Well, maybe. Not quite sure of how the conversation would turn out, but I enjoy White Russians — a meal in a glass — so, I could hardly refuse.
Probably end up getting in a fight with Walter, and probably profoundly annoyed at The Dude's laziness. The Dude is housebroken, though, so better company than my uncle. Probably have to commandeer the record selection — a little Creedence goes a long way. A very long way. Like too much a long way.
TNP can remember the last time he or she was surprised and impressed by somebody IRL for initiating a friendly conversation, making eye contact in a direct fashion, and so forth.
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Sure, as of today, I'll be going out for a few beers. Fine, maybe if I can trick this woman into coming out with me I'll have some of that fancy-shmancy solid food too, so she doesn't feel like a total porker.
TNP is unsure of the purpose of wearing ladies' white pants, and disapproves.
Not really. I've seen the regular man-woman hookers on the street corners, and maybe a utilikilt is a bit of a cross-dressing thing. Well, arguably a good number of women are somewhat cross-dressing in the Kate Hepburn/Annie Hall "butch" kind of thing, but I don't think that counts anymore these days. Unless one is talking about Faye Dunaway in The Wicked Woman, co-starring Marina Sirtis.
TNP has more than a dozen projects he or she hasn't even touched for months.
Yes, you mentioned that somewhere. I confess I only made it about ten minutes into it. I mean, I'm into Marina Sirtis and everything, to some extent, but where were her white ladies' pants? And where was Faye Dunaway (sp?) whipping her while Sirtis was topless?
TNP is way behind on current TV watching — as in only a vague idea of what's on these days.
No. The closest thing to a "premium channel" show I ever watched as an adult was Californication, which was on Showtime, I believe (although I watched it online). I don't think I've ever watched another show on either HBO or Showtime as a child or an adult, except maybe if a friend had some videotapes of some season of a show.
TNP is kind of annoyed at how Netflix "dumps" all of a season of a show at one time — not that I care, since I'd be watching it according to my leisure anyway, but it just doesn't seem as much "fun."
No. In fact, I had no idea. I'm sure if you liked it there was some merit, but I can only imagine some very dry stuff about barristers, I assume a PM, a bunch of MPs who probably had extremely perverse sexual fantasies involving cricket bats and fagging their classmates at public school, or perhaps their special batmen at Sandhurst.
TNP thinks Emmanuel Macron is showing the right amount of sangfroid dealing with his American inferior, but is somewhat disappointed at the lack of that classic French wit. It's not as though his social and intellectual inferior would understand a jest from an actual person, so what's the harm? It would amuse the press, and nobody would be the wiser.
Here's the intro to the British House of Cards. I think Ian Richardson is even better in the lead role than Kevin Spacey - he's a more delightfully, joyously evil presence. The opening scene sets the stage for the race to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister:
No. I'll just make an appearance, see if I can sniff around the girls, keep things moving forward. I'd rather save up my "credit" for later times when I truly need it. I will be Uncle Joe, moving kind of slow, at the junction, but that's OK.
Oh, the UK House of Cards does sound excellent. I confess I lost interest in the US House of Cards after Kate Mara got offed, although Spacey was very good.
TNP has ever left a restaurant/bar because the service was abysmally slow. Extra points if TNP muttered something unprintable while leaving quietly and calmly. ETA "abysmally slow"? No, I have no idea what that means. How about just "unacceptably slow"?
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Yes. I couldn't remember the French word for "moose" (well, an elk, really, on the continent). L'orignal I don't actually have a bilingual FR dictionary, that I know of, just monolingual FR ones, so I used the fake internet stuff. It checks out.
TNP has had to return to a place just before getting home to pick up something he or she forgot recently, and was not pleased.
No idea, never had it. Closest thing are probably the various pastis, like Ricard and stuff like that, which I don't really care for either — it takes like an hour to choke one of those nasty, anise-flavored liqueurs down, even when made the traditional way with a small amount of sugar and water.
TNP is slightly concerned about almost driving off the road (barely) on an old, pot-hole-riddled major local highway on a daily basis. Perhaps there's some merit to not going 60 mph on a 40 mph shitty road at 0400, and not being fully caffeinated.
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Not so much. I don't think it's my kind of town, although I have nothing against it especially.
TNP greatly prefers to not drive when doing a tourist-visit of a town — kind of limits the places, especially in the US, one can visit, but is much simpler.
I think I bought something in the past year at their "grocery" section in the one semi-recently opened downtown, but, no, I guess not really. They used to be a go-to place to pick up things like men's clothing (jockey shorts, socks, that kind of thing) a few years ago, but just haven't felt the urge. Their loss-prevention is intense, I recall from when I worked there a summer during high school — I think I prefer going places where I'm not presumed to be a criminal.
TNP thinks a French/whore's bath covers many sins. Of all kinds. Including the sin of not bathing like a regular human.
True. I actually don't know any real brothels there, just clip joints along Pigalle where I'm sure you can get whatever you want, what with prostitution being legal and everything. Lots of hookers on the street, though, who I assume have some kind of relationship with the very many cheap hotels up around there.
TNP has never seen a "lady of the night" who was at all appealing physically.
Not that I could be sure actually was a prostitute, no. All of those whom I knew or strongly suspected of being prostitutes were pretty high on the Skank-o-Meter.
TNP isn't so into going all Mr. McGregor on rabbits in the wild — they are vicious creatures who feast on human blood when they grow to gigantic size, but they're OK as long as you don't grow carrots in your garden.
Not at all. Maybe I'm a fussy eater, but I'm not into eating rabbits and squirrels and such. Horse? Absolutely fine. I'd eat dog, and I've been tempted to consider eating human, when properly cooked. I suppose dunno is the correct answer, since I've never had rabbit, but the associations with it being a French hillbilly desperation food are too strong for me to consider.
TNP has "repaired" two or more cars with duck tape.
Well, false! Why get my perishables all effed up by ham-handed oafs, mixed in with diapers, kitty litter, and various "industrial-strength" solvents (each with varying degrees of leakage), when I can go across the street and have a good laugh with the gals at the store?
TNP has ever worked a job where (i) not only does he or she not give a damn (ii) but also, he or she observes pretty much nobody cares.
No, I had no idea there was a new one out. The first one was ridiculous enough, so I agree that any of the follow-ups are even more ghastly. No, I don't need to see it to believe it — I'm 100% sure I'm right.
TNP would rather believe a woman he or she is interested is just having her "monthlies" than that she failed to respond to his or her uncharacteristically warm overtures. Alternate TNP: TNP has to deal with a regular stream of new co-workers, and thinks they kind of suck, just in general. <Fred Sanford>Bunch of dummies! Where's that Ripple wine? Elizabeth, I'm coming!</FS>
Not currently, I don't believe. Certainly in the past I've known women with the name or one of its nicknames It's a nice name. There was an awful queen of some remote northern island of that name, of tainted blood, and wicked ways, but it's still a fine name, and there's nothing wrong with it at all.
TNP uses regularly a pharmaceutical like aspirin or ibuprofen, for the analgesic effects, but isn't that happy about it.