so, Mr Befuddled, what would you call the street you live in?
Wouldn't it be "YOUR" street?
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so, Mr Befuddled, what would you call the street you live in?
Wouldn't it be "YOUR" street?
No. It would be the street where I live, or the street where my home is, or the garage space I have rented. In fact, I don't use a possessive pronoun for public space; it's not mine, I simply share it with others.
However, my questions do indeed remain my questions. And I still have a few regarding a pair of orphaned Lamborghinis.......
I'll just go a head and point out that, whereas she may be too polite to point out your gender misidentification, I'm not.
I'll just go a head and point out that, whereas she may be too polite to point out your gender misidentification, I'm not.
...to think I was contemplating adding a "/Mrs" there earlier
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no one said they're orphaned, that came about in here. I have no idea who's are they, at least yet.
on the other hand, you never say : YOUR work? Also, I don't think it was saying MY garage that spun the facts of this so much out of proportion. Most people ignored the word "apartment" which equals "building".
Thank you, mobilehaathi. As a veteran of countless language wars, it seems that I also need to point out that the appellation 'Mrs' is also redundant, as the blessed state of holy matrimony does not, actually, apply to me.
law has recently passed in France that all women are to be addressed as "Madame" irrelevant of marital status.
But there is no question regarding ownership of 'my work'; believe me, as a published author, my name is on what I write.
I am, however, more concerned about your basement. Rather than disputing ownership of 'the' Lamborghinis, I suggest that you give thought to what their presence, in this setting, in the garage of an apartment which you rented, in the set of conditions which you described in your original post......all may mean.
Personally, if I were in your shoes, I would be asking a few questions of my environment, and would keep my eyes, and my ears wide open.
Seems like a lot of concern for someone you engage in conversation for the first time, especially when hoisting that brown colored flag you mentioned earlier.
Yes, indeed. Which means that marriage - or marital status - no longer defines a woman's status in France. Thus, for an adult women, when addressed as 'Madame' the appellation will acquire a state which is neutral of marital identity, as 'Monsieur' already does for men.
Likewise, in Germany, many adult women prefer to be addressed as 'Frau', irrespective of marital status, as 'Fraulein' is deemed to refer to a juvenile.
However, in the British Isles, while 'Miss' is used a lot less, 'Mrs' is still used to describe a married woman. However, professional women tend to use 'Ms', which is what I do.
I'm not sure I understand why one human registering concern for another is odd to you. How long she has known/conversed with you seems irrelevant.
Oh well, you're free to ignore any concerns people have on your behalf.
Actually, while you may not believe this, I am chilling at the end of a rather long - and rather taxing - day. From my perspective, this whole thread is hilarious, and again, believe it or not, I find the whole direction that the discussion is taking is actually very, very funny.
Believe me, it is not what you have described as 'concern' - it is more flabbergasted disbelief. But, whatever. No matter.
Indeed, given that you started the thread, you cannot not expect responses to what you wrote. It is a bizarre story which beggars belief. And I'll confess to a morbid curiosity - as I observed to mobilehaathi during the course of a different discussion - I am one of life's apple eaters - manifesting itself as a dark desire to see how this would turn out. However, my warning stands. This is all very fishy. Very, very fishy.
How gracious...
Perhaps the concern was expressed because the writer is a kind and sympathetic person, with a honest concern for others...
No no she clearly has twisted motives. It starts as benign and anonymous concern, but rest assured she'll be throwing her head back laughing maniacally as she speeds down the highway in her new white Lamborghini as the OP is left to answer to the angry owner!
Damn. Outed. And I thought my literary style successfully masked my true motives.
this is Greece...Criminals are mostly tax evaders, commission hoarders, Balkan looters, bankers & fat politicians. No need to concern yourselves
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I'm reasonably certain no one on MR will lose any sleep over it.
perplexed to say the least. what a roller coaster thread
As it happens, I have a fair bit of experience of the Balkans, and have worked in those parts, where I have observed the "tax evaders, commission hoarders, Balkan looters, fat politicians" you have described so eloquently in operation, along with a fine sprinkling of war criminals, genocidal maniacs, and downright murderers, not to mention criminals and thieves. And ballot stuffers.
Sigh. From my vantage point, it is half past one in the morning, my bed beckons, and yet I cannot resist the siren lure of a totally bonkers (yet brilliant) online conversation with someone I have never met concerning a completely bizarre discovery in the basement garage of an apartment he is renting.
'This is Greece'. Greece is, at the moment, (apart, possibly, from Ukraine, which I visited, briefly, last February, and thought it a place rigid with suppressed tension), perhaps, the country I would describe as the most........fragile.....on the continent of Europe just now.
Um, yes. Very well, then, if there is no need to concern ourselves, let us forbear from doing so.
But, as someone who sometimes asks questions of systems (and people) for a living, I will ask you just what sort of responses you expected from us when you started this thread?
I never expected anyone taking this thread without a grain of salt, or plenty. Many facts have been shot out of their original context and that was not my doing. Mostly people rush to respond with BS flags without reading a second time the original post which is kind of annoying. Moreover, I might not be as old a member as most of you who replied to this thread, but my post history proves I am not into story telling.
I have also spotted the Jobs yacht back in July and submitted photos. No one even tried to disprove that, which by the way, chances spotting it are even more astronomical than two identical lamborghinis in a high class suburb.
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Man, did she have me deceived!
Don't I feel the fool...
Ah, my dastardly self is revealed but my suave urbane exterior still masks much.
Indeed, we are right back to the key messages taught to us in (Greek? Ancient Greek?) texts such as 'Aesop's Fables'. Do you remember the story about the sun and the wind, a story where they had a competition as to which method - brute force (cue the whine and whistle of a howling wind) or love bombing (the sun beaming and burning) would be more efficacious when seeking to remove a gentleman's coat (or cloak)?
Guess which of the two methods won. The question is rhetorical (unlike the ones I asked earlier which were anything but).
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The Jobs yacht (a rare example, to my mind, of the late, great Mr Jobs losing it in terms of taste - and I don't much care that the designer Phillippe Starck is supposed to have designed the thing, it's a horrible looking ocean going vessel) seemed to me to be a sort of project for a dying genius to focus on, to help distract him from what was happening in his life. I cannot imagine that his widow will want much to do with it, but who knows?
Well, yes. Hm.....What can I say? Enjoy looking at the Lamborghinis......and, above all, take care of yourself.
And do let us know if any further information on the matter comes your way.....
Oh, and thank you for starting the thread. I wrote truly when I said that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Frankly, I'm extremely disappointed in this entire thread. The title says "Easter egg", so I expected an actual Easter egg.
And after learning the location is Greece, I fully expected an extremely ancient Easter egg.
Instead, it's just a couple of cars, and not even "finders keepers".
Disappointed I am. Deeply, profoundly, almost unspeakably disappointed.
/s
And after learning the location is Greece, I fully expected an extremely ancient Easter egg.
Instead, it's just a couple of cars, and not even "finders keepers".
Disappointed I am. Deeply, profoundly, almost unspeakably disappointed.
/s
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