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I'm back from the dead, in this episode "I just married my dad"
Back from the dead? maybe not literally, but after a long time not using this website it feels
like that.
Since I'm a guy with little imagination, I will keep writing about interesting news from all over the world and Mexico, my beloved country.
I don't mean to be judgemental or critic with any country in specific, I will try to write an international news note and a mexican subsequently, so no one could think I'm purposly attacking their country, mine has a lot of sad, interesting, shocking, funny stories by itself,
and over this time I had recolected a bunch to have plenty of sources for my notes.
I want to start with a note about a father and son getting married, yes, they are related to each other not just as parent and kid but husband and husband.
This is the link in case you want to check it by yourselves, it's in Spanish though but you can always translate it.
https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/-padre--e--hijo--se-casan-despu%C3%A9s-de-52-a%C3%B1os-de-relaci%C3%B3n-121827714.html
The article tells the story of Bill Novak and Norman MacArthur, 76 and 74 years old respectively. they met when they were 20 years old and have been together all this time.
In 1994 they registered themselves in NY as "domestic partners" (not sure if this is the real term, I just tranlsated it literally from the article), because gay marriage wasn't allowed by the time, and this status gave them more benefits and social rights.
After they got retired, they moved to Penn where this legal figure wasn't accepted, so they were like strangers to each other, in order to be a family a lawyer recommended to them to become father and son, so the the older one adopted the younger one. This way they could visit each other in hospital and have more social rights again.
But a miracle happened and Pennsilvania legalized gay marriage in 2014, so now they wanted to get married, but because they were father and son, no judge would allow that.
A lawyer told them to argument bad treament and cancel the adoption, but they decided to be honest and told the judge the truth, surprisingly they were given the permission to marry each other, even with fact of being father and son.
interesting story, isn't it?
2016年3月15日
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"Exotic food" Would you try it? part 1
When I was a child, my father used to tell me not to judge the food(not take for granted that it has a bad flavour) by its appearance, he always said to me that at least I have to give the food a chance by trying a little bit, then I could have(make?) my own opinion about it.
But in this case, it's different! the real name of the article from which i got the idea for this entry is "Nasty dishes that are eaten all over the world" but I tried to sugar coat it in my title, haha!
Having said that I don't know if I could have a stomach intrepid enough to try some of these meals, even with my father's voice telling me so. This is the link of the article in case you want to read it too, and see the pictures by yourselves.
https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/fotos/comidas-asquerosas-que-se-consumen-alrededor-del-mundo-1417713170-slideshow/tong-zi-dan-eggs-soaked-photo-051854176.html
But it's in spanish, so you may have to use a translator for the text.
I´m going to start with the first 2 (products? i'm not really sure if i have to use food, meals,dishes, since some of them are drinks and desserts)
"Tong zi dan" those are eggs soaked in urine all night long. It says it's quite popular in some parts of China, the sellers get the urine from elementary schools, so it's urine from kids.
Mice wine. A traditional beverage consumed in China and Korea, as a tonic for health, made from little mice (alive) thrown into a bottle of rice wine. (I definitely could try this)
What do you think? would you try them? have you ever tried anything like this or not common? are in your country food/drinks that you consider nasty?
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A new concept
Many times I wanted to write an entry here, but either I had a lack of eagerness( is this correct?, I want to say that i'm lazy) or I didn't have anything interesting to talk about, so that's why I decided to comment "peculiar" articles that I read on yahoo.
Some of them are gloom, showing the bad face of the countries from all over the world,but some are cheerful and interesting, like this one.
Since it's my first entry after my introduction, I thought it'd be better to choose a good and happy one.
The article is about a new concept in cinemas, some years ago I saw a picture of people watching a movie while laying on a bed, but this goes further, the new concept is watching the movie meanwhile you relax/enjoy being in a pool, the concept is taking place in Berlin but they have planned a tour to 4 more german cities.
It says that this service is expensive, the tickets are around 28-35 dollars, although they didn't mention if it is per person or pool.
What do you think about this? Is it expensive? Would you go to this cinema?
Thank you in advance for your corrections and i would apreciate if you could give more suggestions on how to say the things in a different way.
2015年6月9日
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Música motivante
¡Hola italki!
He decidido dejar la flojera a un lado y regresar a la buena condición. Les pregunto ¿Cuál canción no puede fallar/faltar en su setlist cuando hacen ejercicio? O simplemente, ¿Qué canción los pone de buen humor y con ganas de bailar o moverse? Crearé un setlist para tener la motivación a tope, ¡jeje!
Gracias.
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How do you say "antojar" y "tocayo" in english?
"Antojar" when a person is talking about food, or you watch a food advertisement and you start to feel hungry because of that.
"Tocayo" is a person who has the same name as you. it doesn't have to be exactly the same, it could be the nickname too, For example here in Mexico, a person whose name is Humberto and Alberto can be "tocayos", because the nickname for both is "beto"
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My first post
Hi guys! This is my first post, and i don't really know what should I write but here I am.
My name is Edgar but you can call me ed, eddy, dude, el dudorino, its dudeness, haha! i don't know if I write it right but I love that qoute from the funny movie, that you know.
I've been told that doing a language exchange can be very helpful for improving my english, actually the other time I was speaking with a guy from El Salvador on hangouts, and I was amazed of his level and fluency, he is just sixteen years old, he have never traveled abroad but since he was younger he started to do language exchanges with native speakers.
I would like to be able to speak like him someday, I wish i had looked for this tools like italki long time ago.
but like we say in Mexico, "better late than never".
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