5-element
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Thanks Toni, will do.
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OH went to our local branch today to check his IBAN and RIB - the chap there said he'd never heard that there had been any code changes at all with the merger, had no idea what we could possibly be concerned about!!![:D] I'm beginning to think our branch is the one that time forgot....[:'(]
We will check again though. This particular chap at the bank has been clueless and incompetent before, giving us wrong information about transfer costs before, which resulted in us paying an extra 30-40euros every time, unnecessarily.
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[quote user="cooperlola"] OK, I know I'm boring on this subject, but even if you choose to ignore the body of evidence, there are still very good arguments for taking care of the ways in which we use limited resources .[/quote]
Not to me Cooperlola, you are never boring on this subject. As far as I am concerned, you can repeat it over and over again, as you are absolutely spot on. Eventually, with enough repetitions, it might sink in...
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Toni - I have been only too aware of the merging for CA du Midi - I am still going through some unbelievable problems indirectly caused by this merging, and for which they are refusing to take responsibility - too complicated to go into it here and it would probably not help anybody to know as a copycat situation is unlikely to happen to anyone else.
CA du Midi only ADDED to my problems rather than helped in resolving them. They have been uncooperative, more than useless, not even acknowledging my mail, and I am looking to removing my accounts from them. However, for the same issue, the CA Rhone-Alpes have been fantastic. Really helpful, on the ball, available, and waiving one of their fees since the circumstances were so dreadful, and not at all from my making or theirs.
I know that the various branches (or regions?) have a franchise, so they all vary enormously, depending on the staff they have as well as the management.
I was unaware of the RIB and IBAN issues with CA du Midi. . Thank you for bringing it up, now I will have to go and check those.
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I thought that Bio Coops might appeal more to Charlotte3, given that they are run along co-operative lines, i.e. non-profit making. La Vie Claire chain has a lot of products also, but it is a commercial venture. With the bio-coops you support your local productors, and you are member of the Association, not a mere customer. I think that they are quite numerous in France, but you would have to find out (if you don't already know) where your nearest one is.
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Is it only wheat you are intolerant of, or are there any of the other grains, like barley, rye, etc?
I didn't eat any wheat for a couple of years once, as I was supposed to be intolerant too. I did use to make some "breads" and "cakes" that were gluten-free.
I used rice cakes quite a lot, for pretend sandwiches. I ate millet, buckwheat, potatoes, used maize flour, chick pea flour. There are quite a lot of Indian recipes which don't need wheat. You can make some sort of pie-crust with things like soya flour/chickpea flour/maize flour etc...
It sounds like a trip to the Bio Coop near you might help., as they have gluten-free products (quite expensive and sometimes quite plastic), as a wheatless diet will be the same as for a coeliac person. Unfortunately, wheat is present in many products otherwise, you have to be careful of the hidden one too, like in some soya sauces, etc... it means spending a lot of time reading labels, but rice cakes is a definite staple, and most supermarkets have them, not just Bio Coops.
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[quote user="Logan"]
To include those two named examples and compare their crimes with Chirac’s misdemeanours is completely erroneous.
Any decision to mount a prosecution has to be in the best interests of justice and the country as a whole. I don’t believe that having the former President of the Republic before the courts for illegal political fund raising and fraud committed some time ago will serve those interests. The French people are actually quite fond of the old buffer on a personal level. I accept fraud is a serious offence but he did not do it to enrich himself. There is a mitigating difference.
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I picked those examples so that the point about double standards could not be missed.
But, as long as they are "old enough", "important enough", or the crime they committed is "not that bad", then they can be just waved through. I think you would find that this is precisely the kind of thing that quite a few of "the French people" as you say, cannot forgive or forget.
