Good news!

[longnine009]

Those so-called high food and gas prices you thought you were seeing were really  optical illusions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/bs_nm/markets_stocks_dc;_ylt=AuIqXY58C.3BVodkDj8zcrCyBhIF

[CoinCrusader42]

I thought the same thing when I heard the news on the radio this evening.

Yep, economically things are going just great!!

 

[scottishmoney]

I googled it on the internets, and   says it ain't so, so there.

[Paint Your Wagon]

The good news is we are having a great time because we do not realise what is coming
Gasoline jumped 20 dolar cent a gallon yesterday to 9.7 dollar a gallon for 98 octane

Also investor sites mention most banks are lying about LIBOR to please the Mericans and each other ( England).
No problem they will only receive a mild wristslap if even that .

In the meantime tigergambas and asperagus are the cheapest they ever were . So I am going to switch to a diet of lobster and gambas and asperagus cause that is at historically low prices  I will leave the rice for the hungry people

[scottishmoney]

I am having asparagus for din din tonacht, with hollandaise sauce.

[Paint Your Wagon]

I am having asparagus for din din tonacht, with hollandaise sauce.

I allways have it with hollandaise with parsly hacked very fine and the yolk of an egg in the hollandaise
Every sunday till the season is finished ( 3.5 euro a pound for first quality is dirtcheap)

The classical recipee in a restaurant is to pour melted butter over it and hacked hardboiled eggs

I once saw them eat asperagus in Basel Switzerland they are incredible barbarians
They ate the asparagus by hand , chewing up and eating the top half and throwing the lower half on the plate to be taken away

[scottishmoney]

Only the Belgians know also how a mange pomme de terre tambien.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Only the Belgians know also how a mange pomme de terre tambien.

I had to read that twice because you do not have a French keyboard
à mangé  ( a without the accent is a verb avoir , and mange without the accent is a kind of pudding instead of a verb )
The french have virtually in every sentence accents above or below the lettres
I have them in option using shift since I have a Flemish AZERTY keyboard
The rest of the world uses QWERTY 

[scottishmoney]

¡I only use other characters when typing in Español, porque yo quiero a, y yo se a en la lingua, pero no quiero en la francia.

[scottishmoney]

¡En otros palabras, en la francia, nunca!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Es tanto importanto que debe hacerlo amigo .
No puedo comprender sin los é è à ç 

[scottishmoney]

Which is why I dropped the bomb in 7th level French.  I didn't even want to learn that language, and didn't learn some until college.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Which is why I dropped the bomb in 7th level French.  I didn't even want to learn that language, and didn't learn some until college.

School forced french down my throat for 9 years and in those days I could write it without mistakes. Now I don't care anymore about reflective verbs endings
Se lever ( get out of bed)
Se laver ( get washed)
S'habiller ( get dressed)
Manger ( eating is the first non reflective activity of the day lol 

I worked two days this week for pocket money with a Walloon but in a Flanders oil tank park .
He was amazed at the amount of intimate swearing I was capable of .
I told him my mother did all her studies in occupied germany in french of course ( no french no studies) And kids and young adults do a lot of
learning swearing

[scottishmoney]

P-O-W, nobody knows how to really swear unless you speak Russian.  I know of no other language on earth that has many varied forms of the F-word and the S-word etc.  And words mystically change meaning depending on how you tone them.  Russian surely is not a "pretty" romance language like French, but damn it, when you want to say something blunt, it is a great language. 

And yes, I am pissed off that the farking government lied again.  Crikes, they lied about Monica, WMD, and my flipping tax rebate.  Stupid turkeys oughtta fry for it.

[longnine009]

I saw people eating pizza in Italy with a knife and fork? 

[Paint Your Wagon]

I saw people eating pizza in Italy with a knife and fork? 

Fingers are used to give another driver the middle finger or to make an O between first finger and thumb
Contrary to american sign language that is not the all OK sign but a lot more physical

[TwoShadows]

Gosh, I guess the best thing I can do while traveling is keep my hands in my pockets?

While I don't use a knife I do manage a fork rather well with pizza! I don't like handling hot pizza and I sure don't care for messy fingers which also brings up a problem when eating fried chicken, especially those pesky little hot wings!

[scottishmoney]

I know in E. Europe waving in American style with your palm out is very very rude.  Because my family is part E. European, we, especially I, wave with palm facing towards ourselves.  Some people in America think it is just an Italian thing

[TwoShadows]

A few years back we had a lady from Great Britain spend a month with us and she was amazed at our "waving" traits. She just didn't not understand why total strangers would wave as they passed you in their truck or car along a rural road. Before she left for home she was waving at everyone she passed and she boarded her plane with a cowboy hat sitting proudly on her head! Also got her absolutely hooked on sweet corn which she claimed she had NEVER seen in Europe!

[Paint Your Wagon]

I know in E. Europe waving in American style with your palm out is very very rude.  Because my family is part E. European, we, especially I, wave with palm facing towards ourselves.  Some people in America think it is just an Italian thing

In western europe only the pope and the king waves with the back of the hand out . It is pompous if you do it to a "normal" person

On the other hand putting the palm of your hand on your forehead means What was I doing or Jesus that guy is an idiot
Putting the palm of your hand on your head means idiot
Horizontally moving the palm of your hand over your forehead means symbolically wiping of sweat like in a that was close gesture
Putting the fist finger against the side of your head and ticking it or waving the finger in a circle means you guy are a triple idiot
And then of course there is the ultimate insult putting the thumb of both hands between the second and third finger and showing it at waist height
Very rude also is putting the right first finger into a closed left hand and moving it

[longnine009]

A few years back we had a lady from Great Britain spend a month with us and she was amazed at our "waving" traits. She just didn't not understand why total strangers would wave as they passed you in their truck or car along a rural road. Before she left for home she was waving at everyone she passed and she boarded her plane with a cowboy hat sitting proudly on her head! Also got her absolutely hooked on sweet corn which she claimed she had NEVER seen in Europe!

I can't find the picture anywhere, but wasn't there a famous picture of Khrushchev somewhere in America eating corn of the cob and wearing a straw hat and a big grin? I seem to recall he was pretty fond of Jackie Kennedy as well.

[scottishmoney]

Waving to anybody is more a fact of life in more rural areas, I noticed it a lot in Texas, people are just plain more friendly.  Texas is a pretty friendly place period.  I have never lived anywhere else where they wanted you to be just another one of them.

[CoinCrusader42]

During the years my brother was a teacher and coach in Nebraska, we made many trips to visit him.

In Nebraska, everybody seemed to wave.  From cars, porches, walking down the sidewalks.

Extremely friendly people.

 

[scottishmoney]

During the years my brother was a teacher and coach in Nebraska, we made many trips to visit him.

In Nebraska, everybody seemed to wave.  From cars, porches, walking down the sidewalks.

Extremely friendly people.

I remember driving through Nebraska a couple of years back, on my way back home to MI from California.  I noticed everywhere we stopped that people were very friendly, and quick to strike up a conversation.  I remember talking to a guy in a gas station, he was complaining about the high price of gas, but on my whole drive across the country, Nebraska definitely had the lowest prices.  California was like a $1 higher than NE back then.