Spent some time in the orient and was made to feel welcome by many and unwelcome by some. I find that to be universal in my travels. Differences in perception seem to be globally chaotic due to any recent supposed reality.
(folk looked at and treated me differently if the current U.S. president did something that they didn't like whether I voted for him or not)
P.S. I ironed a maple leaf patch onto the backpack of my favorite niece before she went on a backpacking tour of Europe. I said "trust me on this one". Back in that day nobody had a bad word to say about Canadians. and ay! they sounded just like us except for the occasional incomprehensible French words.
P.S.S. Never ate a Freedom Fry. They will always be French fries to me.
P.S.S.S. How the hell did fried strips of potato ever get to be called "French fries" in the first place?
The gateway country to an amazing state. Have been to Alaska many times. Too bad it's melting and all of the infrastructure built on permafrost is now falling over.
Been to Australia also. If I were ever to emigrate to another country, NZ would be first Australia would be second. The people in both countries are great! Unlike many other countries, they genuinely like most Americans on accounof WW II.
Aussie's and Kiwis do as well. Many was the day I spent in the city square of Chistchurch, NZ having a lunch of breaded deep fried crab meat on a stick and "chips". Very fond memories.
I've been living in China for EXACTLY (August 6, 2006) 14 years, married a Chinese woman and only know words and phrases in Chinese - cannot read or write it and no way can I understand or speak more than that. Fortunately, English is the second language here, and it is used all over and many (especially younger people) can speak it "a little".
The capacity for learning new languages fades away in our early twenties. After that, it's very, very difficult.
Also, learning languages is a reiterative exercise. The second is easier than the first, the third easier than the second, and so on. This is why some people continue to learn new languages long after their twenties. This second phenomenon overrides the first.
So... if you just started Chinese in your seventies, it would be exceptional that you learn more than your few words.
LOL. Started seriously at age of 69 1/2, so almost at the 70s mark. However I had learned the words for hello, goodbye and thank you earlier from doing Tai Jie early Sunday mornings with a bunch of wonderful elderly Chinese people in a park near my home in Toronto.
President Trumpon Friday held a scaled-down campaign-style rally on an airport tarmac in Florida, drawing a crowd of supporters who packed closely together in a state that has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The president landed in Tampa, where he is participating in a fundraiser, and was greeted by dozens of supporters who had gathered along barricades. Few were seen wearing masks, and music that has become standard at Trump campaign events blared over speakers for what was billed as a "campaign coalitions event with Florida sheriffs."
Delusions of grandeur...Geez that was it for the crowd??? Seen more people buying a ticket for a chook raffle than he had there...
Don't be fooled. International Business Times (ibtimes) is headquartered in New York City. Recently, one of the co-founders, Etienne Uzac, stepped down due to a long-term financial fraud probe.
You do know that the last time a Republican candidate carried NYC was in 1924, don't you?
I think he still has over 90% approval among Republicans, in spite of having to battle with the American Communist Crime Syndicate apparatchiks 24/7 ever since he has been in office.
Remember this?
Wow, funny how that works out. Moved your article right up in first place. Kind of reminds me of how YouTube and Google searches work out. I always have to spent about 10 minutes scrolling until I finally get to the last one when I'm doing a search for something I want and then work my way back up, because all the Liberal articles show up first page after page even though I didn't even search for the information they are providing. Those algorithms sure are nice if you're in the right camp. You lucky guy. We have to work a whole lot harder.
Seems that lack of sex can make a devout woman just plain mean!
I've heard that. It doesn't apply in my case. I'm perfectly content and fine. I keep a smile on my freaking face all day long. I'm so carefree and farking happy that I don't know what the fluck to do with myself all flucking day long. I'm sure other nuns suffer, but they are a bunch of fools and jerks. Oh, you're calling me a jerk now? Fine by me, Jethro. The next knock you hear on your door will be me...just itchin' to open up a can of whup-ass. In fact, I'm so flippin' exuberant, I'm thinking of skipping freaking naked up and down your street...
I'm sorry, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, devout women and how the lack of sex affects their demeanor. I'm perfectly content and fine.
When I gave presentations I would slip in an Ojibwe word. It was great fun because everyone would look like they understood it and would be looking it up in a dictionary...
Both my grandfather and I had what the doctors could only label as oral dyslexia. It was the best they could come up with for something they never saw before. It is when some words mix up as you say them. IE - picture tube comes out as titure pube. I eventually overcame it, but my grandfather was doing it until the day he died.
