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Tolkien minority posted:I'm [20F] studying abroad and miserable Is this just unique to France? My study abroad in the Czech Republic was exactly the opposite.
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fruit on the bottom posted:This article repeats that old saw about how raising the minimum wage would make it impossible for the poor to buy anything so I don't know that their analysis is top-notch here. And also pipelines and fracking are in fact good
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 11:24 |
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Eponine posted:For Americans in France, you either have to be really good or really bad at speaking French and regardless of skill level, willing to humiliate yourself/be humiliated at some point. This is a culture that has still not really gotten over Jerry Lewis. French people get off on the one thing they can do better than anyone else in the world: speak their dumb, mumbly language. So gently caress up a few conjugations! Mispronounce something! Mix up two words that sound nothing alike because you need their help! They'll love you for it. Talk about how American football is awful and soccer is way better. Tell them their McDonalds selection is superior. Pretty much, my ex was always amused whenever I'd mispronounced something or made a grammatical mistake. I did a semester at a fairly prestigious French university and pretty much loved it. Didn't really know anyone who had an experience as bad as her though. I'm just glad I sidestepped the whole living with hosts issue and rented an apartment with someone I already knew.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 12:06 |
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Dead Cosmonaut posted:Is this just unique to France? My study abroad in the Czech Republic was exactly the opposite. You can just get unlucky. I've heard similar stories about people who went to study in the US.
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Eponine posted:For Americans in France, you either have to be really good or really bad at speaking French and regardless of skill level, willing to humiliate yourself/be humiliated at some point. This is a culture that has still not really gotten over Jerry Lewis. French people get off on the one thing they can do better than anyone else in the world: speak their dumb, mumbly language. So gently caress up a few conjugations! Mispronounce something! Mix up two words that sound nothing alike because you need their help! They'll love you for it. Talk about how American football is awful and soccer is way better. Tell them their McDonalds selection is superior. I think general versions of this advice counts for most countries really. You should generally focus on what you like about their country, rather than trying to explain to the bemused natives about why your own country is superior. Very few people will appreciate you explaining how their countrymen were complicit in war crimes either (and pretty much everyone's countrymen were at some point in history). As for the deliberate mistakes thing, American's abroad have a reputation for arrogance that easily equals that of the French, so deliberately humbling yourself to show people that you're just a regular person does kind of make sense to me.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 12:48 |
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Kind of siding with the hi-LA-rious brother in law in this one.quote:My [30s] BIL [30s] tried to ruin my wedding. He is upset I cut the stupidity out of my wedding video.Non-Romantic The BIL was a dick,sure. But jfc lady, were you marrying Mr Bean or something?
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 13:14 |
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Grevling posted:You can just get unlucky. I've heard similar stories about people who went to study in the US. god yeah. as a brit i definitely have more culture shock in america than i do when i go to france
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 13:21 |
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lmao at this dweeb lets give him a swirliequote:I [13M] threw up at school when I tasted Coke for the first time. My friends think I'm weird Whorelord fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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Eponine posted:Do NOT mention their complicity with the Nazis. The best line in Siege of Jadotville was when an Irish guy was talking to a French mercenary about a Rommel quote. The French guy goes "I don't like German military commanders." The Irish guy's response was "Of course not. They took over your country in just two weeks..."
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 13:21 |
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Bubblyblubber posted:Kind of siding with the hi-LA-rious brother in law in this one. Wow, I don't think I've ever heard of someone using the "Just a prank bro!" defense in the middle of someone's wedding ceremony.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 13:23 |
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Whorelord posted:lmao at this dweeb lets give him a swirlie Shun the non-prediabetic! SHUUUUN!
