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[Menydh]

On occasions, I like sushi very much. My brother spent over 3 years in Japan and makes sushi often. I also like the ginger that comes with it.

Mind you, I even managed to eat it with the chopsticks! I've never understood what is the convenience of eating with chopsticks other than perhaps the food itself. While I was in the Gran Canaria island this winter, I found a Japanese restaurant hidden in the heart of the dockworkers area. The owner and cooker was a Jap and the restaurant was there for the convenience of Japanese seamen docking in the island.

There, I realized that they use the chopsticks less than we suspect and they help themselves mostly with their fingers. So I felt like a complete idiot snob trying to use the chopsticks for absolutely everything.

Originally Posted by Susi

Sorry for breaking the chain again! Oh, I'm a failure at this !

LOL! Don't worry, it is not the end of the world.

Is Halloween generally celebrated in the typical "North American" fashion in your country (i.e. "trick or treat")?

Unfortunately, I've had the displeasure of seeing young children in fancy dresses in those days.

Here it is called All Saints Day, and it is traditionally a day to go to the cemeteries to pay respect to the defuncts or to light a candle in their memory.

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Which characteristic from an European culture [different to yours] would you like to adopt for your country? (if any at all)

[Susi]

General Intelligence.

Personally being raised with "Halloween" as opposed to "All Saints Day", I enjoy dressing up and cavorting around. It's fun... but it is far too commercialized these days as well.. Also a lot of the kids are really quite rude now. I was giving some sweets out at my house and one kid said it smelled like cat piss and I don't even own a cat! It was chili which my mother had made for supper. I only gave him one sweet. Serves him right for being a stupid rude brat. And also these rude people need to actually make an effort for their costume, they need to be something. Anyways. Off topicey rant over.

Do you read The Economist?

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Susi

Do you read The Economist?

Of course, as I study economics.

Have you ever been in a leftist political group - or sympathized with their ideas ?

[Susi]

Is liking the environment a leftist idea? I think I like a few ideas. I like free(ish) healthcare like I have here. Umm.. I can't think of much else...

When's your birthday and do you plan to celebrate it? If so, what kind of cake or sweets are you going to have?

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Susi

Personally being raised with "Halloween" as opposed to "All Saints Day", I enjoy dressing up and cavorting around. It's fun... but it is far too commercialized these days as well..

I prefer All Saints Day not because it is a tradition of Christian roots vs a tradition(?) of Pagan roots (Halloween). But because it gives you some hope to see that there are still people with spiritual values who pay respect to their ancestors on that day.

Besides, it is not said that the All Saints Day celebration has not Pagan roots:

All Soul's Day

Certain popular beliefs connected with All Souls' Day are of pagan origin and immemorial antiquity. Thus the dead are believed by the peasantry of many Catholic countries to return to their former homes on All Souls' Night and partake of the food of the living. In Tyrol, cakes are left for them on the table and the room kept warm for their comfort. In Brittany, people flock to the cemeteries at nightfall to kneel bare-headed at the graves of their loved ones, and to toll the hollow of the tombstone with holy water or to pour libations of milk on it, and at bedtime the supper is left on the table for the souls.

[source]

In fact the Catholic celebration of All Saints Day is more connected here with the ancient Pagan spirituality than the neo-Pagan celebration of Halloween which is purely materialistic.

Also a lot of the kids are really quite rude now. I was giving some sweets out at my house and one kid said it smelled like cat piss and I don't even own a cat! It was chili which my mother had made for supper.

Chilli? I would have agreed with the child! [/quote]

Originally Posted by Theobald

Of course, as I study economics.

I'm sorry to hear. Nowadays everyone seems to be studying a degree but no one studies a profession, a guild. Decades ago there was a certain flair in being a Lawyer. Today there are so many of them that they are the more unemployed collective with a degree title. The Economists are next in the list.

Originally Posted by Susi

When's your birthday and do you plan to celebrate it? If so, what kind of cake or sweets are you going to have?

It's past gone recently and I chose not to celebrate.

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What's your favourite season of the year and why?

[svin]

(Speaking of Chritstian holidays, I think at least half of them have pre-Christian roots. Old Gods were replaiced by Saints etc.)

What's your favourite season of the year and why?

Autumn, because it's very beautiful and comfortable for me (not very cold or cold).

How often do you think of death?

[Galaico]

Originally Posted by svin

How often do you think of death?

Not too often, after all it is inevitable, so it is a waste of time to think about it, you will just suffer and distress.

What was your first job (in adult age)?

[Cyrax]

Originally Posted by Galaico

Not too often, after all it is inevitable, so it is a waste of time to think about it, you will just suffer and distress.

What was your first job (in adult age)?

18 is widely considered to be the first year of adulthood, so i think it's safe for me to answer. It was at my local post office for 2 months during the summer of the current year.

Have you ever violated national law?

[Strengthandhonour]

Originally Posted by Cyrax

18 is widely considered to be the first year of adulthood, so i think it's safe for me to answer. It was at my local post office for 2 months during the summer of the current year.

Have you ever violated national law?

No, not that I know of. And if I did, I wasn't aware I was doing it.

Have you ever been arrested?

[Susi]

Nopers. I have done something illegal by drinking alcohol here before I am legally allowed to... as well as potential assault (depending on interpretation) when I practise swords with my boyfriend... I've never littered though

If you were a lawyer, what would your case-winning phrase be? (Mine would be: "Objection! That is objectionable!" or something rodondolous like that.)

[Erasmus]

Objection, your honour! Counsel is arguing his case
Typical phrase in American movies.

OBJECTIONS AT TRIAL
AND OTHER CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS:

http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/405/405lect08.htm

What's your favourite browser?

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

I'm sorry to hear. Nowadays everyone seems to be studying a degree but no one studies a profession, a guild. Decades ago there was a certain flair in being a Lawyer. Today there are so many of them that they are the more unemployed collective with a degree title. The Economists are next in the list.

I should have said "Business" rather than "Economics". Actually 90% of people who have studied in my school find a job within 6 months (though almost half of them find their first job outside France). And the others either don't want to work immediately or are non-European who are not engaged precisely because of this (which is stupid in my opinion - if we let them study in our faculties, let's at least use their skills for our economy).
But of course, a degree title is not enough. You also need some experience and personal competences. And as I currently have a part-time job in my professional sector though I still don't have any degree title, I don't worry about my future Mynydd.

[Susi]

Hey! I didn't ruin it this time!!!! Yayyy!

Um, to Erasmus, I use firefox because I like the fox better than the e... I don't really have a reason for prefering either. *shrug*

What makes you cringe on sight?

[Ferran]

Originally Posted by Susi

What makes you cringe on sight?

There are many things that make me cringe on sight, one of them is seeing people combining a Tweety Bird orange T-shirt with red shorts.

Do you have a secret admirer?