Comments on: Is It Only Tuesday? http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2008/09/is-it-only-tuesday/ - the blog formerly known as bookish Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:36:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: unblinkered http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2008/09/is-it-only-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-5289 unblinkered Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:50:35 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=354#comment-5289 Ah yes....the curse of the not-foreign-seeming foreigner. I tend to get the "Oh, but you're Irish...that's different!" until I point out that, according to my passport and heritage at least, I'm German. And if I dig really deep, I can find some Huguenot roots somewhere, too. Hypocrisy, how I love thee. *sigh* Ah yes….the curse of the not-foreign-seeming foreigner. I tend to get the “Oh, but you’re Irish…that’s different!” until I point out that, according to my passport and heritage at least, I’m German. And if I dig really deep, I can find some Huguenot roots somewhere, too.

Hypocrisy, how I love thee. *sigh*

]]> By: Kirsten Marie http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2008/09/is-it-only-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-5288 Kirsten Marie Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:56:01 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=354#comment-5288 Ah! The stairs-bookshelves! Amazing. Ah! The stairs-bookshelves! Amazing.

]]> By: kat http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2008/09/is-it-only-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-5287 kat Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:15:50 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=354#comment-5287 Hi, i know exactly what you mean by "one of them"! When me and my husband went to look at the house we wanted to buy, the lady who was selling the house though it was one of its selling point that there were "no funny foreigners" among neighbours. When i told her i was a foreigner, she came up with exactly the same phrase - "but you are not one of them" to which i immediately, looking her firmly in an eye, said- 'yes, I AM one of them." Needles to say we didn't buy that house... Oh and uranium just means that there were tiny amounts of it added to glass when it was made so it looks ghostly green and glows under a UV light. Victorians were very fond of it. Hi, i know exactly what you mean by “one of them”! When me and my husband went to look at the house we wanted to buy, the lady who was selling the house though it was one of its selling point that there were “no funny foreigners” among neighbours. When i told her i was a foreigner, she came up with exactly the same phrase – “but you are not one of them” to which i immediately, looking her firmly in an eye, said- ‘yes, I AM one of them.” Needles to say we didn’t buy that house…
Oh and uranium just means that there were tiny amounts of it added to glass when it was made so it looks ghostly green and glows under a UV light. Victorians were very fond of it.

]]> By: Vicky http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2008/09/is-it-only-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-5286 Vicky Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:41:18 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=354#comment-5286 Ha, I get that too albeit usually 'You're one of us'. One of what?! Ha, I get that too albeit usually ‘You’re one of us’. One of what?!

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