EvilEmmy

Had a chuckle reading these its been a while since Ive visited I remembered a few since I posted a few months back.

Between me (english) and Randy(american) we've had the aluminum argument, basil I say bahsil he says bayzil, boot roof he makes it sound like ruuff whereas i say roohf.

Route he sounds it like Rowte whereas I say rooht.

Best one was with his 9 year old son asking for apple crumble he said can I have some apple grimble, was sat staring going huh? he said apple grumble, grimble before I figured the sounding resembled crumble could not teach the lad to say crumble fo the life of me.

I'm sure there will be more in the future couldn't think of any others at the moment.

Had a chuckle reading these its been a while since Ive visited I remembered a few since I posted a few months back.

Between me (english) and Randy(american) we've had the aluminum argument, basil I say bahsil he says bayzil, boot roof he makes it sound like ruuff whereas i say roohf.

Route he sounds it like Rowte whereas I say rooht.

Best one was with his 9 year old son asking for apple crumble he said can I have some apple grimble, was sat staring going huh? he said apple grumble, grimble before I figured the sounding resembled crumble could not teach the lad to say crumble fo the life of me.

I'm sure there will be more in the future couldn't think of any others at the moment.

Had a chuckle reading these its been a while since Ive visited I remembered a few since I posted a few months back.

Between me (english) and Randy(american) we've had the aluminum argument, basil I say bahsil he says bayzil, boot roof he makes it sound like ruuff whereas i say roohf.

Route he sounds it like Rowte whereas I say rooht.

Best one was with his 9 year old son asking for apple crumble he said can I have some apple grimble, was sat staring going huh? he said apple grumble, grimble before I figured the sounding resembled crumble could not teach the lad to say crumble fo the life of me.

I'm sure there will be more in the future couldn't think of any others at the moment.

i'm 27 and Randy is 34 (he will be 35 in Novemeber and I will be 28 in Dec arghh)We met through a chat program Oct 2007 then met in real Feb 2010. Our 4 Year anniversary will be Jan 2012 yeh we did an online relationship before we met worked out for us

Last film I saw was Marley and Me (watched it last night as was having movie marathon night due to boredom)

I have to admit I was skeptical on the film as heard was bad and loads said was fantastic, I will say for one who doesn't often cry at movies I sobbed my heart out right at the end. It was a good movie and well worth the watch albiet very sad.

I thought i'd add mine though this is from my visit to Randy's

I rarely get confused with stuff he say's so once in a while a thing will confuse us both/

I was doing a ton of washing one day and boy did I have a ####### cleaning the cooker plates (the removable metal squares on the top of the cooker) I guess they protect the flat area. So I trondle in after spending 2 odd hours trying going urgh wheres the wire wool cleaner? He looks at me with a super confused face and I'm going wire wool circles, wire wool brush type things, had to explain saying they are metal scrubbers that come in packs just for cleaning the pans and really cooked on grime. And he went ohh you mean these and pulls a few out of the draw, can't remember what they were called but he also went and got the ones similar to what I get here in the UK without the blue cleaning detergent. I sometimes forget things are called by different names and end up trying to explain what i'm whittering on about.

Another moment was when he asked me to use pinesol on the kitchen floor, I'm stood looking in the cupboard trying to figure out what pinesol is I ended up going uhmmmmmn baby I can't find the pinesol, he walked out and went it's the yellow one (had different name on it to pinesol guess a generic version) I felt so silly but we had a laugh about it. Even for us sometimes we need to clarify or show what we mean.

I'm glad 98% of the time we understand eachother and what things mean but there are moments that make us go HUH? ooooooooooh you mean that or this. I find if I speak fast ( apparently I talk fast sometimes thought I talked slow) that I can confuse.

I'm sure there will be mmore of them moments in the future but I always have a giggle over them.

Summer Place I like the lyrics more hadn't heard either songs before so had to google!

Coal or Logs?

