Love Zhaoying Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, Aislin Ceawlin said: Oakland County MICHIGAN Yipe! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Aislin Ceawlin said: Oakland County MICHIGAN My husband is from Bloomfield Hills. We usually try to avoid going back. Edited February 3, 2018 by LittleMe Jewell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aislin Ceawlin Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Just now, LittleMe Jewell said: My husband is from Bloomfield Hills. We usually try to avoid going back. Small world, I live in West Bloomfield! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said: I thought your pic was in Oakland, CA! ? Oakland, CA is a city. It's in Alameda County. If you're interested, It was about 75 there today. All of central/north central coastal California is a bit warmer than usual, which I mind not in the slightest. I just like seeing the sun getting higher in the sky these days. I have to start pretending I don't have the wintertime blues in like September; I just hate seeing the sun get lower and lower. Now, a month plus after solstice it's heading back where I like it. :-) ETA: Luckily I've never had the summertime blues. They're incurable. Edited February 3, 2018 by Dillon Levenque 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 13 hours ago, Coby Foden said: Google knows the right answer for the "most stable country in the world 2016". Finland then If you are a doctor, and you were in Portugal in the late 90s, we may have met My absolute favourite piece of classical music is Intermezzo from the Karelia suite, by your countryman, Sibelius. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coby Foden Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Phil Deakins said: Finland then If you are a doctor, and you were in Portugal in the late 90s, we may have met My absolute favourite piece of classical music is Intermezzo from the Karelia suite, by your countryman, Sibelius. Yes, Finland is right. By the way, Finlandia hymn by Sibelius is also very nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFtxMaRoik Somebody has made instruction for foreigners visiting Finland "What to wear in winter". The dressing applies to both men and women. Something more about Finland here:http://inktank.fi/100-reasons-why-finland-is-best-country-in-the-world/ Edited February 3, 2018 by Coby Foden 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coby Foden Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 In Finnish language we have this word "Lohikäärme" (in English Dragon), which some Finns accidentally translate into English as "Salmon snake". This is how it looks. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aislin Ceawlin Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 29 minutes ago, Coby Foden said: Somebody has made instruction for foreigners visiting Finland "What to wear in winter". The dressing applies to both men and women. Just like Michigan!!! YAY Finland!!! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akasha Sternberg Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Coby Foden said: Yes, Finland is right. By the way, Finlandia hymn by Sibelius is also very nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFtxMaRoik Somebody has made instruction for foreigners visiting Finland "What to wear in winter". The dressing applies to both men and women. Something more about Finland here:http://inktank.fi/100-reasons-why-finland-is-best-country-in-the-world/ I will SO go to Finland one day... I love the country, the language ( failed at learning it though) but DAMN.... presented it in class in my precourse fo my new job training *-* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Coby Foden said: By the way, Finlandia hymn by Sibelius is also very nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFtxMaRoik I know that Sibelius wrote Finlandia but I've never heard it. I have it open in another browser tab now, so I'll listen to it this afternoon. It would have to be really good to surpass Intermezzo for me, though. I can't tell you how much I love that piece, especially the beginning of it. I once had a small SL parcel with my cousin, which we called Luosto. That's because Luosto is her absolute favourite place in the entire world. She's been there, of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 6 hours ago, Coby Foden said: Somebody has made instruction for foreigners visiting Finland "What to wear in winter". The dressing applies to both men and women. I think that's why so many Finns felt comfortable emigrating to the North Central Midwest in the US and to Sasketchewan and Manitoba in Canada. That's how we dress for half the year. (The rest of the year we are cursing nasty little biting insects -- "mygg" in Swedish ). I have only been in Finland once, while driving from Umea to Nordcap in the 1970s. It looked like home. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Whereas in Colorado we get the beauty of winter, but also get warm enough to ski almost naked (one ski resort actually use to have a 'naked ski' day at the end of the season) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Solo Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 https://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fhalleonard-pagepreviews%2FHL_DDS_920743Kv4RPd0OOj.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheetmusicdirect.us%2Fsheetmusic%2Fsong%2F1000163889%2Fover-the-hills-and-far-away&docid=Hy0lfd7KpptDAM&tbnid=fa1unO1seDuHZM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjVp_OUmIzZAhVDnZQKHZsqCGsQMwhSKA0wDQ..i&w=522&h=696&bih=949&biw=1920&q=over the hills and far away&ved=0ahUKEwjVp_OUmIzZAhVDnZQKHZsqCGsQMwhSKA0wDQ&iact=mrc&uact=8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Vandyke Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 From the Netherlands, pretty close to Amsterdam 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Barzane Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) also from The Netherlands, few km below Amsterdam in an town called Alphen aan den Rijn. I believe we're most famous because our awesome bridgebuilding techniques Edited February 5, 2018 by Pandora Barzane 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Pandora Barzane said: also from The Netherlands, few km below Amsterdam in an town called Alphen aan den Rijn. I believe we're most famous because our awesome bridgebuilding techniques Good grief, I hope that wasn't as horrible as it looked for anyone caught in that. All I could find on Google (in English, that is) were stories from the day it happened; August 3, 2015, and they are of course sketchy on details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta Vandyke Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 3 hours ago, Pandora Barzane said: I believe we're most famous because our awesome bridgebuilding techniques No way, Alphen is most famous for the "gelaarsde kat dip" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Barzane Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dillon Levenque said: Good grief, I hope that wasn't as horrible as it looked for anyone caught in that. All I could find on Google (in English, that is) were stories from the day it happened; August 3, 2015, and they are of course sketchy on details. There was nobody wounded or killed except for one dog who was in one of the buildings who got hit sadly. All in all I think it was a small miracle nobody else got hurt, the houses it fell on is in a busy street in the centre of town. I think the thing that helped because it was such a big operation, people were watching it all around the neighbourhood, so they saw it happening go bad, a restaurant wich was in the impact zone was full of people, but the owner saw the kranes moving the wrong way and alarmed the people to gtfo, few seconds later the place was under the bridge part. Took them 6 months to clean up the mess. Edited February 5, 2018 by Pandora Barzane 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Voxel Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 From Montreal, QC but living in the US on the East Coast. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravellerInTime Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 We (also Alphenaar) are also famous for our Kiwi Tuatahi. The gull on the image above moved making a reporter claim the leaf fell due to heavy wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Boyle Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Central U.S. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Graves Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Aotearoa (Land of the Long White Cloud) aka New Zealand. [Thread derail] Though recently I have returned from a vacation visiting far flung relatives in a strange place called Yorkshire... ? [Thread derail] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Levenque Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) On 2/3/2018 at 2:56 AM, Coby Foden said: In Finnish language we have this word "Lohikäärme" (in English Dragon), which some Finns accidentally translate into English as "Salmon snake". This is how it looks. I KNEW I'd seen that image somewhere but I couldn't remember where. I was looking for this post yesterday (Oct. 15) because of an article I saw on BBC Online. I didn't save the link (sorry) but as the caption shows it was about Pompeii. I believe it was an article saying they'd found evidence the eruption was a few months later than the long-believed date. This image certainly suggests that The Mighty Finn (a possibly mythical character) extended his travels as far as Italy (it's known he got to Hungary; they speak almost the same language). Edited October 16, 2018 by Dillon Levenque 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blush Bravin Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Near Houston, Texas. I grew up in California's central valley. It was quite the culture shock when I moved to Texas in the late 1970s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saraya Starr Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Originally from Massachusetts, but now living in Vermont. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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