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LIPs and flex-pats
... a living by writing blogs about what they are doing; a kind of self-fulfilling pursuit - making money by writing about your job, which is writing about making money by writing. And good luck to them; there are certainly worse ways to make a living than tapping away on a laptop, talking about yourself, while dipping your toes in a warm swimming pool in an exotic island locale.
Where we differ from most of these LIPs is that their aim is to ...
Christ & Claus Couriers, Ltd.
... of presents in such a short time-frame. Who do you turn to when you are faced with such a tricky HR problem? Jesus, of course.
That's right. Here in Europe, Jesus delivers the gifts on Christmas Day. What a guy - working on his birthday! I'm not sure if he climbs up and down chimneys or just materialises through a puff of smoke and high-pitched angel songs, but he somehow gives the Euro-kids what they ...
I see dead people ...
... has a nice warm after-taste that makes you go, "Hmm - quite nice actually." This is all the encouragement the host needs to refill your little shot glass. You always need to have an even number of shots here. If you have just one, the locals say, you will have one "empty leg" and will have to "hop home". Sounds a bit like an excuse to drink more, if you ask me.
With the formalities over, I then enter this strange sort of limbo state, and not ...
Ova and ova
... office, the bureaucratic office lady said, "Remember - it ain't over till it's ova!" She didn't really, because she didn't speak English, but it would have been cool if she had.
This silliness reaches epic proportions in the media. The newspapers refer to the German Chancellor Angela Merkelova or the US Secretary of State Hillary Clintonova. As the photo here shows, no one escapes the "ova" treatment, not even Beyonce.
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Virtual Frustration
... methods such as Google Translate, Craigslist or even contact some real estate agents in these towns. This is why I said the task would take 3-4 hours. What you have done would take about 3-4 minutes.
So, are you telling me that no one who lives in any of those towns can rent an apartment for less than 1000 euros per month? In other words, that every person in Rome pays more than 1000 euros in rent every month?
Five ...
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