Once

well since my previous post on how much petrol was as of yesterday it was $9.36 a gallon for Unleaded this was In Local town that's roughly 8 miles away, though the village where I am they are charging $9.72 a galllon for Unleaded (UKer) we find they charge more lord knows why. We rarely use the stations in the village unless we are in dire need of petrol which rarely happens

15.52 GMT

All I could say is wow, mind boggles me when I hear of the intuder/burgler being the idiot to call the police because they fear for their safety bunch of nimwits. At no point does it occur to these fools that the actually homeowner is more petrified being confronted by someone whose broken in as it's their home their sanctuary. Yes I've been on the receiving end of being burgled twice while in the house and I kid you not it's scary beyond belief, my mum even yelled there are people in here it didn't stop the dude he carried on and strolled through the house with us hiding in absalute terror the second time was a week or so later we locked ourselves in a room for a while till we heard footsteps leave the house. (The days before cellphones were available so had no way of contacting police till he was gone as the phone was in another room) I have never forgotten it and never will, to this date I still triple check locks and doors and keep a heavy torch by my bed. So if these mugs fear for their safety they shouldn't choose to even attempt such a risk and preserve their safety and those of the owners. Hope this makes him pause now to think how it would be if he was the one to experience someone tresspassing his home. sorry for the rant just hate hearing stuff like this cause I feel for the homeowner.

1.45am GMT (yes it's late i'm talking to my fiance )

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Wow jenn that sound's a bit nutty on the out of state driving licenses being refused, Guess I was fortunate to only get a no once while using my driving license with it being a foreign one. I think i'd go a bit potty if It was me in that situation, not everyone has passports. My SO never had a passport till 2009 due to me being sick it prompted him to go and get one. Not that he used it but still it makes me ponder what does one do if they have a different state driving license and get turned down and don't have a passport guess it would mean hunting down a place tha will accept it. I havn't come across that here though they arnt't as ruthless with IDing as they are supposed to be. I still get occassionally checked round the corner shop and I've been here 7 months but they now know i'm a regular so it is usually the newbies who check or I show them if they havn't seen me before.

I'm thinking it's a possibility the area I visit is a pass through for a lot of tourists so parhaps they are more lenient with that and being super close to 2 diffrent states as well. Still makes me laugh 15 mins takes you to MI, over an hour takes you to IL. Sighs ah I miss the lakes and my guy

That'd be grand charles unfortunately I don't think that would happen, His friends would run off with a packet here and there before I even got out there. Doubled with the fact he rarely smokes (usually pilfers one or two off me during a week while there or has a packet for the long airport drive to pick me up and drop me off (something in that drive triggers off his need for a smoke poor dude)

I did suggest that though he waits till he gets coupon offers and bundles them up from his parents place or in the mail. Gawd anything to save a buck or two. And then a get a rathe rlarge pile of coupons to shift through oargh

Hi BlueBonnet, I'm not quite in your shoes as of yet. But I sort of do understand My fiance is in the states with me in the UK, I have sort of come across smaller but similar issues..

My mom loves me dearly but is always commenting you should find someone here, look how unhappy it making you not being able to be with him. No what irks me is she in a way went through a similar situation with an ex funding his business and what not. What hurts is when you try live your life because they always say we want you to live your life, yet when you try they moan or disagree with choices.

Yes my mom supports me she understands a small part of what I am going through not seeing my fiance everyday and I know she hopes that by some lucky fluke someone will catch my eye here which has never happened. I find the whole but you support him when your there you paid for food argument draining. You've spent alot of money on visiting him. I have to constantly bite my tongue we get on great and I love her dearly but it hurts when she says stuff like that because it's no different to what she did for an ex and now her boyfriend supports her he chips in with food helps towards our rent. Yet for me this is wrong.

I was raised to help and support my family and I see my fiance as my family now too. I don't send him money but I help with stuff when I am with him because it's what couples do. I will admit My mum is convinced he wont come over here *because she will see right through him* they had words 2 years ago over me wanting to see him after repeated date changes for a trip that never happened. She does not understand why he isn't able to visit me in the UK like he had planned to before. He has a son which lives with him again with adhd in special school thus means if he was to visit he'd have to inform the school of a different pick up point. Have his parents look after his son and lastly his son has a very specific routine which has taken over a year to implement, I can see why he does not wish to disturb this. I have given up trying to explain I always get quit making excuses for him, Yes I can see her point it's ment to be a two way thing but I understand his needs and his reasons.

Yes it hurts but she will listen if I'm sad or upset over the distance thing but I think she hopes I won't leave home my brothers both live with their girlfriends and me being the eldest is still living at home at the grand old age of 27. His family are exceptionally happy over the relationship if anything it almost shocked him, in the past my SO parents have hated his exes and expecially his ex wife and they did butt heads over it. I hope they continue to feel this way as his family are just as important as mine and his 2 children because I want them to be secure and happy. I love my guy and accept everything that comes with him.

