Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

Now let me tellya, if yer travelin on a Greyhound bus (which apparently we don't have nomores) and yer in a 7/11 bustop stop in Lloydminster at 4 am, don't go tryin to steal a cube of mozzeralla cheese, cuz you aint eaten in 3 days, cuz you will get kicked off the bus and hafta sleep in an alley way, and hafta hitchhike yer next 500 miles to Prince George.

Don't ask me how I know.

No more Greyhound bus? Bus quit running? Or the name was offensive? I suppose it could offend women. You know, female dogs are bitches and hearing the word dog could be like a trigger word to someone loooking to take offense or win the loser-lottery in the courts. Or maybe "grey" sounds too much like "gay." Or maybe "grey" is a trigger word for "Fifty Shades of Gray" and like everyone knows, bondage is really creepy and offensive (if practiced by heterosexuals, that is. The rest of you don't worry: you don't need to fight to keep your people in chains.)

Actually I misspoke, there are indeed still Greyhound buses still operating in Canada. A few years back they stopped serving all the little whistle stop villages in Canada, which they had serviced for years. (Now I'm not certain how you feel 'bout getting serviced by a Greyhound, butcha prob could write an expose about it) .. `Greyhounds no Longer Servicing Rural Canadians' I imagine the headline would read. By the bye, my special encoded message for today started out well with a beautiful, indeed magical, prime number, i.e. `37', but then things went sadly downhill with the following: I GAE 5 ??!! I don't know what these mischeivous editors at the BJ er, are tryna prove.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

I useda live in a very fragrant forest. After a day and three of sousing it up, I stumbled my way to me humble shack out in the forest, just south of Brock University. Now as luck would have it, on occasion, stumbling througn the woods at 3 am without no lux, may result in pedestrian mishaps. Thereupon, fallen, but not yet dead, I may have determined that my present supines was the most wisest position to present to the board of Governers. None the less, a nocturnal coyote, out gallivanting happened upon my carcass ( not yet carcass) , nibbled a bit on my ear, decided I was unpalatable, pissed on my head and when I arisened in the heat of the morrow's noon day sun, indeed the forest was fragrant.

I learnt a new word here. Just like there's a gaggle of geese, a pod of whales, a 'mostly peaceful' of incendiary rioters, so too there's a board of Governors. TBJ: come for the foodie porn; stay for the education.

Sorry, I miswrote. shoulda bin `bored of Governers' . I fervently appologize for any misunderstanding and consequent miseducation of yer vocabulayanism, and stand completely free of indemnity for any harm I have caused, just like Ph eye sir. (by the bye, there was a `66' in my personal special code which must be entered, and just yester recently there was a `33'. I am sure ya know what that means! ba!)

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Now let me tellya, if yer travelin on a Greyhound bus (which apparently we don't have nomores) and yer in a 7/11 bustop stop in Lloydminster at 4 am, don't go tryin to steal a cube of mozzeralla cheese, cuz you aint eaten in 3 days, cuz you will get kicked off the bus and hafta sleep in an alley way, and hafta hitchhike yer next 500 miles to Prince George.

Don't ask me how I know.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

Perhaps Kipling had the answer: : "Gentleman rankers out on a spree/ Damned from here to eternity/ God have mercy on such as we/ Ba ya bagh!"

My dear friend Wendell Pye (deceased) said as much years ago a dive bar in St. Kitts.... `Paul, I am afraid you and I are doomed men'..... I don't know yet if he were right.

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I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

How do you properly say ` ni xiang zuo ai'? I have tried perfecting my tones, but all I ever get is first a blank look, then a slap in the face and a kick in the shin. Sometimes, after the kick in the shin, and I am subsuquently earthbound, I recieve a supplementay kick in the jowls. Yep, right in the jowls. Help a poor whitey out, ba!

In the countryside, one only address sheep thusly. One never gets a slap. Or so I have been told.

Do the sheep usually reply `ba' or `baa baa baa'? Inquisitive residents wish to know!

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

How do you properly say ` ni xiang zuo ai'? I have tried perfecting my tones, but all I ever get is first a blank look, then a slap in the face and a kick in the shin. Sometimes, after the kick in the shin, and I am subsuquently earthbound, I recieve a supplementay kick in the jowls. Yep, right in the jowls. Help a poor whitey out, ba!

