Coming soon....to a court near you.

He's better than the American Andy Rooney.

Reminded me of Chris Matthews talking about Obama

I've actually been in backwaters of China and watched real Chinese daytime TV.

It mostly consisted of a stern grandmother-type glaring into the camera and wagging her finger: "Don't do this! Don't do that! Stop misbehaving!"

Quite disturbing, actually.

re: #2 Killgore Trout

He's better than the American Andy Rooney.

Well, that opens up my possible job pool!

re: #4 zombie

I've actually been in backwaters of China and watched real Chinese daytime TV.

It mostly consisted of a stern grandmother-type glaring into the camera and wagging her finger: "Don't do this! Don't do that! Stop misbehaving!"

Quite disturbing, actually.

So what your saying is that china doesn't have open sex orgies on the street like in San Fransisco?

When you go to court in China, your lawyer does not argue your guilt or innocence.

He argues the severity of your punishment.

As our man says: The courts are full of guilty people.

Foster's Ale--sponsors of the Folsom Street Festival.

We'll see this everywhere, not only from corrupt office-holder like the South Texas prosecutor who got a politically motivated grand jury to indict Cheney and Gonzales, but from federally mandated "local advisory boards" of community organizers and other leftist thieves who will be empowered to loot businesses and censor media from coast to coast.
Of course, we have an ace in the hole that the good people of China do not have, but the less said about that here, the better.

funny

re: #6 Nevergiveup

So what your saying is that china doesn't have open sex orgies on the street like in San Fransisco?

re: #8 Alouette

Foster's Ale--sponsors of the Folsom Street Festival.

Will I ever live that down?

I thought the penalty for illegal parking was to have your kidney confiscated.

re: #7 WhiteRasta

When you go to court in China, your lawyer does not argue your guilt or innocence.

He argues the severity of your punishment.

As our man says: The courts are full of guilty people.

But have you seen their infrastructure lately?

/Obama

This reminds me of those that point out the numbers of people investigated after 911 that were later cleared as some sort of proof that we were racists going around harassing innocent people.

It was investigation. Its purpose is to decide if someone merits further action or in many cases, if not.

Likewise, not all detained were arrested. Not all arrested were tried. Not all tried were convicted.

But I guess the government should only investigate people they already know are guilty. I'm not sure how they are to know who is guilty and who isn't without investigation, but we'll figure it out.

"He found out he was guilty..." ha ha!

A zillion years ago I found a "Chick Publications" Christian Comic Book (I'm sure you're familiar with them) on the sidewalk. It told the told of some Ayn Rand-ian dystopian future in which a leftist totalitarian government has brainwashed everyone to squeal on their neighbors -- anyone who disobeyed authority (by worshipping Christ, in the case of this comic). A child turns his parents in. It was quite well done.

Unfortunately, the China of today is exactly like that comic.

In Communist China you don't surf the internet, the internet surfs you.

told the told = told the tale

re: #4 zombie

When I was in China I saw some great nationalistic music videos singing about the pride riding a bike near a new power plant etc. I was also surprised to see a lot of soap opera shows set in ancient imperial China.

re: #17 zombie

A zillion years ago I found a "Chick Publications" Christian Comic Book (I'm sure you're familiar with them) on the sidewalk. It told the told of some Ayn Rand-ian dystopian future in which a leftist totalitarian government has brainwashed everyone to squeal on their neighbors -- anyone who disobeyed authority (by worshipping Christ, in the case of this comic). A child turns his parents in. It was quite well done.

Unfortunately, the China of today is exactly like that comic.

According to the comic book it couldn't have been more than 6,000.

re: #9 shiplord kirel

I believe that the good-ol-boys in Texas will have a very polite chat with this a-hole and everything will be forgotten. Sometimes the good-ol-boys in Texas tick me off but alot of times they step in a take care of things. Yes they can be gentlemen.

In Communist China, when they say the media is "in the tank" they actually mean the media is in the tank. Taking pictures of flattened dissidents left in the wake.

Poyuan Wei.

Transliterated easily as "Pull your own way."

I wonder if he knows that.

Also on Chinese daytime TV:

Remember the old "Aquaman" and "Kimba the White Lion" cartoons which had about 2 frames per second at most, totally crude and almost static? Well, the cartoons they show on Chinese TV make Aquaman seem like Max Fleischer. They had, at best, one frame every 3 seconds. It was more like watching a slow-motion slide show that watching an actual cartoon.

