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2012 - the year the world didn't end

Red, so true, worlds end every day, every minute, for somebody

Just counting on my fingers here, 2038, hmmm - that will have seen me out nicely

2012 - the year the world didn't end

Mick, I feel your pain, sheesh, after you went to so much trouble? It's a bloody disgrace, so it is.

Hope the 6 years since have been good enough to resign you to your natural severe disappointment

2012 - the year the world didn't end

Z I've only noticed 2 'world ending on this date' flurries? But then I do live in a little world of my own most of the time .... 2000, of COURSE, and this one, and they both changed my life so I quite like world ending events, when's the next due?

Just so long as it isn't 3rd time lucky, of course

2012 - the year the world didn't end

Mimiiii! be fair he had good reason to be drunk the world was due to end before the end of dinner! Looked at one way, you should be impressed he even turned up ...

RE: Foreign languages

Disagio, with that spread of languages you could become a tour guide and meet all sorts of people, very impressive!

2012 - the year the world didn't end

It really does seem to have marked a changing point so the Mayans can feel justified.

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

Wow - and wow and wow. How does anyone ever manager to understand anyone else? Great stuff here -

RE: 2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found - Complete with Rider And Horses

Four wheels? Chariots were 2-wheelers - the sports vehicle of choice, BC ...

I'd personally guess a cart was hit and buried by a meteorite but hey, will keep an eye on the story, interesting find

The god of Christmas shopping

Yeah I know old blog and all but I think this guy has been reading my blog I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE ok this is mainly joking but there are truths in what this grinch is saying. Those realities bite. And he says Trump will win 2020 and mocks democrats

"Santa is the gateway drug to believing lies because they're fun"

"fun is killing the world"

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

It was a good excuse to put off learning for a while but now no more excuses I have been here over a year and should be a lot more vlot than I am

RE: Cancelled

Mimi, I don't wear funny hats

But I do sneakingly rather like the stack of pancakes

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

Luke the Dummy downloaded but then refused to open

Anyway the only way I can really learn anything is to re-invent the wheel for myself, reverse engineer it so to speak so I understand from the bottom up. I don't know much, but what I know, I know inside out

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

Molly my list has each letter as though one was spelling out a name, eh el eh geh etc and then examples using it in words. There is quite often no relation at all between the two, h is far from the only weird one.

The Spanish Y? don't get me started! Luckily it is increasingly said as yeh and not its original WEIRRRRRRRRRD name.

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

OKAY we are getting somewhere. All Irish instantly spotted by their haitch, all Scots by their jiy, all Americans by their zee.

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

Luke haha keep going because to my shame I can't remember H in Afrikaans

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

Z, English is filled with pitfalls for fifth columnists

First phrases

Mick - Port Out Starboard Home Posh with a capital P?

First phrases

Bloody - indeed, but the windows do open on sightseeing flights in smaller tourist planes. Anyway, the point was more that it was a ridiculous section to put that phrase, and a fairly useless guide book generally. Like most. The CS guide book of useful phrases could, if it ever gets going, storm the world. What Croatian phrases would stand us all in good stead? What did Crest learn first?

First phrases

Bear, are you serious, the hand up and How actually works? I grew up on Westerns, LOVE it! I wouldn't know where to start pronouncing the others

My favourite greeting is the Zulu sawu bona (I see you) but it isn't known very far around the world

First phrases

Ocee, they are international if available at all

First phrases

Notadoctor, they are absolute gold and early additions to my tiny memory card BUT don't get one any further forrader, although they are a great calmer of stormy waters when one accidentally committed a foul!

And I'm not only looking at Spanish, the ideal first phrases translate into any language and work in all.

One thing I learned quite quickly, if you say you don't speak a word (Yo no hablo español) anyone you are asking for ayuda switches off. Say poco español, and they think ok, she's at least trying. So I'd certainly add that to my First Phrases in any language. Along with hello, help, coffee?

First phrases

You forget I've done my time in Scotland, my rrrrrrrrrrrr is rrrrruddy perrrrfecto. And I can hawk up the alternate Spanish G or J with the best of them, thanks to Afrikaans and Scots

My mother said the phrase they started French with, in her day, was 'the pen of my aunt is in the garden of my uncle'

I found the most useful of my starter phrases here to be necesita, (I need), followed by mime and the medium of dance.

In the alphabet soup of life, I pick aitch

Mimiiiiiiii they'd fit right in here in Spain then - H may be present, but it is silent. Hola is oh-luh

Hmmm. Maybe I'm not an aitch

First phrases

So basically you all launch yourselves into foreign countries armed with the great English standby speak ... slower ... and ... louder until demned Jonny Furriner understands? Some jet-setters you lot are

You've changed

Mimi - I'm suddenly hungry. STARVING.

RE: Driving update - It's no longer appropriate to drive with hands at 10:00 & 2:00 position b/c airbags

Airbags sound terrifying and my car is equipped with 10 of them, my changes of surviving my safety measures will be nil.

You can now buy keyrings equipped with little knives and should buy one since if you are trapped by your airbag and don't have a knife in reach you could suffocate before rescued

First phrases

GT, I howl alone

But this phrase has proved handy ¿De dónde salen los gigolós?

First phrases

Mimi, any language where those two sound alike is a language with a great sense of humour

And yeah I never got very far with German, my ex husband's home language, the family kept teasing me for being so formal and effectively talking as though to visiting dignitaries

First phrases

Jim, that's the most useful, or wishful thinking? Or have you proved it?

You've changed

M4 yikes only when re-reading the comments did I see yours you're completely right we change all the time anyway every day in every way getting better and better - or at least trying to

Blue, sometimes in the rebuilding we have to consciously or subconsciously include or reject a change. Or make a resolution never, ever to go down certain paths ever again. Which like all resolutions is not always easy to keep - I started blogging here because of a bloke I met through CS. Took me a while to decide whether to leave but I enjoy the interaction.

Emmy, half the time the person we initially fall in love with was just the mask, there's a temptation to try to force them back into the silhouette we originally took them for. That's both sides, many a man complains that the woman who was up for anything while they were dating picks up her knitting and settles in front of the telly the minute they marry. Then what? Change them back by any means possible? Accept the change? Move on? I believe we start falling in love long before we see the real person.

Viking - my changes aren't always for the best I agree that what mattered so much 10 years ago barely features on my wishlist now. nice video

Daears, the perfect match is someone who changes us into someone we like being and hopefully there isn't too much work to do