When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
May 12th 2008, 10:19 pm
#1801
'In limboland'
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 13,880
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
Why don't you pop along to the USA forum and read some threads in the Trailer Park in there? I know there are a number of expats who post in there and The Lounge' who live in NY. You might make yourself some new local friends.
May 12th 2008, 10:29 pm
#1802
Á Boa Vida
Joined: Jan 2008
Location: Atop Stormville Mountain USA
Posts: 889
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
Maybe I will........
I just feel funny.... I am not a Brit.... I fit into this forum and specifically into this thread because of the subject matter but I feel out of place elsewhere.
I just feel funny.... I am not a Brit.... I fit into this forum and specifically into this thread because of the subject matter but I feel out of place elsewhere.
May 12th 2008, 10:34 pm
#1803
'In limboland'
Joined: Sep 2006
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Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
May 12th 2008, 10:53 pm
#1804
Á Boa Vida
Joined: Jan 2008
Location: Atop Stormville Mountain USA
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Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
Ok I will think about it......
But I am not really interested in meeting any "Americans"..... I have plenty of those already and frankly most lack the flare Europeans have naturally.
Have you ever seen an "American" eat? God it is so exhausting just to watch it.... I could make a sitcom just from that...
Of course we “Americans” have many faces and many backgrounds and fortunately most “Americans” are not at all like the fools you see on TV….
I am an American a true patriot and devoted to the US… BUT I long for the grounding that we had in Europe, the straight forward way of doing things… the thing… that thing…….. I don’t know what it is…..
Maybe this will explain it….
Last year a tree fell on my property… There was an “American” contractor there and I asked him about removing it and cutting it up…. He explained that he would need to go get his excavator to move the tree away from a stone wall and that he needed a big one and it would take a few weeks before he could get to it…..
After he left a couple of old world Portuguese friends were around…. They looked around… took a chainsaw, cut down a small long tree…. Got a log, used the cut tree as a lever and moved the big tree in a few minutes…..
In less than 1 hour we had it all cut up for firewood.
Simple… just make it happen….
We Americans are so used to our mechanical ways we can’t even think simply anymore.
If that contractor had seen those Portuguese starting to look at the tree he would have laughed at them and said how stupid they were…. After he would still think them stupid for doing by hand what should have taken a machine…. It would never occur to him that maybe ingenuity is worth something.
The way you guys joke here…all the innuendo, all the imagination used… Very European and in particular very British…
In the US if a group tried to joke like that it would not be very long before someone got offended and a fight broke out..
That is what brings me here.
But I am not really interested in meeting any "Americans"..... I have plenty of those already and frankly most lack the flare Europeans have naturally.
Have you ever seen an "American" eat? God it is so exhausting just to watch it.... I could make a sitcom just from that...
Of course we “Americans” have many faces and many backgrounds and fortunately most “Americans” are not at all like the fools you see on TV….
I am an American a true patriot and devoted to the US… BUT I long for the grounding that we had in Europe, the straight forward way of doing things… the thing… that thing…….. I don’t know what it is…..
Maybe this will explain it….
Last year a tree fell on my property… There was an “American” contractor there and I asked him about removing it and cutting it up…. He explained that he would need to go get his excavator to move the tree away from a stone wall and that he needed a big one and it would take a few weeks before he could get to it…..
After he left a couple of old world Portuguese friends were around…. They looked around… took a chainsaw, cut down a small long tree…. Got a log, used the cut tree as a lever and moved the big tree in a few minutes…..
In less than 1 hour we had it all cut up for firewood.
Simple… just make it happen….
We Americans are so used to our mechanical ways we can’t even think simply anymore.
If that contractor had seen those Portuguese starting to look at the tree he would have laughed at them and said how stupid they were…. After he would still think them stupid for doing by hand what should have taken a machine…. It would never occur to him that maybe ingenuity is worth something.
The way you guys joke here…all the innuendo, all the imagination used… Very European and in particular very British…
In the US if a group tried to joke like that it would not be very long before someone got offended and a fight broke out..
That is what brings me here.
May 12th 2008, 11:00 pm
#1805
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Joined: May 2006
Posts: 1,806
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
Ok I will think about it......
But I am not really interested in meeting any "Americans"..... I have plenty of those already and frankly most lack the flare Europeans have naturally.
Have you ever seen an "American" eat? God it is so exhausting just to watch it.... I could make a sitcom just from that...
Of course we “Americans” have many faces and many backgrounds and fortunately most “Americans” are not at all like the fools you see on TV….
I am an American a true patriot and devoted to the US… BUT I long for the grounding that we had in Europe, the straight forward way of doing things… the thing… that thing…….. I don’t know what it is…..
Maybe this will explain it….
Last year a tree fell on my property… There was an “American” contractor there and I asked him about removing it and cutting it up…. He explained that he would need to go get his excavator to move the tree away from a stone wall and that he needed a big one and it would take a few weeks before he could get to it…..
