Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))
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SoulOfRusalka wrote: »
Yeah, but why hasn’t there been Halloween music in stores? RUDE.kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »We don't do Halloween. It just doesn't seem very British. I think I would take the kids to some kind of organised event, but no way would we trick or treat. Luckily we live down a dead end lane on the outskirts of a rural village with street lights, so nobody has ever bothered us.
But it does just so happen to be Andrew's nursery day and they are having a little party and dressing up. I hope he has fun! I'm sure he'll be happy so long as there's food involved (boy after my own heart).
Yeah, it's funny because all the shops are desperately trying to get people to get into Halloween and BUY BUY BUY! Every year the majority of adults in England just give a collective middle-finger and won't take the bait.
I wish America would get on board with this mentality. There's been Christmas trees, etc, in the stores for weeks already.
I'm just glad that there hasn't been Christmas music on the store radios yet!
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(On a semi-related note, my host family’s doorbell plays “jingle bells” and for the first two weeks I couldn’t figure out why I had Christmas carols stuck in my head...)
I have to admit I am glad I didn't hear Pumpkin Head Harvey.
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
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I think the doctor’s office thought I was pregnant. Hilarious for a number of reasons, not least that in Russia you can’t just explain to anyone that you’re gay as a party.
In better news I actually ate breakfast today. Amazing. More miracles to follow.
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SoulOfRusalka wrote: »I think the doctor’s office thought I was pregnant. Hilarious for a number of reasons, not least that in Russia you can’t just explain to anyone that you’re gay as a party.
In better news I actually ate breakfast today. Amazing. More miracles to follow.
At least you went. Thank you.2 -
Underground utilities are great until repairs and maintenance requires blocking off four rows of parking. And the only reason I know why the rows are blocked is that I can see them and the utilities people just pulled up.
I nearly drove my truck through their caution tape this morning. We need more lights in that lot.1 -
SoulOfRusalka wrote: »I think the doctor’s office thought I was pregnant. Hilarious for a number of reasons, not least that in Russia you can’t just explain to anyone that you’re gay as a party.
In better news I actually ate breakfast today. Amazing. More miracles to follow.
Jesus, I wouldn't even tell your host mum that.
Yay for eating breakfast though! And I'm glad you went to the doctors. Did you get any answers or help?1 -
kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »We don't do Halloween. It just doesn't seem very British. I think I would take the kids to some kind of organised event, but no way would we trick or treat. Luckily we live down a dead end lane on the outskirts of a rural village with street lights, so nobody has ever bothered us.
But it does just so happen to be Andrew's nursery day and they are having a little party and dressing up. I hope he has fun! I'm sure he'll be happy so long as there's food involved (boy after my own heart).
Yeah, it's funny because all the shops are desperately trying to get people to get into Halloween and BUY BUY BUY! Every year the majority of adults in England just give a collective middle-finger and won't take the bait.
I wish America would get on board with this mentality. There's been Christmas trees, etc, in the stores for weeks already.
I'm just glad that there hasn't been Christmas music on the store radios yet!
Oh crips, the say this starts, I will complain until its OVER. I hate that they shove Christmas down your throat everywhere you go for a month or more!0 -
Wow Mel, that is some impressive Halloween dedication.
Well done on the Dr app @SoulOfRusalka. I avoided that while abroad just for fear of getting tongue tied. Took me a month to figure out how the laundry worked in my Austrian youth hostel! (Austrian German is NOT the same as German German.) But at least mobile phones have moved on sufficiently you've always got Google translate in your corner (blasphemy for a language graduate, I know).
I have finished all my Christmas shopping. I just need to do some wrapping and I'm done! Never usually this organised but I know full well once baby is here, nothing will get done.
Just like Canadian French is not the same as France French.....
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Italian_Buju wrote: »Wow Mel, that is some impressive Halloween dedication.
Well done on the Dr app @SoulOfRusalka. I avoided that while abroad just for fear of getting tongue tied. Took me a month to figure out how the laundry worked in my Austrian youth hostel! (Austrian German is NOT the same as German German.) But at least mobile phones have moved on sufficiently you've always got Google translate in your corner (blasphemy for a language graduate, I know).
I have finished all my Christmas shopping. I just need to do some wrapping and I'm done! Never usually this organised but I know full well once baby is here, nothing will get done.
Just like Canadian French is not the same as France French.....
Is that true? I didn't know that. Makes sense now that you say it. Isolated languages evolve into their own version.0 -
SoulOfRusalka wrote: »I think the doctor’s office thought I was pregnant. Hilarious for a number of reasons, not least that in Russia you can’t just explain to anyone that you’re gay as a party.
In better news I actually ate breakfast today. Amazing. More miracles to follow.
Jesus, I wouldn't even tell your host mum that.
Yay for eating breakfast though! And I'm glad you went to the doctors. Did you get any answers or help?
