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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2017 17:52:23 GMT
The Embassy giveth and the Embassy taketh away.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 17:52:10 GMT
The next generation selfie-stick + terrorism threat = fun!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 0:02:04 GMT
After reading a lot of messages here and 4 travel guide books of Paris I have made a list of areas, that we (a family with a 10 years old child) should avoid. This list is a combination of safety issues and other things I do not want to visit with a child (for example areas with erotic shops etc.). I think we still can visit all the places we want (Notre Dame is a bit difficult) and enjoy the best parts of the city. Here is the list:
- Areas surrounding the following metro stations: Bastille, Oberkampf, Parmentier and George V - Les Halles and surrounding parks - Pigalle area (metro: Pigalle, Blanche) - St. Lazare station and its surroundings - All the parks in the evenings Also we try to avoid RER D -line.
Any comments?
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Post by htmb on Feb 20, 2017 0:26:13 GMT
Why go at all?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 0:42:50 GMT
That's what most of the people replied. Really -- George V as a place to avoid?
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Post by fumobici on Feb 20, 2017 1:38:26 GMT
Those all seem like fine areas to me. Seriously.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 20, 2017 9:16:16 GMT
Sometimes it is very difficult to stay positive on forums...
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Post by bjd on Feb 20, 2017 9:55:56 GMT
I wonder why Notre Dame is "a bit difficult". Maybe the lineups to get in are too long? No erotic shops nearby as far as I know.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 20, 2017 10:11:31 GMT
Here's a very different sort of gem. Having worked for some years for our Department of Health (in a fairly lowly capacity dealing with their policy library), I have an informed citizen's interest in various aspects of health policy, and how the largely US-based forums I frequent have debated those issues. One of the things that strike me is that, whether it's systemic or something in the culture generally, people in the US seem to expect, or are expected to, own and manage various aspects of their care, where we tend to expect the professionals to get on with it. So this particular example really caught my eye: I've never gone into an OR for a procedure (major or minor) unless I have everyone who will be working on me in the pre-op room for proper introductions, review again of complete details of procedure and documents of their backgrounds.I can just imagine the reaction if I tried that in this country: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bjd on Feb 20, 2017 12:19:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 13:10:07 GMT
Maybe the person is tipping all of them $100.
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Post by chexbres on Feb 20, 2017 13:33:44 GMT
The George V was probably way too expensive a neighborhood for them. I've never encountered any items displayed in the windows of sex-shops that would offend a 10 yr old kid who probably wouldn't recognize what the hell he was looking at anyway. I really pity this poor kid...
Oh, wait...maybe it's little Barron Trump, and his parents want to keep him hidden behind "The Wall".
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Post by whatagain on Feb 20, 2017 16:46:53 GMT
Chexbres, the lady added an interesting post in which she says she is going to the ... bois de Boulogne. Why on earth would a tourist want to go to bois de Boulogne is already strange, but for somebody who checked and rechecked... I am of the opinion she is a troll. Can't be.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 16:49:07 GMT
Bois de Boulogne at night isn't pleasant. However, it's a lovely bike ride during the day.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2017 17:08:30 GMT
I think the lady with the list of places she wouldn't go in Paris may have been reading decades-old guidebooks -- or perhaps only bad historical novels.
I think the person who wrote about his/her prerequisites for surgery is completely delusional. I am happily imagining that person as any one of Margaret Dumont's characters.
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Post by rikita on Feb 20, 2017 20:18:14 GMT
i passed a shop with agnes recently, with masks and handcuffs and similar things displayed in the window. she found it very interesting, as she loves costumes ... the heavy curtains in front of sex cinemas also fascinate her and make her want to run inside.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 20, 2017 20:29:00 GMT
I once went past that curtain... the smell is what kept me from doing it a second time.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 21, 2017 18:05:53 GMT
Also from the Land of the Free (see if you can spot the relevant fact the author reports without attaching any significance at all to it): My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 22, 2017 11:33:16 GMT
Further to what I posted above, my enquiry on that other board about what struck me as the salient point produced this interesting reply: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 22, 2017 12:19:56 GMT
A Walmart 22? Jeez, I bet that is good quality.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 13:08:01 GMT
I remember going to a Wal-Mart in Kentucky and the guns & ammo department struck terror in my heart. It was even bigger than the junk food department.