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

I useda live in a very fragrant forest. After a day and three of sousing it up, I stumbled my way to me humble shack out in the forest, just south of Brock University. Now as luck would have it, on occasion, stumbling througn the woods at 3 am without no lux, may result in pedestrian mishaps. Thereupon, fallen, but not yet dead, I may have determined that my present supines was the most wisest position to present to the board of Governers. None the less, a nocturnal coyote, out gallivanting happened upon my carcass ( not yet carcass) , nibbled a bit on my ear, decided I was unpalatable, pissed on my head and when I arisened in the heat of the morrow's noon day sun, indeed the forest was fragrant.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

You'll note that we are asking people for their opinion about their favorite spicy cuisine -- we haven't asked people to name the world's spiciest cuisine.

It's very possible that for some people, particularly pasty British Brummies who have rarely explored world cuisines and have sensitive palates, a nice Balti (invented in Birmingham) is their favorite spicy food ... or maybe for some of these folks their favorite dish is a spicy horseradish spread on a Sunday roast. Whatever, England didn't crack the Top 30 in the poll anyhow

It's also interesting to think: How long before something is truly recognized as part of a national cuisine? Fish and Chips dates back to the 1860s and was originally also an immigrant cuisine, but we would all recognize is as British. Same with burgers in the US, which have an even shorter history in America.

 

Giovanni Martini wrote:

admin wrote:

Giovanni Martini wrote:

What English food is "hot"? Transplanting vindaloo from India don't make it "English." Inclusivity stops at the palate. 

Hmm. Tell that to the Indians, Koreans, Thai and Chinese, whose traditional foods never contained chili peppers until they were imported into their cultures in the 1600s via Portguese traders who brought it from the Americas.

So I guess we should categorize them all as varieties of Native American cuisine

My point is that food that is purveyed from"ethnic restaurants" in a country is, for that reason, not representative of the host country's cuisine. It takes a good long while for foods to be naturalized.  Truly spicy food has not become anything like a part of mainstream cuisine in any European culture. Hot peppers transformed a broad swathe of Asian cookery. In Europe, it remains a niche item. Hell, look at Hungary. They mainstreamed peppers, but at a price. The noble hot pepper has been effectively emasculated into paprika. I love Hungarian food. "Spicy hot" is plain AIN'T. (With the exception of "Eros" variety paprika which is scarcely ubiquitous.) Your point reaches the level of inanity of those who ascribe to the literal truth of the History Channel. "Oooooh, I saw where peppers were originally from the Western Hemisphere! That makes me soooo much more aware." My point stands: pepper-laden foods purveyed from ethnic restaurants do not represent the host's cuisine. Maybe the best chili in the world is made in Kamchatka, Russia by a transplanted Mexican cook. Great. That don't make Russian cuisine the world's spiciest. My initial post pretty well spelled that out with my Estonian parable.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

What English food is "hot"? Transplanting vindaloo from India don't make it "English." Inclusivity stops at the palate. 

Hmm. Tell that to the Indians, Koreans, Thai and Chinese, whose traditional foods never contained chili peppers until they were imported into their cultures in the 1600s via Portguese traders who brought it from the Americas.

So I guess we should categorize them all as varieties of Native American cuisine

Books by current and former Beijinger staffers

http://astore.amazon.com/truerunmedia-20

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

"The Jing"? So what does one call someone from there? A "jinger"? Sounds too much like them nasty mites called chiggers. Plus it'd swiftly morph into a woke trigger word, this being that month and all. "Jingese"? Sounds too unctuous. Like some kind of cheese product, mebbe stinky tofu put into tubes like Velveeta. "Jingites"? Sounds too much like something mineral. As in "Butt-Scratch Gulch" was founded as a boom town shortly after the Civil War by miners seeking nearby jingite lodes. "Jing-a-boo"? Sounds like another Jusse Smollet hoax. "Jingian" sounds like a food. You know, Kentucky Fried Jingian. "Jings"? Sounds like "jinx." Face it, no oe wants to be from a place called "the Jing." Might I suggest instead, "The Bei"? Then you could call your feature, 'Bei Watch."

·`Jinger' sounds like `Chigger'??! Who teached you yer scansion and a rhymin business? Ezra Kilogram, down the back alley? Mayhap in the Suzhou dialect, with a sore tongue.

The one suggests the other: short-i and -er ending. I was playing word-association, not frustrated-English-prof-who -can't-get-published-and- takes-it-out-by-savaging-naive-freshman-girls-till-they-attempt-suicide. Sadism swathed in erudition is still sadism. Like a donkey-dick in a French tickler, I still ain't gonna hold still and take it.

