Try multiplication and division in a foreign language. If you can do it without problems, you are good. It's essential that one thinks in the foreign language when speaking it. And there's nothing worse than when you start translating your native idioms, it seldom works.
Strictly Come Dancing - 'It Takes Two' Chat Thread (Part 16)
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Being extremely easily pleased, went on twitter this morning to find that Gleb 'liked' my tweet. 
The tweet I sent had nothing to do with his looks so I am surprised he took the time to read it, never mind Like it. 
The tweet I sent had nothing to do with his looks so I am surprised he took the time to read it, never mind Like it.
Originally Posted by Nina_Blake:
“I think he and Karen are doing a samba demo”
“I think he and Karen are doing a samba demo”
There's a surprise....not
Originally Posted by Lana_Del_Rey:
“I have several times explained the meaning of the phrase. The bears has nothing to do with it at all. And you continue to behave like a Troll. Good luck.”
“I have several times explained the meaning of the phrase. The bears has nothing to do with it at all. And you continue to behave like a Troll. Good luck.”
You're not understanding. The phrase isn't the problem. Not with me any way. I jokingly said to you 'Free the Bears!' because you were getting hot under the collar about Anita's expression but you replied that the thing is 'all in our heads' and a matter of cultural difference. I think you said we have to make 'allowance'. That's where I'm struggling. At that stage, I no longer care to talk about SCD or Gleb or metaphors. They're not important in that context. Our world is shrinking. We can't let 'culture' kill off species or destroy habitat.
In -- how many posts, 11, 12? -- you've called a very long-term poster a hater and now I'm a troll. Hmm
Originally Posted by choucroute:
“The last few pages contain so many absurdities that it was quite entertaining ....
Dancing for the people (ie audience) is controversial? (We're discussing Strictly Come Dancing, not avant-garde "dance theater", aren't we?)
You are doing bears a disservice if you use the expression "even a bear can learn to dance"? (When we use the expression "kill two birds with one stone" are we thus also cruel to birds?)”
“The last few pages contain so many absurdities that it was quite entertaining ....
Dancing for the people (ie audience) is controversial? (We're discussing Strictly Come Dancing, not avant-garde "dance theater", aren't we?)
You are doing bears a disservice if you use the expression "even a bear can learn to dance"? (When we use the expression "kill two birds with one stone" are we thus also cruel to birds?)”
They were utterly inspired. (Although, to be fair, they were shot down pretty quickly by most.)
The idea that Gleb's use of the phrase 'we're dancing for the audience and the people who vote for us' has subtle and sinister connotations of dancing for the common peasant and not the foul bourgeoisie, when Gleb is a man as subtle as a flying brick ... is quite something.
If Aliona or Giovanni had said: 'we're killing two birds with one stone' next week, maybe they would have been met with cries of: 'Birds ARE killed and illegally poached and battery farmed every single year, think more carefully about the undertones of the idiom you are using!' Somehow, I doubt it!
Originally Posted by Second_Banana:
“They were utterly inspired. (Although, to be fair, they were shot down pretty quickly by most.)
The idea that Gleb's use of the phrase 'we're dancing for the audience and the people who vote for us' has subtle and sinister connotations of dancing for the common peasant and not the foul bourgeoisie, when Gleb is a man as subtle as a flying brick ... is quite something.
If Aliona or Giovanni had said: 'we're killing two birds with one stone' next week, maybe they would have been met with cries of: 'Birds ARE killed and illegally poached and battery farmed every single year, think more carefully about the undertones of the idiom you are using!' Somehow, I doubt it!”
“They were utterly inspired. (Although, to be fair, they were shot down pretty quickly by most.)
The idea that Gleb's use of the phrase 'we're dancing for the audience and the people who vote for us' has subtle and sinister connotations of dancing for the common peasant and not the foul bourgeoisie, when Gleb is a man as subtle as a flying brick ... is quite something.
If Aliona or Giovanni had said: 'we're killing two birds with one stone' next week, maybe they would have been met with cries of: 'Birds ARE killed and illegally poached and battery farmed every single year, think more carefully about the undertones of the idiom you are using!' Somehow, I doubt it!”
No! You're not getting it either! Anita's phrase doesn't matter one bit. The poster said that animal rights are 'in our head' or cultural and that can't be right.
I actually do not care about Anita one way or the other. It's unimportant in context. I'm not a troll
(But for the record, I am opposed -- who isn't? -- to the hunting of exhausted migratory birds making their way over the southern Alps. If Aliona or Giovanni, or whoever supports it, bad cess to them. And against the conditions of birds in battery farms, no matter how many eggs Anton has at breakfast. These are not issues that partisanship over any couple in SCD should affect)
Originally Posted by fatskia:
“I think she would be more like what you suggest.
Katie before she realised that there wasn't going to be a Samba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKl_MUARswk”
“I think she would be more like what you suggest.
Katie before she realised that there wasn't going to be a Samba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKl_MUARswk”
Oh Katie - she's lovely and funny... and cheeky to Anton. Why has she changed so much in interviews? I want the old Katie please! Not the silly, nose-wrinkling, gurning, adoring one we have nowadays
Originally Posted by MACTOWIN:
“Who are these sad desperados that appear in the audience.”
“Who are these sad desperados that appear in the audience.”
Desperate housewives by the looks of it.
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