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a tip for those who enjoy learning
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a tip for those who enjoy learning

Hello to all the culture lovers out there! I am writing with a tip for those who enjoy learning about other cultures but perhaps find it difficult to make the time to get away. Why don’t you bring the culture to you? In my case I played the host “family” (though I live alone) to a Spanish girl doing an English course in Ireland (my beautiful home country). I had learnt a little Spanish at school and loved it so it was a delight to be able to further my knowledge a little during the evenings with my guest. Of course, she was here on one of her school’s “cursos de ingles en extranjero” to learn English but sometimes it was nice for a change, for her to teach me a little rather than the other way round. I learnt a lot about her culture, a lot about Spanish cooking and made a friend; in fact, I have booked into one of the hostels in Madrid to spend a weekend with her shortly – will be great to have a local show me round! I really would recommend this experience to anyone – you can go about your daily life but also earn a little money and widen your horizons, not to mention make lots of new contacts for future weekends away!

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03-24-2008 12:03 PM
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Re: a tip for those who enjoy learning

OK, this is getting ridiculous. It's obviously a spambot.

<lordpie> Life sucks so much right now. It seems I'm spending all of it doing math.
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03-24-2008 01:02 PM
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I don't think she is. Some of her other posts look human.
03-24-2008 01:06 PM
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The designer of the bot is either a fucking genius or that's a real person.

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03-24-2008 01:43 PM
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Yeah, but it's in Voices, it's the wrong forum...

<lordpie> Life sucks so much right now. It seems I'm spending all of it doing math.
<Rosti_LFC> You are "Math Boy"
<Rosti_LFC> Doer of math
<Rosti_LFC> Unable to integrate with society. Only with functions of x
03-24-2008 02:29 PM
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Advice. Could be giving advice.

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03-24-2008 02:51 PM
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I do not believe this is a spambot. She quoted another user and also responded in a coherent and relevant manner. I'm pretty damned sure that's no spambot.

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Re: a tip for those who enjoy learning

Laugh
Not a spambot. I moved it, though.

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It's probably one of those spambots that are controlled by people and not by programming.
03-26-2008 10:33 AM
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...Then how the fuck is it a spam bot?
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Maybe she's a spamhuman? She's (I'm guessing) posted 3 topics, which she never replied to any of, and had an incredible ad feel to them, like she was trying to sell something. All her other posts are in "welcome" threads...I'm guessing she's either lurking or a spamhuman.

P.S. Or a really well programmed spambot.

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Maybe miriamlee is just Suzy Sunshine!
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Sorry about the links in my post guys! It looked like a spam :(

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04-24-2008 01:25 PM
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Nah, it's OK. You're not a spambot.
04-24-2008 01:28 PM
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We're just paranoid about spambots around here ever since we had a major flood of them for a while. Haven't seen one in a while though.

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