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Is there somewhere I can move to that doesn't require that I fill in a Questionnaire?  Coventry? |
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« Reply #16 on: 20:06:09, 02-07-2008 » |
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« Reply #17 on: 20:07:28, 02-07-2008 » |
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70% on the US test, 10/15 on the British one (where I was robbed. I was always told as a child that Father Christmas came from Lapland, and I'm sticking to my story).
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #18 on: 20:14:37, 02-07-2008 » |
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I got 9/15 for the citizen test surely it was santa Claus that was the Coca Cola thing not Father Christmas
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« Reply #19 on: 20:16:31, 02-07-2008 » |
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Well of course Father Christmas comes from Lapland, pw. Our parents wouldn't have told us fibs, would they? We wuz robbed!  Ah, just seen Burning Dog's reply. Yes, that was what I thought  |
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« Reply #20 on: 20:46:20, 02-07-2008 » |
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55% for the US one and 9 for the Pommie one. But I don't know how I'd do either in the country I live in or the country I'm in now! (The locals just seem pleased I can speak the language...)
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« Reply #21 on: 20:57:19, 02-07-2008 » |
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Well of course Father Christmas comes from Lapland, pw. Our parents wouldn't have told us fibs, would they? We wuz robbed! Ah, just seen Burning Dog's reply. Yes, that was what I thought I habve a phobia about Father Christmas, when he said |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #22 on: 21:05:01, 02-07-2008 » |
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One of these numbers does not fit with the others, which one is it? 1, 9, 16, 23, 27, 31, 34 I had to guess (incorrectly), and now I've seen the correct answer I still don't get it. Can anyone explain it to a bear of very little brain?  |
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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« Reply #23 on: 21:08:21, 02-07-2008 » |
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I'm assuming 23 is the odd one out and should be 22, in which case you'd have
1+8=9
9+7=16
16+6=22
22+5=27
27+4=31
31+3=34
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« Reply #24 on: 21:18:43, 02-07-2008 » |
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Our Chinese friend was revising for the British citizen test last summer and I couldn't answer half the questions myself when I was helping her revise. She did pass the test having spent months preparing very thoroughly for it. They only told her a couple of days before her visa expired that she could stay here - a very difficult time for her and for my English* next-door neighbour as they're married.
*I say English but he came over to Britain as a young boy in 1939 to escape the Nazis in his homeland, Germany. He is twice his wife's age but they are very, very happy together. Now 82, he still skis and plays tennis and travels the world. And up to a couple of years ago, he would often do the annual Manchester to Blackpool charity bike ride.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #25 on: 21:26:07, 02-07-2008 » |
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Alternatively, 31 is the only one whose digits do not sum to an odd number. |
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« Reply #26 on: 21:58:40, 02-07-2008 » |
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45% on being an American
9/14 on being British
7/8 on being 11 or older.
I didn't get how the bricks were arranged. Any clues?
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #27 on: 23:16:24, 02-07-2008 » |
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50% on the US test
71% on the UK one. (10/14) (btw I'm English, of English and Scottish Parents)
In each case I wonder what is constituting the remaining 50 and 29 percent? But especially the 29% What kind of alien has infiltrated me? Can we learn to live in multicultural harmony or should I quarantine for 42 days?
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« Reply #28 on: 23:26:20, 02-07-2008 » |
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45% on being an American
9/14 on being British
7/8 on being 11 or older.
I didn't get how the bricks were arranged. Any clues?
Tommo
Picture seven adjacent piles of housebricks forming a set of seven steps, each step being one brick higher than the preceeding step. The first step is nine bricks high. The next step is ten bricks high. The third step is eleven bricks high... |
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« Reply #29 on: 23:28:15, 02-07-2008 » |
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NB. Aren't Santa Claus, St Nicholas, Father Christmas, Papa Noel etc all the same? Coke just put him in red. Mort, PW how wonderfully continental of your parents, preparing you for entry into the EU no doubt.
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