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Antje77 said:
I just found my great-grandmother on youtube! She was born in 1999 (edit: that should've read 1899 of course!) and died in 1984, and I loved her a lot although I was only around 7 when she passed away. She's the friendly old lady at 0:14 in the video :)

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Cool! :) Is she the attractive woman in the hat? The playback paused itself the moment she appeared onscreen.
 
porl69 said:
Now that looks like a lot of posts on Fakebook! :hilarious::hilarious:
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Oddly, my wife & I message eachother on FB like modern day teenagers for a laugh..

HI, watcha doin? Nuffin.. Watcha doin." Nuffin. Which a wanna do? PS2 Netflix & nuffin.... Do U wanna do nuffin wiv me?

It's amazing how they manage with the ability they have to procreate.. ;)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Ooooooo definitely not! No comma.
We tend to abbreviate it to "He'd had that book before" , which is the more common usage, and is the same as "he had had that book before" but far more common.
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I certainly agree. Just trying to help put a breath pause into the "had had" when used as a colloquialism regarding the spoken word regarding English as a second laguage? :)

I feel there will be a melting pot of foreign nationals use of & understanding of English in the future. Along with text talk & the sort of stuff you hear on "Urban grime" records? English is "evolving.." Virtually to the pont no one understands what's being used on the street now.. Though they gotta look cool so they nod to anything as the common laguage goes on a "detour."

A few years back I used to listen the Tim Westwood show on the radio on the way back from gigs.
He's the "big dog" don't you know.. (Or so they say.)
People used to phone in and talk like Stanly Unwin.
The "Big Dog" was stumped & replied in good faith with the generic "street" vernacular. :banghead: Lol, the listeners could have been phoning in to give him abuse for all he knew.. :p
 
Antje77 said:
I just found my great-grandmother on youtube! She was born in 1999 (edit: that should've read 1899 of course!) and died in 1984, and I loved her a lot although I was only around 7 when she passed away. She's the friendly old lady at 0:14 in the video :)

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Hi,

My Dutch is dodgy, despite touring the region with a metal band for 16 years. Pro choice abortion rally in Amsterdam? Was this a protest regarding a change or review in the law back them?
 
I believe in the Netherlands abortion was illegal unless done to save the mothers life, it was partially legalized in in 1981 and then fully legalized in about 1984. So I think the rally was about changing the law rather than reviewing.
 
Jaylee said:
Hi,

My Dutch is dodgy, despite touring the region with a metal band for 16 years. Pro choice abortion rally in Amsterdam? Was this a protest regarding a change or review in the law back them?
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Yes, pro choice rally with the message abortion shouldn't be punishable by law any longer.
I didn't know the exact dates things changed (after all, I'm from '77 so I only have vague recollections of the pro choice and anti nucleair weapons rallies in the early 80's) but @JohnEGreen seems to have done his homework :)
 
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Antje77 said:
Yes, pro choice rally with the message abortion souldn't be punishable by law any longer.
I didn't know the exact dates things changed (after all, I'm from '77 so I only have vague recollections of the pro choice and anti nucleair weapons rallies in the early 80's) but @JohnEGreen seems to have done his homework :)
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My wife was doing Greenham common back in the early 80s.

That was a little before my time too. In the sense I was still at school. ;)
 
Jaylee said:
My wife was doing Greenham common back in the early 80s.

That was a little before my time too. In the sense I was still at school. ;)
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Haha, my parents met during a marathon protest against the Americans in Vietnam. The idea was to have people walking in front of the American consulate in Amsterdam with a big cross 24/7 for months. In winter. So my father lived in a Volkswagen van to do the walking when no-one else came.

Not my father in this picture but 3 politicians who took up the demonstrating for a couple of hours in the winter of '67.

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No work for me today, not very well. Not sure what’s wrong really but my blood sugars are definitely taking a hit :(
 
Thought I would share a poem that Ade affixed to a birthday card for me.

The Sycamore - Wendell Berry
Who was the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
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In the place that is my own place, whose earth
I am shaped in and must bear, there is an old tree growing,
a great sycamore that is a wondrous healer of itself.
Fences have been tied to it, nails driven into it,
hacks and whittles cut in it, the lightning has burned it.
There is no year it has flourished in
that has not harmed it. There is a hollow in it
that is its death, though its living brims whitely
at the lip of the darkness and flows outward.
Over all its scars has come the seamless white
of the bark. It bears the gnarls of its history
healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection
in the warp and bending of its long growth.
It has gathered all accidents into its purpose.
It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.
It is a fact, sublime, mystical and unassailable.
In all the country there is no other like it.
I recognize in it a principle, an indwelling
the same as itself, and greater, that I would be ruled by.
I see that it stands in its place and feeds upon it,
and is fed upon, and is native, and maker.
 
I haven't had a bath since our boiler died so no one want's to get near me anyway;)

I was thinking of getting Judith to ask her auntie if we could stay with her in Calgary plenty of open space around there I believe.
 
JohnEGreen said:
I haven't had a bath since our boiler died so no one want's to get near me anyway;)

I was thinking of getting Judith to ask her auntie if we could stay with her in Calgary plenty of open space around there I believe.
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We are all shut down here. Only Canadian citizens and permanent residents are being allowed in the country. Only Four airports are nationally remain open after Sunday.
All Canadians abroad are being advised to come home.
All schools and events have been cancelled. Most offices are closed and employees are working from home were they can.
Thank goodness this isn’t in the dead of winter with -20C temperatures and we can still go out for walks.
 
JohnEGreen said:
I haven't had a bath since our boiler died so no one want's to get near me anyway;)

I was thinking of getting Judith to ask her auntie if we could stay with her in Calgary plenty of open space around there I believe.
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Excellent idea!
I will meet y'all there. :D
 
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