Kate

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Feck!! Damn web site went belly up in the middle of my reply and even Chrome lost my message. :(

I love Paris. I think it's awesome. Don't get me wrong.

But Paris gets rep and accolades for things it isn't even close to deserving sometimes. For example, the coffee there sucks. The average restaurant there isn't that good: you really have to know where to go to find decent food. Walk into any whore-ridden dump in Rome, by comparison, and the food on average will be better and the coffee will blow it out of the Evian.

For another, the people are mostly pretty formal, cold, and impersonal -- compared to the psychos on catnip you'll find rolling around on public park benches in Budapest for comparison.
I agree, I hate listening to 14 year old girls fantasise about it as being the most perfect place on earth, but it is pretty fantastic in reality. Just, as you said, for different reasons.

Hust, what's with the Mathis?
 

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whatchu mean humphrey
Tried to blow himself up with a bomb-vest. Little did he know that the vest was bought from a FBI undercover.

Feck!! Damn web site went belly up in the middle of my reply and even Chrome lost my message. :(

I love Paris. I think it's awesome. Don't get me wrong.

But Paris gets rep and accolades for things it isn't even close to deserving sometimes. For example, the coffee there sucks. The average restaurant there isn't that good: you really have to know where to go to find decent food. Walk into any whore-ridden dump in Rome, by comparison, and the food on average will be better and the coffee will blow it out of the Evian.

For another, the people are mostly pretty formal, cold, and impersonal -- compared to the psychos on catnip you'll find rolling around on public park benches in Budapest for comparison.
I'm turning in my passport stuff on Monday. Can't wait to have the world hanging from my nuts.
 

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Hell yes. Another problem is that I am also a student, and so the profs going on strike is quite inconvenient. I am wondering if I can't just casually talk to my supervisor while we're on the picket line together.
I'm thinking that would probably acceptable. Profs will love your quest for knowledge, even during times of strife.

Remember to be rampant.
 

Kate

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I'm thinking that would probably acceptable. Profs will love your quest for knowledge, even during times of strife.

Remember to be rampant.
That's what I was thinking. Instead of student to teacher, it is more like "as one enthusiast of the 16th century to another..." He's even worse off, he gets his internet through the uni as he lives so close to campus he can just use the library's broadband, but if the strike happens that gets cut off as well so he has no internet. That is the real tragedy...
 

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I agree, I hate listening to 14 year old girls fantasise about it as being the most perfect place on earth, but it is pretty fantastic in reality. Just, as you said, for different reasons.
Oh, the history, the architecture (even if it is all largely one era under glass), the ridiculous numbers of cultural museums, the street design, the city amenities, the lifestyle... those are all awesome there. And one of my favorite movies last year was Midnight in Paris (it was my wife's fave).

But there's a tendency for some to idealize everything about it in a way that's unjustified. A kind of, "Isn't it so divine how they guillotined heads like that in town? I want that in my home in Arkansas -- it would be so culturally sophisticated and dashing!"

Tried to blow himself up with a bomb-vest. Little did he know that the vest was bought from a FBI undercover.
Gives me reminders of my avatar here when I tried to arrange a meeting with our then-club president Jean-Claude Blanc. :heart:



Looking like my uni is going on strike :sad: I can't afford to strike.
That sucks.

The Administration basically gambled away of our pensions in a bad investment, and now we're expected to pick up the slack. Definitely strike-worthy, but just a pain.
Pensions are screwing over the entire world right now. From Greece to Canada to city and state police departments. It would be fair to say you're going to get hosed over for something you will never even see anyway. :frown:
 

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That's what I was thinking. Instead of student to teacher, it is more like "as one enthusiast of the 16th century to another..." He's even worse off, he gets his internet through the uni as he lives so close to campus he can just use the library's broadband, but if the strike happens that gets cut off as well so he has no internet. That is the real tragedy...
Perhaps your discussions in the picket line will lead to a new era of modern discourse. A re-awakening of thought, per se.
 

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