You however are. Sit down right there and let Dr. Gio swab your ears so you hears better. Q-tips go QAnon and if tyou wants to snivel about "aural rape," so be it. I don't give no trigger warnings till after I drop the hammer.

Yikesah! I think Gio done gone sat his arse down on a cockleburr. That may perturb his lovemaking.

Hell hath no fury like a poet pissed-on.

I think that I shall never see

A poem as lovely as your 'auto de fe'*

That's what you get for dissing on me

Burnt at the stake, and hung on a tree

yikes a doodle, Gio done gone hefted his vorpal blade, snicker snacking to the east and to the south. Let the war of words commence.

"Prose is for poofters and pussies," quote mine love Lenore,

Valiant Sir Gio hath prevailed in poetry's mellifluous war."

There! That's gotta be right up there with "The Song of Roland," and "Parzifal" all twisted intertranslated into one big Gordian knot of purest poetics. I'm throwing down the gauntlet to be the U.S. Poet-Lori-Ate.

Yikes! you ate Lori too? She told me I was the first! This wasn't August 15th, 1984 by any chance? At the park around 2:30 am? After we got the bums rush outa the after hours basement bar down the back alleyway?

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

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

"The Jing"? So what does one call someone from there? A "jinger"? Sounds too much like them nasty mites called chiggers. Plus it'd swiftly morph into a woke trigger word, this being that month and all. "Jingese"? Sounds too unctuous. Like some kind of cheese product, mebbe stinky tofu put into tubes like Velveeta. "Jingites"? Sounds too much like something mineral. As in "Butt-Scratch Gulch" was founded as a boom town shortly after the Civil War by miners seeking nearby jingite lodes. "Jing-a-boo"? Sounds like another Jusse Smollet hoax. "Jingian" sounds like a food. You know, Kentucky Fried Jingian. "Jings"? Sounds like "jinx." Face it, no oe wants to be from a place called "the Jing." Might I suggest instead, "The Bei"? Then you could call your feature, 'Bei Watch."

·`Jinger' sounds like `Chigger'??! Who teached you yer scansion and a rhymin business? Ezra Kilogram, down the back alley? Mayhap in the Suzhou dialect, with a sore tongue.

The one suggests the other: short-i and -er ending. I was playing word-association, not frustrated-English-prof-who -can't-get-published-and- takes-it-out-by-savaging-naive-freshman-girls-till-they-attempt-suicide. Sadism swathed in erudition is still sadism. Like a donkey-dick in a French tickler, I still ain't gonna hold still and take it.

You however are. Sit down right there and let Dr. Gio swab your ears so you hears better. Q-tips go QAnon and if tyou wants to snivel about "aural rape," so be it. I don't give no trigger warnings till after I drop the hammer.

Yikesah! I think Gio done gone sat his arse down on a cockleburr. That may perturb his lovemaking.

Hell hath no fury like a poet pissed-on.

I think that I shall never see

A poem as lovely as your 'auto de fe'*

That's what you get for dissing on me

Burnt at the stake, and hung on a tree

If suffering ain't your cup of tea

To me it is verily fromage de brie

There! Tell me about the Muses' meter and your literary vehicle's scansion.This is stone-cold ART you're reading. Better shit than Sylvia's plathitudes. It'll frost one Robert's balls, and burn the other Bob's sack. I'm homing in on Homeric, I am. Till then, the literary world just better be hölderlin' onta its hat! They say poets ain't made but born. Well born I was and got a certificate to prove it!*

(last sentence plagiarized from Saki)

(* to be pronounced like fee as in payback)

yikes a doodle, Gio done gone hefted his vorpal blade, snicker snacking to the east and to the south. Let the war of words commence.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

While most essential items like body care products and tissues were in good supply at both locations, shelves were almost completely devoid of fresh produce such as vegetables and fruits, as well as meat products.(UNQUOTE)

So...body care products are "essential"; veggies and meat are not? Um...tell me, what color is the sky on your planet?

Helpful hint, too: just say "meat." Saying "meat product" makes you come off as a wanker trying to sound intelligent. Like the wonk mama telling her kid, "At this point in time, it's bedtime."

yeah, I know. `at that point in time= then' `at this point in time' = now. Good old Anglo-Saxon words, no fuckin around. But there are people with too much to say, but nothing to say. I value precision and succinctness in speech; not all the the time though, cuz sometimes yer just goofin off.

Um...shouldn't we be calling words "lexiographical products"? Be careful, too. The Smithsonianmag.com talks about how "Anglo-Saxon" is linked to hate speech since the peoples of early England did not use the word.

