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Post by whatagain on Aug 31, 2024 13:49:24 GMT
In brlgium it is more a pissing contest. ´ à celui qui pisse le plus loin ´.
Probably because we all have a big dick. Contrary to the French.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 31, 2024 14:10:50 GMT
I’m sure the ladies are very impressed.
Where is brigium btw?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 31, 2024 14:41:04 GMT
The French version just refers to men pulling something out of their trousers to see who has the biggest one but actual micturition is not required. I guess in the beer drinking countries they need to do it anyway.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 31, 2024 16:41:07 GMT
I've got twelve inches but I don't use it as a rule.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 31, 2024 17:32:50 GMT
I've got twelve inches but I don't use it as a rule. I am sure Mick is impressed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 31, 2024 18:49:59 GMT
I've got twelve inches but I don't use it as a rule. I am sure Mick is impressed. Not as much as I’m impressed by your metre long courgettes. I mean that’s huge. I did ask before, what variety is it? You must post a picture.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 31, 2024 20:02:35 GMT
Whatagain, it is a pun. "Rule" can have different meanings and one of them is using a rule to measure something. The usual ones were twelve inches long as you would use at school. Rule can also mean commonly.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 1, 2024 9:23:51 GMT
Yes Only. Don’t take me for an idiot. Rule is translated into règle in French which has the 2 same meanings plus menstruations.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2024 15:14:05 GMT
To everyone who posts a message musing "wasn't there a thread about this?":
In the time it takes to write that question, it would be just as easy to try the search engine.
The most recent "wasn't there a thread about this?" was about coincidence. Looked it up, found the thread, moved the post there.
That particular post is now in Charting a Course, a sub-board of Port and Starboard.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 1, 2024 15:16:40 GMT
Yes Only. Don’t take me for an idiot. As if I would. Good to see the pun translates then.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 2, 2024 6:58:14 GMT
I am losing weight !
My IMC (indice de masse corporelle, i guess the same in English but in disorder : CMI ?) tells me at 102 Kgms I am obese. I never reached it but once above 100 Kgms I start freaking.
So I went to see a nutritionist and she listed all the things I do wrong. Quite a list. And I am trying to follow some recommendations.
The ones I am putting in place are. : - have a good breakfast. No sugar, but this is no problem Limit bread. Eat eggs, salmon, spinach me vegetables etc.
- lunch : avoid sandwiches Even with gray bread. A sandwich is worth 10 sugars. Eat small fish. Sardines, roll mops etc.
- evening Try to eat early : scrap that we can’t. Try to reduce meat. Reduce potatoes etc and increase vegetable. Put ‘féculents’ at the end when the plate is nearly full. Eat slowly. Probably the most difficult for me.
Since she is pragmatic and smart she didn’t forbid anything.
I added my new rule : don’t eat if not hungry. 🤤 know it sounds stupid but I eat 99% of the time without hunger.
I am more determined than usual !
These days, after losing a bit during holiday (!) my balance tells me I am between 99 and 98. Already some Kgms from obesity.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 2, 2024 7:00:28 GMT
To everyone who posts a message musing "wasn't there a thread about this?": In the time it takes to write that question, it would be just as easy to try the search engine. The most recent "wasn't there a thread about this?" was about coincidence. Looked it up, found the thread, moved the post there. That particular post is now in Charting a Course, a sub-board of Port and Starboard. I did. Didn’t find it. Then I went into ‘home’ and tried in several places. Didn’t find it. A search engine is good but I guess I need a brain. Does it take into account lower upper case ? Was I drunk ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 2, 2024 9:52:52 GMT
Don't worry. There are lots of things that don't show up when you use the search function. I consider myself quite proficient using the seach function and yet I fail sometimes. However, I have also discovered that often Google can come to the rescue by putting in the key word or phrase that you remember followed by any port in a storm. It searches better than we do.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 2, 2024 15:14:24 GMT
I am tremendously pleased with myself. Jeffers will happily wander around a computer shop, tool shop etc..but HATES going into other stores and has a very short fuse. Today, after spending an hour in PC World he allowed me to drag him into Marks & Spencer...
When we had an M&S in town I'd pop in at least once every week, but it closed 3 weeks ago. There are certain products that we really like and can't buy elsewhere, the big shopping centre that we went to today has an enormous M&S tho so I pushed and prodded him around the food hall whilst he sulked. I had a lovely time and the freezer and fridge are full of nice stuff.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 2, 2024 15:32:50 GMT
M&S has completely closed in France -- twice! -- over the years after trying to enter the market. For the department store, I quite understand, because the styles and quality were identical to C&A, which is still going strong here while failing in the UK. Go figure.