The topics were the usual: Monkey King, Wong Fei Hung, etc.

re: #25 zombie

Which is weird because aren't all our cartoons drawn there?

re: #17 zombie

Yes, all of my guides were very eager to discuss religion in private with foreigners. It's not something they are allowed to do in their normal lives.

re: #27 Killgore Trout

Yes, all of my guides were very eager to discuss religion in private with foreigners. It's not something they are allowed to do in their normal lives.

I wonder if LGF is allowed through the Great Firewall of China.

re: #20 Killgore Trout

When I was in China I saw some great nationalistic music videos singing about the pride riding a bike near a new power plant etc. I was also surprised to see a lot of soap opera shows set in ancient imperial China.

"As The Wok Turns"

re: #20 Killgore Trout

When I was in China I saw some great nationalistic music videos singing about the pride riding a bike near a new power plant etc. I was also surprised to see a lot of soap opera shows set in ancient imperial China.

Yeah, they show some of those soap operas on Chinese TV here in San Francisco. They're all set in some perfectly ambiguous moment in the distant past, when all the costumes and intrigue mesh perfectly -- sort of like the mythical "medieval England" of Dungeons & Dragons-type fantasy.Of course, in neither case was there year in the past that was actually like that.

re: #28 Moe Katz

I don't think so, we've had regular lizards who have posted from China and as I recall they had to pull some tricks to get around the Great Firewall.

Can there be anything worse than a Communist Chinese prison? I picture an underground dank cell downstream from the toxic hello kitty factory. & no phone call.

re: #23 Mich-again

In Communist China, when they say the media is "in the tank" they actually mean the media is in the tank. Taking pictures of flattened dissidents left in the wake.

LOL!

re: #25 zombie

Also on Chinese daytime TV:

Remember the old "Aquaman" and "Kimba the White Lion" cartoons which had about 2 frames per second at most, totally crude and almost static? Well, the cartoons they show on Chinese TV make Aquaman seem like Max Fleischer. They had, at best, one frame every 3 seconds. It was more like watching a slow-motion slide show that watching an actual cartoon.

Kimba the White Lion was Disney-fied, without permission, into "The Lion King."

re: #30 zombie

sort of like the mythical "medieval England" of Dungeons & Dragons-type fantasy.

Ah, that makes sense.

Can CBS hire that guy? Please! Anything is better than the real thing.

re: #30 zombie

Yeah, they show some of those soap operas on Chinese TV here in San Francisco. They're all set in some perfectly ambiguous moment in the distant past, when all the costumes and intrigue mesh perfectly -- sort of like the mythical "medieval England" of Dungeons & Dragons-type fantasy.Of course, in neither case was there year in the past that was actually like that.

I bet China has no SCA shires/marches.

"If they weren't guilty, why would our flawless government put them on trial?"

Funny now... not so funny in a few years.

re: #27 Killgore Trout

Yes, all of my guides were very eager to discuss religion in private with foreigners. It's not something they are allowed to do in their normal lives.

You had guides? Interesting. I never had that experience. Kind of wish I did. (I snuck in over the border and traveled "freelance" -- the government never knew I was there. It was pretty nightmarish trying to travel on one's own.)

re: #26 Silhouette

Which is weird because aren't all our cartoons drawn there?

I think our cartoons our mostly drawn in Korea, not China.

re: #17 zombie

Zombie,

You just described the place formerly known as Great Britain.

I was there recently, it is a fascist police state where pretty much everyone is either a paid or unpaid informer.

re: #39 zombie

You had guides? Interesting. I never had that experience. Kind of wish I did. (I snuck in over the border and traveled "freelance" -- the government never knew I was there. It was pretty nightmarish trying to travel on one's own.)

Especially as a single Zombie! Not easy to fit in.

re: #39 zombie

You had guides? Interesting. I never had that experience. Kind of wish I did. (I snuck in over the border and traveled "freelance" -- the government never knew I was there. It was pretty nightmarish trying to travel on one's own.)

80% probability Zombie just outed itself as Asian, probably Chinese and a fluent Chinese linguist.

re: #34 victor_yugo

Kimba the White Lion was Disney-fied, without permission, into "The Lion King."

