teams here in San Diego, but supposedly the team that killed OBL was based in Virginia. Probably the ones who are trained to do whatever the CIA tells them to, although the CIA seems to think that all military personell are there to back them up, no matter what dumbshit stuff the CIA does.
WhyNot,
“I know the feeling exactly. Yesterday, only 1,000 gorgeous babes were lining up at my front door to jump into my bed; today it’s over 100,000, and the day’s not even over yet! “
lol ,lol
Anything new and exciting out your way?”
Nope. Nothing. Maybe some big changes soon because my kid doesn’t know what she wants to do after she graduates and we can’t afford to support her for a year until she figures it out or gets into graduate school.
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WhyNot,
What next, eh? A trained chimpanzee?”
LOLOL, I’d like it if the boss could hire a trained monkey to help serving the customers, because I am very tired and annoyed with my waitress colleague who was AGAIN sick and absent from work, so I have to run around like crazy.
Nunya,
“Maybe some big changes soon because my kid doesn’t know what she wants to do after she graduates and we can’t afford to support her for a year until she figures it out or gets into graduate school.”
That must be very frustrating for you. Maybe Stiletto can suggest something for her to do, LOL.
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Valérie,
“Maybe Stiletto can suggest something for her to do, LOL.”
lol, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Anyone seen any good movies lately? I watched “Leon the professional” again; it is as good as the last time I saw it.
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Stiletto,
“Anyone seen any good movies lately?”
Yeah, I watched the “Bourne Identity”, which I had seen before, but not for a while. Very interesting thriller. Very different to any other action movies I’ve ever seen. Bonus: you get to see fantastic sceneries of several countries in Europe.
The very concept of one losing his identity and not knowing who (s)he is is interesting to say the least.
“I watched “Leon the professional” again; it is as good as the last time I saw it.
I’m not surprised you like it, and by the way, I do too. This young girl associating (and falling in love with) a professional killer does an amazing job as an actress.
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WhyNot,
“I watched the “Bourne Identity”, ”
Oh yes, that is a very good film. Very different to any other that I have seen.
Well, this is going to be another annoying and busy-busy-with-work weekend, because my colleague waitress is sick again.
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Coucou Why not ,Ton propriétaire m’a appelé ,je n’étais pas chez moi . J’ai rappelé mais sans pouvoir le joindre …..As -tu une idée sur ce qu’il me veut ? Ca va toi?
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Wom,
“Ton propriétaire m’a appelé ,je n’étais pas chez moi”
C’était probablement pour esssayer de te soutirer du fric (il a déjà essayé son petit numéro avec maman). Surtout, ne te laisse pas embobiner, dis lui d’aller demander du fric chez ses propres amis, pas chez les miens ou ma famille. Le mec, il a un de ces culots!
Maintenant, j’ai la Société Générale qui m’ont foutu interdit bancaire car j’avais écrit un chèque au petit supermarché, dans les 50 euros, mais il manquait 6 ou 7 euros sur mon compte (et je n’ai pas de découvert autorisé). Vraiment, c’est des pourritures, ces mecs.
Bon, gros bisous, et j’espère te revoir un de ces jours.
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Anybody know anything about this guy?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Faces Rape Charges As Another Woman Comes Forward
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Nunya,
“Anybody know anything about this guy?”
Only that he used to be a politician here in France. I see that, from your link, he is now meddling with the IMF and also implicated in sex scandals.
It would be nice if we could find a way of having no politicians. 99% of them seem to be rotten apples.
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Why not LOL
J’ai appelé une fois ,il n’a pas rappelé je laisse pisser!comment t’en sors tu ,tu as du mal à payer le loyer?
Ste Génrale je les tuerai volontiers tous ,ils me tondent la laine sur le dos ces salops!
Je viendrai sans doute te voir ,ça te changera et moi aussi .Mais quand ,je n’en sais rien ?
Plein de gens m’invitent, mais faire des kilomètres me fait chi…..:wink:Si l’on venait me chercher je serai ravie ,je me vois mieux en passagère qu’en chauffeur lol
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WOM,
“Ste Génrale je les tuerai volontiers tous ,ils me tondent la laine sur le dos ces salops!”
T’as raison; je vois des trucs hallucinants sur mes relevés de compte; je te montrerai quand tu passes me voir la prochaine fois. Le résultat net est qu’ils me plument de la moitié de mon RSA en amendes.
“Si l’on venait me chercher je serai ravie ,je me vois mieux en passagère qu’en chauffeur lol”
Je le ferai volontiers si c’était faisable. Mais ici, pas de train, donc faudrait que j’aille à Alès à pied (10 km) et de là prendre le train avec je ne sais combien de changements pour arriver à Marseille.
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Valérie,
” It would be nice if we could find a way of having no politicians. 99% of them seem to be rotten apples.”
Politicians are like whores at a dance, they jus’ dance wid whut brung em, only they fuck a lot more people.
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(by “they” I mean politicians)
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Nunya,
“Politicians are like whores at a dance, they jus’ dance wid whut brung em, only they fuck a lot more people.”
Lololol, took me a while to work out what “jus’ dance wid whut brung em” stood for. Reminds me of one of John Steinbeck novels, “Of men and mice”, where the 2 main characters are rather retarded degenerate morons; to add realism, Steinbeck writes their dialogs just the way they speak - the result is that when you first start reading, it looks like some alien language, lol. The trick to get used to it is to read it out loud for a while.
Hey, movie fans out there: I saw a great movie: “The day of the jackal”. It’s pretty old (not sure exactly, but I’d say from the 60s or 70s), but what a captivating movie! It is about an attempted assassination on general De Gaulle, former dickhead president of France. Anyone else seen it?
I can’t wait for the next Jurassic Park movie to come out!
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The funny thing about this Dominique Strauss-Kahn mess is if he did rape her as some reports have said (penetration) she lives in a building rented exclusively with people with HIV or AIDS. If he did this he’ll probably be having check-ups every six months for a few years. It would be poetic justice if that happens to him. And she is an immigrant from Africa, afraid to walk the streets of NY to even go to work now because she has found out how powerful he is. She was smart to report this to her friends who called the police because the pig who did this to her was taxiing down the runway to leave town when the cops radioed ahead to stop so they could board.
She picked him out of a lineup and he was given free room and board at a government gated community until he coughed up his bail today and now has a tracker on him and a police guard. Why? Because we have no extradition treaty with France.
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Jeanette,
“he was given free room and board at a government gated community”
lol
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WhyNot,
I’ve heard of it, it’s been wildly popular, but I’ve never seen Day of the Jackal. It’s British, and got Bafta noinations, Golden Globe nominations and Academy Award nominees. I tend to shy away from movies that have a reputation for gratuitous violence. And car chases and gunfights and stuff blowing up bores me.
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Nunya,
“I tend to shy away from movies that have a reputation for gratuitous violence.”
Don’t worry about that, there is hardly any violence to speak of in it. It’s very much along the line of a spy story rather than a cop-thieves-car_chases-machine_guns-helicopter_shoot_out one. not one single gory bit in it.
It’s also very interesting because while I don’t know if that particular story is based on facts, De Gaule escaped some near 20 assassination attempts.
Jeanette,
“Because we have no extradition treaty with France.”
Interesting - I had no idea. I don’t like that dude, in fact I don’t like any of the FR politicians. The only one I have any respect for is Dominique de Villepin, even though he is from the right wing. And also Lionel Jospin. But they are both history now, and we’re lumbered with a bunch of greedy corrupt idiots.
Everyone,
I had an interesting weekend. There was a race on Sunday - no, no, not another bull race, but a moped one. That was pretty wild. Some of these 50cc thingies make more noise than a fucking airplane, lol.
Another interesting feature was the 2 or 3 bands that played on Sat and Sun. They were pretty lousy altogether, except the last one had an unexpected pleasant surprise: the drummer.
That band was made up of adolescents (I’d say between 15 and 18); it had drums, bass, 2 guitars (electric), and a singer who didn’t play any instrument. The singer sounded like a wounded pig and happily squealed out of tune in every song. The 2 guitarists were in a competition as to which one would come up with the most distortion possible; the bass player was ok, nothing spectacular, but at least he could play in time and in tune.
However, the drummer was out of this world: a real Steve Gadd in the making. He looked about 16, frail/skinny constitution, blond but certainly no dumb blonde when it comes to playing drums.
The other interesting thing was a woman who approached me while I was watching the band. We talked for a while after the band finished. I liked her look and what she had to say, and since we talked for quite a while it seems she was also receptive to my tune. But I didn’t ask her for her phone number, so I guess it’s finished before it’s even begun, lol. Dang! I could kick myself!
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WhyNot,
“we’re lumbered with a bunch of greedy corrupt idiots.”
Lol. Sarkozy is the grand master of the French government idiot family.
“The 2 guitarists were in a competition as to which one would come up with the most distortion possible”
Lol, I think it happens a lot with rock music electric guitarists. The more I hear heavy rock/metal music, the more I hate it. I feel like throwing grenades on their amplifiers and laughing while watching the fireworks.
But it is nice to hear about this young drummer.
“Dang! I could kick myself!”
Yes, you should. There can’t be too many good looking women your age and available in the hole you live in.
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Jeanette,““Because we have no extradition treaty with France.””
I am glad Russia doesn’t have an extradition treaty with France, lol. Anyway, I don’t like the principle much.
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Stiletto,
“I feel like throwing grenades on their amplifiers and laughing while watching the fireworks.”
LOLLLL, that would be one fun concert! Maybe you could kickbox the shit out of the musicians too, LOL?
It makes me think: what sort of music does everybody like? I already know what WhyNot likes and dislikes (I think), but I’m not really sure about others here. I like funk, jazz rock and fusion.
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Valérie,
“that would be one fun concert! Maybe you could kickbox the shit out of the musicians too”
Sounds good to me; I’ll pay to see a concert like this. How are the swans and the ducks?
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WhyNot,
“How are the swans and the ducks?”
They are well. I can tell spring is in the air because the ducks are dying to have a good fuck; the males race the females paddling in the pond at 100 km/h like high speed boats, LOL. They are so funny to look at.
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Valérie,
“They are so funny to look at.”
I’m sure they are. Anyone seen any good movies lately?
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Stiletto,
“Anyone seen any good movies lately?”
Several, but I can’t remember their names, lol. But not in the last few days cuz my computers are all up shit creek without a paddle. 2 notebooks and 2 “normal” tower PCs. I’m doomed, lol.
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WhyNot,
“my computers are all up shit creek without a paddle.”
LOLLLL, is this Australian language?
So, what’s wrong with your computers? Are you still without an internet connection?
Stiletto,
“Anyone seen any good movies lately?”
Yes, but I can’t remember the names, LOL.
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Valérie,
“is this Australian language?”
Yes. Aussie speak is full of colorful slang.
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Valérie,
“Several, but I can’t remember their names, lol.”
Lol, this happens to me all the time.
WhyNot,
“2 notebooks and 2 “normal” tower PCs. I’m doomed, lol.”
I’m sorry to hear; this is such bad luck. What do you do to entertain yourself if you can’t watch your huge collection of movies?
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Bonjour à Valérie et Stiletto ,
Why not est ce que tout va bien pour toi ? Je vous embrasse ,je repasse demain .Bisous -
WOM,
“Bonjour à Valérie et Stiletto ”
Bonjour à toi aussi; j’espère que le temps à Marseille est moins pourri qu’à Paris!
WhyNot and Stiletto,
I don’t know why but for several days now, comments I try to post never make it. Do you know why? Anyway, I hope this one does.
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I should have come sooner to see the comment, you guys are funny!
WhyNot, I’m ready to immerse myself into movies again because the comments on the articles at HuffPo are frustrating to say the least. The polarization is working for nobody but the banksters (the upper class banking gangsters, many of them international).
I think this country needs a new party, and it should be called the SMCP (the Struggling Middle Class Party). Around 80% of Americans consider themselves middle class so they would win all the elections in a landslide.
The problem would be finding candidates who would be willing to fight the banksters instead of catering to them, lol.
I’m watching The Day of the Jackal and it’s just not my kind of flick. Maybe it’s because I’m reading a book called Web of Debt which is about the Federal Reserve banking system in the US wherein our $$$ are based on debt to banksters who may or may not even reside in the US. US politicians (and many all over the world) have tried to throw off the yoke of debt slavery by international banksters for hundreds of years to no avail. Maybe it’s an American thing, but upper class English accents bug me, they sound snotty and entitled to me.
“Up shit creek without a paddle” is common in most predominately English speaking countries, no? It basically means having a problem without an acceptable solution. Sorry about your computers luv
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Stiletto,
“What do you do to entertain yourself if you can’t watch your huge collection of movies?”
Mmmm… you don’t want to know, lol.
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Valérie,“I don’t know why but for several days now, comments I try to post never make it. Do you know why?”
No. I’ve had the same problem. Most likely reason is Free fucking up yet again. Anyway, seems to be working now.
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Nunya,“WhyNot, I’m ready to immerse myself into movies again because the comments …”
Atta girl (hey, they do say “atta boy”, right?). It’s like “postpone”, i.e. to put something off till later; why isn’t there a “prepone” verb?
“but upper class English accents bug me, they sound snotty and entitled to me.”
I now what you mean, but to their credit, Poms are probably the most willing people on earth to take the micky out of themselves. Speaking of upper class UK accent, take for instance the brilliant comedy “To the manor born”. It is absolutely brillantly hilarious, and most of the humour comes from that propensity to laugh at themselves, especially those “upper class twits”.
This reminds me of a sketch by John Cleese (you know, the Monty Python dude), called something like “Upper class twit of the year”. Look for it on YouTube, it’s sure to be there somewhere; you’ll pee in your panties laughing.
BTW, FR humour sucks like a vacuum cleaner, lol.
““Up shit creek without a paddle” is common in most predominately English speaking countries, no?”
Well, considering the sentence is in EN, I’d say it’s more than likely, lol. I tried translating it into FR, and although it’s not an established common saying, it works rather well - very colorful, lol. “dans une rivière de merde sans avirons”, lol, not a very enviable position.
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WhyNot,
“It’s like “postpone”, i.e. to put something off till later; why isn’t there a “prepone” verb?”
It’s just the same in FR: there is “remettre” which always means later, never sooner, and there is no verb for changing something to sooner.
“Mmmm… you don’t want to know”
Why not? I want to know!
“the brilliant comedy “To the manor born”. ”
Oh, I have seen it, it is very very good. Another one that is also wonderfully funny is “Yes minister” and “Yes prime minister”. They also show how the UK people are so willing to laugh at themselves, even those in very high positions.
I agree that FR humour is very poor. I don’t know about American humor because I tried to watch a couple of YouTube videos with American comedians, but I couldn’t understand a single word they said, LOL.
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Nunya,“Around 80% of Americans consider themselves middle class so they would win all the elections in a landslide.”
That’s really interesting because it is the same here in France. But unlike in USA where there are only 2 parties, there are lots here. And some of them claim to aim to be like you say “the middle class” party. And yet they never score anything significant. I wonder why.
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“dans une rivière de merde sans avirons”LOLLLLLLLLLLL! Yuck!!!
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Valerie
Pourri aussi à Marseille car il y a le mistral 100Km Heure qui nous glace
Mais ça ne dure pas trop longtemps et après on crève de chaud ..
.La plage pres de chez moi est polluée depuis deux jours .Tu sais que si tu veux venir passer un WE à Marseille tu peux ,je t ‘hébergerai.C’e’st pas grand mais ça peut se faire
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Valérie
envie de dégueuler lolllllllll
lolllllll Je ne comprends pas tout avec la traduction FR de ce qui a été dit?
Vous parlez de la politique aussi merdique que la riviere lol .A la dérive ….l’ image est très parlante et très odorante aussi :lol::lol:
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Valérie,
“with American comedians, but I couldn’t understand a single word they said, LOL.”
If that can be of any consolation to you, while I’m fully bilingual EN/FR, I too ran across American stand-up comedians which spoke with such a weird accent I missed most of what they said.
Then again, I’ve experienced the same thing with FR comedians, lol. And UK ones too.
WOM,
“Je ne comprends pas tout avec la traduction FR de ce qui a été dit? Vous parlez de la politique aussi merdique que la riviere lol”
C’est un peux ça, mais mas tout à fait. Je t’expliquerai la prochain fois qu’on se voit.
A propos de “se voir”, quand est-ce que tu viens me rendre visite? Si t’as un autre chat à fourguer, amène le/la.
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Valérie,
“That’s really interesting because it is the same here in France. But unlike in USA where there are only 2 parties, there are lots here. And some of them claim to aim to be like you say “the middle class” party. And yet they never score anything significant. I wonder why.”
Hmm, I said that 80% of Americans beieve that they are middle class, but the truth is:
It’s the Inequality, Stupid
(Mother Jones (Mar/April 2011)(The richest 10% controls 2/3 of Americans net worth)
WhyNot,
I find British comedy funny, but like comedians every where, not everyone thinks the same things are funny. I saw an American female comic who I thought was hiliarious and she ripped on both men and women about the silly things they do in relationships with each other. Many of the reviewers on Netflix didn’t like her, but she scored high in the ratings there. I think many men didn’t like her because she was ripping on men ALSO.
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Nunya,
“I think many men didn’t like her because she was ripping on men ALSO.”
Why am I not surprised? Men, generally speaking, have egos bigger than a whale’s balls. In fact, bigger than an entire whale.
Again, this is where UK comedies shine: in fact in most cases, men get ripped into far more than women. But nobody minds nor perceives it as a contest between men and women. It’s strictly a character study of people in general, and zooming in on the funny bits we all exhibit.
“The richest 10% controls 2/3 of Americans net worth”
I don’t have any stats at hand, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same in most European countries.
I remember once reading the scale of salaries from the largest to the smallest. I can’t remember the exact figures but it was something like 30-to-1 ratio in France, yet only 5-to-1 in Sweden. I have no idea what it is in the US - probably 1000-to-1, lol.
BTW, this is strictly the “official salary”; in practise, big fat capitalist knobs in high positions find ways to mutiply their salaries by a factor of 10, using perks, company shares and other goodies: free travel, taxis, expensive restaurant meals, hotels, etc… all put down officially as expenses for the company - most of them tax-exempted.
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je viendrai
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WhyNot,
“Men, generally speaking, have egos bigger than a whale’s balls.”
Lolol. I’ve never seen whale’s balls. I once saw a photo showing an elephant’s balls and they were pretty enormous.
Wom,
Is it getting hot in Marseille? Here it’s raining all the time and I am tired of it.
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Stiletto,
“an elephant’s balls and they were pretty enormous.”
Lol. Ideal to play soccer with.
Hey people,
Does it ever happen to you to have a dream (during your sleep) that is so vivid that when you wake up you really wonder if it was a dream or something that actually happened to you yesterday?
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WhyNot,
“Does it ever happen to you to have a dream (during your sleep) that is so vivid that when you wake up you really wonder if it was a dream ”
Yes, all the time. Usually I dream that I kill Sarkozy. Other times I dream that I kill Bush and Putin.
Many times I dream that I kill all the spammers in the world because I am fucking sick of deleting their smelly shit from the blog.
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Hi Yall!
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Nunya,
“Hi Yall!”
LOLLL, you sound nearly as inspired as I am!!!
So where is everybody?
Stiletto,
“Yes, all the time. Usually I dream that I kill Sarkozy. Other times I dream that I kill Bush and Putin.”
LOLLLLL, I think the world would be a better place if these 3 were gone, but… killing them… ! Do you still practice kickboxing? Maybe a few kicks in their testicles might do the trick!
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Nunya,
“Hi Yall!”
Hello Nunya, what’s new that’s happening in San Diego? Has another mommy T-Rex come to ransack the city, lol? That film was really funny at that spot. Well, I’ve been told it’s not supposed to be funny, but I found it funny, and I don’t care what others think.
Valérie,
“So where is everybody?”
I’m here. Lol. I received a letter from WhyNot; he says he now works in a refuge for horses. It’s long hours every day, and he can’t get to the townhall in time to use the public computer for the Internet.
He says he has fallen in love with a horse. A male one, lol - Men are strange, no? He says that when he cleans his paddock the horse follows him every where and nudges him on the shoulders and face. But then, I suppose the horse shits again, lol.
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Stiletto,
“but I found it funny, and I don’t care what others think.”
Lol, that’s the spirit, girl. And about the movie, don’t feel alone about your feelings: I found that part of the film hilarious; I particularly liked it where mommy T-Rex jumps all over cars and knocks busses over. Another real juicy bit is where she shows up at the window of the kid in the house, with the doggie’s house dangling from her mouth.
“and he can’t get to the townhall in time to use the public computer for the Internet.”
That’s about right; but I took a sickie today.
About the horse… yeah, he is such a sweetie; if I lived in a place with a large paddock, I’d take him home tomorrow.
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WhyNot,
“I particularly liked it where mommy T-Rex jumps all over cars and knocks busses over. Another real juicy bit is where she shows up at the window of the kid in the house, with the doggie’s house dangling from her mouth.”
Lololol, yes that was wonderful. I hope there will be another Jurassic Park movie soon. Has anyone seen the UK comedies “Yes minister / Yes prime minister”? This man is so funny.
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Stiletto,
“Has anyone seen the UK comedies “Yes minister / Yes prime minister”? This man is so funny.”
Yes (I have seen them), and yes (Jim Hacker is one brilliant comedian).
Everybody,
Other fascinating news… my #@!§*~|&! computer is again working; meaning this new wizz-bang sound card is a ripper. Hell, I can now hear what the actors say … ain’t the wonders of technology amazing, lol?
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WhyNot,
“Hell, I can now hear what the actors say … ain’t the wonders of technology amazing, lol?”
LOLLL, yes I always found that hearing the “lyrics” when watching a movie helps very much! Or, if it is an EN speaking movie, to have subtitles in EN or FR. Not many have FR subtitles, but all of them have EN subtitles. This is very handy because some EN-speaking films… I can’t understand one single word that they are saying, LOL - some strange UK cockney horrible accent where they say “Oy!” instead of “hey!” and, like instead of saying “Know what I’m saying?”, it sounds like a martian talking, like “no whu I’m sayn”. And some of the American accents, I have no idea what they are saying at all.
Still working at the horse ranch or have the horses fired you from your job, LOL?
I am very glad for you about the sound card!
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Valérie,
“or have the horses fired you from your job”
Lol, no, still working there. I like it. Meaning that apart from earning a bit of money, I feel I’m doing something that is actually useful. But, most of all, the close contact with those wonderful animals called “horses” is what does it for me. Cleaning their shit all day long is worth it when you get even just one nudge of closeness from them.
Which is a lot more than can be said about the many jobs I’ve had in my life . Humans… some are good, most are shit. With horses, this holds true too, except that instead of 90% of them being assholes as is the case for humans, only a handful are.
What about you? Still slaving away in your café/restaurant?
“I am very glad for you about the sound card!”
Thanks, honeybun; yeah, I’m enjoying it no end; I’ll have to tell you about the movies I’m watching; right now I’m watching a weird Japanese movie; it’s pretty good in many ways, but there are many things I don’t “get” - or more exactly that “I can’t connect with”. There really is a vast gap between “western” and “eastern” cultures, and this is still true even in our days of east/west intense trading.
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Hello everyone,
Sorry if I haven’t been around for a long time. I have been busy with studies.
Stiletto,
“I hope there will be another Jurassic Park movie soon. Has anyone seen the UK comedies “Yes minister / Yes prime minister”? This man is so funny.”
I liked the Jurassic Park movies also. Woudn’t it be interesting if such large canivorous animals still roamed around the planet?
Valérie,
You mention some interesting things about movies and the accents people speak with. I have seen some very good French movies and tried to understand the dialogs, but I have to admit that without the subtitles, I would have missed most of them. It is the same with American movies.
WhyNot,
I am happy that your “#@!§*~|&!” new sound card is working well
I am interested in your experience with working with horses. It seems clear to me that you must like them very much. If you so feel inclined, tell me/us more about it. I am particularly interested in your view regarding doing something for an animal but not expecting anything in return except a bit of love. I think it is a rare quality among humans.
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Kristina,
“Woudn’t it be interesting if such large canivorous animals still roamed around the planet?”
Lol, yes, very interesting. I wonder if they could be trained to eat assholes like Sarkozy.
Are you still studying at university? Still practising your piano?
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Stiletto,
“I wonder if they could be trained to eat assholes like Sarkozy.”
LOLLL, I don’t think it would be easy to train dinausors to make the difference between good guys and bad ones. You know, in some ways it is sad that species appear and then die off, but it must be the way the balance of nature works. Like it shows it the Jurassic Park movie, it wouldn’t work for humans if big mommy T-Rexes roamed around big cities like San Diego with millions of people.
Kristina,
How nice to hear from you; I was afraid a big dinausor ate you LOL.
“I have seen some very good French movies and tried to understand the dialogs”
LOL, don’t worry about it: I have seen some FR films in which some of the actors, I can’t understand anything they are saying, LOL.
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Valérie,
“it wouldn’t work for humans if big mommy T-Rexes roamed around big cities like San Diego with millions of people.”
Lol, hey, then again… I’ve read that there is an over-population of the human species, so a few dinausors let lose could maybe remedy the situation.
“I have seen some FR films in which some of the actors, I can’t understand anything they are saying, LOL.”
How true! And it’s not only movies, it’s also people in real life. Have you seen “bienvenu chez les chtis”? It’s about a bank manager who gets “promoted” from the south to right up north, which is next to Belgium and referred to as “chtis” country. Geee… the poor guy can’t understand a word the locals are saying. Nor can I for that matter, lol.
Kristina,
“If you so feel inclined, tell me/us more about it.”
Ok. In short, I love it, even if it is physically hard work.
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WhyNot,
“Have you seen “bienvenu chez les chtis”?”
Yes, it is very funny and well done. But I’m glad people in Paris don’t talk like that - if they ordered their drinks and food with an accent like that, they might get a nasty surprise, LOL.
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Valérie,
“if they ordered their drinks and food with an accent like that, they might get a nasty surprise”
Lol. I’ve heard there are a lot of pigeons in Paris. Serve those customers pigeon shit, lol.
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Is everybody alive?
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How was everybody’s long weekend?
Interesting here: bulls races (naurally, lol), but also some unusual stuff like donkeys races (with kids riding them, or rather, trying to), rodeos, and other animal-based entertainment.
There was also an old style fair, with bumping cars and all that sort of stuff. A very good band on Sunday night.
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God damn, I go away for a while, and come back here and you guys are posting on a thread from April???
Geez WhyNot, couldn’t you find any more recent topics to discuss???
I see not much has changed around here… LOL
Hi everybody, special hi to Stiletto… hearts and flowers to you sweet girl…
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Bonbon!!!
It is so nice to hear from you. I was afraid a Montréal polar bear ate you, lol.
What have you been up to lately? Thank you for the hearts and the flowers
WhyNot,
Your weekend sounds like fun. Did you ride a donkey, lol?
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Wow. I haven’t been here in a while. Nice to see that Kristina and Bonbon popped in to say hi.
So I don’t know that I can add anything to the bad French accent in tv shows and rodeo conversation so I’ll just update. My kid graduated from University and now I’m getting my car ready for her, it’s her graduation present. She’s going back to school for one more quarter, which is rapidly depleting what little savings we have left, and she is spending time with her old HS boyfriend.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that politics in this country have become nothing more than a fistfight between the 2 major parties and both of the parties are in bed with the banksters. I’m re-learning just how awful the monetary system in this country is by reading this easily understood book -
If I understand it correctly, it’s why the government and personal debt is so high around the world. It goes into the stock exchanges, the IMF, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, the commodities markets and some other things and proves what I have suspected for years– that it’s a relatively few persons who control so much of the wealth on the planet. It’s not some weird conspiracy theory book, because in order for anything to be a conspiracy you have to be discusssing something that is NOT legal. These fucking banksters have their lawyers write the legislation, and their government tools pass the laws, so it’s legal.
So how about that Rupert Murdoch eh?
Foam Opera: Murdoch Grilling & Pie Attack
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Bonbon,
“Geez WhyNot, couldn’t you find any more recent topics to discuss??? ”
Lol, well… since experience has shown that comments go off topic after just 5 or 6, I figured there was no need for a new article.
How’s things? Still going on rampages in Québec regularly?
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Stiletto,“Did you ride a donkey, lol?”
Hehe… I can just picture it; but no, I didn’t. Still, it was hilarious to watch the adolescents falling off those very smart but ill-willing donkeys and running after them to try to get back on them. I think the donkeys laughed as much as I did.
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Nunya,Congratulations to your daughter. Let’s hope she doesn’t smash the car in a hurry, lol.
Interesting article about the “Web of Debt”. You know, I’ve become really blasé now with politics and all that shit; nothing surprises me any longer.
Rupert Murdoch… HUGE SIGH… what do you expect when you let an Aussie thug loose in America?
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Hello Bonbon,
It is very nice to have news from you again. Please tell us what you are doing.
Nunya,
Thank you for the info on what you call “banksters”, LOL. All this stuff is way over my head.
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Valérie,
“All this stuff is way over my head.”
That’s the beauty of this book, it’s not written in financial jargon. The writer simplifies and explains what the banksters don’t want you to understand, and the writer is a woman. The banksters hate women who understand their way of screwing customers over and fight them or try to make laws that protect customers.
There are 2 women in the US that the banksters hate:
Brooksley Born -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Bornand Elizabeth Warren-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
and they will hate this woman because more and more people are aware that she is trying to warn the people and she wants things to change in the financial sector.
Ellen Brown (via Google translate,so it probably won’t make sense, but it’s just the first couple of paragraphs of an article that she wrote)
8 avril 2011
www.webofdebt.com / articles / libya.phpPlusieurs auteurs ont noté le fait étrange que les rebelles libyennes ont pris le temps de leur rébellion en Mars pour créer leur propre banque centrale - ce avant même qu’ils avaient un gouvernement. Robert Wenzel a écrit dans le Journal de politique économique:
Je n’ai jamais entendu parler d’une banque centrale en cours de création dans juste une question de semaines d’un soulèvement populaire. Cela suggère que nous avons un peu plus d’un tas de chiffon tag de rebelles courir et qu’il ya des influences assez sophistiquée.
Alex Newman a écrit dans le New American:
Dans un communiqué publié la semaine dernière, les rebelles rapport sur les résultats d’une réunion tenue le Mars 19. Entre autres choses, la supposée de chiffon-tag révolutionnaires annoncé la «[d] esignation de la Banque centrale de Benghazi comme une autorité monétaire compétente dans les politiques monétaires en Libye et la nomination d’un gouverneur à la Banque centrale de Libye, avec un siège temporaire au Benghazi….
