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Mebh posted:Not the Dutch. They tended to get right offended. "We all speak English you know!" Followed by switching back to Dutch and talking to their friends over you about some poo poo, expensive restaurant they went to.
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Mebh posted:Jealous! Sounds ace! It really is. I think you can get em p cheap in Aldi too. And in a pinch a washing up bowl with a few of them rubber sponge things with the soft spikes at the bottom would get about 80% of the way there I reckon.
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ThomasPaine posted:I want new horizon so much but 59.99, jfc yeah and all my money was spent buying multiple copies of elden ring
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah and all my money was spent buying multiple copies of elden ring God drat but next weekend is going to be good. I am so loving pumped.
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therattle posted:My experience is that most people appreciate one trying to use their language. Including the French. This is true. My GF at the time and I lived near Paris for a couple of years and we picked up French pretty well. Like others who had similar experiences said, put a bit of effort in and the local shopkeepers etc. appreciate it and will help you out.
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biglads posted:This is true. My GF at the time and I lived near Paris for a couple of years and we picked up French pretty well. Like others who had similar experiences said, put a bit of effort in and the local shopkeepers etc. appreciate it and will help you out. The English love to poo poo-talk the French but whenever I have been in France, which is a fair bit between work and holidays, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the stereotypical French rudeness. I think it helps if one is polite and tries to speak French. I’ve only ever been met with friendliness in response. (And my French is very limited). I think what gets foreigners’ backs up, understandably, is tourists just starting with English and expecting that locals will respond accordingly. I suspect that a lot of the English cliches about rude French people is down to the French not responding well to rudeness. We’ve taught my son a few basic words (merci, Bon jour etc) and they love that.
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therattle posted:The English love to poo poo-talk the French but whenever I have been in France, which is a fair bit between work and holidays, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the stereotypical French rudeness. I think it helps if one is polite and tries to speak French. I’ve only ever been met with friendliness in response. (And my French is very limited). 99% of British (in fact any non-French) complaints about French people are actually about Parisians, and every French person would vehemently agree with them if they actually poo poo-talked Parisians rather than the French as a whole. Now if you're really gonna poo poo-talk foreigners, start with Amsterdam cafe staff. A glass of lukewarm water is *not* the basis of a good cup of tea, and I *know* you all know this because it's Amsterdam and you probably see more British and Irish people in here than you do Dutch. Even the snootiest Parisian waiter will grudgingly at least supply the ingredients for a cup of tea (although you may have to take their family hostage to do so), cafes in Rotterdam manage it, but every single waiter in Amsterdam gives you the same look of bemusement like you've just asked them to microwave an ice cream or put sugar on a toastie (and yes we're aware of what toasties are, no need to enthusiastically describe them like they're some rare local delicacy). I assume it's actually some kind of revenge for the fact that every single Anglophone who steps foot in a cafe in Amsterdam makes the same "You sell coffee, so this must be a coffee shop, give me all the weed" joke.
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^^^ If you're not careful, you'll get served one of these In lukewarm water, and removed quickly so it doesn't taste too tea-y, of course. -- The difference I've found with French speakers is that if you speak to them in passable French, they won't go "ugh, stupid English" and switch to English - which the Dutch do to show off their English, and others do because it's easier than watching the foreigner struggle. But the Francophones tend towards an attitude of "quite right too" when you speak French. Which is much more helpful for the learner.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I just arrived in Leiden yesterday and was quite amused this morning when my wife and friend were served hot water in an IKEA tumbler with a teabag on the side There's pretty much a 50/50 chance that this is what you get if you order tea in any Scandinavian café. Few people except high school students would order tea at a café anyway over here.
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crispix posted:i'll bet paul mason listens to liam gallagher songs loudly on headphones in public He probably listens without headphones on the train, all tinny like.
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https://twitter.com/ianvisits/status/1495359773889470468 Well that's just kinda depressing. These American Candy shops have to be a front, right? There's hundreds of them in Glasgow, in pretty prime locations, they're never busy so I've no idea how they afford to stay open.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:99% of British (in fact any non-French) complaints about French people are actually about Parisians, and every French person would vehemently agree with them if they actually poo poo-talked Parisians rather than the French as a whole. Revenge is a dish served lukewarm. I’ve been in Paris a fair bit and didn’t even find people there particularly rude.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:they're never busy so I've no idea how they afford to stay open. You usually need to take out a mortgage to afford what they sell, so it's basically like hotel chocolat for manky yank crap.
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My problem is if I try to speak French, I work it out in my head but when I open my mouth Arabic comes out. Same with my very rusty German, what actually comes out is very rusty Norwegian. It's like when you put the CDs back in the wrong boxes (in the olden days). Brenda's got covid (just got the news on).
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:https://twitter.com/ianvisits/status/1495359773889470468 They also clearly recycle their stock, when one place closes, another opens, and the same products are in the window, to the point where many of them have been sun-bleached, even on the week the new shop opens. The bit that confuses me is, usually a money laundering front has an actual legitimate business attached so that you can hide your criminal transactions among the legitimate ones. But these places don't get legitimate transactions in any reasonable volume, so far as I can tell. I once asked one if they could maybe help me import some white cheddar popcorn from America, offering to pay for like an entire case, and was looked at as if I'd grown an extra head or something.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:https://twitter.com/ianvisits/status/1495359773889470468 Last time I was in Oxford street I tried to count how many there were between the station and Tottenham Court Road. I think I lost count at 15 or so, all empty.
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Reveilled posted:I once asked one if they could maybe help me import some white cheddar popcorn from America, offering to pay for like an entire case, and was looked at as if I'd grown an extra head or something. rightly so imo reading those five words made me go like this 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My problem is if I try to speak French, I work it out in my head but when I open my mouth Arabic comes out. Same with my very rusty German, what actually comes out is very rusty Norwegian. It's like when you put the CDs back in the wrong boxes (in the olden days). Snagger du norsk?
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 majesty our boys queen is poz https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60453566
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:"Expects to be able to carry out light duties." Was in contact with Charles last week. Wonder if he knew he was positive before visiting Mummy?
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:https://twitter.com/ianvisits/status/1495359773889470468 According to this reddit link to a private eye article in the replies, it's all about money laundering and/or drug dealing. That said, according to the discussion in the reddit comments, every single apparently profitable form of high street shop is a front for money laundering and/or drug dealing. Except bookies, where presumably the scam is too surface-level.
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josh04 posted:According to this reddit link to a private eye article in the replies, it's all about money laundering and/or drug dealing. That said, according to the discussion in the reddit comments, every single apparently profitable form of high street shop is a front for money laundering and/or drug dealing. Except bookies, where presumably the scam is too surface-level. even the body shop? 
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The franchise itself could be laundering- the fee to use the brand / open the shop. Also the property itself could be owned by someone needing to launder.
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josh04 posted:According to this reddit link to a private eye article in the replies, it's all about money laundering and/or drug dealing. That said, according to the discussion in the reddit comments, every single apparently profitable form of high street shop is a front for money laundering and/or drug dealing. Except bookies, where presumably the scam is too surface-level. I thought the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals in the bookies were really good for money laundering? Or am I a decade out of date her? I probably am
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crispix posted:rightly so imo White cheddar popcorn is the best snack food mankind has ever created, and I'm eternally bemused that as a country we consider cheese on corn to be an acceptable combo, as long as the corn has been mashed up into a dough, put under heat and pressure, oxygenated and then extruded through a tube to make Wotsits or any other cheese flavoured baked corn snack, but just cooking the corn and putting the cheese flavour on directly? Disgusting to many people, apparently.
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