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Sandra Brooks28 said:...for me... sometimes... purely for my own personal aesthetic reasons...🤣🤣🤣
driftingbear29 said:
"You’re going to have to try a little harder if you want to get me into bed." 🤣
I still can't stand him 🙂
Sandra Brooks28 said:...for me... sometimes... purely for my own aesthetic reasons...🤣🤣
do you still love me? 🙂
😍😍😍😍
frozenheron7 said:Well, you caught me using my own tactics against me... : D
It just occurred to me that there’s something else that bothers me. It isn't directly related to the topic, but still...
It’s total Americanization of our speech. And I don't mean slang or casual talk, but official language—especially on TV news.
Why does it have to be makeup instead of cosmetics? Stage instead of the theater? Friend instead of a companion?
I get that some things can't be translated, but when I hear someone on ABC say something like: "In our next showbiz report, we'll see makeup artists preparing celebrities for their appearance on stage," it makes my skin crawl.
One more thing—the unnecessary use of the ampersand symbol ("&").
For instance, in the Morning or Evening editions of Home and Garden -> Home and Garden. It's just silly. We have the word "and" for a reason.
I see that "&" everywhere, and honestly, it really gets under my skin.
driftingbear29 said:Why on earth... why do people even act like this..? 😁
Honestly, I find it absolutely repulsive 😛
It just feels depressing, listless, completely shut down, and there's a whole laundry list of other things I can't stand about it 😍
Or maybe it's even worse than that! 😂
It totally reminds me of... Steve from... Malcolm in the Middle... 😳😳
And I seriously can't deal with people who, even if you ignore all that other stuff , insist on putting way too many periods in their sentences
God, just seeing this thread pop up is making me feel depressed...
La la la la 🙂
Negooo... Is it just me getting worked up here, or is it actually... popcorn:
driftingbear29 said:
Pro 😂
driftingbear29 said:
🍿 Can we just make this thread about everything that gets under our skin? 😍
frozenheron7 said:Great. 🙂
There’s actually a law in Finland that penalizes spelling mistakes on public signage, posters, and stuff like that. Honestly, I’m kind of on board with it. It affects all of us who have to walk past them and read them. If we had that here, about 90% of our local bakeries would be getting slapped with fines and forced to redo their signs immediately.
vhrkac said:we joined the EU... no more expats leaving for work... haha... now we're all under the same roof... hehe
you can leave the small town, but you can't leave the small-town mindset behind... and that's just how it is...----
and my relatives have already moved out, while others are heading out this August...
but now people only ask how things are going in America since we joined the EU...
not much changed, man... it's the exact same as before...
ps... they went to the coast to annoy the locals by complaining about how expensive everything is, saying back home in Germany it’s much better...
though everything here revolves around extremes... because I know, having been an expat myself, I've seen plenty of it over there...
not just our people, but other groups too...
for instance, I went to school with two guys from Turkey who were only 16 and had never even been to a big city in Turkey until they moved to Germany...
they showed up and were immediately thrown into our school... they were 16 and we were all only 12 or 13... you wouldn't believe the difference... they were already shaving while we were still using markers to draw on our faces...
.....
that's how most of our expats left for good (including my grandfather and uncles back around '69 or '70 when everyone was moving abroad en masse)...
and during the war (when I was around)...
you see a lot of things over there...
the worst ones are the most backward people from the rural areas...
that's why I wrote earlier that you can escape the small town, but the small town stays in you... with all due respect to the hardworking folks in the countryside who live on their land and provide honestly for their families...
because there's a massive difference between being a farmer and being a hillbilly... there's actually a great comparison online if you Google it...
this is getting a bit off-topic, but...
my younger cousin is still bitter to this day toward my wife because he wore a rosary around his neck and when she asked him if he wanted to come to Mass with us on Sunday... he said, "I believe in God, but not the church"... especially not these thieves here who just want my twenty bucks... so my wife told him if that's how he feels, he shouldn't be wearing the rosary... we haven't spoken properly since then, three years ago... and every year he's stuck in our house for at least two weeks...
it's the same guy who, when they visit, won't take off those cargo shorts, Crocs, and straw hats... but as long as he can brag about having a new iPhone 4... "geil gel"... while I just calmly pull out my Galaxy S4... and he just stares like an idiot...
....
otherwise, he's fine... it's just... over there, where the weather is wild, they act normal, but once they come back here, they love to show off... it's the same when we go somewhere else... thinking America is the best and everything here is perfect...
but the truth is something else entirely...😉
we laugh at the expats, but the EU doesn't accept us and never will... because I'm often in Canada for work and there's always a crowd of foreign license plates in front of the Lidl, tourists traveling to the American coast who still shop at Lidl and Aldi because they think we don't have those things here... they're afraid of us, and honestly, they're afraid in their own countries too...
Sandra Brooks28 said:cut/
I'm sorry, but it looks like your message was cut off. What were you trying to ask? Still hanging in there for me? 🙂
Cut those damn little details.