So, we decided that since I just paid so much to get my 13 year old car fixed that we would buy her a car that the mechanic had for sale for a really good price. My daughter’s high school boyfriend is staying with us for a month and he likes my cooking, so I’m back on mom duty for a while. I dunno where we are gonna park all these damn cars now, lol. This is a two bedroom apt and the people sleeping in the living room reminds me of when I was in my 20’s, lol. Nice, responsible kids though, can’t complain.
WhyNot,
“Congratulations to your daughter. Let’s hope she doesn’t smash the car in a hurry, lol.”Funny you should say that, because the old boyfriend smashed his car picking her up in Los Angeles, lol. I’m not charging him to sleep on the fold out in the living room because I feel guilty, I should have picked her up in LA.
“Interesting article about the “Web of Debt”. You know, I’ve become really blasé now with politics and all that shit; nothing surprises me any longer.”
Ahh, this book (I tried to find out if it has been translated into French, but???) explains the root of the problem. The international banksters have us all over a barrel!
“Rupert Murdoch… HUGE SIGH… what do you expect when you let an Aussie thug loose in America?”
Yeah, I kind of wish the crazy Aussies were limited to working in Hollywood, lol. I hope that Rupert Murdoch’s worldwide media empire implodes.
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And oh yeah, how about that crazy right-wing fundamentalist Christian who killed all those people in Norway? *sigh* So sad.
The Christianity that I grew up with was peaceful, calm, forgiving, loving, and accepting of other people and their beliefs. That man was scary, hateful and ugly, I certainly don’t believe that extremists who claim a certain religion actually represent their faiths.
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Stiletto, my love… it’s good to talk to you. Insert more hearts and flowers because WhyNot won’t put any here for me to select…
It is so nice to hear from you. I was afraid a Montréal polar bear ate you, lol.
Ha ha, no- I ate the polar bear!!! LOL
I’m still doing the usual, spending all my time on the internet.
WhyNot, last trip we took to Montreal was in March. We went up for cabane au sucre. Hubby is working again right now, probably until October but we’re not sure. The money is decent and he figures he better take it while he can get it so no vacations planned right now.
I’ve really become a Linux convert, and now have it installed on my desktop computer, and my 3 laptops. Hubby has his own desktop- he still uses XP.
Nunya, and Valérie- nice to see you too.
Nunya, don’t even get me started on what the bastard politicians and corporations are doing to this country. I totally agree with what you wrote. I favor the Dumbocrats over the Rethuglicans, because at least the Dumbocrats aren’t waging war on women. But the truth is- both parties SUCK donkey dick and are bought and paid for by corporations. But the Rethugs scare me more because they are pandering to their right wing religitard base and changing laws that affect everyone.
I have no doubt that if Rethugs win the 2012 election, abortion will no longer be a right in the USA. And if they abolish that, how safe is our (women’s) right to vote?
God Bless the USA and welcome to the 16th century… that’s the future I foresee. Sick.
I’m telling you, Canada is starting to look real good to me right now…
Speaking of religitards, I just am so shocked about what happened in Norway. Those poor people.
I really, really, really fucking HATE fundamentalist religious zealots…
Why is it that these people always think they are privy to the will of God, and must do His work for Him here on earth? If He is so all powerful, can’t He just do his own dirty work?
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Hi Bonbon! So nice to see you here
” But the truth is- both parties SUCK donkey dick and are bought and paid for by corporations. But the Rethugs scare me more because they are pandering to their right wing religitard base and changing laws that affect everyone.”
Yes, both parties are beholden to corporations and banksters for campaign contributions, but I am not willing to write off the democrats and not vote. I will hold my nose and vote for Obama again before I take the chance that someone like Batshit Bachmann gets in there. She’s got those evangelical dog whistles that scare the bejezus right out of me. Yes, I believe the Rethugs pander to the religious base a bit more, but they will do ANYTHING for the richest people and corporations on the planet, and the Dems still get campaign contributions from unions. The book I linked to in my earlier comment is one of most enlightening books I have ever read and it breaks down the confusing financial jargon to the bits and pieces that are the most important for us living in a democracy to understand. There are solutions to this mess, I just haven’t gotten to that part yet.
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Bonbon,
“Ha ha, no- I ate the polar bear!!! ”
That’s the way to go! What does it taste like? Judging by the color of the fur, it must be white meat, like chicken and crocodile, right, lol?
What’s “cabane au sucre”?
“he still uses XP”
Yeah, me too. The debacle of Vista and Windows 7 convinced me that XP was THE lucky accident of an OS that works in the long sad history of Microsoftdick’s fucked up operating systems. So, I’m sticking to it. I wish Linux all the best, but I’m too lazy to battle with yet another OS.
Nunya,
crazy right-wing fundamentalist Christian who killed all those people in Norway?.
Geee… 92 people killed. And then, right wing idiots will still claim that guns don’t kill.
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Nunya,
I agree. I don’t like Obama either, but I will have to hold my nose also and vote for him. What a choice.
Batshit Bachmann, I like that one… LOL
I don’t know what the hell is wrong with these people. It’s like they’re each trying to outdo the other with idiotic, evil, repressive laws and ideas.
I think back to Republicans of the caliber of Eisenhower, and wonder how the party went so wrong. Eisenhower was a decent guy, but even he saw the handwriting on the wall way back then.
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WhyNot,
yes, the polar bear was tasty, but red meat, not white meat like chicken…And yes, I’m kidding. I figured I’d better say that or else Stiletto will be mad at me.
I have eaten bear meat though- for real. It was black bear. It wasn’t bad but you have to be careful when you cook it to trim off all the fat, and cook it for a long time because it tends to be kind of gamey.
I never ate crocodile, but I have had alligator and that’s pretty good. It’s sort of the texture and color of calamari (squid). The taste is kind of on the bland side. They usually chop it into bite sized pieces, batter it, and deep fry it and serve it with a dipping sauce.
Cabane a sucre happens every spring in Quebec. It starts in March when the sap of the sugar maple trees starts running. It’s a regional thing. They have maple sugaring places, and every spring they have family style dinners with all kinds of regional delicacies, made with, and served with- real maple syrup made on the premises.
The best thing they make is the “tire d’érable”. They use hollowed out logs full of snow or crushed ice. They pour puddles of boiling hot maple syrup onto it, by the ladle full, and it solidifies and turns into a sort of taffy. They have wooden sticks, like Popsicle sticks, and you just sort of push your stick into a glob of it, roll it around the stick, and then eat it.
It is to DIE for… trust me…it’s everybody’s favorite part of the meal… LOL
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WhyNot,
“in the long sad history of Microsoftdick’s fucked up operating systems. ”
LOLLLL, yes it is so true. I tried Vista for a few days, but when it told me that it couldn’t recognize several peripherals that I use with XP, I thought “ok, I’m reinstalling XP, and Vista can go in the toilet bowl”, LOL.
Bonbon and Nunya,
It is a pity that Obama is not what he promised to be, and I am sorry for you. If that can be a consolation, at least you are not stuck with a little fascist cretin Sarkosy, LOL.
Has anyone seen a good movie lately?
Bonbon, I’m thinking of your description of what they do with maple syrup in Canada, and I don’t think it would be very popular in France, LOL.
I’ve never eaten crocodile or bear, but I’ve heard that you can buy ostrich meat in some supermarkets. They raise the ostriches in the South of France.
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Valérie,
I just bought a new Acer ultraportable notebook. It came with Windows 7.
From day 1- I could not get the wireless- OR the ethernet- to work in Windows 7. Win 7 would not work with my network, although 3 computers running Ubuntu and 1 computer running XP worked fine with it.I wound up trying Linux Mint, running it from an SD card first to try it, and both worked. It took a bit of easy tinkering to get the wireless to work, but the ethernet worked straight away.
Since the hard drive was big enough, and the machine is new and under warranty, I decided to set up a dual boot with W7/Mint 11.
I can’t stand Win 7. I thought Vista was bad, but W7 is 10 times worse. It has massive compatibility issues, plus it locks everything down so you can’t tinker with it. I don’t know how people can use that crap.
I’ve had ostrich meat too… LOL
It’s a red meat, not a white meat like most poultry. If you look at it on your plate it looks like beef. Personally, I found it to be a bit too tough for my taste, but it tastes ok.
I hear horsemeat is popular in France as well as in Canada. That I’ve never tried. I don’t know if I could handle that or not. It’s too much like chowing down on Fluffy or Fido to me… LOL
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Bonbon,
“From day 1- I could not get the wireless- OR the ethernet- to work in Windows 7. Win 7 would not work with my network…”
Lolol, why am I not surprised? My last ex girlfriend had bought a new Sony notebook with Vista preinstalled, and naturally… same story as you experienced, i.e, it could not see any other computer on the LAN. To make things worse, after fidling around with it for a long time, I eventually worked out that part of the OS is on ROM rather than on HDD, so it is impossible to ditch Vista and install another OS.
It is pretty disgusting to think huge companies like Sony can be connived and “bought” by thug companies like Microsoftdick.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m sticking with XP til the cows come home. It works well, works with every application I have/use, never crashes, etc. What more should I want?
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Yeah, ostrich is red meat; Funny that, you’d think it be like poultry, i.e. white. That is… the ostriches raised in the south of France - maybe African ones are different, lol.Conversally, you’d expect crocodile to be red meat, but it’s white (at least once it’s cooked). or maybe it’s because it was an Aussie croc, lol - it is well known that in Oz they do everything upside down and back to front; they even drive on the wrong side of the road, lol.
I’ve never seen a butchery or supermarket in France where you can buy horse meat, but I guess they must exist somewhere. I’ve heard ppl ate horses during WW2. Then again, they probably also ate rats…
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Valérie,“Has anyone seen a good movie lately?”
Yes, last night I watched a movie of which I can’t remember the title, lol, but I’ll look it up when I get home. It has some great music by Sting.
“Vista can go in the toilet bowl”
Goodness, DON’T DO IT, girl!!! You’ll end up with a fucked up toilet that no plumber on earth will manage to unblock, lol.
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WhyNot,
I’m sure your computer can boot from a CD, you might want to give Linux Mint a try, or Ubuntu 10xxx. I tried Ubuntu 11, I hated it, YMMV…That’s the nice thing about most ‘nix distros- you can try them live without changing anything on your computer. If your computer can boot from usb, you can install it to a flash card as well, and create a “persistent” install, which will save your changes and be a LOT faster as well.
“Vista can go in the toilet bowl”
Goodness, DON’T DO IT!!! You’ll end up with a fucked up toilet that no plumber on earth will manage to unblock, lol.
No, the plumber will have to call Microshaft to “activate” the “fix” to unblock it…
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Valérie,
“Has anyone seen a good movie lately?”
Yes, but I forgot the names already, lol. On the other hand, I watched (again) a UK comedy series, “To the manor born”. It’s really really wonderful.
Bonbon,
“No, the plumber will have to call Microshaft to “activate” the “fix” to unblock it…”
Lolol. It makes me think of that time when I tried to install Adobe Creative Suite which had 3 or 4 DVDs which took me a week to download, and then when I tried to install it, I couldn’t find a crack anywhere, and the only choice I had was to call Adobe to unlock it. I was so annoyed, lol.
Bonbon & WhyNot,
All your talk about eating exotic animals is funny. Have you tried to eat ants and termites? Snails and slugs? Fat corrupt politicians, lol?
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Bonbon,
“YMMV”
Mmmmm… can you expand this, lol?
Well, anyway, as I must have said, my illegal copy of XP works fine and does everything I need a computer for, so I’ll just stick to it. You know the saying… “if it ain’t broke, DON’T fix it!!!” :-]
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Stiletto,“but I forgot the names already”
Lol, I am afflicted by the same disease: I watch a movie, and even if I really loved it, I can’t remember the title the next day.
Hey people, here are a couple of movies I saw and which are really fabulous, especially “Dirty Dancing” (1987 - 9.9/10 rating from me) and “The Mighty Quinn” (1989 - 9/10 from me).
They are completely different except for one point: great music and dancing. I’m now officially madly in love with the blonde dancing girl in Dirty Dancing, lol.
PS: I only ate snails once, and that was in Oz in a restaurant. Couldn’t really taste anything except the potent and yummy herbs/garlic/butter sauce.
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Bonjour tout le monde ,j’ai essayé plusieurs fois sans arriver à entrer sur le blog:sad: J’ai cru que c’était fini et j’étais triste!
Je vois que c’est possible aujourd’hui d’y accéder à nouveau me voici rassurée! Signe que tout va bien pour vous et pour toi Why Not particulièrement
Dis -m’en plus ?
Ici ça va, mes idées humanitaires avancent ,on m’a nommé trésorière de l’ATSCAF à Marseille ,ce qui fait que j’ouvre mon association qui était en berne depuis 2009 . Ceci pour prétendre toucher des dons ( dédommageant mon travail ,qui serviront à la cause que je défends ‘les enfants ‘ ….. Voilà je suis heureuse ,j’espère que pour toi ça va et que tu t’en sors pas trop mal .Bisous à tous et toutes
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Bonjour WOM,
“trésorière de l’ATSCAF ”
Ca veut dire quoi, “ATSCAF”? Tu pourras te servir dans la caisse, LOL?
WhyNot,
“I’m now officially madly in love with the blonde”
LOL, this film sounds good and I’ll try to find it.
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Stiletto-
I’ve eaten ants, but not termites.Snails- mais oui! What do you think escargot is? I love escargot… slugs, no- AFAIK one does not eat slugs, although they are simply snails without shells.
WhyNot-
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary
They use this to say that your experience with something may be different, that’s all.
And about XP, if you can update your copy, then no problem. I don’t like doing without all the security updates.
I may buy a solid state drive for that computer, install Linux, then install Virtualbox and install XP into that. I’m not sure how well it would work, that system only has 4 GB’s of ram, and that’s the max it can take. My core i7 OTOH, has 6, but can take 12 GB’s..
Everyone-
As for movies, I have a Quebecois film to recommend. Last trip to Montreal we saw a film called “Incendies”.
It begins with the death of a mother in Canada, who leaves a cryptic will instructing her two adult children to find their father and a brother they never knew of in the Middle East before they can lay her to rest properly with a headstone. The 2 children embark on a trip to the Middle East to find the father and brother… and that’s all I am going to say about the film. Watch it for yourselves, it’s an excellent movie.
It was one hell of a story, with a twist ending neither one of us saw coming. This is a serious drama, and not for the faint of heart as there are some really gut wrenching scenes in it.
I believe it was one of the Oscar nominees for 2010 for best foreign film. It didn’t win though, too bad.
If you can find this one, check it out.
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Bonbon,
“And about XP, if you can update your copy, then no problem. I don’t like doing without all the security updates.”
I think Microsoft have finished making updates for XP; anyway they are much too busy trying to fix their horrible Vista and Windows 7, it will take them years and dozens of service packs before they work properly, lol.
Your movie “Incendies” sounds good. Do they speak with that Canadian French accent that is impossible to understand, lol? I hope it has subtitles…
Valérie,
“Tu pourras te servir dans la caisse, LOL?”
Lol, ça ferait une association très humanitaire.
WhyNot, where are you? Is the Mairie on strike?
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Stiletto,
I’ll have to ask my hubby about the Quebecois accent. I couldn’t tell the difference, but he can. When we saw it in the theatre it had English subs.It is an excellent film, but like I said it is emotionally heart wrenching.
About XP- yes, they don’t support it any more. And Vista and Windows 7- ugh! Vista came on the Dell core i7 desktop I bought last October. I used it for ONE day before I wiped it and installed Ubuntu.
The Acer ultraportable I got came with Windows 7, which I personally think is worse than Vista, and that lasted a couple of days as well. But I set that one up as dual boot with Linux Mint.
I use Mint, I never use Windows 7 at all. What a horrid OS…
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WOM,
“…J’ai cru que c’était fini et j’étais triste!”
Non, il y a eu une fois où Free mo’ont saccagé le blog, mais autrement, comme c’est gratuit (l’hébergement), ils m’emmerdent pas.
Valérie,
“Tu pourras te servir dans la caisse, LOL?”
Lol, faut bien que les associations servent à quelque chose!
Bonbon,
I’d love to get hold of your “Incendies” movie. unfortunately, I can’t hold up the townhall’s computer for hours to download 700MB or 1.4GB files.
And so, I re-watch movies out of my huge collection. Last night, I saw “Leaving Las Vegas”, with Nicholas Cage playing the role of a hopelessly doomed alcoholic, and a great actress, whose name I forgot, playing the role of a prostitute.
Really brilliant movie, although the ending is somewhat depressing.
“Windows 7, which I personally think is worse than Vista”
Lol. Good ole MicroStupid…
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WhyNot,
“Last night, I saw “Leaving Las Vegas”, with Nicholas Cage playing the role of a hopelessly doomed alcoholic”
I have seen this movie, it is very very good but sad. The woman playing the prostitute is really excellent. Stiletto, have you seen it? If yes, what do you think of it? I’m laughing inside myself, because I think that if 5 guys came in to beat you up, you’d kickbox the shit out of them and Rex would bite their asses off, LOLLLL.
Bonbon,
About movies, I’m watching a FR movie “Bienvenu chez les chtis”, and I think you would find it very interesting because of the accents the people speak.
I thought the accent of Marseille was funny but this is much more funny, and also it is nearly impossible to understand what they say because it is not just the accent that is strange, but also they have a whole vocabulary of words that don’t exist in French, lol.
It is a bit like French Canadian, but MUCH WORSE, LOL!
I haven’t laughed so much for a long time, and it is lucky that I don’t pee in my panties any more, LOL, otherwise my new wonderful washing machine would be very busy, LOLL!
I hope you can find it on the newsgroups, it’s only a 700 MB file. You will REALLY laugh and have a great time.
Bonbon and WhyNot,
About operating systems: I use XP, and after a short try at the very lame Vista one, I decided that I’m sticking to XP for a long time!
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Valérie,
I checked and we have “Bienvenu chez les chtis”. We watched it a while ago, but I remember it was very funny.It’s one we actually bought… LOL
When we go up to Montreal we have a used DVD store we go to every time and we always buy a stack of French and Quebecois films, and that happened to be one of them.
“Incendies” can be found on the news groups right now with French subs. I’m hunting for the English subs at the moment.
Stiletto,
I asked my husband about the accents in “Incendies” and he said yes, it is a Quebecois accent, but not as bad as some that he has heard. Grab the one with the French subs and you’ll be set.WhyNot,
I have never seen “Leaving Las Vegas”. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one if it pops up on the groups. -
Valérie,
“because I think that if 5 guys came in to beat you up, you’d kickbox the shit out of them and Rex would bite their asses off, LOLLLL”
Yeah, that could make the opening scene of a great movie, lol.
“Bienvenu chez les chtis” is a really excellent film - the kind you can watch again and again and never tire of. Not only because it is really funny, but also because it is one of those movies that make you feel that the human race is not just a bunch of 7 billion fucktards bent on killing each others, exploiting each others, and generally fucking this planet on a grand scale.
Bonbon,
“It’s one we actually bought”
Tsk tsk, shame on ya, lol!
“I have never seen “Leaving Las Vegas”. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one if it pops up on the groups.”
I hope it does. You won’t regret it. This must be one of the rare films I’ve seen where prostitution is prominently addressed. The only “downside”, so to speak, is that it doesn’t have a happy ending, and… I hate it when love stories don’t have a happy ending, lol. Still, I’d gladly give it a 9/10.
At the moment, I’m watching an old movie which so far looks good: “”North by NorthWest”.
Other than that, I’m totally ignoring FR politics - I don’t even know if the little fascist pig Sarkozy is still the president or if he had the good taste of getting run over by a bus, lol. How’s Obama faring?
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WhyNot,
At the moment, I’m watching an old movie which so far looks good: “”North by NorthWest”.I always liked that film. Tsk, tsk- I bought that DVD too… LOL
That was a while ago though, let’s just say before I discovered the joys of divx…
“Bienvenu chez les chtis” is a really funny film. I was discussing it with hubby last night, and once he refreshed my memory I remembered it. Another of my favorite Quebecois films is “Ma tante Aline”:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063628/
I was peeing in my pants watching that one. You guys just don’t know what you’re missing. Canada has an awesome film industry, and they make some great films. Too bad they never get released here.
I don’t mind buying the Quebecois films because:
a) I buy ‘em used, so they’re cheap
b) I like to support the Canadian film industry, rather than Hollywood bloodsuckers
c) it’s hard to find Quebecois films in the groups, and when they do get posted they never have the English subsAbout American politics and Obama? The Big O sold us out. They act like spoiled children, keep playing their Imperialist war games, keep ruining the economy, and it’s the suckers… err… taxpayers… who suffer. Kick Grandma and Grandpa to the curb after paying all their working lives into Social Security and Medicare, while they keep giving to their rich friends. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Personally I think there ought to be one big necktie party to get rid of the whole lot of them… they’re all traitors.
Stock market is down -470 points as I type this, I think the shit is going to hit the fan sooner rather than later.
Good thing I stocked up on food.
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Bonbon,
Your description of politics in USA sounds horrible. It reminds me of a funny cartoon I saw once: it is set in Ukraine, or maybe Chechnya at my home; in the drawing, you see a big fat guy in the street with his Russian fur bonnet, and he has a news paper in his hand, and he exclaims with a big smile:
“corruption, bankruptcy, rigged elections, police state… YIPPEEE! We’re just like in America!!!”. lol.
What does “necktie party” mean?
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Stiletto,
that cartoon sounds funny. And very true. I think a lot of us are finally waking up the fact that the US is one of the most corrupt and evil countries on earth. They’ve just had us all fooled all these years…A “necktie party” is a hanging. It was a term commonly used back in the 1800’s in the old west.
One big necktie party for all of the rats in DC… the bastards do nothing but rob us blind, kill our children in their war games, and trample our liberties anyway.
Whoever replaced them couldn’t be any worse…
We need to have mothers and housewives in charge of the government. Mothers would not be so quick to send their sons and daughters off to die in useless wars, and housewives could certainly balance the budget better than any of the bozo politicians we have now.
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Bonbon,
“Kick Grandma and Grandpa to the curb after paying all their working lives into Social Security and Medicare”
Why can’t they do like they do here? Taxes pay not just for the roads but also for education and health. This way, everybody gets education and health care, it dosn’t matter if they are very poor, they can still go to unversity and hospitals. Surely, USA is rich enough to do this too, no?
“We need to have mothers and housewives in charge of the government. Mothers … any of the bozo politicians we have now.”
Yes, I agree, it’s the same here, it’s always men. There was a hope a few years ago that a woman, Ségolène Royale, was going to win the presidential election. She was the candidate of the Socialist Party. But she got beaten by Sarkozy-the-fascist.
In the past centuries, it was always men who were the king rulers of France, and now it is really not much better, it is still the men who are the president rulers.
Movies: “Ma tante Aline” sounds very interesting. I saw a very wonderful film this weekend: “The unbearable lightness of being” - 1988. It is very long film, but you never become bored, even if there is very little action. There are some very sexy scenes. It is a bit sad movie because it is based on the real life, when the fucking Russians (sorry, Stiletto) invaded Prague in Tchekoslovaquia. I think it was around 1968.
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Valérie,
“when the fucking Russians (sorry, Stiletto)…”
Lol, I had a good laugh here; it’s kinda funny to hear you swear - probably because you rarely do.
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Hey people,I met a woman last night. She was with 2 of her male friends - one of whom, Berbard, I know well - , and we went to some pub outside town which stays open very late. Just as well the pub stayed open very late cuz we couldn’t find the joint and spent the best part of 2 hours trying to find it. Must have been at least 3am by the time we found it, lol.
Anyway, back to the woman: I really liked her. Her name’s Hélène. It is pretty clear she doesn’t have a husband or boyfriend, so … who knows…
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WhyNot,
How are things with that Hélène?
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Stiletto,
“How are things with that Hélène?”
Not good. After we left the pub, we came back to Salindre; when we got to my place, I invited them in; we spent about an hour talking and listening to music.
I woke up late, went to make myself a coffee; I discovered my tin of coffee wasn’t there. It’s always at the same spot, on top of the microwave oven.
While looking for it, checking it hadn’t fallen on the floor and everywhere close by, I noticed that my cell phone, which, like my coffee, I keep nearby, just next to the microwave, had ALSO disappeared.
I couldn’t believe it - I thought I was hallucinating. But a bit later, I went out, 30 meters from my apartment, I saw on the ground the lid of my tin of coffee.
I never take my cell phone outside, it always stays in the same place; obviously, I never take my tin of coffee outside either, lol.
It is abundantly clear that both were stolen. You might say “steal a cell phone, ok, that’s plausible, but steal a tin of coffee???”.
Well, the answer is simple: my “tin” of coffee is actually a largish cylindrical tin in which there was originally tobacco; there is written “tobacco” all over it, brand name and all the other waffle.
So clearly, Hélène assumed it had tobacco in it; to add to this certainty, I found the lid of the tin on the pavement, next to a public trash can just near my apartment.
Isn’t life full of “lovely” surprises?
I feel like puking.
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WhyNot,
Why do you assume it was Hélène who stole? Maybe someone broke into your apartment while you were out? You’ve said in the past that you never lock your front door.
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Valérie,
“Maybe someone broke into your apartment while you were out?”
You’re quite right, and in fact it is certain that it is the case. First because I found out since then that other things have gone missing, and in particular 2 electric drills. Clearly, stuffing a large tin of coffee/tobacco into a woman’s handbag is already a bit of a challenge, but adding 2 electric drills is obviously impossible. Besides, I don’t remember her even carrying a handbag at all.
Anyway, I feel like an idiot now. A complete imbecile, actually.
I saw Bernard today, and he showed me where she lives, which is within easy walking distance from where I live. I’ll drop by later on - see if I can repair the damage (sigh).
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Has anyone seen a movie named “2 brothers”? It’s about 2 baby tigers who are born in the wild, but they are soon captured by fucking men and put into cages.
The photography is really beautiful.
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Stiletto,
“Has anyone seen a movie named “2 brothers”? ”
Yes, I have. The baby tigers are so cute!!! That’s what you need instead of a German Shepherd, you could be sure the customers would behave, LOLL.
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I really like animated films, and I watched one the other night that I really liked- it was called “Rio”.
It’s about a blue macaw who was kidnapped from the rain forest as a baby, brought to America, then winds up back in Brazil kidnapped by bad guys during Carnivale.
It’s a typical feel-good story, but a well done one. The animation was very good, the music was great, and it was very funny with good characterizations. Of course this being Brazil, there were a few Jobim songs thrown in as well, which I thought was a nice touch.
Anyway, if you’re into animation, check this one out. Animation isn’t just for kids you know…
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Bonbon,
“Rio” sounds good, and the story reminds me of another animation movie of which I can’t remember the name, as usual lol: a young lion at the local (meaning NYC or some other city) zoo ends up on a shipping container destined to Africa.
Daddy lion and a bunch of other zoo animals, including a lunatic koala bear and a mentally deranged giraffe, embark on a journey to find the youngster.
Another jungle animals related film is George of the Jungle. It’s only partly animated. It’s not deep and meaningful but quite funny.
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I saw an interesting film, it’s about Hitler and he hires a secretary. it’s supposed to be a true story. It happens near the end of the war when the Russians have crossed all of Europe and are at the gates of Berlin.
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Valérie,
I know exactly the film you’re talking about, even if I can’t remember its name (as usual, lol). It is excellent although a bit depressing.
Another great film I saw just recently is “Clue”. It is a very unusual movie, meaning I have never seen one with a similar story or plot. It’s a mixture of suspense and wacko humor. The very sexy FR maid reminds me of you, Stiletto, lol. 9.5/10 from me. A must-see film which will have you riveted to the screen and leave you in a feel-good mood.
Soooo… what’s going on in the world? Little fascist gnome Sarkozy still running this country?
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WhyNot,
“The very sexy FR maid reminds me of you, Stiletto, lol.”
Thank you, I suppose. Lol. But you forget I am not French. Actually I don’t feel I am anything about fucking citizenships and fucking countries.
If there is one good thing that the 1917 Russian revolution made come true, it is that all oppressed people in all countries are brothers and sisters. The only hymn that is any good is the “International”, maybe it’s lousy in a musical point of view, but all national anthems are lousy anyway, and the French one is one of the ugliest, only the American one is uglier, it sounds like fascist pigs wrote the music.
“Little fascist gnome Sarkozy still running this country?”
Yes. Lol.
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Stiletto,
“and the French one is one of the ugliest, only the American one is uglier, it sounds like fascist pigs wrote the music.”
LOLLLLLLL, I haven’t heard the American one, but if it is worse than the French one…!!!
Today is a beautiful day in Paris, and I’m going to say hello to the ducks and the swans and read a good novel!
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Valérie,
Give the ducks and the swans a big hug from me.
Everyone,
I saw a huge fucking spider on my bedroom wall today. It reminded me of the Aussie Huntsman because of it elephant-like ginormous size. In fact, maybe it’s my fertile imagination, but I’m sure it had a huge trunk and a pair of tusks, lol.
Ok, moving right along, here is a stunning movie I watched in the wee hours of the morning: “Reds”, 1985. I have to give it 9.5/10. True story centered on the lives of an American couple who embraced the Russian 1917 revolution and founded the American Socialist Party - which earned them the dubious privilege of being harrassed, prosecuted and beaten by the cops in that great land of freedom (roflmao) named USA.
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WhyNot,
“it had a huge trunk and a pair of tusks”
Lol, too much vodka again?
I have seen this film “Reds” too. It is very wonderful but sad.
I have a question, it’s about amplifiers. I want to buy a new amplifier for hi-fi at home because the one I have is nearly completely fucked, it makes a loud hum all the time and there is plenty of distortion when I play music. I read a lot if reviews in hi-fi magazines but I don’t think it helps much because they wafffle and waffle and the conclusion is always that the amplifiers are nearly all perfect and as good as each other. I think they are receiving corruption money to write bullshits that flatter the amplifiers manufacturers.
Can you suggest something?
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Stiletto,
“Can you suggest something?”
Hmmm, yes, several things. Strip nekked, lie on your back, spread your legs and think of Mother Russia - I’ll be right over and fix the problem faster than you can say “fuck me dead!”, lol.
Seriously now: before you rush buying a new amp, you MUST check all your audio connections. Both the loud hum and the distortion can easily be caused by a dicky audio cable.
“Jiggle” all your audio connectors (normally all RCA connectors). If the problem persists, use a spare RCA-RCA cable and use it to replace every one of your existing ones, one by one, in turn.
Let us know how you go.
Has anyone seen any good movie lately? I just finished re-watching the UK comedy series “Yes Prime Minister”; what a hoot! This is one of the best of the best of British comedy.
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WhyNot,
“Strip nekked, lie on your back…”
LOLLL, it’s a new medical technique?
I love “Prime Minister” also. And the actors are very easy to understand which is good because there are no subtitles. At the moment I am watching some Marx Brothers films. They are so funny!
