That's not that bad. I went for a minimum of 20 euros/hour but it was for high
school students who wanted to get into good unis (maths, physics, chem) or rare
languages (Russian, Ukrainian). I suppose I could have gotten more if I hadn't
gone through an agency but hey, it provided me extra money and it wasn't that
much work.
My school goes by many names (done in a Might Boosh voice). It is officially the
ISMEP - Institut Superieur de Mecanique de Paris. It also known as SupMeca and
we still call it by its old name CESTI.
Just thinking about those names makes me feel nostalgic.
I have a funny story with my name. It has changed three times and not because I
wanted it to, but because bureaucrats can't spell. Seriously, my parents named
me Halyna but since in the soviet times everything was in Russian and in Russian
there is no "h" sound, it got spelled Galina on my first passport. But
some guy later on got confused and on my latest passport, it's spelled Galyna. I
suppose I could forgive them, apparently the French don't know that
name.
Actually the only problem I have with my first name is that most people who
don't know me do not know what is my first name and what is my last name.
Everyone just goes "hello there, Mrs. Galina" and I have to go,
"no, wrong one!"
Quote by NorthyCerealJoe wins the
"awesome answer award" for this thread.
Awww... thanks!
Quote by Northy
Is there a page where someone has collected other supposed end-of-the-world
dates that we've now passed? Because I'm pretty sure there has been quite a few
of those by now.
Don't they have a new date for 2038 or something like that and that's supposed
to be the new Y2K bug? And by the Old Testament we're close to the end too...
man, that's gotta be one of the largest pages on the intrawebs if it exists,
lots and lots of dates.
Oh well, that's because they don't teach people responsibility. For us, we all
know that DUI is dangerous, there is always one who doesn't drink per car and
it's easy to check as even for "unsupervised" parties there is a
volunteer who keeps the keys of the people who shouldn't drink, and if they're
drunk and no one in the car can drive (because they're drunk), well, everyone
sleeps in the car and only leave in the morning after a second alcohol test.
My parents took the force root with me for drugs, they showed me Pulp Fiction
when I was 8. And because of that film, I have never once wanted to even try
drugs. Smoking, that's the stupidest thing in the world, waste of money really.
Why 2012 exactly? It is because of the horror that will be the London Olympic
Games (yes, I was for Paris and I'm still upset that London won). I personally
like 2014 much better as a date for a disaster to happen...
Heck it's like the 1999 funny business, that's just lots and lots and lots of
crappety crap. Alas, it would have been fun otherwise.
Quote by cheza2283It is becoming more
and more common today to hear of men being the ones to take care of the children
because the wife has run off to be with someone else or to explore what is out
there. When I become a mother there is no way that anything is going to seperate
me from my child.
That's true for some people... but there are women out there who don't have a
motherly habit thing. They see a child and they don't feel the need to take care
of it, so really, it's better they leave their "old" family to be, who
knows what could happen, do you know the number of infanticides there are per
year in every single country? It's just that everyone sees women as a walking
womb and that is just not true.
Quote by cheza2283Marriage is something
that is supposed to last forever and I think that today it isn't taken seriously
enough. It is too easy and too socially accepted for people to get divorces.
It WAS meant to last forever. Those religious grounds saying that they should
last that til death do us apart were created a couple of centuries ago, a
completely outdated concept.
Quote by cheza2283PS: To the user above
me XRW175P6MQ4, I hope you are joking cause if you aren't I pray for the person
you marry.
I thought his/her remark was quite witty, back in the day if you didn't want
your marriage forever (for you at least), you precipitated events. Today at
least we're more civil and we don't have servants who will kill for us.
Quote by MnemethWow, depending on how
thats enforced I can see plenty of material for a civil rights lawsuit. I can
understand restricting the open display of one faith through symbols but I wear
a cross daily underneath my shirt and someone better be ready for a serious
fight if they ever tried to force me not to wear it.
Oh, you can wear whatever you want, as long as other people don't see it. So a
cross under your shirt is nothing, a huge cross painted in pink over a black
shirt, that could be troublesome... but as I said, no one's really doing
anything, it's just in the laws and therefore if ever there was a problem, they
could take out the law books and say "look here, we warned you about
it".
Quote by Mnemeth
Yeah but I don't think I would mind that much if they took the religious
holidays off the official holiday list and gave that same amount of time off
into a pot that each individual could spend on their own.
I don't really want the "normal" holidays to go away because in
France, it's part of history. It's like denying everything that has happened for
the past couple of centuries... but in a way you're right, the only reason the
Church created holidays is to give people days off and therefore have more
people come to church (what else could they do besides?). So holidays should
really just be days off.