Wasn't Lion King based on African legends? Possibly the same African legends that Kimba may have been based on?

I remember seeing it on Channel 52 when I would visit my Grandparents in Whittier.

HaHaHaHa!
He funny!
But that Fosters lead in made me thirsty!
Did ya'll see that, or was it subliminal?

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

I wonder if other cultures are surprised to find out that we call American cheese American.

re: #34 victor_yugo

Kimba the White Lion was Disney-fied, without permission, into "The Lion King."

From the article:

The situation has remained a controversy due to the Disney Company's statement that no one in the company had heard of Kimba until after The Lion King was released

It is to laugh!

re: #39 zombie

I went from Tibet and followed the silk road back to Beijing. It took a few months. I never would have made it on my own. It was supposed to be a group tour but I was the only one who signed up so I had my own personal guide. It was pretty damn cheap too. I think it was a little over $3,000 airfare, hotels, meals and transportation included.

re: #32 FrogMarch

Can there be anything worse than a Communist Chinese prison? I picture an underground dank cell downstream from the toxic hello kitty factory. & no phone call.

I can't wait to go to China next year to help open up a warehouse.
The Hoopster has always been secretly in love with China..Not the politics..But the Country.. I just can't wait to visit and work there for a month.
/ I've already started the list..the great wall..the zoo..the birds nest..Countryside..Tibet.. ect.

re: #43 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Good luck following up on that clue, I think there are more people with Chinese (or more generally Asian) ancestry in SF than any other American city.

re: #47 Silhouette

I wonder if other cultures are surprised to find out that we call American cheese American.

No, because it is actually a designated name of a cheese type. If it was the same recipe and made and sold in another country, it would still be American Cheese.

Just like Dijon mustard.

re: #37 victor_yugo

I bet China has no SCA shires/marches.

Don't tell me you're into that! I used to know peoiple who were so invested in their SCA characters that they lived it full-time, 24 hours a day. Called themselves "Lady Trollbreath" in public and so forth. Referred to real cities by their fantasy names ("Realm of the Tall Towers" etc.). I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

re: #52 Walter L. Newton

And here you were complaining the other night about people seriously answering your jokes.

re: #52 Walter L. Newton

No, because it is actually a designated name of a cheese type. If it was the same recipe and made and sold in another country, it would still be American Cheese.

Just like Dijon mustard.

Excuse me sir..Can you spare some Dijon?

re: #54 Silhouette

And here you were complaining the other night about people seriously answering your jokes.

I made up that answer, really. HA! Are we having fun yet :)

re: #54 Silhouette

And here you were complaining the other night about people seriously answering your jokes.

Ok, I admit, I thought you were serious.

re: #53 zombie

Don't tell me you're into that! I used to know peoiple who were so invested in their SCA characters that they lived it full-time, 24 hours a day. Called themselves "Lady Trollbreath" in public and so forth. Referred to real cities by their fantasy names ("Realm of the Tall Towers" etc.). I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

There is a great appeal to living in a fantasy land, particularly now.

So says CSH, from the Barony of Califia, in the Kingdom of Caid.

re: #51 CyanSnowHawk

Good luck following up on that clue, I think there are more people with Chinese (or more generally Asian) ancestry in SF than any other American city.

And the Canuck who draws this cartoon speaks one of the dialects fluently. I've met him, and I don't think he has any Asian ancestry.

re: #42 Walter L. Newton

Especially as a single Zombie! Not easy to fit in.

re: #43 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

80% probability Zombie just outed itself as Asian, probably Chinese and a fluent Chinese linguist.

Jump jump jump, jumping to conclusions!

Actually, I was part of a Navy Seal "insertion team": Our mission was to terminate a double agent.

Today is World Toilet Day.

/DOW under 8000, coincidence?

re: #53 zombie

Don't tell me you're into that! I used to know peoiple who were so invested in their SCA characters that they lived it full-time, 24 hours a day. Called themselves "Lady Trollbreath" in public and so forth. Referred to real cities by their fantasy names ("Realm of the Tall Towers" etc.). I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

Er, what's SCA?

re: #50 HoosierHoops

I can't wait to go to China next year to help open up a warehouse.
The Hoopster has always been secretly in love with China..Not the politics..But the Country.. I just can't wait to visit and work there for a month.
/ I've already started the list..the great wall..the zoo..the birds nest..Countryside..Tibet.. ect.

