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I am saying this online in public so I can't take it back. There was a time, once upon a time, where I studied French at school. For lots of years. I was never amazing at it, and I stopped after GCSE, and now I've forgotten most of it. There is awesomeness on the BBC website for learning most foreign languages, and I'm going to use it, because I have the time at the minute so I may as well do something useful.
EDIT: Yes, I realise this does now make me ineligible to be a Republican President of the United States
(I'm eyeing up the German as well, but German as a language is a lot scarier than French. We're definitely not going to look at Welsh or Gaelic, because they're definitely not useful. Unless I get asked to interview on Anglesey and offered a job, in which case Welsh it is.)
Seen this around with lots of people:
Pick up the book nearest you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life for 2012.
"The new King William had a lot less time than modern Royals to go to nightclubs and do charity work - he had to charge up and down telling the English to behave themselves."
- So, more charging up and down the country, no fun? Or woe betide those from York to Lancaster because a Harrying's taking place? o.O
from: 1000 Years of Annoying the French, Stephen Clarke
Which is either ridiculously entertaining or I'm having withdrawal symptoms from the education system. More or less - a weekly podcast on demystifying stats - is almost certainly an educational drug (but as well as who gets paid more? Public or private sector? it also predicted sporting victories with monkeys a la Paul the Octopus and let the Sun report it as a psychic monkey when really, they'd just got lots of monkeys.)
It's just really interesting to hear where all the news people get their numbers from and how they've twisted them, and whether they're any use or not.
And now, I have to go and find out whether President Hugo Chavez of Venezuala could be right in thinking that the Americans gave lots of South American leaders cancer deliberately, given the number of them with cancer and the likelihood of any one person getting cancer.
EDIT: Yes, I realise this does now make me ineligible to be a Republican President of the United States
(I'm eyeing up the German as well, but German as a language is a lot scarier than French. We're definitely not going to look at Welsh or Gaelic, because they're definitely not useful. Unless I get asked to interview on Anglesey and offered a job, in which case Welsh it is.)
Seen this around with lots of people:
Pick up the book nearest you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life for 2012.
"The new King William had a lot less time than modern Royals to go to nightclubs and do charity work - he had to charge up and down telling the English to behave themselves."
- So, more charging up and down the country, no fun? Or woe betide those from York to Lancaster because a Harrying's taking place? o.O
from: 1000 Years of Annoying the French, Stephen Clarke
Which is either ridiculously entertaining or I'm having withdrawal symptoms from the education system. More or less - a weekly podcast on demystifying stats - is almost certainly an educational drug (but as well as who gets paid more? Public or private sector? it also predicted sporting victories with monkeys a la Paul the Octopus and let the Sun report it as a psychic monkey when really, they'd just got lots of monkeys.)
It's just really interesting to hear where all the news people get their numbers from and how they've twisted them, and whether they're any use or not.
And now, I have to go and find out whether President Hugo Chavez of Venezuala could be right in thinking that the Americans gave lots of South American leaders cancer deliberately, given the number of them with cancer and the likelihood of any one person getting cancer.