MOST REPLYS II: Return of the Reply

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by Into the blue

Good to have you back.

Does anyone think Dave is obviously not yourself since this trauma?

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by Zzagg

Yesterday, my beloved and I went through probably the most awkward parenting moment we ever had.
I was ready for the usual story telling time and my son (6 years old) told me he had brought a book back from school. I told him "OK, we'll read that", happy to read anything but King Lion.
The book is titled L'étoile d'Erika => Erika's star. And it tells the story of a jewish lady, thrown out of a death train wagon by her mother when she was only a baby, and raised by a family who named her Erika...

I shouldn't have started the reading, yet I did. After the first page I stopped reading to carefully explain the context. Then I had to stop on every sentence to try and explain words like "holocaust", "gaz chambers"... I felt my throat was "locked" a few times while I was reading or explaining, my beloved was there to help me on this heavy task.
Cool story before bedtime, eh?
My mate and I were both shocked after this reading session.

The book is tagged "youth reading" but I'm pretty pissed off that the school let a 6 yo boy who starts reading (and loves it) take it back home. I'll take it back myself and will have a conversation with the teacher.

We haven't read the whole book yet. I plan on reading the end tonight with minimum explaining and read a lighter story afterwards. I already told him that we, parents, were both there if he had any questions, and will tell him again.

Your thoughts, please: Should I really read the end of the book or drop it?

Read the whole book.

For years, children of holocaust survivors heard these stories daily, as young as they can remember. "Never forget." Don't French children visit the Concentration Camps in France?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concent...amps_in_France
and the Drancy camp in Paris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drancy_internment_camp

Until recently, the official point of view of the French government was that the Vichy regime was an illegal government distinct from the French Republic. While the criminal behaviour of Vichy France and the collaboration of French officials were acknowledged, and some former Vichy officials prosecuted, this point of view denied any responsibility of the French Republic. However, on 16 July 1995, president Jacques Chirac, in a speech, recognized the responsibility of the French State, and in particular of the French police which organized the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv) of July 1942 , for seconding the "criminal folly of the occupying country".[4]

On 20 January 2005, arsonists set fire to some railroad freight cars in the former camp; an inverted swastika was found on the place.

On 11 April 2009, a swastika was painted on the train car used for the deportation of Jews, a permanent exhibit. This action was condemned by the French Minister for the Interior, Michèle Alliot-Marie.[5]

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by Into the blue

If I remember correctly, didn't the wolf (after eating the grandmother) get chopped to bits by the axe-weilding woodsman in Little Red Riding Hood?

It's been a while since I read it though, so I may be a bit foggy on the details.

--that would make a really gory scene in the 3D movie

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by thieum

I was gonna go to Algeria tomorrow but they still haven't issued my visa, and for obvious reasons, I won't get it tomorrow (can't get anything done on a Friday in a Muslim administration).
So it's postponed to Monday or Tuesday. SUX...

For my information do you guys actually celebrate Valentine's day ? It's always blown my mind that people actually took this consumerist celebration seriously... Where does it come from anyway that we have to celebrate on Feb 14 rather than June 20 ? I know I could look it up but I'm too lazy, plus I don't care enough.

I gotta work tomorrow again, I'm kind of getting used to it
Pagedance at work !

Consumerism is used against us. It's sold to half the human race here, so the other half MUST take it seriously or nobody sleeps.

How often do you go to Algeria? For shopping? Tourism? I thought Moroc was much more popular for the French ....

[James_Potter]

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone has that photo of one of the MRIS guys with an entire apple in his mouth.
Thanks.

[thieum]

Originally Posted by Rezinha

Ahn... I didn't get the joke, sorry.

I thought it was a common cliché in Brazil, that girls in Bello Horizonte were the cutest in the country. I got the info from several Brazilian people, I guess they all were for Minas Gerais :P

[thieum]

Originally Posted by BillyTheMountain

Read the whole book.

It's too late, he's probably returned it to the school library.

[thieum]

Originally Posted by BillyTheMountain

How often do you go to Algeria? For shopping? Tourism? I thought Morocco was much more popular for the French ....

I usually travel to Africa for work, this case is no exception. I'm a cameraman.

[thieum]

Originally Posted by Into the blue

A Welsh rugby win

Hey, I didn't see you posting in the 6 nation thread. I really wonder what the outcome of England's next game will be vs France. I still put my money (idiomatically) on the Rose.

English country pagedance

[thieum]

Originally Posted by thieum

Hey, I didn't see you posting in the 6 nation thread.

Never mind, I guess I missed it because of all the goo still stuck in my eyes from a short night made even shorter by a geekling demanding its milk and porridge.

For those of you who won't celebrate tomorrow but wish they did, here's a lil cartoon :

YouTube - La Linea #203

[dan de man]

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WowI didnt know blue had like three times as many posts as gild
and that i had so few

[thieum]

Originally Posted by dan de man

WowI didnt know blue had like three times as many posts as gild
and that i had so few

That's actually a little over twice Gild's number of posts.
Are you keeping an eye on the number of posts to be in the top ten or something ? I used to race to be number one poster on the French forum, to reach 1000 posts before another top poster, now I just don't pay attention to it anymore

[dan de man]

actually very true
i rough guessed the maths,
i just thought id check how many posts ive done since t*rry got rid of old MR

[Into the blue]

Originally Posted by BillyTheMountain

All that stuff...

You been on holiday or something?

[Into the blue]

Originally Posted by James_Potter

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone has that photo of one of the MRIS guys with an entire apple in his mouth.
Thanks.

The famous one of Owen?

Sure.