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Post by chexbres on Feb 22, 2017 13:38:56 GMT
I'd just shoot the legally blind guy and get it over with.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 17:59:48 GMT
Where in Paris can we expect to be able to get a scotch and soda or a martini? Our hotel does not have a lobby bar. Do restaurants and cafes generally serve only wine? We are looking forward to sampling French culture and that includes wine, but we also like an occasional cocktail, especially on vacation. Any tips are appreciated, we want to know what to expect in advance.
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Post by chexbres on Feb 24, 2017 12:27:05 GMT
I'd tell them to expect to pay around 20 EU for a decent cocktail of the "dry martin with an olive" variety. Around 6 to 8 EU for a "Martini Rouge" (red vermouth).
My brother-in-law landed at my apartment a few years ago at around 7:30 AM and marched right into a restaurant, right up to the bar, and demanded a vodka and orange juice, in English. The fact that the place wasn't open yet, and was not an actual bar, did nothing to dissuade him. He got a blank look from the guy cleaning up, and went to sit on the terrace. After about 15 minutes, he marched back inside and demanded to know where his fucking vodka and orange juice was. Needless to say, he was met with more blank stares, and finally marched back to my place. He has yet to come to grips with the fact that most bars stay open 24/7 in New Orleans, and that only Parisian cafes will sell alcohol in the mornings. If he had just gone around the corner, he would have gotten what he wanted.
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Post by mossie on Feb 24, 2017 19:42:36 GMT
How arrogant, his name is not Trump by any chance?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 15:44:46 GMT
For once I fell in love with an entire clever thread. I had to copy and paste the whole thing, because it is in the private section of the website in question, so a link would not work. Boy, do I feel dumb! Posted by: michigandra on Mar 1, 17 at 2:21am
Posted in: Fodorite Lounge
I was watching Jeopardy tonight, and one of the categories was "1980's Album Covers." Among the answers was the David Bowie album, Aladdin Sane. Only when I heard the contestant provide the name of the album did it hit me what it really meant. Duh! After all these years.
I recall that, at the time the album came out, I wondered why Bowie named it that, but I never thought too much about it. I guess I figured one of the songs held a clue. In fact, I never bought the album even though I like several of the songs on it.
This is pretty much like finally figuring out the true song lyrics you've been singing incorrectly for years and years, but, really, this seems so obvious it really makes me feel dumb.
At least I knew quite of the answers on Jeopardy to make me feel at least a little bit smart.
OK, Fodorites, please share instances of when the lightbulb went off and made you feel less than smart. I can't be the only one.
Dai on Mar 1, 17 at 2:44am
No, you're not!! The same thing happened to me just a few months ago. You know The Doors song, "Back Door Man"? I recently realized for the very first time what he was singing about! As a kid I had heard this song over and over and loved the whole album, but I was too young to understand, so I'd just sing along loud and with intensity and hadn't thought about the lyrics since.
And while we're at it, I had never thought about A lad insane until this post...and I know most of the words by heart to this song. I LOVE David Bowie. Great thread idea.
nytraveler on Mar 1, 17 at 4:25am
At least you finally got it. I had a boyfriend (no, he didn't last long) who could never get the lyrics of anything right. No matter what I said he insisted I was wrong and that his nonsense lyrics were correct (and I don't mean In a gadda da vida - which he insisted was In the garden of Eden).
He also insisted someone who drove very fast was a "speed deemer". I told him multiple times it was "speed demon", as in driving like a bat out of hell, but he never agreed.
Well, I was young and innocent and took people at their own estimation - but he still didn't last long.
sylvia3 on Mar 1, 17 at 4:42am
Wind chill factor: I wasted a lot of breath trying to convince a co-worker that it wasn't Windshield factor. And I just got the Bowie album title tonight. Doh!
goddesstogo on Mar 1, 17 at 4:49am
"and I don't mean In a gadda da vida - which he insisted was In the garden of Eden"
Hey, it sounds EXACTLY like 'in the garden of Eden' if the speaker has a really, really bad head cold!
muskoka on Mar 1, 17 at 5:01am
Those are all called "mondegreens" and are so much fun when that palm to the forehead occurs.
justineparis on Mar 1, 17 at 8:06am
Ha,, "wrapped up like a douche ".. how many of us thought that.. I know I did.. even before I was sure was a "douche" was!lol ..
