You have an embarassed billionaire healthcare.
“It’s the best in the world! I just don’t have access to it right now. But once I do, you’ll see!” they say, trying to decide between bleeding to death and the ambulance.

I like to think of myself as European, thank you very much.

You ever heard of the snip? Because that’s what I think they’re hinting at.

And third world health care, mostly.

Well, Israel and Russia are trying to claim some room in that space, but yeah, it’s still probably “most of them”.

That’s a surprisingly kind view of things, but yeah, my dad did mountaineering his whole life and fucked his knees proper, but also likes to enjoy good food, so now in his seventies and with diabetes creeping in, it’s a perfect combo for becoming fat.

I guess it’s a bit easier to mock Steven Seagal because he’s been so fit in his movies throughout most of his career, and now it turns out he was an asshole all along, on top of looking like an asshat even when I loved his movies. But mocking him for being an older human still feels rather cheap.

In my company they give us all a factory tour so we can see what are work helps facilitate. It’s pretty cool, honestly. Helps make things less abstract. When I worked as a roaming tech it was my favourite part : arriving at a new client and discovering their factory or offices or whatever and seeing them do their thing. Very cool stuff, once in a while.

En gros dans ma boîte ils te modifient le salaire mensuel pour Décembre (et aussi un peu avant les grandes vacances). Mais c’est toujours le même salaire per annum donc c’est un tour de passe passe, quoi. Ça aide les gens qui arrivent pas à économiser, j’imagine.

Thoughts and prayers :

• I think it should happen more often.
• I pray it does (instead of school shootings, let’s say).

Because of course everything is tied to who the president is, in their mind. Democrats bad for business, mmm-kay?

“A-are we the baddies?”

In France we have the “thirteenth month” as we call it. I never had one, but in that latest job they announced having one, so I was rather chuffed to finally discover the practice and asked them about it during the interview. “so you gonna give me a full month salary bonus at the end of the year?” cue a long, convoluted explanation… which boiled down to “no, we just shuffle shit around so you get more in December, no extra money, really”.

But it just shows how ingrained that idea of a Christmas bonus is.

Hopefully. Anyone with braincells would have realized that a long time ago…

Using ouija boards as serving trays and food carrying boards was certainly a bold move.

Most of the Dark Souls are like that, ain’t they? I’m too weak sauce to ever reach those levels, though. Black Myth Wukong has you starting Heaven’s entire army, so I guess that qualifies too (I’m assuming you end up fighting a god at the end, but again, I’m not worthy)

Chaud devant !

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企业 seems to mean “business / company / corpo / firm” and my dictionary says 企 is also an abbreviation for it. So I guess that’s how we get to the OP’s joke. I’m guessing 鹅企 would be read “Goose Corp.” then ?

I just describe it as “bilingual level”, because fluent is often used but can represent a range of levels depending on how demanding you are.

For me, fluent is what I’d describe someone who’s studied well and can live only speaking the target language. They may have a crappy accent, make mistakes but they know they can express their ideas and be understood and generally don’t search for words.

I’d use “native level”, but that can be a bit misleading too.

And so, that’s why we have exams/diploma with levels and such.
If someone tells you they have a C2 level diploma in French, I assure you that their command of French is worthy of respect even for a native French person.

If I tell you I have HSK3/4 even in Chinese, you know I’m nowhere near fluency, despite how well I can fake it with what little I do know! :P

Would work even better with two Nepalese kids vs some Euro dude.