betise
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Often the delivery service adds an extra handling charge, for their time and effort involved in processing non EU items.
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Hello again Rose, it is a bit quieter here nowadays, but there are still lots of familiar faces. Are you still doing your fabulous walks?
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Oh, so sorry Wooly, it's awful to lose a beloved pet. 😢
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Have you tried here https://lidentitenumerique.laposte.fr/nous-contacter
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No, never regretted it. My life is here, I take the good with the bad, and know that France has a truckload of faults, but despite that, I would never leave.
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Lori, can't be that, they'd be far too young. I think it's action films, where they chuck a grenade or something, turn their backs and walk away, and go "boom!".
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Nowadays it is often used as an exclamation mark might be, often accompanied by a fast-opening fist movement. Or at least, that's what the hip young things tell me. I'll fetch me coat...
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42 minutes ago, menthe said:
Er...betise, the things that go "boom" are SUPERsonic. I think these brushes are merely sonic (keeping straight face)
Sweet, I was using Boom as a modern idiom...
boom
An exclamation used in conjunction with a decisive or impressive statement or actionBoom! You can't argue with that logic.Straight flush, I win the pot! Boom. -
3 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
How is it sonic?
It's so noisy that it knocks your fillings out? Boom!
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The owners spoke French well, because they are, in fact, French. As for the cat, you would have to ask her!
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So did we, chinese whispers gone mad. It's little short of a miracle that we managed to find them, given that the only true parts were that the cat had 3 legs, and that they spoke French well!
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I am delighted to say that the owners were found yesterday by one of our team. They are a French family, who were devastated that they had lost her, they will all be reunited at the weekend.
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Oh, that is so sad, those poor girls.
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A cheesy reduction of wet animal hair would probably put me off too.
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A quick plug! Love it!
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Me too it seems, there was definitely a link to another site at the bottom of Jothi J's first post and above Dave's.
It has now disparued!
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Who put the France m%%%dia link in above Dave's post?
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6 hours ago, Lori said:
Behind a paywall, so I couldn't read it.
The quoted study that the article is based on is here ..
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"Bled" is an Arabic word meaning country or region. [...]
BUT, a "bledard" usually means a "yokel" or a "bumpkin" ( or "oaf", "hillbilly" or "rustic") according to context as mentioned upthread, someone not sophisticated, but who might be crafty. It's pejorative, but it can be admiring too. Very confusing!In my dictionary, it says: "soldierwho served in the interior of North Africa"
Another interpretation could be the following:
As a "bled" means a village in the middle of nowhere (pejorative word), a "bledard" could be a person that comes from that hole.Taken from ...
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Off with their heads!
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We have our own chooks, so eggs aplenty. Whenever I use an egg yolk for mayonnaise, I freeze the white in a small container. When I have 4 I can make a pavlova, whisking always with an electric mixer.
Your idea is great Lehaut, use both at the same time.
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Immediately googles "egg in a cloud recipes"!
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Jeez Wooly, is that your driveway?
Lost in translation
in French Culture
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J'ai mes règles? Perhaps you were trying to say that you had your rules?