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den Bock zum Gärtner machen - to be asking for trouble, to ask a goat to keep the garden Nie im Leben! - No way!, lit. never in life das Gift - poison der Müll (no pl) - trash, garbage das Feuer - fire der Bürgerkrieg - civil war der Dreck (no pl) - dirt, crud, filth, muck das Teufelzeug (no pl) - work of the devil vernichtet - destroyed, spoiled

Related vocab we've already reviewed:

es tut mir leid - I'm sorry schlecht - bad, poor nervig - irritating blöd - stupid unsypathisch - unlikeable im Stress - stressed krank - ill, sick geschieden - divorced das Monstrum - monster die Falle - trap auf den Hund kommen - to go to the dogs leider nicht - unfortunately not

Bonus vocabulary:

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation near Australia.  This is their flag:

The Gay Kingdom (as it is colloquially known) was founded in 2004 in protest against Australia’s legal stance against same-sex marriage.

Here are some of their stamps:

They are currently ruled by Emperor Dale I, and their currency is the Pink Dollar.

they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.

everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.

As previously mentioned, the idea originated at Pride (Brisbane 2003) in reaction to punitive anti-marriage legislation

“On the 14th day of June 2004, at this highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea in his name as homeland for the gay and lesbian peoples of the world. God Save our King!”

The campsite/capital Heaven was named after the London nightclub

War was declared on Australia in September 2004

The aforementioned stamps were issued in July 2006 “with the aim of creating a high and distinctive reputation amongst the philatelic fraternity”

They were never recognized legally/internationally as a micronation (and in fact Anderson refused to attend a conference in 2010 because they weren’t actually trying to be a sovereign nation)

In Feb 2017, Abetz was objecting to the flag of a “hostile nation” being flown

Na hoe lang merk je dat je moeilijk meer kan focussen in een meeting (of lezing oid) die voornamelijk luisteren is, zonder pauzes?

Half uur of minder

Half uur tot een uur

Uur tot anderhalf uur

Twee tot drie uur

Drie tot vier uur

Ergens meer dan vier uur (respect)

Ik kan sowieso niet focussen

Ik heb dit probleem nooit

Oneindige nuance/resultaten/iets anders wat ik ben vergeten

oh! the space needle is a cute mascot base for seattle’s MLB team! i wonder how they managed to communicate that in a big foam costume?

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west coat: we hate our city and it makes us feel good

Vs

Katara having the privilege of still having her people and culture but not ever being able to learn southern waterbending style because she never met another southern waterbender and only knowing the northern way of fighting and also having to grow up quicker.

If she has something to tell me, I’ll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That’s where she writes her message.

Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.

But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL (“W… W… W… dot…”) and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.