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linguoboy wrote:IpseDixit wrote:Why was "partner" needed in the first place? Is boyfriend / girlfriend not appropriate after a certain age?
In addition to what Johanna said, I found it very odd to refer to men who were literally twice my age as my "boyfriends"--so much so that, for my second partner, I began using the term "gentleman friend".
Aurinĭa wrote:Then why didn't you specify? If you're only talking about a particular subset of people to whom something could apply, it doesn't make sense not to specify. If you don't, you make it seem like that particular subset isn't a subset, but the whole set.
vijayjohn wrote:You know, not everything on the Internet is going to be written exactly the way you want it to be.
vijayjohn wrote:You know, not everything on the Internet is going to be written exactly the way you want it to be.
IpseDixit wrote:I think it's because of this thing called "making mistakes". Not sure though.
Antea wrote:Are you celebrating in your country today, St. Patrick’s day? In Barcelona, you just can celebrate by going to Irish pubs, but there’s no big parades or anything else that I know. Is it a big celebration in your country? What do you usually do?
Antea wrote:Are you celebrating in your country today, St. Patrick’s day? In Barcelona, you just can celebrate by going to Irish pubs, but there’s no big parades or anything else that I know. Is it a big celebration in your country? What do you usually do?
vijayjohn wrote:This picture appears on the (English) Wikipedia article for the Russian Empire with the caption "Young Russian peasant women in front of traditional wooden house (ca. 1909 to 1915) taken by Prokudin-Gorskii and hand -coloured (sic)":
Can anyone tell what the three women in the picture are carrying in their hands and why? They look like plates of some kind of berries. Was this a common custom in Russia at some time in its history? Is it still today?
Here's a bigger version of that picture if it helps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_E ... kii-08.jpg
TheStrayCat wrote:Antea wrote:Are you celebrating in your country today, St. Patrick’s day? In Barcelona, you just can celebrate by going to Irish pubs, but there’s no big parades or anything else that I know. Is it a big celebration in your country? What do you usually do?
It is a big day in Chicago, which historically had and still has a large Irish population. Every year the Chicago river in downtown is dyed green, which attracts thousands of people, and various Irish-style souvenirs are for sale in supermarkets all over the area. Going to pubs is pretty common too, last year I went to one with some friends and we had to stand in a long line.
linguoboy wrote:the Green Vomit Zone
linguoboy wrote:Mostly, though, I'm content to stay at home, read some Irish prose, listen to Irish songs, and make colcannon. I've never really cared for corned beef and cabbage (I really wish Americans would go back to making it with backbacon, like the Irish do) though I give props to my neighbours for making a good version of it this year and inviting me over. (Really, it was only the corned beef that was good; the cabbage was as limp and nasty as ever.)
Antea wrote:I am curious about “Colcannon”. I would like to try it, but I was looking the menus of some Irish pubs here, and I don’t find this plate. They have mainly burgers and nachos I will look for it in some others 👀
Antea wrote:Maybe I could try to do it at home. I found this recipe of a Catalan program
https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/cuines/recepta/bacon-and-colcannon-bagun-agus-cal-ceannan-pernil-al-forn-amb-pure-de-col-i-patata-irlanda/15744/
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