Well on the one hand, ya gots the Angles, direct descendants of Pythhagoras, good at geometry and such. Then ya gots the Saxophonists, .... they liked singing an artsy stuff and so on. Now on the boats outa northern Germany an Denmark, sometimes people would lose ther' ticket, a boat would sink and etc. So turns out these people would be all commingled , Angles funking Saxaphonist, Saxaphonists funkin with any thing with a hole. That kep the ships afloat all the way to Londinium. Hence the English race.

Now the Jutes, thass another story. They had to turn themselves inta mollusks and hope they wunt get scraped offa the bow.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

"The Jing"? So what does one call someone from there? A "jinger"? Sounds too much like them nasty mites called chiggers. Plus it'd swiftly morph into a woke trigger word, this being that month and all. "Jingese"? Sounds too unctuous. Like some kind of cheese product, mebbe stinky tofu put into tubes like Velveeta. "Jingites"? Sounds too much like something mineral. As in "Butt-Scratch Gulch" was founded as a boom town shortly after the Civil War by miners seeking nearby jingite lodes. "Jing-a-boo"? Sounds like another Jusse Smollet hoax. "Jingian" sounds like a food. You know, Kentucky Fried Jingian. "Jings"? Sounds like "jinx." Face it, no oe wants to be from a place called "the Jing." Might I suggest instead, "The Bei"? Then you could call your feature, 'Bei Watch."

·`Jinger' sounds like `Chigger'??! Who teached you yer scansion and a rhymin business? Ezra Kilogram, down the back alley? Mayhap in the Suzhou dialect, with a sore tongue.

The one suggests the other: short-i and -er ending. I was playing word-association, not frustrated-English-prof-who -can't-get-published-and- takes-it-out-by-savaging-naive-freshman-girls-till-they-attempt-suicide. Sadism swathed in erudition is still sadism. Like a donkey-dick in a French tickler, I still ain't gonna hold still and take it.

You however are. Sit down right there and let Dr. Gio swab your ears so you hears better. Q-tips go QAnon and if tyou wants to snivel about "aural rape," so be it. I don't give no trigger warnings till after I drop the hammer.

Yikesah! I think Gio done gone sat his arse down on a cockleburr. That may perturb his lovemaking.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

While most essential items like body care products and tissues were in good supply at both locations, shelves were almost completely devoid of fresh produce such as vegetables and fruits, as well as meat products.(UNQUOTE)

So...body care products are "essential"; veggies and meat are not? Um...tell me, what color is the sky on your planet?

Helpful hint, too: just say "meat." Saying "meat product" makes you come off as a wanker trying to sound intelligent. Like the wonk mama telling her kid, "At this point in time, it's bedtime."

yeah, I know. `at that point in time= then' `at this point in time' = now. Good old Anglo-Saxon words, no fuckin around. But there are people with too much to say, but nothing to say. I value precision and succinctness in speech; not all the the time though, cuz sometimes yer just goofin off.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

"The Jing"? So what does one call someone from there? A "jinger"? Sounds too much like them nasty mites called chiggers. Plus it'd swiftly morph into a woke trigger word, this being that month and all. "Jingese"? Sounds too unctuous. Like some kind of cheese product, mebbe stinky tofu put into tubes like Velveeta. "Jingites"? Sounds too much like something mineral. As in "Butt-Scratch Gulch" was founded as a boom town shortly after the Civil War by miners seeking nearby jingite lodes. "Jing-a-boo"? Sounds like another Jusse Smollet hoax. "Jingian" sounds like a food. You know, Kentucky Fried Jingian. "Jings"? Sounds like "jinx." Face it, no oe wants to be from a place called "the Jing." Might I suggest instead, "The Bei"? Then you could call your feature, 'Bei Watch."

·`Jinger' sounds like `Chigger'??! Who teached you yer scansion and a rhymin business? Ezra Kilogram, down the back alley? Mayhap in the Suzhou dialect, with a sore tongue.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

"The Jing"? So what does one call someone from there? A "jinger"? Sounds too much like them nasty mites called chiggers. Plus it'd swiftly morph into a woke trigger word, this being that month and all. "Jingese"? Sounds too unctuous. Like some kind of cheese product, mebbe stinky tofu put into tubes like Velveeta. "Jingites"? Sounds too much like something mineral. As in "Butt-Scratch Gulch" was founded as a boom town shortly after the Civil War by miners seeking nearby jingite lodes. "Jing-a-boo"? Sounds like another Jusse Smollet hoax. "Jingian" sounds like a food. You know, Kentucky Fried Jingian. "Jings"? Sounds like "jinx." Face it, no oe wants to be from a place called "the Jing." Might I suggest instead, "The Bei"? Then you could call your feature, 'Bei Watch."