Cool. My cousin and her husband and family went last summer They liked it, but said the air pollution in the cities is so bad - it's almost unbelievable.

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

No, zombie probably just wanted to get some good Chinese food. Only there they just call it "food."

Actually, don't tell anybody this, but the Chinese food in the Bay Area was better than the Chinese food in boondocks China. It was mostly pretty crappy, actually.

re: #53 zombie

Don't tell me you're into that! I used to know peoiple who were so invested in their SCA characters that they lived it full-time, 24 hours a day. Called themselves "Lady Trollbreath" in public and so forth. Referred to real cities by their fantasy names ("Realm of the Tall Towers" etc.). I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

No, but I did move on the fringes of that circle somewhat in college. The dirty jokes, bad puns, and racy songs made it worth it.

re: #61 zombie

Actually, I was part of a Navy Seal "insertion team": Our mission was to terminate a double agent.

Wow, that's what happened to my father. Bummer. I knew mom had only given me half the story.

re: #63 Walter L. Newton

Er, what's SCA?

Society For Creative Anachronism.
The idea is to teach history by doing the things that they did. The practice tends to fall a little short, but it's great fun.

re: #63 Walter L. Newton

Er, what's SCA?

The Society for Creative Anachronism.

"re-creating the Middle Ages, not as they were, but as they should have been"

re: #63 Walter L. Newton

Er, what's SCA?

I just looked it up based on this thread. As Zombie said, it is to laugh.

re: #44 CyanSnowHawk

Check out these two links from the Kimba the White Lion wikipedia article. It will likely convince you.

Similarity of characters: [Link: members.jcom.home.ne.jp...]
Certain specific scenes and situations: [Link: www.kimbawlion.com...]

re: #68 CyanSnowHawk

Society For Creative Anachronism.
The idea is to teach history by doing the things that they did. The practice tends to fall a little short, but it's great fun.

Gee, I missed that phase. Sorry I did. NOT!

re: #44 CyanSnowHawk

Wasn't Lion King based on African legends? Possibly the same African legends that Kimba may have been based on?

I remember seeing it on Channel 52 when I would visit my Grandparents in Whittier.

Both Lion King and Kimba were basically lion versions of "Hamlet". Last I checked, Shakespeare wasn't African.

re: #61 zombie

Actually, I was part of a Navy Seal "insertion team": Our mission was to terminate a double agent.

That was you?

Andy Looney

re: #70 Bloodnok

I just looked it up based on this thread. As Zombie said, it is to laugh.

I read some of that. Ok, I know what you are talking about now. I dated a woman who was into that. I didn't know it had a name, I just thought the sex was kinky.

re: #47 Silhouette

I wonder if other cultures are surprised to find out that we call American cheese American.

They are probably more surprised to find that we call it 'cheese'.

re: #44 CyanSnowHawk

Wasn't Lion King based on African legends? Possibly the same African legends that Kimba may have been based on?

I remember seeing it on Channel 52 when I would visit my Grandparents in Whittier.

Yeah, "Hamlet," an old African legend, stolen by that dead white guy Shakespeare.

re: #61 zombie

Jump jump jump, jumping to conclusions!

Actually, I was part of a Navy Seal "insertion team": Our mission was to terminate a double agent.

LOL
Zombie.. I've been reading you for about 6 months...
In your moments with your guard let down..You have spoken freely..
So at least I don't wonder if you are a tough navy seal or a cute girl in the bay area. I have got you pegged..
I really respect you dude/dudette.
Regards

re: #74 gmsc

Both Lion King and Kimba were basically lion versions of "Hamlet". Last I checked, Shakespeare wasn't African.

Of course not silly, he's a Muslin.

re: #81 Walter L. Newton

Of course not silly, he's a Muslin.

That's impossible - Many of Shakespeare's plays were written by Bacon!

re: #61 zombie

Jump jump jump, jumping to conclusions!

Actually, I was part of a Navy Seal "insertion team": Our mission was to terminate a double agent.

