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Ooh, very nice.

I just read the online obituary for a friend's mother in the Shreveport Times. At the bottom of it, I was offered three options:

Close
Send Flowers
Send Comfort Food

I think my stony Yankee heart may have melted just a little bit.

When my dad died there was a group in town that would send me and my mom dinners every night for a few weeks. It was pretty cool.

(I live in Connecticut)

Probably more urban than anything, as my hometown is firmly upper middle class (median household income is 6 figures, for example).

Since last night, I have relearned all the hiragana to the point that I can essentially read and write them fluently, almost all the katakana, and a handful of kanji. I'm a bit alarmed by how fast I'm going, but it's probably mostly a function of having learned them a few years ago (and subsequently forgotten everything).

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Electric is back!

Just to say, the crisis is still going quite strong, enough for someone to come and steel the transformer... again.

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It was about time I changed this.

my iberian relatives told stories about how rumanians stole power wires, leaving entire pueblos in the dark, to sell the copper.
España va bien!

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romanians

putos rumanos xD

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If I stop posting out of the blue it probably is because my computer and the board won't cooperate and let me log in.!

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rumaneses, believe it or not

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And not rumanos? Never heard my girlfriend saying rumaneses.

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well, the same person said "chequia" when referring to the czech republic soooo yeah

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I am now on HRT. Woo!

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The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.

If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.

The Planet Construction Kit found. Someone else had it all along.

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Oooh, congratulations Nesescosac!

You know Czechia is its name, right? And the Czech Republic is just the long name, i.e. the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Chile?

New washing machine in place and working well. I mostly pleased, apart from when they tried to sneak some insurance we didn't want into the deal. I spotted the move though, and resisted it successfully.

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What do you see in the night?

In search of subjects to appear on banknotes. Inquire within.

Yeah I know, I'm just saying it's not incorrect to call it Czechia. Like it's not incorrect to call Wales Cymru in English but who does that because normal people use Wales instead.


Just like how normal people say 'left groin'. >:|