elizabeth
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Post by elizabeth on May 16, 2024 7:45:18 GMT 1
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Post by cernunnos on May 16, 2024 8:05:39 GMT 1
For those that can't read French obviously ! 1600 views, not many ready to discuss?
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Post by suein56 on May 16, 2024 8:52:21 GMT 1
For those that can't read French obviously ! 1600 views, not many ready to discuss? Now, now .. you know not everyone lives here. Similar to many other forums we have lots of UK based members who read posts but don't post themselves so the link is helpful. If the UK population don't discuss matters in the way the French do then that's a pity. Edit: Don't most discussions take place on F/Book ?
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Post by Gigi on May 16, 2024 9:17:08 GMT 1
There are also many people who live in France who can’t read French easily, and a serious illness such as cancer involves language people don’t normally come across. Much easier to read, comprehend and understand in your native language; that’s the reason CSF (Cancer Support France) was set up - someone who was fluent in French but felt the need to speak about it in her native language to help her to come to terms with it.
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Post by cernunnos on May 16, 2024 9:45:13 GMT 1
For those that can't read French obviously ! 1600 views, not many ready to discuss? Now, now .. you know not everyone lives here. Similar to many other forums we have lots of UK based members who read posts but don't post themselves so the link is helpful. If the UK population don't discuss matters in the way the French do then that's a pity. Edit: Don't most discussions take place on F/Book ? Sorry , didn't realise that there are permanent UK readers. Dunno why the UK population should be any different from the French as far as discussing important things go. I have more of a Dutch attitude I suppose , but slowly wearing off! Them Brits seem pretty adapt at discussing all sorts of unimportant stuff ?
I don't discuss on Facebook , just use it as entertainment and since I have been closeted , find it more and more rubbish.
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Post by cernunnos on May 16, 2024 10:34:34 GMT 1
There are also many people who live in France who can’t read French easily, and a serious illness such as cancer involves language people don’t normally come across. Much easier to read, comprehend and understand in your native language; that’s the reason CSF (Cancer Support France) was set up - someone who was fluent in French but felt the need to speak about it in her native language to help her to come to terms with it. Me now being an expert on the subject of Prostate cancer!!!
Find that most of the medical terms are pretty much similar in both languages. Discussing it with our hunter neighbour last year ( he had had the radiology ) he told me that 80% of his hunting mates have it , they eat a lot of meat and drink like hunters .Not many of them can read French either!
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Post by iolar on May 16, 2024 15:58:51 GMT 1
There are also many people who live in France who can’t read French easily, and a serious illness such as cancer involves language people don’t normally come across. Much easier to read, comprehend and understand in your native language; that’s the reason CSF (Cancer Support France) was set up - someone who was fluent in French but felt the need to speak about it in her native language to help her to come to terms with it. Me now being an expert on the subject of Prostate cancer!!!
Find that most of the medical terms are pretty much similar in both languages. Discussing it with our hunter neighbour last year ( he had had the radiology ) he told me that 80% of his hunting mates have it , they eat a lot of meat and drink like hunters .Not many of them can read French either!
Didn't realise that you were a Nederlander. I have had to use the translation as I have forgotten a lot of my Dutch. Ik was voor het laatst in Rotterdam in 82,waar ik mijn vriend Jon zag die een junkie was, meer een broer dan een vriend. Het was moeilijk, heel moeilijk. Like a lot of elderly men I have an enlarged prostrate, had colon cancer, got a test in the post that I nearly did'nt bother with that would have been the end of me. Got lucky and the medics did biopsies on all my major organs at the same time, it hadn't spread, had the all clear after 5 years. On average men are cowardly in confronting personal problems, they bottle.
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Post by Nifty on May 16, 2024 16:01:45 GMT 1
Is that a meAn average?
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Post by cernunnos on May 17, 2024 8:42:10 GMT 1
Me now being an expert on the subject of Prostate cancer!!!
Find that most of the medical terms are pretty much similar in both languages. Discussing it with our hunter neighbour last year ( he had had the radiology ) he told me that 80% of his hunting mates have it , they eat a lot of meat and drink like hunters .Not many of them can read French either!
