Ben

"Normal" here means spending money on Black Friday and the run-up to Christmas - i.e. people being good consumers in a capitalist society.

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"Young girl, get out of my life"

"Hello, little schoolgirl"
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and many, many more.
It's sickening stuff.

YouTube video by Elvis Presley & Pedro Infante Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (1970 That’s The Way It Is) [1080p]

My favourite song from that great documentary, oddly, is Love Me Tender. Such great stage presence, totally in control of the room, slim and fit - Elvis was never better than this

I've been procrastinating for ages about leaving dodgy Spotify, but your move to Tidal may give me the kick up the bum I need to go through with it!

They should have done much more in that vein - that odd mix of psychedelia, funk and mid-century European orchestration really works for me

They've got their fortunes stashed away in trusts and offshore accounts anyway. Let 'em go.

The headline doesn't say that millions would have to pay that particular amount, only that they would be "hammered", whatever that means.

Yes, same old story: how often have I been faced down by some brash young 🇩🇪 giving it the "I've done a 6-week intensive English course in Brighton, and that puts me on a level footing with your language skills". Drives ya crazy!

Absolutely. It really gets my goat that non natives blithely claim to be fluent "in Wort und Schrift" in my native tongue, whereas I continue to regard my efforts to improve my German as a 40+ year-long lifelong project.

Frage mich sowieso immer, warum die NZZ so eine Besessenheit mit 🇩🇪 hat - gibt's in der Schweiz nicht genug Nachrichten oder was?

Rochester and Canterbury, too. I'll stop wittering on now!

Lincoln (an obvious recommendation) is also great, but some way off the motorway.

There's not much *there* - just a lovely relaxing place to stretch your legs/eat your butties by the river for an hour or so before moving on.

YHA Lee Valley in Cheshunt is also a firm favourite. Just off the M25. Waltham Abbey is very nice, and the whole River Lee Country Park is always lovely.

Just off the A1, very charming ye olde England. Stopped off there for a break en route from Lincoln to London last year. maps.app.goo.gl/RdWmJp4ZDeqE...

From Windsor to Sandringham, no less, paid for "privately" by Charles.

The media love shit like this - a "new Greta" on the block, a new angle to the story! - that they'll lap it up. Without realising that they're being played. Pathetic and depressing.

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#Jobs #Übersetzer #Translator #xl8

S1/S2 - eine Dauerkatastrophe 👎

Möchte nicht pedantisch daherkommen, aber es kommt doch auf die genaue Definition von Migrationshintergrund an, oder? Haben Menschen, die optisch und kulturell als Deutsche durchgehen würden, und daher keinen rassistischen Vorurteilen ausgesetzt sind, denn keinen Migrationshintergrund?

The name Fazakerley was created to be said in a heavy scouse accent - love it!

YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO "Weird Al" Yankovic - Craigslist (Official 4K Video)

Are you Jim Morrison aka Weird Al Yankovic in disguise (listen to the middle eight section) 😊

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Considering that 1. Reform started from zero and 2. Farage and co are mostly a bunch of posh English toffs who don't give a toss about Wales and the Welsh, I'd personally say it is a strong second place.

Just a perfect blend of a playground singalong melody and bits of heaviness for the adults. Love it!

Losverfahren, wer Vermögenssteuer zahlen muss

Reminds me of the expression I heard in the Köln/Düsseldorf area: "ich gehe nach Aldi"

Also good advice in general for translators when editing texts that:

➡️ non-native speakers write directly in your language
➡️ they machine-translate and send to you for human post-editing

#MTPE #xl8 #Lektorat

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True, but surely not worth the price of employing dozens of people in every single town or district to administer the system, plus all those "plates printing" places?

Sorry, I realise I'm starting to sound like a Tory, plus I'm digressing from your very valid point about GPs.