Obviously it is `jing a ling a ling jing jing' er.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

I'm saving myself for a more respectable pandemic. One with a fatality rate in the high double-digits. And by buboes bigger'n basketballs and every chem lab from Kiev to Yalta, I'm gonna get one!

In the pipeline no doubt. Meanwhile gotsa keep the Biosecurity paranoia bubbling softly on the back burner,.... a little Monkey Pox here, a little RSV there. Uptick in H1N1, bad influenza season, yadda yadda yadda. That's how the peristaltic transformation works. From 2001 afterwards ya only had to be afraid of guys in robes with long beards and dark skin. Now ya gotsa be afraiid of everyone, eveywhere-- they might be infectious. mRNA vaccine everywhere for everythings. Marburg virus, ..wot!? Enjoy the relaxation while it lasts.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

That's moving. What about storage? Shun feng charges 150/day to store your stuff when you are moving many boxes. I found a guy to store my stuff for 100/day. Back in Canada I could rent a 10'X10'X10' storage locker (which is all I need) for 60bucks/month.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

I am one of the ones that has never had covid. I am 58 years old. I haven't had a respiratory infection since sometime in my late 20s, working in the bush in BC. So that's at least 30 years. I did have a vaccine once. I think I was 4 or 5 years old, MMR. I don't remember actually getting the vaccine, but me mum told me I did-- before I started kiddie garden. Since then no vaccinations. I was a heavy smoker for about 20 years, and a heavy drinker for more than that. I paid no attention whatsoever to any of the `health measures' , meaning, if it were possible, never wearing a mask, social distancing.... hahahaha, PCR testing the least I possibly could (PCR testing ,,, another fraudulent and meaningless `health measure'). I reluctantly would get a test if it were demanded, or wear a mask, if it were demanded. My line in the sand was vaccination. I let every employer know that if it ever became necessary to receive a vaccination to be employed in China, I would be on the next flight out. But to where? Canukistan at that time was more insane than China in that respect.

Anyways, just past December, when the dreaded Omicron was striking the masses down in huge numbers, every teacher, every student, at my school were required to be tested. Of the 5 teachers that I shared an office with from 7:30 until 5 pm, every day, of the 6 individuals in that office (including myself) 5 tested positive and their health codes turned red. One person was negative, and his health code remained green, as it always had been. . Gee, I wonder who that was?

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

This comments not about above article,

这个评论不关于上面文章,

just a writing moods

仅是写心情

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I must admit on foreign language,I am a person who is unidirectional expresser, I am what hurry that I can’t read English even occasionally I hard to try read.

我必须承认在外文上我是一个单向表达者,我是多么着急不能读英文,即便有时我努力想读。

if before comments have any wrong to used grammar or words, please pardon .

如果之前评论有什么地方错误地使用了语法和字词,请您原谅。

Before one month,was I came here, i am grateful here and few communication,maybe have people can know that grateful from who is hardly to learning language and get communication with native Speaker ,that is grateful and little happy — on language .

之前一个月,我曾来过这里,我是感谢这里和几次交流,也许有人可以体会学语言困难的人对英语沟通者的感谢和一点的高兴—在语言。

Was,even what I felt or through ,I don’t like talking with any even very close. But now for affection (only affection and language )I came here where I dependent. because the reason,I may need give up to seeking affection or friendly,if you read this name and writing,please know i am very trust you and was try let you help on language is okay,don’t need remember this name or me.

pity I will like before not open.

曾经,即便我的感觉和经历及情感,从不会说与外人,包括很近的人。但现在我为了一份情感(仅仅是情感与语言)我来了这个依赖的地方。但因为理由,我需要放弃寻找一份情感和寻求,如果您读到了这个名字和写的内容、知道我非常信任您,曾经想需要您语言帮助即可,不用记住我。

可惜我将如同之前不愿说话。

And I for my friend and “friend”i did best self than others. By here expression my caring and friendly.

But who know my deeply caring.

我为了我的朋友和“朋友”,我做了最好的自己,通过此表达我的关心和友情。

但谁知道我很深的关心。

Here have my time and dependent and affection, by here expression my thanks.

这里有我的时间和依赖及情感,通过此我表达我的感谢。

Thank you for your read

谢谢您的阅读