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one day, when i have kids, i will send them this link & they will finally understand.
this is more of a personal journal than anything else, i don't have much to say that is of any great importance.
lots of (mostly canadian) folk, rock, pop, hip-hop & production.
french canada. university student. hostel employee. avid photographer. trilingual lady. bike enthusiast. book lover.
quotes. music. flickr. photos. thoughts.

Jan 31

boys are so dumb

i just want a lover it’s the winter and i’m cold and why are they so dumb and complicated?

HELP ME FIGURE OUT THIS EXPRESSION IN ENGLISH

hey kids

lately more than one of my friends have made fun of me for using the expression ‘mener à rien’, like while code-switching english/french.

i only use this expression because all the english equivalents i can think of do not really have the same meaning.

‘it’s pointless/useless’ - doesn’t really get across the journey or time implications that ‘mener’ has

‘it’s all for nothing’ - is much more negative

‘it gets to nothing’ is the way i’d like to say it, but that is not an accepted expression. is there a good expression for this? as in, the process is pointless, all the effort is going to no real useful result, but not in too negative of a way?

“ Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash. During our friendship he had rehearsed his death in many crashes, but this was his only true accident.

— j. g. ballard, crash, opening words

Jan 30