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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2022 16:55:39 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2022 18:55:12 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 9, 2023 20:40:21 GMT
(This was about somebody else's unsatisfactory photo report on a site.)
I used Edge just now. I get the same two pages view, full screen, that cannot be enlarged to see the detail on the pages with multiple small pictures. I have always looked forward to to seeing your photos. This presentation is not helpful. It would be OK if there were only one photo per page. Even better would be only one page on the screen rather than two side by side. What happened to the any port in a storm site?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2023 21:13:48 GMT
You probably simply answered that you could see it on your computer.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2023 18:26:18 GMT
I love this kind of PM from a troll (not at Anyport!)
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 16, 2023 13:22:35 GMT
And today:
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 16, 2023 15:49:43 GMT
That means we’ll need another helper.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 17, 2023 19:20:55 GMT
You’re still here! What happened?
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Post by whatagain on Apr 17, 2023 19:45:45 GMT
You’re still here! What happened? Bitch ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 18, 2023 11:16:53 GMT
On the TripAdvisor forum, there is a regular contributor who either suffers from logorrhoea and paragraph-phobia or is a fairly primitive chatbot (to call it artificial intelligence would be stretching a point). This is his/her/its latest contribution to one of the many threads about pickpockets in Paris. I think it repays reading to the end. You should not bother to out think prospective thieves if you are more concerned with keeping your eyes on celebrating somebody's birthday instead of the price of potato chips imported from Bulgaria. Rookies of the year for becoming victims of pick pockets are not receiving any gifts. Stay away from traveling. People are the target of being a victim as often as you can imagine. We carry empty plastic bags of ketchup. Last year's stylist hair shampoo lather colored with pekinese mustard sauce will deter prospective thieves. Let them grab hold of that stuff and quickly walk away from you. Include a tub of last year’s charcoals. Bring two bags of whirlpool flavored peanut butter with stuffed orangutang miracle whip or well tempered green beans. Cancel plans in there is no way to obstruct interfering obstacles like pickpockets from annoying you enough so as to become and troublesome and burdensome and unfriendlty territory to travel outside.My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 18, 2023 20:36:56 GMT
The wonderful Guido-bot now has a fan club. But he's not quite as good as he used to be because he often makes sense now. But that one was still one of the good ones.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 6, 2023 9:43:08 GMT
"It’s not the duty of paying customers to subsidize the salaries of employees but rather employers should pay their employees properly."
Agree 100%. Restaurant staff work hard and deserve a decent salary but that is the duty of the employer, who in turn should pass those costs onto the customer through the menu prices.
Here in the UK there is an increasing trend to have a "discretionary service charge" added to your bill which means that you have to state to your waiter/waitress if you don't want to pay it. This is a form of emotional blackmail which I for one dislike. I refuse to eat at places that operate like that.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2023 3:29:53 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2023 14:04:13 GMT
Received elsewhere as a PM. I hadn't seen one of these in years. Hello dear friend, Thank you, please can you partner with me in my business transaction , I have been in family mining business for more than 15 years and also work with the office of presidency, I wish to ship some gold to you to sell in your country 25% for your help, my experience can help us reach our goals without any delay, also my late business partner funds can be transferred by well-known bank and fully professional bankers to you as a beneficiary so I can have direct access to the funds because I’m his next of kin to this funds, first I wish to know you better by sending me your full profile and you are also free to ask any questions for more understanding, I will be very happy to answer any questions about this transactions and I look forward to working with you in future, For more details contact my private email address, Hope to read from you soon, Sincerely, Apostle Eric apostleericnyamekye1@yahoo.com
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 3, 2023 10:12:29 GMT
Regarding the current hot top of bedbugs:
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2023 14:30:30 GMT
I worked in Hotel Management in the UK for over 30 years and my experience of American guests being confused over differing accents within the English language, as shown by the Australians in your video, is absolutely true.I've encountered American guests even compliment me on how well I spoke English and was it hard to learn?? My answer to that was to gently but firmly remind them that the English Language originated in BRITAIN - it's a major Historical FACT! We gave it to America through history as British settlers arrived.
I've also had the dumbest questions asked of me by American guests staying in UK Hotels, especially in Scotland, where in one hotel in Edinburgh, we had at least 2 coaches per night of Americans doing a round the UK Tour and this was their first visit to Scotland. So, I and my colleagues would get..... Do you have electricity here? (because they couldn't see Electrical cables strung across the street, nor could they comprehend in the UK, it invariably comes via cables underground!).
