| J2 15:08 - Nov 3 with 2014 views | footers |
I see a thread where we reached an entente has now been deleted for some reason.
Just to reiterate this very important news, even me and J2 are now back on the same page in being neither overly critical nor overly supportive at this stage. We became friends in rational thinking about this season.
Surely this is a lesson the whole forum could take on board? When even cats and dogs agree, that must be a positive.
Or maybe that't the coffee and Danish pastry talking.
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| J2 on 18:15 - Nov 3 with 270 views | factual_blue |
| J2 on 18:13 - Nov 3 by Keno |
When does MacDonalds rank?
I'm asking for a friend obviously |
Surely you meant 'how rank is MacDonalds'? |  |
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| J2 on 18:16 - Nov 3 with 268 views | factual_blue |
| J2 on 18:09 - Nov 3 by footers |
French, of course, being the preferred language of Russian aristocrats pre-Marxist bastards.
In fact, there's an interesting thing to note if you're ever in Russia and want to see how posh a shop/restaurant is. In descending order:
- French name, Roman alphabet
- French name, Cyrillic
- English name, Roman alphabet
- English name, Cyrillic
- Russian name, Roman alphabet
- Russian name, Cyrillic
And while I'm on a specialist subject, Stalin attempted to force linguists of the day to attempt to reduce Russian to the roots of 'work' and 'hand'. This being impossible, of course, many hundreds of them ended up going missing somewhere in Siberia. All touched upon in Solzhenitsyn's excellent First Circle, of course. As was rudimentary voice-recognition technology used for wiretapping, which we (and by that I mean some people) pay top dollar to install in our own homes now to feed data to US tech companies.
Not even Orwell was that cynical.
I'm off for a beer. [Post edited 3 Nov 2021 18:10]
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| J2 on 18:16 - Nov 3 with 265 views | footers |
| J2 on 18:13 - Nov 3 by Keno |
When does MacDonalds rank?
I'm asking for a friend obviously |
Quite highly, actually!
And for some extremely strange reason, the French have an odd fascination with it, despite living in a gastronomic paradise. It must be like being a Nodge fan who lives in Suffolk! | |
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