I would have thought, on the contrary, that if you are in a post of some responsibility, then your conduct should be exemplary. Fraud is fraud is fraud is fraud. Unless you also absolve (which would surprise me) people who defraud the state to obtain benefits they are not entitled to, or illegal immigrants who have false ID and obtain medical care. One could arguably put the point that this category of people is in greater need than either Chirac or Juppe ever were...Ah! But they do it "to enrich themselves", so a couple of hundred euros for someone who is on the bread line is more fraudulent than someone who does it for millions...and for what? Power? Justice? Family? Principles? To help friends in need?
I thought that laws are there for everybody.... no exception.
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[quote user="Logan"]
I believe the country has no appetite to see an old man dragged through the courts. I think that is probably right on balance.
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Just like with Pinochet?
Or Maurice Papon?
What kind of a balance do you mean, Logan?
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EDIT: posted twice, no idea why, and how it happened, I am sure I pressed the button ONLY ONCE[:P]
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[quote user="allanb"]
Is there a benefit in retaining one's original citizenship?
[/quote]As someone with dual nationality (having chosen my second one) I will state what seems to me the obvious: family. I cannot see what I would have achieved by opting out of my parents' and siblings' nationality, unless, perhaps, if I had been trying to make a big negative statement to them!
Also, it is actually EASY to retain one's initial nationality, as you have nothing to do. If you elected to abandon that nationality (and there I am at a loss of knowing why I would want to do that), then it would be quite a big hurdle and official forms etc.... It is MUCH easier to do nothing....
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I think it is a characteristic of lemon tree to be able to produce both fruit and flowers at the same time, perfectly normal.
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Just spotted a typo, 7th line up from last line: (for the purists!)
"qu'on recoit en avril et qu'en mai l'on dechire"
it does make it more intelligble...
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Vere Novo - Les contemplations - Livre I -
Année de parution : 1840
Catégorie : PoésieComme le matin rit sur les roses en pleurs !
Oh ! les charmants petits amoureux qu'ont les fleurs !
Ce n'est dans les jasmins, ce n'est dans les pervenches
Qu'un éblouissement de folles ailes blanches
Qui vont, viennent, s'en vont, reviennent, se fermant,
Se rouvrant, dans un vaste et doux frémissement.
O printemps! quand on songe à toutes les missives
Qui des amants rêveurs vont aux belles pensives,
A ces coeurs confiés au papier, à ce tas
De lettres que le feutre écrit au taffetas,
Au message d'amour, d'ivresse et de délire
Qu'on reçoit en avril et qu'en met l'on déchire,
On croit voir s'envoler, au gré du vent joyeux,
Dans les prés, dans les bois, sur les eaux, dans les cieux,
Et rôder en tous lieux, cherchant partout une âme,
Et courir à la fleur en sortant de la femme,
Les petits morceaux blancs, chassés en tourbillons
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[quote user="Spg"]
Oh crikey! Whatever must my very correct, but extremely pleasant, French neighbours think of the many pairs of knickers and pants which adorn my washing line on a regular basis?
Sue[:$]
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That you must be:
- an exhibitionist
- a foreigner[:D]
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They never wash them.?
and then, they self-destruct after a while?
or, they are taken to the "pressing" to be dry-cleaned?
Tresco, the thought of edible underwear I find a little odd. Especially as I have never seen any advertised as such, and not noticed them in the lingerie department.
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Londoneagle eye, you are absolutely right! It is the same here, I see my neighbours' washing on the line, and never once did I spot a pair of male or female knickers, and no bras either actually.
What can we assume from that?
- there is a special dryer indoors, where they dry the family's underwear - keeping it all private and secret.
- they don't wear any.
- they wear only disposable knickers.
I can't think of any other answer, can anyone?
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Human traffic, yes, a reality that most of us would much rather ignore. You are right about that, Chief.
In various areas of the world, many (dirt-poor) people sell parts of their body to survive, or for their family. And that is not only in prostitution.
Such as, people selling their blood, over and over again, as the only way to bring a little cash for their family.
Such as, people selling one of their kidneys (there is quite a big trade in organs, worldwide)
Obviously, they can ONLY sell one kidney - if they sold the other, they would die. For the same reason, they cannot sell their heart, or their liver.
