living in europe

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:31:45 +0200, Tim C. wrote:

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:55:25 +0200, Stanislas de Kertanguy wrote:

a five-legged sheep in a Moscow flea
market...

LOL!

I can't think of an equivalent british phrase off the top of my head.
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Tim C.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:05:11 GMT, Carole Allen wrote:

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:05:38 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:28:31 +0200, "Tim C."
wrote:
I really don't look good in a short skirt.

Pantyhose may improve the appearance of your legs,and smooth out those
annoying pantylines.

I'd have to shave them first, otherwise I'd look like a Bulgarian discus
thrower.
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Tim C. wrote:

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:54:47 +0200, Stanislas de Kertanguy wrote:

I remember a friend at high school whose Swatch had hands rotating
anticlockwise. That was very difficult to get used to!

A friend once had a wall clock with just the hour hand on it. The face was
marked "1ish", "2ish", "3ish" ....

I've given some workshops in a school just outside London which has a
backwards clock. (The numbers are reversed as well as the action, so it
tells the correct time.) Completely bizzare, though you get used to it.

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:37:32 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

Your shyness clouding your ability to reason.

I've never noticed my shyness interfering with an ability to reason
per se. ...

You wouldn't would you.

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Tim C.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:37:32 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

...It prevents me from interacting with people sometimes, but
that is all.

Quite often I would say. See your reply below.

Then why did you reply with a statement that could only be intended to
divert attention from what you said?

You surely mean a statement from which you were only able or willing
to make a single inference.


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Tim C.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:37:51 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

DDT Filled Mormons writes:

You place usenet posting before hygiene?

No.

Then why the hurry. Do your washing first. We can wait.
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Tim C.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:37:32 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

DDT Filled Mormons writes:

Your shyness clouding your ability to reason.

I've never noticed my shyness interfering with an ability to reason
per se. It prevents me from interacting with people sometimes, but
that is all.

As there is no reason to fear human intereraction, your actions are
thus unreasonable.

Then why did you reply with a statement that could only be intended to
divert attention from what you said?

You surely mean a statement from which you were only able or willing
to make a single inference.

I have no idea what you are talking about.
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Mxsmanic a =E9crit :

The Rev Gaston writes:

Apparently it isn't, since an emotion - shyness - seems to be governing
much of your life, for example, by preventing you from forming the
network that could find you a job, and leading you to "socialise"
onlline rather than with real people.

It is hardly governing my life, but it does have a significant
influence. Still, that's a fairly small total of emotion compared to
the near-hysteria that seems to contiously afflict many other people.

How can we measure that? Your "small total" of emotion prevents you
from finding what you crave most - a well paying job, yet others
suffering "near hysteria" lead happy lives.

It reminds me of the old Belgian joke:
A Belgian driving up the autoroute hears a traffic announcement on the
radio "Attention drivers! A car is travelling the wrong way up the
autoroute!!". "One car?" says the Belgian "there's hundreds of them!!"

G;

In article ,
(The Reid) wrote:

*From:* The Reid
*Date:* Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:56:41 +0100

Following up to

abnormally intelligent? But abnormal in the dictionary seems to
say typically negative.

It's an interesting word, isn't it? There certainly are non-negative
uses - "an abnormal talent for music" would be read by most as
positive, "an abnormally large rose bush" as neutral at worst. But
when there could be both negative and neutral/positive implications it
seems to imply the negative by default - "an abnormal interest in sex"
would indicate to most people a lascivious creep. And it's difficult
to imagine "she is abnormal", on its own, having positive connotations.

I think you are right, its positive if that which it qualifies is
clearly positive, but on its own its assumed to be negative.
"Abnormal eyesight" is one where we would not feel completely
sure if it was good or bad. I think we tend to use "exceptional"
when its a positive.

Normally, yeah.

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Martin a =E9crit :

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:12:36 +0200,
(Stanislas de Kertanguy) wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:

You'll certainly find it very French, very odd or je-ne-sais-quoi, b=
ut
arriving late at some French public exams and most of written
competitive exams (such as the CAPES), arriving after the opening of=
the
subject enveloppes them is arriving for nothing. You won't be allowed
in, and you will be failed.

That's why some candidates book a hotel within walking distance of t=
he
place of examination.

Maybe they'd be better off going to school in a different country, one
that isn't still in the dark ages.

I fail to see how demanding that candidates to an exam be exactly on
time, and denying those who are late, is "being in the dark ages".

It's a matter of equality of treatment.

It's a matter of ensuring that a candidate leaving early doesn't pass
the questions to one arriving late.

Or indeed a candidate arriving in the room, seeing the questions, and
reaching into a pocket to select a pre-written SMS to send to a friend
still outside the exam room.

G;