Giovanni Martini]</p> <p>[quote=BauLuo wrote:

By the by, has anyon ever told you you're tractable when you're scared like that?

I used to be tractable, it was Massey-Ferguson 100 series, plowed up 10 acres with it in the late spring. Wasn't scared though until Dad got pissed off when I ran over the stone-boat. Of course I wuz only 8 at the time.

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Sunstroke

Sunstroke, on the other hand, is when someone is exposed to direct sunlight for a prolonged period of time and manifests in the same symptoms and problems as heatstroke.

Are you serious? I see nongmin busting their ass every day in the swelter, sucking down a coupla hua beer, workin in the sunlight all day, with no parasol. I'm sposed to be ascared of sunlight? Git youself some vitamin dee gal.

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Quote `Instructions:

blend ingredients on high for 30 seconds to one minute. Add more ice or water if needed for preferred consistency.'

On high, I like consistency, in fact I prefer it. 30 seconds is too small, one minute too big. 47.8 is ideal. I don't like instructions, I likes to figure things out meself. Ice and water are not needed.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

hydrating refreshments (unquote)

What, pray tell, is wrong with "liquid refreshments," or---better yet---"a drink"? "Hydrate" is derived from the Greek ύδωρ, "water." What does the foreign term add to the perfectly useful English word? We say, "I water my horse." Why must I "hydrate" myself? (Save self-absorbtive narcisissm?) At the time of the Renaissance and beyond, one could parade his learning by dropping Greek and Latin terms in conversation. Now, that whole schtick reminds one of a chimpanzee in high heels and lipstick.

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I think I met that chimpanzee yesternight.. I quickly removed her high heels and likity split licked from her lips all her lipstuck. . Ravished her of clothing and had a certain way with her (them,she, those, them, ish) It was just the ergoutou thinking that caused all this. I blame this all on the Chinese liquor industry.

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BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

My sincere congratulations. Y'all fought down the urge to lead in with a "Hello Dali" headline. That's so unexpected it's almost surreal. Of course, you did slip in that li'l dig where Gay Pride Month is "hump month." Bite your tongue. Writing hand, whichever.

Fact is I haven't even read any article on this website since Jesus was an apprentice carpenter. Only writing on this measly website worth reading is writ by JJ and me. We should be on the fonking payroll! Of course , sometimes I have to bite the old gag reflex and actually read an article. Usually I can skim and git the jist in about 2 seconds.

I have to apologize ( well I don't HAVE TO, but I will) in that in fact I find the `Mandarin Monday' series very informative, and that Zuess Zou guy pretty clever. Aside from that its a big meh.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

My sincere congratulations. Y'all fought down the urge to lead in with a "Hello Dali" headline. That's so unexpected it's almost surreal. Of course, you did slip in that li'l dig where Gay Pride Month is "hump month." Bite your tongue. Writing hand, whichever.

Fact is I haven't even read any article on this website since Jesus was an apprentice carpenter. Only writing on this measly website worth reading is writ by JJ and me. We should be on the fonking payroll! Of course , sometimes I have to bite the old gag reflex and actually read an article. Usually I can skim and git the jist in about 2 seconds.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

BauLuo wrote:

Don't forget, that the snake that forgets to eat it's tale, shall forget to forget. (unquote)

That could either be an "alternative lifestyle" pick-up line at the Reach Around Lounge, or the secret password for the Hermetic Brotherhood of Ouroboros, which the uninitiate are forbidden to utter on pain of dea-----

Yes , pain of dearth. Dearth really sucks.