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 13:31 |
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Antivehicular posted:Who kills a gallon of milk in two days? This dude definitely has a goddamn tapeworm Time for more oversharing My father in law drinks 7 gallons of milk a week When we lived with them i was buying all the milk and we were spending more than a hundred dollars a month on it. we got him to stop for a couple of years but we went over to their house on sunday and what do you know, there's 7 gallons of milk in their goddamn fridge again. I don't know how he loving does it. He says he drinks it in his coffee, but I know how much milk he puts in and he'd have to be drinking two or three gallons of coffee a day.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:20 |
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Yikes. That's not healthy.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:21 |
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So much about Mirthless's family has now become clear
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:23 |
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I love the idea of an elderly man wholly (skimly?) embracing GOMAD.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:26 |
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I want to enter an open relationship with Mirthless' sister and call her mommy while she watches me play video games all day long.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:29 |
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If it doesn't make your guts riot, GOMAD is a solid way to put on some weight
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:33 |
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quote:My ex-girlfriend was hiding under my bed for the past 30 hours, needing some advice. (self.legaladvice) quote:CPS is investigating over 'wizard' comment. (self.legaladvice) This one sucks because it's clearly just a total accident.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:33 |
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It's too much calcium! Man was not meant to suckle on the cow teat all day like a greedy pig in the wrong pen.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:38 |
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Van Kraken posted:My (22f) SO (27m) is eating (and wasting) almost all of the food in the house. I can't afford it and I'm always hungry. Chicken+Rice is another thing where portion is relative. Something like 5lbs of chicken uncooked in 4 breasts and 4 cups of rice uncooked translates into ~4 days of meals for one person if you are eating something else for other meals. If I was just eating chicken+rice that's like 2 days of food. It's messed up that he eats food set aside for her and feeds his friends if their budget is really that tight. It sounds like they just need to talk about food. The budget for food, the quantity of food, him cooking his own drat food, etc. Also, re: $/week grocery chat, I spend around $80/wk including water, whey, but I could drop it to $65 or so and regularly do by cutting greek yogurt and buying meats that are on sale. I could probably drop it more by buying a filter for my lead-piped house, going to bargain gorcery stores and buying in larger quantities, but I share my fridge/freezer space and also don't care about my current grocery bill much. I try to keep it around $10/day but cashews, eating out twice per week, greek yogurt shatter this. Khorne fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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I found Mirthless's FIL.
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Khorne posted:It sounds like she's not cooking enough food and he's a child who only eats food that is bought and prepared for him. She doesn't give absolute numbers on anything except milk. Two bowls of cereal is 1/4 a gallon, he drank 3/4 a gallon in 2-3 days which is reasonable. I drink 1/4 a day but I also eat another 2200-3000 calories on top of that depending on whether I'm losing or maintaining weight. And heck, I buy chocolate milk. If I am sick or too lazy to meal prep or something I'll easily down more in a day if I have it around because I can hit macro goals off of milk and lazy foods kinda easily. I was amazed when I started actually tracking my diet and discovered how calorie-dense whole milk is. The amount that I was drinking was practically a meal in itself.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:
I call bullshit as no bladder would survive that. Unless he ommitted that she pissed herself under his bed.
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Khorne posted:Chicken+Rice is another thing where portion is relative. Something like 5lbs of chicken uncooked in 4 breasts and 5 cups of rice uncooked translates into ~4 days of meals for one person if you are eating something else for other meals. If I was just eating chicken+rice that's like 2 days of food. Are you a weight lifter? 2.5 cups of raw rice is close to 1800kcal of pure starch, which is an absolute gently caress ton to eat in one day. Maybe we have small portions, but 1 cup of rice is enough for 2 large meal portions for me and my GF. chitoryu12 posted:I was amazed when I started actually tracking my diet and discovered how calorie-dense whole milk is. The amount that I was drinking was practically a meal in itself. Pasta was my big shock. I did the math and discovered a plate of home made spaghetti chicken alfredo was like 1200kcal per serving, and half of it came from the Pasta.
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Gerblyn posted:Are you a weight lifter? 2.5 cups of raw rice is close to 1800kcal of pure starch, which is an absolute gently caress ton to eat in one day. Maybe we have small portions, but 1 cup of rice is enough for 2 large meal portions for me and my GF. Khorne fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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54 40 or gently caress posted:This one sucks because it's clearly just a total accident. While this does sound like an overreaction, I'm guessing that someone knew about the living arrangements and/or was already weirded out by the family.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 14:56 |
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Gadzuko posted:While this does sound like an overreaction, I'm guessing that someone knew about the living arrangements and/or was already weirded out by the family. They sound really loving weird.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 15:01 |
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Holy poo poo that ex under the bed story. I would be terrified for my life!
