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    Quote Originally Posted by B01AB20 View Post
    well, you have won a new histeric enemy then, la buena mujer está mas loca que una cabra.

    be ready for longoborde insulting and bashing you sooner than later, I bet she will call you terrona and of course that you can go to Calahorra.

    She has a fixation with Calahorra, god will know why.

    Calahorra seems a nice inland city with a very nice infrastructure, not a dirty shithole that deserves being trolled.

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    ^ I don t know why she knows that city

    As it a not a big city average Italian could know

    But I think she was an expat in Spain due to work

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    British Dictionary definitions for olé Expand
    olé
    /əʊˈleɪ/
    interjection
    1.
    an exclamation of approval or encouragement customary at bullfights, flamenco dancing, and other Spanish or Latin American events
    noun
    2.
    a cry of olé
    Word Origin
    Spanish, from Arabic wa-llāh, from wa and + allāh God


    http://www.dictionary.com/browse/-ole-?s=t


    I know the arabs conquered and kept under Hispania for a long time (four hundred years) but the greeks I don’t know what’s the bearing with it.

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