"...and as our hero Budleigh Bewright drives his dog team across the tundra, Slathering Kawklash has finished knotting the last naugahyde noose. Will Little Nell Twittertytz be subjected to a fate worse than dearth? Tune in next week for another appalling episode of 'Timberland Trauma'!" (actual radioscript from the 1930's)

Seriously, the only fate worse than dearth is being deplatformed. That of getting more than a dozen "unfollows" in an hour

Speaking of dearth, death, dire, disease etc, ya ever notice how many words with negative connotations begin with the letter `D' , death, dire, disease, distress, etc. and etc, And these are not solely words of latinate origin. Also how many words dealing with stasis begin with `st' stuck, stand, stiffle, stick strand stop, stare, etc and many etc. The `s' sibillance immediately followed by the dental plosive `t' evokes this idea of stasis. I think. There was an amazing book I read at the Vancouver Public Library many years ago dealing with these subjects. The main contention is that all language is in someway onomatopoetic, and in a manner of speaking grow out of the world as life forms. I fail to remember either its name or its author. I wish I could.

Onomatopoetic? Is that a hard language to learn to speak? As a deeply committed and compassioning SJW, it is my dream to work for the liberation of Onomatopoeia and its proud people. Wherever it is and no how many problems they've been socialized into denying they have. It's probably a lot like Wakananda, but with LBGT-friendly vegan restaurants and government-subsidized police stations we the woke can torch when whim dictates.

Onomatopoeticismnessism is is defined clearly as the desire to make funny sounds that sound like sounds that you hear. So if you hear a sound, like someones ' ead jus get chopped off, well then you makes a sound like that sound, an then it becomes a word! So someones 'ead gets chopped off, maybe you 'ears the sound `chlthunk' Well there ya go, bobs yer uncle, ya just have a new word and have contributed to the progress and development of the bleedin English languishment.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

BauLuo wrote:

Don't forget, that the snake that forgets to eat it's tale, shall forget to forget. (unquote)

That could either be an "alternative lifestyle" pick-up line at the Reach Around Lounge, or the secret password for the Hermetic Brotherhood of Ouroboros, which the uninitiate are forbidden to utter on pain of dea-----

Yes , pain of dearth. Dearth really sucks.

"...and as our hero Budleigh Bewright drives his dog team across the tundra, Slathering Kawklash has finished knotting the last naugahyde noose. Will Little Nell Twittertytz be subjected to a fate worse than dearth? Tune in next week for another appalling episode of 'Timberland Trauma'!" (actual radioscript from the 1930's)

Seriously, the only fate worse than dearth is being deplatformed. That of getting more than a dozen "unfollows" in an hour

Speaking of dearth, death, dire, disease etc, ya ever notice how many words with negative connotations begin with the letter `D' , death, dire, disease, distress, etc. and etc, And these are not solely words of latinate origin. Also how many words dealing with stasis begin with `st' stuck, stand, stiffle, stick strand stop, stare, etc and many etc. The `s' sibillance immediately followed by the dental plosive `t' evokes this idea of stasis. I think. There was an amazing book I read at the Vancouver Public Library many years ago dealing with these subjects. The main contention is that all language is in someway onomatopoetic, and in a manner of speaking grow out of the world as life forms. I fail to remember either its name or its author. I wish I could.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

Spic and span kicks the can. Dirty and dusty don't get rusty. That's my philosophy, sticking to it. Really sticking to it, like underpants to an unwashed sweaty groin. Thou I might have a shower, or at least a bathe sometime next year, or so. Depends on how heavy the rainfall is, and where i lost my yusan. (that's 雨伞 for ye non ) Mavbe I'll just head to the lower reaches of the Ganges. Sacred water full of corpses provides the best bathing, I hear.

"Living and dead---sorry, living impaired----sorry, sorry: vitalistically challenged---unite. As do humans, stray curs, and microbes in a powerful show of diversity." Think I'm ready to write for National Geographic yet?

NoNoNO!!! It's human-based life forms (genderless), canine-based animals without a hukou, microscopic living form- based forms of viral, bacterial or fungal life (or other non-recognized or racialized/and or suffering from colonization/ separation and sexualization life forms), which in their collective togertheness collectively collectivize in an orgy of collective collectivity displaying undreamt of diversity and equality unbethunk hitherto. 明白了吗?。 I check with the editro to see if this passes muster.

