Giving advice

Cat lover

Your friend, who has had relationship problems in the past, has announced that he/she has finally found love. The problem is that he/she in now in love with his/her cat.

My advice

Go to a veterinarian and ask him to help you to convince your friend that what he is doing to his cat isn't right for the cat.
Try to say to your friend that the cat should have a mate that is an animal.
Try to tell your friend that if he really loves his cat he should find a cute female cat for his pet.

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Friend betrayed

You went to another city recently and you saw your best friend's girlfriend/boyfriend holding hands with another man/woman.

My advice

I think you have to tell to your friend what you saw, then it's up to him to decide what to do with his girlfriend.

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Passionate interviewer

You recently went to a job interview. At the interview you were very nervous and didn't perform very well. You were convinced that you didn't get the job but you just got a call from one of the interviewers asking you to meet them privately in a fancy restaurant.

My advice

First of all I want to say that in my opinion it's not fair mixing private life with professional life. It's likely that the person who interviewed is trying to get some favour from you in exchange for hiring you. It could also be possible that your application was rejected, and the interviewer has an honest interest in you as his future mate.
If I were you I would accept the invitation to the restaurant, so that you will be able to understand the intention of the interviewer.

Intonation in English

I want to show you how intonation works in the English language.
When we want to communicate to our listeners that a list of phrases is continuing with another one, the voice goes up. If we want to express that we are finishing talking, the voice goes down.

For example, let's have a look at the lyrics of Eagles' song Take it easy.

Well, I'm a running down the road

trying to loosen my load

I've got seven women on my mind,
four that wanna own me, (voice up)
two that wanna stone me, (voice up)
one says she's a friend of mine. (voice down)

Search "Take It Easy" on Youtube

words from the news

to cripple = verb, to damage something very badly and make it weak or not effective.
example: an exponent of a party accuses that the opposing party's policies will cripple Country

adamant /ˈædəmənt/ = adj, very sure of what you think and not willing to change your opinion
example: Labour adamant to renegotiate IMF deal

passionate = adj, showing a strong belief in sth or a strong feeling about sth

example: A passionate speaker. I'm not passionate about policy

A simple achievement

I've found a new room to live in Dublin, and it took me only two days to find it!
The landlord spontaneously offered himself to buy a mattress, because, as he said, the one which is currently on the bed is too old. Then, when I told him that I needed a desk to study, he answered that he would find one that fits into my room.
I'm looking forward to meeing the other flatmates.

Irish Property Owner's Association

A story of my first childhood

When I was a child I used to ride my bicycle as fast as possible, along the street just in front my house.

My brother and I would challenge each other doing dangerous actions.
My mother would say to my brother and me not go too far away from home.

At sunset my father would call us out to come back home.

My brother would tell me about the accidents that had happened to the other children riding their bikes and the places where they had fallen.

One day my brother was taken to the hospital because he had fallen from his bike. The skin under his chin was stitched up and he had to wear a plaster for a week.

A few days after I found out how my brother had fallen. He had tried to ride down a steep descent, and, braking with the front brake, the bike had flipped over. So, I couldn't stop thinking about how to go down that descent and to slow the bike without any harm to me.

Ending 1
The descent takes you down to a dark garage entry was a challenge that I refused to face, and still now when I pass by it I feel a bit scared.

Ending 2
I rode down the descent and I fell on my side, and still now you can see a scar on my ankle.

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Note:
My teacher told me this post's title was wrong because one only has one childhood. I responded to him that I had really had two childhoods with two behaviours, two ways of relating to other people. So my teacher explained that the word first should be written in italic.

A brief story with a twist

My friends and I were in the car, Paolo was driving slowly in the traffic, heading for our favourite pizzeria. We had just left university.
We were laughing and joking, when two police officers signaled to stop the car. One policeman told Paolo that he had seen something wrong in his car, but he would have overlooked the problem if he might have come to eat with us as a friend, obviously he meant to pay for himself.
Paolo had only been talking to the policeman for a few seconds when he told him that he would rather pay the fine.

Clearly, this story is invented. Why would policemen ask to join a group of friends?

John Kennedy assassination

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first President to have been born in the 20th century, the only Catholic, and the first Irish American, president.

Late in 1963, John F. Kennedy conducted a campaign for the general election to be held at the beginning of 1964, and  toured the south of United States.

On November 22, the Presidential motorcade visited Dallas, and, while the Presidential limousine was driving through the city center, Kennedy was killed by two gunshots, the first struck his troath and the second fatal his head.

Immediately, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and was accused of murdering John F. Kennedy. But, two days later, while the murderer of the president was supposed to be handed over to the State Prison, he was shot dead in front of hundreds of journalists and millions of TV watchers.

Someone believes that the murder of JFK was a conspiracy and others that Lee Harvey Oswald did all by himself. What's your idea?