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[which_chick]

Sometimes, you can go through life for thirty-odd years and not know what it is you need. Sometimes, needs go from not existing at all to burning like one of those strike-anywhere lucifer matches. I have a box of lucifer matches for the woodstove. I am continually amazed by their strike-anywhere flame... and reminded, every time I use one, of the way they used to make my cigarettes taste like the fumes of hell. Welcome to the Salvadore Dali painting that is my life. Anyway, here I have this need that's flaming up like a lucifer match that's been struck against a brick wall and is snarling to unrepentant life. Until ten minutes ago, I could have gone happily through life without ever needing to look at nekkid french rugby players. But that was oh-so-ten-minutes-ago. Now, I need this calendar.

As you might reasonably expect from the buildup, the calendar in question contains pictures of nekkid french rugby players. It contains classy pictures of very hot nekkid french rugby players, though to be fair the distinction classy is not particularly a requirement for my enjoyment. (The distinction very hot is, indeed, a requirement.) Now, I have an excess, it could be said, of discretionary income. I could well afford to buy a calendar of nekkid french rugby players, even an expensive one. The Euro is running at about 1 Euro to $1.33, so this would cost me thirty bucks, plus shipping. Would I get thirty dollars of enjoyment out of this? I think maybe. How about if I pawed through it and then also loaned it out to interested friends to paw through it? I think I could get thirty dollars of entertainment out of it then.

How do I feel about ordering from amazon.co.fr? Ah thin ah kin hannel it. I've bought stuff from amazon.co.jp and stuff from amazon.co.uk -- I'm practically an expert at using foreign-language amazons.

Nekkid french rugby players. Who knew?

Update: Amazon.co.fr KNOWS WHO I AM. The username and password that get me into regular amazon.com work okay for amazon.co.fr *and* they have all my addresses on file and everything. Now *that* is using your database for the forces of good. Way to go, assorted amazons!

Also, I presume Un e-mail de confirmation vient de vous être envoyé. means "We've sent you an email confirmation of your purchases" or something along those general lines. Nekkid french rugby players, indeed.

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[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, that's the level of quality writing you should expect from One a day, plus iron. We're (That'd be the royal we. There's really just me.) all about vivid new experiences and broadening horizons and whatever, particularly if it involves strong international trade. Besides, my post had educational parts there, like about how all amazons are one amazon and you don't have to re-enter your shipping address if you are shopping at a foreign amazon even though that used to be true back when I bought stuff from amazon.co.jp and amazon.co.uk. From this, we can see that progress is being made in the field of universal databases and we should all be out there singing hosannah in the general direction of Jeff Bezos (or whomever is at the helm over at the good ship fleet Amazon these days) for this. It's more than just a nod to customer service that they've done this universal amazon-database thing and perhaps I should have pointed that out more pointedly but I couldn't because I was distracted by the visions of nekkid french rugby players dancing in my head.