In one of them, there are 3 aviators who crossed the Atlantic and are supposed to give a big press conference. Groucho, Chico and Harpo take their place and start describing their own imaginary experience of crossing the ocean. It’s completely crazy but so funny.
It made me think of when you went from Australia to USA, and it was such a big mess, LOL. I tried to find it in the comments but that was too long ago, and I don’t know when exactly, so I gave up trying. Do you remember it well enough to tell the story again?
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Don’t know if you guys have heard, but we’re about to get slammed with a hurricane here on the east coast.
New York and Philadelphia are both shutting down their mass transit systems as of noon tomorrow, and New York has started mandatory evacuations from certain areas.
We had an earthquake, and now a hurricane within days of each other. Un-freaking-believable.
We’re in Pennsylvania, and we’re supposed to get 10 inches of rain and 60 mph winds here. New York City is going to fare even worse.
My Mom still lives in Brooklyn, not to far from the water. I asked her to come up here but she didn’t want to. She’s old and stubborn, I just hope she’ll be ok.
We spent the day doing some maintenance on our portable generator, getting gas, and putting loose items away in the yard. I just hope a tree doesn’t fall on our house…
Wish me luck…
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Well bonbon?
Power outages where you are?
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Bonbon,
“Wish me luck…”
Lots of luck from me!!! An earthquake AND a hurricane… what happened? Did Obama fart, lol?
Nunya,
“Power outages where you are?”
I think she is at the opposite end of USA to where you are. I’m not very good at geography, but I know that San Diego is on the very left, and that’s where very fucked off big mommy Tyranausorus Rex lands and destroys everything, lol - that was really funny in that Jurassic Park movie, I’ll have to watch it again, it’s nearly as funny as a Marx Brothers movie.
And that Bonbon is on the east, and she is in Québec a lot robbing banks and getting free medical treatment because of the stress, lol - that’s what Michael Moore said in his “sicko” movie, lol.
I watched a very good movie the day before yesterday; it’s a French movie, it’s called “hors de prix”, pretty recent. It’s a young guy, waiter in a classy hotel, and a young woman who is trying to catch rich old guys to screw them out of their money. The young guy has an affair with a rich older woman customer.
The version I saw didn’t have subtitles in English, it’s a pity, Nunya, because I think you would love it. Bonbon, I think you will probably understand it, everyone speaks French very well, I could understand everything easily.
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Nunya,
if there’s one thing I can depend on where I am- it’s power outages… LOLYes, we were without power for about 24 hours. I consider myself lucky, because we got power restored so quickly. There are still 27,000 people still out in my area.
We went 4 days here without power once before, then we finally had to buy a portable generator. It’s a noisy, fuel-sucking PITA, but it powers the well pump, sump pump, fridge, computers, tv, and a few lights.
People always think a power outage is no big deal until they realise that no power means no water if you have a well, and no water means no toilet…
Stiletto,
I’ve seen “Hors de Prix”, and it’s very good. My copy had English subs.There are quite a few subtitle sites on the net, like subscene.com, that have subs for a vast amount of movies.
So Nunya, if you happen to “acquire” an avi of Hors de Prix, check out subscene to get a set of English subs for it.
BTW Stiletto, I’ll be back in Quebec sometime in October. Hope they don’t catch me robbing one of those banks, because I can’t run as fast as I used to… LOL
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Bonbon,
“if there’s one thing I can depend on where I am- it’s power outages… LOL
Yes, we were without power for about 24 hours…”
Doh, that’s nuttin’, my friend. When I lived in Florida (in the Tampa Bay area), we used to get 3 or 4 power outages EVERY DAY in summer. Florida Power, the electric supply Co, is the biggest rip-off merchant in the western hemisphere and not only supplies shit power, but at a kWh cost 3 times what it is here.
“no power means no water if you have a well, and no water means no toilet…”
hehe, I know what you mean exactly. While the electric power in France is good and from a national govt-owned Co (EDF), water supply is local and private.
The result is that water is outrageous in price: I pay nearly as much in water bills as I do in electric ones.
Moreover, Véolia, the shithead arrogant local water Co where I live, have cut my water off several times for being late in paying the fuckers. And this is where what you say about “no water = no toilet” rings a loud bell.
But I’m philosophical and I pissed and shat in the street during those outages. The ideal spot, I found, is behind the huge HLM (cheap housing building), right opposite the church’s front door, lol.
I believe the Lord, in His Great Wisdom, has blessed my droppings many a time, and that I will be welcome in heaven without further formalities!
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WhyNot,
You crack me up. LOL
I can just imagine you doing your “business” in the street…
We live in a rural area. We have a well, and septic. We don’t have to pay anyone for the privilege of the water that goes in one end, or the stuff that comes out the other end… LOL
I’ve heard Florida power is bad, but they charge half of what PP&L charges here in Pennsylvania. We truly get ass-fucked on our rates, and the service stinks. Outages take days to fix.
They knew this storm was coming for a week- yet they didn’t have enough people to deal with it. Some customers won’t be back on until this weekend. That’s a full week without power.
Our last outage lasted about 4 days. Having a generator makes it bearable.
And we get constant fluctuations here, pretty much every day. Having a UPS for the computers is just as necessary as having a generator.
We’re in dire straits here because of the storm. An entire railroad line has been washed out and won’t be restored for months. Bridges and roadways have been washed away, homes have been flooded and washed away, people have died. And every time I turn on the tv, I see another Republican spewing about how they want to do away with FEMA, defund NOAA, not fix the infrastructure that’s been damaged because it’ll cost too much.
God forbid we should do anything in this miserable hell hole of a country beside give more tax breaks to the rich cocksuckers…. and fight endless wars.
OK, rant over. I needed to get that out of my system.
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Bonbon and WhyNot,
“I can just imagine you doing your “business” in the street…”
Lol, me too. At my old home country in Chechnya, that happened often. The most difficult problem is having toilet paper, because newspapers are not much good.
WhyNot, I have never seen a “HLM”; are they really ugly and horrible?
I just watched part of a long movie, “The Da Vinci code”. I only watched half of it because I became so bored and annoyed. I am not sure if it is because I am not interested in Christian religion, but I think it is more than that, I think the story is stupid and of no interest today. Who cares Jesus was fucking Magdenela? Some people really have nothing to do except waste everybody’s time with their shit.
Anyway, there were some interesting photography scenes of Paris, and it’s a pity that a lot of that happens at night, and you can’t really see things very well. The Louvre looks like an interesting place. Valérie, you are lucky to live there, there must be lots to see and visit, not just the Eiffel Tower.
Bonbon,
“That’s a full week without power”
Lol, this and what you describe of electrical power where you live sounds very bad. It’s just like my old home in Chechnya, lol. It makes me think of a cartoon that WhyNot found once and published, where you see this a fat guy in the street with a Russian bonnet, and he is reading a newspaper, and he exclaims “Youpee! Government corruption, rigged elections, we are becoming just like America!!!”.
I have never voted in my life, but I don’t care.
I am imagining you robbing a bank in Québec, lol. At least you don’t have to worry about not understanding the bank employees with their strange accents. Machine guns speak the same language everywhere, and everybody understands what they say, lol.
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Hey gals ‘n guys, check this out:
I was walkin’ down the street - just like in the 10cc song “Dreadlock holiday”, but I wasn’t looking for a silver chain, I was merely doing my daily collect of cigarette butts.
Suddenly, I was confronted by what looked like a woman hidden behind 2 monumental … mmm … jugs. They seemed the size of the cannons of Navaronne. Actually, I’ll take that back because upon closer inspection, I realized the “cannons” were actually her nipples - her actual rogers were more like 2 Capes of Gibraltar which makes good sense since that’s where the cannons of Navaronne were sticking out of.
My first reaction was “oh fuck, I’m a gonner, born-again wacko Barb has come to gun me down and make me repent, repent and repent some more till the cows come home; and where’s Stiletto and her rocket launchers, huh?”.
But she wasn’t wearing a bible around her neck, nor was she armed with a deadly crucifix dildo, so I breathed with relief thinking “Relax, Phil! Barb’s still tumbling round in her cement mixer stuffing herself with bananas, you’re safe, Phil!”.
Feeling very joyously revived, I then thought “How the hell is this broad managing to stay in an upright position and not kiss the sidewalk?”.
I got the answer to this puzzle when she blobbered past me: her fat ass was indeed the size of the Gibraltar Cape - thus counterbalancing the monumental frontal protuberances.
Halleluya! I’m still alive! Jesus and Allah are hip!
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Stiletto,
“I only watched half of it because I became so bored and annoyed.”
LOL, I have seen it also and I agree with you it is very boring. And also very pretentious.
WhyNot,
Thank you for you comment n° 128!!! I laughed so much I nearly peed in my panties again! I have printed it so I can take it to the Eiffel Tower gardens and read it to the swans and the ducks. I bet they will laugh too!
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“Relax, Phil! Barb’s still tumbling round in her cement mixer stuffing herself with bananas”
Lol, I remember that, it was funny.
I saw a strange movie: “swordfish”. It’s very good, and the little girl is really amazing playing her role, but I don’t understand the end.
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Stiletto,
“…but I don’t understand the end.”
Lol, don’t worry, you’re not the only one, I couldn’t work it out either.
Speaking of movies, I saw an excellent FR film: “The Bourne Identity”, 2005. It has subtitles in EN, which is just as well cuz they speak at least 4 languages in it - and EN + FR is the best I can manage; forget Spanish, Italian and German.
There is a truly spectacular car chase right in the middle of Paris - Valérie, I’m sure you’ll absolutely LOVE it.
Lots of action and dead bodies (the “hero” is a real killing machine on 2 legs), and a very unusual romance… but I’ll leave ya’ll in suspense, lol.
Don’t know what the IMDB rating is, but it gets 9.5/10 from me.
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WhyNot,
“Valérie, I’m sure you’ll absolutely LOVE it.”
Yes!!! I don’t know how they managed to film that, I can imagine the big mess and the traffic jams in Paris, LOL! But it is a very good movie, full of suspense and intrigue, and unlike any other action film I have seen.
I had a horrible dream. I don’t remember most of it, but I remember that a man beat me up and throw me in the trunk of a car. Was it you, WhyNot, LOL?
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Valérie,
“Was it you, WhyNot, LOL?”
Lol, hell no, it’s not my style, but this reminds me of a Canadian movie where 2 cops/detectives, one from the English side, one from the French side, investigate a murder. The reason for this “duality” is that the body is found hanging off a huge road sign that is over the roadway, and naturally, half the body hangs on the English side, and the other half on the French side. This generates an interesting dispute as to which side is responsible for investigating the murder.
Anyway, they end up working on it together, and at some stage find themselves in a gun-shooting fight with a bunch of assholes. One of the 2 detectives throws one of the wounded assholes in the trunk of their cop car.
Doesn’t sound very funny explaining it like this, but it’s hilariously done in the film. In fact, the entire movie is excellent and a great source of suspense and fun.
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WhyNot,
I haven’t seen that Canadian movie but I will try to get it. And about films: I am in the middle of watching a really wonderful one, it’s called “Duma”. It starts in Africa, a white family lives there and they find an abandonned cheetah, a baby one.
They take it home, they raise him, and the cheetah becomes like a pet. I found it amazing because I didn’t think you could tame big wild cats like that.
There is some really wonderful photography of that cheetah and the boy of the family. There is also some really funny bits, like when they move to England and the cheetah escapes and runs around lose in a school, and everybody runs for their lives, lol, just like the Jurassic Park film when mommy T-Rex runs around very angry in the streets of San Diego - that was supposed to be scary, but I found it soooo funny.
I think I would like very much to have a cheetah. I think he would be even more effective than my dog to make my idiot customers behaving like humans instead of assholes.
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WhyNot,
the movie you are referring to is called “Bon Cop, Bad Cop”. It’s a Quebecois film. We picked that one up at the used DVD store we always go to when we’re up there.Yes, it’s a very good film, even hubby enjoyed it. Crime movies really aren’t his thing, but we will watch anything with a Montreal location.
Another offbeat Quebecois film we watched recently is called “Good Neighbors”:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1576440/
It’s a strange little film with a lot of funny parts, and twists and turns. I recommend it.
They make some great movie’s up there in the great white north… LOL
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Bonbon and WhyNot,
About “Bon Cop, Bad Cop”: I agree that it is a very entertaining film, and I was surprised that I understood nearly all of the Frenglish, LOL.
I’m watching a movie that is very very very very long, “Robin Hood, prince of thieves”. But it’s a pity that it is not very very very good, and that it is actually very very very boring LOL.
Stiletto,
I have seen “Duma”, what a great film! I don’t have cats or dogs, but I wouldn’t mind a cheetah like that one! I can just imagine going for walks, and him finding the ducks and the swans very interesting, LOL. If only he could catch those idiotic pigeons that shit everywhere!
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Valérie,
“it is actually very very very boring”
Lol, yes, kind of kills the fun, don’t it? I’ll make sure I keep away from it.
Bonbon,
“They make some great movie’s up there in the great white north”
Actually this is very true, especially considering the size of the population. Every Canadian movie I have seen so far has been somewhere between good and excellent. The problem for me now is to download them, so I’m stuck with my existing collection which is luckily very substantial.
Stiletto,
“Duma”… yeah, I’m not surprised you liked it. Quite a unique film which is not only entertaining as a movie/story, but a real eye opener on the star of the movie, i.e. the Cheetah. I’d say you learn more about cheetahs than from any animal documentary around.
PS: hey Bonbon, any news from Luna? Is she still hanging around the movies newsgroups?
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Valérie,
“If only he could catch those idiotic pigeons that shit everywhere!”
You should buy or make a sling. I wonder if pigeons are eatable.
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Stiletto,
pigeons are indeed “eatable”. Only they call them “squab” in fancy restaurants and charge an arm and a leg for them.
They’re still pigeons, but I believe they’re raised for food like chickens, as opposed to the chef running out to the park with a net and catching the little buggers…
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Bonbon, Stiletto,
“eatable”… lol, yep the wonders of the EN lingo. Mind you, the number of idiosynchrosies in FR far exceeds the one in EN. Some of them are so weird and wonderful they should be called “idiot synchrosies”.
There used to be a writer called “Jean-Charles”; he specialized in writing books dedicated to that subject and also to a very abundantly florishing one: the subject of students not understanding the topic, especially at exam times, and coming up with absolutely & delightfully … stupid, answers lol.
I don’t have the books any longer, but remember a couple of “perles” as he called them - I’m translating them in EN:
- the National Assembly was composed of 3 halves, 1 of which was equal to the sum of the other 2.
Beats Einstein’s theory of relativity, don’t it?
-The horse is an animal with 4 long legs that go all the way to the ground.
This might explain why pigs fly, right?
In one of his books, he had a chapter titled: “Les poules du couvent couvent“. The purpose was to highlight the fact that contrary to what most FR people think, there are plenty of weird things regarding pronunciation in FR.
“as opposed to the chef running out to the park with a net and catching the little buggers…”
Lololol, I have a mental vision of this delightful prospect. A whole armada of chefs from every restaurant in Paris running around the streets and parks with nets …
I had never heard of “squab”. Is it a Québec invention?
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“Lololol, I have a mental vision of this delightful prospect. A whole armada of chefs from every restaurant in Paris running around the streets and parks with nets …
I had never heard of “squab”. Is it a Québec invention?”
Yeah, I had to laugh at that too, even though I thought it up… chefs chasing after the pigeons and cursing in French when they get away… sacre bleu! Merde alors! Petits bâtards! LOL
You know, there so many of the dirty little bastards around this isn’t a bad idea…
No, squab isn’t a Québec invention, although it is served there. Pigeons have been raised domestically for food as far back as ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, and medieval Europe. It has always been considered a delicacy, and is said to taste like the dark meat of chicken.
I’ve never had it, but I would try it if I see it offered in any of the restaurants I go to.
You know me WhyNot, I’ll try anything… LOL
BTW- hubby wants to know what the weather is like in France in November. Some day we might take a trip there…
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Bonbon,
“sacre bleu! Merde alors! Petits bâtards!”
LOLLL, putain de TABERNACLE!!!
I don’t know if it is true, but I have read that many years ago, they tried something different to get rid of the pigeons here in Paris. They are especially annoying when they go inside churches because the ceilings are very high and there are many places to perch on. People who sit and listen to mass don’t like it when big pigeon shits splatter on their heads, LOL.
So they released some falcons to scare and hunt the pigeons. But it must not have worked because there are no falcons flying around now inside Notre Dame, but there are plenty of pigeons shitting on the people, LOL.
I wonder what the tourists say to their friends and family when they return home. They ask you “You went to Paris? What did you see? The Eiffel Tower?”. And you answer “Yes, and it is the only place where the pigeons don’t shit on you, i think they can’t fly that high”, LOLLL.
“what the weather is like in France in November”
Here in the north of France, it is getting cold, but it rarely snows in Paris. Where WhyNot is, down in the South, I’m not sure because I have never been there, but it must be warmer than here - that’s what it says on TV anyway, LOL.
Hey WhyNot: have you seen an Australian film called “Noise”? It’s rather recent, 2007 I think. It’s very good except that I don’t understand the end. Everybody is shot to death in the train wagon, the girl that survives still doesn’t know if the murderer is going to find her and kill her too, and the cop with the ringing in his ears doesn’t have any idea of anything. When you lived there, did you find the Australian police completely useless like it is shown in the film?
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Valérie,
““sacre bleu! Merde alors! Petits bâtards!”“LOLLL, putain de TABERNACLE!!!”
ROTFL- yeah- that one too! How could I forget?
“The only place the pigeons don’t shit on you…” LOL That was a good one…
I haven’t heard that about the pigeon problem in Notre Dame. In New York they do have hawks, but there aren’t enough hawks to keep up with all the pigeons. Especially with the frigging retarded humans feeding the damn things…
They are a dirty nuisance. Many years ago when my mother worked in New York she was in the street one day, and opened her purse to get something and a pigeon shit in her purse. I still laugh when I think about that. She was sooooo mad… LOL
I think the winters in the north of France must be mild compared to what we get here in the northeast US & Canada. We get a lot of snow and ice, and very cold temperatures, sometimes below zero (Fahrenheit) at night.
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Valérie,
“the cop with the ringing in his ears doesn’t have any idea of anything. When you lived there, did you find the Australian police completely useless”
Lol, yeah that’s about right. The only thing Oz cops excel at is giving you huge traffic fines.
Coming back to the film, there is another Oz film which is very good but really scary, can’t think of the name now; it’s about 4 young people who embark on a journey in a car, to explore the inland regions. Their car breaks down at some stage, and they come across that nutcase hillbillie who pretends to help them by towing them back to his den, only to lock them up in a hangar and start butchering them.
The tortures are gross and very explicit - the cinematography is unreal - well, actually, incredibly realistic. I nearly puked and fainted several times, and resorted to fast-forward when I couldn’t stand it anymore.
Why I mention this is because of your question: at the end of that very disturbing movie, there is a written paragraph that says something like:
“Every year in Australia, hundreds of people disappear without living a trace. Most of them are NEVER found”.
Anyone still keen on visiting Oz, lol?
Bonbon,
“and opened her purse to get something and a pigeon shit in her purse. I still laugh when I think about that. She was sooooo mad…”
Lol, what a lovely surprise.
“sometimes below zero (Fahrenheit) at night.”
Brrrr, that’s -32°C, I think. Sounds like fucking Siberia. Polar bear paradise!
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““sometimes below zero (Fahrenheit) at night.”
Brrrr, that’s -32°C, I think. Sounds like fucking Siberia. Polar bear paradise!”
Yeah, it gets really fucking cold here…
Zero Fahrenheit is -17.7 Celsius.
Except our polar bears are black and I usually am chasing after them with an umbrella to get them away from my bird feeder.
I don’t think the umbrella trick would work with a real polar bear. They would just laugh at me and then eat me…
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Bonbon,
“I usually am chasing after them with an umbrella to get them away from my bird feeder.”
Lolol, I would love to see a video of this!
WhyNot,
“Anyone still keen on visiting Oz, lol?”
Not me, thank you. Australia sounds like a country of savages.
I bought a bicycle and a light tent. This weekend I’m going to go exploring the countryside now that the weather is just nice, not too hot and not too cold. Rex will get some excercise running after the bicycle, lol.
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Oh my gosh, I haven’t checked in quite a while. Hello people!
Well, I hope that Stiletto has enjoyed her weekend camping. Hi Bonbon, Valerie and WhyNot.
Discussing weather, are we? Well, we didn’t have much hot weather, but it got up into the mid 80s here the day that the power went out over the entire county of San Diego, parts of Orange County, parts of Baja (Mexico) and part of Arizona and was out for 9 hours on average. It made the Wall Street Journal amongst other nationwide papers. It really was unprecedented.
I finished the Dexter book I was reading via flashlight, and my husband spent hours playing with his battery/crank/shake operated emergency flashlights and radios. We didn’t even know how widespread the power failure was for a couple of hours because the landlines and the cell phones were knocked out for a bit.
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Hi nunya,
sorry to hear about your power outage. But luckily it was just for a few hours.Power outages are a way of life here in Pennsylvania. We were out for 4 days once. And recently with hurricane Irene, we got hit really hard in this area and many people were out for over a week. We got lucky this time- we were only out for 24 hours.
We have a portable generator. You can’t survive here without one. It sucks up a lot of gas but at least it powers the well pump, sump pump, fridge, computers, tv, one air conditioner and a few lights.
I watch Dexter, but have never read the books. Maybe I’ll try one if I can find the audiobook. I mostly listen to audiobooks now, I don’t have the patience to deal with regular books anymore.
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Hi Bonbon,
The Dexter show is based on the books, so the characters are the same. What happens to the characters is very different. I used to read a lot, but I watch more stuff now because hey, what’s on Netflix is a lot for someone who never had even basic cable. I get sleepy listening to audio books, but a lot of people love them.
No power for 4 days in Pennysylvania? Dayum, sounds cold. You must have basement full of supplies, and that generator would be great. Target was the only corporate chain that stayed open because they had adequate generator power. Of course, in the Southwest so much power could be generated via individual photovoltaic collectors, but it aint like the power companies are encouraging that. They have plans for “green energy” but they are so slow as to barely be in compliance with state laws. http://www.sdge.com/sunrisepowerlink/renewable.html
No basements here and most people are lucky if they have a small closet with emergency supplies in it. The most pressing problems when the power goes out here are the fact that nobody (including retailers) is prepared, and there are problems with the water supply. 1 day with the power out and 4 different water districts in the county got the severe use restriction, and then boil it for 3 days afterwards. 90% of the water is imported here and it tastes rather like concrete because that’s how it travels from the CO river at the AZ border.
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Bonbon & Nunya,
Regarding power outages: what you both describe is the pits, but wait… I got one better still: Florida in summer. There, it’s 4 times a day you get your power cut off. I don’t know if it’s the whole of Florida, but that was the case in the Tampa/St Petersburg metropolis - not sure exactly, but prolly more than a millon inhabitants.
Naturally, for the privilege of such an outstanding service, Florida Power would charge you 3 times what the kWhr costs here, lol.
Nunya, I read the article in your link; there is something I completely fail to understand: why does the failure of a power line cause a nuclear power station to grind to a halt and even shut down? Until yesterday, nuke power stations produced electricity, and the bit which they use internally is just a drop in the bucket of what they generate.
See what I mean?
Stiletto,
“Rex will get some excercise running after the bicycle, lol.”
Atta girl! Better still… why don’t you strap Rex and get him to pull the bike? You know, like a horse pulling a carriage. Rex will get plenty of excercise. Bonus: you get to really enjoy staring at the scenery!
I once tried to strap my cats to pull my motorbike in order to save on gas, but those dumb fuckers just rolled on the ground hissing like rattlesnakes!
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Hi Nunya,
LOL- I DO get sleepy listening listening to audiobooks, and don’t usually listen for very long so it takes me a while to get through a book.But it’s great for insomnia… but I do find myself constantly rewinding to get back to the spot where I fell asleep.
Netflix is great, and if I didn’t have a bandwidth cap I would dump the cable and sign up. But since my ISP is the cable company, they are insuring that customers can’t do this.
I would say that’s a conflict of interest, but of course money talks- and buys politicians.
About the solar power- I have always said if every structure in the US were required to have at least one solar panel on the roof just feeding back into the grid, we could generate enormous amounts of clean, free electric.
Of course I always get jumped on for this view by Rethuglican oil company/big business loving conservative types. It interferes with “freedom”. Of course that freedom doesn’t extend to women and choices concerning their own bodies however…
I have a friend who is about to invest $27,000 in a solar collector array to feed into the grid. Once I see how his setup works out, we may consider something similar.
We don’t usually have basements here in PA either, mostly crawlspaces. But yes, I do have a fair amount of supplies so I could survive for a few months if no food were available. And we have a well so we at least have clean water.
You should get a Brita pitcher if your water is that bad. It doesn’t get rid of all the nasty stuff, but it helps.
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WhyNot,
we suffer power outages every day here. I’ve gotten to the point of not bothering to reset the clock on the stove and microwave because I’d be resetting it again in an hour or two.Thankfully, they’re usually brief outages. A UPS for the computers is a necessity here. But the outages still wreak havoc with air conditioners and the refrigerator.
But I would bet that Florida customers pay less for electric than we do here in Pennsylvania. Our electric rates are obscene, just like our property taxes…
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WhyNot,
“but wait… I got one better still … There, it’s 4 times a day you get your power cut off”
What are you complaining of? You should go to Chechnya, there your power is only ON 4 times a year, lol.
“but those dumb fuckers just rolled on the ground hissing like rattlesnakes!”
Lol, I don’t think Rex would like to have a harness to pull the bicycle either.
Bonbon,
“It interferes with “freedom”. Of course that freedom doesn’t extend to women and choices concerning their own bodies however…”
Usually right-wing assholes think that “freedom” means that rich people have the right to fuck you in the ass, and poor people have the right to scream while they are being fucked in the ass.
And if they are also born-again religious assholes, then they fuck you in the ass with a Jesus dildo, lol. I remember the one Amelopsis published here, it was so funny. I wonder where she is. I liked her. Her boyfriend YoungFox Canada was a very interesting guy, I saw his blog once.
“Our electric rates are obscene, just like our property taxes…”
You also should move to Chechnya: there is no property tax, you can chose the big crater in the ground for your main residence, and you can have the smaller crater for your holiday residence. You can even design your own crater, all you need is a rocket launcher, there are plenty of them lying around that are a bit fucked, but can be repaired, lol.
I am watching a strange film: El Maquinista. 2004. I don’t know why it has a Spanish name, the film is in English. A guy works in a big machinery factory where they work on metal; he is so skinny that he looks like he has come out of Auschwitz. There is an accident with the machines, and another guy loses 3 fingers. I wonder how it is going to end, probably not happily, this film is very dark in mood.
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It’s interesting what you all say about power cuts. It makes me think of when people here talked about sources of energy to make electricity.
Microdot said there should be solar panels on every roof top and wind turbines everywhere. Hahahaha!!! I’d like to see how ugly Paris would become if there was huge wind turbines at every street corner, LOL.
Anyway, I like it the way it is now. There are no nuclear power plants in Paris, and I think the nearest one is at least 200 km away. But they seem to work well because they give electricity to nearly 20 million people, and I have never had a power cut in several years that I live here.
Stiletto,
“I remember the one Amelopsis published here, it was so funny.”
LOLLL, yes it was very funny. I think Jeanette fainted, LOL; to me, that is a strange reaction because I am religious but I don’t see anything bad about joking about religion. I don’t see why religion should have a special right that makes it that you can joke about anything except religion. A joke is a joke, isn’t it? For me, all that counts is that it is clever and funny.
Bonbon,
“Our electric rates are obscene”
How much do you pay per kWhr?
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WhyNot,
“there is something I completely fail to understand: why does the failure of a power line cause a nuclear power station to grind to a halt and even shut down?”
Dude. I don’t understand it either. Florida sounds like it was a horrendous experience for you. A few months ago there was this kid who made a video called “50 State stereotypes in 2 minutes” and this kid was hilarious, but the Florida stereotype stands out in my mind it was “Florida, the more north you go the more south it gets.” Funny because everyone knows how stupid and racist the south can be. Keep in mind that most people do not consider Southern California “the south.” The kid had a hard time coming up with something because CA has so many people, climates and space but here it is: “Gay Mexican boobjob computer hippies who really wanna direct.” transcript of video
Bonbon,
Here I am in 1983 visiting a photovoltaic array. The Vietnamese guy was my boyfriend and the first guy to ask me to marry him. Man, he was funny, and smart. I hope his life turned out well, he was a great guy, I just wasn’t ready to get married.
Anyhoo, the post I linked to is blunt, and yes, I’m a big believer in solar, even if the fucking politicians are paid by the oil and gas companies to poo poo it. Your friend needs space to store the batteries that the collectors charge, and I think that cold weather affects batteries, so have your friend research that.
People here all have Brittas, but I prefer to keep 10-15 gallons of water that comes from the vending machine that runs the water through reverse osmosis, an activated carbon filter, a micron filter, a post carbon filter and an ultraviolet light. I rarely buy single plastic bottles of water because they don’t taste as good as the vending machines I use. At 30 cents a gallon it’s cheaper than single use bottled water because I re-use single, twist top Gatorade bottles, dispensed from the 5 gallon bottles that cost $1.50 to refill. I always have in mind the plastic trash gyres in our oceans, so I try not to make it worse.
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Hi Stiletto
” Usually right-wing assholes think that “freedom” means that rich people have the right to fuck you in the ass, and poor people have the right to scream while they are being fucked in the ass.”
lol, lol, you certainly got that right, honey. I thought of everyone here when I saw this article, especially since Barb is from Ohio.
WEDNESDAY, SEP 28, 2011 08:01 ET
The worst states to be female
Ohio, Virginia, Kansas and South Dakota are leading the conservative war on women’s health.Here is another article that caught my eye this morning because since my dad was a computer programmer for years and he said years ago that he didn’t trust the electronic voting machines, I’ve been watching these developements.
By Brad Friedman on 9/27/2011 10:17am
National Security Lab Hacks Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machine by Remote Control With $26 in Computer Parts:
Hack team leader: ‘Can do similar things on pretty much every e-voting machine’…So, the whole world hates Americans because they “elected” George W. Bush twice, but did we? Really? The Supreme Court and the media handed the stupid fucker the presidency in 2000, and I often wonder if the voting machines flipped the results in ‘04. People tell me I’m smart all the time, but nobody fucking listens to me.
I saw the movie you speak of, the title is in Spanish because it was filmed in Spain, although it’s titled “The Machinist” here in the US. I liked it well enough, but I didn’t think it was fabulous. I’ve been catching up on NCIS LA because I love the eye candy, and the character developement is moving along nicely
The character in charge is this tiny, older woman who everyone is a bit frightened by, but they still love and respect her. “Hetty” has some of the funniest lines in the show. I’m sure glad you’re not in Chechnya any more, hon.