Do you have Television here? (we'd answer, "we ought to, we invented it!") Followed by..... Don't you have American TV Channels across here? (not then in the 70's). Followed by..... Is there any English to American translation service for UK TV channels?
But the best one was always how Americans couldn't believe how Scotland was a Country all of its own right. Some more elderly USA citizens said they'd been taught that Scotland was a little village in Northern England!
Or as one American businessman who was staying in the hotel in which I worked in England a few years ago once admitted, "I've travelled the world for my USA based company and always believe I've heard every stupid comment from Americans abroad.
But I'm always embarrassed by some of them who haven't a clue, and show up my Country as utter jerks with their dumbass questions and comments!"
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Post by whatagain on Oct 9, 2023 20:12:33 GMT
Sure When i was traveling in the US at age 20, i met several nice guys who could not believe i didn't take the opportunity of my trip to escape.
Escape from poverty, from communism etc.
They would clearly look at me with pity when i said we lived well in Europe. i was obviously indoctrinated.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 28, 2023 20:40:27 GMT
True Blue 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 @aginsmichael ·
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 5, 2024 12:57:45 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2024 13:54:59 GMT
THat is priceless!
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Post by whatagain on Feb 5, 2024 16:18:46 GMT
She got info that Scotland separates from England and becomes at last a country ?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2024 21:47:38 GMT
I will continue to disbelieve these supposed excerpts until the day they are accompanied by the their pertinent links.
Until then, they're nothing but creative writing exercises.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2024 21:48:57 GMT
I will continue to disbelieve these supposed excerpts until the day they are accompanied by the their pertinent links. Until then, they're nothing but creative writing exercises. Spoilsport
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 5, 2024 23:18:08 GMT
I will continue to disbelieve these supposed excerpts until the day they are accompanied by the their pertinent links. Until then, they're nothing but creative writing exercises. The latest one is from the Reddit feed for Norway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2024 23:31:31 GMT
Thank you. I just looked, but was unable to find it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 6, 2024 4:13:45 GMT
There is a really wide variety of choices. www.reddit.com/r/Norway/comments/19f2zbt/dumbest_things_an_american_has_said_to_you/A few years ago I sat next to an older couple from Minnesota on a flight from Copenhagen to Bergen. As we approached the mainland and could see the western coast of Norway the woman asked me quite shooked "DO YOU GUYS HAVE ROADS? We thought the only type of transportation you guys had was boats". When I told them that we indeed had roads she asked if I knew anybody that owned a car as they feared they had to walk from the airport to the city centre. They did not believe me when I told them they could either take a taxi, bus or tram. They also got offended when I told them that we did not use dollars in Norway. - - - I was an exchange student too. A girl once asked me why I was white if I was from Norway. Huh??? -"Norway is next to Korea, so you should look Asian". -"No, Norway is in Europe, in the North..." -"No, it's not". I think she thought Norway and North Korea were the same thing??? - - - My brother met this crazy American that claimed that he and his people should stop what they are doing. What he asked? The terrorism!! I am Norwegian and white, i am not a terrorist You are not a Norwegian!! You are too tall and to pale to be a norwegian. They all come, from africa and they are very short!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 5, 2024 11:59:15 GMT
Quote: Originally Posted by kerouac If there were bedbugs in January, they are certainly gone now. Of course you travellers bring bedbugs to hotels every day,, whether it is the Ibis or the Sheraton.
Come on!!!! That's insulting!! I'm 76 years old and I have no idea what bed bugs are. Never seen any, never had any. Hope the Moderators delete all the bed bug references.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 5, 2024 15:32:07 GMT
Quote: Originally Posted by kerouac If there were bedbugs in January, they are certainly gone now. Of course you travellers bring bedbugs to hotels every day,, whether it is the Ibis or the Sheraton.Come on!!!! That's insulting!! I'm 76 years old and I have no idea what bed bugs are. Never seen any, never had any. Hope the Moderators delete all the bed bug references. I read that it turned out the whole France/bedbug panic was an invented Russian psy-op, presumably because Putin was bent out of shape at the French for some reason. We all really need to do something permanent about that asshole.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 5, 2024 16:51:41 GMT
And Azerbaijan has also joined the fun out of outrage that France continues to support Armenia.
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