There are all kinds of horrors which most of us cannot bear thinking about, but it doesn't make them go away. When it is on our doorstep, within our borders, in our supermarkets, like the sale of that little girl, then we can't look the other way so easily.
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[quote user="Tag"]
It is time the well off benefitted in France.
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Quite right too[:)]
Just like this young woman (Sarkozy's supporter) was explaining:
"With him, the rich will stay rich, and the poor will get rich too!"
Don't we just all love him already?[:D]
AND he might appoint Johnny Halliday as the Minister of Culture too!
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Yes but white vote is not going to elect a president, except by default.
Like Clair, I can vote, and will be voting against rather than for. I find Sarkozy too potentially dangerous (OK, he was mild as a lamb in the debate, having been coached to the hilt!) - I have seen him being very hateful and poisonous, (not in the past 2 weeks as he has been playing gentle and soft and humane and caring!) and I would never trust someone like this at the head of any state.
Besides, Segolene Royal is smart, can think on her feet, adaptable and flexible, and might consult others more than "he" would. That is where my vote will go on Sunday.
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[quote user="marina"]
[quote user="Later"] If Sarkozy doesn't get in then, France is in serious trouble. Deep, deep,deep deep in the mire. [/quote]
And trouble (maybe less serious) when he does get in. His reforms may be needed, at least according to him, but I believe every Frenchman will say that the reforms apply to everybody else and will ignore them. The status quo suits most of the French but is unsustainable.
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France is in deep trouble, full stop. Whoever gets in. But that applies to many countries, even if it is not quite the same kind of trouble.
If Sarkozy becomes president, then not only we will see very deep unrest within France, but we can also look forward to alliance with Bush and US foreign policies - at least something that was spared to France with the milder Chirac. Quite a few French I have spoken to recently say they are actually scared of Sarkozy because he is unbalanced, consumed with personal ambition, and that they would not trust him to be anywhere near THAT button. It's true that in the past few weeks, watching him carefully, he is giving me the heebie-jeebies - and that's not because I am unaware of the needs for reforms!
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[quote user="J.R."]
I thought of sausage rolls and perhaps scotch eggs but I seem to remember that a french girlfriend refused to even try one last time!
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No offence meant, J.R., but YUK!
However, give me crumpets any time! Miam miam....[:)]
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Just as Tresco pointed out, a removal man meets people...who are on the move. So, he is bound to be biaised in his opinions.
Just like a medic who would say that "many people have a lot of health problems"! -
[quote user="Val_2"]
Its time for these type of threads to cease.
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Why on earth should they? What is wrong with "these types of thread"? What exactly do you mean by "this type of thread"?
I often find them quite informative on many, many levels. I am interested in other people's perception of their immediate, and further, environment. I am interested in the world, be it France, UK, Europe, the planet, in which we all live, how we share the space, the resources. I like to find out about most of those things, and to see how we all perceive ourselves too.. What is wrong with having that sort of discussion?
Do you think there should be a policy so that there are only threads about fosse septiques, lemon trees, best deal for currency?
I am also very pleased that there are threads about snakes, taxe d'habitation, micro-entreprise, all kinds of thread: it is a valuable source of information for many. But I cannot recall that this is the only raison d'etre of this forum? Vive la diversite!
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It definitely is, Albert. I thought the same for myself, and was quite shocked when the "relatively rich" relative declined, having already done the same thing for 2 of her children. Here it is quite a responsibility, being a guarantor. The moment there is defaulting in paying the rent, the guarantor is called upon to cough up, there is no messing about! And even close relatives are not always keen to divulge to all and sundry the state of their bank balance and income etc... which they have to do.
I wish you luck (if you need it!)
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There is also quinoa. And chestnut flour. Some people with a gluten intolerance can eat oats too, but not everyone. With corn, you don't have to have just the raw material, you can have polenta, or maize flour.
Good luck locating a bio-coop.