The ability to fit in to a pair of size 10 jeans
I can only assume they were labelled wrongly.
(berk, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:57, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Well done!
I wasn't ignoring you two threads ago, was busy. Here's my reply to your question about Japanese alphabets:

Katakana is for 'loan' words, words taken from Western languages. For example カメラ = ka me ra = camera

Hiragana is syllabic, used for Japanese words for which there are no kanji (but you can use it in place of kanji too, I think). For example みどり = mi do ri = green.

Kanji is not syllabic, is adapted from Chinese, each pictoral represents a word, and combinations can be made to make other words. There are over six thousand different kanji, and each one can have more than one reading (context being used to distinguish the meanings). In other words, it's a fucking nightmare.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)

I only got about halfway through that paragraph before my brain started to whimper
you can keep it, I think. But if you fancy popping through Leamington on your way back from Warwick uni, give me a shout.
(berk, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)

Is Tennis Boy not servicing you regularly enough?

(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)

I don't see him as often as I'd like, no
but I doubt Labs wants his sloppy seconds.
(berk, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:13, Reply)

I reckon Labs would be grateful for what he could get.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:16, Reply)

Yet still I knock you back al

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:18, Reply)

I don't see why Field Ping Pong Boy and Labs both get a go but I don't.
I've never really looked at my race and creed as a disablity before, as something that makes me less of a person, but I guess maybe it is like that in some people's eyes. I was so nieve before, never even considered it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:58, Reply)

Oh you're in Leamington now?
Sorry, I knew you'd moved, but wasn't sure where. Not been on here much! Whereabouts?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)

Yeah, moved a couple of weeks ago
but my new job in Oxford doesn't start for another two weeks. Just off the Radford road, about a mile from the train station.
(berk, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)

Congrats on the job!
More science stuff?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)

Yeah, developing/testing a new typhoid vaccine
what came of your London interview, btw?
(berk, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:13, Reply)

I heard nothing
Not even a reply to my 'thanks for the interview' follow up email. Considering they were headhunting me, that's quite rude, but I happen to know that there's a considerable amount of office politics going on there, with Directors refusing to hire people despite the management saying that they need more bods.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Good for you :)
/jealouses
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 12:14, Reply)