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I wish there was a more positive slant on life just now. Negativity is all over.
We used 10m3 less gas this week than we did the same week last year. Milder winter ofcourse, but also keeping the central heating at 19C instead of 22C.
The previous version of this comment appears to have been swallowed up by the automod, so let’s try again without a few keywords:
Are there any famous examples in your country of contrived, pointless phrases that you learn when first learning a new foreign language? For instance, apparently the first sentence French schoolchildren end up learning in their English lessons is “Where is Brian? Brian is in the kitchen”. Which, thanks to [Gad Elmaleh](https://youtu.be/11jG7lkwDwU), has now become kind of a meme.
In Germany, a lot of people learn French from the same set of textbooks called *Découvertes*, which features a family living on the Rue Daguerre with their pet parrot Arthur. So one of the first phrases you learn in French is “*Arthur est un perroquet*” [Arthur is a parrot]. Apparently in England the equivalent phrase is “[*Où est la plume de ma tante*](https://youtu.be/x1sQkEfAdfY)” [where is my aunt’s fountain pen? Or maybe quill?].
And on a related note, [Was ist dein Lieblingsfach](https://youtu.be/39UDZMgPg5k) is a far, far catchier song than it should be.
My father owns a small cottage in eastern Finland where he spends time. I was talking to him yesterday, and he said he always makes sure to be noisy in the morning when he goes out before letting his dog follow to scare the wolves away.
Shit is really different out there. Like a friend of mine goes fishing somewhere near the Russian border behind God’s back in the summers, and he says you need to be careful not to leave your caught fish out because a bear will come and eat them if you do. Meanwhile here in the city I saw a dead badger the other day and it was an exciting nature experience for me.
Yesterday I listened to the classic [vaporwave song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkPcPqTq4M) that sampled Diana Ross’ It’s Your Move for the first time in years, and as the saturation on that synth riff hit me I got reminded of how influential that vaporwave sound. Like just that saturation, it’s such a sound these days.
It’s funny though, [It’s Your Move](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtlgWW8L8f4) somehow sounds wrong. Sounds too fast, I’m so used to that vaporwave remix, as it was absolutely everywhere on the internet when that stuff was popping. And I love Diana Ross, it just is what it is.
Similar thing with [Caramelldansen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJLvF1dUek), the version that everybody on the internet has heard is this nightcore remix that’s like 20% faster than the [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2Ihbm_Mz0). The original sounds wrong to me.
Edit: Also, I went to wash my car last night, which costs 9€ in the place I go to, but it ended up costing me 840€ because I dropped my phone and just now ordered a new one. Used, but still. It was a pretty expensive car washing experience, especially considering the car itself was just 1000€.