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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 11, 2024 6:06:48 GMT
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Post by hild1066 on Jun 11, 2024 11:46:07 GMT
I can't open it Rikki but I'm going to say that dialect and colloquialisms are acceptable in English exams if the student is writing about what people said or writing about certain people but not in Chemistry.
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 11, 2024 11:51:53 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 11, 2024 12:01:51 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 11, 2024 20:24:38 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 12, 2024 7:27:15 GMT
While our press hounds Sunak, where can he find funding when millions aren't working at all? (surely we don't need any more people coming here , shouldn't we be training up this lot?) www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591 |
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Post by marispiper on Jun 12, 2024 8:15:31 GMT
I have read a number of stories of the protests by Spaniards (esp in the Balearics) about the deluge of tourists and their impact. Water scarce and visitors using it without a thought, a high proportion of yobby, mouthy people drinking themselves silly day after day. Who'd want to be surrounded by that?
In Italy they don't have that problem - it's too expensive there for a start, and you have to pay to go on the beaches....Maybe that's Spain's answer. A massive price hike š¤
We went to Amsterdam a year or so back and at Passport Control, the officer asked (as they have to) '...and what is the purpose of your visit?'
When we told him we were going to the Rijksmuseum to see the Vermeers, he nearly applauded and said "You are exactly the kind of visitors we want - we are fed up with those who just want to come here and drink, smoke weed and see the Red Light District" !!
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Post by hild1066 on Jun 12, 2024 9:15:34 GMT
Well Amsterdam has been promoting their party scene and the Red Light District for donkeys years, they even advertise booze cruises. Besides overall the Dutch aren't that friendly and the cyclists are determined to take you out with menaces. The Rijksmuseum and the Vermeer's are probably the only reason to go.
The same issue around the Balearic Islands has mostly been fuelled by AirBnB and similar companies. This has meant landlords renting out their properties as holiday lets and local people being massively priced out of the market. In Mallorca people can get a nice flat in the winter but get turfed out in May and then have to bunk up with family and friends. It is a problem, but not necessarily with tourists, it's about housing regulation. Mallorca is a beautiful island and there are lots of lovely resorts where this kind of yobbish behaviour is not seen at all.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 12, 2024 9:31:54 GMT
The UK press/media cherry-picks the news. You'll hear lots about America but little about Europe. Doesn't that strike you as strange , that a country thousands of miles away is more reported than the countries just across the channel.
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 12, 2024 16:12:08 GMT
Sunak says he didn't get sky, the homeless get sky every night,and the stars too.
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Post by marispiper on Jun 12, 2024 16:17:41 GMT
Well Amsterdam has been promoting their party scene and the Red Light District for donkeys years, they even advertise booze cruises. Besides overall the Dutch aren't that friendly and the cyclists are determined to take you out with menaces. The Rijksmuseum and the Vermeer's are probably the only reason to go. The same issue around the Balearic Islands has mostly been fuelled by AirBnB and similar companies. This has meant landlords renting out their properties as holiday lets and local people being massively priced out of the market. In Mallorca people can get a nice flat in the winter but get turfed out in May and then have to bunk up with family and friends. It is a problem, but not necessarily with tourists, it's about housing regulation. Mallorca is a beautiful island and there are lots of lovely resorts where this kind of yobbish behaviour is not seen at all. That's funny, we've been to the Netherlands a lot (not just Amsterdam) and always found them to be very friendly... But anyway, back to the Balearics (š) I was talking to a pal over a cup of coffee today. She has Greek connections and says they seem to promote only certain resorts for the cheap end of the market while other places remain pretty expensive and select. Why do you think Majorca is protesting about tourists then? They are up in arms! Not that it'd be my chosen destination, but I wouldn't be too happy if I'd booked there this summer... |
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 12, 2024 20:30:06 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 13, 2024 9:01:46 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 13, 2024 9:56:09 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Jun 14, 2024 6:25:08 GMT
Up to their necks in **it?
Competitors in a triathlon have told the BBC they have suffered from vomiting and diarrhoea after swimming in the River Thames. Rebecca Norman, from Reading, said she had to go to A&E after feeling sick 24 hours after the Royal Windsor Triathlon on Sunday.
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