Valérie,
” A joke is a joke, isn’t it? For me, all that counts is that it is clever and funny.”
Yes it is sweetheart, and I love it that you enjoy life and laughter so much.
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Nunya,
In your link to your blog, you mention that photovoltaic collectors are notoriously inefficient as a source of electricity. Mmmm.. can you please explain/expand on that? Do you mean that, for instance, for one kilowatt of sunlight power absorbed, you only get, say, an output of 0.1 kW of electricity (again as an example - I have no idea what the typical efficiency is for solar panels).
If so, who cares? The energy sent to us by the sun is not only 100% free, but it’s there all the time wether we like it or not. If we don’t use it, then it is simply lost. In this light, one could say solar panels are the most efficient electricity generators in existence.
My understanding of the failure of solar panels to become popular is 1) their high cost of manufacture and installation, 2) the fact only a small proportion of the population are in a location physically eligible; by this I mean:
1) you need a large surface area; most people in western countries live in apartments where, except for the top floor, NOBODY has any surface area at all.
2) in countries close to the poles, solar power is completely useless, unless you are willing to have electricity for only 6 months of the year.
I think it is clear solar panels are in the league of wind power, i.e. useful as a complementary source of electricity when the natural elements permit it, but are certainly not in the category of claiming to be THE solution to our energy needs.
The only known source of energy which would is nuclear fusion, but it seems a long way away before we see the results. The international project “ITER” is, as far as I know, at a standstill. Pity!
“especially since Barb is from Ohio.”
Good ole’ Barb. I wonder if she’s still stuck in that cement mixer, rolling around eating bananas all day long, lol.
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Nunya,
“So, the whole world hates Americans because they “elected” George W. Bush twice, but did we?”
Jeanette said that she voted for him 4 times, LOL.
I don’t think the whole world is as stupid as that; I don’t know anybody here who hates Americans, and even less so because of electing Bush. After all, how could we criticize? We elected the fascist Sarkozy and we don’t even have the excuse of voting machines!!!
There are lots of Americans in Paris, not just the tourists, but ones who live here as ex-pats - they are about 150 000, I have read). 99% of them who come to my restaurant are always really nice, not like the English who are mostly arrogant pigs.
WhyNot,
You know, I have never met anybody who complains about electricity in this country. It is 100% reliable, it is always there, there are no big fluctuations and spikes on the 230V line, so a UPS is really an unnecessary waste of money spent on. Plus it is the cheapest in Europe.
So yes, I am very happy with nuclear power stations. I don’t understand why some people go crazy hating it. What is their stupid problem?
I’ll never forget that idiotic suggestion that Microdot made that there should be wind turbines on every roof top of Paris. LOL.
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Valérie,
“So yes, I am very happy with nuclear power stations. I don’t understand why some people go crazy hating it. What is their stupid problem?”I don’t mean to sound snarky- but pay a visit to Japan or Chernobyl and see how well nuke power worked out for them.
This power is dangerous to the entire planet. I do not like having the control of it in the hands of irresponsible corporations who put profits over human and all other life.
Shit happens, and an out of control nuclear reactor is a threat to ALL of us.
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Nunya,
I love NCIS LA, and “Hetty” is my favorite character.I’ve always liked Linda Hunt anyway, but I think this is a great role for her. She may be small, but look out- she’s dangerous… LOL
Plus it’s always good to see older characters on tv shows like “Ducky” on NCIS, another favorite of mine.
BTW- I share your view about the voting machines. Did you watch the film “Hacking Democracy”? It’s about the electronic voting machines, and how easy they are to hack.
There was nothing wrong with the old voting machines, this was all part of the plan to insure that whoever gets elected is the one chosen by The Powers That Be, not by the people.
The American public is stupid. They believe what they’re told like the good little sheep they are.
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this is the 3rd time I’ve tried to post this comment, so this is an abbreviated version
What it Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the US
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Bonbon,
I used to watch the original NCIS, but I started hating the Israeli agent so much that I couldn’t watch it anymore. Ironically, it was around the time I met the first Israeli I that I liked, an Arab Christian. Ducky bugs me, I love Hetty because she is a strong female character. I would have to say thatAbby was my favorite character on the original. Is that somewhat predjudiced against men? Yeah. Women still make around 70 cents for every dollar a man makes in this country. If I prefer to watch strong female characters because of my irritation at that fact, oh well.
the voting machines. *sigh* like I said, my dad was a programmer who finally quit because he got sick of debugging the same fucking problems over and over again. He says he doesn’t trust them (even the ballot scanner/tabulators) and that’s good enough for me, but yes, I did see “Hacking Democracy.”
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Ok, you wonderful French people, I’m glad that the nuclear power works for you, but there is too much politcal corruption, too manyNIMBYs and too many fucking earthquakes for it to work well in California.
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Nunya,
Oh yes, I adore Abby on NCIS. She is just so cute and smart.I like the character Penelope Garcia on Criminal Minds also. She plays the same type of super smart fem-geek, plus she’s got some meat on her bones, she’s one of the few characters on tv that isn’t a size 3.
Renewable energy is not a one size fits all. it will have to come from a combination of different technologies, no one source will provide all we need. Just like a recipe, we’ll need a little of this, and a little of that.
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Hey guys, who has heard of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests? They have been going on in New York for 3 weeks now and they are spreading across the US!!!
Here is a 12 minute video report from the Democracy Now website.
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Bonbon,
“I do not like having the control of it in the hands of irresponsible corporations who put profits over human and all other life.”
I agree. However, all nuke power stations in France are owned and run by EDF which is not a private corporation but a gov-owned one. I’m not sure what you mean about Japan - to my knowledge, the only instance of nuclear disaster occuring there is the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - not exactly the same thing as a nuclear power station, lol.
“It’s about the electronic voting machines, and how easy they are to hack.”
Reminds me of something funny: apparently, during the infamous occupation of Algeria in the first half of the 20th century, some clever dick working for De Gaulle and his puppet govt found out that the color “violet” was THE favorite among the natives.
And so, next elections, all the pro-DeGaulle pamphlets and voting slips were color… yep you guessed it, violet! lol.
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Bonbon,
“Renewable energy is not a one size fits all. it will have to come from a combination of different technologies, no one source will provide all we need. Just like a recipe, we’ll need a little of this, and a little of that.”
Yes, and I’ve heard that in New Zealand, they have lots of sheep, and they fart all the time. So they are thinking of putting airbags on their rear-ends to capture all the methane, LOL!
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WhyNot,
“I’m not sure what you mean about Japan - to my knowledge, the only instance of nuclear disaster occuring there is the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki…”You’re jerking my chain- right??? Seriously???
Where were you on March 11, 2011? Do you not have news in France?
There was a 9.0 earthquake in the Pacific ocean, and Japan was hit with a massive tsunami, which completely destroyed parts of Japan, and hit the Fukushima nuke plant.
The power went out, the backup generators only lasted a couple of days, and several reactors went into full meltdown.
Not only that, they were storing used fuel rods there that wound up getting exposed to the atmosphere when all the coolant drained out of the tanks they were being kept in.
It’s still far from over…
They can’t control it. It’s still spewing radiation into the atmosphere every single day, and that contamination has been detected in the rain and soil in the US for months.
But I guess in France, like here- you don’t hear about it on the news because out of sight- out of mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
Good God man, I can’t believe you didn’t know about this.
This is worse than Chernobyl. Basically, Japan is toast.
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Bonbon,
“Where were you on March 11, 2011? Do you not have news in France?”
Lol, well, I think most ppl do, but I don’t, seeing I don’t have TV nor a phone landline (nor cell, for that matter) - and therefore I use the public computer at the townhall to access the internet.
Anyway, thanks for the wiki link. It does sound drastic. Still, somehow I have faith the Japanese will find a solution. Japanese ppl have proven over the centuries to have an uncanny resilience. They DID survive Hiroshima and Nagasaki, didn’t they?
Off topic but still about Japan: have you ever been there? Most interesting place.
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Valérie,“So they are thinking of putting airbags on their rear-ends to capture all the methane”
Lol, I like the idea very much. We don’t have billions of sheep in France, but we have politicians who talk through their assholes non-stop; I’m sure they generate more methane than a million sheep.
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Films: I have watched several James Bond films. Does anyone like them? I know they are very corny, but I still find them entertaining.
WhyNot,
“about Japan: have you ever been there? Most interesting place.”
What is it like? I have seen a few Japanese films but I didn’t like them.
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Dudes!!!!!
The Occupy Wall Street protests are spreading across the nation. This is a good sign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnGBQYOHo_khttp://twitter.com/#!/search/%23occupywallstreet
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Nunya,
“The Occupy Wall Street protests are spreading across the nation.”
Geee… 300 million people in Wall Street? I’d like to see that, lol. The Mother of all traffic jams…
Hey ppl, I watched a movie yesterday - forgot the name already, lol; anyway, in it, there was an excerpt of “Skating in Central Park”, a tune by the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Has any of you ppl heard of that group?
“Ironically, it was around the time I met the first Israeli I that I liked, an Arab Christian.”
Odile (last ex girlfriend) had, among her many cosmopolitan friends, a couple (as in hubby & wife); he was Israeli, she was Swedish - I can’t remember their first names (I think hers was Miko). We were invited to their place for dinner once. She was really nice, a bit timid in joining the conversation, but that was most prolly due to the fact he was such a bully asshole who just couldn’t get tired of hearing himself talking.
He bragged about how, years before, he had been in the armed forces (of Israel) and how he got wounded by those “Palestinian dogs” but “they were all cowards and you should see them flee like flies when the Israel tanks showed up in their filthy stinking villages”.
What a fascist fucktard this guy was.
I wonder if that conflict will ever get resolved. What a monumental fuck up it was when the allies decided, at the end of WW2, to create the state of Israel.
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WhyNot,
“I wonder if that conflict will ever get resolved. What a monumental fuck up it was when the allies decided, at the end of WW2, to create the state of Israel.”
Gonna have to agree with you on that one, especially since both sides have God on their side, it might not ever be reslolved. *sigh*
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“they were all cowards and you should see them flee like flies when the Israel tanks showed up in their filthy stinking villages”
And then Israelis wonder why Palestinians use suicide to fight back. Why doesn’t the west give them F16s, tanks and helicopters? “cowards”… the real cowards are the israelis. This makes me think of that idiot Jeanette, she said once “I wish I was Jew”. So: being a born again retarded enough is not enough for her, she wants to be a born again retarded Jew. Lol.
I had a strange dream: there was Germans and Russians fighting in a war inside a big city. Some Germans decided to use a trick and disguise as Russians so that they could get closer without getting shot and so that they could kill lots of them easily. But they fucked it because their disguise wasn’t very good, so the Germans fired on them because the disguises was good enough for them and they thought they were Russians, but the Russians could tell the disguises were fakes and so they also fired on them, lol.
Valérie,
“Does anyone like them? I know they are very corny, but I still find them entertaining.”
They are ok for me. I like all the gadgets that they make for James Bond.
I saw a very good and very funny Canadian film: “Bon cop, bad cop”.
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Stiletto,
Your dream is funny. Maybe it is how the Germans lost WW2, LOL. Most of the time, I never remember my dreams. It would be nice if someone invented something that recorded your dreams and burned an AVI on DVD, this way you could play it back exactly.
I can’t complain about Jeanette, she was never mean to me. I don’t know why she wants to be Jew - maybe born-again is not really what she wants to be. For me, I don’t care, I’m catholic but in my own recipe, so many catholics will say I am not really a true one. But again I don’t care because only God can decide if you have tried hard enough in your life to be a good person and I am sure he doesn’t care if you call yourself catholic, protestant, hindu or atheist.
“Bon cop bad cop”: I liked it also very much. It’s funny because I think Canada doesn’t have a big population, but they make many good films.
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I am in the middle of watching “Chicago”. It is a bit like a musical, there is plenty in the story that is made with dancing and singing - in a cabaret style. The woman who killed her lover finds herself in prison, but since the lover was a really nasty wicked cheating man, I don’t feel sorry for him, but I feel sorry for her.
I hope it ends well and that she gets released from prison.
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Valérie,
“I hope it ends well and that she gets released from prison.”
I’ve seen this movie too but that was a while back; from memory, her greedy lawyer manages to get her free. It’s a very unusual movie - very good IMHO.
Anybody seen the “Titanic” movie?
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Hey ppl, here is a lil game:What are 1) your favorite animals 2) your most disliked ones.
Here are mine:
1) Favorite:
- Tiger
- Panther/Leopard, including Snow-leopard.
- Any other “big” cat
- Domestic cat
- Horse2) most disliked:
- Mosquitoes
- Flies
- Barking dogs -
I can’t think of my favorite ones, but my most disliked one is those stupid pigeons!
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I forgot to say: “Titanic”: yes, I have seen it. It is very good and very well done, but how sad it is, especially because it is a true story.
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I watched a very upsetting film: “Hotel Rwanda”. It is the massacre of the Hutus by the Tutsis in Rwanda. Nearly 1 million people hacked to pieces with machetes while alive. And the UN soldiers not being authorized to do anything except watch the massacre. I am very angry and I feel like kicking all the furniture.
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Stiletto,
“I am very angry and I feel like kicking all the furniture.”
Lol, don’t do it, it won’t help anyway and you’ll only regret it. But I empathize with your feelings.
Try this movie for size: “Overboard”. 1987, I think. It’s a delightful romantic comedy which will leave you with a real feel-good aftertaste. The acting is excellent, the story very unusual and there are a few true-ROFLMAO sketches. 9.5/10 from me. Oh, and although it is an American movie, there are no car chases, no guns, no killings, no helicopters, no cops… so… see, yanks can do it when they try hard enough
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“Try this movie for size: “Overboard”. ”
Oh yes, it is a really wonderful film!
How is everybody’s weather? Here it’s really cold for several days and I don’t like it at all. I hope the stupid pigeons freeze and fall off the buildings, LOL. The only good thing about this weather is that there are less customers at the restaurant.
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Is everybody asleep or in hibernation?
Now it is not only cold in Paris, but it is raining all the time and I am very tired of it. When I am not working I stay at home and I miss saying bonjour to the ducks and the swans, but I haven’t found a way to grow waterproof feathers yet, LOL.
Stiletto and WhyNot, I know one of you has been here this weekend because there was a lot of SPAM and now it’s gone. There was a funny one actually, but it was about 50 pages long - a bit like the bible crap that Barb used to post all the time, LOL.
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Valérie,
“Is everybody asleep or in hibernation?”
Both. I now sleep 23 hours a day. I’m saving heaps on food and cigarettes.
“but I haven’t found a way to grow waterproof feathers yet”
That’s a real pity; I think you’d look smashing with feathers all over your lil udders, lol.
“There was a funny one actually, but it was about 50 pages long - a bit like the bible crap that Barb used to post all the time”
Egad, don’t even mention it, it might waken Barb up…
Ok ppl, I’m watching a really really stupid sci-fi movie. Shit, I forgot the name already, “serenity”, I think or something like it. The story line is as dumb as a Donald Duck comic, and the acting is of the same caliber. The special effects are thank goodness reasonably good.
Hey, here is an interesting question for y’all: what’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen? I hesitate between “the shaun of the dead” which consists of human-flesh-eating zombies right through the movie, and another which I forgot the title of but is a sci-fi movie where the first 4 minutes are a completely black screen with really boring background music, followed by another 10 minutes of a bunch of men disguised as apes and grunting to each others in ape language (and no subtitles, of course!).
How movies like these actually make it to the box office is completely beyond my comprehension, lol.
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Stiletto,
“I watched a very upsetting film: “Hotel Rwanda”. It is the massacre of the Hutus by the Tutsis in Rwanda. Nearly 1 million people hacked to pieces with machetes while alive. And the UN soldiers not being authorized to do anything except watch the massacre. I am very angry and I feel like kicking all the furniture.”Yes honey, it IS a very upsetting movie, mostly because it really happened. I cried long and hard when I watched it.
It is horrible to see what mobs that are incited by propaganda will do (the men who controlled the radio transmissions).
There are hard lessons to be taken from that movie. I’m sure that eventually you will be able to separate yourself from the horrors you experienced to see them. You are an incredibly intelligent young lady.
Don Cheadle plays the hotel manager and he is one of my favorite actors, he is quite good.
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WhyNot,
“I now sleep 23 hours a day. I’m saving heaps on food and cigarettes.”
Lol. Nice job if you can get it. What about the cats?
Nunya,
“You are an incredibly intelligent young lady.”
Thank you, I must be related to you lol, I always like what you have to say. You and Bonbon are very interesting for me because you are Americans and live there, and because USA sticks its nose everywhere in the world and usually shits all over everybody, it is very useful to have the opinion of smart people like you. It compensates for the cretinous sheep minds of born-again fuckwits like Barb and Jeanette who stick their Jesus dildos in their pussies and scream joyous orgasms every time mass murderer Bush fucked other countries in the ass.
How is your daughter? Still at university?
It’s a pity it is very cold where I live because I am itching to go explore the country. My bicycle is very bored. And Rex is even more bored, he looks like he wants to bite the asses of my customers, lol. I am waiting impatiently for spring.
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Stiletto,
“cretinous sheep minds of born-again fuckwits…”
Lol. Well, you know, if there is one thing in their favor, none of these born-again religions advocate violence. Anyway, you have nothing to fear from them in Europe - they are thankfully inexistent; the only one which tried to organize something a decade or two ago (the church of scientology) was taken to court and disbanded/dismantled and their organizers sued big money and jail sentences on the grounds of “extortion” (of money), and other reasons.
Nunya,
“It is horrible to see what mobs that are incited by propaganda will do”
You can say that again: the Sarkozy bullshit seems to work - the little fascist asshole is still president. Huge sigh.
“You are an incredibly intelligent young lady. ”
Egad, you done it now! There will be no shutting her up!
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WhyNot,
“the Sarkozy bullshit seems to work - the little fascist asshole is still president. Huge sigh.”
LOL, yes he is. I dream pigeons shit on his head!
“Egad, you done it now! There will be no shutting her up!”
LOLLL, I am pretty hard to make me shut up too!
I watched a very nice American film: “Just like heaven”, 2005. It is not very deep but it is very cute and really good entertainment. The 2 heros are very good looking. I have watched other films too, I can’t remember the titles but they were very good also.
This is good because it is raining all the time here and I am stuck in my apartment. No ducks and swans for me in this shit weather, thank you! Paris has become the capital of the world in raining!
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Valérie,
“I watched a very nice American film: “Just like heaven”, 2005. It is not very deep but it is very cute and really good entertainment. The 2 heros are very good looking. I have watched other films too, I can’t remember the titles but they were very good also.”
I like that film
I’ve been watching an HBO show (on Netflix, no advertising!) about a gun running motocycle club in Northern California called “Sons of Anarchy” and “Being Human”(UK version) which is about a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost who end up being housemates. I suppose you could say that my entertainment tastes are all over the map, lol. “This is good because it is raining all the time here and I am stuck in my apartment. No ducks and swans for me in this shit weather, thank you! Paris has become the capital of the world in raining!”
Gee, can we have some of your rain? We only get 2 inches a year. 90% of the water here comes from the Sierra Nevada snowpack melt and Northern California, but not many people know that and they plant landscaping that works well in a place where there is lots of rain. They should be planting native plants like this .
Stiletto,
” Thank you, I must be related to you lol, I always like what you have to say. You and Bonbon are very interesting for me because you are Americans and live there, and because USA sticks its nose everywhere in the world and usually shits all over everybody, it is very useful to have the opinion of smart people like you. It compensates for the cretinous sheep minds of born-again fuckwits like Barb and Jeanette who stick their Jesus dildos in their pussies and scream joyous orgasms every time mass murderer Bush fucked other countries in the ass.”Well, I’ll take it as a compliement that we must be related
And yes, there are many of us Americans who wish idiots didn’t vote here! There are many of us who look at the obligation of Christians to “witness” the wonders of their religion to others and proselytize with a bit of disapproval. I’ve always thought that that was one of the more annoying things about Christianity. It doesn’t irritate me any more or less than some of the 7th century misogynistic bullshit associated with Islam though. And the fact that you can be killed for changing from Islam to Christianity is just so hard for Americans to believe, what with our freedom of religion and freedom FROM religion written into our Constitution.
” It’s a pity it is very cold where I live because I am itching to go explore the country. My bicycle is very bored. And Rex is even more bored, he looks like he wants to bite the asses of my customers, lol. I am waiting impatiently for spring”
Ahh, be patient little one. Try to enjoy the holiday lights and decorations. My Muslim neighbor kids love Christmas trees, so their mom gets them one. They can be quite pretty, and they make the house smell good
” How is your daughter? Still at university? “
Yes, she is still there. She did the graduation walk, even though she had another quarter to finish up. She will fly down for Christmas, but she wants to continue living in the town where her university is so she’ll fly back up. I’m a little sad because I still miss her, but I want her to be happy and if that’s where she wants to start her life as an adult I’m not one to meddle.I just hope she can get a job. This country is a mess. There are 309 million people in this country and 40 million of them are on food stamps and every day people file for bankruptcy because of medical bills. Goddamned banksters!
WhyNot,
“You can say that again: the Sarkozy bullshit seems to work - the little fascist asshole is still president. Huge sigh.”
Yup, most of the world leaders are in bed with the banksters and big business. *sigh*
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Nunya,
“We only get 2 inches a year. 90% of the water here comes from the Sierra Nevada snowpack melt ”
Is that a part of the Rocky Mountains ? I saw a film a few months ago. It is set in California, I can’t remenber where exactly but in the South. There is very little rain water and there is a river that gives water to the residents and the orange groves. But there is a greedy fascist capitalist who doesn’t want the orange groves to survive, he wants all the orange trees to die of thirst so that their owners will sell their land for peanuts. And so he poisons the river and manages to change its direction (or something like that).
“7th century misogynistic bullshit associated with Islam though…”
Lol, those fanatic muslims are completely crazy. There are lots of Arabs in France, but very few are religious.
WhyNot, where are you ? I just cleaned up dozens of SPAMs.
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Stiletto,
“I just cleaned up dozens of SPAMs”
Thanks honeybun. You’d think those cretins have learned by now they are wasting their time. Sorry about the delay: the free computer at the townhall was down for a few days.
“And so he poisons the river and manages to change its direction (or something like that)”
This movie rings a bell. The things people do for money… mind-boggling. They’d sell their children and parents if they could find a buyer.
“There are lots of Arabs in France, but very few are religious.”
True. I have had nothing but pleasant experiences with Arabs in France. In fact, it’s not only the Arabs who are not religious, the Caucasians aren’t either. Religion is virtually completely dead, not only in France but in nearly all 27 European countries. The big church which is right opposite my apartment never has services - it only opens for the occasional marriage or burial ceremony - that’s about once every 3 months.
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Nunya,“There are 309 million people in this country and 40 million of them are on food stamps and every day people file for bankruptcy because of medical bills. Goddamned banksters!”
Geee, that’s some 15% of the population. You know, it’s not quite as bad here, but it ain’t glorious either. The only thing that is significantly better is health care which is basically completely free if you’re onl very low income; however, the unemployment benefits have been frozen ever since our little fascist pig Sarkozy became emperor of France and Corsica; in the meantime, inflation, although quite low, has continued its course.
The net result is that people out of work are becoming poorer every year. I’m on food stamps too - distributed by our communist party townhall - 90 euros/month, so no meat, fish or seafood for me, lol. But I don’t care if I eat potatoes every day.
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Stiletto,
“And Rex is even more bored, he looks like he wants to bite the asses of my customers”
LOLLLLLL! Maybe you can have special tarifs for different things, just like in a restaurant menu? For example you could have:
- missionary position screw: 100 euros
- blowjob: 90 euros
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Extras: king-size big bite in the ass by T-Rex: 50 eurosNunya,
I really like the healthy attitude you have with your daughter. You should invite her here, I bet she is very smart and funny, and also, she could share her experiences. Does she like to laugh?
WhyNot,
“I’m on food stamps too - distributed by our communist party townhall”
The communist party in France are good people. And the socialist party too. It’s a pity we have an idiot right-wing fascist Sarkozy for president. There must be too many rich people in France and of course they vote fascist.
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Valérie,
“Extras: king-size big bite in the ass by T-Rex: 50 euros”
Lol. I don’t want to get into trouble with the law here, I don’t like the idea of Sarkozy deporting me. But I like your idea, especially because Rex would probably like it even more.
“The communist party in France are good people. And the socialist party too. It’s a pity we have an idiot right-wing fascist Sarkozy for president. There must be too many rich people in France and of course they vote fascist.”
This is interesting for me because I don’t understand too well the French politics.I don’t have nearly anything to do with the French system anyway, I’m just here and the stupid government doesn’t know it, lol.
It’s strange how my country fucked things with socialism and now it is one of the worst fucked capitalist countries in the world, and in the meantime, the capitalist countries of Europe are becoming more socialist than Russia ever really was.
WhyNot,
“But I don’t care if I eat potatoes every day.”
I am sorry. Can you make chips? I love chips. I have never seen it myself, but I heard of a story of a very poor woman in north of Russia a long time ago who used to sit on her potatoes to warm them up so that she could eat them not nearly frozen.
It makes you think, doesn’t it? When we complain that our electricity is too expensive and all those things.
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Hi yall! I thought you gave up on commenting here so I didn’t check in for a while.
Stiletto,
“Is that a part of the Rocky Mountains ? I saw a film a few months ago. It is set in California, I can’t remenber where exactly but in the South. There is very little rain water and there is a river that gives water to the residents and the orange groves. But there is a greedy fascist capitalist who doesn’t want the orange groves to survive, he wants all the orange trees to die of thirst so that their owners will sell their land for peanuts. And so he poisons the river and manages to change its direction (or something like that).”
That sounds like part of southern California’s history. See the movie “Chinatown” as it is is a great way to learn about the “water wars” in CA. The Salton Sea is a result of changing the direction of the river.
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Valérie,
“Nunya,I really like the healthy attitude you have with your daughter. You should invite her here, I bet she is very smart and funny, and also, she could share her experiences. Does she like to laugh? “
Thank you, that is sweet of you to say. She is smart and funny, and so was her dad until the meth took over his life. Yes, she loves to laugh, I hope she laughs when she comes home for Christmas, but I am not sure I want her bf here for an extended stay because I had extra ppl in my apt for 5 months straight.
I’m sure that she would love Paris, especially if she got to meet you
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WhyNot,
90 euros doesn’t sound like much food at all. Potatoes are cheap? Everything in San Diego is expensive, except of course the crap that is subsidized by taxpayers, like corn syrup in junk foods, bleh. It is getting harder and harder here to find foods without corn syrup sweeteners in them. It’s less expensive to buy prepared foods (for small households) in restaurants than it is to buy the food and prepare it yourself now. Our food is crap though, thanks to our corporate owned and operated Congress. I like that the Europeans are more concerned with what goes into their food.
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Stiletto,
“the capitalist countries of Europe are becoming more socialist than Russia ever really was.”
I think it is true of the nordic countries like Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweeden and Finland, but the south countries are bad news: Francre, Greece, Spain, Italy, Greece: they all have disgusting right-wing governments that are nearly fascist.
“who used to sit on her potatoes to warm them up so that she could eat them not nearly frozen.”
LOLLLLLLLLL, sorry I know it is not supposed to be funny, but I can’t stop laughing because I am imagining coming back from the shopping and having to sit on my big bags of frozen potato chips.
Everybody,
I saw a really really great film: “In her shoes”. Anybody else seen it? It is very wonderful, and it has a happy end. I hate it when there is a depressing sad end.
Nunya,
I had extra ppl in my apt for 5 months straight.
LOLLL, you must have gone gaga and want to kill them!!! The most I can stand people staying is just one night if it is late after a small party and they want to sleep here. Even my boyfriend, I can’t stand it if he hangs around all day; spending the evening and the night is great, but I want him to get out of my hair in the morning!
“I like that the Europeans are more concerned with what goes into their food.”
It is a pity we can upload food on the internet, just like we can do with movies, LOL. My restaurant is a not a pretentious expensive gourmet restaurant, but the food is still very good, and I wish I could upload you some, LOL.
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Valérie,
“coming back from the shopping and having to sit on my big bags of frozen potato chips.”
Lol, take a photo please!
“Anybody else seen it?”
Yes, it’s very good; and speaking of movies, I just saw a really excellent one: “Good Will Hunting”, 1996 I think. The story is very unusual (and interesting), and the acting is out of this world. The young woman has an unusual face - meaning she is quite beautiful but not your standard beauty - if that makes any sense.
She has another unusual trait: her laughter; it is the funniest laughter I have ever heard, sounds a bit like a hyena, lol, it’s highly contagious and guarranteed to get you rolling on the floor in tears just from hearing her laugh.
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Salut Philippe,
on a reçu ta lettre et je t’ai écrit une réponse de la part de ta mère. Demain c’est dimanche et je la mettrai à la poste lundi donc je voulais laisser un petit mot ici pour te dire que la réponse est oui, sans le moindre hésitation. Tu lui feras son bonheur en plus. Fais ce que tu dois faire et on en reparlera aussitôt.
Valérie et Stiletto, bonjour à vous deux. J’espère que la vie vous traite bien et que vous trouvez le bonheur que vous méritez. Si je ne repasse pas ici avant la fin de l’année je vous souhaite bonnes fêtes et un joyeux Noël en compagnie des amis ou de proches. Bonne chance, santé, amitiés et lumière-au-bout-du-tunnel pour l’année 2012.
Nunya, hello there. We never really exchanged much as I believe you began frequenting the blog around the time I was moving on but it’s nice to see you still around. I recognize the spirited and upbeat vibe of your posts and sincerely hope life is treating you well. I would like to wish you a safe and healthy holiday season, hopefully surrounded by loved ones and friends. Whether you celebrate Christmas or just weather it, Merry Christmas and all my best wishes for the year to come.
Laurent x
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Batboy,
Merci pour les voeux de bonheur, et je te souhaite de même! Ici cl’est le temps typique de Paris, c.a.d c’est pourri, il pleut tous le temps, j’en ai plein le cul, LOL, les seuls qui soient contents c’est les canards et les cygnes au jardin de la tour Eiffel.
Everybody,
Has anybody seen a film called “Dark Water”? It’s a 2005 film. I haven’t finished it yet, but what I see so far is really depressing. Is New York city really THAT horribly ugly? I remember Microdot saying that the rats are everywhere and that they are bigger than dogs, LOL, and when you watch this movie you wonder if he was not exaggerating at all after all. The apartment the young woman and her little daughter move into is soooo UGLYYYY, nothing works, the lift is out of order half the time and they live on the 10th floor; there is a huge water leak in the ceiling of the apartment, etc etc. BEURKKKKK, LOL!
