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Friday Part 89 The story continues (pg. 2)
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
bookshop-cum-café |
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| Zharen |
| Spent my Friday working 10 hours, cleaned up my room and passed out quickly to do a 5 hour Sat shift. Took a long nap and then went to watch Rogue One again in 3D. Quite a few details I missed from the first viewing. |
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| Zharen |
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
I miss drugs more than alcohol for sure. *sigh*
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Lira I read this in my news feed today
"Hearts, intestines ripped out in Brazil prison killing spree"
Is this a cultural thing? |
I really have no idea why they went specifically full Aztec on each other - I guess it's because it's gruesome, and it conveys the idea that "you shouldn't mess with the attackers", as it was gang related violence.
All I know is that a friend of a student my wife advised this semester was killed, and the cousin of another one only got away with it because he was sent to the hospital the previous day died in hospital. Manaus is a great place to live, but not for the fainthearted :(
| quote: | | quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
I'm afraid to ask what a "cum cafe" is. Would you like cream in your coffee... :nervous: |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
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I thought that's what -cum- meant... It's a bookshop with a café in it. I assume the way I phrased it is not exactly common... So, what should I have called it? :p |
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| Jon_Snow |
| Just don't take your wife to a Bukkake Buffet. Trust me it could get messy... |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Just don't take your wife to a Bukkake Buffet. Trust me it could get messy... |
Haha, it's a Japanese word, I doubt there would be a similar misunderstanding :D
(Although it literally just means "pour over" so you never know :p) |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I thought that's what -cum- meant... It's a bookshop with a café in it. I assume the way I phrased it is not exactly common... So, what should I have called it? :p |
The way you phrased it was fine, though I suppose not everyone is familiar with the term.
Although, I expect every bookshop to have a cafe. Is that not as common down there? The way you phrased it does make it sound slightly more like it is half bookshop, half cafe. |
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| Silky Johnson |
I don't think it's that anyone is unfamiliar with the term, it's that it's c0re, and well, cum.
Bookshop + cafe, so like Chapters + Starbucks? |
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| Jon_Snow |
| To be honest I've never heard it used outside of academia ie "Magna Cum Laude". In the States it's hard to find a bookstore that not attached to a cafe. |
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| Lira |
I figured it wasn't exactly the most colloquial expression out there, but it's closer to my native Portuguese so I went with it anyway :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
The way you phrased it was fine, though I suppose not everyone is familiar with the term.
Although, I expect every bookshop to have a cafe. Is that not as common down there? The way you phrased it does make it sound slightly more like it is half bookshop, half cafe. |
It's not exactly rare, but it's uncommon enough that I felt the need to point it out. They only exist in very large bookshops around here, and the café is not exactly small either... I guess there are some 30 or so tables here because people often come to study or work (as I'm doing right now :p).
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
I don't think it's that anyone is unfamiliar with the term, it's that it's c0re, and well, cum. |
Phew, good to know I'm not phrasing anything weird and I can let this cum slide :toothless
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Bookshop + cafe, so like Chapters + Starbucks? |
Exactly! It's like Chapters with a Starbuck in it! They don't even seem to belong to the same parent company or anything. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I've heard the phrase many times. Don't know what these jerks' problem is. :o |
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