Mr Coeur de Lion

I'm proud of my grey hair. I maybe only 39, but I will not dye it. I've earned those hairs! Especially now as George Clooney is available again and he's my gf's favourite actor.

For some reason, I have to provide proof of immunisation against MMR and Hep B. So I went to the hospital last week and they took some of my blood to test for it. Yesterday, I received a bill for these tests. I was expecting around $200 - $300 which my insurance would cover and I wouldn't have any problems with paying if I had to. Bill came back at $3000! I nearly had a heart attack (thankfully I didn't, they are a lot more apparently). Anyway, I called the hospital and as I am a student on zero income, they cover the total cost and also give me hospital coverage free for a whole year. God bless America... Very relieved.

Which is why I said "(which it isn't really compared to other countries).". But to the French, it is expensive.

There's as much point in French immobiliers as there is in Belgium. I really think there is too much a big deal made out of the immobiliers fees. This does not exist so much in other countries, it's already in the price of the property. I guess it's the greed of them and the notaires that makes French property seem so expensive (which it isn't really compared to other countries).

I'm using an agent who advertising online overseas. Having many more enquiries compared to a regular immobilier. In fact the regular immobilier has had none, they're pretty useless and seem incapable of knowing how to communicate. So I guess, based only on my experience so far, the French don't use immobiliers.

If the computer has totally died, it's relatively easy to get contents off the hard drive. Just get one of these http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&_nkw=hard+disk+case&_sacat=See-All-Categories take your hard disk out, pop it into the correct size case and connect to another computer via usb and get your files off.

I had a Kia in Australia. Worst car I've ever owned and that includes my ownership of an Austin Maestro!

There's never a day that goes by where I'm not complimented on my English accent, or is it Australian, because Americans think the English and Australian accents are very similar. I'm from dahn sath, so my accent (to me) is as boring and as neutral as it can get. Still, I'm not complaining, but my girlfriend brings me down a peg or two when the ladies ask me to talk by calling me Harry Potter :)

[quote user="breizh"]Not read it either! My wife has one, and loves it. Personally I prefer paper. Two issues she has, one is that although her first language is French, she prefers to read in English or Castellano. Choice here is not so great. Second, also won't apply in the UK, and that is the fixed book prices. I wonder if HADOPI applies to downloading books from foreign providers? Certainly it would be illegal under French law protecting creative works. [/quote] I wouldn't have thought HADOPI would be a problem. That law is to stop people illegally downloading stuff for free, if you're buying it how are you infringing on anyone's copyright? I do prefer to hold a book, but the kindle (or in my case the nook) is so much more convenient to use.

[quote user="Wilko"]Hi THis is a little off thread but re Facebook. When i look at traffic through my site I have recently noticed that I am getting hits from F/Book.............whenever I click on the link it goes to F/Book but says page not found eg http://www.facebook.com/l.php It would be interesting to know what people are saying. Does anyone know how to find out. I am not a member of F/Book, though my Mrs W is but she never posts. Thanks for any insite. Rgds W[/quote] That particular link is like a bridge between facebook and the website that is being linked to an external site (yours in this case). It will not display. You need to know the page before that 'bridge' in order to see it, but likely you will not be able to see it anyway, as it will be someone's facebook account.

Change it's name to Jonathan and have done with it.

I was under the impression the n word was deemed offensive pretty much all over, not just in the States.

History is being rewritten all the time. It's a very subjective subject once you start wandering from the key facts. But if you're relying on the movies to teach you history, you might as well believe what the Daily Mail publishes.

The main reason to make a movie is to make money. If you alienate much of your audience with certain words, then you are going to make less money. This particular word is very bad right now. Plus America has a very dirty history regarding the blacks and slavery, their civil war was the result of it. Does anyone use the word coon nowadays? Not heard that term in years.

Does the name of the dog alter the story in any way? No, I don't think it does. From Dictionary.com: nig·ger    [nig-er] Show IPA —Usage note The term nigger is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense. Definition 1a, however, is sometimes used among African-Americans in a neutral or familiar way. Definition 3 is not normally considered disparaging—as in “The Irish are the niggers of Europe” from Roddy Doyle's The Commitments —but the other uses are considered contemptuous and hostile. –noun 1. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive . a. a black person. b. a member of any dark-skinned people. a. a black person. b. a member of any dark-skinned people. 2. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive . a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc. 3. a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised. I think they are wise to change the dog's name. Could always watch the History Channel if you want more accuracy. But it's just a movie. Entertainment.

Does it really matter what the dog was called? The term is now deemed offensive to black people. I don't understand why they use it to each other though, but they do. And I can't really think of many movies where history has been portrayed accurately in film anyway, so this really isn't a big deal imo. Look at Braveheart and how inaccurate that was for example.

I don't know if that is a requirement. My tenant doesn't have one for example. Who guarantees the guarantor anyway?

I'm reading A Discovery of Witches, it's quite a good read.

[quote user="Quillan"]If you have a Facebook 'page' and it is linked to your website the performance of that Facebook 'page' will effect ranking and search results placement. Google for instance looks at the Facebook 'page' activity, the more activity the higher up you go, the lower the activity the lower you go so if you can't get enough people to 'Like' your website you could actually find your website lower down in the search listings than before you even started. Facebook won't tell you this because in some ways they are not interested in peoples websites so much so you have to have a look at Google and how it evaluates social network sites that connect to your website and it's quite technical.[/quote] Unless things have changed in the past year, Facebook has 'nofollow' code in it so google will not take into account the link in calculating your pagerank and overall ranking within google. However, it does not affect other search engines such as Bing and Yahoo etc. But you will still get traffic via facebook if you're lucky. A good free way of driving traffic to your site free of charge is to write keyword generated articles. Use the keyword tool in google adwords, find low competition keywords that have a few hundred hits a month and then write 400 word articles on it, submit them to ezinearticles.com with two links to your site. Once the articles have been published, publish them to your site as well to add more content. You'll get more traffic and quality back links to your site.

I'll be in. Only thing is, I'm a slow reader, so if you can tell me what you're all planning to read in 2014, I'll get the book and make a start now.

I have no problem with it if there are no toilets nearby. I remember going to a wedding once and the guests were arriving for the reception. There was a line at the back of the car park of about half a dozen blokes about 6 metres apart having a pee. The crazy thing was that there was toilets inside the building, so why they couldn't do it there, I don't know. Maybe the French like to air it. As for peeing up against something, apart from what's already been mentioned, it's also fun to make drawings using your jet.

I had a phone call yesterday from a fraud company. They kept asking me to identify myself, and I kept asking them to identify themselves, we went back and forth for several minutes until I finally caved in and gave a little away. Fortunately it was a proper company and they were just clarifying useage of my debit card. But you can never be too careful and when I call someone I don't know I always make sure to introduce myself first.

I wondered what the fuss was about when I first saw this thread, but I didn't know he had suffered those injuries. Remember him when I was a kid, but hadn't heard about him til now.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/05/french-say-adieu-to-twitter-and-facebook-on-tv/ I guess that they already don't mention google then. Wonder what will happen when they become verbs.

What does being a muslim have to do with race anyway? Is marriage to first cousins still legal in the UK?