A practice in European Union, when its Member State adds new (and often more demanding) requirements to those that are expected in common legislation - mainly directives. Sometimes caused by overzealous bureaucrats, sometimes it is just their pure idiocy.
Bureaucrat 1: Recipients of this EU schemes are asked to submit invoices upon the end of the project.
Bureaucrat 2: Let's also ask them to write a 100-page long end-of-mission report, 10 testimonies of beneficiaries and copies of Annual reports 10 years back.
Bureaucrat 1: But that is gold-plating!
Bureaucrat 2: Sure, but we do not really want European money.
Bureaucrat 2: Let's also ask them to write a 100-page long end-of-mission report, 10 testimonies of beneficiaries and copies of Annual reports 10 years back.
Bureaucrat 1: But that is gold-plating!
Bureaucrat 2: Sure, but we do not really want European money.
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Bro, we were stranded on that island for years. Once we ran out of food the only thing I could do to her was the Reverse Praying Mantis.
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An act of using parts and/or walls that are fastened into place, and then removed for other purposes in surface displacement.
My car was so corroded that we had to use pirate plating just to pass inspection. The only problem is none of my repairs were legit.
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Get the Pirate plating mug."๐" emoji or praying emoji is another way to say you want to be dominated by a woman or in other words yoy want a woman to control you commonly used in straight men that want to be dominated by a larger female
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Praying emoji or ๐ in slang meaning "please dominate me when were having sexual intercourse" or way of saying "i want a woman thats stronger and bigger than me to control me" ๐ Praying emoji in slang
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