After he left a couple of old world Portuguese friends were around…. They looked around… took a chainsaw, cut down a small long tree…. Got a log, used the cut tree as a lever and moved the big tree in a few minutes…..
In less than 1 hour we had it all cut up for firewood.
Simple… just make it happen….
We Americans are so used to our mechanical ways we can’t even think simply anymore.
If that contractor had seen those Portuguese starting to look at the tree he would have laughed at them and said how stupid they were…. After he would still think them stupid for doing by hand what should have taken a machine…. It would never occur to him that maybe ingenuity is worth something.
The way you guys joke here…all the innuendo, all the imagination used… Very European and in particular very British…
In the US if a group tried to joke like that it would not be very long before someone got offended and a fight broke out..
That is what brings me here.
But I am not really interested in meeting any "Americans"..... I have plenty of those already and frankly most lack the flare Europeans have naturally.
Have you ever seen an "American" eat? God it is so exhausting just to watch it.... I could make a sitcom just from that...
Of course we “Americans” have many faces and many backgrounds and fortunately most “Americans” are not at all like the fools you see on TV….
I am an American a true patriot and devoted to the US… BUT I long for the grounding that we had in Europe, the straight forward way of doing things… the thing… that thing…….. I don’t know what it is…..
Maybe this will explain it….
Last year a tree fell on my property… There was an “American” contractor there and I asked him about removing it and cutting it up…. He explained that he would need to go get his excavator to move the tree away from a stone wall and that he needed a big one and it would take a few weeks before he could get to it…..
After he left a couple of old world Portuguese friends were around…. They looked around… took a chainsaw, cut down a small long tree…. Got a log, used the cut tree as a lever and moved the big tree in a few minutes…..
In less than 1 hour we had it all cut up for firewood.
Simple… just make it happen….
We Americans are so used to our mechanical ways we can’t even think simply anymore.
If that contractor had seen those Portuguese starting to look at the tree he would have laughed at them and said how stupid they were…. After he would still think them stupid for doing by hand what should have taken a machine…. It would never occur to him that maybe ingenuity is worth something.
The way you guys joke here…all the innuendo, all the imagination used… Very European and in particular very British…
In the US if a group tried to joke like that it would not be very long before someone got offended and a fight broke out..
That is what brings me here.
"Necessity is the mother of invention" springs to mind regarding the tree scenario.
When you dont have pots of money, you have to find a way.
May 12th 2008, 11:10 pm
#1806
C'est la vie
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Tavira
Posts: 3,703
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
What the 'eck is going on
. Yesterday in Liverpool sunny and 24 degrees - I get off the plane here this morning and it's hissing it down
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And here was me thinking how great it was that I wouldn't have to go back to UK in the foreseeable future.
. Yesterday in Liverpool sunny and 24 degrees - I get off the plane here this morning and it's hissing it down. And here was me thinking how great it was that I wouldn't have to go back to UK in the foreseeable future.
May 12th 2008, 11:16 pm
#1807
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 24,043
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
You have been well out of it trog.
The last 2 weeks have been PANTS as Gazz would say.
The last 2 weeks have been PANTS as Gazz would say.
May 12th 2008, 11:25 pm
#1809
C'est la vie
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Tavira
Posts: 3,703
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
Hey, just looked out of the window and it has stopped raining and the sun is trying its bestest to break through.
But the forecast for the rest of the week doesn't look too great does it?
. But the forecast for the rest of the week doesn't look too great does it?
May 12th 2008, 11:33 pm
#1810
eheheheeeeeeeeeer!
Joined: Oct 2006
Location: Lagos. PT.
Posts: 13,867
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
well i,m glad you,re all using my pants
yes totally giant haystacks sized pants indeed!
yes totally giant haystacks sized pants indeed!
May 12th 2008, 11:45 pm
#1812
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Location: Lagos. PT.
Posts: 13,867
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
, seriously , things are really dyer here at the mo, good job this isn,t my only source of income or my kids would be trailing the dumps for food, god knows how people are surviving if this is their only income 
May 12th 2008, 11:49 pm
#1813
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Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
even they aren,t buying at the mo, downturn in the amount of drunken expats to rob so tent sales are way down, seriously , things are really dyer here at the mo, good job this isn,t my only source of income or my kids would be trailing the dumps for food, god knows how people are surviving if this is their only income
, seriously , things are really dyer here at the mo, good job this isn,t my only source of income or my kids would be trailing the dumps for food, god knows how people are surviving if this is their only income But we must persevere.
May 12th 2008, 11:51 pm
#1814
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May 13th 2008, 12:47 am
#1815
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 24,043
Re: When Nomad met Cleri...WTMTP part 2
Ive still got a headache 
Note to self,do not drink with Port mates all night
Note to self,do not drink with Port mates all night