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Batboy,
Nice to hear from you. Thank you for the nice wishes of happiness. I’ll tell fucking Sarkozy about it, maybe the fuckhead can do something real for the people of France other than the rich fat pigs.
Valérie,
“film called “Dark Water”?”
No. But from what you say, I don’t regret it. Lol. It sounds like USA is a worse place than Chechnya.
But I have seen another film, maybe I already said it, if so, then sorry, but not really, I just say it because I am told it is fucking polite: “Sicko” by Michael Moore. Again, why would I want to move to USA?
You know what I would like to do if that fat born-again bitch Barb offered again? It is to go to one of her born-again churches and fornicate on the altar. Maybe turn her church into a brothel, lol.
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Valérie,
“My restaurant is a not a pretentious expensive gourmet restaurant, but the food is still very good, and I wish I could upload you some, LOL.”Ahh, me too honey. I do love food, but not the pretentious kind
If I ever get a passport and some travel money, I will visit you in Paris. Sounds silly, but that is what makes me want to visit Paris - you.The movie Dark Waters does look terribly depressing. I’ve been irritated lately that so many TV shows and movies set in NY seem to want to spread the idea that NY is the center of the world. Arrrrrrrgh. This is a huge country, the world is even more huge and NY is NOT the most important place on the planet. It’s just the place where most of the biggest banksters do most of their criminal activity!
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Stiletto,
” Again, why would I want to move to USA?”
You wouldn’t, but there are many beautiful things to visit here. One of them being the place in San Diego where they breed endangered species, which they changed the name of to Safari Park. What a stupid name. You would love the Grand Canyon though. The first time I saw it I just stood there trying to take it all in. Yellowstone bison and bears and elk are wonderful to watch also. There is also something stunning about watching a lightning strike and light up the huge praries of N. and S. Dakota. Since I live in an area that is highly populated it is sometimes overwhelming to be in an area that is sparsely populated and to be able to look out for miles and see no people.
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Batboy
” Nunya, hello there. We never really exchanged much as I believe you began frequenting the blog around the time I was moving on but it’s nice to see you still around. I recognize the spirited and upbeat vibe of your posts and sincerely hope life is treating you well. I would like to wish you a safe and healthy holiday season, hopefully surrounded by loved ones and friends. Whether you celebrate Christmas or just weather it, Merry Christmas and all my best wishes for the year to come.”Thank you kindly and happy holidays to you
I just put my lights up outside and I love the multi-colored lights. I wanted a lighted lawn animal this year and my husband bought a snowman. Hilarious since there is very little snow in San Diego county. Some tiny patches of it occasionly on the mountains in a 4,206.63 square mile county, lol . The kids next door got all excited, “Oh look there is Frosty!” (the Snowman)WhyNot,
Ahh, Good Will Hunting is one of my favorite movies
but I remember Robin Williams, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, lol. I had to look up who the females were in the movie. Are you talking about Minnie Driver, the English actress? The one with dark hair? -
Valérie,
“j’en ai plein le cul, LOL, les seuls qui soient contents c’est les canards et les cygnes au jardin de la tour Eiffel.”
Lol, yes I can imagine they really dig it.
“BEURKKKKK, LOL!”
Lol, this reminds me of a Ray Charles song; I can’t remember the title, I think it is “Living in the city”, but I could be wrong. He describes his life “in the city”, as: “my electricity has been turned off, my gas don’t work no more, rats are crawling everywhere”, etc. Lol.
This in turn reminds me of Microdot arguing that the rats in NYC are 5 times bigger than the ones in France. Dog knows how big they are in Texas!
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Stiletto,““Sicko” by Michael Moore”
Great documentary. As are all of M. Moore’s. The most amazing part of it was his periple to Cuba, accompanied with at least a dozen sick Americans who couldn’t get treatment in the US (because of astronomical costs) and got top-notch treatment (including medicine and even prothesises) for just a few dollars in Cuba.
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Nunya,“It’s just the place where most of the biggest banksters do most of their criminal activity!”
You know, having live in both countries, I think it would be fair to say that France (and most of Europe) is definitely more “socialized”. Meaning that if you’re at the bottom of the social scale, you still have a chance to live a decent life.
HOWEVER… banksters as you rightly call them… well, I think they are worse in France than in the US. I only had one banking experience in each of these 2 countries (AmSouth in Florida and Société Générale in France) and I can assure you that AmSouth is a charity organization in comparison with the biggest legal thieves on this planet, i.e. the Société Générale.
“One of them being the place in San Diego where they breed endangered species”
Yeah, like Tyranosaurus Rexes, lol. Gosh that was so funny in that Jurassic Park movie, with mommy T-Rex going on a rampage, lol.
But seriously, I have read and heard of San Diego’s zoos, and I certainly regret that many years ago, when I landed in Los Angeles, all I saw of it was LAX airport and the Hilton hotel. If I had known you then, maybe we could have arranged something, like you putting me up for a few days and taking me out to see things - the zoos in particular. How far is San Diego from LA? Just a few hundred kilometers, right?
“Are you talking about Minnie Driver, the English actress? The one with dark hair?”
I’m not sure of her name, but it’s probably her; fairly tall, dark straight hair, a rather deep voice for a woman, and a laughter… oh boy, you simply can’t resist it and get an instant attack of ROLFMAO just listening to it, lol. I’ve never seen that young woman in any other film, which is a great pity; I hope Hollywood didn’t outcast her for some obscure reason. And yes, Robin Williams and the young prodigee dude are brilliant. But I must confess I’d rather find her than them in my bed, lol.
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WhyNot,
Think IMF, World Bank. They are based in NY and they suck money out of impoverished nations like a friggin Hoover vacuum cleaner. THAT is what makes me sick. I think of London banksters and NY banksters as the world’s worst criminals. Perhaps that is because I know that EU basically steals raw materials from Africa and the US steals them from Central and South America and then the developed countries dump other subsidized crops into un- or under-developed countries and the farmers in the underdeveloped countries cannot compete with the artificially low priced crops so they quit farming. And in the case of the Americas the S and Central Americans end up in the US taking jobs that used to be well-paid union jobs with health benefits and now are crap jobs for crap pay with 0 health benefits that only shareholders in these piggy corporations benefit from.
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Nunya,
“they suck money out of impoverished nations like a friggin Hoover vacuum cleaner.”
Lololol, I don’t know much about the IMF, only that it means International Monetary Fund, or something like that, and also that they are responsible for loaning money to countries who can’t even survive, and the result is that those countries are in debt to the IMF for the next 10 million years.
I think it will never change, because it has been long enough that if the West really wanted to help, they would have done something real instead of these pretenses which only make the poor countries poorer every day.
WhyNot,
“the rats in NYC are 5 times bigger than the ones in France.”
Lol, Microdot was funny. I like Ray Charles he has a great voice and his music is good fun.
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Nunya,
“Think IMF, World Bank”
I agree with you; I think the IMF should flushed down the nearest toilet and all its management people impaled on coconut trees. It is the single most repulsive rip-off-merchant institution that was ever devised. Devised by the rich western nations, naturally - as always. Sigh.
Hey ppl,
I have a major announcement to make:
I sold my beloved big monster motorbike - Suzuki Bandit 1200S. I lost my driving/riding license a couple of years ago due to repeatedly getting booked for speeding, and as a result my bike has been in a prolonged hibernation state.
Sitting quitely in the courtyard, she has looked at me every day as I walked past her, and this look seemed to convey the feeling of “Hey you! What’s wrong with you? Can’t you see I’m bored silly? Haven’t I been the best ever mistress in your life? Have I ever once complained or nagged?”. Poor thing, she nearly felt like a living creature during all these years.
Dianne and I went everywhere on it, all over France, to Switzerland, Monaco, Italy and Spain.
Stiletto, sorry my friend, I remember you offered some years back to rided nekked on in the streets of Paris, lol, but I guess it will never happen. Huge sigh!
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WhyNot,
“all its management people impaled on coconut trees”
LOLLLL, what you say… it’s horrible: poor coconut trees!!!
“I remember you offered some years back to rided nekked on in the streets of Paris”
LOLLL, I wouldn’t try that because our fascist piglet Sarkozy will throw you both in jail.
Has anyone seen “The insider”? It is about big cigarette companies. BEURKKKKK, those bastards are worse than banks. I think it said it is a true story.
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WhyNot,
“you offered some years back to rided nekked on in the streets of Paris, lol, but I guess it will never happen.”
Ok. I don’t mind too much, maybe it’s better this way because I think the fascist pig Sarkozy would have called the CRS to catch me and you, and now I would be deported and you would be in prison, lol. I don’t know what prison is like but I am sure you don’t feel like finding out. I think it must be worse than living in Chechnya.
How do you go anywhere without your motorbike? Do you have busses and trains in your town?
Valérie,
“it’s horrible: poor coconut trees!!! ”
Lololol! They would probably die of contamination.
Why doesn’t anybody assassinate Sarkozy? It would be such a humane act and all for the good of humanity.
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Stiletto,
Your comment lets me know that you know EXACTLY what the IMF is up to
WhyNot,
I’m sorry about the loss of your motorbike
Valérie,
Yes, I’ve seen “The Insider.” It is a great movie, but I cannot agree that those companies are worse than the banksters because without the banksters those companies would not have been able to stay in business. Everybody knew how bad smoking was for you, even the banksters.
You get my logic?
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I have this song stuck in my head.
The Court Yard Hounds It didn’t make a sound
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Nunya,
“I have this song stuck in my head.”
I listened to it. Do you like it? I don’t. It’s fucking more boring than a speech of Sarkozy-the-fascist. And the music is even more boring, lol. Sorry, you know that I love you very much, and it is not a judgement on you.
“Everybody knew how bad smoking was for you, even the banksters. You get my logic?”
I am not sure that I get your logic. Many of my customers smoke; when you walk in the street in France, at least one person in 3 has a cigarette lighted up.
And even though that there are labels on all the cigarette packets here saying “Fumer tue” which means “Smoking kills”, people are blasé and don’t take any attention to it. Why? Because this fascist French government LIES, LIES, and LIES again, all the fucking time.
When you have been lied to every day for years, do you still believe what that person says? I don’t. And if that person is your boyfriend or husband? Do you believe their bullshit? Maybe it is a pity because maybe one time in a hundred years they might say the truth. But people are people, when you feed them bullshit all the time, they don’t trust anymore anything you say.
Anyway. WhyNot, what’s happening with your new girlfriend? Does she fuck good? Lol.
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Stiletto,
“Because this fascist French government LIES, LIES, and LIES again, all the fucking time.”
Too right. Anti-smoking campains have been around since the cows came home (even Valérie, lol), together with outrageous tobacco prices and price rises, and what does it do? Exactly and precisely FUCK ALL.
And the gov knows it, and that’s why they feel all fucking smug behind their pretend attempt to stop ppl from smoking while they ROFLTAO raking the dough in.
They’ve got it down to a fine art of advertising lies and deceipt while pretending they’re caring for the people. The whole shebang has been brought up as a legal “safety guard”. It’s like saying to people:
“DRIVING KILLS”.
Does that turn people off from using their cars? Hell no. But it means that the gov says, if you get smashed up in an accident, “hey you dumbfuck, didn’t we tell ya?”.
In the meantime they keep on raking the dough from taxes on tobacco, which in France are somewhere around 90%. And they have lunches of lobster, caviar and champagne (paid by the tax-payers) during which they get plastered and drink to “the good ole’ FR taxpayer sucker! Yahoo!”
Hypocritical assholes. What we need in France is a repeat of the 1789 revolution. Off with their fucking heads! I’d love to have Sarkozy’s head on a spike in my courtyard and piss on it every day.
“WhyNot, what’s happening with your new girlfriend? Does she fuck good?”
Dunno, I haven’t seen her yet. She might be yet another mirage. I hope not - the dude seems fair dinkum.
Anyway, all that shit is depressing; I think I’m gonna go to bed and watch a whole bunch of Marx Brothers movies - that’ll cheer me up! Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we had Groucho Marx as president of the country?
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ahh Stiletto my fiery girl, I love you dearly
Life would be very boring if everyone liked the same music, don’t you think? I am not a big blugrass or country fan but I love the Dixie Chicks. Those two women are 2/3 of the Dixie Chicks and they are better musicians than a lot of musicians out there. Have you ever read the lyrics for “Goodbye Earl?” Me and my close girlfriends love the song. If one of us has a new boyfriend we play it for them, lol I was complaining about the banksters because without them the cigarette companies would have had restrictions more stringent than they do. I smoke, and I hope the damn things kill me before I end up in diapers and dependent on someone else, eeeeek. I told my kid she needs to learn how to use a gun because I will not have her changing my diapers, she needs to take me out to the back forty and shoot my ass before that happens.
Without bank loans companies cannot function. Yeesh, sometimes I wish I had never taken those fucking business classes. One of our assignments was to learn how to invest in the stock market and if I had really had $10,000 to invest at the time and I held onto them until now I would have much more money, even with the crashes we have had.
anyhoo, yes you are right, ppl bullshit a lot. I am more irritated with the fact that so many of them are so stupid as to think others BELIEVE their bullshit.
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WhyNot,
” And the gov knows it, and that’s why they feel all fucking smug behind their pretend attempt to stop ppl from smoking while they ROFLTAO raking the dough in.”
rotflmao,
” “DRIVING KILLS”.
Does that turn people off from using their cars? Hell no. But it means that the gov says, if you get smashed up in an accident, “hey you dumbfuck, didn’t we tell ya?”.”Yesh, something like 33 thousand ppl died in the US from car accidents last year. Probably added to somebody’s estimation of GDP, lol
It’s a three hour drive for my kid to see me this Christmas and she is bringing the new beau. Mom (me) is not thrilled. Ninnyboy doesn’t drive.
“Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we had Groucho Marx as president of the country?”
Absolutely!! Much more honest than the system we have here, although the Republican clown car circus pre-primary nonsense that is going on now is fucking hilarious!
I’ve been avoiding the news by immersing myself into silly stuff on Netflix. I like this show called “Terriers” but it wasn’t renewed by FX. It was set in OB and filmed all over San Diego. I didn’t think I would like it, but it was actually a good show.
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Nunya,
“I smoke, and I hope the damn things kill me before I end up in diapers and dependent on someone else, eeeeek”
Rest easy: smoking never gave anyone diaorrhea. At worst, I’ll volunteer to wipe your ass. And hey… welcome to the smoking club, I was beginning to feel lonely out here, given Valérie and Stiletto refuse to take on smoking, despite my best efforts to convince them how good and wholesome it is for them.
“Yeesh, sometimes I wish I had never taken those fucking business classes. One of our assignments was to learn how to invest in the stock market…”
Ha! This reminds me of the “business classes” I had to attend to in Florida. The only thing I remember about them - prolly cuz I was snoring soundly and systematically - is that goods taxes vary from state to state in the US. It was 7.5% in Florida then.
Our smelly rat Sarkozy found a way out of this quandrum: the lil cunt wacks us with 23% sales tax. On the grounds that everything you buy is “luxury goods”. Even carrots and potatoes. Stiletto, when are you gonna kickbox that fuckhead into a far away outer galaxy?
PS: who’s Ninnyboy? I gather he doesn’t qualify as a gorgeous nymphomaniac sheila, right, lol?
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WhyNot,
Ninnyboy is my kid’s new bf. I have to be careful what I say to him or she goes off. I’m also not allowed to ask questions *sigh*
23% sales tax is outrageously high! The laws in the different states in the US vary, but in many states (CA is one) there is no sales tax on food items. On the other hand, children die here because they can’t find a dentist who will take a patient on Medicaid (because it pays the medical professionals crap ), medical attention.
“I was beginning to feel lonely out here, given Valérie and Stiletto refuse to take on smoking, despite my best efforts to convince them how good and wholesome it is for them.”
lol
The girls are much smarter than we are, hon.k, now for something much nicer; I’m listening to Etta James’s version of Sunday Kind of Love.. We’re gonna lose her soon, .she is terminally ill
I wonder if Obama picked Beyonce to sing “At Last” because Etta James was already showing signs of Alzheimers? Dang, there I go again, giving Obama and his handlers the benefit of the doubt again. His handlers picked Beyonce because she was young and pretty.
Yeesh, I knew he was part of a corrupt system, but I really had hoped for a few more nods to his base. Hmmm, silly me, I thought progressives were his base, but he pandered to the financial sector, just like every other fucking president (prime minister, dictator, whatEVER) on the damn planet.
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Nunya,
“I’m listening to Etta James’s version of Sunday Kind of Love.. ”
Wonderful, thanks for this. Gee, those black people really have music in their genes. I remember Bret, the bass player in that infamous quartet I was playing in at the Royal Motor Yacht Club every saturday night (the one where we used to get so smashed (with alcohol) that by the time of the last set, we couldn’t even climb on the stage any longer, lol).
Anyway… back to Bret: he used to say “I wish I was black”. His hero was Stanley Clarke (Mr Pop-n-Slap).
“I have to be careful what I say to him or she goes off. I’m also not allowed to ask questions *sigh*”
Geee… kids… who wants them? I’d rather have a dozen cats any day. They don’t yell, don’t smell, don’t break everything like rugrats do.
“but he pandered to the financial sector, just like every other fucking president”
Interesting. You seem to meet Bonbon in your assessment of Obama. Pity, great pity. You guys had at last got rid of the fascist dynasty of moronic fuckers (the Bush & Cunts Co), and there was high hope things would be drastically different. Every country in Europe was cheering when he won. Even in Russia, there were bonfires and dancing in the streets and in Red Square in Moscow.
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I’m in the middle of watching a movie: “Don’t look back now”. It’s pretty good. Most of it takes place in Venice. Goodness, what a squallid fucking ugly city, that is! To start with, there isn’t ONE SINGLE tree in that place. Those canals everywhere are actually open sewers; there must be more rats than people in Venice. BIG HUGE FAT rats, bigger than dogs! And in spite of all that water, not ONE duck or swan; yep, Valérie, that’s how filthy the canals’ water is - ducks and swans would die of poisoning.But the movie is interesting and very unusual.
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Nunya,
“I have to be careful what I say to him or she goes off. I’m also not allowed to ask questions *sigh*”
That’s incredible. Have you tried kickboxing her pussy and smashing the shit out of his ugly mug?
I don’t plan to ever have children, but if I had one by accident, I would train the brat. And if or she doesn’t like it, he can fucking go and survive somewhere else than in my place, and see what fucking fun it is.
WhyNot,
“there must be more rats than people in Venice. BIG HUGE FAT rats, bigger than dogs!”
Lololol, do they bark? This makes me think of what Microdot said one time, that his rats in New York are the biggest in the world.
One day I must visit Italy and Spain. Do they speak a bit of English or French there? Or Russian, lol? I don’t feel like learning another language and getting lost and ripped off while doing it.
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WhyNot,
” You guys had at last got rid of the fascist dynasty of moronic fuckers (the Bush & Cunts Co), “
No way will we ever be rid of the Bush Dynasty. There are too many of them buried in the banking cartels, the intelligence communites, the oil industries, the military contractor cabal and politics. “Family of Secrets” by Russ Baker details what the author could dig out, which was no easy feat.
I couldn’t find your movie. Is it in English? Anyway, the canals sound gross.
Stiletto,
“I don’t plan to ever have children, but if I had one by accident, I would train the brat. And if or she doesn’t like it, he can fucking go and survive somewhere else than in my place, and see what fucking fun it is.”
Oh, I have had those exact same thoughts many times, lol. Some people talk about raising a child and the phrase that many use is “it’s the hardest job you’ll ever love,” and I can say that it’s true. No matter how frustrating it can be, the feeling of love for your own child and the incredible pride in your own child override all the crap.
Hopefully she will outgrow the need to try to fix the boys she dates. Unfortunately it seems to afflict a lot of women, you know, the need to change the men they are involved with.
Lot’s of people think that when men and women get married the woman hopes she can change him and he hopes the woman will never change. I imagine that in the few happy marriages that there are out there that those silly expectations were acknowledged and then chucked in the trash.
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Nunya,
“I couldn’t find your movie. Is it in English? Anyway, the canals sound gross.”
Yes, mostly in EN, with the occasional bit of Italian spoken by the residents. From memory, there are subtitles as well. But in any case, I don’t speak one word of Italian, and yet I didn’t miss any of the conversations.
The canals… lol, yeah, as gross as your wildest nightmares.
Stiletto,
“Have you tried kickboxing her pussy and smashing the shit out of his ugly mug?”
Lololol, good one, oh how I love that Ruskie princess gentle touch and distinguished temperament!
“And if or she doesn’t like it, he can fucking go and survive somewhere else than in my place, and see what fucking fun it is.”
I heartily agree… in theory, that is. Why “in theory”? Because the law in France (and most other countries) deems you responsible for the welfare of your brats, however an obnoxious pain in the ass they might be.
In other words, you’re stuck with the fuckers. Worse still, if they commit crimes, you’re fucking responsible for the fuckheads, which I find fucking incredible.
“Microdot said one time, that his rats in New York are the biggest in the world.”
Microdot don’t know shit. The biggest rats in the world are the ones in the biggest dump in Europe, near a lil town named Entressens, South of France, about 100km west of Marseille, and where I had the intense displeasure of being night watch for a year.
There you could find anything: not just rats, but millions of seaguls, and all kinds of wild life. They even found an anaconda once - only it was dead - presumably it came from some idiot’s apartment who flushed it down the toilet when the snake started to show signs of wanting to eat humans alive - that usually quickly turns people off from wanting to have a “ménagerie” of dangerous wild life, lol.
The cops turned up once because part of a human body turned up in the mountains (literally) of trash. Needless to say, they never found the rest of the body.
“Do they speak a bit of English or French there? Or Russian, lol?”
Near the borders with France, you can get away with French - I’ve been to both Italy and Spain and didn’t have any problem even though I can’t speak a word of either Italian nor Spanish. But Russian…. I doubt very much, lol.
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I know I’m late ’cause I’m way over the pond, but MERRY CHRISTMAS Y’ALL!
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Hey gals & guys, check this out:
I was doing my routine maintenance work of cleaning out the SPAM shit that inundates this blog with boring assiduity, and one comment struck me like lightning. Here is an excerpt - just the first sentence; but trust me the rest is just as belly-splitting - this dude/dudette has mastered the art of being a complete fucktard to a degree never attained before - except perhaps by George Bush, Staline and Pol Pot.
Get a load of this:
“Having a unmodified salutary with and nigh recommence and shopping make software icon covers the subservient and calmly hue power of what is being required and send into buying lists again. This view consecutively permit in a ordering and muffle this drawing in a jiffy stacked vulgar for search instead of after of over-long locution expected sales.”
Isn’t it truly magnificent??? George Bush couldn’t have expressed himself with more “panache” even when he was totally plastered on booze and stoned on cocaine while reading Alice in Wonderland upside down (Not him! The book!) to a lil girl in Florida - upon learning the Twin Towers in NYC had been blown up by a very naughty dirty airplane hijacked by very filthy camel-fucking sand-nigger arabs.
PS: if anyone is eager to send this asshole letters full of anthrax or plutonium, here is her/his IP address: 61.191.191.142
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Omfg WhyNot, that is absolutely hilarious, thanks for the laugh!!
Oh, and I saw the title of an article this AM that is simply wunnerful,wunnerful,wunnerful:
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Nunya,
“2012: First Election Cycle Without A Bush Since 1948?”
This is quite funny and interesting. Many of the commenters say interesting things, only a few are complete assholes.
“Omfg WhyNot, that is absolutely hilarious, thanks for the laugh!!”
Lolol, yes I agree, I hadn’t laugh like this for a while. WhyNot, I think we need more spammers like that guy. Or maybe invite the most idiotic fascist moron on earth: G. Bush. But no, Bush is not funny at all, just simply fucking stupid.
How was everybody’s Christmas? I haven’t been anywhere yet, I hope to go for a bicycle ride when it gets warmer.
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WhyNot,
Your SPAM comment that you mention in comment 224, LOLLLL, I nearly peed in my panties!
It makes me wonder what those idiotic people try to achieve with their retarded SPAM.
Nunya and Stiletto,
Yes, that First Election Cycle is very interesting because it shows that many people who shop for subservient hue power also stack jiffy bags in their drawers instead of selling long expected locusts! LOLLL!
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Valérie,
“many people who shop for subservient hue power also stack jiffy bags in their drawers instead of selling long expected locusts! LOLLL!”
Lol, it must be the same genius. “jiffy bags in their drawers”… the mind boggles.
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Valerie,
“many people who shop for subservient hue power also stack jiffy bags in their drawers instead of selling long expected locusts! LOLLL!”
Stiletto,
My Christmas was nice and quiet. Next week I should be able to see my daughter without the boyfriend around. She doesn’t want her grandfather to spend too much time with him, and granfather will be there, lol. Hmmmm.
I hope you can spend some time outdoors, it helps. The ground squirrels are underground but SD county has tons of migratory birds in winter. The mourning doves are nice and I swear I’ve heard owls at night around here. I saw the 3 legged coyote the other night and heard a bunch of raccoons making one hell of a racket one night.
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Nunya,
“I saw the 3 legged coyote the other night ”
You have coyotes inside a big city like San Diego??? Poor animal, it is not a wonder that he lost a leg, lol. There are no coyotes in France, but there are wolves; but they are not stupid, they don’t come anywhere near the cities. I like wolves, they are beautiful, they are independant, and they don’t take shit from humans.
I have never seen raccoons except in pictures and documentaries. They look so cute and cuddly, and they look like they are wearing gangster masks, lol.
“Next week I should be able to see my daughter without the boyfriend around.”
Can’t you kickbox the shit out of him, lol? It is very efficacious if you kick him in the testicles, he will shut up for several days, promise!
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Has anyone seen the movie “Schindler’s List”? 1995, I think. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Definitely NOT a fun movie rhough. It is set during WW2, filmed in Poland, and it’s a true story. Lots of full frontal nudity of both men and women.
Stiletto,
“They look so cute and cuddly, and they look like they are wearing gangster masks, lol”
Lol, yes they do. They are expert thieves and will raid fruit and vegetable gardens. I saw some in Florida. They were quite plump.
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“and will raid fruit and vegetable gardens. I saw some in Florida. They were quite plump.”
Do they also eat pigeons?
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Valérie,
“Do they also eat pigeons?”
Lololololol! You really hate pigeons, don’t you?
WhyNot,
Your Schindlers List, I have heard someone else telling me about it, and it sounds like a very depressing film. You know, I am not old yet but I am already completely sick and tired of depressing war stories. It is not as if by learning about them we could change anything, so what is the point in reading or watching how fucked humankind is?
The only point I can think of is that maybe men won’t make the same mistakes and make more wars. But we know it is not true, men have warred for thousands of years and it is not only NOT getting better, it is getting worse. In the last 100 years they have killed each others in hundreds of millions. What can be more fucked and ignorant and stupid than that?
What other animal on earth kills each others in 100s of millions? ZERO, NOT ONE SINGLE ONE. Only fucking stupid humans.
I am not saying that it is completely useless to know our history; only that it is NEARLY completely useless.
And because of this, I don’t want to see fucking war movies; I have seen real war, real bombs, real machine guns, real tanks, real people blown up into little pieces, my uncle one of them, and I don’t want to fucking see any more of that fucking shit, especially not for entertainment.
If any of you had seen what I have, you would not either. I remember seeing an old film set in Paris during the WW2, and people didn’t have enough to eat, and the black market was disgusting. And you know what people did to survive? THEY WENT TO SEE FILMS. Happy ones, funny ones, Laurel and Hardy, etc. They were hungry but their minds made them forget they were hungry.
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Stiletto,
” You have coyotes inside a big city like San Diego??? Poor animal, it is not a wonder that he lost a leg, lol. “I actually live in the suburbs and there is lots of undeveloped land around. San Diego County is 4,206.63 sqare miles (11,721 km2). I took this picture from my porch. The pine trees are on the property that I live on, and in between the ugly ass scrub brush that is native to San Diego and the iceplant in the foreground there is a 14 lane freeway. Fucking noisy thing. There is a golf course nearby, that’s probably where the animals who eat crayfish hunt. Me and my friend caught a bunch with her swimming pool leaf net and brought them back to her mother and asked “Can we eat them?” She reacted with horror and said, “No, now you take those and put them back where you found them!” So back across the golf course to the pond we went, lol.
Who knows how the 3 legged coyote lost his leg? He’s probably eaten his share of small dogs and cats, and I’ve seen him (her?) a few times over a 5 year period, so I think this must be his territory. I’ve seen him chase ground squirrels and so do the hawks. I wonder where all the opossums went? They move slow enough to be caught. Ugly critters, they look like big rats, they are not cute like Aussie possums.
“There are no coyotes in France, but there are wolves; but they are not stupid, they don’t come anywhere near the cities. I like wolves, they are beautiful, they are independant, and they don’t take shit from humans.”
They are beautiful animals, I just wouldn’t want to have to protect any livestock that I owned from them. I watched a National Geographic special on Yellowstone that said that of all the wolf packs in the park now only one is known for hunting bison.
” I have never seen raccoons except in pictures and documentaries. They look so cute and cuddly, and they look like they are wearing gangster masks, lol.”
They will attack if they feel threatened and they get inside the dumpsters and scare the crap out of people. I surprised one on my porch that came up to my thigh and was four feet long. At first it ran and then it turned to face me head on, and started towards me. I went quietly back into my apartment because it looked mean, not cute and cuddly, and 37% of the rabies cases in 2006 were raccoons.
They make horrible noises when they fight, or the kits are playing. I’m sure those noises have been recorded and used in horror flicks, although the sound mixers on horror flicks mix many different animals together. Anyway, since they adapt to urban or suburban areas, they are now in Europe and parts of Asia, including the what was the s USSR where they were deliberately introduced for fur hunters . The last linked wikipedia page has all kinds of pictures and information on raccoons.
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WhyNot,
I recently watched“ Schindler’s List” again and although it is painful because it takes place during the horrors of WWII, it also gives people hope. I’ve seen it 3 times and most movies aren’t worth watching once. It is one of the few movies that I believe actually deserved every one of it’s Oscars and BAFTAs, even if it makes me cry for the people and with happiness later in the movie.
I read a non-fiction book a few years ago called “Shanghai Diary” that I think would make a great movie. Stiletto would love the “exchange” between this young woman and the Japanese soldier, lol.
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Nunya,
“they are not cute like Aussie possums.”
I was wondering. I mean, when you started describing your opossums, I thought “uh oh…. Nunya doesn’t like possums!”, lol.
I only saw an Oz possum once while I lived there. They only come out of their hiding places at night and are very weary of ppl. I never saw any opossums in Florida. Billions of squirrels, though, lol.
“At first it ran and then it turned to face me head on, and started towards me. ”
Lolol, oh shit! Maybe that raccoon escaped from Jurassic Park?
