Snow gates in Scotland

It will never come back.

No thanks.

The most popular one, depending on where you plan going, who you plan speaking to, what work you intend to do.

Agreed. When camping, a Dutchman walked past and my friend struck up a conversation with him in Dutch. I never knew my friend could speak Dutch.

Although I didn't understand a word, whereas with French, most of the words are very similar, or the same, like "le weekend" or "le fast food" or "les vacances"

Never tickle a sleeping dragon? I thought "Draco" was one of the characters? Was he called dragon?

American English isn't a language, it's a fuckup.

Lazyness.

Same for me in French at school. I treated that class, along with history, geography, religious education, etc as a waste of f****ng time. I learned more French when I went on holiday there. "Je desirez un.... er.... that" Then they tell me what I'm pointing to. I might have been saying I strongly sexually desire a potato, not I would like to buy, but it worked.

How on earth is it an advantage to be taught in a church?

Vous avez une problem avec votre Renault?

In the first half of the 1980s I was 5-10 years old. At 11 I was (illegally) taught some French in primary school. The teacher thought it would be a good idea. Only one pupil's mother complained, who was told to shut the f*ck up.

When I went to school, "shop" consisted of sawing stuff. When I worked in a school 10 years ago, there was design on computers, but only after I persuaded more cash to be spent on that sort of thing, and after I did an insurance scam on some "broken" computers on a new for old policy.

Why do you have a reply to address? My newsreader seems to ignore it, but I've had one in the past which will attempt to email that address. I found out when someone got very annoyed I was emailing their (genuine) email address "without permission".

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Such a statement blatantly invites the question "How was it illegal?". care to elucidate?

Not allowed to teach French in a primary school. Dunno if it was a law, a rule from the education board, or what.

For the Merkins, the UK only has two schools, Primary (7 years) and Secondary (4 to 6 years).

The typical shop student when I was in high school had problems figuring out those little line between the big numbers on a tape measure. A CAD application would leave them in the dust.

I learned all the French I need from a pop song. 'Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"

Years ago I had a guy that pulled parts from the warehouse. His typical measurement would be 24 inches and three little lines.

Ah, I thought that meant "do you want to f*ck me on the couch". Google says otherwise.

I have asked for a piece of wood 16 inches by 4cm. I use whichever is closest.

The shop teachers where I worked would not tolerate such stupidity. They could yell loud enough to be heard the other end of the building. In fact I think it was a requirement to work there. A woman teacher tried it for 6 months and left.

While I'm not above such mixing and matching, I tend to use the following format (for example), "15 inches, plus a half, plus an eight, plus a sixteenth".

Have you ever asked for a twentyfirsth of an inch? Or is it twentyoneth?

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It's a question I wrestle with ceaselessly every day.