I'm confused

[tree_and_leaf]

I've just been trying to learn how to use PayPal, since I wanted to pay for more LJ time. It seems to be terribly complicated with German bank accounts - or at least confusing, since they keep telling me (a) that I can use it immediately, but that (b) I must verify it first, and that therefore I must wait 2-4 days.

Sigh. I dare say I'll work it out eventually.

I also can't get hold of a friend I'm supposed to be traveling with at the end of the week. (I thought technology was supposed to solve these sort of problems?

This was supposed to be a contentful post about some fascinating Dominican manuscripts (and why thirteenth century nuns are better read than you think) and the conference I was at at the weekend, but I'm afraid it isn't. Hopefully tomorrow - though tomorrow will be a peculiar day, as I'm going to a friend's thesis defence. Cross your fingers for her, if you can spare the time!

Random observation one: I find it strangely disconcerting that Americans and Canadians appear to say 'Om nom nom' where someone British would say 'num num' or 'yum yum'. The principles the same, but still...

Random observation two: I have forgotten what this is. I think this means it is time to go to bed. Oh - yes: I downloaded an article about Agnes Blannbekin today. The journal storage had tagged it with key words connected with subsistance farming, pesticide exposure, and dermal reactions. This amused me more than it probably should have....

Comments

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I think "om nom nom" is a recent, fannish thing. Americans usually say "yum yum."

[tree_and_leaf]

Thanks - language is odd, and when the internet's involved, it gets even odder....

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we say num num or yum yum -- nom nom is an internet thing.

[tree_and_leaf]

Aha - good to know that American English is less odd than I thought ;) *ducks*

[penguinity.livejournal.com]

yeah...om nom nom is lolcats.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

And sort of originated with classic Cookie Monster before its recent re-appropriation for lolcats, I believe.

[tree_and_leaf]

I must confess that I've never seens an episode of Sesame Street in my life....

[tree_and_leaf]

Lolcats get everywhere, don't they?

[ms-wanderlust.livejournal.com]

I use Paypal in the UK and have used it successfully in Bolivia. I hope your Germany experience will end positively. I've never had any problems with it in either country...

And I will, as my friends and I used to say, "cross my holy fingers" for your friend tomorrow.

[tree_and_leaf]

The German system just seems insanely long-winded (well, it is connected to German banking!)

My friend passed magna cum laude - it all went very well and I'm just sobering up from the champagne now :)

[anna-in-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Funny, I just had a look at PayPal's German AGB - General Terms and Conditions - at work today. It did strike as a very complicated way of doing things, particularly as I thought it was supposed to be quick and easy. ::sighs:: I think it's the German way of over-regulating everything.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think you're right :)