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"Feliz Natal" Dec 22, 2020

Matthias, and everyone: I wish you a "Feliz Natal", and cheers to health, happiness, and prosperity in 2021!
I would take this opportunity to say that I am really sorry for "certain" insults and attacks I read here yesterday.
Some people do not know how to behave in a professional context, and it is something deplorable.
In difficult times, when many of us are suffering (mainly because we have sick relatives with or without Covid-19... my old father was tested positive for thi
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Matthias, and everyone: I wish you a "Feliz Natal", and cheers to health, happiness, and prosperity in 2021!
I would take this opportunity to say that I am really sorry for "certain" insults and attacks I read here yesterday.
Some people do not know how to behave in a professional context, and it is something deplorable.
In difficult times, when many of us are suffering (mainly because we have sick relatives with or without Covid-19... my old father was tested positive for this virus, although he's at home with mild symptoms), reading such barbarities is a horrible thing.
This is why I didn't want to get involved in the discussion. This is neither the time, nor the place to address harsh and bitter words.
Here's a better song in Portuguese, a dialect from Cap Vert, "After the Quarantine", a message of hope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa771UDhpT8
Feliz Natal! Take care my friends!





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That' the worst I'm afraid of these days... Dec 22, 2020

expressisverbis wrote:

(mainly because we have sick relatives with or without Covid-19)

...as I don't fear much for myself but for infecting others. May your father recover soon and well, Sandra.


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I'm very sorry to hear about your dad, Sandra Dec 22, 2020

I wish him a speedy recovery!

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And me! Dec 22, 2020

And me too! It'll be all right, Exy, you'll see.

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My dearest friends, Dec 22, 2020

many thanks for your kind words, and support! He shows only cough and a bit of fever as symptoms.
Please stay safe and take good care of your family members in these times!


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..... Dec 22, 2020

I would have thought that taking care of an infected blood-relative takes precedence over reading "barbarities" and constantly digging out YouTube material, but perhaps that is the way in the (I'm going to poke you at every turn to extort an exchange from you) make-believe world! Same new old story!

 
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Portuguese? Dec 22, 2020

Is that really Portuguese being sung? Some of the words don't look like it to me ...

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Honestly!? Dec 22, 2020

Sadek_A wrote:

I would have thought that taking care of an infected blood-relative takes precedence over reading "barbarities" and constantly digging out YouTube material, but perhaps that is the way in the (I'm going to poke you at every turn to extort an exchange from you) make-believe world! Same new old story!


Who hurt you!?


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A superman and a worm Dec 22, 2020

One night I went to a bar with my husband and his colleague. At some point, they began to talk about work. Having nothing to do, I in turn began to talk to the next table. One of the men, tacky-and-cocky-looking, started to bother me, knowing very well my husband was right there. He was bragging about something. I think it was about money. I wasn’t really listening. He went on and on and on until he arrived at a conclusion, ‘I’m a superman!’

Now, you are asking for it.
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One night I went to a bar with my husband and his colleague. At some point, they began to talk about work. Having nothing to do, I in turn began to talk to the next table. One of the men, tacky-and-cocky-looking, started to bother me, knowing very well my husband was right there. He was bragging about something. I think it was about money. I wasn’t really listening. He went on and on and on until he arrived at a conclusion, ‘I’m a superman!’

Now, you are asking for it.

I look at him with narrowed eyes and lift my pinkie up to let him know how big I think his dick is. I say, ‘You? You are nothing but a worm!’
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..... Dec 22, 2020

Zibow Retailleau wrote:
Honestly!?
Who hurt you!?

I was raised not to "exchange" with married women, sorry!
Besides, I lost my cape, and my worm is hibernating 😝😂

You know what your problem is? I'm reading you like a book!
You keep trying to stress me one after the other, hoping that you will ultimately succeed in getting a violent reaction from me!

Keep trying, narrowed eyes! 😝😂


 
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Almost forgot! Dec 22, 2020

Zibow Retailleau wrote:
my husband and his colleague. man, tacky-and-cocky-looking, started to bother me, knowing very well my husband was right there

Such a gentle men those pair, indeed!


 
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"Mim ká falá nada crioulo!" Dec 23, 2020

Mervyn Henderson wrote:

Is that really Portuguese being sung? Some of the words don't look like it to me ...


It's Cape Verdean Creole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verdean_Creole
We can understand a few words in Portuguese only.
"Mim ká falá nada crioulo!" ("Eu não falo crioulo"; in English "I don't speak Creole!")


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Burn! Dec 23, 2020

Zibow Retailleau wrote:

One night I went to a bar with my husband and his colleague. At some point, they began to talk about work. Having nothing to do, I in turn began to talk to the next table. One of the men, tacky-and-cocky-looking, started to bother me, knowing very well my husband was right there. He was bragging about something. I think it was about money. I wasn’t really listening. He went on and on and on until he arrived at a conclusion, ‘I’m a superman!’

Now, you are asking for it.

I look at him with narrowed eyes and lift my pinkie up to let him know how big I think his dick is. I say, ‘You? You are nothing but a worm!’


Wow, Zibow, you're quite the formidable lady! Remind me never to cross you.


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Superwoman, more like Dec 23, 2020

Can that line ever work with anyone? They might not all put him firmly in his place like Zibow did, but it can't ever be a winner, surely.

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Chat-up lines Dec 23, 2020

I'm not a chat-up line kinda guy, but I did once tell a woman that I had three cocks.

To be fair, we were discussing poultry at the time.


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