Just for fun...

[kevinmccune]

Not really In Poland everybody's minding their own business and we do not greet strangers on our walks or rides. We do not smile, either. It could be perceived by you as rude but we Poles are down-to-earth people, so we address other people only when we need something. However, ask someone for directions, and we Poles turn into the most pleasant people, smiling and helping as much as we can

I am different from most of my compatriots. I often greet pedestrians on MUPs on my rides (especially after they gave me way), which makes them happy and they return their good wishes.

It is different in our community of a small block of flats, where we greet any neighbour and even engage in small talk.

Polish is a complex language.
"Dzień dobry" ( "day good" often shortened to just "dobry!" or "good" -- or even a "-bry!" bark) is just a "Hi" when you enter a place where you are expected to talk (like, a store).
"Dobrego dnia" ("a good day") is a warm form of a greeting: wishing someone a really good day
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How different it is from England, where:
-- Alright, mate?
-- Alright?
And Bob's your uncle

Most everyone has an uncle named "Bob"

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Most everyone has an uncle named "Bob"

Do you know that British idiom? Just asking.

 

[Chargeride]

Bob is my nickname.

When I worked for a large corporation there was a fake employee on the intranet database called..
Bob Sherunkle with a home address of
Letsbe Avenue

 

[kevinmccune]

Do you know that British idiom? Just asking.

No sir,have heard of "smiling Bob" of the "rock hard erection" however.
That reminds me of the old joke -a bloke looking for a friend named Bob stuck his head in a barber shop" Bob Peters here?" no sir just shave and haircut!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

"And Bob's your uncle" is a British idiom for "and everything will be easy since" or "Done!" I think it is a corrupted "And God's your uncle" to avoid blasphemy

 

[kevinmccune]

"And Bob's your uncle" is a British idiom for "and everything will be easy since" or "Done!" I think it is a corrupted "And God's your uncle" to avoid blasphemy

have heard this hillbilly slang pertaining to a final product or repair"there's your dinner!"

 

[stompandgo]

When out carousing, getting ready to leave one joint and go to the next..."Let's blow this clambake".

It's a New England thing.

Not that I'd know anything about this kind of behavior.

 

[Roamers]

 

[PedalUma]

acknowledge the other person

In ancient Rome there was the open hand solute and both comings and goings were acknowledged. They had the symbolic equivalent of Aloha on most portals and gateways. It was called a Janis. Twin heads pointed in opposite directions with its origins in the twins Epimetheus and Prometheus. We don't talk of Epimetheus these days. He was the cautious one, trying to slow things down an calm them. Actually we need some of each. Caution and Action. Especially on a day when a different kind of fire, nuc facilities are being bombed. Aloha.

 

[kevinmccune]

I always compare Prometheus to Satan,I honestly believe every Christian should read "Menoch,the devil" by Ann Rice.

 

[PedalUma]

Did the Secretary of Homeland Security have an allergic reaction to collagen injections? Or was it tinted contacts?

"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported by ambulance on Tuesday to a hospital in Washington, DC, after an allergic reaction."

Christians do like Christ, they love all, especially those who need the most help, the weakest, the saddest. It is bottom up. All things are built from the bottom up. Prometheus was an action figure and also ruled by the fates. He brought fire, cooking, technology to humans and paid that price. In most cultures the serpent is wisdom. I do not think knowledge is bad. There is always the anti-science contingent in each fundamentalist movement weather in Pakistan or Texas. Authoritarians have always hated knowledge. The devil is when peaceful religious ideas are turned to violence, exploitation, and control, often for profit. Top down. Please allow me introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and fame. Can you guess my name?

 

[fooferdoggie]

this frog is insane its like a nightmare. one frog my blind wife would not like to see.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[PedalUma]

When out carousing, getting ready to leave one joint and go to the next..."Let's blow this clambake".

It's a New England thig.

I adore BBQ fresh Cape Cod clams. A little sourdough toast, melted butter, with herbs is all you need. There is another, it is a sea bug that was once banned from prisons in Bean-Town.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

You got the Like for the song not for the food Fred Schneider is a vegetarian

 

[stompandgo]

I have a recreational shellfish license. Hardshell clams, softshell clams, and oysters. There's nothing like fresh shellfish that you dug yourself.

I saw the B-52's five times, all over New England.

Small world.

 

[kevinmccune]

Did the Secretary of Homeland Security have an allergic reaction to collagen injections? Or was it tinted contacts?

"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported by ambulance on Tuesday to a hospital in Washington, DC, after an allergic reaction."

Christians do like Christ, they love all, especially those who need the most help, the weakest, the saddest. It is bottom up. All things are built from the bottom up. Prometheus was an action figure and also ruled by the fates. He brought fire, cooking, technology to humans and paid that price. In most cultures the serpent is wisdom. I do not think knowledge is bad. There is always the anti-science contingent in each fundamentalist movement weather in Pakistan or Texas. Authoritarians have always hated knowledge. The devil is when peaceful religious ideas are turned to violence, exploitation, and control, often for profit. Top down. Please allow me introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and fame. Can you guess my name?

in retrospect many ideas and legends have analogs from group to the next,perhaps sometimes its racial memories perhaps encoded in the DNA? Is our morph conducive to legends and fears of beings of a higher order then ourselves? I never believed in the "God of War" till historical review and events transpiring lately,we are flirting and skirting nuclear Holocaust,on reflection I don't believe Ares will allow it,why? because then,game over on this prison planet!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I saw the B-52's five times, all over New England.

You lucky man! Been a fan of the group since 1980, I think. Of course, I've never seen them live.
Of the bands of my formative years, I could see Buzzcocks (with Pete Shelley still alive then), The Damned (the original line-up with Brian James still alive then), and I will see Sex Pistols with Frank Carter this August. I also had a totally rare chance to see Jean-Jacques Burnel playing the Stranglers together with a famous Polish band Republika back in 1986 (it is on YT, something spectacular!) All British bands, no American one.

Oh wait. I attended a gig of Nico (of Velvet Underground) in Wrocław back in 1986 (when she was still alive) but she was European.

One of photos I took on my second Buzzcocks concert.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Surely not the anthem rock lobsters had hoped for.

 

[PedalUma]

Did New England prisoners really eat lobster in colonial times?​

Legend has it the crustacean was once so plentiful — and held in such low esteem — that it was served as prison food. But is that true?​

Did New England prisoners really eat lobster in colonial times?

Legend has it the crustacean was once so plentiful — and held in such low esteem — that it was served as prison food. But is that true?

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