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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post


    Originally posted by NAT
    Respect my authoritah!
    Authoritah! self undermined.

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      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
      When I was doing German lessons the teacher (who was Hungarian) said she thought she was fluent until the day she went to Switzerland and couldn't understand a word.

      What I remember most about going to the Zurich area was hearing "Merci-schön".
      And Chicken is Poulet not Hähnchen like you'd expect..

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        Originally posted by Bee View Post
        You can say thanks to our North American friends.
        Some of the European companies I have done work for purposely put the British flag as the icon for their English website.

        I sometimes then have to point out the American spellings....
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
          ...What I remember most about going to the Zurich area was hearing "Merci-schön".
          Merci vielmal in Basel. Adieu for goodbye. Trottoir for pavement. Anker for butter (as in anchor butter), and manchesters for corduroy trousers.
          Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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            Finally decent measurements

            Do a woman’s breasts weigh more than a Persian kitten? Handy chart from Japan lets youÂ*know | RocketNews24

            Ladies are you sporting a pair of Alvins or a cuddly Persian?



            ● A-cups: 236.3 grams, or two chipmunks
            ● B-cups: 447.5 grams, or five cockatiels
            ● C-cups: 531.3 grams, or one newborn polar bear cub
            ● D-cups: 758.8 grams, or one wigeon duck
            ● E-cups: 1,006.4 grams, or one Netherland Dwarf rabbit
            ● F-cups: 1,180 grams, or one three-month-old Persian kitten
            And for the boys as we know MF is a fifty pancaker but where do you fit in?



            ● A-cups: 11 pancakes
            ● B-cups: 15 pancakes
            ● C-cups: 18 pancakes
            ● D-cups: 25 pancakes
            ● E-cups: 34 pancakes
            ● F-cups: 39 pancakes
            AtW of course has a squirrel based chart.
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              I feel pretty

              Bras and panties for men – Online retailer in Japan offers men the chance to feel pretty | RocketNews24




              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                So that's what Fox Hat was doing in Japan in April...

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                  Urban Dictionary: manties

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                    Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
                    So that's what Fox Hat was doing in Japan in April...
                    No, I can assure you I was NOT modelling for that photo.
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                      I prefer to wear the David Beckham lingerie collection....

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