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Man I am hungover, bloody hell. I only drank 6 Becks cans and some wine. WTF? I have to drive to the shops to get some beer and some meat, but I have to wait until the afternoon to make sure I am not over the legal limit.
Man I am hungover, bloody hell. I only drank 6 Becks cans and some wine. WTF? I have to drive to the shops to get some beer and some meat, but I have to wait until the afternoon to make sure I am not over the legal limit.
Becoming a lightweight, you must resort to hair of the dog.
I was thinking about it, and I realize how annoying consumerism is. The society is pushing you to save up and buy a house and then buy useless crap for that house. Like I honestly don't give a single **** about spending money on televisions, expensive fashion, furniture, cars, etc. All I wanna spend money on is traveling, coffee, exotic cuisines, and weed. I dont wanna save up for no damn house, I wanna save up for blunts, lattes, and croissants. And travels to other places of course
I speak some Portuguese since my dad lived in Brazil from 1966 until 1971 so he knows a lot and I somewhat picked it up from him. I understand the grand majority of words though, probably about 80% or so. I'd do fine if I were to go to Portugal or Brazil.
Italian is a bit tougher, but I understand a lot of it, probably about 50% or so. I only a know a few words though I would love to learn it, Portuguese also. German, Russian and Swedish are other languages that I wouldn't mind learning, as ugly as German sounds.
Is there a lot of cultural ties between Germany and Sweden?
Yeah Swedish is the beautiful-sounding version of German pretty much No actually we're much less similar to Germans than people think, both in terms of culture and language, but we're still very culturally intelligible. In the central Nordics (Sweden and Norway) we're a hybrid between Germany and Finland culture-wise.
As for the language Swedish and German aren't mutually intelligible unless you're a very smart cookie and then it becomes 20 % intelligible without studies It's much more similar to Swedish than English though and therefore it'd been easier for us to learn fluent German with a similar effort from a similar age. Take this for example:
As for Italian that language is so frustrating because it's clearly the easiest Roman language for a Swede to learn, relatively simple grammar and pronounciation and a lot of our words derive directly from Latin instead of French, so much of it is straightforward. Then Italians open their mouths and yeah. I only studied it for a year though in a 30 + pupil class so it wasn't the ideal environment. Therefore my Italian is much worse than it should be! Spanish on the other hand is a complete mess to me as is French
As for nei's comment to even compare speaking Spanish in South Florida with its history to speak Somali and Arabic in Sweden is... laughable. Children of Hispanic immigrants in Sweden never speak Spanish in public because the norms are that in Sweden we speak Swedish. Unfortunately the jackass politican South Stockholm leftist-brigade have decided to ruin this country but that doesn't mean I'll have to accept this.
Finally I can get high again and kill this hangover once and for all.
I went to the shops to get some food and beer and waited until around 5:30pm with the assumption that there would not be that many people and all the deads**ts would have retired home for the night. How wrong was I...
Firstly, the joint was FULL of goddamn people, most of them derelicts, drug addicts, asian backpackers and indians that never heard of a shower before and ofcourse all of them DERPING around the meat section where I want to go flapping their mouths to each other, not a f**king care in the world. Then the deli section, **** me, full of people and Adi was there stinking up the joint while waiting and waiting and waiting while the single fat employee there bumbles around like a helium balloon while her equally fat sidekick is there twiddling her thumbs I'm starting to RAGE SWEAT like nothing else Eventually... EVENTUALLY, she calls my number and asks me what I want..... from the other ****ing side of the room. I tell here to come here so I don't have to shout halfway across the room, I tell her I want 300g of bacon, she grabs a whole ****ing load, 660g on the scale and she begins to ring it up. "I asked for 300g please".
The when I get out I try to cross the parking lot, and some ****ing moron in a van stops and starts reversing gradually in slow motion not knowing what da **** its doing **** you while I'm waiting for it to **** off oh my god
And also WHAT IS IT WITH CASHIERS INVITING YOU TO THE CHECKOUT WHILE THE PERSON IN FRONT IS STILL DERPING AROUND WITH THEIR BLOODY PURSES AND COINS AND CARDS AND ****. WAIT TILL THEY'RE GONE FFS.
As for nei's comment to even compare speaking Spanish in South Florida with its history to speak Somali and Arabic in Sweden is... laughable. Children of Hispanic immigrants in Sweden never speak Spanish in public because the norms are that in Sweden we speak Swedish. Unfortunately the jackass politican South Stockholm leftist-brigade have decided to ruin this country but that doesn't mean I'll have to accept this.
I don't know much about Swedish values, obviously, but my guess of why children of hispanic immigrants in Swedish don't speak Spanish in public is there aren't many of them so immigrant children don't keep their parent's language much, not enough exposure rather than anything about norms [assuming it's not just your norm]. In the US, I think a decent amount of children of immigrants or at least their grandparents will become as monolingual as most Americans.
When did I ever say anything about Sweden? Or make a specific comparison? Other than "I get offended by hearing other languages". I was thinking of immigrant American posters and their families... You think Alex or anyone similar would change his habits if elsewhere in the country? Warwarza? Most common among immigrants who grew up here is talk in their parent's language among relatives wherever they want, people their age, mix but more often English. This is common sense and fairly rude and nosy to care about how strangers talk:
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Hell yeah! And if anyone ever scorns me for speaking Spanish in public, I'll cuss them out real quick in perfect English.
Also hard to take anything you say about immigration when you write attitudes like that.
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I would love to learn it, Portuguese also. German, Russian and Swedish are other languages that I wouldn't mind learning, as ugly as German sounds. 
It's much more similar to Swedish than English though and therefore it'd been easier for us to learn fluent German with a similar effort from a similar age. Take this for example:
yeah. I only studied it for a year though in a 30 + pupil class so it wasn't the ideal environment. Therefore my Italian is much worse than it should be! Spanish on the other hand is a complete mess to me as is French 