I wouldn't call that "insertion." That's more like "extraction" from this life.

re: #50 HoosierHoops

You'll have a lot of fun. In case you aren't aware already the Chinese people can be difficult. They are kinda pushy and sometimes abrasive but not rude or threatening. It helps if you think of them as short New Yorkers.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

I went from Tibet and followed the silk road back to Beijing. It took a few months. I never would have made it on my own. It was supposed to be a group tour but I was the only one who signed up so I had my own personal guide. It was pretty damn cheap too. I think it was a little over $3,000 airfare, hotels, meals and transportation included.

Wow! That sounds great.

My story was the total opposite. I was in [unnamed location] bordering China and discovered by accident a breach in the border security: day laborers commuted back and forth across the border by the tens of thousands, and were never checked for ID or anything -- it was as if the border wasn't even there. They'd surge in a great mass into China in the morning, work in factories/offices/whorehouses during the day, then surge back across the border in the evening. The border guards had long ago stopped caring, or had been instructed to let everyone pass.

I (and the other muscle-bound Navy Seals) mingled with the crowd of commuters and slipped in without anyone giving us a second glance. Traveled for a month totally incognito, then came back and slipped out the same way.

Seriously, I would have made a good CIA agent.

Weather forecast for the Denver front range region...

"After Tuesday's record 78 degrees and today's high near 66, it's hard to picture tomorrow morning cold and snowy, but the National Weather Service suggests you try. Tonight, areas of fog and freezing drizzle should form after midnight, conditions that could have a big impact on the morning drive. While some snow may fall, less than an inch of accumulation is likely for Denver."

I like cuddle weather.

re: #84 Killgore Trout

You'll have a lot of fun. In case you aren't aware already the Chinese people can be difficult. They are kinda pushy and sometimes abrasive but not rude or threatening. It helps if you think of them as short New Yorkers.

I find the Japanese to be like that, but only out of their country.

re: #82 gmsc

That's impossible - Many of Shakespeare's plays were written by Bacon!

Shakespeare was a Jew. His real name was Jake Shapiro.

re: #85 zombie

Wow. So that's where you got your nerves of steel.

Waiddaminnit...

How does a Bay Area liberal (now former) get to be a Navy SEAL?

Hung Chow calls into work and says, "Hey, I no come work today, I really sick, got headache, stomach ache and legs hurt, I no come work."

The boss says, "You know something, Hung Chow, I really need you today. When I feel like this, I go to my wife and tell her to give me sex. That makes everything better and I go to work. You try that."

Two hours later Hung Chow calls again. "I do what you say and I feel great. I be at work soon ......... you got nice house."

re: #61 zombie

Jump jump jump, jumping to conclusions!

Actually, I was part of a Navy Seal "insertion team": Our mission was to terminate a double agent.

Gotta work with the clues we are given. The SEAL story doesn't jive, if you were a SEAL, you wouldn't be telling us the story off-hand.

Now, I just need to wait another six months to collect another clue.

/I have such a raging clue right now... hehehe A regular Hardley Boy!, nod to South Park

re: #88 Alouette

Shakespeare was a Jew. His real name was Jake Shapiro.

Kinda throws the whole Bacon Theory out the window, then.

re: #87 Walter L. Newton

I would really like to spend some time in Japan but it's so damn expensive.

Wouldn't an Undead-American shuffling around rural China constantly groaning 'Brains.....braaaaaains' attract the attention of the locals moreso than say some American or European tourists?

re: #85 zombie

I (and the other muscle-bound Navy Seals) mingled with the crowd of commuters and slipped in without anyone giving us a second glance. Traveled for a month totally incognito, then came back and slipped out the same way.

Awesome! So which did you feel, completely free or completely paranoid?

re: #80 HoosierHoops

Well, it's good to know at least somebody knows what I'm like. Even I get confused at times.

God and evolution can co-exist?!?!?!?!

[Link: www.livescience.com...]

re: #74 gmsc

Both Lion King and Kimba were basically lion versions of "Hamlet". Last I checked, Shakespeare wasn't African.

I am not familiar with the source story, but Hamlet does seem to fit.

My favorite version of Hamlet was Strange Brew.

re: #71 bosforus
The coincidences pointed up in those links are pretty damning.

re: #84 Killgore Trout

You'll have a lot of fun. In case you aren't aware already the Chinese people can be difficult. They are kinda pushy and sometimes abrasive but not rude or threatening. It helps if you think of them as short New Yorkers.

