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I am a Russian native who has been transplanted to Canada, and I am terrified of germs and deep water. In my spare time, I like to bike, ski, bite, harass the neighbor's fish, golf, lick cold metal, and microwave Jell-O. I have planned to race across the Alaskan wilderness with my sledding team which will consist of a Havanese dog and several cats. I am a science nerd medical school drop-out, and I also enjoy music. I have played violin for over 20 years.

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    Which items are destroyed easily, and which ones will destroy the washing machine? I ask because the other day, I left a strawberry creme saver in my pocket, and I ate it still; it did not taste like soap, and I am still okay...mostly. Before that I ruined my cell phone by leaving it in the laundry as well.

    Last summer, I even dropped my sandwich in the washing machine, and I rescued it, but after lengthy contemplation, I decided not to eat it. I frequently leave Kleenex in my pockets, but that only ruins the laundry temporarily with little white froofroos. What have you done to your washing machine, and what happened? Have you had anything besides wool or clothes shrink after the wash?

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    I know that it is only one fly, but that can turn into more quite quickly. Why don't my fly traps work? Any other suggestions are appreciated.

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    Don't tell me that it's not my choice, that it's not my place to say something, etc. because I know that already. All I'm looking for is a way to postpone it so that perhaps it will be cancelled after being postponed several times more.

    Oh, what if I offer to cook the cake, and "accidentally" burn it? Oh, I would burn it anyway with the way I cook...

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    If it's not too much trouble, could you also please list and explain how the cases work? Examples too perhaps?

    If you like or need to, you could refer to German cases to aid in the examples as I know German already because I have noticed the similarities between German and Danish already.

    Any other information would also be helpful as I only have learned the very basics of Danish so far...

    Thank you!

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    Last year, I had to babysit the neighbor boy's Furbies too. They were the exact same way with pissing all over everything...the floors, the steps, me...everything! I ended up blindfolding one and dropping it off somewhere and cooking the other one. I told the boy that his Furbies were kidnapped...

    I don't need a repeat of last summer! Eh, it would be worse instead because last summer it was just the Furbies. This summer it is the Furbies plus a puppy, but it's hard to say 'no' when someone asks for help...

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    If that's the case, could I use determinism as an excuse for things such as sleeping instead of working? They can't blame one for something that has already been determined, eh? I can't help it if this particle in my brain moved this way or that way in the past...

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    I had planned to return it later this week then, but as I carried it to the counter near the door so that I would not forget to bring it along, I sort of slipped (nice, soft socks on my kitchen tile equals accident). I did not fall because I grabbed the table and tablecloth which caused a vase with the Ukrainian-style eggs my mum decorated for me a few years before to fall off of the table. The awful stench surprised me or caused me to pass out or something, and I dropped the plate after everything...it's shattered!

    How should I apologize to my friend? I don't think that I could cook her something too because I am not good at it (unless she likes burnt cookies or unusual Russian food), but I could find her a good plate or have mum mail me a better Russian one for my friend...

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    She found my stash of leftover chicken with the adjika I put on it. Either because of my cooking or because she was not accustomed to this dish, she began to vomit all over my kitchen sink and screaming for me to come in there to "help."

    I told her that I hope she feels better and that I am sorry that my food made her ill, and then I diplomatically told her to go away and leave my food alone next time. Now I feel bad for saying it, but should I? She snuck in there and took my food though, and I had to microwave Jell-O snack packs for dinner that night instead of having my nice chicken with adjika.

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