# The Meet a Single Doper thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364 "2003-08-29T03:45:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/121 "2003-09-05T11:26:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > Hi mipiace! > > I keep thinking your username is _miapace_, which means something else entirely… And Here’s me reading **miplace** which is different again. 35 Male New Zealand. I’ve been scanning for other kiwis but haven’t spotted many. ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/122 "2003-09-05T14:34:42Z")
Sunspace they call everything something different. In Italy, it’s Italia and Croatia is Histrovia, the US is Stati Uniti…of course, Germans call their country Deutschland…so I don’t know why everyone calls every place a different name, even city names are called something different. Venice, is Venizia etc…reading a map is really interesting too! 🙂 Art is looked at completly differently in Italy. Beginning in preschool they teach art and music appreciation. Art is a big part of Italian culture and they honestly appreciate the beauty in life. So yes, Art is HUGE. Churchs are in every small village and are usually lush with art. Larger cities have great cathedrals and galleries. I was in Italy for work which is different still. 🙂 Mi Piace is pretty much “I like” ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/123 "2003-09-05T14:51:28Z")
Age: 29 (never married… something will be wrong with me in 6 months) Sex: Female Location: Seattle More information can be provided upon request. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/124 "2003-09-05T14:53:11Z")
> [@](#): > > _ **mipiace** said:_ > Art is looked at completly differently in Italy. Beginning in preschool they teach art and music appreciation. Art is a big part of Italian culture and they honestly appreciate the beauty in life. So yes, Art is HUGE. **sigh** I hate living in a land run by neo-conservatives who think, “If it doesn’t generate a profit in the next quarter, it has to go.” A friend of mine, who is a brilliant artist, had enough of Ontario and bailed, heading for the west coast. I’m thinking of doing something similar… ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/125 "2003-09-05T15:01:27Z")
Wow, that is sad…have you thought of Europe? ---
**Author:** ![poiema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@poiema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poiema)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/126 "2003-09-05T15:30:47Z")
**yojimbo** , have you ever been to the wicklow lighthouse? it’s on my list of must see places. **qts** , i seriously thought the only thing in luton was the airport! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/127 "2003-09-05T16:27:13Z")
**mipiace** , I think of Europe every day. 🙂 Actually _getting_ there is another issue. [sub]Maybe I should work on that UK right-to-abode thing. Or meet a European woman and do the ‘fall in love, get married’ thing. \[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/128 "2003-09-05T18:05:40Z")
I feel very young on this board. ---
**Author:** ![Lizochka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lizochka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizochka)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/129 "2003-09-05T18:33:54Z")
23 Female New York, NY I feel very young too, **Idle Thoughts**. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/130 "2003-09-05T18:43:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Idle Thoughts \* > \*\*I feel very young on this board. \*\* You might want to go look for “high schoolers – what grade are you in/what’s your schedule?” type threads. I like reading them when I want to feel old myself, although why I want to feel old is a mystery to me! Y’all aren’t that young on this board – there’s a number of people here who are younger than 24, including a good number who have posted to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/131 "2003-09-05T19:50:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > \*\ ***mipiace** , I think of Europe every day. 🙂 Actually _getting_ there is another issue. > [sub]Maybe I should work on that UK right-to-abode thing. Or meet a European woman and do the ‘fall in love, get married’ thing. \[/sub] \*\* Well I guess you have a point there…student visa? Italians go to college until they are like 38!! LOL It takes forever to get through college there. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/132 "2003-09-05T20:16:00Z")
\*_mipiace_, I thought the ‘older college/university student’ think was mostly North American. I remember reading articles that said that going to school in your thirties or later (after you’d been living on your own, working, or raising a family, etc), was fairly unusual outside Canada and the USA… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/133 "2003-09-05T20:17:18Z")
Er, ‘thing’… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/134 "2003-09-05T20:28:27Z")
Well actually it is…but people live with their parents for a lot longer there. The whole culture is just different. Some people live with their parent and go to college well into their 30s. It is pretty unusual for Italians to marry before they are in their mid to late 30s and they don’t typically leave home before they get married either. ---
**Author:** ![horowitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@horowitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horowitz)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/135 "2003-09-05T20:45:49Z")
Male Northern Indiana 37 I enjoy candlelit dinners, long walks on the beach, sitting in front of the fire, and cudgeling with my favorite gal. ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/136 "2003-09-05T20:50:55Z")
HEy Sunspace, what about a work visa, ever tried getting a job with a foreign company that has branch offices over seas? I work for the US Dept of Defense and move around country to country fairly easily. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/137 "2003-09-05T20:53:11Z")
“Cudgeling”? :eek: Is that something you want to admit on the boards? 🙂 > [@](#): > > (from Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary) > cudgel noun [C] > a short heavy stick used for hitting people > > cudgel verb [T] -ll- US USUALLY -l- > to hit someone with a cudgel ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/138 "2003-09-06T01:42:51Z")
Hi **mipiace** , I work for the largest division of a British-based company. This division, however, is based in Toronto, and is enough larger than the rest of the company that the tail is wagging the dog, so to speak. The division is a formerly-independent company that was bought near the peak of the tech boom. Unfortunately, while I had dreams of being transferred to Merrie Old England, what actually happened is that, after a reorganisation, the Englanders came _here_. I guess there just isn’t the need for tech writers to actually move around. Unless they change jobs. Hence the constant learning and new skills. Web pages. Web-services programming. Video editing. 3D modelling. Cartooning. Eventually _something_’s got to click… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/139 "2003-09-06T01:48:39Z")
**Sunspace** , I think you just got whooshed on the cudgeling thing. Not to beat that joke into the ground or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364/140 "2003-09-06T02:21:44Z")
**twickster** , I just thought it was another case of Unintentionally-Comic Bad Spelling. The chef at the caf at my work is notorious for this: his errors are so bad that I often think he means something else entirely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meet-a-single-doper-thread/198364.md?page=8)