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Less anticipated perils of nudism: Naked German women found in woods

Less amusingly, exploitation of berry pickers.

Apparently Morrisons sells jars of bilberries from Poland (where they are presumably picked by Poles), and any potential radioactivity doesn't present a health hazard. Alas, I don't have a local Morrisons. I shall have to go to Ilkley Moor when in the north later this month.

ETA: Comments frozen as nude hikers appear to attract lots of spam!

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azdak.livejournal.com

I am stalled on Unasked Questions in BH due to inability to produce pillow talk French

Oh no, this is dreadful news!

Perhaps Harriet could suggest to Peter that they have a Finnish Night instead? And since I'm reasonably sure neither of them can speak Finnish, that would put an end to the piffle in Foreign (though I daresay Peter would produce a couple of long words he'd gone and looked up in the dictionary specially).

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nineveh-uk.livejournal.com

Stalling is not allowed! (Says pot to kettle).

Peter would have a friend in the FCO who spoke Finnish, and taught him the necessary phrases. Or Harriet could try German. At which point Peter realises how silly it is. Except he probably wouldn't, but would start quoting (who wrote erotic poetry in German? has anyone ever written erotic poetry in German) and Harriet would end up trying to suffocate herself with the pillow. Or she could pretend that she found gags rather exciting and would Peter, just this once?

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Unanswered BH was supposed to be the easy one. It isn't. Harriet suddenly able to speak Finnish would get me attacked for rampant Mary Sueism and besides, my knowledge of romantic Finnish is limited, Finns not being given to romance and my husband being capable of distinguishing me from former girlfriends.

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nineveh-uk.livejournal.com

If we're into Mary-Sue territory, then in GN Harriet could have gone to a lecture by Tolkien, who quoted romantic or somehow relevant bits of the Kalevala. Or not.

My own method of getting over the tricky lines is just sticking them in brackets until later:

"Oh, Peter!"

[Peter: quote in French]

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azdak.livejournal.com

Peter would have a friend in the FCO who spoke Finnish, and taught him the necessary phrases

I'm not sure that Bingo, or Bungo, or whoever, would be well up on phrases that weren't about Defence of the Perimeter and Strategic Withdrawal.

There is lots of erotic poetry in German. Quite a lot of it is actually about Jesus (just ask <lj user="tree_and_leaf") but it is still pretty damned hot. And a lot of the rest was written by Goethe, but even so, it was a thriving genre. The gags suggestion is a triumph of Machiaveliian thinking. And having tried it once, I bet it then played a central role in the stability of their marriage.

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well up on phrases that weren't about Defence of the Perimeter and Strategic Withdrawal.

There's a good joke on the subject in The History Boys, "It's not an invasion; it's a planned withdrawal... You're not disputing the territory; you're negotiating the pace of the occupation."

I had forgotten

tree_and_leaf's comments on the more out-there stuff about Jesus. Probably not the best to quote in bed. But if there's a thriving genre I'm sure Peter picked some of it up, possibly at the same time as the magic German accent.