Unutterably Silly Friday's question of the week 10 Apr 09

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

You use CV in France? I would have imagined Resume (can't do the accent) would have been more popular? Well, I learn something new every day

we use résumé as well. but we use it to mean "summary".

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

we use résumé as well. but we use it to mean "summary".

And that's appropriate! A resume is a summary of your education and work experience.

By the way (no, I will not use an acronym - my daughter says I'm not allowed as I am over the legal age of usage (whatever that means)), I am so jealous that you are all getting together in Paris. I wish I could come, too!

Kaz

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by kazbates

And that's appropriate! A resume is a summary of your education and work experience.

that's a good point. but we still use "cv" for that.

By the way (no, I will not use an acronym - my daughter says I'm not allowed as I am over the legal age of usage (whatever that means)),

I am so jealous that you are all getting together in Paris. I wish I could come, too!

Kaz

aw ! we wish you could come too. maybe next time ? (july 4 !! mark your calendar !)

[Xenophon]

Kaz: I think your daughter is trying to say that you've passed your "sell by date." My nieces and nephews tell me this all the time.

Xenophon

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

You use CV in France? I would have imagined Resume (can't do the accent) would have been more popular? Well, I learn something new every day

Shouldn't that be "add yer own damn accents"?

Just to confuse matters, there's also the 2CV - a very cute, old car

Originally Posted by kazbates

By the way (no, I will not use an acronym - my daughter says I'm not allowed as I am over the legal age of usage (whatever that means)),

Originally Posted by Xenophon

Kaz: I think your daughter is trying to say that you've passed your "sell by date." My nieces and nephews tell me this all the time.
Xenophon

So how do they get away with it, and more to the point, how do they get you to listen and take heed? The reason I'm asking is that I'd love for mum to stop using txtspk mostly because I can't understand most of it! (I'm in my late 30s but have been using mobiles the 'net for far longer than she has, yet she's picked up txtspk like she learnt it at birth!)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Just to confuse matters, there's also the 2CV - a very cute, old car

good point ! and it is a very cute car :



but my personal favorite is the Citroën DS :

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

True, the DS is far more stylish than the 2CV - well, with the exception of the Break version of the DS which looks pedestrian.

And a minus mark to the 2CV is that for a while some of the ones for the UK market were made in Slough (of the "come friendly bombs and rain on" fame...)

[lilac_jive]

Ok here's my question: how many vodka sprites at a wedding open bar does it take to get me drunk? Answer: four.

Bdfalleeeeghhhhh I wanna go to bed but the room is kind of spinning. And my feet are swollen and hurt real bad

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Xenophon

Kaz: I think your daughter is trying to say that you've passed your "sell by date." My nieces and nephews tell me this all the time.

Xenophon

Since my daugther stills lives at home and likes to have her laundry done and to eat home cook meals, I am pretty sure she doesn't want to go that route!! Not to mention, although I think I already have, I'm from Chicago and tend to be a bit brash, so she generally steers clear of pressing too many of my buttons!

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Shouldn't that be "add yer own damn accents"?

Just to confuse matters, there's also the 2CV - a very cute, old car




So how do they get away with it, and more to the point, how do they get you to listen and take heed? The reason I'm asking is that I'd love for mum to stop using txtspk mostly because I can't understand most of it! (I'm in my late 30s but have been using mobiles the 'net for far longer than she has, yet she's picked up txtspk like she learnt it at birth!)

My daughter enjoys clueing me in on the nuassances of texting etiquette that I seem to have missed by raising children, taking care of a home, and working full-time!! I still haven't gotten my mind around the fact that she would rather text her friends than pick up a phone and actually talk to them. I keep telling her that is why the phone was invented, so that we didn't have to sit down and write letters! Never mind the fact that I teach language to elementary students and am constantly correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. It goes against my sense of purpose to use acronyms so blythely! Okay! Now I really do sound like an "old fogey"!!

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

good point ! and it is a very cute car :



but my personal favorite is the Citroën DS :

I know that I live in my own little insular world over on this side of the pond, but those cars look like something from an old James Bond movie, one that Sean Connery would drive. They are so much more classy than the Honda Odyssey mini-van in which I drive 3 kids and 3 dogs around!!
Kaz

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by kazbates

I know that I live in my own little insular world over on this side of the pond, but those cars look like something from an old James Bond movie, one that Sean Connery would drive. They are so much more classy than the Honda Odyssey mini-van in which I drive 3 kids and 3 dogs around!!
Kaz

that's how i feel about most old cars compared to new ones ! but the DS is really in a class of its own. it had hydraulic suspension (many citroën models do) so when you started the motor the whole thing would rise up a little before you got going, and then when you parked it it would slowly lower closer to the ground. they're famous for allowing you to change a wheel without a jack. and i don't know about james bond (although i could easily imagine a young sean connery in a ds... miam !), but ex-french president Charles de Gaulle drove a DS.

[krisk]

ah Memories!!! I had a Citroen like that the first time I was stationed in Germany! Fun Car!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by krisk

ah Memories!!! I had a Citroen like that the first time I was stationed in Germany! Fun Car!

ooh, lucky !! of course, i don't have a driver's permit so there's no point in me lusting after a car, no matter how sexy and elegant...

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

ex-french president Charles de Gaulle drove a DS.

with his feet??

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

with his feet??

hey, you know, you have to have all kinds of special qualifications to be president !!

[Sparrow]

Didn't M. Hulot drive a Citroen when he went on holiday?