Be the man, dude
Be the man, dude
Aye aye, mate.
No worries, mate.
Well? Did YOU pass?
Who cares what everyone else did? maybe they WERE lazy.
Relax... I'll need some information first. Just the basic facts - can you show me where it hurts?
It really bothers me that my aunt (age 60) and cousins (ages 36, 34, and 32) are using the visits with my grandpa to hit him up for money and lay guilt trips on him. They've always had to have the best of everything...cars, home, clothes. For the longest time they had the funds to support their lifestyles but in the last 2-3 years they've been hit hard (who hasn't)? Anyway, my oldest cousin (who doesn't work, by choice, nor does the 32 year old) was forced to sell her immaculate home and her husband and she cannot afford a home at this point so they and their 2 boys are forced to move in with my aunt and uncle, who live in a very nice large home. Enough room for them to be comfortable. Naturally, they're "poor me's" strike a chord with my grandpa. He worries about his family. Its just so tacky and selfish. Its sickening. Can they let my grandpa have this time with my grandma? He has enough on his plate right now, we don't know how much time my grandma has left or when she won't remember him anymore and they are going to lay this on him? For shame. If I were there I'd literally throw up. Thank god my sister is and has a big, bossy mouth on her.
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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
Does that mean they also failed the course? It's quite odd that so many have failed, usually there is a certain fraction of the class that teachers are allowed to fail (e.g. 30% in my last course) and failures are not allowed to go over that. If too many fail they go by the class averages and raise everyone's marks.
Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
Towards the sun, carry your name
In warm hands you are given
Ask the wind for the way
Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
Accept all as it is and do not blame
God or the Devil
~Born to Live - Mavrik~
Got a 100ish page long reading pack to edit for "text-to-audio" reading for student within just a few days time, and instead of a paper document that I can use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scanner software at uni for they sent me a digital copy which I can't do that with (and double-paged it, so printing it off and then scanning means shit quality and thus tons of mistakes), and expect me to find all of the different documents online and copy-paste instead, and as more than half of them can't be found anywhere I have to rewrite them entirely for it to get done.
Wonderful.
If you say so, Doc. I lived in Oz and heard the word 'mate' used frequently. Noone ever got offended and noone ever responded the way you did. It seems a disproportionate response, to me, over a bagel. Certainly, your response doesn't demonstrate behaviour any more evolved than hers, even assuming you are correct. Two wrongs and all that.
A casual jaunt through the country on a short term visa does hardly qualify one to speak of the nuances of a nation or it's vocabulary.
The only certain aspect in all of this is your underlying femi-nazism making a horse's catooty of itself.
But I forgive you.
For all the gains which feminism has brought, it hasn't been able to cast away the innate predilection of women to mount rickety soapbox and speak out of turn about matters they've no understanding of.
Go in peace, woman.
I believe he was referring to the "North" or "South", "American" aspect relating to "The Americas".
As for Canadian versus US accents, they're often easy to differentiate although there are exceptions to the rule, particularly along US/Canadian border states and territories.
Don't cry, don't regret and don't blame
Weak find the whip, willing find freedom
Towards the sun, carry your name
In warm hands you are given
Ask the wind for the way
Uncertainty's gone, your path will unravel
Accept all as it is and do not blame
God or the Devil
~Born to Live - Mavrik~
Yep. I don't know how they couldn't figure that one out. America is a continent, not a country. An American could be from Peru or Ontario. The same way a European could be from Novgorod or Glasgow.
I was born and raised quite close to the Canadian border. About an hour or two, actually. People sometimes think I am Canadian, because I say things like "Eh" and I have the strange Canadian pronunciations, but I spell everything according to American standards.. like 'realize' instead of 'realise' and 'behavior' instead of 'behaviour'. It's funny because my mother's accent is different.
How do You call a person from United States? American, right? You don't call Canadians Americans. Or Brazilians, or Mexicans...
I wazzzz here