But that brings another problem, the prime minister from a couple of years ago
tried to make a "shifting" holiday and that was a catastrophe!
Marriage was created when life expectancy did not go over 40 years of age, today
it's about 75... Plus, people did not spend years and years in school, they
didn't really have anything else to do besides getting married, having kids,
going to war, trying to stay alive. Today, we have other lives, we have other
stories to tell, and maybe marriage should not be part of it all.
But what is really morality? What's better to stay in a love-less marriage just
because that's the "moral" thing to do or should you get a divorce or
should you have a mistress/lover outside of marriage and stay with your spouse
for the sake of your kids? There can't be a moral law for everyone...
Well, for me it's easier. They're so paranoid about anyone being offended by
religious stuff that as long as you're in public, you can't show any sign of
religion. We can't even wear things like crosses from when you get baptized (for
me it's a gift, not a religious thing, I'm about as religious as a dog but it's
just that my family wanted me baptized) or Malta crosses (which are totally not
religious but they remind of the Christian crosses...)! Just because they told
Muslim girls that they couldn't wear the veil in school. Of course, that's all
law stuff, in truth lots of people don't give a damn.
But it's true that we only have Catholic-related holidays but that's more
historical than anything else, France is, after all, known as the daughter of
the Church. But god forbid anyone should mention religion during an election,
they'd be stoned to death for sure. We even had this huge conflict when the Pope
died, some people refused to follow the minute of silence because they said it
was religious, others said that they followed it because he was a State leader
before being a religious person. I just followed it because I respected the guy.
Whenever we have those "we have to be creative" parts in a project
where everyone says words and we try to brainstorm and all of that, I always say
"Teletubbies"... those things are great!
Well, if it's the end, it's the end... no need for procreation or anything. It'd
be me and Marc Jacobs, always wanted to meet him... and the Queen of England,
looks like a lovely lady and Peter Davison because he's MY Doctor.
What if you could forget one thing, what would it be?
My mum and dad are hippies who came into this world 20 years too late. Just last
night, I told my dad that I wanted to go to Finland to finish my thesis and he
just said "sure, go ahead, you know I've always wanted you to get a
PhD" and my mum is really nice too most of the time, she even makes me
little food boxes for the week whenever I come over for the weekend.
At 16 lots of things seem quite hard and just how many people do you know that
really fell in love at 16? Those "I'm in love with my high sweetheart even
20 years after high school" just happen in films or books, in real life
people change and who knows, maybe in ten years you'll look back at this girl
and you won't even understand what the hell you saw in her.
The really unhealthy thing is that you compare yourself to her current
boyfriend. Sure, at 16 you can have low self-esteem, why not join a new club or
find yourself a new hobby that way you'll forget all about it!
In the Display properties you have a dual desktop option (along with a clone and "none" option), you just have to pick the right one.
That's not that bad. I went for a minimum of 20 euros/hour but it was for high school students who wanted to get into good unis (maths, physics, chem) or rare languages (Russian, Ukrainian). I suppose I could have gotten more if I hadn't gone through an agency but hey, it provided me extra money and it wasn't that much work.
My school goes by many names (done in a Might Boosh voice). It is officially the ISMEP - Institut Superieur de Mecanique de Paris. It also known as SupMeca and we still call it by its old name CESTI.
Just thinking about those names makes me feel nostalgic.
I have a funny story with my name. It has changed three times and not because I wanted it to, but because bureaucrats can't spell. Seriously, my parents named me Halyna but since in the soviet times everything was in Russian and in Russian there is no "h" sound, it got spelled Galina on my first passport. But some guy later on got confused and on my latest passport, it's spelled Galyna. I suppose I could forgive them, apparently the French don't know that name.
Actually the only problem I have with my first name is that most people who don't know me do not know what is my first name and what is my last name. Everyone just goes "hello there, Mrs. Galina" and I have to go, "no, wrong one!"
Awww... thanks!
Don't they have a new date for 2038 or something like that and that's supposed to be the new Y2K bug? And by the Old Testament we're close to the end too... man, that's gotta be one of the largest pages on the intrawebs if it exists, lots and lots of dates.
Oh well, that's because they don't teach people responsibility. For us, we all know that DUI is dangerous, there is always one who doesn't drink per car and it's easy to check as even for "unsupervised" parties there is a volunteer who keeps the keys of the people who shouldn't drink, and if they're drunk and no one in the car can drive (because they're drunk), well, everyone sleeps in the car and only leave in the morning after a second alcohol test.
My parents took the force root with me for drugs, they showed me Pulp Fiction when I was 8. And because of that film, I have never once wanted to even try drugs. Smoking, that's the stupidest thing in the world, waste of money really.
