A++

Wonder why he is on 2+2? Sometimes you should just cool your thoughts before you post, some come off way out of line.

Hopefully next year. I'm getting tired of the hood. Its been 3 years living in the slums.

Again, it's REALLY FUNNY coming from you.

Glad I live on the other side of the world! I'd be hanging out with a lot of ex-cons, otherwise.

I do not believe I insult many if anyone at all.

That's sort of the point.

Onto poker discussion:

Any solid reads in LLSNL lately?

Far less than 5%

So you get insulted when I mention a wr is par? My standard does not need to be equal to ours or yours to mine. I would work on that mental game bro, seem like a tilt target.

If anyone gets time, if you have not read Ikes 5/10 55 in mp thread, that was not a terrible read.

I was not insulted and I will not be insulted by anything you say for reasons that are fairly obvious.

You simply don't seem to grasp that communication only works if others understand what you're saying.

Par suggests that it's rather standard, and if you decided to change its meaning, it would be helpful to at least say that you did.

you guys should have taken this to pm a long time ago.

Lmao

So I bought my son some legal fireworks for the 4th (California). We got a bunch of small ones and some big ones that come in a big package. We get home and open the package and one of the fireworks is named "Golden Showers". I started laughing and he didn't know why (he's 13).

Quit sheltering him...

Yeah, at DLI it's your full-time job to learn the language. At 35 hours of instruction a week, compared to 3-5 in a university course, it's super intense. They mix up the activities each hour to try to keep the brain agile, 1 hour speaking, 1 hour grammar, 1 hour reading, etc, but it's still tough. Our attrition rate was about 40%.

For your Chinese, I recommend that you focus on "owning it." Work on things you actually want to talk about, instead of drills, and you'll find that it contextualizes much better. One of the best things I did for my Arabic was watching Monday Night Football. A buddy and I would go to a (quieter) sports-bar and our rule was that we could only talk in Arabic, except during the commercials. We could talk about anything, but only Arabic. Pretty soon we could complain about our NCOs and instructors, talk about football, and talk about girls with a pretty good fluency.

Should have bought him some illegal ones.

wow that's great advice, thanks a lot.

I'll try to find someone to do that with. I have a few girls who I take out for coffee/dinner and that type of thing, but I should be focusing on better topics with them.

LOL, I can guess what those topics are.

YW. Hope it helps. Another thing I found that helps is to watch movies or read kid's books that you already know the story to, that helps you fill in the missing parts with context. First book I read in Arabic was Pinocchio and first film I saw in German was Beauty and the Beast.

Best story I ever heard, **** is so bad ass man! I would love to do that.

Amazing!

Great, thanks a lot for the tips.

lol +1

currently recovering from a concussion I got from a fight

when I say fight, I mean of course me getting my ass handed to me

people bluff way less than I think they do, even at 5/10