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finbar
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Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Jan 1970
time: 06:36
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Originally posted by Tamerlin
Lui, c'est un escroc ! |
Mmmm. Thanks for that. Why is it c'est? If I were to say - "Me, I'm hungry", it would be Moi, j'ai faim, wouldn't it? Is it c'est because it's in the third person?
Anyway, you didn't deny he's a escroc! 
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...and don't forget the space before the exclamation mark.  |
Okay. Sorry. But it really is a bizarre rule. Is there any reason for it? Or just convention?
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What? You don't know anything about the international calendar proposals our clubs are complaining about since a week or so. But where are you coming fr...
Sorry, I almost forgot where you are living. 
Havak, tell him please, I am tired to explain things to people coming from the cultural third world of this planet. |
One clapped-out, ex-colonial power appealing to another?
Don't worry. After our incumbent government is returned to power in the Federal election on October 9th, I'll be leaving the country and relocating to the real world - the Northern Hemisphere!
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finbar
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Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Jan 1970
time: 06:36
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Originally posted by Tamerlin
Yes!  |
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I suppose you are talking about the lawyer, aren't you?  |
They're all escrocs! I did ten minutes of a Law degree, I should know!
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It is a convention, as many typographical rules are. |
Well, it's one of the sillier ones!
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What are you talking about? We, British and French, accepted to carry the burden of the white man and to bring civilization and culture to ungrateful heathens and savages living in the backward parts of the world. Even if Australia remains the greatest failure, along with the USA, you should thank us for the dedication of our two nations instead of posting ironical sentences. |
Unfortunately for us, the Poms settled this continent. Les Grenouilles sailed around most of the bloody land and didn't stop! Probably, with hindsight, very wise of them, but it cost me an interesting culture! OTOH, the Dutch found the place even before Les Grenouilles did and didn't stop either. Imagine if they had? Tilting at windmills wouldn't only be a metaphorical exercise for me!
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Why are you waiting for the election? Is it another excuse for postponing your relocation? |
Because, as I've told you, Mrs finbar has a daughter whom she seems to like. I'm not fussed either way about her. The daughter, that is. For some reason, Mrs finbar is reluctant to live too far away from her daughter. Personally, from time to time, I don't think Mars would be far enough.
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finbar
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Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Jan 1970
time: 06:36
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Originally posted by Havak
True in a sense – but only as a dumping ground for Celts and the lower classes. And you wonder why your nation lacks a cultural identity? |
Truth be told, it's the lower classes who actually brought something to the country in the way of character. The gentry just gave each other massive parcels of land and established a mini-Britannia that exists to this day. The current PM, a very lower-lower-middle class bloke from a background that doesn't suggest conservatism, has attached himself to the mini-Britannias like a leech. There's ample opportunity in this country for a cultural identity and it could be a truly interesting one given the massive immigrant population. Sadly, the locals are in the majority, and they are, at heart, a conservative, selfish, inward-looking mob.
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However as a male you know you can’t win over a maternal bond?  |
I realised that years ago.
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I have noticed from touring that your average Belgium lad lacks a sense of humour – |
The Belgians, Dutch and Austrians were all somewhere else when the senses of humor were handed out.
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and that Italian and French lads are too trapped in a ‘macho’ culture to make arses of themselves the way Brit tourers are happy to. |
Italians less so than the French, I think. Tamerlin, of course, is the exception, standing out like a beacon, happily making an arse of himself here day after day.
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Of course it means moving the NPC down in Kiwi land but that is no real problem is it? |
Let the NPC suffer the same way your domestic comp would suffer.
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LDiCesare
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La Ferté sous Jouarre France
Jan 2001
time: 05:36
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I recommend the UK as nowhere else has beer anything like as good. |
Belgium. But then I like stout and don't like ale a lot, so Ireland is also on the list. You can find better Guinness in the UK than in France, and I haven't had the occasion to taste enough belgian stouts to know if one of them is better (though the Charles Quint is good if anyone can put a hand on it).
Speaking of stout... Yesterday evening, in the restaurant after my first match of the season, I asked the barman which stout he had, having sighted an empty Murphy's bottle somewhere. He told me he had no Murphy's. When we later went to the bar, I saw they had Murphy's on the tap. That barman was pitiful.
I managed a very impressive game by the way, since I got most of my lineouts thrown right. An unusual match since, for once, our pakc totally blew the other pack to pieces. The referee was utterly pitiful, and so were most of our backs (but then we missed our usual fly half, the one who played came back after one year not playing due to some wound and was hurt by one of our flankers and got 10 'points de suture' on the head and out at the end of the first half. This led another thrid rower to play as a center in the second half. That and a winger playing his first match, another one playing full back for the first time and fast backs among the opponents, and you'll understand why we decided to play the second half keeping the ball with the forwards.
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finbar
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Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Jan 1970
time: 06:36
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Originally posted by LDiCesare
Belgium. But then I like stout and don't like ale a lot, so Ireland is also on the list. You can find better Guinness in the UK than in France, and I haven't had the occasion to taste enough belgian stouts to know if one of them is better (though the Charles Quint is good if anyone can put a hand on it).
Speaking of stout... Yesterday evening, in the restaurant after my first match of the season, I asked the barman which stout he had, having sighted an empty Murphy's bottle somewhere. He told me he had no Murphy's. When we later went to the bar, I saw they had Murphy's on the tap. That barman was pitiful.
I managed a very impressive game by the way, since I got most of my lineouts thrown right. An unusual match since, for once, our pakc totally blew the other pack to pieces. The referee was utterly pitiful, and so were most of our backs (but then we missed our usual fly half, the one who played came back after one year not playing due to some wound and was hurt by one of our flankers and got 10 'points de suture' on the head and out at the end of the first half. This led another thrid rower to play as a center in the second half. That and a winger playing his first match, another one playing full back for the first time and fast backs among the opponents, and you'll understand why we decided to play the second half keeping the ball with the forwards. |
Still, you're a man with the right priorities - drinking and rugby!
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