Listening to his voice and "sentences" for more than 30 seconds starts to piss me off. Trying to read it is even worse. How can someone who was born with so much money, be such a fucking illiterate, incoherent, fucking idiot? If I were on a debate stage with him I would literally beat the shit out of him after 30 seconds just because I cannot stand his speech patterns. His speech sounds like two retards fucking.
Biden's rubber and Trump's glue, whatever Trump says bounces off Biden and sticks to Trump.
This has got to be Biden's worst gaffe evah.
People love this racist.
Wish I had even an inkling of what you posted.
It's a compilation video of Trump struggling (and failing) to correctly say common words.
Don't worry Buzz I don't have access to it either..which is a first!!..video not available in your country...must be a tad embarrassing I would say...
Being on the other side of the world makes us aliens. Actually, I kind of like that idea.
Spent some time in the orient and was made to feel welcome by many and unwelcome by some. I find that to be universal in my travels. Differences in perception seem to be globally chaotic due to any recent supposed reality.
(folk looked at and treated me differently if the current U.S. president did something that they didn't like whether I voted for him or not)
P.S. I ironed a maple leaf patch onto the backpack of my favorite niece before she went on a backpacking tour of Europe. I said "trust me on this one". Back in that day nobody had a bad word to say about Canadians. and ay! they sounded just like us except for the occasional incomprehensible French words.
P.S.S. Never ate a Freedom Fry. They will always be French fries to me.
P.S.S.S. How the hell did fried strips of potato ever get to be called "French fries" in the first place?
The nicest people I ever met were all in Canada. I spent a week and a half driving the Alcan to get back to the states.
The gateway country to an amazing state. Have been to Alaska many times. Too bad it's melting and all of the infrastructure built on permafrost is now falling over.
But our Candadien friends did something amazing with them...poutine. Never had it, but it sounds delicious!
Dunno... but the French aren't involved. They call them "fries" (frites), but with no nationality.
Nicest one I ever met was when I lived in New Zealand.
And the Brits call them "chips". Actually really enjoy a bit of fish and chips with vinegar. One of the first things I do after crossing the pond.
Pomme frites, correct?
I would love to visit NZ some day...if I survive Australia.
Just watched a video of how to make poutine. Gonna have to try it.
It's french fries with cheese curds and gravy, correct?
Nah... just "frites".
Well, gee. I took the equivalent of 6 years of French and don't remember a damn thing except to say "merde" and I didn't learn that in French class
Been to Australia also. If I were ever to emigrate to another country, NZ would be first Australia would be second. The people in both countries are great! Unlike many other countries, they genuinely like most Americans on accounof WW II.
Aussie's and Kiwis do as well. Many was the day I spent in the city square of Chistchurch, NZ having a lunch of breaded deep fried crab meat on a stick and "chips". Very fond memories.
wow...that sounds delicious
It most certainly was. Not good for cholesterol, but extremely tasty.
I married a French girl. We've been speaking French for over forty years.
It's probably second nature to you now.
I've been living in China for EXACTLY (August 6, 2006) 14 years, married a Chinese woman and only know words and phrases in Chinese - cannot read or write it and no way can I understand or speak more than that. Fortunately, English is the second language here, and it is used all over and many (especially younger people) can speak it "a little".
It's a question of age. Literally.
The capacity for learning new languages fades away in our early twenties. After that, it's very, very difficult.
Also, learning languages is a reiterative exercise. The second is easier than the first, the third easier than the second, and so on. This is why some people continue to learn new languages long after their twenties. This second phenomenon overrides the first.
So... if you just started Chinese in your seventies, it would be exceptional that you learn more than your few words.
LOL. Started seriously at age of 69 1/2, so almost at the 70s mark. However I had learned the words for hello, goodbye and thank you earlier from doing Tai Jie early Sunday mornings with a bunch of wonderful elderly Chinese people in a park near my home in Toronto.
Trump had better never get pulled over by a cop. The minute he talks, he would be given a breathalyzer test.
Maybe he needs to have his tongue pruned, it may be too big for his mouth. Here is a doctor to perform that operation for him
Doubt it. It's probably smallish.
With or without a Rheumatiz Medicine anesthetic?
Granny can hold a shotgun on him until he drinks it.
No problemo, Trump doesn't drink!
But the cocaine and the Russian penile enhancement pills have ravaged his brain.
Who supplies you with this utter bullshit?
Surely you don't think it all up all by your lonesome!
I have a contact in the WH. Trump has destroyed his health trying to make his tiny dick bigger. His addiction to penis pills is well known.
R---i------g-------h------t.
LMMFAO!
