Here in the USA, when we men say we are going "clubbing" it means drinking & dancing with women. In Canada it involves baby seals. When "clubbing" and "baby seals" are mentioned in one paragraph, in Canada it involves a bloodbath in the white north, in America it involves a bloodbath in Afghanistan's mountainous regions.
Margo, from Warszo: You are kind of defensive about the russkies, for the longest time, and the Nemecki. We, canadian are defensive with the Americans. Same difference. Cept here we are more pleasantly defended by the US than Poland ever has been by the Germans, Austrians and Russkis. Since 1812, any Amy that came to Canada left us some money here. Can you say the same about Nemas and Russkis?
Canadians are closer to the beginning of the alphabet than US men. Unless the US men are called "Americans".
So really, com si, com sa. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Our dollar is better, and in other times their dollar is better. In America everyone can have a gun, almost everyone, in Canada, only the military, the police and the criminals.
a photon = basic quantum of any electromagnetic energy really (inc. light but could be gamma or radio wave as far as the defenition is concerned)
But indeed, talkin this way bout scientific stuff makes me go crazy bout u!
The sad truth is, that light behaves both as a wave form and as a particle. Com si, com sa. When it behaves as a particle, it is called a photon.
So by and large, photons are particles, and they do travel at the speed of light. They are what light is, when light displays the functionalities of a particle, not of a wave form; such as having mass. (They do have a minuscule mass. Not in the Catholic or Anglican sense.)
I gave it some thought, and I think I don't have even a more acute flair for writing than you do, OP. I think the only one thing I have over you is knowing how to write in paragraphs.
I don' t know what to say, what to do with this blog, how to react. It says nothing to me. Yes, we were poor, too, but only compared to how we live now. When I was a kid, we were not excessively poor. No diabetes in my family, until my generation, and only in the last 10 years.
Dinner party cook at 12, quitting school at 15 to go to another school, first new Vespa at 15... sounds like a scene from Borat, where the kids learn the proper handling of automatic assault rifles at 7, and if by 9 the boys don't have an 18 inch long member, they are sent to finishing school in England.
Did you have a happy childhood? I played with tin soldiers and with the boys at twelve, tag and other games, while you were sweating over a hot stove. I was studying Shakespeare and descriptive geometry, when you quit school. I was eating ice cream bought in the store when you walked an extra 2 miles a day to save 3 cents. And you religiously took the bus twice a day, all three of you.
By the time you were turning out 20,000 skirts a day, I was roping in or groping any skirt I could ly my hands on. When you were given children's needles and threads (what are those? dull needles, and invisible threads? Really. What's a children's needle?) I was given a Monopoly game and books to read. Oh, and I played with the kids in my hood, instead of reading the bible collectively in the family. (This I really did not miss from your life.) We never knitted, sowed, macramed, crocheted, etc. anything for Korean orphans, whatsoever.
So now let's compare report cards: You, judging from your photos, live a luxurious life, you have many suitors, young and Italian, you travel the world. I, on the other hand, have literally nothing to show for having used up Earth's precious resources for an entire 57 years and more. You have the Apartment in Bahrain; I live in a rented room with hotplate privileges. You were poor in your childhood, and gave, gave, gave, I was lazy as a child, and later as an adult. You are now reaping the benefits of your hard work now, I am poor as much as you were in your childhood.
I don't know. If it's a race, a competition to reach for the top by the time we all die, you beat me by a long shot.
Maybe I had a happier childhood than yours was, but maybe not even that.
You're going to hit me now, probably with a yarstick or a ruler, but sorry, Darwinism is not a thing that you can believe in. It is a theory. You can't believe in Pythagoras' theorem (asquaredplusbsquaredequalscsquared) and you can't believe in the theory of relativity. Theories are supported by evidence or not. They are not a subject of adoration, faith, or worship.
1. You are successful. 2. You are positive thinker. 3. You are happy.
I don`t believe the following of your claims, but I agree that they may be true: 1. That positive thinking produces positive results. 2. That all successful people believe int he power of positive thinking. 3. That happiness has little to do with the external.
What I vehemently oppose, and do it only on the basis of observation and logic: 1. That there was a clever pun involving puking. There was no pun. Whatsoever. Neither a clever one, nor a commonplace one. Zilch pun. 2. That the inner happiness is the one that helps successful people become successful. This is a fallacy. If someone is truly happy, he needs nothing more, nothing extra for happiness. So success to him or her is not a goal he or she needs to attain. He or she is happy already. Why else vie for success? Success MAKES you happy, so if you are happy already, no need to strive for success.
Some values have been lost, that's right. But some new values have sprung up.
And... Darwinism is something that can't fail. That's the beauty in it. If a specimen or speciwoman survives, then the relationship between the individucal (human or other life form) and its/ his / her surroundings are deeming him or her or it to survive. In other words, it is fit to survive, if and only if it survives.
I don't see how your leaving school at 11 makes Americans wusses.
You say the pay was poor and the hours were long. And you left school at 11.
In North America, on the other hand, you say we are big babies, because we go to school much longer, work fewer hours and get paid much better.
