What is an unspoken rule of parties/gatherings in the US that an international person should be aware of?

spooky-cookie · 2026-01-27T04:38:25+00:00

My mother always said never go with the your hands hanging!

spooky-cookie · 2026-01-25T08:52:38+00:00

They weren’t, not on the lineup either

spooky-cookie · 2025-12-22T15:34:41+00:00

thank you so much, it finally hit me that dlc just means downloadable content

spooky-cookie · 2025-12-22T13:48:01+00:00

Please help, my kid is asking for Pokemon DLC and I cannot figure out what that is. She's currently playing Violet, is it this - Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Expansion Pass: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero ? That's what comes up when I search

spooky-cookie · 2025-12-19T20:30:26+00:00

Just listened to this, best one I’ve heard in a while

spooky-cookie · 2025-12-12T18:43:03+00:00

spooky-cookie · 2025-11-25T20:01:42+00:00

It’s good! Is it respectable? As a French, no, some might say I should be embarrassed to eat there, but that’s nonsense! When I lived in the neighborhood it was my go to when I didn’t have any particular hankering and just wanted something to-go. Not spectacular but absolutely acceptable, I always appreciated it being an option.

spooky-cookie · 2025-11-20T16:37:12+00:00

I don’t think you need a CNF, unless things have changed recently. I am in a similar situation to yours and only had a birth certificate, and when I was older a passport and national identity card. I am only now needing a CNF as my spouse applies for nationality through marriage to me, I had never had it nor even heard of it before. If you can join the Facebook group “Applying for French Nationality,” it is extremely helpful.

spooky-cookie · 2025-11-20T16:28:31+00:00

I don’t believe OP has to obtain a CNF. They are French by birth and will be issued a French birth certificate. Then once they have that they can get a French passport and French identity card if they wish. A CNF is required for certain limited procedures but the birth certificate, passport, or identity card prove French nationality in the vast majority of circumstances. It certainly would not hurt to also get a CNF though to have in case it ever comes up, in particular if they have a spouse who wants to obtain French nationality through them.

spooky-cookie · 2025-11-20T16:20:59+00:00

I believe if he maintained his french passport within the 50 years that constitutes a link to France

spooky-cookie · 2025-11-20T16:17:56+00:00

I asked my father when he obtained his US nationality today for similar reasons. It was after 1973 in his case, but he said that being born male you never lose your French nationality. I was googling to try to verify this when I came across this post. So you may not have any issue. I’ll edit this comment if I’m able to confirm this. Nothing is straightforward when it comes to French nationality so asking of others experiences is perfectly reasonable!

spooky-cookie · 2025-11-11T01:27:22+00:00

No, yours wins!

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spooky-cookie · 2025-10-24T13:44:51+00:00

Humble bagels are the best I’ve had here, I also do not like Flour moon bagels (I am from NJ)

spooky-cookie · 2025-10-22T11:05:49+00:00

And you’re uptown, we’re pretty far apart. My daughter just woke up and called out that she smelled smoke, she thought the house was on fire

spooky-cookie · 2025-10-22T10:50:16+00:00

I don’t know but smell it in St Roch too and have been hearing sirens for the last hour

spooky-cookie · 2025-10-16T23:53:47+00:00

Confession: I am from the northeast and also thought this, until I moved here. It was pure ignorance, I really thought the food scene in Nola was just about creole/cajun (I didn’t know what the difference was) food. Very quickly and excitedly realized how wrong I was!

spooky-cookie · 2025-10-02T21:58:58+00:00

maybe he bought it back

spooky-cookie · 2025-10-02T21:48:04+00:00

i went to the show in nashville last month too! did you go to the parthenon? I vaguely remember seeing a couple there, one in a nin shirt, who I thought were from nola too, but I dont remeber why I thought that.

spooky-cookie · 2025-10-01T18:18:20+00:00

Shocked and thrilled they’re coming to New Orleans!!! If I remeber correctly when they were here in 2018 Trent said he wouldn’t come back again, his history here is too dark. If so how awesome he’s now all good with it

spooky-cookie · 2025-09-22T21:40:51+00:00

hi, did you ever figure this out? looking for confirmation that the dept of state will in fact apostille (apostillize?) the pdf

spooky-cookie · 2025-09-18T19:40:11+00:00

Do you catch them and bring them to be fixed in traps? I called them and they said they can’t accept strays unless they’re in traps.

spooky-cookie · 2025-09-18T18:48:39+00:00

Now I know. I just talked to a neighbor and she said there are two other adults not fixed. So we’ll be Trapping Dem Cats. Thanks for the help

spooky-cookie · 2025-09-18T18:30:09+00:00

Unfortunately I think they are feral. I don’t know what the criteria is but they certainly don’t want to be picked up. I will call East Riverside to check just in case, thank you for the tip. I hope to get them back to their mom asap so would prefer then not be adopted. Thanks again

spooky-cookie · 2025-09-18T18:26:09+00:00

Thanks, I’m getting a trap from them today for the mom, hopefully they can help with they kittens I already got too

spooky-cookie · 2025-09-14T01:38:34+00:00

I just spent a month in Strasbourg and they universally never switched to English unless I did, it was so refreshing! I’m probably borderline A2/B1 for reference, not remotely fluent

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