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Millhouse Sep 25th 2018 2:15 pm

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by TheShed (Post 12567670)
Today!! First day since summer that I drove to work with the top down :-) Start of Autumn.

Do you do this with Dire Straits', Money for nothin' booming out?

Or are you more into really inappropriate grime?

scrubbedexpat141 Sep 25th 2018 3:02 pm

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12567946)
Do you do this with Dire Straits', Money for nothin' booming out?

Or are you more into really inappropriate grime?

I reckon TheShed has got the nuts to play YG's rather explicit song.

TheShed Sep 26th 2018 3:13 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 
Hearts 80s radio all the way. I think Kylie made an appearance � ����

DXBtoDOH Sep 26th 2018 5:53 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 
Completely tone deaf here. Despite being dragged to a million and one concerts by my parents and forced to take piano lessons for a few years, I couldn't tell you a thing about music and only have the vaguest idea who Kylie is. Blond Australian, right? I don't think I ever bought a CD in my life, which is also showing my age because people don't buy them any more, right?

Millhouse Sep 26th 2018 12:18 pm

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH (Post 12568381)
Completely tone deaf here. Despite being dragged to a million and one concerts by my parents and forced to take piano lessons for a few years, I couldn't tell you a thing about music and only have the vaguest idea who Kylie is. Blond Australian, right? I don't think I ever bought a CD in my life, which is also showing my age because people don't buy them any more, right?

I genuinely feel sorry for you - how can someone so young be so disconnected from modern day culture. What happened?

DXBtoDOH Sep 26th 2018 4:25 pm

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12568540)
I genuinely feel sorry for you - how can someone so young be so disconnected from modern day culture. What happened?

Please don't.

Music just isn't my thing.

littlejimmy Sep 26th 2018 7:31 pm

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH (Post 12568680)
Please don't.

Music just isn't my thing.

Do you appreciate any art whatsoever? Are you actually a robot? Don't mean to be rude, just amazed that someone can have no connection with any music at all.

Millhouse Sep 27th 2018 3:48 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 12568768)
Do you appreciate any art whatsoever? Are you actually a robot? Don't mean to be rude, just amazed that someone can have no connection with any music at all.

music aside - general popular culture.

DXBtoDOH Sep 27th 2018 7:23 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 12568768)
Do you appreciate any art whatsoever? Are you actually a robot? Don't mean to be rude, just amazed that someone can have no connection with any music at all.

Of course. I'm an architect.

It doesn't matter whether it's the King's College choir or techno pop or whatever, it's all background noise to me.

DXBtoDOH Sep 27th 2018 7:24 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12568876)


music aside - general popular culture.

You make too many assumptions, Millhouse. I do enjoy the Great British Bake off even if I don't cook. And that's popular culture, isn't it?

littlejimmy Sep 27th 2018 8:13 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH (Post 12568954)
Of course. I'm an architect.

Ah, that explains it... :D
On the first year of my QS degree in Newcastle the course was shared with Architects. There was a guy who loved telling everyone he was an architect. Like every single seminar...hand would go up..."Hi, I'm an Architect".
To be fair, I wish I'd been an architect rather than a QS...

DXBtoDOH Sep 27th 2018 8:28 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 12568970)
Ah, that explains it... :D
On the first year of my QS degree in Newcastle the course was shared with Architects. There was a guy who loved telling everyone he was an architect. Like every single seminar...hand would go up..."Hi, I'm an Architect".
To be fair, I wish I'd been an architect rather than a QS...

Eh. It ain't all cracked up to be.

You probably make more money as a QS.

littlejimmy Sep 27th 2018 8:33 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH (Post 12568976)
Eh. It ain't all cracked up to be.

You probably make more money as a QS.

Money isn't everything.

reddiva Sep 27th 2018 8:49 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by DXBtoDOH (Post 12568956)
You make too many assumptions, Millhouse. I do enjoy the Great British Bake off even if I don't cook. And that's popular culture, isn't it?


Have you been watching the new series?

weasel decentral Sep 27th 2018 8:53 am

Re: Your life as an expat v your previous life
 

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 12568970)
Ah, that explains it... :D
On the first year of my QS degree in Newcastle the course was shared with Architects. There was a guy who loved telling everyone he was an architect. Like every single seminar...hand would go up..."Hi, I'm an Architect".
To be fair, I wish I'd been an architect rather than a QS...

Reminds me of that joke; how do you know if someone has an iPhone?

They tell you.


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