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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2019 16:50:39 GMT
The 1st day of the week is Monday, even in Muslim countries with their weekend on Thursday and Friday.
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Post by rikita on Aug 29, 2019 18:25:52 GMT
i save foto folders with the date in that order as their name, that way they are automatically ordered chronologically.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2019 18:28:52 GMT
Yes, I quickly learned to do the same.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 6, 2019 17:38:51 GMT
Some interesting answers here. So my pet peeve if the day : going to the gym and realising I have no sore underwear. Of course upon leaving the shower.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 6, 2019 17:41:06 GMT
I am going to assume that the word you wanted to write was "spare."
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2019 4:21:17 GMT
The 1st day of the week is Monday, even in Muslim countries with their weekend on Thursday and Friday. Coincidentally, I came across an article warning tourists to Greece that calendars there start with Sunday, not Monday as apparently most tourists expect.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 7, 2019 17:00:12 GMT
Spare indeed. My pet of the day : to be locked outside together. (Unlike Anastasia who was left outside alone). I locked all doors and went out - my wife wasn't ready as I had expected and had left her keys in the lock. Inside. Ladder and a window left half open (oscillo battant ..) enabled be to get back side. Not bad at my age My wife is unimpressed by my physical prowess as she considered I needn't have Done it should I have had a brain.
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Post by rikita on Sept 8, 2019 20:39:10 GMT
losing a book when i have only a few pages left until i finish it ...
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 8, 2019 20:45:34 GMT
....I've got it. Poor ending anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2019 20:56:35 GMT
My ongoing pet peeve is the rejection of alphabetical order by major companies. If you go to anything on your computer that involves a list, such as the Control Panel, the items are not in any order at all. Why? Somebody had to set it up. Do they look for people who never heard of alphabetical order. Same thing on Microsoft Store's page, presumably because potential customers want to waste time looking for the sections they need. The same holds true on Amazon, where almost everything in Settings is called "Your this or that". This is how the drop-down menu looks, meaning you have to read through all of Your items to find the one you want. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Your Account Your Orders Your Dash Buttons Your Lists Your Recommendations Your Subscribe & Save Items Memberships & Subscriptions Your Service Requests Your Prime Membership Your Garage Your Fanshop Your Pets Start a Selling Account Register for a Business Account Your Amazon Credit Cards Your Content and Devices Your Music Library Your Amazon Photos Your Amazon Drive Your Prime Video Your Kindle Unlimited Your Watchlist Your Video Library Your Android Apps & Devices Switch Accounts
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 8, 2019 21:20:08 GMT
Back in the old days, I actually got the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree to change the order of their displays.
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Post by bjd on Sept 17, 2019 16:03:23 GMT
I really get annoyed any time there is an election and they show some politician voting, holding the envelope over the slot until his/her picture taken. Just saw Netanyahu and his wife both holding their envelopes with stupid smiles on their faces.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 18, 2019 18:43:48 GMT
Going to the cemetery to go to my mother's grave. Looking for it for 20 min. Asking help to a 'fossoyeur' (the guy putting people into the grave). No find on my mother. No find in the name of the family. Grrr. I call my father. Explain the way. I realise I am in the wrong cemetery. Now I understand why I find the tomb once on two cisits and why I find the war graves once in the other visit. Problem is that my daughter was with me. There was a witness.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2019 18:53:04 GMT
Elle va tout balancer!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2019 18:59:16 GMT
I once spent part of a pleasant afternoon wandering through a cemetery in Attalla, Alabama looking for the graves of my paternal grandparents. They are buried in Gadsden, the adjoining city.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2019 19:08:36 GMT
Some day I do plan to visit my biological father's grave. It is not at all where I thought it was, but not only is the location listed on www.findagrave.com, there is even a photo of the tomb (who took the picture?). I have no idea when (if) I will ever go back there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2019 19:19:03 GMT
When I looked up my grandparents' graves again just now, I saw that a woman had left nice notes on both their pages. I clicked on her name and her findagrave profile said: Memorials Added - 5,574 Memorials Managed - 13 Memorials per Week - 1,652 Photos Added - 1 Photo Request - 1 Volunteer Photo Taken - 7,751 Flowers added - 7,751
So apparently there are people out there tending the graves in the virtual graveyards!
