FinanceDude
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PS. I hope Alan doesn´t take offence.
He's a Brit, they are trained at birth to keep a stiff upper lip..........
PS. I hope Alan doesn´t take offence.
vicente solano said:Thankfully for you, we are not alike: I envy your many interests, not the least among them, cycling and playing gigs with friends.....!
I hope you are right as I plan to enter the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency Exams. I prepared for them for several months, a few years ago, but i gave it up. Too tough, academic and the didactic material was too dry, for my taste. I am too addicted to your current popular crime fiction writers and that American English doesn´t seem to count a lot to the British English examiners! They don´t know what they are missing
As long as you spell like that you will do well with Cambridge and probably with Alan as well.PS. I hope Alan doesn´t take offence.
. I am too addicted to your current popular crime fiction writers and that American English doesn´t seem to count a lot to the British English examiners! .
Oh, what an excuse. Just read some books by Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, or other excellent British authors of crime novels. Read some Sherlock Holmes stories and you'll not only start talking like a Brit, you'll talk like a Victorian Brit
Amethyst
I will send you an application.If you think you are a big bore, maybe you can have a post retirement career in the oil & gas industry
I sometimes typo it. Or is it frequently? Who knows-nobody corrects me
This usually responds to a little drinking. There are 3 resons for drinking.(A 4th, taste, is often suggested, but is completely bogus.) Number one is to make sex more palatable, either to yourself or to your partner. #2 is to decrease discomfort in social situations such as you describe above. #3 is to get blotto to temporarily wipe away cares and anxieties. This last one is the only one that is likely to get out of hand.
So buy a nice silver flask, and off to the party you go!
Ha
No, actually if someone isn't into jazz, surfing or biking, I think they'd find me pretty boring. Online, I'm less boring.
Sometimes boring is good. It means being content with yourself, not having to please others. Being content for a long time beats being euphoric once-in-a-while. After reading the posts, you certainly are not boring to your peers here !
Rich, LCSW