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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2024 8:41:17 GMT
Of course there is also the very nice word inébranlable (unshakable).
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 17, 2024 14:01:50 GMT
And the French branle bas de combat means to lower stuff like hammocks to allow easy way in order to fight. And I thought it was something saucy to do with stockings.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2024 15:02:04 GMT
The idiomatic translation would be "All hands on deck!"
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2024 16:31:42 GMT
The Donald's first wife Ivana is buried on one of this golf courses. And it is a tax break for him.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 23, 2024 13:51:43 GMT
It doesn't surprise me about Donald Trump but I can't see her grave being left undisturbed. There are so many weird sick people out there who could creep out of those bushes and start digging just to get the gold....from the coffin. Didn't I hear the reporter saying she was laid to rest in a gold coffin? Couldn't be solid gold as those pallbearers would never have been able to lift that huge box.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 24, 2024 9:50:15 GMT
I am gaining weight while sleeping. I checked my weight before going to be and upon waking up I was one kgm heavier. Strange.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 24, 2024 10:32:47 GMT
Perhaps you ate your wife in your sleep. Check her arms and legs.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 24, 2024 10:58:48 GMT
I dreamt last night I was eating a great big marshmallow. Woke up this morning and my pillow was gone.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 24, 2024 12:25:31 GMT
Perhaps you ate your wife in your sleep. Check her arms and legs. Roflol. But no she didn’t lose weight either !
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Post by tod2 on Aug 25, 2024 16:04:44 GMT
I am gaining weight while sleeping. I was interested in your statement Whatagain because three days ago I watched Dr.William Li tell us that the minute you stop eating for the night and go to bed for 8 hours sleep, your body goes into what he described as "Ferrari" mode. It starts burning fat and will continue to do so even if you wake in the morning but do not eat anything for at least an hour before breakfast. Then the Ferrari goes back in the garage.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 25, 2024 17:31:05 GMT
I'm obviously not sleeping enough.....
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2024 14:20:07 GMT
I should title this post as something I "learned" today, as I don't feel it's a fact.
Russell Shaw, the head of Georgetown Day School, an elite private school in Washington, D.C., recently wrote an article for The Atlantic explaining why he was banning cellphones in all grades. Shaw described the ways that constant phone use had harmed social life and learning during his 14 years at the school. Yet he began the article with a historical anecdote on a different subject: When his parents attended high school in the 1960s, they received free samples of cigarettes on their cafeteria trays. [source: NYTimes The Morning newsletter]
I graduated from high school in 1966 and never witnessed such a thing nor have I ever known anyone who mentioned it happening. If smoking was tolerated at all on the school grounds, it would have been at the "smoking tree" or some such place where students (student boys) sneaked off to. I never knew any girls who were allowed by their parents to smoke at that age, nor anyone bold enough to light up in the restroom.
I realize my evidence against this cigarettes-with-school-lunch "fact" is anecdotal, but I honestly believe that if it really happened, it would have been shocking enough to high school students of my era that we would have remembered it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 6, 2024 14:39:26 GMT
As of Monday (first day of school in France), 100 middle schools banned mobile phones. They must be stored in a locked box and are returned at the end of the day. If this test proves to be effective, it will be extended to the entire school system in January 2025.
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Post by bjd on Sept 6, 2024 15:00:04 GMT
We weren't allowed to smoke "within sight of the school" when I was in high school in the 1960s. So the smokers would leave school and turn their backs on the place before lighting up. I have never heard of anything like cigarettes with lunch either.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 6, 2024 16:02:47 GMT
The boys' restroom was always a notorious smoking zone. There were always look-outs posted in front so that there would be a warning before any staff came close. Even if they entered the smoke filled room, the staff were never able to catch anyone with a cigarette.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 6, 2024 16:51:54 GMT
We had a Youth Club on the outskirts of the school grounds in the 70s and we could join once we were 14 if we had a letter from our parents and the Head of Year approved. As well as being open every weekday evening the doors were open at lunchtime.
The Youth Club Building had lovely girls rest rooms with mirrors and a carpet in the vanity area away from the loos...and most of my friends smoked. They would go in there at lunchtime and light up and even though I didn't smoke I was always caught with them and punished. All my mates would say 'Liz doesn't smoke' but I was still chucked out of the Youth Club with them. The price I paid for hanging out with the cool kids.
Most of the smokers left school at 16 so my final two years in the school were smoke free, although by then I was WAY too cool myself to go into the Youth Club at all...
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Post by whatagain on Sept 6, 2024 17:21:50 GMT
About one third of Marie’s schoolmates smoke. And she is 14. Seems most smoke e-cigs. Which are probably worse than real ones.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 8, 2024 18:48:03 GMT
We had to go outside to an unofficial smoking area in high school. It was about equal parts smoking tobacco and cannabis since it was the seventies and roughly half the school were stoners.
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