I am so jacked Killgore...
I forgot to mention Hong Kong. We have an office in some sky rise there that over looks the Harbor.. My co-workers have sent pictures from there...
I am so jacked..My office overlooks a corn field...But every single frigging thing china buys from our Global Company..Comes from a Factory in a cornfield in Indiana.

I have been to China about 6 times. Once, I saw something I was not supposed to see. It was a flat bed truck with about 30 men on it. Their hands were bound behind their backs. They had little placards around their necks. Their heads were hung down.

They were going to the country side to dig their own graves, followed by a small caliber bullet behind their left ear, for which the State would send a bill to their families.

The year was 1982.

re: #98 Socrates died for your sins

That's unpossible!
/

re: #93 victor_yugo

Kinda throws the whole Bacon Theory out the window, then.

Not really, as you can still connect anyone to him in six degrees or less.

re: #94 Killgore Trout

I would really like to spend some time in Japan but it's so damn expensive.

I just want to get out of the US for a few weeks. Last trip was Jan. 2007 for two weeks in Paris. But that was right after I came off a 5 month programming contract, so I had some cash. No more major contract work since than and as you know, I took the plunge playing the starving theatre artist part.

I just need about 2 grand. The thing is, I'm tempted to get there and stay. Disappear into the country.

re: #17 zombie

A zillion years ago I found a "Chick Publications" Christian Comic Book (I'm sure you're familiar with them) on the sidewalk. It told the told of some Ayn Rand-ian dystopian future in which a leftist totalitarian government has brainwashed everyone to squeal on their neighbors -- anyone who disobeyed authority

Florida had a drought, and the evening news was giving out a phone number to turn in your neighbors if they were watering their lawn on the wrong day. It is already here and accepted, people just don't realize it yet.

re: #98 Socrates died for your sins

God and evolution can co-exist?!?!?!?!

[Link: www.livescience.com...]

A scientist is going public with his Christian belief in God and acceptance of evolution

How is that news?! (emotions are not being aimed at you, Socrates) There have always been Christian scientists! Who are they trying to kid with their marginalizing attitude?!

re: #85 zombie

. . .

I (and the other muscle-bound Navy Seals) mingled with the crowd of commuters and slipped in without anyone giving us a second glance. Traveled for a month totally incognito, then came back and slipped out the same way.

Seriously, I would have made a good CIA agent.

Why would anyone want to travel in Cognito?

re: #100 HoosierHoops

Hong Kong is truly fantastic. You'll really love it. I haven't been there since about '87 but I always loved the place.

re: #107 reine.de.tout

Why would anyone want to travel in Cognito?

Where is Cognito?

re: #108 Killgore Trout

Hong Kong is truly fantastic. You'll really love it. I haven't been there since about '87 but I always loved the place.

Hong Kong? Phooey!

re: #103 gmsc

Not really, as you can still connect anyone to him in six degrees or less.

Are you saying you didn't get the joke?

re: #96 bosforus

Awesome! So which did you feel, completely free or completely paranoid?

Completely anonymous, actually.

What made it so interesting was that I traveled in areas where foreigners generally do not ever go. Completely obscure provincial towns. I had my US passport with me, but I never once showed it to anyone. Instead, I had a fake student card with someone else's name on it, and on those occasions when hotel clerks would demand to see ID, I showed them that, and they thought it was a passport, since they had never seen a real one.

As a result, there is no record whatsoever of my trip there. I did feel a bit like a character in a John Le Carré novel. Totally free and totally paranoid.

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Where is Cognito?

lurking. plotting. scheming.

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Where is Cognito?

See this

re: #104 Walter L. Newton

I just need about 2 grand. The thing is, I'm tempted to get there and stay. Disappear into the country.

Heh. I'm always tempted to expatriate. I started fantasizing about the possibility of staying in Mauritius last month. The women there are beautiful and I could get used to the mosquitoes I suppose.

re: #114 reine.de.tout

ROFL

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Where is Cognito?

On his shrink's couch.

re: #97 zombie

Well, it's good to know at least somebody knows what I'm like. Even I get confused at times.

Having gone to college in the bay area..and a ton of friends there..
I could really track you down...And maybe do lunch..But Zom
You are good people and a pretty dang good researcher and writer.
Good luck from a fan..
/I'll never tell dude/dudette...
LOL

re: #101 rawmuse

I have been to China about 6 times. Once, I saw something I was not supposed to see. It was a flat bed truck with about 30 men on it. Their hands were bound behind their backs. They had little placards around their necks. Their heads were hung down.

