fabbydo
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Me too!I love cheap sausages!
Me too!I love cheap sausages!
Off to Google 'powdered potato'.Powdered potato, cheap sausages and luncheon meat!! YUK!
And people who constantly use my name while talking to me, I think because they feel they have more "connection". I know my own name, you know my name, let's just leave it at that shall we?
Yes this! Omg! Why do so many people do this!? I hate it. It makes me squirm and want to run away. There's no need unless you are singling out a comment to one person in a group of people. I don't use someone's name unless I am trying to get their attention or it needs making clear that Im directing a comment to them specifically. I certainly do not randomly pepper the conversation with their name. It's just weird. Stop it.
I'm guessing it counts as "something other people love" since so many people seem to do it.
That is me too!Pretty much every sport that involves hitting/kicking/catching/passing a ball.
I blame school.
Show jumping entries on the day (not in advance). I stopped competing as I cannot deal with turning up to class 4 and having no idea when it might start, finish, the jump off take place.
smart phones. I don't understand why people out for a walk in the country need to be constantly walking along looking down at their phone whilst their dogs and kids are running riot. They walk for miles like this and are completely unaware of anything riding, walking or driving into them. As someone who has no reception and therefore no smart phone I just don't understand and their total lack of awareness and inability to move out of the way is infuriating. Even worse some cyclists are now doing it whilst riding along.
I would rather have soggy bread than 2 inches of mayo!
Fiction.
I realise that's quite broad
A Harry Potter side note; anyone else tried reading them in foreign languages?
Easy to follow, limited vocab, mix of formal and informal, tenses, parts of speech etc. They're fantastic.
Also, the French translator is a genius. Choixpeau. I mean, just wow!
I think good translators are just getting less common lol. The best translated books I've read have always been older.As a general rule, I don't read books in translation, unless the book has a really good reputation in its original language, and I'm unlikely to ever get proficient enough in that language.
A really good translation is a work of absolute wonder! The Harry Potter books in French are a good example, as are the books of the Millenium Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo et al.) in British English (on the other hand, I found the American version unreadable).
I keep intending to try The Hobbit in French, because I've always felt that Tolkien's vocabulary is so intimately bound to Old English that it must be nearly untranslatable.
I remember reading a book in A-level French class, that starts with just present tense and simple grammar, the next chapters use a past tense (probably imperfect) and more complex grammar, and so on through the book, each introducing more and more complexity; it's Djinn, by Alain Robbe-Grillet. There's another article about the book, in French, here.
My dadI often wonder who does find Mrs. Brown's Boys funny? I certainly don't, nor does anybody I know (obviously not a statistically significant sample....). It's not shown on Irish TV channels.
From a psychological point of view it is a power play ... especially in a sales or complaint situation... it’s why you feel uncomfortable - it’s making everything they say personal. Some people use it actively as such...A northern thing, I think.
What do you know, <name>?
As a conversation starter. As a southerner, it makes me feel like I'm being interrogated, and only valued as a friend for what information I hold!
I so agree!
Agree and what about when they walk towards you and you have to dodge out of their way and they still don't see you.In Brighton they have signs on the pavement warning people to pay attentionsmart phones. I don't understand why people out for a walk in the country need to be constantly walking along looking down at their phone whilst their dogs and kids are running riot. They walk for miles like this and are completely unaware of anything riding, walking or driving into them. As someone who has no reception and therefore no smart phone I just don't understand and their total lack of awareness and inability to move out of the way is infuriating. Even worse some cyclists are now doing it whilst riding along.
Agree and what about when they walk towards you and you have to dodge out of their way and they still don't see you.In Brighton they have signs on the pavement warning people to pay attention