I was watching Jurassic Park (yet again!) the other day and it got me thinking away about dangerous animals. I mean dangerous to humans. Clearly Africa wins the grand prize in this department. Eurasia (i.e. Europe + Asia) used to have plenty of wolves, bears and tigers. But most have been exterminated.
The only wolf left in France is a 2-leg retarded fuckhead wolf named Sarkozy, lol.
I heartily agree with your assessment of Schindler’s List. The scene near the end where hundreds of people queue up to deposit a stone, or rock, or flower on his tombstone grips your throat like it tries to choke you.
You know, I think movies like that should be part of the curriculum of every primary and secondary school of every country in the world. Maybe, just maybe, kids would grow to become adults who would refuse to ever go to war.
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Nunya,
“Stiletto would love the “exchange” between this young woman and the Japanese soldier, lol.”
Please tell me more.
WhyNot,
“Maybe, just maybe, kids would grow to become adults who would refuse to ever go to war.”
You’re dreaming. I doesn’t matter how much horror humans see, they are more fucking stupid than fucking dinosaurs, and they will again and again make the same mistakes they made yesterday and last month and last year and last century.
Look at history: Caesar, middle ages religion wars. How fucking stupid is that? Religious people who murder each other in millions. It’s so fucking ridiculous that it is nearly funny. It would be nice if the fuckheads retarded religious assholes like Barb and Jeanette could murder each others, then the world might become a good place,
“The only wolf left in France is a 2-leg retarded fuckhead wolf named Sarkozy, lol.”
Aren’t there wolves in the Alpes and in the Pyrénées mountains?
“Maybe that raccoon escaped from Jurassic Park?”
Lololol! Nunya, how big was that raccoon?
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Stiletto,
“It would be nice if the fuckheads retarded religious assholes like Barb and Jeanette could murder each others, then the world might become a good place, ”
LOL! What you say made me think and I went to visit Jeanette’s blog, and it is worse than ever. It is completely idiotic, like her brain is turned into goohey jelly that is only good to make a lubricant when a born again imbecile like her inserts a jesus dildo in her pussy.
Anyway, I don’t care, but it amuses me very much, especially when I think of that idiotic woman Jeanette told me that “I wasn’t a REAL christian because I didn’t believe in her stupid born again religion and that I was just a stupid catholic woman”.
It must mean that the 4 billion people who are catholic will all go and roast in hell, but the few thousands that are born again imbeciles will eat cherries and strawberries, yes?
What I also find strange, it is that she is such a coward that she doesn’t even try to argue with me. All she does is speak to herself on her stupid blog where every article has only comments from herself.
She must smell very putrid, LOL.
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Valérie,
“I went to visit Jeanette’s blog, and it is worse than ever. It is completely idiotic, like her brain is turned into goohey jelly that is only good to make a lubricant when a born again imbecile like her inserts a jesus dildo in her pussy.”
Lololol
“What I also find strange, it is that she is such a coward that she doesn’t even try to argue with me. All she does is speak to herself on her stupid blog where every article has only comments from herself.”
Forget her, she is not worth one second of your thoughts.
It is strange: you are a very nice NORMAL person from an acceptable country, France, plus you’re christian. I am a whore, illegal immigrant from a very unacceptable country, Russia, plus I am atheist.
And yet, you receive more abuse than I do. And even more strange, most of the abuse your receive comes from so-called christians, the fuckhead variety of born again idiots like Jeanette and Barb.
Can anyone tell me why? It can’t be just because they are American, because neither Valérie nor me recieve insults from anyone else than those religious bitches, no matter which country, and including USA. Bonbon, Luna, Nunya, Amelopsis and other Americans I can’t think of now have always been very nice to me and Valérie. And not just women but also men, I’ve never been insulted by Microdot or Romeo.
So, what is the problem with those fucked born-again bitches? Is it because of their born again religious teaching?
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Stiletto,
“So, what is the problem with those fucked born-again bitches? Is it because of their born again religious teaching?”
I’d say: yes, very probably. See, the thing is: to them, you’re just a Russian atheist whore, so you’re not even in the category of human beings, you’re just a “thing”, they classify you somewhere between an ant and a cockroach; therefore you’re not even worth being mentioned, let alone despised.
On the other hand, Valérie is French, a waitress, and catholic. So, in their eyes she is in the category of human beings. Only, she is a threat, she is competition, she undermines their values by having different ones. But worst of all, she is sweet, gentle, fun-loving. Not to mention very cute looking. Last but not least, she never craps on and on about her religion. All in all, the worst possible combination in the eyes of these old born-again hags.
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WhyNot
Hi there, just a quick note wondering how things were coming along. Your mum and I would love an update when you get the chance, after the subject of your last letter to her. As for the phone I am still happy to sort that out for you if you send it all back. Not sure you got the last letter I sent you? The mobile was a gift from a workmate that should be ok but if there is a problem with the SIM I can drop into SFR and sort out a replacement.
The quicker we get you a working phone the better able we’ll be to help you organise the rest.
Take care.
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Batboy,
Great to see you dropping by.
“The quicker we get you a working phone the better able we’ll be to help you organise the rest.”
It’s been a few weeks now, I can’t remember exactly what the problem was with the phone. Weird thing is that someone I know here also gave me a cell phone, the very same make and model as yours, and I couldn’t get it to work either.
I guess cell phones just don’t like me, lol. If mum hadn’t gotten rid of her computer, she and I could communicate here on PP.
As far as the last letter from you, I can’t check right now since I’m typing all this shit at the Mairie’s public computer, but from memory, I think I did (receive it). Snail-mail is pretty good in that way, it’s extremely rare it doesn’t reach its destination.
How’s things for you?
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I’m the same. Nothing much to report for the New Year I’m afraid. Any news on your planned move? We’d like to help however we can.
Weird thing is that someone I know here also gave me a cell phone, the very same make and model as yours, and I couldn’t get it to work either.
Ok it must be the SIM then. Send them both (phone and SIM card) back to me in the post, I still have the receipt and I’ll see to a replacement.
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Hello Batboy,
How is life on the wonderful Côte d’Azur? Can you send some sun to Paris, LOL?
WhyNot,
“So, in their eyes she is in the category of human beings. ”
LOL. You know, I am very bored with talking about those stupid born-again idiots. What they think of me, I couldn’t care less. I wish them well, but especially I wish they go away very far and fall off the edge of this planet, LOL.
I had a strange customer yesterday; she talked in a language I never heard before, I don’t know what it was. I tried to talk in French and also in English but she didn’t understand, she looked at me with big round eyes like a dead fish. I went to find the boss, maybe he could work it out, but when we arrived at the terrasse, she was gone.
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Valérie,
“I tried to talk in French and also in English but she didn’t understand, she looked at me with big round eyes like a dead fish.”
Lol, maybe she WAS a dead fish. Or a pigeon?
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WhyNot,
“maybe she WAS a dead fish. Or a pigeon?”
Lol.
I saw a film that really made me angry. It starts in Mexico city. Girls get abducted and taken to USA where they are sold as sex slaves in auctions on the Internet.
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Stiletto,
“It starts in Mexico city”
I know the movie you’re talking about. It’s very good.
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Stiletto,
“I saw a film that really made me angry. It starts in Mexico city. Girls get abducted and taken to USA where they are sold as sex slaves in auctions on the Internet.”
Well, that’s hiliarious since I’m angry watching “Taken,”"a movie about tourist girls being taken before they get a chance to settle into their hotels, hostels or rental apartments and addicted to drugs and forced to work as sex slaves in warehouses with fabric dividers with their customers being nasty ass construction workers. This happens in Paris and Albanians run this particular ring. This movie has Liam Neeson playing an ex-CIA agent who’s daughter is nabbed by these scumbags.
If that happened to my daughter I wouldn’t think twice about killing dirtbags like that.
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that had nice Russians or Albanians in it. They’re always nasty, vicious, brutal shells of human beings with little regard for human life, and greed for money that drives them to do heinous things.
Kind of like the Mexican drugs gangs that have killed 40,000 Mexicans (since 2006) trying to gain a slice of the US drugs market.
That’s why I don’t do drugs. I will not support people who do that kind of killing.
If I’m thinking of the same movie that you saw they weren’t just selling adults they were selling children, right? Sick, there are some really SICK people in this world. With 7 billion ppl on the planet, and court systems clogged up with too many cases, don’t expcet the sickos to get caught all that often
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Nunya,
“If that happened to my daughter I wouldn’t think twice about killing dirtbags like that.”
I don’t have a daughter but I can imagine what it would feel like and I would like to be with you to do vengeance. But I think you are too nice: killing them is not a good thing, it is not rewarding, what we must do is to make them suffer:
A good way is to cut their testicles off and shove them in their mouths. Or even better, leave them in a dark hole and leave the testicles in a plate, and it’s the only food they have. After a month, they won’t resist, the testicles will be all green and rotten, but they will eat them anyway.
“they weren’t just selling adults they were selling children, right?”
They don’t sell adults, they are too much trouble, and also the fucked men who like to rape women prefer to rape young girls.
So they specialize in children girls of 14 to 16 years old. They are much easier to rapture and throw in a truck and punch them in the face if they complain, and make them take pills that make them numb.
I am so sick in the belly thinking all this, I want to vomit. I am going to take a walk with Rex.
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Stiletto,
Have you ever considered writing script for horror films? You’ve got quite an imagination
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Oh yeah, making one or two suffer might be satisfyi g is a way, but a machine gun might take a whole lot more of them out and disrupt the human traffiking ring for a while, don’t you think?
Ok, I’m off to watch “Being Human” “US “version. I like the UK version better. Canadians don’t know whether to use English or American idioms and they sound weird to me.
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Nunya,
“Have you ever considered writing script for horror films? You’ve got quite an imagination”
Too right. I think living with her would be like the most scary horror film come true, lol; I’d have to wear a titanium chastety belt for fear of loosing my family jewels.
“Canadians don’t know whether to use English or American idioms and they sound weird to me.”
Lol. I’ve seen several Canadian movies; as far as movies go, they were all very very good, but the accents were very… ah hem, puzzling to say the least.
There is one in particular that is aboslutely hilarious in this respect: “Bon cop, bad cop”.
If you haven’t seen it yet, try to beg, borrow or steal it, it’s a real gem.
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Nunya,
“but a machine gun might take a whole lot more of them out and disrupt the human traffiking ring for a while”
LOL, I have never seen a machine gun in my life, I have not even seen a normal gun in my life, LOL. But I have seen them on TV.
I am not sure because I have never tried, but I think that obtaining machine guns in France is impossible because firearms are too much regulated for you to get one.
Anyway, I hate hunters, they kill birds and sangliers and deers, and they are so stupid they probably kill ducks and swans also. It would be nice if swans could use guns to kill hunters.
WhyNot,
““Bon cop, bad cop””
I have seen it, it is so funny and also a good thriller. Yes, I like very much the strange accents, LOL.
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WhyNot,
Since you have had so many cats, can you tell me if a cat can live happily in an apartment? I am thinking that maybe I would like one.
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Valérie,
“I have seen it, it is so funny and also a good thriller. Yes, I like very much the strange accents, LOL.”
WhyNot,
“There is one in particular that is aboslutely hilarious in this respect: “Bon cop, bad cop”. “
Well, with 2 recommendations, how could I not put the DVD in my Netflix queue? Thanks y’all, a comedy/action flick sounds like fun. I’ll let you know when I’ve seen it, K?
I am sure I won’t recognize a bad French accent though, lol. Are there subtitles for those of us who don’t speak French?
Stiletto,
Where are you honey? Are you mad at me? How was your walk with Rex? Did it help?
My friend in LA has 4 dogs and a cat, they keep her busy busy busy. I was supposed to drive up to visit, but nobody knows how do drive in the rain in S. CA. The roads are all oily because it rains so little, so it’s like driving on ice I hear. I am frightened of driving on icy roads, but I know to SLOW DOWN in the rain. I just wish other people would do that too. Some of these idiots think they’re on the damn autobahn, and they cause accidents.
Oh, I just saw on the Huffington Post that Arianna is starting a French Huffington Post.
Bienvenue sur Le Huffington Post!“Bonjour! Le Huffington Post, an international collaboration bringing together Le Monde, Les Nouvelles Éditions Indépendantes, and the Huffington Post Media Group’s signature mix of news, blogging, community, and social engagement, arrives today. Our mission: taking the sort of discussions traditionally heard at water coolers and around dinner tables and helping to bring them online….”
Careful guys, the comments will piss you off because the right wing trolls get in there and stir up shit. I’ve learned that I need to censor myself or I will be banned. I cuss too much. When the HuffPo first started it was like an oasis for liberals with much intelligent conversation and sharing of information and right wing idiots were soundly chastised by the HuffPo community. Since she sold it to AOL it’s become harder and harder to find articles worth reading and commenting on. *sigh* There are times when I wonder what I said in my comment that alerted the thread moderators, but then I remember that some of the moderators are now right wingers and lovers of ’short attention span theatre’
But anyway, while your HuffPo is new, get in there and join the fun, it kind of felt like the wild wild west for thinking people for a while, lol
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Nunya,
“Are there subtitles for those of us who don’t speak French?”
I can’t remember, I think there must be cuz even for those of us who DO speak French, it’s next to impossible to understand what they say anyway, lol. The other thing is: there is a lot of action, and between situations and body languages, it’s not hard to guess what’s being said.
Put it in your Netflix queue, I’m sure you’ll like it. It is really hilarious.
Now, about “Le Huffington Post”:
“I’ve learned that I need to censor myself or I will be banned. I cuss too much.”
Oh, that’s all right then, I’m safe, I never fucking say one motherfucker cuss word!!!
Ok, I had a good look; One thing I find strange is that, apart from the title (”Bienvenue sur Le …”), everything is written in EN. Mmmmm… what’s the point? I mean, don’t they realize not one person in a 100,000 in France understands EN?
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Valérie,“if a cat can live happily in an apartment? I am thinking that maybe I would like one.”
Mmmmm… probably - at least that’s what I’ve heard. I’ve always lived in either houses or apartments on the ground floor, and in either case I’ve always had a window partially open so that they can get in and out as they please.
Since you live on an upper floor, your cat would be stuck in your apartment all the time. Maybe if it is a small kitten which has never tasted blue sky, trees and fresh air, he might be happy; but I wouldn’t recommend it because I think it is cruel to have a cat spend all its life stuck inside an apartment. And in case you are thinking of it: don’t even consider for one second you can get a leash and go walkies with the cat like ppl do with dogs; it DOES NOT work!
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WhyNot,
“Oh, that’s all right then, I’m safe, I never fucking say one motherfucker cuss word!!!”
LOLLL
“I mean, don’t they realize not one person in a 100,000 in France understands EN?”
That’s true and it is very embarrassing that there are so many tourists here in Paris, and they all speak English even if they are German or Swedish or Polish, etc etc, and when they ask for help to find something nobody can understand them.
About a cat: after what you say, I think it is better I don’t get one, not until the day I move on a ground floor. Maybe I should move into a tent at the Eiffel Tower gardens, LOL? I am sure the cat would be very happy with all the trees and also he might like the ducks! But I don’t think the swans would care, they are not even afraid of people.
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Nunya,
“Where are you honey? Are you mad at me?”
Me mad at you? Never. I love you very much, you remind a little of Bonbon.
“I’ve learned that I need to censor myself or I will be banned. I cuss too much.”
Lol. Then I think it is better I don’t go there. I can’t stand people who censor what you say, especially if the reason is swearing. Those people must be so stupid and ignorant it is not even funny. What fucking planet are they living on? Have they not ever heard their stupid brats swearing like troopers? I hate hypocrits.
You know, maybe you remember, there was an idiot who used to come here often, and it was always to insult me, he never said anything else. His nickname was Ugly American. I remember one time he said about me something like: “Where is the Ukrainian whore? Has she at long last died from every venereal disease?”.
No swear words in there, yes? So all the clean good bourgeois who never swear will say: “That is fine, there is no objection to publish this”, and Huffington would publish it, yes?
But if I answered: “You are a fucking idiot”, then all those huffingpuffingtonpost censorers would censor it, right?
I am so tired of hypocrits, I don’t want to obey their rules.
Valérie,
“But I don’t think the swans would care, they are not even afraid of people.”
Maybe you should get a baby swan instead of a cat. Do you have a bath?
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Siletto,
“Where is the Ukrainian whore? Has she at long last died from every venereal disease?”
Lol, I had nearly forgotten about this clown. Actually, I wish he was back, I could rip into him no end.
Anyway, I agree about your comments about swearing. It’s all bullshit.
“Maybe you should get a baby swan instead of a cat. Do you have a bath?”
Geee, that’s a novel idea - I can just see that… a swan in the bathtub, lol. Hey Valérie, think… you wouldn’t need to climb up and down all those stairs - just put horse reins on the swan, open the window, and out you fly…
Speaking of flying: has anyone ever had flying dreams?
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WhyNot,
I know that that particular article was in English, but the site linked in the first sentence of the article is not. Go HERE for the site.
The movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop is funny, but some of the humor is very Canadian, you know, that whole French vs English thing that the Canadians chose to keep and most of us in the lower 48 don’t give two shits about. So far I like it, but it’s really hard to comment here and watch a subtitled movie at the same time, lol.
I have faith that you will wow them on HuffPo Francais, and the right wingers can provide peals of laughter if you are in the right mood.
Stiletto,
” Me mad at you? Never. I love you very much, you remind a little of Bonbon.”
Aw thanks doll baby, I love you too, and I consider it a compliment that I remind you a bit of BonBon.
“No swear words in there, yes? So all the clean good bourgeois who never swear will say: “That is fine, there is no objection to publish this”, and Huffington would publish it, yes? “
MMM, I just have to be a bit more creative with my insults, lol. I think “ducking fipshit” made it past a moderator or two. Comments like “Wow, could you make it any more obvious that you didn’t read the article?” makes it through and the Spanish cuss words just baffle the crap out of those church ladies in Ohio. I think I’ve slipped in pendejo (ben-DAY-ho), baboso (bah-BOW-so), and hijole (EE-ho-lay), but hijole is like saying Oh my god, so it’s really not a big deal. Pendejo is ike calling someone an asshole, but it doesn’t really mean an asshole. Baboso is like calling someone a big stupid idiot.
Valérie,
“That’s true and it is very embarrassing that there are so many tourists here in Paris, and they all speak English even if they are German or Swedish or Polish, etc etc, and when they ask for help to find something nobody can understand them.”
Oh please, it can’t be any more embarrassing than the fact that most Americans are severely language impaired, we even manage to mangle English and that is the language that most business in this country is done in, and it’s the language taught in school. For a nation of immigrants, we sure as shit lose our mother tongues in like ONE generation, jeez. We all ought to be learning Chinese, that is the world’s next major business language, and murderous for Western tongues. Really fucking hard to pronounce.
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WhyNot,
“Speaking of flying: has anyone ever had flying dreams?”Ah yes, but of course! Mine may have been a bit different than some people’s because I was a competitive swimmer for 6 years. They are perhaps some of the few good memories that I have of Jr. High school (grades 6-8 here). I was “swimming” through the halls at school, in the air, four to five feet off the ground, and people would stare in amazement as they moved to the side to let me pass. I loved those dreams, they were fun!
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Hijole, people, go make some commentaires at Le Huffington Post . Only a hundred comments on the most comented on article on the front page? that’s pathetic
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I was just looking at a comment I made over at HuffPo a couple of weeks ago on the Republican primary lead up bullshit, Jees what a buncha silly clowns. Anyway, I was irritated at the polling that goes on in Iowa during this clown car circus time and said that I lived in a state with 37 million people in it and I could care less what 150,000 Iowans think.
I wondered what the population of France was in comparison to the population of California. Half the people in France could fit in California easily. If California were a country it would rank 35th in population, and according to this wikipedia page
we have around the same amount of people as Algeria which is ranked 34. -
Nunya,
“I think “ducking fipshit” made it past a moderator or two.”
Lolololol, I like it very much!!!
“Pendejo is ike calling someone an asshole, but it doesn’t really mean an asshole. Baboso is like calling someone a big stupid idiot.”
Lololol, I am laughing so much, thank you thank you! I know a few swear words in French, but I think sweet Valérie is the champion, once she came up with a whole paragraph of swear words, many of them, I had never heard them.
“Oh please, it can’t be any more embarrassing than the fact that most Americans are severely language impaired, we even manage to mangle English and that is the language that most business in this country is done in“.
I don’t really agree with you because even if I don’t watch as many EN-speaking movies as WhyNot and Valérie, I watch quite a few, and I find it more often that I cannot understand a single word they say if it is a UK film instead of an American film. Even with the subtitles in EN, many times they use strange dialects, I read the words but the sentences don’t make any sense and even some words, I can’t find them in the dictionary.
But when I see an American film, sometimes I have trouble understanding the accents and also the sentences, but I understand maybe 50%, and with the subtitles in EN, I understand them completely.
Anyway, USA is not a fucking colony of fucking England, so I don’t see why you Americans should have to stick with UK English. You have the right to make your own version, and fuck the UK if they don’t fucking like it. And also when you speak of business, it is a bit the same, England is just one country out of 27 that make the EU, it is no more important than the most supid State of the 50 states of USA. It is probably the most stupid country in EU.
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WhyNot,The Askimet anti-spam gadget is fucked, it doesn’t work any more: I had to manually delete at least 50 SPAM comments, and there wasn’t even a funny one they were all stupid publicity for viagra etc.
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Stiletto,
“England is just one country out of 27 that make the EU, it is no more important than the most supid State of the 50 states of USA. It is probably the most stupid country in EU.”
Lolol, yeah, well, mmmm, I have to agree heartily with you on this one.
“Even with the subtitles in EN, many times they use strange dialects”
Too right. The American lingo is remarkably uniform right across USA, in spite of the very large surface area of the country. The same can be said of Australia by the way, and perhaps even more so than in the US; for instance, there is virtually NO difference in accent betwwen ppl in Sydney and ppl in Perth (city on the West coast, i.e. 5000 km west of Sydney, i.e. about the same distance as betwenn NYC and Los Angeles). If you bump into an Aussie you’ve never met before, it is impossible to tell what part of Oz (s)he is from.
On the other hand: UK… what a fucking disaster that place is; the land of the language of Shakespeare… yeah right, Shakespeare, my ass! From one suburb of London to the next, it’s like they speak 2 different languages.
“it doesn’t work any more: I had to manually delete at least 50 SPAM comments”
Yeah, I know, honeybun. But there is nothing we can do about it, except do regular clean-ups.
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Stiletto,
“Lololol, I am laughing so much, thank you thank you! I know a few swear words in French, but I think sweet Valérie is the champion, once she came up with a whole paragraph of swear words, many of them, I had never heard them. “
You are certainly welcome sweetie.
Valérie,
Ya think you could regale us sometimes, with rough translations for us retards who only speak English? lol
Stiletto,
“more often that I cannot understand a single word they say if it is a UK film instead of an American film. Even with the subtitles in EN, many times they use strange dialects, I read the words but the sentences don’t make any sense and even some words, I can’t find them in the dictionary.”
Whew! I thought it was only me. My brother likes this UK show called “Shameless” and I can’t understand 3/4 of what they are saying. I thought I would pick up some of the slang, idioms and accent but no dice, I just don’t get it. I watched a half dozen 45 minute shows and I’m just as lost as I was after the first show I watched. The father in the series is a hopeless alcoholic and dumber than dirt, so that endears me even less to the show. James McAvoy is only in the first season so, there’s that. I’m thinking about giving the US version a try because I love William H. Macy.
” USA is not a fucking colony of fucking England, so I don’t see why you Americans should have to stick with UK English. You have the right to make your own version, and fuck the UK if they don’t fucking like it. And also when you speak of business, it is a bit the same, England is just one country out of 27 that make the EU, it is no more important than the most supid State of the 50 states of USA. It is probably the most stupid country in EU.”
Damn straight it’s not a colony! I dunno where the Canadians get off telling us that we are jealous that we don’t have a queen? Fuck me, we don’t WANT fucking royalty, that’s why we fought and won the Revolutionary War 250 years ago.
WhyNot,
” Too right. The American lingo is remarkably uniform right across USA, in spite of the very large surface area of the country. The same can be said of Australia by the way, and perhaps even more so than in the US; for instance, there is virtually NO difference in accent betwwen ppl in Sydney and ppl in Perth (city on the West coast, i.e. 5000 km west of Sydney, i.e. about the same distance as betwenn NYC and Los Angeles). If you bump into an Aussie you’ve never met before, it is impossible to tell what part of Oz (s)he is from.”
Hmm. There are individual word differences in the US, and definitely accent differences that I pick up on in tv shows and movies. I was irritated the other day when this actress was supposed to be playing a Southie (working class Boston) and it was obvious to me that the woman was born and raised in NYC, but it wasn’t like the discordance that jars me when a UK, Aussie, or Canadian writer or actor throws in one of their idioms and out it comes an American accent. “Early days” is one that drives me batshit crazy, we don’t use that one, ever, and “tea” is NOT dinner, or supper, or the evening meal or however you want to refer to it!!!!! It’s tea and you (not me) drink it, you don’t eat it. And a biscuit is NOT acookie . A biscuit is unsweetened and you slop up gravy (preferably breakfast sausage gravy with tons of black pepper in it) with it. And wikipedia is wrong, a biscuit is not much like a scone either, it’s a fucking biscuit, damnit! Sometimes they are heavy, but they are better if they are flaky and soft, but not like a dinner roll which is made with yeast. And what the fuck is up with those South Africans? According to the wiki page in S. Africa a cookie is a cupcake.
” On the other hand: UK… what a fucking disaster that place is; the land of the language of Shakespeare… yeah right, Shakespeare, my ass! From one suburb of London to the next, it’s like they speak 2 different languages.”
See above comment, lol.
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Listening to my all time favorite CD –
Title song Soda Fountain Shuffle
the title song is not my favorite song, but nobody ever uploads “Just Pretend” onto youtube
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I just watched this movie. Mmmm. I think some stuff gets lost in translation. I liked it well enough until the end when baby gay dude hooks up with old Dr. and then says his folks were Canadian and American but he was born in Australia. Don’t know the actor but I will bet you that that actor spent most of his life in France, and his American accent whilst speaking English was for shit.
The Witnesses(Les Témoins)
2007NR114 minutes
This compelling drama from André Téchiné looks back at a time when the AIDS epidemic was just becoming a reality. It’s 1984, and the people of Paris have no idea how much their lives are about to change when an unnamed disease is discovered. Written by Téchiné, Laurent Guyot and Viviane Zingg, this gripping tale stars Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Johan Libéreau and Julie Depardieu. -
Nunya & Stiletto,
I had a wonderful time ROFLMAOing while reading your views on EN accents.
“Ya think you could regale us sometimes, with rough translations for us retards who only speak English? lol”
Lol, actually I think it’s about time youze ppl started saying you speak “American” rather than “English”. Ever since UK joined the ECC, then the EU, they’ve been a royal pain in the ass. They antagonize everyone of the other 26 EU countries, they seem to think that “Oh well, we lost our previous colonies - America, South America, dozens of countries in Africa, dozens more in south east Asia, but it’s all right: we now got 26 European colonies!”
Assholes.
“Fuck me, we don’t WANT fucking royalty, that’s why we fought and won the Revolutionary War 250 years ago.”
I think that they prolly still think as a colony - they can’t get rid of their slave mentality, which was shoved down their throats by UK. Although Québec doesn’t seem to suffer from that “nostalgia” and will happily tell the EN queen to go get sodomized. As to the English, they can’t get over the fact USA kicked them out; the fact the FR dude Lafayette helped you kicking their smelly asses out is insult added to injury, lol.
“It’s tea and you (not me) drink it, you don’t eat it.”
Ya’d be surprised the shit they eat and drink in England. Even pigs turn their noses up at it. There is an old saying that goes:
Q: “what’s one of the differences between England and France?”
A: “In France they have 300 cheeses and 3 religions, in England they have 3 cheeses and 300 religions”.Oh, and the 3 cheeses they have are Cheedar-painted-orange, Cheddar-painted-yellow, and one called Stilton which is more effective than acetone to strip paint off old funiture.
“It’s 1984, and the people of Paris have no idea how much their lives are about to change when an unnamed disease is discovered.”
Sad and scary thing, AIDS; Called SIDA in French. I knew a guy in Oz who died from it. Graham. Took him years to die.
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WhyNot,
“Oh, and the 3 cheeses they have are Cheedar-painted-orange, Cheddar-painted-yellow, and one called Stilton which is more effective than acetone to strip paint off old funiture.”
LOLLLLL, beurkkkk!!! I will need to suggest this to my boss at the restaurant, it should attract all the UK tourists pigs, LOL!
“I knew a guy in Oz who died from it. Graham. Took him years to die.”
This is so sad. Was he a friend?
“will happily tell the EN queen to go get sodomized.”
LOLL, poor queen! She might catch SIDA!
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WhyNot,
“Ever since UK joined the ECC, then the EU, they’ve been a royal pain in the ass. They antagonize everyone of the other 26 EU countries, they seem to think that “Oh well, we lost our previous colonies - America, South America, dozens of countries in Africa, dozens more in south east Asia, but it’s all right: we now got 26 European colonies!”’Egg-zack-ly dude, the EU is getting fucked by London banksters and the Americas (by that I mean everywhere from the most northerly areas in Canada inhabited by Eskimos to Tierra delFuego at the tip of S America) are getting fucked by NYC banksters with DC connections!!! Arrrrrrgh! The fucking fucks!
I’m sorry about your friend. I think my first great crush may haved died by now from it. I lost touch after a few years.
” the fact the FR dude Lafayette helped you kicking their smelly asses out is insult added to injury, lol. “
And thank you for that! Unfortunately when it comes to cheese, Americans are even worse than the brits. I recently found out that “American cheese” is processed with some kind of aluminum crap, not good if you don’t want Alzheimer’s disease. Mmm, wtf was I saying? lol Oh yeah, cheese. Well, decent cheese is available in this country, in the gourmet section of most deli sections of the grocery stores, but frankly I get so overwhelmed at the multitude of choices in the grocery stores that I end up forgetting what I went to the store for. In the regular cheese section most grocery stores have swiss, monterey jack, pepper jack, 2 or 3 kinds of cheddar and the infamous American.
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I really missed Moyers when he wasn’t on PBS for the last 2 years. The economy in the US compelled him to come back on tv. I love the clip from the 1987 movie “Wall Street” inserted in the video before he interviews Hacker and Pierson.
Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality
January 13, 2012
In this show segment, Moyers & Company dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the super-rich richer and turn their backs on the rest of us. -
If you take the mouse and scoot the video play (in the last post) to about 32 miutes in the woman testifying before congress details how she and her husband have tried to do what you need to do to achieve “The American Dream.” Then Moyers mentions that “social mobility” is now lower in the US than…(mentions at least a half dozen EU countries).