But I really liked M&S Foods. There are still a couple of them in Paris but almost all of them are gone. Brexit is probably partly responsible; I never went often enough to keep them in business, but they were a lifesaver for many of the British expats, who have also disappeared.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2024 15:38:21 GMT
A search engine is good but I guess I need a brain. Admittedly, proboard's (our) search engine isn't very good. One way it's not good is that, unlike Google, it can't search a misspelled word. I believe in your case the word was "coincidence". When I am unsure about how to spell a word I go to Google & type in how I think it's spelled. Google will obligingly either ask "do you mean ___?" or just automatically supply the correct spelling You can also go directly to Google and search, "[subject phrase] anyportinastorm.proboards.com". This sometimes works, but probably won't work with a single word unless the single is somehow unique. Even then it might not. I tried searching "snoitselfer" on Google -- a word that I know is the title of a thread in Image Bank. No luck, and no luck searching it in anyport's search engine either. It's just not a good search engine!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 2, 2024 15:51:21 GMT
Spelling and whatagain are distant cousins....
(and it’s snoitcelfer)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 2, 2024 16:28:11 GMT
Whatagain's English is a lot better than my French, and he writes in English which I think is commendable. The occasional misspelled word is completely fine.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 2, 2024 16:31:10 GMT
Apparently he lives in brigium.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 2, 2024 18:46:00 GMT
Thanks Cheery.
You are invited in Brigium to have a beer if you are around or to Fance for some wine if you are in the south ! 😊😊
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 2, 2024 18:49:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2024 22:03:03 GMT
I did spell it that way when I was searching -- honest! he writes in English which I think is commendable. Absolutely! I'm not busting anyone for his or her spelling, only pointing out that not-very-good search engines demand perfect spelling.
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Post by questaredux on Sept 3, 2024 3:46:17 GMT
I swear my typing fingers (both of them) are bewitched.I have been a good speller all my life but since starting to use a keyboard, my natural "Feel" for spelling has deserted me. "Do you mean" and "auto correct" are my 2 best friends.
The tribe of "Wandering Commas" who searched my writing for opportunities to point and sneer, is being down sized. Exclamation Mark is having an existential crisis and Question Mark keeps asking "Why me?".The Parenthesis Brackets complain that they are overworked (They may be right) so I have shared their work-load with The Triple Dot family ... Illegal migrants but useful provided they don't draw too much attention.
Surrounded with all this angst I don't wonder about the decline of the language. Soon we shall just grunt at each other and Let our Fingers do the Talking.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 3, 2024 12:51:20 GMT
Autocorrect is a bitch to me. I am switching from French to English and Flemish. And if your autocorrect is in French mode and you want write in Flemish you get very strange results. On top of that I don’t pay enough attention to mistyping.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 3, 2024 13:07:18 GMT
When you see the "last edit" time on the bottom right of my posts, it is obviously because I have gone back to correct my numerous mistakes. Thank god it stays just one line no matter how many times you edit because I sometimes have to go back three or four times.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 3, 2024 13:09:28 GMT
Yes, mis TYPING not mis Spelling is your thing Whatagain, but I quickly work out the word and carry on reading....carry on mis-typing dear man!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2024 14:31:25 GMT
When you see the "last edit" time on the bottom right of my posts, it is obviously because I have gone back to correct my numerous mistakes. Thank god it stays just one line no matter how many times you edit because I sometimes have to go back three or four times. Ditto! I don't use auto-correct & don't understand why anyone does. Everyone is always complaining about it, since it seems such an over-eager and inaccurate function. Spell check is less intrusive and quickly alerts one to mis-typing without overriding what was written.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 3, 2024 15:54:03 GMT
Autocorrect - when correctly used - is a lifesaver for people like me. I just can’t type. And I have an ugly handwriting. I was born to talk 🤣🤣🤩
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 3, 2024 18:23:49 GMT
I get very frustrated when autocorrect completely changes a word. My spelling isn't great though and I often type an approximate spelling into google (like Bixa) so that it can say 'do you mean xxx ?' I admit that there has been the odd occasion where even Mr Google doesn't know what I'm trying to say My handwriting is ok...but then I make myself write letters by hand. I love to receive a hand written letter. During the pandemic two of my sisters and I wrote little notes and cards to each other and to some of the youngsters in the family.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 4, 2024 1:40:56 GMT
My handwriting is so horrible even I sometimes have trouble reading it. Of course this is because my very big brain works so fast that mere hands can't keep up with it. Many years ago, long before we had the magic of computers, I started writing all my letters on a typewriter. Some people say this is cold and impersonal, but the reactions from my correspondents were warm and grateful.
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