Sure thing, and next up, pigs fly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, the shit you come up with! It is hilarious!!
No danger. He always has a chauffeur.
I doubt if he's ever actually driven a car
Pathetic.
Delusions of grandeur...Geez that was it for the crowd??? Seen more people buying a ticket for a chook raffle than he had there...
Chook?
Chicken
Ahh, ty.
Let's choke a chuck and throw it on the barbie!
Did I brag to you that I once ate rattlesnake? Tasted like chicken.
I think you did
With a dollop of BBQ sauce, everything tastes like chicken.
Even with yum yum sauce my alligator still tasted nothing like chicken...and it was even breaded and deep fried
I've had monitor lizards. Now those are a real treat. Ah, the benefits of jungle survival training!
yummy
Yep, the funny thing is it did taste like chicken...
Don't be fooled. International Business Times (ibtimes) is headquartered in New York City. Recently, one of the co-founders, Etienne Uzac, stepped down due to a long-term financial fraud probe.
You do know that the last time a Republican candidate carried NYC was in 1924, don't you?
I think he still has over 90% approval among Republicans, in spite of having to battle with the American Communist Crime Syndicate apparatchiks 24/7 ever since he has been in office.
Remember this?
Wow, funny how that works out. Moved your article right up in first place. Kind of reminds me of how YouTube and Google searches work out. I always have to spent about 10 minutes scrolling until I finally get to the last one when I'm doing a search for something I want and then work my way back up, because all the Liberal articles show up first page after page even though I didn't even search for the information they are providing. Those algorithms sure are nice if you're in the right camp. You lucky guy. We have to work a whole lot harder.
Isn't photoshop wonderful?
Get this fool out of office. I don't care how it's done, but get him out. This minute. Right now.
I'm about 3 steps beyond that, and I hope his kids spend the rest of their lives looking over both shoulders in absolute fear.
Agree with you on most things but only his complicit children should suffer.
Yeah....not Tiffany or Baron.
agreed. too late to edit.
yeah, sorry. I meant the 3 kids he cared about, not the 2 midlife crisis mistakes...
Are we talking nuns with guns now? Does make a certain amount of sense considering the ruler scars on my knuckles.
Seems that lack of sex can make a devout woman just plain mean!
I've heard that. It doesn't apply in my case. I'm perfectly content and fine. I keep a smile on my freaking face all day long. I'm so carefree and farking happy that I don't know what the fluck to do with myself all flucking day long. I'm sure other nuns suffer, but they are a bunch of fools and jerks. Oh, you're calling me a jerk now? Fine by me, Jethro. The next knock you hear on your door will be me...just itchin' to open up a can of whup-ass. In fact, I'm so flippin' exuberant, I'm thinking of skipping freaking naked up and down your street...
I'm sorry, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, devout women and how the lack of sex affects their demeanor. I'm perfectly content and fine.
It could be that you partake of the sacramental wine just a wee bit much, Sister?
I do. I want a perp walk.
What she
said.
... that's how trump summons jared kushner into the oval office...
I have problems with words sometimes. I was giving a presentation and tried to get the word conspicuous out of my mouth.
I ended up saying "public"
But I'm not the POTUS nor do I plan to run for office
When I gave presentations I would slip in an Ojibwe word. It was great fun because everyone would look like they understood it and would be looking it up in a dictionary...
That's a good one. I know a couple of French words that I should throw the next time I do a presentation
Bonne chance!
Merde!
Both my grandfather and I had what the doctors could only label as oral dyslexia. It was the best they could come up with for something they never saw before. It is when some words mix up as you say them. IE - picture tube comes out as titure pube. I eventually overcame it, but my grandfather was doing it until the day he died.
lol
It was way back when TV's used them.
Now you see titure pubes every damn place.
Just be glad that you didn't say "pubic hair".
There was a guy in my paramedic class who was a good first responder but who was dyslexic and couldn't figure drug dosages in his head.
Out of 30 who were excepted into the program only 10 of us graduated.
Actually fell asleep on a patient once due to lack of sleep due to studying. Woke up in the nurses lounge where I received no sympathy.
Thank you. Don't usually make those kind of mistakes. Can't even blame spell-check.
Listening to his voice and "sentences" for more than 30 seconds starts to piss me off. Trying to read it is even worse. How can someone who was born with so much money, be such a fucking illiterate, incoherent, fucking idiot? If I were on a debate stage with him I would literally beat the shit out of him after 30 seconds just because I cannot stand his speech patterns. His speech sounds like two retards fucking.
The cadence of his speech is like an ice pick to the brain.