Why 2012 exactly? It is because of the horror that will be the London Olympic Games (yes, I was for Paris and I'm still upset that London won). I personally like 2014 much better as a date for a disaster to happen...
Heck it's like the 1999 funny business, that's just lots and lots and lots of crappety crap. Alas, it would have been fun otherwise.
That's true for some people... but there are women out there who don't have a motherly habit thing. They see a child and they don't feel the need to take care of it, so really, it's better they leave their "old" family to be, who knows what could happen, do you know the number of infanticides there are per year in every single country? It's just that everyone sees women as a walking womb and that is just not true.
It WAS meant to last forever. Those religious grounds saying that they should last that til death do us apart were created a couple of centuries ago, a completely outdated concept.
I thought his/her remark was quite witty, back in the day if you didn't want your marriage forever (for you at least), you precipitated events. Today at least we're more civil and we don't have servants who will kill for us.
Oh, you can wear whatever you want, as long as other people don't see it. So a cross under your shirt is nothing, a huge cross painted in pink over a black shirt, that could be troublesome... but as I said, no one's really doing anything, it's just in the laws and therefore if ever there was a problem, they could take out the law books and say "look here, we warned you about it".
I don't really want the "normal" holidays to go away because in France, it's part of history. It's like denying everything that has happened for the past couple of centuries... but in a way you're right, the only reason the Church created holidays is to give people days off and therefore have more people come to church (what else could they do besides?). So holidays should really just be days off.
But that brings another problem, the prime minister from a couple of years ago tried to make a "shifting" holiday and that was a catastrophe!
Marriage was created when life expectancy did not go over 40 years of age, today it's about 75... Plus, people did not spend years and years in school, they didn't really have anything else to do besides getting married, having kids, going to war, trying to stay alive. Today, we have other lives, we have other stories to tell, and maybe marriage should not be part of it all.
But what is really morality? What's better to stay in a love-less marriage just because that's the "moral" thing to do or should you get a divorce or should you have a mistress/lover outside of marriage and stay with your spouse for the sake of your kids? There can't be a moral law for everyone...
Well, for me it's easier. They're so paranoid about anyone being offended by religious stuff that as long as you're in public, you can't show any sign of religion. We can't even wear things like crosses from when you get baptized (for me it's a gift, not a religious thing, I'm about as religious as a dog but it's just that my family wanted me baptized) or Malta crosses (which are totally not religious but they remind of the Christian crosses...)! Just because they told Muslim girls that they couldn't wear the veil in school. Of course, that's all law stuff, in truth lots of people don't give a damn.
But it's true that we only have Catholic-related holidays but that's more historical than anything else, France is, after all, known as the daughter of the Church. But god forbid anyone should mention religion during an election, they'd be stoned to death for sure. We even had this huge conflict when the Pope died, some people refused to follow the minute of silence because they said it was religious, others said that they followed it because he was a State leader before being a religious person. I just followed it because I respected the guy.
How about going outside and meeting people in your area? Isn't it more likely you'll find people that way?
Whenever we have those "we have to be creative" parts in a project where everyone says words and we try to brainstorm and all of that, I always say "Teletubbies"... those things are great!
Well, if it's the end, it's the end... no need for procreation or anything. It'd be me and Marc Jacobs, always wanted to meet him... and the Queen of England, looks like a lovely lady and Peter Davison because he's MY Doctor.
What if you could forget one thing, what would it be?
Nope, a million dollars is actually not a lot of money... so you know, it wouldn't even cover the medical expenses... stupid tigers and all.
For a million dollars, would you give up the use of your legs?
My mum and dad are hippies who came into this world 20 years too late. Just last night, I told my dad that I wanted to go to Finland to finish my thesis and he just said "sure, go ahead, you know I've always wanted you to get a PhD" and my mum is really nice too most of the time, she even makes me little food boxes for the week whenever I come over for the weekend.
At 16 lots of things seem quite hard and just how many people do you know that really fell in love at 16? Those "I'm in love with my high sweetheart even 20 years after high school" just happen in films or books, in real life people change and who knows, maybe in ten years you'll look back at this girl and you won't even understand what the hell you saw in her.
The really unhealthy thing is that you compare yourself to her current boyfriend. Sure, at 16 you can have low self-esteem, why not join a new club or find yourself a new hobby that way you'll forget all about it!
That film is just so full of quotes, it's being crazy.
trick
I know an Evelyn but on Evelin.
Genevieve?
I can't stand pillows. And I need a really hard mattress otherwise my back hurts like hell.
trawl (not to confuse with troll