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[quote user="Chancer"]
Do French people really like biscottes?
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SOME French people do like biscottes. Occasionally, I do like them - for some reason, they don't make me feel as bloated as bread - I find it a good way to indulge cravings for carbs, without feeling I am eating carbs (silly, I know!). On the other hand, OH hates them, he thinks they are carboard or stale bread. Mind you, he also thinks that bread that is over 5 hours old is stale. Sigh.
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The idea is to give the colon a total rest by not sending anything through it - ANY kind of fibre does end up in the colon. So, no porridge, but white rice. No bread, although sometimes toasted bread or biscottes are allowed. No jam, but fruit jelly or honey is OK. Only hard cheeses allowed, Cantal, etc. are OK) no camembert or blue cheeses or other fermented cheeses, and no lactose.
Bouillon de légumes is something that can you make out of a stock cube! I, too, know this diet well, and still have to resort to it on occasion, and so has my husband - it is a diet that is recommended not just before a colonoscopy, but also with other ailments that affect the colon - for periods of time. I dread to think, Idun, what it must be like to eat that way for 6 whole months, lots of vitamin and mineral deficiencies I would expect - apart from the extreme boredom and disgust factor.
Courage Chancer, 3 days is not that long - and surely, you can have biscottes with butter and cheese or egg or cassis jelly or honey in the morning - except the day of the procedure when you have to have nothing by mouth since midnight the night before (usually), not even water. That is because of the anaesthetic - if you had something in your stomach, even water, it could make you quite ill.
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Norman, what you said is so flattering that should I be your neighbour, I would volunteer to wheel you around the town while you are painting it red...
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[quote user="NormanH"]I would have loved to see your face[:D]
[/quote]- says someone who has met me!
Norman, I kept it very straight and pretended she was referring to somebody else...
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Interesting to see what winds people up.
Here in France, what REALLY annoys me is the way any woman over a certain age is referred to as a "mamie" - it is assumed that everyone has children and grandchildren, and that this is the most spectacular thing about who they are! I find it really patronising and dismissive - and have French friends who agree with that too. Yet it appears a perfectly acceptable way of calling, or even addressing someone. I was in the doctor's waiting room the other day, with a number of other patients, and a mother said to her noisy child, looking in my direction: "Arrête de faire du bruit, la mamie là-bas elle est malade!". This was adding insult to injury, as I was feeling just fine, only there to renew a prescription...[:D]
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Sorry to say that I couldn't get anywhere with Norman's link - sad because Franche-Comté is close to my heart, this is where I spent the first 18 years of my life, and my mother still lives there.
Even the radio page wouldn't do it.
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As far as I understand it, if you have savings, you can't get CMU complémentaire: understandably, you are expected to dip into your savings to increase your income to manageable levels.
CMU complémentaire was designed for people who do not have the luxury of savings.
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Frecossais, if you had given us the whole sentence I wouldn't have gone into such convolutions to translate "il s'agit de", when it was so simple in your context![:D]
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The immediate translation that comes to mind, although not very elegant, is "What it's about is..." It is used to emphasize what comes after.
"Il s'agit de faire vite", although it can't be translated literally - here "il s'agit de" emphasizes the necessity to act quickly.
This is just off the top of my head, so there are probably better ways of looking at it. [:)]
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Yes that is correct.
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[quote user="lyndros"]I just want to be sure that France is complying with and administering its obligations properly.
[/quote]Yes, a bit of an edge here.
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Lyndros - as long as you continue to receive Incapacity Benefit from the UK, your healthcare is the same as a UK state pension retiree, i.e. shouldered by the UK - it is only if your Incapacity Benefit was stopped before you are in receipt of your UK state pension that you could be in limbo.
So, assuming you will be receiving Incapacity Benefit until you are of state pension age, you shouldn't have any problem. Cartes Vitales have to be updated periodically (at the chemist or any other special points - we have one at our Mairie) - all it is is a slot machine in which you put your card, and if your status hasn't changed, it is done automatically. Everyone has to update their Carte Vitale periodically.
With all due respect, Norman, that is how it works, and I am sure that is how you will understand it too once you have carefully re-read the OP.
Having said that, I can also see the red rag in the highlighted sentence!
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Blimey Coops, you are a fast worker, up and walking about already, after such an ordeal??? Them surgeons are magicians or what?
Lovely seeing you back online so soon though. I am raising my can of ginger beer to that, cheers!!!
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Thinking of you extra hard Coops. Great to hear about good blood results!!!!!
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[quote user="woolybanana"]I am sure they will give in to your wishes Norman, once you have got you teeth into them.[:D][/quote]
...and so it should be, that they give in. I am filled with foreboding at the thought of ever having to face that sort of ordeal, as I don't have your backbone Norman. But more power to you, you are carrying the flag for others. You obviously have the stamina, the wits and sufficient indignation to keep on and on until they do what they should have in the first place. Absolutely appalling, from several quarters. Go Norman, go, you will get them all in the end!
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No I wasn't thinking Berlusconi, but you got the general idea.[6]
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Well, there was one who could think very literally indeed, and look where that got him.[6]
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As a Franco-British national, I am getting a little disturbed by some of the more obvious jingoism that has quickly emerged on this thread. It's very sad how fast this happens.[:(]
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Hello mithun86, good to meet you.[:D]
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I have little idea of how they send frozen products, but this seems to be the biggest mail order company, if you want to buy in large quantities? http://french.alibaba.com/products/edamame-bean.html
If you have one near you, I would imagine they are also available in a large "epicerie asiatique" or "epicerie produits orientaux" with a large frozen section.
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I am confused. I thought it was another French bank, not the one named above???[:(]
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Thank you so much, Honeysuckledreams. Up to now I firmly believed that one could be prosecuted for harming or killing a dog, but not for a cat. Next, I wondered how often someone is prosecuted for those barbarous acts - but it does happen:
http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2008/05/15/453981-herault-prison-ferme-pour-avoir-tue-un-chat.html
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[quote user="idun"]
5E, aren't the poor richer than they ever have been.......... in the UK and France?
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Not sure about that Idun: Restos du Coeur (who just started their winter campaign yesterday) have seen a 25% increase in "clients" over the past 3 years. Even though they have rather stringent criteria for people to become beneficiaries.
Interesting point Christine makes about youngsters and obesity in poor countries. Sedentarity and access to over-caloric junk food (which not only gives instant gratification and enthralls the taste buds, but also represents wealth, sophistication, modernity - unlike rice and dal and chapattis), it all takes its toll.
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[quote user="idun"]
"Isn't over eating the sign of a wealthy society....."[/quote]
(Hope you won't mind me quoting you out of context Idun).
But obesity is more prevalent amongst the poor and the lower social classes.... A bit of a paradox, and probably a little more complicated than it appears.
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