My home town
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I suspect much of the reason for our linguistic divergence is simple pettiness. For “aluminum/aluminium” IIRC the scientist with the naming rights couldn’t make up his mind and each of us settled on a different version.
I say we should have just gone with “alumium” and called it a day
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Trying to figure out how to upload a video so it just shows the video thumbnail and not my imgur link....technology is not my strong suit...
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My gaff. She almost makes it sound fun…
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@ARNC It seems like a deliberately, even excessively positive piece of writing, as opposed to a balanced evaluation. But my perspective will be different to that of a visitor. And it is nice up here, by all means, but there are a lot of glaringly obvious things about the town that she ignores or underplays. It is for example really fucking ugly, with the exception of the library/concert hall.
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@neph93 said in My home town:
It is for example really fucking ugly, with the exception of the library/concert hall.
That was never going to appear in the final article - not unless the writer is planning to retire soon!
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@ARNC well not in that form, but the way she does acknowledge it makes it seem like a paid advertisement rather than an actual bit of travel writing. I'm increasingly inclined to brutal honesty though...
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We are in Port Louis on the other side of the river from Lorient. The town is stunningly beautiful, but I have to say they could take a leaf out of Gosports book.
Here are Gosports public WC's:
And here are Port Louis's, I checked and there are not even any sharps disposal bins, Jeez, Port Louis, get with the programme....
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@goosehd when you gotta go, you gotta go!
