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You are like Daryl 2 or Daryl 2014 -
Poverty Daryl.Comment
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Jaja
Yes you did.Comment
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Jaja.Comment
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My kids are watching Barbie on netflix. She has an "auto-closet" robot thing. Barbie gets annoyed and tries to choose her own outfit. She asks the robot what it thinks of her choices:
"I could have pulled that ensemble out of my USB port".... lolol.Comment
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Finding out that Three now let me use my phone in Austria without paying any extra. My whole package is valid including all you can eat data with tethering. Sweet!Comment
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Three are the bomb diggity that's why.Comment
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Is a nice bonus think it applies to about four countries abroad. So if you have family in one of those countries, nothing stopping you taking out a contract and posting the sim over to them really. Maybe a touch OTT but you can see where I'm coming from
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Can't actually see where you're coming from lol. It's 13 countries apparently, including the USA.Comment
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Ha, I know a lady I work with would do that to save her family the cost of calls back to her as she's in the UK 11 months of the year.Comment
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My wife loving her new surname.
She's Japanese so having a foreign surname is a bit of a big deal to her.
In principle, I'm not a huge supporter of the practice of the female having to change their surname. Indeed, my mother kept her surname after getting married. It doesn't seem very equal. But knowing what my wife was like, I decided to let her make her own decision rather than thurst my views on her. She felt it would feel 'sabishii' (lonely) to be the only person in the family with a different surname, which is fair enough. The fact that it was entirely her own choice means that I don't feel bad about it.
She's somewhat in the honeymoon period at the moment. She was in the hospital waiting room today and the nurse struggled to call out 'Baldwin-san'. Soon she will surely get tired of the staring every time somebody says her surname, she will have to deal with the same struggles that many of us foreigners have to deal with (complete bewilderment just looking at the name, even in katakana), but in the short term it's nice to see her enjoying it so much.
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Good stuff, nice story Jake.Comment
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Mine wants my surname, too. We've discussed double-barreled surnames but, like yours, she's adamant about taking mine as it is. And, like you, I have the same reservations but I guess forbidding it when someone wants it is as bad as forcing it when they don't.
I was joking about taking her surname instead so I'd get special treatment here as they'd think I'm a halfsie or whatever mixed race people are called. Mine is piss easy to pronounce so no worries there but she actually prefers it when Japanese people think she's not Japanese. She's been out of Japan so long that it's been difficult for her to reintegrate - even more so when you consider how unforgiving they are when their own don't fall into line(never mind us lot).
My smile: Passed my recruiting assessment over xmas and had an interview yesterday for a position. First part with the English guy was easy but the Japanese guy was tough(good tough. Friendly, but wanted to put me on the spot). I pulled out all the stops and essentially made a sales presentation for myself and it went well. Now I have to wait for the outcome but I'm very hopeful. Really hope I get it so I can finally relax and start settling here properly.Comment
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Go on Richard Evans, lad. Laying into that horrible twunt Gove:
The imbecile has an appalling understanding of history and reduces everything to ignorant points-scoring. Not only is he and his cretinous acolyte Wilshaw ruining education, he's now trying to ruin the discipline of History by making gob****e tosspot arguments about things of which he possesses a terrible understanding. Nice to see the subject's finest give the bell-end the once over.Comment
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