I don't get this. Why are we babies coz we go to school and have a good life, and why are you an adult for leaving school at 11 and working hard and not making much money?
There is a step there in your reasoning that I am not seeing.
MorgenUlv: there never was a year 0. (Year zero.) So the law you say is existent is not existent, since it was to begin in a year that never happened.
I know I am too logical to be likeable. Forgive me and please turn your other cheek so I can slap that too.
In fact, Jesus did not say how many times you are allowed to turn your cheek to be hit again and again. Some Christian scholars are convinced that two hits (one on each cheek) should fill the cup of any Christian, but the contralimitae, a subversive theological group inside the Vatican, insists that the hitting must never stop until the hitter loses all feeling in his palm or psalm.
Hold for a second. The bible says only true things. So if Jesus was executed, and he was given the capital punishment, then it means, to me fo' sure, that capital punishment is very Christian, since it is written in the bible. Schwartz auf Weiss. You can't go wrong following the bible. Let's burn all gods.
My sentiments exactly. An old Arabic proverb said it best: Marriage (or couplehood) is like a fort under seige: (or siege: ) those who are in the outside, want to get inside, and those who are inside, want to get outside.
Man is obsessed with being happy, and in today's western civilization the term has gained an unnatural importance. It is not a thing that you can attain and keep; it is a thing that keeps coming and going.
The coming-and-going has had good, solid, biological and evolutionary advantages, insofar as making an individual to alternate his rest and work for survival. In modern societies that is an outdated paradigm, and all modern society was able to do is give us artificial goals to feel fulfilled.
Eh. There is no way out of this conundrum, nothing you can do about it, and nobody can do anything about it. The shortcut is of course using mind- and mood-altering illegal drugs. But they blow up in your face in short notice: after a certain time they will stop being able to continue their effect, and they they become a curse.
The only thing to do about happiness is... heck, I don't know.
God helps losers, but He sure don't support a loser attitude.
Sit up straight, and eat all your vegetables. Don't mumble, and put your things away after you finish using them. Say thank you and please. Respect you father and mother, so you may have a long life. Smoking is verboten. Com si, com sa.
Lana, those guys are married. A single guy will never find anything more urgently important than bedding a new woman. Married guys think the same way, but there are things in their lives that single guys don't, such as fears and risks that single guys fear they could have, too, but not yet at the moment, thank you, God.
So a married man may have a two-day deadline to bag a cat, or lasso in a new filly. Then the wife returns with the kids, or the friend's apartment won't be available for a romantic get-together any longer.
This is especially transparent because the guy was 1. Genuinely nice, 2. knew how to express that in the languange of womanhood and 3. he even took off his profile when he broke up with you (at the same time, too.)
The sad truth is that married guys are more to the liking of women, than single guys. They are cleaner, more presentable, they shave every day. Don't downplay these features. Women are health- and cleanliness counscious. They are homemakers, healers, health providers to the family. Support. The guys go out to kill and bring home the kill. They can go for days in the bush without showering. In fact, they prefer to shower only once very few days.
Married guys have to compromise on these things. And they are better men than the single ones, right from the start: that's why they are not single.
Coffee mix, this is acceptable what the students did, and in my opinion your expectation was not realistic.
You were about to give an address. You were not there to meet anyone or to socialize with anyone.
The students went there to hear your address, not to get an insight knowledge of you as a person, and vice versa.
Greetings are returned in social situations only, or in mass-oppressive societies. I do remember the November Seventh festivities in which the General Marshall Marsalko Bela told forty-eight thousand people, "Greeteings, comrades," and forty-eight thousand adults, of all ages and backgrounds, replied in unison, "greetings, comrade Marsalko."
This is not normal.
In youth-situations, the situation is not the same as in kindergarten classes or in grade school. You don't go in for the greeting.
At least that has been my experience, attending lectures on two continents and giving lectures to university kids in North America.
African Woman: A student, like any other human being, will laugh at what he or she finds funny. If they did not laugh at the professor's efforts at humour, then they can't be faulted for "not being nice and appreciative". In fact, if they laughed, then the school spirit could have been faulted for being "tyrannical and oppressive". In my opinion.
Personally, I find it stupid that we have to do our gods` biddings by our having to fight wars for them.
Sometimes I feel I and everyone else on Earth is just a chess-piece on a giant, round, gobular board, that the gods move. Complete with kings, queens, knights and pawns, of black and white and other colours.
I think we should let them do a push-off, a shove-off, we should ask them gods and pray to them and implore them to roll up their own sleeves and duke it out among themselves, and leave us little folks out of the bickering and one-up-manning each other.
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RE: how do canadian men differ from our US neighbors
Here in the USA, when we men say we are going "clubbing" it means drinking & dancing with women.In Canada it involves baby seals.
When "clubbing" and "baby seals" are mentioned in one paragraph, in Canada it involves a bloodbath in the white north, in America it involves a bloodbath in Afghanistan's mountainous regions.
Or maybe that's "navy seals", not "baby seals".