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Let's just say the actual translation reeks a bit more of brimstone. No wonder they're moving the whole darn town of Kiruna.
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You're getting snow on May?
I don't know how to react to that. This year we didn't get any snow here so I am a bit jealous, but I don't think I'd really want to get snow on May.
I've been wearing my shorts and tank tops since last week (even though it's been rainy for two days so I had to switch back to long pants, but it's still warm).
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That made me remember some years ago when a norse football (soccer) team (I cannot remember the team or the country) came to A Coruña on March or April for a match against the local team.
The stadium is next to a beach. A lot of norse people came to see the match. It was like 15-17°C, it was cloudy and it rained from time to time.
When people watched how they went to the beach with their swimming suits on and they started bathing, saying how amazing was the weather on Spain, local people were like WTF because the weather was bad for Galician standards!
In Galicia we think we had cold and wet weather compared to the South (weather is Atlantic, not Mediterranean) but we don't realize how warmer it is compared to Northern countries.
To us, we live in the North xD
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You're getting snow on May?
I don't know how to react to that. This year we didn't get any snow here so I am a bit jealous, but I don't think I'd really want to get snow on May.
I've been wearing my shorts and tank tops since last week (even though it's been rainy for two days so I had to switch back to long pants, but it's still warm).
Thankfully that's far enough north of me that I'm closer to most parts of Germany or the Netherlands than to there.
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I have a friend from my roleplaying group who lived for some years in Finland. For what he told, it was a good place to live.
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I used to love sleeping on the couch.
But it turns out after nearly sixteen years of marital bliss has left me ill equipped to handle it.
I'm so tired and sore.
And yes, our marriage is still blissful, but my dad is using our bed. :-)
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When I was in high school we would spend the night at friends when we would play DnD all day and most of the night. I got so used to sleeping on couches that I had to put a pillow behind my back to recreate the feeling.
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From the Gravity Falls Secret Journal, the Woodpecker Pecker; a bird that pecks woodpeckers.
Also, the Cowl; an owl with the face and udder of a cow.
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Grampy (to Tiny T-Rex): You have to put on shoes and socks, otherwise the restaurant won't serve you.
Pea Bear: no shirt, no shoes, no service, isn't that how it is
Tiny T-Rex: damn hippie haters!
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The Green Scyther, an enigmatic, scythe-wielding denizen of the Vast Green...
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The Green Scyther, an enigmatic, scythe-wielding denizen of the Vast Green...
Gonna need a Masterball...
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Today I bought another tulwar (curvy Indian sword with tiny hilt), which was quite cheap, and didn't buy a shiny blunderbuss which was on sale in the same shop, and wasn't.
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Oh man, we could've gone on a ye olde timey Fox hunt. I already have the ye olde timey hound dog.
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There wouldn't be much left of the fox if you shot it with a blunderbuss, but maybe that's the point.
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Americans don't hunt to eat. They hunt so they have something to strap to the top of their car and park it in front of a bar for hours on end.
Blunderbuss will do just fine.
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At the Fairyland park in Oakland this afternoon, another dad was calling to his daughter, "Lucy, Lucy."
My son, mishearing the name, walked up to the man and said, "ACTUALLY, Lizzie was a dog-sister in our house, but she DIED." And then dropped the mic and walked away.
(Lizzie was one of our collies.)
Soooo awkward.
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"Dad! Look at the magical dinosaurs we found on the moon!" - Tiny T-Rex, coming inside from what I'd thought was the backyard with a handful of dinosaurs.
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Lord Of The Jurassic Moon, coming soon to a theater near you!!!
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You guys seem like smart cookies (with maybe like one or two exceptions ;D).
If you had a reservation at a completly different hotel would you expect them to be able to transfer the reservations to a different hotel the night of check in and actually like at 11:30 pm.
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No, I wouldn't.
THANK YOU!
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You guys seem like smart cookies (with maybe like one or two exceptions ;D).
If you had a reservation at a completly different hotel would you expect them to be able to transfer the reservations to a different hotel the night of check in and actually like at 11:30 pm.
Er... no.
Most assuredly, emphatically, "I'm sorry, but what you're thinking has no basis in reality," no.
The hour of the day doesn't much matter here. It's, "We have no business relationship with the other hotel. We don't have a 'secret hotline' that magically gets you an empty room that they were otherwise going to just take the loss on."
I admit, I live in and visit densely-populated areas. But our hotels tend to be 100% booked on Friday and Saturday nights. Showing up and saying, "Well, this wasn't the hotel we wanted, so we want you to move us," may be a true statement, but expecting the hotel to be able to act on it is... unreasonable, to say the least.
EDIT: I'll admit, my experience is in places like Anaheim and San Francisco, but we've had group trips where we have 33 rooms booked, we let 30 go, and we say, "Oh, we need to keep 4 instead of 3, is that OK?" only to have the hotel say, "Sorry -- we're booked solid."
Doesn't seem like a hotel would willingly take a loss just to keep a room free "just in case", so I'm betting they really do run remarkably full.
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I mean there was rooms but they didn't want to pay the cancellation cost at the other hotel. I was just so lost on the line of thinking.
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... Doesn't seem like a hotel would willingly take a loss just to keep a room free "just in case", so I'm betting they really do run remarkably full.I [sarcasm]love[/sarcasm] when people ask that. "You don't even have a room set aside for emergencies that I can have?" No. We don't do that. I don't think anyone does that. And if we did, you are not an emergency, so I wouldn't sell you the room anyways.
Like seriously who has a emergency room? I have never heard of that before wtf?
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We have third party's oversell us all the time computer says were full somehow for some reason they still book and send them our way. We just tell them we are sold out sorry I would call your *random internet hotel booking site* and tell them they cray cray.
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Good morning everyone! Good whatever, Vid!
The idea of an emergency room on an hotel seems ridiculous. I mean, it's a business, if you have an empty room and a customer, you put the customer in the room, you don't say «sorry, I have a room, but it's only for emergencies, take your money elsewhere».
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lol exactly. an ideal situation for a hotel is to have a guest in every room. That is why reservations are made to help fill those rooms up and why they charge when you cancel because it makes it harder to fill the room.
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My morning coffee substitute!!!
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Another thing I hate is when people say "Well, can you call me if a room becomes available?" No. We don't do that here. I have worked places that had a wait list, and I know that some places still use them, but we don't. If we did, I would have said "I'm sorry, we don't have any rooms available for that weekend, but I can add you to the waiting list if you'd like." Also, don't ask me "Well, when do you expect people to start cancelling for that weekend so I'll know when to check back?" I don't expect people to cancel at all. Sure, some of them will, but who knows who and when? My advice, keep checking the web site. It will most likely know when a room opens up before I know. Hell, you may be able to set up some kind of auto-alert (maybe, I don't know, I don't use the website I use our property management software).
I never get that one on thirds but it sounds annoying. I hate the "your sold out on memorial day weekend at midnight on a Saturday? well whats going on around here?"
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Once, on a first date, a girl asked me what I did for a living. I said "I spend every day working with animals." "How adorable!" she cried. "Are you a vet, or work at the animal shelter or something?" "No," I said, "I'm a butcher."
She left in tears.
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