It reveals the bubble that I’m in more than anything, that the language stood out in the first place. I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinner I’ve been to in adult life has been boy-girl-boy-girl. If I was a mathematician this would never in a million years be the example I’d come up with.
This kind of seating where you alternate male and female but don't put couples next to each other is something that people have done and would like to do.
> I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinner I’ve been to in adult life has been boy-girl-boy-girl
Sure, if you're gay then don't be surprised to have not been at dinners where people do things that would make less sense with a gay couple. :D
My grandfather was apparently a poor dancer, but that was never one of my grandmother's problems, because in those days, one never danced with one's spouse.
1. (=nettoyage) housework
faire le ménage - to do the housework
une femme de ménage - a cleaning woman
faire des ménages - to work as a cleaner (in people's homes)
2. (=couple) couple
(=personnes mariées) married couple
se mettre en ménage avec - to set up house with
monter son ménage - to set up house
faire bon ménage avec - to get on well with
heureux en ménage - happily married
3. (Administration) (=famille) household