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Khorne posted:I estimated wrong. I usually eat 2-3 cups cooked with each breast. 3 cups is ~1 cup uncooked. 1 cup cooked is ~205kcal. So it would be more like 4 cups uncooked. Still a lot. I don't eat more than 1 breast per day, but I also plan out what I'm eating and eat other stuff. That's still a crazy amount of rice for a single person for a single meal, and way too many carbs for somebody who isn't a weight lifter There's a lot of ways to react to that story, but "if she's so hungry, she should cook more food" isn't one that I was really expecting from anybody The whole issue is she can't cook enough without it all getting eaten - either they make it through a meal and the leftovers get destroyed, or she makes a meal and he gives it out to his friends. He also eats food directly off her plate. The only way she can eat a full meal is to do it outside of the house. Helios Grime posted:I call bullshit as no bladder would survive that. Unless he ommitted that she pissed herself under his bed. i'm sure he got up and made something to eat at some point, or watched some TV or something. There's so many crazy stories about people having roommates they didn't know about (people living in their attic/crawlspace/etc) sometimes even for months at a time so it's not really that implausible that she managed to go undetected for 30 hours Mirthless fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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quote:There's a lot of ways to react to that story, but "if she's so hungry, she should cook more food" isn't one that I was really expecting from anybody Her framing in the post is inconsistent because it's two separate issues. Stuff like him giving food to his friends when they apparently can't afford it, him eating her prepared food or stashed away alcohol, and then there's stuff where she complains about him drinking milk or eating more than her. The latter could easily be a size difference between the two with her acting like he's just being a glutton by eating larger portions. She also uses ambiguous things like "servings". What's a serving to a 5'4 woman is not a serving to a 6'1 man. I've never had this problem because I cook and get my own drat food and worry about eating stuff someone else might expect to be there later. I have had the issue of someone saying they'll cook for me while I stay with them and there just not being enough food, because "so much food" is in quantity rather than calorie to them and it turns out 1200-1400 kcals in a day is not "so much food". Mirthless posted:That's still a crazy amount of rice for a single person for a single meal, and way too many carbs for somebody who isn't a weight lifter Khorne fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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She definitely pissed herself, come on guys. Let's not pretend this isn't r/relationships all of a sudden.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 15:26 |
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Khorne posted:I mean, unless he's fat and getting fatter He's just putting on mass!
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 15:28 |
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Wizard story: why don't the parents try talking to the OP before they immediately assume wand=penis and involve the cps? They could have come over and asked about the wand and wizard stuff and OP and her son could have just showed them. Now they've created a shitstorm and no matter how it turns out, everyone involved will always have this hanging over them. Ex hiding under bed: not only did she probably piss herself, she must have listened to OP having sex with his date. Might not be true, but if it is true she's crazy and no wonder he's scared.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 15:47 |
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Grevling posted:Ex hiding under bed: not only did she probably piss herself, she must have listened to OP having sex with his date. Nice
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 15:52 |
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I assume she was either very dehydrated or wearing an adult diaper. Far fetched sure but truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:I assume she was either very dehydrated or wearing an adult diaper. Far fetched sure but truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. That crazy astronaut lady had an adult diaper so I assume some of these nuts still manage to hold on to the "planning" part of their faculties.
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 16:06 |
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Bubblyblubber posted:Kind of siding with the hi-LA-rious brother in law in this one.
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WampaLord posted:That crazy astronaut lady had an adult diaper so I assume some of these nuts still manage to hold on to the "planning" part of their faculties. That's who I was thinking of when people were questioning authenticity hahaha.
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Bubblyblubber posted:Kind of siding with the hi-LA-rious brother in law in this one. BIL wasn't joking when he said he loved her
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54 40 or gently caress posted:
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