You have to call them choco kiss now "Schokoküsse oder Schokoköpfe"!! its politically not correct to call those sweet Schokis like Mohrenköpfe oder Negerküsse anymore !!
Or did I too write in such bad english that my suggestion was to be understood as accusing ??
Saying "that it might come over as a arrogant" to people when english is not first language.. "
I know you like the perfection, with the points in the right place, so please dont missinterpret what I was suggesting. As you are in Spain and write in Spanish perhaps as perfectl as English, still you could be aware of difficulty for others to express themselfs in a foreign language ...
pensando solo en ellos tambien .. entiendes amiga ?
Ignorance is easily combined with Xenophobia. The current world politics and biased media are manipulating very efficiently in that direction, spreading hate and panic. The whole reporting has become a sort of propaganda, seldom telling the truth and only one side of the story
are you discuraging the last few people in participating the EU-Forum ?? Its boring enough with 3 - 4 people as it is .. So who you mean of the few participants ?? This is not a school examn either, for many of us - if only worried to write perfectly all the time in English, the effort would be so much that we would loose spontanity.. I wonder as this was a nice way to encourage people to participate in the Forum.. The emails you receive in your mailbox you can screen for whatever your personal likings are, but in coming over as judge of good English or American Language on an International Meeting Site might come to others a bit selfimposing or arrogant. just a thought !?!
whow .. that sounds very nasty - thanks for the warning - hav´nt seen one so far ! I do have good daily updated antivirus running permanent, but the if its spreading in this mean way - better not even go near it !
Déja Vue´s are beautiful kicks when you travel, I will never ferget when visiting the town of Lucca in Italy, going bent after bent like I knew this town, until I found that most incredible old fashioned Trattoria,
A gnome is a legendary creature characterized by its very small size and subterranean lifestyle. According to the alchemist Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the classical element of earth; they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon it, have conical hats, and the sun's rays turn them into stone. In other traditions, they are simply small, misshapen, mischievous sprites or goblins (with pointy caps). Some sources claim they spend the daytime as toads instead of in stone and they are also said to have magical powers that make people feel sad or happy.
The word gnome is said to derive from the New Latin gnomus and ultimately from the Greek gnosis, meaning knowledge. According to myth, gnomes hoarded secret knowledge just as they hoarded treasure.
Often featured in Germanic fairy tales, including those by the Brothers Grimm, the gnome often resembles a gnarled old man living deep underground who guards buried treasure. Because of this, Swiss bankers are sometimes disparagingly referred to as the Gnomes of Zürich. Gnomes feature in the legends of many of central, northern and eastern European lands by other names: a kaukis is a Prussian gnome, and barbegazi are gnome-like creatures with big feet in the traditions of France and Switzerland. In Iceland, gnomes (vættir) are so respected that roads are re-routed around areas said to be inhabited by them. Further east, tengu are sometimes referred to as winged gnomes. Some confusion arises as the gnome is one of many similar but subtly different creatures in European folklore; mythical creatures such as goblins and dwarves are often represented as gnomes, and vice versa.
A gnome in a conical cap.Individual gnomes are not very often detailed or featured as characters in stories, but in Germanic folklore, Rübezahl, the lord over the underworld, was sometimes referred to as a mountain gnome. According to some traditions, the gnome king is called Gob.
Rudolf Steiner, and other theosophists before him, lectured at length on gnomes, and especially their supportive role in the development of plant life (and biodynamic agriculture).
Modern sources often depict gnomes as diminutive, stout humanoids who wear tall, pointed conical caps and dress in solid colors such as blue, red or green; in this depiction, the male gnome always has a long white beard.
RE: What is the purpose of the pyramids?
and I thought they where built to lure tourism into the country..