I know for sure when the day comes and I hopefully move to be with him that my family will support me, I know if I ever had troubles or needed to come home my mum would pull through and help me or come to me. Yes there may be sad emotions they are loosing (not completely) their daughter every parent goes through sadness in a way it is a loss and they will for a small period of time grieve. But I'm sure they will eventually learn to be happy for you. It may be they were almost in denial that it would eventually happen thus causing the negative reaction now that it's happened give them time to work through their thought's they are more fortunate than most that your only a border away yes it may seem a huge distance but it's connected there isnt a huge ocean to cross.

Try not to feel guilt either I hate to say it I swear it's an inbuilt parent thing to make you feel guilty no matter if your happy or not and as humans we will always question whether we approached things the right way. Your parent's had time to prepare themselves I think from the sounds of it several years but it is still a shock when it does happen. It's part of the reason I travelled to see my fiance, I want in a way for my mum to get used to me not always being here 24/7 rather than accepting that I will always be a homegirl..

Good luck though I hope the family relations pick up for you and many hugss too

Let us know how you get on I noticed this was posted 9 days ago

So here goes I thought I'd ask what you think.

I've travelled to the states various times since 1996. Now here's the thing that tickled me. I've had 2 passports since then and driving license since I was 18 in every prior trip I've used my British driving license to by alcohol and ciggies on All my trips even my first one to visit my now fiance. Then whop bam wollop on my second one they introduced a law saying that store clerks must ID EVERY person who buys tobacco and alcohol regardless if known or not. So in I trondle with my ID in hand to be told nope won't take it now what baffled me was not less than a week prior they accepted this as had many store clerks, I was known and my fiance often with me due to hearing I had to triple check and then they rifled through their *manual* which was hidden under the desk. Told me foreign Driving licenses should not be accepted as ID out there.

Thus led me to this question if they arnt accepted what is one to do in the case of having moved there and awaiting for documentation and what not? Silly question because I certainly would'nt like to carry my 120 doller passport around with me as it's too rediculously expensive to loose. Plus I had to use my previous passport as ID in the UK at one point and urgh It got grubby, and looked shabby at the end of it's 10 year lifespan because of this.

In the same period of time I purchesed alcohol and ciggies elsewhere without any problems. One woman even assumed I lived there and recognised a British Driving License straight away saying her DIL uses hers for ID out there. So is what I'm told correct because, it seems a tad embaressing to have to send my fiance in a store to buy smokes for me because they won't take a DL and I don't wish to loose; damage or have my passport stolen while out and about. I've seen the after effects of people having the Passport's stolen happened within family twice and with family friends while travelling.

So what are your experience's in this and look forward to the comments. I know tut tut on the smoking it's my vice and i', sure each to their own

The area I live in now received a Walk score of 45 out of a 100. It's a small village Have to admit they were right we are car dependant for anything beyond the village though we have More here than where we lived before. I looked at my 2 old places in North Lincolnshire one received a score of 43, The other received a walk score of 77 (very walkable) though that was almost bang smack in the middle of a busy town.

The area my fiance lives in Indiana got a score of 57 (somewhat walkable) which seems odd to me as I certainly wouldn't have liked trecking to the nearest walmart or ALs that was one long walk and I can do those but not with a heap of shoppping, my SO is dependant on his car to get him everywhere. I saw the effect of his car being out of action due to the extreame cold snap we had while there. He HATED it, lol and the mere suggestion of me walking to the shops got a sour look pointed nmy way. I was like huh isn't that normal I do it all the time in England.

Wired Keyboard because i'm too lazy to upgrade to a wireless (it's on the to do list somewhere)

Wallpaper or Paint? Because wallpapering scares me

i'm live in Yorkshire over the huge puddle. The latest rate for where I am is $8.55 per gallon which is shocking that also depends on exchange rate and how much petrol is on a specific day. Back on my trip in Jan I think my fiance(whose in Indiana) was paying just under $3 dollers a gallon gawd I wish it was that price here now I know it's expensive for you guys in the states but when explained we can on a bad day pay in excess of $9 a gallon our friends almost pooped themselves. I look forward to that day when I pay that much for petrol it's one of the few reason's I don't drive here cheaper to get a bus

Well here in the UK i wouldnt be prepped for any of those unless ment living on a rooftop of a bungalow.