I actually suck at song lyrics.. so if anyone corrects me I assume they are correct.
poochie on Mar 1, 17 at 11:36am
OMG- Justineparis, I always thought those were the words, even to this day. I just googled the lyrics. Double Duh for me.
poochie on Mar 1, 17 at 11:41am
The Go-Gos song My Lips Are Sealed, for a while I thought they were saying Honest Lucille.
poochie on Mar 1, 17 at 11:43am
Correction, It's Our Lips Are Sealed.
schnauzer on Mar 1, 17 at 11:59am
I heard someone on the radio say he thought it was "Alex the Seal".
There was an Australian song with lyrics that went "cheap wine and a three day growth". Someone rang in and said they thought it was cheap wine and cheese on toast!
So no your not the only one...
annhig on Mar 1, 17 at 11:59am
Those are all called "mondegreens" and are so much fun when that palm to the forehead occurs.>>
you got there before me, muskoka. our DS is always coming up with those - too many to relate. I'll try to remember some of them.
schnauzer on Mar 1, 17 at 12:00pm
You're ....
eastave on Mar 1, 17 at 12:44pm
My daughter, when very young, had two funny lyric changes.
She used to sing Knocking on Kevin's Door, and instead of Buffalo Soldier it was Buffalo Slow Joe.
michigandra on Mar 1, 17 at 1:01pm
Thank you, muskoka! That's my new word of the day.
By the way, one of my high school friends thought AWB's Pick Up the Pieces was Pick up the Defense. Yeah, football on the brain.
willit on Mar 1, 17 at 1:25pm
Not sure if I am stating the bleedin obvious but:
"According to the press page on Iron Butterfly's official web site, the song: was supposed to have been named "In The Garden of Eden," but the singer was slurring his words when he told Ron Bushy, the drummer, the title, and the garbled name stuck. That's rock for you!"
annhig on Mar 1, 17 at 2:11pm
Thank you, muskoka! That's my new word of the day. >>
For those wondering why it's called a "mondegreen":
www.fun-with-words.com/mala_mondegreens.html
there are some great examples there but as Nelson may or may not have said:
"Kismet, Hardy".
nanabee on Mar 1, 17 at 2:23pm
I always thought the Beach Boys were singing, "If everyone had a notion across the USA,"... My brother and I fought about that and he kept saying it was ocean not notion. He insisted that certainly the Beach Boys would be singing about oceans not notions.
PatrickLondon on Mar 1, 17 at 2:53pm
" I did it sideways......"
tom42 on Mar 1, 17 at 3:38pm
<<Ha,, "wrapped up like a douche ".. how many of us thought that.. I know I did.. even before I was sure was a "douche" was!lol .. >>
Me too. Actually I didn't find out that it was "deuce" until well into adulthood. And I never knew what a "calliope" was. In fact, to this day I really don't understand the song at all. What is a "deuce?" And how do you rev it up? And how do you trip a merry go-round?
Bitter on Mar 1, 17 at 3:58pm
I only realized recently, maybe from this forum, that Adam Ant was basically adamant.
I still think Huey Lewis told us that the "Heart of Rock n Roll" is in Cleveland. It didn't help me that that is where the hall of fame is.
kureiff on Mar 1, 17 at 4:05pm
My favorite mistaken song lyrics:
I've got two chickens to paralyze.
You might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove.
tom42 on Mar 1, 17 at 4:08pm
<<I've got two chickens to paralyze.>>
lololol
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Post by fumobici on Mar 1, 2017 22:07:20 GMT
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Post by rikita on Mar 2, 2017 7:24:23 GMT
well, a. thought that in one song the words "so traulich und so hold" (oldfashioned words for 'so familiar and so beautiful') mean "so traurig und verheult" (so sad and weepy/tearstained).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 18:24:31 GMT
Dangerous to travel during Ramadan?
Mar 20, 2017, 2:11 PM
I was planning a vacation to Paris and other European countries but then realized the dates align exactly with Ramadan (5/26 - 6/25). There wasn't much information about safety while traveling during this time so I was wondering what your opinions would be. I would be visiting the major tour attractions, utilizing public transport, and transferring through airports a lot. Do you really think terror attacks may increase during the month of Ramadan or should it be fine to travel?
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Post by rikita on Mar 21, 2017 8:31:15 GMT
and? is it safe? should i hide at home?
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