Reading back on this, it was meant more as a concern for your safety rather than a comment on your sexual preference. I know a gay couple who moved from Russia to England for their own safety, they won't even go home to see their parents.1 -
Confession: When someone says on a thread that they "binged" on 7 fun-sized candy bars on Halloween, I want to reach through the computer and throttle them.
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: When someone says on a thread that they "binged" on 7 fun-sized candy bars on Halloween, I want to reach through the computer and throttle them.
Woo-hoo, big Binger! I don't think of it as a binge unless I eat the whole bag. I can walk off the calories in 7 funsize candy bars.0 -
MelissaPhippsFeagins wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: When someone says on a thread that they "binged" on 7 fun-sized candy bars on Halloween, I want to reach through the computer and throttle them.
Woo-hoo, big Binger! I don't think of it as a binge unless I eat the whole bag. I can walk off the calories in 7 funsize candy bars.
Right?!? It's a binge when you've blown thousands of calories, not a couple hundred. I don't have, and have never had, BED. But it seems disrespectful to those people who struggle with true BED to call 7 fun-sized candy bars a binge.1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: When someone says on a thread that they "binged" on 7 fun-sized candy bars on Halloween, I want to reach through the computer and throttle them.
I saw that and was thinking the same thing. Huge eyeroll.2 -
Italian_Buju wrote: »Wow Mel, that is some impressive Halloween dedication.
Well done on the Dr app @SoulOfRusalka. I avoided that while abroad just for fear of getting tongue tied. Took me a month to figure out how the laundry worked in my Austrian youth hostel! (Austrian German is NOT the same as German German.) But at least mobile phones have moved on sufficiently you've always got Google translate in your corner (blasphemy for a language graduate, I know).
I have finished all my Christmas shopping. I just need to do some wrapping and I'm done! Never usually this organised but I know full well once baby is here, nothing will get done.
Just like Canadian French is not the same as France French.....
Is that true? I didn't know that. Makes sense now that you say it. Isolated languages evolve into their own version.
Very true. I have a French Canadian friend, and while we understand each other on the whole, the accent is totally different and many of the words are too. Much like British English and American English.
Tends to be more Anglicisms in Canadian French as they're far less snobbish than us. Did you know the French French have an academy whose job it is to protect the language, and whose members get issued with ceremonial swords!? True story.0 -
Totally understood that as a concern for safety. And yes I am keeping everything under wraps.SoulOfRusalka wrote: »I think the doctor’s office thought I was pregnant. Hilarious for a number of reasons, not least that in Russia you can’t just explain to anyone that you’re gay as a party.
In better news I actually ate breakfast today. Amazing. More miracles to follow.
Jesus, I wouldn't even tell your host mum that.
Yay for eating breakfast though! And I'm glad you went to the doctors. Did you get any answers or help?
Reading back on this, it was meant more as a concern for your safety rather than a comment on your sexual preference. I know a gay couple who moved from Russia to England for their own safety, they won't even go home to see their parents.
I actually went to a gay bar with an friend my first week, and then when my tutor asked what bar I went to I panicked and said that *I forgot the name* which is um...not very believable unless I drank a LOT. lol.
Anyway, I think St. Petersburg is probably the safest place in Russia for me easily, and sadly I expect that I’m better off than a gay man, too, so I’m sure it would be fine but not taking chances if I don’t have to.
My sister and I also invented a fake American boyfriend for me before we left. His name is Brodyjohn Stancliff III, and he’s just Chris Evans with an obviously-photoshopped mustache.
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I won’t lie, I would kill for a job protecting the French language with a ceremonial sword.Italian_Buju wrote: »Wow Mel, that is some impressive Halloween dedication.
Well done on the Dr app @SoulOfRusalka. I avoided that while abroad just for fear of getting tongue tied. Took me a month to figure out how the laundry worked in my Austrian youth hostel! (Austrian German is NOT the same as German German.) But at least mobile phones have moved on sufficiently you've always got Google translate in your corner (blasphemy for a language graduate, I know).
I have finished all my Christmas shopping. I just need to do some wrapping and I'm done! Never usually this organised but I know full well once baby is here, nothing will get done.
Just like Canadian French is not the same as France French.....
Is that true? I didn't know that. Makes sense now that you say it. Isolated languages evolve into their own version.
Very true. I have a French Canadian friend, and while we understand each other on the whole, the accent is totally different and many of the words are too. Much like British English and American English.
Tends to be more Anglicisms in Canadian French as they're far less snobbish than us. Did you know the French French have an academy whose job it is to protect the language, and whose members get issued with ceremonial swords!? True story.
Or just protecting Canadian French with a shiv. Either way.
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Every time someone says they “binged” on a perfectly ordinary amount of food I just want to scream “that word does not mean what you think it means!!!”kelly_c_77 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Confession: When someone says on a thread that they "binged" on 7 fun-sized candy bars on Halloween, I want to reach through the computer and throttle them.
I saw that and was thinking the same thing. Huge eyeroll.
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