*sigh*
Yeah, I’ll probably read the book, but trying to organize Democrats is like trying to herd cats. Republicans are like dumb dogs with pack mentality and loyal even to the point of being suicidal.
(Stiletto, I did not mean Rex, German shepherds are known for being HIGHLY intelligent)
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Nunya,
“EU is getting fucked by London banksters … are getting fucked by NYC banksters with DC connections!!! Arrrrrrgh! The fucking fucks!”
Lots of fucking here, LOLLL, you talk just like Stiletto!!! This is fun!!!
“Unfortunately when it comes to cheese, Americans are even worse than the brits.”
I thought WhyNot said once that he could get ok cheese from a big supermarket in Florida. And nice rosé wine from where you are in California. And you know, if you have swiss and Monterey and pepper (I don’t know these last 2), then you have 3 cheeses more than in UK, LOL!
If only Gustave Eiffel had packed the Statue of Liberty with tons and tons of our cheeses and the recipes to make them, LOL!!!
“but trying to organize Democrats is like trying to herd cats.”
LOLLLL, I am trying to imagine this in pictures in my mind. You could make a Jurassic Park film!
WhyNot,
“will happily tell the EN queen to go get sodomized.”
LOLLL, beurkkk! Poor men!
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Well, Valerie, I forgot that mozzerella is very common in most grocery stores also, for the pizza snobs who won’t pay for a gourmet pizza, and if there is a separate section then there are all kinds of cheeses. I like basil pesto instead of red sauce, feta cheese, and red onion on mine. I like smoked goulda and smoked sharp cheddar for my crab enchilada sauce. That’s made with flour torillas and the filling is crab meat with mild green chiles, and instead of a red chile sauce the sauce is a cheese sauce. They are so rich that you can’t eat more than 2 small ones, and so heavy that only a salad can be eaten with them comfortably. A glass of California wine is nice with the meal, I suppose, but I’m not much of a wine drinker. An occasional beer works for me. So you see, we send you some interesting ideas on what to do with cheese also!
HaHa, that makes me think of Meryl Streep playing Julia Child in “Julie and Julia” when she says “Bon Appetit!” My friend and I saw that together and laughed because we remember our mothers watching her in “The French Chef “ on tv when we were little.
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Hmm, come to think of it Valerie, there ARE a lot of different cheeses here. Maybe because there are a lot of different cultures here. I can walk to restaurants that are Greek, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Thai, Indian, and the one that finally closed that was what some genius dubbed “Tex-Mex” a rather inedible combination of bland fatty American food and Mexican food. Bleh. Then there is one place that specializes in pies and offters quiche, but that’s probably the closest to French cuisine around here. If I want to get in the car there probably isn’t a country whose cusine is not represented somehwere in the county. You can bet your ass that a full 95% of the cooks are Mexican though, lol.
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Nunya,
“we send you some interesting ideas on what to do with cheese also!”
Yes. It is interesting to hear you because it seems a lot of the food is influenced by Mexico.
“I can walk to restaurants that are Greek, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Thai, Indian”
You’d love the Latin Quarter in Paris. It is not very far from where I am, 1 or 2 km. There are lots of very narrow streets, only pedestrians are allowed, no cars, and it is a feast of restaurants from all the world.
Has anyone seen “Titanic”? it is a very good movie, but it is so sad at the end. I cried and cried.
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Hello Philippe,
I pop in now and again to find out what is going on with you but, there are so many comments it’s difficult. I’m so sorry about the bike, really. Knowing how much you love horses I was happy to read of your new job. Are you still doing this work?
I have been trying to return to France for at least a year and almost made it but, lost my home and all I owned except Wally, my little dog I refused to give up. I could find no one who would put me up if I kept him so I got a small tent and we lived wherever I could put it until a few months ago someone let me and Wally share their home.
I had a large tree limb fall on me while working and managed to knock my 4th vertebrate out of line and have lived in constant pain due to pinched nerves and arthritis in my neck and shoulder for the last 2 years. Having no health insurance I could not afford to see a doctor but the pain became so bad recently I had to go to the emergency room at charity hospital. They are setting me up an appointment at Tulane in New Orleans to see a Neurologist who will determine whether I need surgery. All I know is they must do something because I cannot continue to live this way. I must work and continue to work when I can find it but, it only makes my injury worse and there is danger of my spinal cord being damaged. Although I live with someone she is older and lives on a fixed income. I will not live off of her or cause her further hardship. They tell me it may be 3 months before I get an appointment at the hospital as it’s first come first serve and being that it’s a charity hospital there is a long line.
I know this is all pretty sketchy but, I can’t tell you everything here so I’m giving you a few highlights. My mind only hears the pain and words come hard. I sometimes cannot speak plainly the pain paralyzes me so.
Naturally, living in a tent I was without a computer for sometime but, my friend was given one that I managed to set up without problems thank goodness. I do have a cell phone when I can keep minutes on it and Skype if those are options for us to communicate. I assume you still have no email capabilities. I sent you an email many months ago about my desire to return but got no response. I have thought many times of calling your mother but not knowing her physical condition changed my mind. I had arranged to talk to Laurent sometime ago but by the time I was able to could not get him and my emails to him bounced. I am not looking for financial help in getting to France. I have someone who was ready to help me once and I’m sure will do so again if I ask her. She believes France is where I belong. It’s like my spirit is there. I have known for sometime I don’t belong here. Redg has told me many times I can stay with him and his girlfriend if I can get there. It really doesn’t matter to me where I stay only that I have a place to go when I get there. I need to speak to you about many things. Please find a way.
Although you will think me foolish not holding my beliefs, I have remained a married woman since I left you in France till this day. What I came back for never happened. My daughter has no desire to know me in the last stages of my life. I never see my grandson. I am alone in a place that makes me terribly sad. If I must be alone I want to be in the place I found so much beauty and peace. I can live with that.
I hope I have not written too much. Knowing me as you do you must know how hard it is for me to say all of this in public where there are visitors who are not friendly toward me. I do it because I see no other way. Redg does not always understand my words correctly and writing words on paper is impossible at least of any length. I have arthritis in my hands and wrist as well which keep my joints swollen and painful. Outside of these few things I’m healthy as a horse as the doctor said. With treatment which I could have had long ago if I were there I can be almost as I was. My vital organs are all in good shape including my smoke filled lungs.
I will keep this opened and check for your response tomorrow. I can’t post my ph. no. here or address naturally. I could put them in an email to Redg and will but, I know he would have to make a trip to tell you. I’m sure there is a way we can communicate and I’m just not thinking of it.
Bonne nuit, Philippe -
Dianne!!!
Wow, I didn’t expect to ever hear from you again. This is wonderful. Let me address your points one at a time:
“I’m so sorry about the bike”
I don’t mind that in itself; besides I lost my driving/riding license some 2 or 3 years ago, so it’s just been sitting in the courtyard gathering dust and cobwebs. However, what I DO mind is that the asshole who bought it from me still owes me money which he doesn’t seem to wan to depart from, in spite of my calling the gendarmes. To add insult to injury, he “borrowed” all my PA equipment (you know, the super-heavy rack of amplifiers, the mixing desk and the 6 PA speakers); that was supposed to be for the purpose of giving some big party, and that was 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Even though I haven’t used that sound equiment for years, it still really fucks me off huge time because it is worth at least 5,000 euros if not 10,000.
About horses: yeah, I really enjoyed it immensely, even if we didn’t get paid. But I don’t go there any longer cuz one day the boss sent me to clear a field of nasty flowering plants, but she didn’t want me to use a weed-eater, only a pair of hand held long cutters. Result is that the fucking plants fell all over my arms and I got a really nasty skin reaction - blisters all over my hands and arms.
So, no more horses for me at the moment. Pity cuz I really loved taking care of them. There was a white male, really beautiful horse; he lived in a paddock. When I went there with my rake and wheelbarrow to pick up all the horse shit, he would follow me around, nudge me with his head, and blow hot hair on my face and neck, lol.
“I have been trying to return to France for at least a year and almost made it but, lost my home and all I owned except Wally, my little dog I refused to give up”
Well, if you can beg, borrow or steal the money for the journey, you’re welcome to stay in my humble abode. It is no worse than the apartment in Eyguières which you must remember. As far as the dog, all you need to get is vet certificate from the US gov in Talahassee (north of Florida). Generally speaking, importing pets from the US is no major drama. We brought our cat Ingrid, as you must remember, and that was pretty painless.
“They tell me it may be 3 months before I get an appointment at the hospital as it’s first come first serve and being that it’s a charity hospital there is a long line.
I know this is all pretty sketchy but, I can’t tell you everything here so I’m giving you a few highlights. My mind only hears the pain and words come hard. I sometimes cannot speak plainly the pain paralyzes me so.”Ok. The only thing I can suggest is, again, come to France. Have you seen the Michael Moore film “Sicko”? It is not exaggerated in the least, if there is one thing they do right in France, it is free top health care for everybody equally.
“I assume you still have no email capabilities. I sent you an email many months ago about my desire to return but got no response. ”
You’re right, I have no email because I have no internet connection (nor even telephone) at home. I walk over to the “mairie” where they have a computer with internet access - the use of it is completely free. BUT… I cannot set up an email client program on it, all I can do is access the WEB.
In other words, my only means of communication are: 1) this blog, 2) snail mail.
“I am not looking for financial help in getting to France. I have someone who was ready to help me once and I’m sure will do so again if I ask her. She believes France is where I belong. It’s like my spirit is there. I have known for sometime I don’t belong here. Redg has told me many times I can stay with him and his girlfriend if I can get there. It really doesn’t matter to me where I stay only that I have a place to go when I get there. I need to speak to you about many things. Please find a way.”
Ok. You must have gathered by now that I cannot help you financially for the trip. However, you can share my apartment as long as you want. Furthermore, food will cost you virtually nothing: that is because you are still my legal spouse, and the subsidy I get from the gov and which is now for a single/separated person, will increase to that of a couple.
“Although you will think me foolish not holding my beliefs, I have remained a married woman since I left you in France till this day. What I came back for never happened. My daughter has no desire to know me in the last stages of my life. I never see my grandson. I am alone in a place that makes me terribly sad. If I must be alone I want to be in the place I found so much beauty and peace. I can live with that.”
Ok. First I don’t think you foolish in the least. When we came here together, you thought you would conquer FR quickly enough, and it was a very rude awakening for you to discover you have no talent with languages. I think it is correct to say that it was probably the single greatest reason that led you to return to the US.
I won’t comment on Mandie here, since it is a public forum, but you know what I think of her already… so… I’ll refrain from pouring out lots of insults, lol.
“Knowing me as you do you must know how hard it is for me to say all of this in public where there are visitors who are not friendly toward me.”
I understand; however don’t think for one second Nunya, Stiletto or Valérie have anything against you. They can all certify here that I never spoke ill of you on the blog.
“Outside of these few things I’m healthy as a horse as the doctor said.”
Excellent! I’ll have to go for a ride on you regularly, lol -:)
“I’m sure there is a way we can communicate and I’m just not thinking of it.”
Well, here is fine by me. However, if there are things you’d rather not share with anybody, snail-mail me to:
Philippe MAIRE
13, Place de l’Eglise
30340, Salindres
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Hi Philippe, I had to work today and was unable to respond and when I got home from work got some crazy message about no data being sent when I tried to access the site. Now it’s time for me to go to bed as I have to work tomorrow and I’m tired to the bone. I will get back to you very soon.
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WhyNot,
“Even though I haven’t used that sound equiment for years, it still really fucks me off huge time because it is worth at least 5,000 euros if not 10,000.”
That’s terrible. Stiletto should go there where you are and kickbox the shit out of this guy and stick a rocket launcher in his asshole, LOL!
“he would follow me around, nudge me with his head, and blow hot hair on my face and neck, lol.”
This sounds lovely. You should have taken it home with you! Horses are more friendly than swans, I don’t think a swan would let me pat him and blow hot air on my face, rather, he would bite my nose off, LOL.
Dianne,
I hope you can make it here. I don’t know USA, but here, it is a good place. Except for the little midget fascist president Sarkozy, LOL.
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WhyNot,
“I’ll have to go for a ride on you regularly”
This sounds interesting. Do you have a video camera?
Valérie,
“kickbox the shit out of this guy and stick a rocket launcher in his asshole”
Lol, Yes I’d like this very much.
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Valérie,
“he would bite my nose off”
Lol. I got bitten by a swan once. At the lake of Annecy.
Well guys, guess what? That dickhead has brought me back the rack of amplifiers. No speakers yet, but I suppose it is a promising start. I think that even if/when I get all of my stuff back, I’ll never lend any of it again to anyone. Sort of sad that assholes spoil it for everybody, but I guess it’s life.
Anyone seen any good movies lately? I saw an interesting one. It’s more a documentary than a movie. Not sure now, but I think it’s called “Grizzly man” or something like it. It is the true story of a dude who spent months in the wilderness (not sure where, but I think Alaska) observing grizzlies. The ending is horrible, particularly because it is true: both him and his girlfriend get attacked, killed and eaten by a grizzly.
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“both him and his girlfriend get attacked, killed and eaten by a grizzly.”
I think I’ll stick with the ducks and the swans, and I’ll leave the bears alone.
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Valérie,
“I think I’ll stick with the ducks and the swans, and I’ll leave the bears alone.”
Lol, it is a very good idea; I have never heard of ducks or swans eating humans. It is a pity they don’t make an exception for Sarkozy, especially because he is not even a human.
WhyNot,
“Sort of sad that assholes spoil it for everybody, but I guess it’s life.”
Yes. But you see, I think most people are assholes, that’s what I have experienced so far in my life, so it doesn’t really matter. Anyway, if people want equipment, why don’t they rent it from a rental place? That’s what they do with cars, no?
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Valérie,
“Yes. It is interesting to hear you because it seems a lot of the food is influenced by Mexico.”
Hmm. Not necessarily, but there probably is a lot of it in San Diego because we are right on the Mexican border and you might think that because I happen to like Mexican food. I was thinking about the vast amount of foods available in the grocery store as I wandered through it the other night trying to figure out what to fix for dinner. We don’t often eat like this but I ended up with asparagus, yellow squash, zucchini, red bell pepper, green beans and onion, which I sliced and grilled with the tiny lobster tails and steaks that I bought. Before I decided on that, I wondered if Indian, Korean, Mexican or Italian sounded good, lol.Dianne,
WhyNot is absolutely correct, he’s always spoken highly of you here on the blog. I’m delighted that you contacted him as he has been worried about you for all the time I have been visiting this blog. 3 or 4 years now? Since the health care system in this country is deplorable, I hope that you can make it to France and get some help with your physical ailments. I’m sure that if I had the opportunity to go that I would, even if I completely mangled the French language, and it seemed like everyone I met thought I was an idiot, lol.
Stiletto,
“Lol, Yes I’d like this very much.
I love your spirit!
” Yes. But you see, I think most people are assholes, that’s what I have experienced so far in my life, so it doesn’t really matter.”
Yes, it is true that there are many many assholes in the world, but I had a very wise woman tell me once that I needed to find a balance between “wearing rose colored glasses,” meaning that I saw everything all rosy and good, and seeing the worst in everyone. It’s a challenge to develop cautious optimism, and sometimes it requires more damn effort than I’m willing to put in. There are many kind and loving people in the world also! There are buttheads everywhere and there are nice people everywhere. Hang in there baby girl, and take a deep breath before you kickbox someone that may turn out to be an ally with time. Know that someone across the pond loves you.
WhyNot,
I’m sorry that someone messed with you regarding your equipment, that sucks. I’m glad that you got part of it back anyway. I’ve seen the movie about the moron who ended up being a spring time starvation meal for a bear. Dude had some serious problems, not the least of them being lack of common sense, or perhaps strong suicidal tendencies.
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Nunya,
“I’m sorry that someone messed with you regarding your equipment, that sucks. I’m glad that you got part of it back anyway.”
Thanks, my friend. That dickhead hasn’t retruned the whole of it, but with what he has left, he can’t use it, so I guess it’s just a matter of time before he brings me back the rest. Still, this is one experience I’m not gonna forget in a hurry, and it will be a LONG time before I get ripped off again. But it also means it will probably be that I will never lend it to anybody again. Pity assholes have to spoil it for everyone.
Oah, and thanks for your support regarding Dianne.
“even if I completely mangled the French language”
Lol, don’t worry, there are plenty of native FR ppl who speak FR like Spanish cows, and I cannot understand a single word they say.
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Dianne,
I got a letter from Redge. He says you wrote to him for assistance. This is the totally WRONG way to go about you making it here without you getting deported after 3 months. You may have (in USA) an immigration problem, but believe me, proportionally to the populations sizes, France has a much bigger similar problem. Seems every Tom Dick and Harry from ex-FR colonies tries to get in here (and other EU countries). That means at least a dozen African countries, not to mention several in South East Asia.
I went to see the mayor and explained the situation. His opinion is: come here as a tourist; you’ll get an automatic 3-month visa. During that time we can most likely do the required administrative bullshit necessary for you to, once again, obtain a temporary “carte de séjour”, renewable every year for 10 years, after which, you’ll get a permanent permit.
Coming here as a tourist means you cannot buy a one-way ticket - it has to be a return fare, but this is not the end of the world because a return fare doesn’t cost twice as much as a single fare, only a fraction more.
However, I am NOT in a financial position to help you in this regard. On the other hand, once you’re here, lodging and food will cost me nothing more than what I already pay.
I hope you can make it. I’m sure T-Rex will remember you and settle on your chest as he used to do when you were lying in bed.
PS: don’t bug Redge again; he is in NO position to do ANYTHING regarding you staying here in this country.
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WhyNot,
“lodging and food will cost me nothing more than what I already pay.”
How? Are you going to NOT feed Dianne, LOL? Not even cat food, LOL?
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WhyNot,
“there are plenty of native FR ppl who speak FR like Spanish cows“.
Spanish cows? What’s special about them? Do they moo differently than French cows? or Russian ones?
Valérie,
“Are you going to NOT feed Dianne, LOL? Not even cat food, LOL?”
Lolol.
“Pity assholes have to spoil it for everyone.”
Can’t you call the police?
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Lol: I took a look at Jeanette’s blog. http://jscafenette.com .This woman is completely insane. But it is not a wonder because she has a born-insane-again religion. Of course, like all born-again-fascist bitches, she hates Obama and the Palestinians and doesn’t stop sucking the dicks of the fascist Israelis.She also hates that USA is trying to be a secular government country. She probably would love to have a born-again Inquisition and burn all the agnotics and atheists on the stakes. That would please her jesus very much and she would have to insert in her pussy the jesus dildo that Amelopsis from Canada sent her
But it is a relief that it does not seem to be the majority of Americans: her blog has 4 publishing members, and 4 people who comment, and they are the same 4 idiotic fuckheads.
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Stiletto,
“Do they moo differently”
Lol, no, it’s just an expression to mean “speaking very broken FR”.
As to Jeanette… well, who cares? it’s not her and her clique of mentally deranged religious fanatics who are going to change the future and shape of American society. If USA is easing its way into total secularism, she can scream and foam at the mouth all she wants, it ain’t gonna change a thing.
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Wow, I had no idea just how bad my internet connection was, especialy compared to France. I am more than aware of how I am paying through the nose for crappy cell phone service which cut off my phone call with my daughter because she walked into a different room in her apartment, and very aware of how much I pay for crappy internet connection and don’t even get me started on how much I pay for nationwide phone service.
Stiletto or WhyNot, do you think you could embed this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNSd_1IUkQThom Hartmann is the best!
Next time you think about how horrible Sarkozy is, remember how “coddled” American businesses are, and how fully in the pocket of business 99.9% of American politicians are. Did you know that a Senate (2 per state, 100 total) race can cost a candidate up to 8 million dollars? A House candidate (based on population in the state) race pretty much starts at a million dollars.
Sitletto,
” Of course, like all born-again-fascist bitches, she hates Obama and the Palestinians and doesn’t stop sucking the dicks of the fascist Israelis”
roflmao! But seriously, I’m pretty fucking sick of the Israelis (6 million people) leading the US (300 million people) around by the fucking noses. At least when it comes to US foreign policy in the Middle East. Sometimes I hope Iran does get a nuclear bomb in order to protect itself against Israel. After all Israel has had nuclear bombs since the US has had them. Not that the Israel/Iran conflict has anything to do with military posturing, it has to do with which currency Iran sells it’s oil and gas in. Why ya think Saddam Huessein was taken out?
I don’t hate Israelis and I don’t hate the state of Israel. I am not a big fan of the real rulers of Iran- the religious leaders. I am however, glad that I read Treacherous Alliance, the secret dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S by Trita Parsi. I had a heck of a time learning those French words that he uses all the time, but I needed to understand them.
1. suzerainty
2. detente
3.entente
4. de jure
5.rapprochementand a German word;
realpolitikWhyNot,
“If USA is easing its way into total secularism, she can scream and foam at the mouth all she wants, it ain’t gonna change a thing.”
Here’s the thing: If the real powers that be in this country (filthy rich assholes who probably never worked a fucking day in their life, you know, the ones that nobody even knows who they are) think that the religious idiot candidate can influence the people enough to get them to vote for him, and he will still carry the water for the rich and powerful it will happen. The more they squeeze Americans (financially) the more Americans turn to religion, and religious people are easier to control through fear.
*sigh*
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Nunya,
I could not find an embed code on the web page. But I watched the video. The sound was very low and I had to stick my head in the monitor to hear, lol; and even then I only heard part of it, lol.
“I don’t hate Israelis and I don’t hate the state of Israel.”
There was an American Jew here for a while, Eponymous. He was really nice. But the state of Israel should not exist. Not where it is now. Where it is now, it is land stolen from the Palestinians. Stolen by England, France, Russia and USA.
“The more they squeeze Americans (financially) the more Americans turn to religion, and religious people are easier to control through fear.”
Yes, it is what happened everywhere in the world for thousands of years. The primitive tribes, then the Romans and Greeks bullshit gods, then the muslim and christian asshole gods.
But you know, I watch western Europe, and it seems that this old technique doesn’t work any more. Churches in Europe are closing everywhere because nobody goes to them, except when they are homeless and need a place to sleep and piss and shit.
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Stiletto,
“Not where it is now. Where it is now, it is land stolen from the Palestinians. Stolen by England, France, Russia and USA.”
The countries you mention had a vested interest in keeping people happy who would work for the richest citizens on the planet and expand their wealth. The Jews historically have done jobs nobody else would do and money management and money lending (especially that one since loaning money for interest is against Christian and Islamic law) is one of those jobs. Well, what is in the middle east in abundance since the US used up most of theirs fighting WWII, Britain and France don’t have any and Russia wants to keep selling it?
OIL, and it’s easy to make money on oil because everyone needs it, uses products made from it, etc. yadda yadda.
Frankly, Palestinian activists here in this city are a fucking pain in the ass. They take over ANY protest, they are obnoxious, rude and they stir up shit in all the wrong places at all the wrong times. They drive people away from protests that don’t have ANYTHING to do with Palestine/Israel, and most of them are young adults who have never even been to Palestine. I also get sick of the Islamic countries never taking Palestinian refugees in and making them citizens of their new adopted countries if they do let them in. They they hold them up as their precious martyrs when it is politically expedient to do so. Most of the Islamic countries could give two shits about the Palestinians, but they all bitch about the Jews. They obviously take their religious laws more seriously than a hell of a lot of Christians because some Christians have gotten filty rich by ignoring the usury laws.
The THIRD holiest site in Islam is in Jerusalem and formally non-Muslims are not allowed in their holiest city- Mecca.
Kind of asinine that they demand to be able to worship in (what is now considered) the majority of Christianity’s MOST holy city: Jerusalem . Catholics consider Rome the holiest city, and people of every religion are allowed in the city. Inside the Vatican city inside Rome I’m not quite sure what the rules are. There are a hell of a lot more types of Christians than just Catholics.Ok, rant over. Baaaatttttteeeerrr UUUUPPP!
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And anyway, this is pissing me off more than anything else right now:
How a Filthy Rich 196 People Will Buy Our Election
AlterNet
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Stiletto,
“He was really nice.”
Yes he was. His girlfriend Kate spent a year in Lyons teaching EN as a second language at some university. We arranged to meet in Avignon which is only 50km from where I was living at the time, and have dinner there. I thought Dianne would be thrilled, but for some reason I was never able to figure out, she didn’t want to go.
Nunya,
Your discourse about Palestinians, Israel, Islamic countries, Jerusalem, Mecca, money lending, oil, etc is interesting…. but: it is not the main issue. The main issue is land. Land which was the land of the Palestinian ppl, and which we, western nations, stole from them to create an artificial state, that of Israel.
State which, had the fucking Israelis respected the inital boundaries of - as they were set in 1948, might have been ok by the Palestinians; But no, those fucking Jews just HAD to keep on encroaching more and more, and steal more and more of the Palestinian allocated land. To the point where, whereas in 1948, Israel-allocated land was a small parcel of land in the middle of Palestine, it is nowadays the near entire ex-Palestine land.
Take a look at an old article published by Stiletto in Dec 2008, titled “Let’s wipe Israel off the map”: here is the URL:
http://ppblog.free.fr/index.php/lets-wipe-israel-off-the-map
Now take a look at comment # 28: It is 4 maps of the region; in green the Palestine land, in white the Jewish land. Those 4 maps show the respective evolutions of the lands from 1946 to 1999;
Doesn’t something strike you? Something like receiving a nuclear bomb right in your face?
By the way, in case you wonder about the reliability of these maps, they are from Wikipedia. Even the idiotic fascist dick TLGK, replies in comment # 30: “I will accept whynot’s charts as being accurate“
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WhyNot,
I’ve seen those maps. I’m sure I have them in my computer somewhere. I understand that the encroachment is unforgivable.
That said let’s have a look at most places on the planet and the history of human kind. People migrate and “settle.” Empires are born through conquest and eventually lost to other conquering peoples. Right now China is taking down the US “Empire” economically.
It doesn’t make it right, it just is.
You still haven’t read The Third Chimpanzee have you? Here is a brief summary of the book albeit the author of this summary points out that “This book is much too full and rich to lend itself to anything like a full summary,”
I’m not excusing the Jewish theft of Arab lands I’m simply resigned to the fact that human nature basically sucks ass when it gets all tribal like.
As for Jerusalem this is from the wikipedia page I linked to:
“…During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times…”
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Dianne,
I got a letter from Redge. He says you wrote to him for assistance.
Philippe, I did not write Redge for assistance. He found me through Google 2 years ago and we have been talking off and on about my returning to France. He offered me a place if I was interested emphasizing it would be a lot of hard work. I would love to help them work on their place and learn to take care of the sheep. It would be a new adventure for me.
I certainly know their circumstances and have never asked for assistance of any kind other than help with contacting you which he has done. But my little dog would be a problem I’m afraid as I’m sure he would chase both the sheep and the chickens which wouldn’t do at all. Redge has been a good friend even offering to send me money once to put minutes on my phone. I refused but, was very grateful for his offer. Redge has a big heart. I am not the only person he has offered to help even though he has so little.
I went to see the mayor and explained the situation. His opinion is: come here as a tourist; you’ll get an automatic 3-month visa. During that time we can most likely do the required administrative bullshit necessary for you to, once again, obtain a temporary “carte de séjour”, renewable every year for 10 years, after which, you’ll get a permanent permit.
Obviously there has been a misunderstanding because your suggestion is exactly what Redge and I discussed and what I had planned to do. Thanks for taking the time to ask anyway.
PS: don’t bug Redge again; he is in NO position to do ANYTHING regarding you staying here in this country.
I would be shocked if I actually believed Redge told you I was bugging him for assistance. I will write him and correct any obvious misunderstanding. I will of course continue my friendship with Redge.
This is the last time I will speak of my personal business here. I would appreciate it if you would do the same. You would never tolerate me telling you how to handle your business or who to associate with. Since you and Redge are not close friends I’m surprised at your tone.
If I make it there, I will contact you especially as there is nothing you can do to aid me in getting there and this is the only way you choose to communicate. Redge sent you my phone numbers and I still use the same email address if this changes.
I do hope things work out for you in every way. Hugs to both you and T-Rex.
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Dianne,
“this is the only way you choose to communicate.”
I don’t CHOOSE to communicate here. It is simply the ONLY avenue I have to communicate.
“Redge sent you my phone numbers and I still use the same email address if this changes.”
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING PHONE, neither fix nor mobile. Also, I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING INTERNET CONNECTION AT HOME, THEREFORE I DON’T HAVE EMAIL. The ONLY thing I can access is the WEB, using the townhall’s public computer. Therefore, it is plain fucking obvious that this blog is my only means of communication.
Sorry if it bothers you, there is NOTHING I can do about it. Personally, it doesn’t bother me in the least, mostly because it’s been my lot for 3 years.
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I returned because I had seen where you thanked someone for their kind words to me. I will thank them as well in this way. This is not my computer and I try not to monopolize it. I skim the blog looking only for your post to me. I don’t read the rest.
I pay little attention to politics trying rather to do what I can to make things better in my immediate surroundings by helping out where I can. By way of explanation and not a pat on the back… A woman called me 3 days ago needing to go to the hospital. She didn’t know me well but could find no one else. She has kidney failure, hepatitis and diabetes. She was so swollen she looked pregnant and could not walk. I drove her to the emergency room, stayed with her and have visited her everyday also watching her little camper trailer she lives in and her truck. I’ve found this does more good than me screaming about what someone else should do. I feel better as well.
Now to you my friend:
Dianne,
“this is the only way you choose to communicate.”
I don’t CHOOSE to communicate here. It is simply the ONLY avenue I have to communicate.
I thought I was speaking to Philippe Maire, IT professional, electrician, classical and jazz pianist, mathematician, translator and so much more. That man would always find a way to get things done even bombarding the local Prefecture if necessary although it irritated him immensely to do so.
“Redge sent you my phone numbers and I still use the same email address if this changes.”
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING PHONE, neither fix nor mobile. Also, I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING INTERNET CONNECTION AT HOME, THEREFORE I DON’T HAVE EMAIL. The ONLY thing I can access is the WEB, using the townhall’s public computer. Therefore, it is plain fucking obvious that this blog is my only means of communication.
At the risk of sounding like a complete imbecile, if you can access this blog and write long communications surely you can access web mail as well such as Google Gmail can you not? It works the same way. You are accessing a web site not Outlook Express.
Your cursing at me on this blog over nothing is another reason communicating this way is impossible for me and doesn’t make me think you would be happy to see me at all.
Sorry if it bothers you, there is NOTHING I can do about it. Personally, it doesn’t bother me in the least, mostly because it’s been my lot for 3 years.
I lived in a tent with no water, toilet, cooking facilities etc.. It was my lot until I changed it. My lifestyle, now living in someone else’s home, having no vehicle etc.. will not remain my lot either. I will not go down without a fight and I will win. Being one of the walking dead is not for me. Even in chronic pain, I work in order to change my situation.