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Post by rikita on Sept 21, 2019 18:43:55 GMT
a few days after shopping, discovering that a piece of fruit or vegetable has slipped to the bottom of my backpack and i overlooked it when i unpacked the groceries ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 21, 2019 19:51:38 GMT
Ewww! I know about such discoveries.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 22, 2019 6:37:48 GMT
I am fed up with the flood of news about the impeachment. Plenty of things are happening in the other countries of the world and making Donald Trump the centre of the universe is not helping anybody.
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Post by bjd on Nov 22, 2019 9:05:10 GMT
Seeing that horrible face has been bothering me ever since he was elected. It seems that no matter which news website I look at, he is on there somewhere.
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Post by bjd on Nov 22, 2019 13:41:10 GMT
As a continuation of problems with the trains when my husband had to go to a funeral, I just received notice that I got a speeding ticket that day. On the road between Biarritz and Bayonne, I was 7 km over the speed limit. They lower it to 2 km over, so 52 in a 50 kph zone. It just cost me 90€ and a point off my licence! It would have been 135 if I don't pay within 2 weeks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 22, 2019 13:45:35 GMT
They did that to me in Nancy few years ago, and it hurts to pay 90 euros for such a small infraction. But then you get that nice letter from them in six months giving you your point back and congratulating you for having learned your lesson.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 22, 2019 14:13:21 GMT
In Zambia the fine is equivalent to 19 euros and there are no points, no matter how much above the limit you drive from 1 km/h upwards. The system is when registering a vehicle you have to supply a phone number. If you are caught by one of the cameras they text you to tell you to pay the fine. As expected though, people change numbers or cars change hands and a new number isn't put into the computer. I saw on a local forum that one man, in the last two years has just discovered he's been racking up fines but hasn't been told. He now owes 34,200 kwacha, approx 2,152 euros. That is 114 speeding fines.
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Post by bjd on Nov 26, 2019 7:03:49 GMT
Why am I getting emails for "black week" here in France -- from the SNCF (trains), the photo developing site I use and even the bank!!? Are they giving away money? Nobody celebrates Thanksgiving in this country other than American expats.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 26, 2019 7:08:56 GMT
They've been doing that for the last four years -- a marketing ploy to get people to spend money now before they spend even more money on Christmas.
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Post by rikita on Nov 26, 2019 22:57:54 GMT
cigarette breaks at work ... pet peeve might be too big a description - but it seems a lot of getting to know each other and conversation happens during those. and as a non-smoker it would be strange to join. so, it sometimes feels a bit like missing out ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 27, 2019 15:54:29 GMT
Neither is acceptable but people are no longer learning proper English.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2019 16:11:00 GMT
I thought the use of me was quite old. Apparently Rosemary Clooney thought the use of me is acceptable in 1950. I've thought it since I started speaking nearly sixty years go. It is common where I was brought up, and not only there, plus we substitute 'me' for 'my', such as, "Me dog is dead", "Where's me glasses?", "Thank you for me coffee" - plus the substitution of 'us' for 'me' in certain situations, resulting in things like, "Give us a minute", "Give us some chocolate", "Give us a hand, m'duck." Don't forget the 1927 song, "Me and my shadow." I'm sure it would have been correct, but wouldn't sound so good had Frank and Sammy sang, "My Shadow and I." Probably due to the Queen and Prince Philip (my husband and I), I think most English think the proper usage is what the posh say. I agree with the less and fewer thing. The fewer it is said, the better.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 27, 2019 23:51:48 GMT
When did the use of "me" in expressions such as: a. its use in a sentence subject Me and my wife/dog/friend b. its use in comparisons with "than" He runs faster than me become acceptable? Some uses of “me” are more correct than “I”. You can usually figure out which to use by dropping the other pronoun/person, and choosing the one that sounds correct. “My wife and me went out to dinner.” Nope. “They came to visit him and I.” Nope “They came to visit he and I”. Double nope. “He and I went to visit them.” Yup!
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