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Spic and span kicks the can. Dirty and dusty don't get rusty. That's my philosophy, sticking to it. Really sticking to it, like underpants to an unwashed sweaty groin. Thou I might have a shower, or at least a bathe sometime next year, or so. Depends on how heavy the rainfall is, and where i lost my yusan. (that's 雨伞 for ye non ) Mavbe I'll just head to the lower reaches of the Ganges. Sacred water full of corpses provides the best bathing, I hear.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

So stops inta my local, low budget hotel, calls up a local friendly gal, invites her by for a good game of chess, or crokinole, should the mood such engender. Then, upon need, looks upon shelf in said low budget hotel, and there, upon shelf, is can of Tsingtao for 8 kuai, and a `condomunium' (hafta be careful will spellin these days) for 20 kuai. All I can say is hmm. Say it twice, thrice even.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

You must be a rollicking great first date conversationalist. "You're having the Coney Island Red with onions? Hey, speaking of strong-smelling cheesy weenies coated in red, did I tell you about my piece in TBJ? Contrary to popular belief, not every Sexually Transmitted Infection is a full-blown STD----hey! Where you runnin' off to?"

Six of one dozen, half my mother. Truer words were never not spoken.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

BauLuo wrote:

Don't forget, that the snake that forgets to eat it's tale, shall forget to forget. (unquote)

That could either be an "alternative lifestyle" pick-up line at the Reach Around Lounge, or the secret password for the Hermetic Brotherhood of Ouroboros, which the uninitiate are forbidden to utter on pain of dea-----

Yes , pain of dearth. Dearth really sucks.

"...and as our hero Budleigh Bewright drives his dog team across the tundra, Slathering Kawklash has finished knotting the last naugahyde noose. Will Little Nell Twittertytz be subjected to a fate worse than dearth? Tune in next week for another appalling episode of 'Timberland Trauma'!" (actual radioscript from the 1930's)

Seriously, the only fate worse than dearth is being deplatformed. That of getting more than a dozen "unfollows" in an hour

(actual radioscript from the 1930's)

No, It was actually from the 2030's (which is strange even typing that) Everyone know Nell Twytertitz wasn't born until 2021.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

BauLuo wrote:

Don't forget, that the snake that forgets to eat it's tale, shall forget to forget. (unquote)

That could either be an "alternative lifestyle" pick-up line at the Reach Around Lounge, or the secret password for the Hermetic Brotherhood of Ouroboros, which the uninitiate are forbidden to utter on pain of dea-----

Yes , pain of dearth. Dearth really sucks.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

netizens were appalled (unquote)

Appalation? Ain't that a mountain chain somewheres with lotsa sista lovers? Or is that the Ohzarks. I allus get confuzzled over 'Merican jografee.

Netizens seem to suffer from chronic appallation. I prescribe working for 3 months in any inner-city Chi-town ER. That'll put calluses on all them sensitive spots, no?

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Thanks for the mention!

The next river hike is July 11.

Info here: https://www.beijinghikers.com/hike-in-beijing/view/1679/along-the-white-river-3/

(or on the Beijinger site here: https://www.thebeijinger.com/events/2021/jun/hike-along-white-river)

p.s. More photos from a recent river hike here: https://www.beijinghikers.com/photos-and-news/along-the-white-river-2021-06-20/

Hikes in the hills around Beijing, every weekend since 2001. www.beijinghikers.com

WaqarOptimist wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

Don't forget, that the snake that forgets to eat it's tale, shall forget to forget.

quote `This full-day tour will introduce Taoist theory and discuss how it compares to Western philosophy. Interested parties can contact Michelle Gong via Phone (13366166844) or WeChat (ID: michelle13366166844). 9am-4pm, meeting at White Cloud Temple. RMB 380 per person. unquote.

The sneeze that can be sneezed is not the true sneeze. All fabrications cannot be unmade. Knock me over with a feather. Philosophy grows in the interstices of dream and horror. That's all ya need to know. Save yer 380 kuai.

Lol

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So Thomas Pynchon, divided by Thomas Hardy, divided by the square root of Malcom Lowry, leaves precisely what residium? I've been wondering this for a while. Perhaps the Beijingers best and brightest can get on the case.?! 快快 . !

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