Didn't realise that you were a Nederlander. I have had to use the translation as I have forgotten a lot of my Dutch. Ik was voor het laatst in Rotterdam in 82,waar ik mijn vriend Jon zag die een junkie was, meer een broer dan een vriend. Het was moeilijk, heel moeilijk. Like a lot of elderly men I have an enlarged prostrate, had colon cancer, got a test in the post that I nearly did'nt bother with that would have been the end of me. Got lucky and the medics did biopsies on all my major organs at the same time, it hadn't spread, had the all clear after 5 years. On average men are cowardly in confronting personal problems, they bottle. I'm not , but spent 20 years of my formative years in Holland , had two Dutch wives, have Dutch children and grandchildren , speak vloiebaar Dutch and had 7 years of not speaking a word of English , very pleased to have left 34 years ago.
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Post by cernunnos on May 17, 2024 8:47:37 GMT 1
Having the last Lovenix injection today. The blood test I had yesterday shows an increase in platelets , but the test was done in a different laboratory than the one before, so phoned the docter who said that there was no problem . I get the results twice , once by mail and also on my " mon espace sante" page very efficient.
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Post by jardiniere on May 17, 2024 10:35:33 GMT 1
very pleased to have left 34 years ago.
Just being curious but why are you so glad to have left?
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Post by cernunnos on May 17, 2024 11:16:41 GMT 1
Holland ( the Netherlands) is a police state, "als het niet verboden is dan is het verplicht " translated "if it is not prohibited then it is mandatory" You have to be social , to fit in. I was too eccentric , still am . There are many other reasons , basically I didn't fit the Dutch mold, they are very much interested in money and appearance.
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Post by lapourtaider on May 17, 2024 15:21:33 GMT 1
I have two friends, both diagnosed with PC. One chose to be treated, the other not. One is 70 and enjoys an active life. The other is in an urn collecting dust on the mantelpiece.
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Post by cernunnos on May 19, 2024 7:36:37 GMT 1
Last visit by our lovely nurse yesterday , she was late because she had to attend a man that had been attacked by a chicken! She thanked me for being so happy , she said most older people are unhappy and moan all the time . She should know?
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Post by iolar on May 21, 2024 16:33:20 GMT 1
Holland ( the Netherlands) is a police state, "als het niet verboden is dan is het verplicht " translated "if it is not prohibited then it is mandatory" You have to be social , to fit in. I was too eccentric , still am . There are many other reasons , basically I didn't fit the Dutch mold, they are very much interested in money and appearance. I'll reply to this post of yours. I think you have to have lived in the Netherlands to understand your comment, though I would disagree with your comments about the police state. Literally, I would take the Dutch police any day over the establishment a~#se licking UK police, extreme right wing lackies. I lived in Rotterdam,I remember strolling along the West Kruizekade - a notorious road, north of the Oude West ghetto (where I used to live) one afternoon and seeing a paddywagon pull up and two big (probably descended from Freise Vikings) politzie get out and confront two teenage boys, one was white and the other black. They got hold of them and began to get violent with the two boys. Up came an ordinary white Dutch woman, around 50 and she delivered a slap across the face of one of the politzie. It was that hard that the sound reverberated loudly around the Kruizkade. If that had been anywhere in the UK she would have been arrested for assault and I hate to think what would have happened to her inside a police station. These two Dutch police just accepted it and carried on putting the tow boys in the paddywagon. The drug squad would visit dealers regularly - not interested in anyone dealing hash or grass - amphetamines/cocaine/smack - that was different. A brilliant idea a 'buurt politzieman'. His job was to get to know everyone who lived in his buurt, so anything happened he knew exactly where to go to get a result. What buitenlanders don't know is how polarised Dutch society is and always has been. There are the religious hardliners who are Catholics, Protestants and Jehovas Witnesses. There are sex clubs that cater for every perversion you can think of and then some. Since I left over 40 years ago, thanks to the politicians who let the drug scene exist (against the advice of the Police) because it meant lots of drug tourist money, the drug mafias are very powerful. Dutch women are very 'in your face about what they are about and what they want' I personally found this refreshing. This directness used to really upset the English, very few ever learnt to speak Dutch, unlike the Scots and the Irish, the last were very popular with Dutch women and girls. For me, I got claustrophobic - like the northern Irishman Daniel Boone said "no elbow room" housen,housen, mensen, mensen.
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