My fiance isn't prepped either he's always saying I ain't hiding in my basement at every warning we have in the area

He talking of having a gun closet, so logical step would be do the food and water thing too maybe I can persuade him when next there

welcome to being a wedgie ninja. i'm sure you can guess what the initiation process is like

yes lawd I dun want one and i never want to receive a proppa wedgie from him thatd hurt manly strength is different to kids

We met at Chicago O'hare Airport Gawd I was so nervous I was shaking. We had been chatting online for 2 years and he finally got his own place instead of having to move around. As soon as he got the keys I'd booked my flight and flew to see him 3 months later. It was a great three months and my first trip abroad without family members so it was a new adventure of course my mum was nervous and I left all my contact numbers and his address and phone numbers to allay her fears. Within the week we got my first us cellphone to call home to say he a real person Have gone back to see him since for a further three months and hoping to go back again at somepoint later in the year. Wish he could come over here but he has 2 children in school and no one will look after the kids for a short time so no trips to the uk. I guess I have to drag my mother out with me on the next trip so she can meet him, she's convinced he won't come over here because they once had a few choice words with eachother

Can't believe i'm an engaged woman I still blush when mum randomly tells strangers she goes to the states and comes home engaged. Second to that it's always you won't come home next time though they know I will as I have nooo choice!

I believe in evolution over creationism,

They should both be taught so that people can understand both aspects not just one or the other.

No it's a belief.

My personal view yes I understond both evolution and creationism, I was origionally raised as a child to be religious in my early years until I went through several life changing events me and my family decided we no longer wish to continue following religion or any kind and deem ourselves athiests.

So I was taught the barebasics of creationism though not devoutely as my parents were religious but not overly so. But I feel that evolution is more apt for explaining life and animals. My fiance is not religious either though I think his parents have somewhat raised his children in the religious faith (complicated story they lived with his parents for a short time) thus not teaching the children both aspects. I spent time talking to his son and daughter (9-10) 1 year age gap between them and the son believes god is the creator of all and will not accept any other viewpoint and was almost in horror that I disagreed . However his daughter is open to other ideas. I know they are young but it saddens me when I see such inbuilt conviction that only one thing is acceptable without exploring alternative ideas. Whenever religion is now mentioned I just say leave the matter at the door I'm not religious. This usually stops any but but oh but. I may be youngish but i've done that talk too many times. I respect that everyone has their own choice and which one the believe in but I'd rather if I had children that they came to their own conclusion on which one they deem suitable to them not to be taught only one idea.

Apologies if I offend anyone it's not my intention just stating how I feel

Uhmn well me and my guy don't argue, last time was about 2.5 years ago over someone using his pc while in he was out with friends. Well needless to say he came home and was going why the heck are you so pissy we had the heated discussion then I showed him why and after that He put a password on his pc and pretty much got shot of this friend for using his pc without permission and for creating a huge mess for him to correct when he got home. We havn't argued since if something is wrong we will say although I came close twice while visiting him. Felt sick and was numb from prescribed cough medicine causing me to loose my engagement ring he sorta sulked for a few days then was fine when I found it. Needless to say I did that twice second time he was fine about it now I will admit we didn't argue but he accused me of being careless with my belongings I shot back with a well would help if u didn't leave yer puter stuff all over yanno the usual couple things and we look at eachother pull a face and burst out laughing. My temper rarely gets to me and we both are of the frame of mind we hate arguing, as much as he says he would love to see me loose my temper if anything he has admitted his temper has gotten better as he's got older and that my patience level is endless till I feel sick. I have to admmit he did say he understood the medication had made me dopey as I'd lost my ring for 3 days burnt shep pie and couldn't do much to help housewise. Though it took a week for him to admit that. And said sorry for sulking and being moody.

We met through a chat program called VP/Halsoft/Excite chat I only list it as that because it's changed names so many times in the last 10+ years. He came in chatting and I was like your a strange one as he kept swapping rooms, eventually he apologised and said so What's the blonde blue eyes story? We still use vp to this day to talk and chat as he's just got his internet back yay!

have to admit after this week I needed a giggle and this wedgies thread worked a treat, I have never given my hubby to be a wedgie and I wouldn't ever give one either, after being on the receiving end of those in my childhood due to my brothers I think if my SO remotely attempted to try i'd kick his butt. Plus there is the added bonus of I'm sure it would hurt some places if done too well Though the idea does make me laugh, he's never given me any intentionally one happened when he was doing a pickup hug accidently I was going uhmnnnnnnn put me down yer giving me a wedgie guess it can happen if you hugg and hold in the wrong place