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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Wait' date=' Britain's [i']not a socialist paradise? Nuts, I'll have to look into Iceland...
Yeah! Britain does actually have meaningful political phenomena... also, it is possible for people in New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries and Canada to be unhappy, apparently! I would have thought that the tax-funded free sex and weed would have mollified them, but I guess not! Furthermore, their armies, who I was astonished to find are NOT all headed up by postmodernist Roma lesbians, don't wear rainbow camouflage, drive hovercrafts powered by chakra OR even carry free money and condoms from the government!
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Italy's not known for rewarding success' date=' but they certainly can punish failure...[/quote'] they reward you by giving you money :D But when you fail is not a problem, you can take an exam as much as you want to and study for years if you want, the only problem with that is that you have to pay. But they give you lots of opportunities to finish college and study further. In Croatia is a lot more difficult to finish college because you have exams all year and you have to pass a certain number of them to go to the final exams and than you have to pass 3-4 finals to start the next year. In Italy there are no conditions, you may go through all 3 years without passing a single exam if you are stupid enough.
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they reward you by giving you money :D But when you fail is not a problem' date=' you can take an exam as much as you want to and study for years if you want, the only problem with that is that you have to pay. But they give you lots of opportunities to finish college and study further. In Croatia is a lot more difficult to finish college because you have exams all year and you have to pass a certain number of them to go to the final exams and than you have to pass 3-4 finals to start the next year. In Italy there are no conditions, you may go through all 3 years without passing a single exam if you are stupid enough.[/quote'] Wow, I had no idea they were that slack. Is that why you're studying in Italy? ;)
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they reward you by giving you money :D But when you fail is not a problem' date=' you can take an exam as much as you want to and study for years if you want, the only problem with that is that you have to pay. But they give you lots of opportunities to finish college and study further. In Croatia is a lot more difficult to finish college because you have exams all year and you have to pass a certain number of them to go to the final exams and than you have to pass 3-4 finals to start the next year. In Italy there are no conditions, you may go through all 3 years without passing a single exam if you are stupid enough.[/quote'] :lol: Wow, I never imagined it'd be that bad.
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Wow' date=' I had no idea they were that slack. Is that why you're studying in Italy? ;)[/quote'] No, I went there because I wanted to study translation and there is no such college in Croatia. In Croatia you can study languages to become a teacher or something similar, but there's nothing that includes serious translation. Also, Trieste, the Italian city I study in, is much closer to my hometown than the capital of Croatia, where everybody goes for college. We are a small country, not every city has colleges and even if it does, it's only one or two, so everybody usually goes to the capital.
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Seeing it "celebrated" by a ton of idiots who couldn't give a fuck less about Mexican culture on any other day of the year' date=' and who insist on calling it "Mexican Independence Day", has given me the cynical viewpoint that it's another holiday like St. Patrick's Day - perpetuated primarily by the bars.[/quote'] I celebrate Cinco de Cuatro... :D Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Seeing it "celebrated" by a ton of idiots who couldn't give a fuck less about Mexican culture on any other day of the year' date=' and who insist on calling it "Mexican Independence Day", has given me the cynical viewpoint that it's another holiday like St. Patrick's Day - perpetuated primarily by the bars.[/quote'] one thing. Alabaster. I'm half Irish. Yeah I can see your point but alabaster who whould drink green beer
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