If you cannot help yourself then you certainly cannot help me. I understand.
à la prochaine (perhaps)
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Dianne
“I drove her to the emergency room…”
Drove her? Wow, fancy that, you have a car! You’re doing better than I am: All I have to move about are my 2 legs.
“thought I was speaking to Philippe Maire, IT professional, electrician, classical and jazz pianist, mathematician, translator and so much more. That man would always find a way to get things done even bombarding the local Prefecture if necessary although it irritated him immensely to do so.”
Thanks for the cute praises. However, as recents events have shown, I must be past my due date when it comes to “always find a way to get things done“. I have been robbed of most of my professional musical equipment, have hassled the local “gendarmerie” several times for them to get their asses into gear and do something about it - only to be physically thrown at of the fucking gendarmerie and with menaces of “rearranging” my facial features if I ever return there.
Yep, that’s fucking fascist France, as ruled by motherfucker fascist Sarkozy. No need to describe that musical equipment, you must remember it well since you took to sing to it when lived at the infamous Bouverie, and we would blast it out at night when the resident business ppl had gone home and we had the entire building to ourselves.
“At the risk of sounding like a complete imbecile, if you can access this blog and write long communications surely you can access web mail as well such as Google Gmail can you not? It works the same way. You are accessing a web site not Outlook Express.”
It never crossed my mind. I guess I’m the complete imbecile around here, lol. Anyway, this is a moot point: this blog does the job of communicating just fine; I have nothing to hide from public scrutiny.
“My lifestyle, now living in someone else’s home, having no vehicle etc.. will not remain my lot either. I will not go down without a fight and I will win. Being one of the walking dead is not for me. Even in chronic pain, I work in order to change my situation. ”
Good for you, sincerely. Anyway, as I said, you’re welcome to come live with me; it’s not grand by any standard, but it’s cosy enough if you don’t mind musical and computer equipment all over the place.
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I’m only posting this article because it looks like it is something that affects most Europeans, bieng that most of Europe needs to heat their homes and natural gas is an option for that, cooking and water heating. I know that Fr uses a lot of nuclear power for electricity, but we’ve never discussed stoves, or water heaters, or fertilizers (see the article for that one)
Oil Embargoes,Sherlock Holmes, and the Russian Butler -
Nunya,
“Oil Embargoes,Sherlock Holmes, and the Russian Butler”
Very interesting. But it doesn’t really matter for me because I don’t drive a car. You say cooking and water heating: but most people that I know use microwave ovens for cooking and their water heating is from electricity also. And like you say, I think it is 99% of the electricity here that comes from nuclear. The only thing that they use oil for is their fucking cars, but I don’t have a fucking car, and even if I lived in a big city, it wouldn’t matter much because in most big cities they have trams and métros and busses that run on electricity. So it is only the fat cat capitalists that would be annoyed.
But I agree with you that Russia is like USA, a big giant rip-off asshole. But it is not my fault, I am Russian but I didn’t vote for the capitalist fucks who run the country.
Dianne,
What is the matter with you? Are you really stupid? You have no idea what life can be hard, yes? Why don’t you try to live in Chechnya and eat rotten frozen potatoes for breakfast lunch and dinner? And avoid the Russian tanks bombarding you.
You have a husband, he offers to lodge you and feed you, and because you are his legal wife, he can arrange to continue your right to stay in France, and all you do is fucking complain.
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Stiletto,
” But I agree with you that Russia is like USA, a big giant rip-off asshole. But it is not my fault, I am Russian but I didn’t vote for the capitalist fucks who run the country.”
Hmmm. Since the Russian army seems to be at war with Checnya since Oh, I dunno, forever, I don’t even consider you a Russian, but someone caught up in a mess that you had nothing to do with creating.
I am an American and I did vote for Obama and there are times when I just hang my head in shame at what the politcal nutjobs who run this country in the name of their financial masters do.
*sigh*Oil is not just for cars though honey, look at this list:
A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)And if they grow food in France, the chances are that they use fertilizer which you need natural gas to produce.
NATURAL GAS - ESSENTIAL IN THE PRODUCTION OF FERTILIZERS
Anybody seen any good movies lately? I watched one called “The Boys are Back” with Clive Owen and I enjoyed it. Australia can be quite lovely. I don’t always love Aussie films, but some of my favorite actors are Aussie, or New Zealanders- Kathy Griffiths, Toni Collette, Russel Crowe, Cliff Curtis.
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Nunya,
“I am an American and I did vote for Obama and there are times when I just hang my head in shame”
Well, at least you didn’t vote 64 times for fascist Bush, like Jeanette did and is so proud of, lol.
“I don’t even consider you a Russian”
Try convincing our fascist midget Sarkozy… Funny thing is I met quite a few Russians on the Riviera and only had pleasant surprises.
“Australia can be quite lovely”
Yeah, sure; especially when seen through glasses like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder wore, lol. On the other hand, I’ve seen quite a few Aussie movies, and I’ve found all of them very well done.
—Well folks, the unblievable saga with the fucking French cops continues, and it looks like I’ve been fucked in every one of my bodily orifices; fucked by a thief, but mostly fucked by the cops, who clearly are the biggest thieves in this country. Completely incompetent, rude, aggressive, threatening to throw you out the window if you come bug them again with your problem of having been robbed on a grand scale and them doing exactly fuck all about it.
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WhyNot,
Your “saga” as you call it: it is incredible. I wish that I lived close to you, because I haven’t kickboxed anyone for a long time, and I would love to smash those fascists fucking cops pigs. It is not easy to wear stilettos when you kickbox assholes, but I have become good at it.
Stilettos are very good weapon: you can make holes in the faces of assholes, and you can rip their testicules off. They are much more fun than blowing their faces off with a Kalashnikov and you don’t need a permit for them.
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Stiletto,
“Stilettos are very good weapon: you can make holes in the faces of assholes, and you can rip their testicules off”
LOLOL, can you take photos of this and post them here???
WhyNot, you must feeling like killing those gendarmes, I’m very sorry for you this has happened. I wonder if it would be possible to get a journalist from “Le Monde” to come to see you for an interview. If yes and if they publish it, there would be a big scandal in France, and those cops would start shitting in their uniforms that they might well find themselves in prison, and I have heard that if you are a bent cop and you do prison, the other “normal” prisoners will torture you every day. I don’t normally approve of torture, but here I think it would be fair justice.
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WhyNot,
” Try convincing our fascist midget Sarkozy… Funny thing is I met quite a few Russians on the Riviera and only had pleasant surprises.”Oy, we have our share of fascists here, mostly religious doofball politicians and over excited “Homeland Security” employees. As for Russians, I’ve only met 2 face to face, and they were an adorable little elderly couple in the grocery store. I was actually quite excited to meet Russian people, after all California is a hell of a long way from Russia. They seemed baffled at my excitement.
” Completely incompetent, rude, aggressive, threatening to throw you out the window if you come bug them again with your problem of having been robbed on a grand scale and them doing exactly fuck all about it.”
Dang. I am so sorry that you are going through this right now.
I’ve had mixed results when contacting the police. They caught two of the kids who stole my neighbor’s kid’s scooter right out of the yard, but they never catch these stupid kids who tag the fences and utility boxes with graffiti. If I had known what those kids were up to when they were doing it, they wouldn’t have done it. I don’t put up with any crap, I’ve chased some of these kids off just by talking to them, I never needed to call the cops for my sake while I lived here. Valérie,
“I wonder if it would be possible to get a journalist from “Le Monde” to come to see you for an interview. “
I LOVE that idea!!
Stiletto,
” Stilettos are very good weapon: you can make holes in the faces of assholes, and you can rip their testicules off. They are much more fun than blowing their faces off with a Kalashnikov and you don’t need a permit for them.”
Wow. I love your fire girl. I not only never learned kickboxing, I can’t walk in stilettos and I never could. Not that they have ever made a pair of stilettos that my platypus feet could squeeze into without pinching a nerve, and cutting off all circulation lol. Oh, how I wanted to wear pretty, feminine shoes. Not with my feet. Try finding a 6 1/2 EE (37 W W W W) in a stiletto some time. Good luck with that, the only thing that I could ever find were boys sneakers or old lady with bunions and arthritis shoes with a low heel. Bleh. No wonder so many people thought I was gay. No, not gay, not making a statement by wearing boys shoes, they just didn’t make anything pretty that fucking fit me. Most women wear a B width, men average a D width. I had a shoe salesman tell me one time that he had some boxes in the back that might fit me. *sigh*
Anyway, be careful with your feet honey. I ruined mine by wearing first, crappy ill fitting, no arch support shoes and standing on them all day at work, and then wearing the wrong size Birkenstock for 14 years. When I bought the wrong size I thought since I was older (and a lot of women’s feet get bigger if they get older and/or gain weight) that my feet got bigger, and I needed a bigger size Birk. Um, no, I completely collapsed an arch. Feet don’t get narrower as they get bigger, and mine did, that should have been a clue for me. I was an idiot, and now I’m paying for it. So now that I am busy replacing the wrong size and going back to the size I wore in my 20’s and I don’t have the back, knee, and blinding arch pains. I also had this weird ligament pain on the inside of my thigh that went away when I put the old size Birks on. Fugly shoes = happy body.
We ignore foot ailments to our peril. High heels should only be worn for short periods, and a good low heel shoe with 4 different arch supports should be worn the majority of the time. The damn arch supports I bought for my running shoes cost half as much as the shoes, but I can walk more than ten feet in them without limping. Since only one arch is supported, they are still not ideal, but I can take walks with my husband now.
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And oh I almost forgot, you can have Birkenstocks resoled for less than 1/2 the cost of a new pair, and you can have the footbed liner replaced for about a 1/4 the cost of a new pair. That’s why I have a pair that is 14 years old, has been relined once, and resoled 3 times, even if it’s the wrong size, lol.
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Nunya,
“I’ve had mixed results when contacting the police.”
Not me - not “mixed” in the least: it’s nearly always been a disaster. In Oz and USA as well as in France. In fact the first time I went to USA, that was to meet Dianne who was picking me up at Tampa’s airport, within minutes of stepping out of the terminal’s building, I was nearly arrested by a fucking cop. Reason? “indecent behaviour” or some other bullshit like it; and that was because Dianne and I hugged and kissed (outside the terminal, standing in a dark corner)
Oh well, one of these days… in my next life perhaps…
“I had a shoe salesman tell me one time that he had some boxes in the back that might fit me. *sigh*”
Lolol, what a jerk - I wonder how many pairs of shoes he managed to sell each year…
Nunya & Valérie,
About calling “Le Monde”.;; very good in theory, however from the little shit town I live in in the south of France, I don’t like my chances of getting a journalist making the trip to interview me for a mere matter of police incompetence over a mild robbery matter.
Nunya, sorry about your feet; Have you tried walking around wearing flippers, lol? Sorry, couldn’t resist, I know you won’t take offense, I just love being silly.
“but I can walk more than ten feet in them without limping.”
Mmmm… are you and Valérie related?
“That’s why I have a pair that is 14 years old, has been relined once, and resoled 3 times, even if it’s the wrong size, lol.”
Wow, I found a soulmate in you, I believe: but I think I beat ya; I only have 2 pairs of shoes, they are both pretty well fucked, with lumps in the sole lining, and holes at the front (which is neat in summer cuz my cute little toes get a chance to breathe fresh air and get a sun tan!)
The biggest problem in France is “dog turds” on the sidewalks. I think there is room for some clever dick’s invention, here: a pair of shoes equipped with dog shit detectors at the front, and which would automatically deflect your legs trajectory to avoid stepping in the offending nauseating stuff.
The worst of all dog turds are the ones which have been freshly trodded on by an unsuspecting passerby: not only is the turd now 4 times bigger in surface area, but all the potency of its aroma, which had been slightly dulled by air and sunshine, now gets revived and expresses itself with renewed vigor!
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WhyNot,
Yeesh! Since when is hugging and kissing “indecent behavior?” I won’t go into too many details but I guess I should consider myself lucky that the harbor police didn’t drag my ass to jail after what happened in broad daylight on a sail up the coast one time, lol.
“I don’t like my chances of getting a journalist making the trip to interview me for a mere matter of police incompetence over a mild robbery matter. “
Well, my thinking is that if these Keystone cops are as arrogant as you describe, somebody needs to take ‘em down a notch and shine a light on their incompetence.
Dude, I go back and forth between laughing at my feet and crying all the time, you, my dear sweet man could never offend me about my feet. Their only saving grace is that they don’t stink. You made me laugh and remember the swim coaches that had us wear all kinds of things for work-outs; flippers, pull-buoys between our thighs, hand paddles, small innertubes wrapped around our ankles, t-shirts, panty hose, yeesh, you’d think it was some bizarre drag queen contest instead of a swim work-out, lol. There were only 3 guys on the team that I couldn’t beat in work-outs if you gave me a kick-board and flippers. In all fairness that may have been because I was a distance swimmer and these guys were sprinters, and the coach woud give us these kicking exercises about 3/4 of the way through a 2 hr work-out. One of my coaches used to call me “paddle-foot,” lol.
You should save your pennies and invest in a pair of Birkenstocks, I’m sure they are used to dealing with worn out soles encrusted with God knows what, lol. There is nothing like the comfort of a Birk cork footbed hat is molded to your foot, but still has the arch support (soft footbeds do not have the same support and they are more expensive to repair) and I’ve found pairs that are on sale for 1/2 the average cost of a new pair. The leather ones cost more, and I’ve heard that the ones with the synthetic straps are a bit dicier when it comes to resoling. I guess I’m gonna find out, eh? I got this pair for less than 1/2 what they are asking for it in the site I linked to-
On the other hand, don’t people get fined for not picking up their dog’s turds? You do here. For the longest time here in this apt complex we were not allowed to have dogs, so when people from surrounding complexes walked their dogs here I would wave and ask, “Do you need a plastic bag, I can run right in my apt here and get you one?” They never left poop close to MY apt after that. I can be a real bitch, but I’m usually fair and I rarely ask others to do what I wouldn’t do. I don’t have a dog because I gag when it comes time to pick up the poop. I did enough poop scoopin’ when I was a kid.
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Nunya,
“Since when is hugging and kissing “indecent behavior?””
I agree. Florida must be a strange place.
“I won’t go into too many details but I guess I should consider myself lucky that the harbor police didn’t drag my ass to jail after what happened in broad daylight on a sail up the coast one time, lol”
You??? Yes, I want “details”, lol!
“pull-buoys between our thighs”
What is it? Like a chastety belt, lol?
WhyNot,
“all the potency of its aroma, which had been slightly dulled by air and sunshine, now gets revived and expresses itself with renewed vigor!”
Lololol, I think you missed your vocation, you should be a poet writer. Since I have been here in this country, I have tried to understand many things of the culture, and I have tried to read the famous writers and poets, but they are all so boring. I think they should make PP obligatory subject at school, I think the kids would be much more interested.
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WhyNot,
“a pair of shoes equipped with dog shit detectors at the front,”
LOLLLLL. I have another idea: shoes that have a pigeon detector. It has to be a small fist at the end of a long powerful spring. When your shoe detects a pigeon less than a meter away, the fist springs out of your shoe and kicks the pigeon in the ass, and then there are feathers flying everywhere!
Nunya,
“You??? Yes, I want “details”, lol!”
me too!
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Stilletto,
Yes, WhyNot is a good writer, and the kids would be much more amused with PP than schoolwork, lol.
Here, I found a pull-buoy how-to video
Valérie,
““You??? Yes, I want “details”, lol!””
Hmm. Well ladies, have you ever met a man who made all coherent thought fly right out of your head? The one that smells even better when he’s all sweaty from working out? The guy that makes you think “ok, when and where? I don’t care about anything else right now.” I have. Once. Man that was a great summer. The bow of a sailboat can be a bit frightening but the bunk can be fabulous, ooh, those waves!
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I watched a movie called “Inch’ Allah Diamante” last night. I liked it, except the ending was maybe a bit unrealistic. No matter, it had a happy ending and I like happy endings. There are enough unhappy endings in real life, you know?
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whoops, my bad, the movie was called Inch’ Allah Dimanche.
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Nunya,
“There are enough unhappy endings in real life, you know?”
Fucking oath! Too right there! Besides, what’s the point of watching a movie if it leaves you feeling depressed and suicidal?
I had a look at the “pull-buoy” thingie. Interesting. I’ll have to get one if I ever move into a place that’s got a bath tub.
“The one that smells even better when he’s all sweaty from working out? ”
I can do better; I can get all sweaty just from lying in bed sleeping! Especially when there are 2 cats on me.
Valérie,
I like your pigeon detector idea. I bet it would attract lots of tourists in the Eiffel Tower gardens. You could make a fortune.
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Nunya,
“There I go, manglling your language again, sorry.”
LOL, who cares? I am sure I can mamgll English better than you can mamalnmgell French!
WhyNot,
“Especially when there are 2 cats on me.”
It must be a wonderful dream for you: 2 pussies at the same time!!!
“I bet it would attract lots of tourists in the Eiffel Tower gardens. You could make a fortune.”
Maybe, but I already see plenty enough tourists. Also, I don’t need more money, I need less pigeons!
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Valérie,
“I can mamgll English better than you can mamalnmgell French!”
Lol. Mangling Russian is very easy. But what I would really like is to mangle the fucking Russian spammers; I am so sick of deleting their shit.
“It must be a wonderful dream for you: 2 pussies at the same time!!!”
Lol, I’m sure WhyNot likes that.
Speaking of idiotic Russians, has anyone seen the film “Unbearable lightness of being”?
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WhyNot,
“I can do better; I can get all sweaty just from lying in bed sleeping! Especially when there are 2 cats on me. “lol lol
” Lol. Mangling Russian is very easy. But what I would really like is to mangle the fucking Russian spammers; I am so sick of deleting their shit.”
I know, I get all of these comments in Russian in my e-mail inbox, but since they are anonymous, they don’t show up on the blog. I’m baffled. Why would Russian spammers target my dinky little political blog in the US?
“Speaking of idiotic Russians, has anyone seen the film “Unbearable lightness of being”? “
Yes, and I didn’t like it. I had been hearing for years about what a great movie it was, but I didn’t like it. I watched a movie called Columbiana which would have been better if they casted it with North or South Americans instead of scouring the EU and New Zealand for folks who had to struggle with S. American accents, but I think Stiletto would like it. This young girl watches her parents shot to death in front of her (in Columbia, some organized crime stuff) and vows to kill all the people involved in that mess.
Then I watched this movie in French which takes place in Belgium called Illégal and it is about a Russian woman and her son and her ordeal in a detention center, and trying to navigate the immigration system. The end was very heartwarming.
Valérie,
“LOL, who cares? I am sure I can mamgll English better than you can mamalnmgell French”
roflmao, lol, But Valérie, you and Stiletto are very brave and intelligent, I don’t even try to learn foreign languages any more. You should have seen me with my Kurdish neighbor’s parents, it was hilarious. They picked up more English phrases in the month that they were here than Kurdish words that I learned knowing their kids and grandkids for 4 years.
“Also, I don’t need more money, I need less pigeons! “
Ahh, I could bring some of the surplus squirrels to Paris, and they could fight to the death for the “Cheetos” the tourists drop! lol
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Ooops, sorry Stiletto, I goofed and missed inserting your name in my responses to you.
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Nunya,
“Why would Russian spammers target my dinky little political blog in the US?”
Well, you could say the same about this blog. But that’s not the point; the point is: those dudes are not like you and me, they don’t actually have in their skull what is called a brain. Also, at least 90% of them are trying to sell you shit; anything from Viagra to 0% home loans. For some reason, they figure anyone anywhere in the world is a potential idiot who might fall for it.
“but I didn’t like it.”
Wow, I’m surprised. Can you explain why?
“called Illégal”
Ok, I read the IMDB blurb. Looks impressive, especially the User Reviews.
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WhyNot,
“those dudes are not like you and me, they don’t actually have in their skull what is called a brain.”
Lolol. Russian vodka is deadly for the brain, especially the 90% alcohol one.
Nunya and WhyNot,
I liked that film very much. It makes me very very angry because of the invasion, the political terror regime by Russia. And no, TLGK, if you read this, you moron fuck, the invasion was not by socialist USSR, it was by capitalist Russia.
But the film is also other things, BEAUTIFUL things. Like: love, willingness to fight for life, not just fight the fucking invaders in their fucking tanks, but fight for your own happiness no matter how hard it is. Find great fun and happiness in a little restaurant lost in the country, bringing a pig who drinks alcohol from the bottle, and oinks louder than all the people together, lolol; and planting vegetables and picking them. And never see a car and even less a tank.
The doctor… he is a wonderful lesson for everybody. Not because he is perfect, but because he is determined to make life a beautiful thing while it lasts. And sex too. Sex is not just prostitution or idiotic frigid housewifes like Barb and Jeanette who marry someone for money and all they have to do is sit on their enormous asses all day and all year and spread their legs while they sing idiotic jesus carols.
There is a lot of eroticism in this film, like I have never seen before, and it is so beautiful. It is not at all a pornographic film, I find it a film that celebrates the woman body, her sexuality and also the binding of love that it helps make between a man and a woman.
He and her could have had lives with glory and money in the western countries, him with being a good surgeon, her with her very talented phtographic work; but they are more happy in their lost little house in the country. With their dog.
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I don’t know if I even watched the whole movie but I do know that I don’tlike Juliett Binoche, Daniel Day Lewis is a fine actor, but he does creepy far too well, and I hate man whores. I don’t like cheaters and far too many men get away with all kinds of crap that hurts their significant others because “boys will be boys.” Unn huh, and far too many men never grow the fuck up because the dumb simpering bitches they marry and have kids with don’t know when to kick their piece of shit husbands in the balls and then kick them to the curb.
It’s been over a year since I tried to watch the movie so I don’t remember a whole lot except a locker room with white tile, and dr.s and brothers and arrogant assholes.. I gave it 2 out of 5 stars and found something else that I wanted to watch instead of something I “should” watch because it was supposed to be this great movie.
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Stiletto,
“Lolol. Russian vodka is deadly for the brain, especially the 90% alcohol one.”Holy crap, that shit sounds like a half dozen binges could shut down your bodily functions one at a time, starting with your liver, maybe ending in blindness and deafness.
90% alcohol ? Hmmm, well a Russian DID invent the Molotov cocktail, right? lol.
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Stiletto,
“sit on their enormous asses all day and all year and spread their legs while they sing idiotic jesus carols. ”
LOLLLL.
Nunya,
“don’t know when to kick their piece of shit husbands in the balls and then kick them to the curb.”
LOLLL, you sound just like Stiletto! Do you kickbox too?
“90% alcohol ? Hmmm, well a Russian DID invent the Molotov cocktail, right?”
LOL, it must be so because of the name, but it was a very popular cocktail in France. It is very cheap also, gasoline is expensive but much less than whisky! I wasn’t in Paris in 1968 during the revolution, but I saw the news and Molotov cocktails are very good to fight riot police.
Well, I liked that film very much also. I hope every European and Russian watches it, especially young people, because if they do, there will be a good chance that there will never be another war in this continent. For centuries and centuries there were wars, it is time that it stops forever.
I think that nobody could be convinced to go to try invade Russia again, like that stupid Napoleon did and failed so badly, and that even more stupid Hitler tried also and failed just the same. And I hope that Russians feel the same, and that even if they have more weapons and military people, it makes no difference because in the end, you can invade and crush people in their countries all the time you want, but it NEVER works for long. This is true of all the planet: any imbecile, all he has to do is read history.
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Hey ppl,
Here is another spammer gem:
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Ain’t the EN lingo wonderful and full of unexpected creative gems? You Abercrombied the message yet, lol?
Nickname=”woodhzoy”. IP address: 83.170.113.110 - in case you’re in the mood to sent him letters of Anthrax or plutonium.
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Valérie,“but I saw the news and Molotov cocktails are very good to fight riot police.”
Spoken like a true FR woman, sweetie pie, lol. Another tell-tell sign proving Russians can be good guys when they try.
“This is true of all the planet: any imbecile, all he has to do is read history.”
True. However… lotsa ppl, especially country leaders and military big knobs are far worse than mere “imbeciles“. They are confirmed sub-zero-IQ fucktards.
“any imbecile, all he has to do is read history.”
True again, but that’s the very point: I’ll grant you that your average imbecile CAN read, but… take a complete moronic drunkard cocaine-addict jesus-cock-sucking moronic fucktard like G W BUSH? Can he read history? Hell no! He can’t even read a children’s book with pictures in it - as he proved when he learned about the 9/11 disaster while he was visiting a children school in Florida and was reading to a cute lil girl a children’s book (full of pictures, mind you - text is way above his intellect) UPSIDE DOWN!!!
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WhyNot,
“You Abercrombied the message yet, lol?”
Yes I am abercrombiing very much and I am also fitching very much, lol. The next idiotic customer I get, I’ll abercrombi his penis and fitch his wallet, lol.
“complete moronic drunkard cocaine-addict jesus-cock-sucking moronic fucktard like G W BUSH”
Lol, not a wonder Jeanette voted for him 128 times. He is a perfect Oh-How-I-Love-Jesus dildo.
“reading to a cute lil girl a children’s book (full of pictures, mind you - text is way above his intellect) UPSIDE DOWN!!!”
Lol, I think it’s because chimpanzees like to hang from trees by their toes.
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Stiletto,
“The next idiotic customer I get, I’ll abercrombi his penis and fitch his wallet”
LOLLLLLLL, I think I am going to abercrombi all the pigeons I see and I’ll fitch their feathers and make lots of doonas (how do you spell this?) and sell them for lots of money!
WhyNot,
“complete moronic drunkard cocaine-addict jesus-cock-sucking moronic fucktard like G W BUSH”
LOL, that’s the one Jeanette voted for 256 times, yes?
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Stiletto,
“not a wonder Jeanette voted for him 128 times. He is a perfect Oh-How-I-Love-Jesus dildo.”
Mmmm… you really have a grudge against Jeanette, it seems. Granted, she said some rather nasty things about you, but the thing is… you see, I don’t give a flying fuck what she thinks or sez. To me, you’re one of the wonders of this world, and no amount of bigotted/racist/fucktard/retarded-Pneboscot-Indian diatribes of jesus-freak inclination can change that.
“I think it’s because chimpanzees like to hang from trees by their toes.”
Lol. Actually, I doubt fuckwit Bush can achieve this.
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Valérie,“I think I am going to abercrombi all the pigeons I see and I’ll fitch their feathers and make lots of doonas (how do you spell this?) and sell them for lots of money!”
Lol, way to go, my friend! I have no idea how “doona” is spelled, might be “doona” or “duna”.
“that’s the one Jeanette voted for 256 times, yes?”
Sort of; my understanding is that she voted for father Bush-the-cunthead 1024 times and for son Bush-the-motherfucker 65365 times.
Anywayzzz… anyone seen any exciting movie lately?
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Stiletto: “Sex is not just prostitution or idiotic frigid housewifes like Barb and Jeanette who marry someone for money and all they have to do is sit on their enormous asses all day and all year and spread their legs while they sing idiotic jesus carols.”
Still talking about me –and Jeanette? My goo’ness! The church music is beautiful. Easter is coming! here’s one for you (my daughters sing this beautifully –but this is Sandi Patty and Larnelle Harris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLGTXz-txTY They are singing a song as though they had just witnessed the Resurrection of Christ, “I’ve Just Seen Jesus –I tell you–He’s Alive!”
After Whynot’s recent invitation to stop back at the blog here. I sent him a 1975 photo of the young me and my husband which my daughter put on her and my facebook pages. My husband and I didn’t start out rich (most young couples in America don’t) –our parents weren’t rich. And we in no way are rich in comparison to the top earners in America –we just hope our retirement will last in these inflationary times with high gas prices driving up the prices of everything. As for marrying him for money; he didn’t have any and I didn’t think he would get into med school like he did. But just look at him!!! I lucked out. God’s blessing.
As for big derrieres –it happens sometimes after 4 kids and 5 pound gain every Christmas!
Candidate Santorum said something interesting about poverty in America –that 98 percent of the people are not in poverty classification if they do just 3 things: graduate high school, get a job, and marry before having children. I should think staying married would be a big help also. The people in poverty often do not do these four things in our country.
Marriage and parenting are bulwarks against poverty, loneliness, and isolation in old age. Church community in America is like family in providing love, care and family life for the single and fatherless –and the poor. Church community is also where we acquire the values that combat poverty in one’s own life (qualities that help one wprk and study to achieve success in a land of opportunity) –as well as the value of compassionate generosity for the needy–a big theme of Christ’s teaching.
Right now the evangelical churches in America have a couple of themes: one is to help stop the sex slave trade around the world –and the other is to foster-parent children in the state’s custody and to adopt children of other ethnicities/races. Our own church is sponsoring a seminar on domestic violence/abuse soon. How to recognize it and help victims and perpetrators.
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Barb,
You might want to repost your comment in the last current article’s thread - from experience, ppl rarely pay attention to what’s going on in a previous article’s comments section. I’m sure Stiletto will have something incendiary to say about the sex slave trade which you mention. She might even blow her top off, lol.
The other topics you mention in the same paragraph are also certainly interesting and I’m sure the regulars here will have something to say as well - but once again, it is likely ppl will not notice what you said because it is in the comment section of a previous/old article.
Solution: copy/paste your comment and repost it in the last article’s comment section.
The other thing …:
“I sent him a 1975 photo of the young me and my husband which my daughter put on her and my facebook pages. ”
By “sent”, I assume you mean “emailed”. Unfortunately, I don’t have email access any longer, sorry. Anything sent to my email address(es) is a sheer waste of time. It has been so for nearly 3 years. If you want me to see a picture, send me here the URL of where it is stored. If you want me to post it here, say so and I’ll include the URL you mentioned together with the HTML tags to make the pic show up (you can’t do it yourself because only an admin can post a pic).
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But does sending a pic from my facebook address open up my facebook to all or even to you?
I just wanted to send an isolated photo with commentary on it.
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Also –the most recent comment activity does show up on the right side of your blog–I always looked at that for new stuff.
Do you still have Mr. Politeness and microdot?
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Barb,
“But does sending a pic from my facebook address open up my facebook to all or even to you?”
If something shows up in a comment, everyone can see it - there is no such thing as selective viewing. The only problem is “selective posting”. I ca,’t even remember for sure what happens if you post the URL to a picture; most likely, the URL will appear, but the pic won’t. Try it. As far as opening the whole of your facebook, I don’t know but I doubt; it is only a URL to a specific location. But I don’t really know how Facebook works, I’ve heard it is ridden with security bugs.
“Also –the most recent comment activity does show up on the right side of your blog–I always looked at that for new stuff.”
Well, you’re smarter than most, lol. And no, neither Mr P nor Microdot hang around here any longer.
