Comments on: ring finger

By: paula

paula — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:30 +0000

wow!!!love your book its so amazing
i might be young but i like reading
books that grownups read i first when
i bought the book i saw the picture
after i started reading the introduction
i said what??becuase it said her lover
mr.frog and thedaughter tadpole but the
ladys name sounded normal and it left me
curios until i read the story…lol
well this book is really good and i hope i can read many others from catherine sandersan=)

By: Java

Java — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:39:57 +0000

Thank you for the second link Gemini. I think there is some truth in it. Oddly enough in my current workplace the guys almost always open the doors for the girls (something which I had rarely experienced in Ireland before) and no it is not because I wear a short skirt.

By: Gemini

Gemini — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:09:43 +0000

To chip in.
I wouldn’t say it’s a cultural misconception, I’d say it’s a cultural misunderstanding. I explain:
If you look at this report
http://www.durex.com/cm/gss2004Content.asp?intQid=401
You’ll find out that French people have in average FEW sexual partners in their life time. Less than in the UK, the US or Japan. However they have more intercourses in average. It’s simple: less one night stands. People in regular relationships have more sex because they don’t need to seduce their partner from scratch, which in France entails quite some work (see http://danny.oz.au/jennifer/visitor/7.courtship.html for an Aussie take on that).
The one night stand culture is something very American or British (in Japan it would be Soaplands not French.
The REGULAR mistress (a la Mitterrand) is something more common in France, especially in the bourgeoisie, and for a reason: in the UK or the US, men divorce their first wives much more than in France (it exists there too but to a lesser degree). This tends to make people believe that cheating is widespread in France because mistresses stay mistresses while in the US, or UK mistresses become 2nd wife, and there are more one night stands… And it also works for cheating wives too

By: Java

Java — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:21:27 +0000

Irish men harrassed? I’ve only seen that once and that was at a crazy hen night….They would probably run a mile. I saw a girl pinching guys rears at a nightclub one time and they did just that….ran away…..lol. There is just more scandal generated in Ireland by priests fathering children…..we are such holy people you know ; ) (wicked grin)

By: Java

Java — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:12:07 +0000

Just had a bizarre experience last night. I was asked if I was married. When I said I had a boyfriend the questioning turned to “Do you live together?” “Are you happy with him?” All these questions from a French man I had never met. When I asked him why he thought he could ask me all of those questions he said he thought he felt an “energy” and that “my soul had touched his.” I had forgotten about the “beau parleur” element in France, since I am with a French man who tends to tell it how it is (thank God).
As long as you are “keeping it real” I think you will be all right.