They were going to the country side to dig their own graves, followed by a small caliber bullet behind their left ear, for which the State would send a bill to their families.

The year was 1982.

Wow! Now that was something I managed to not see. Scary.

I did once stumble across a traditional confucian/taoist funeral procession wending through a millet field, but I think the guy died in a farming accident, not with a small caliber bullet.

re: #113 Shug

Near Nordika, just south of Timberland.

re: #116 buzzsawmonkey

Isn't Hong Kong the one where that giant panda climbs the Empire State Building?

No, it was the People's State Building. It was made after the British, uh, pulled out.

If you want to see something about China rent "Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour" It is a documentary about magic around the world, the episode about China is interesting. The whole DVD will make you glad you live in America.

re: #101 rawmuse

I have been to China about 6 times. Once, I saw something I was not supposed to see. It was a flat bed truck with about 30 men on it. Their hands were bound behind their backs. They had little placards around their necks. Their heads were hung down.

They were going to the country side to dig their own graves, followed by a small caliber bullet behind their left ear, for which the State would send a bill to their families.

The year was 1982.

that is horrible

re: #98 Socrates died for your sins

God and evolution can co-exist?!?!?!?!

[Link: www.livescience.com...]

Gaaa!
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[Link: www.famousmormons.net...]

Henry Eyring, chemist - He pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry. He also was awarded the National medal of Science for devolving the Absolute Rate Theory of chemical reactions. He was elected president of the American Chemical Society in 1963 and of the Association for the Advancement of Science in 1965.

Harvey Fletcher, physicist - As a graduate student, he worked with Millikan and together they were the first to measure the charge on an electron. Millikan won the noble prize for that work. Fletcher directed research at Bell Labs where he played a central role in the development of stereophonic reproduction. He is also credited with inventing the hearing aid and the first audiometer. He was elected president of the American Physical Society in 1945.

Wilford Gardner, geologist - He described the movement of water through unsaturated soils by reference to capillary potential. For this and other work, the American Society of Agronomy called him "the father of soil physics." He served as dean at UC Berkley.

H. Tracy Hall, chemist - He developed the tetrahedron press and was the first to produce synthetic diamonds.

re: #116 buzzsawmonkey

Isn't Hong Kong the one where that giant panda climbs the Empire State Building?

Bravo!

re: #111 victor_yugo

Are you saying you didn't get the joke?

No, I'm just building on it. Six Degrees? Bacon? Think about it.

re: #114 reine.de.tout

See this

Got it. I'll be good.

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Where is Cognito?

Who cares

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

No, zombie probably just wanted to get some good Chinese food. Only there they just call it "food."

I love that joke!

re: #120 zombie

China has a dark side. Make no mistake. You go up against the State, and not only do you lose, but your whole family can vanish. Only, it is more thorough than vanishing. It is like you never existed in the first place.

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Where is Cognito?

Banned.

re: #131 rawmuse

it is more thorough than vanishing. It is like you never existed in the first place.

Whereas banned lizards get talked about more than when they were around.

re: #133 Moe Katz

Whereas banned lizards get talked about more than when they were around.

bullz eye

Okay, y'all, I need to go get some vittles for the pantry.

re: #108 Killgore Trout

Hong Kong is truly fantastic. You'll really love it. I haven't been there since about '87 but I always loved the place.

Totally agree. Having been to both HK and China, I'd recommend Hong Kong to anyone over the nightmarish Fatherland.

re: #115 Killgore Trout

Heh. I'm always tempted to expatriate. I started fantasizing about the possibility of staying in Mauritius last month. The women there are beautiful and I could get used to the mosquitoes I suppose.

Well, things are stable for me right now, as you know, but the kind of stability that could be destroyed by with very little chaos, so, I have told everyone around here that if it hit the fan, I will get lost in France. And if after 6 months or more, they catch up with me, it's their Euro's to ship me home.

re: #131 rawmuse

China has a dark side.

Isn't that kind of like saying the moon has a dark side.

My sister went to china last February. Apparently most toilets are holes in the ground. Except of course for the tourist areas.

re: #25 zombie

Also on Chinese daytime TV:

Remember the old "Aquaman" and "Kimba the White Lion" cartoons which had about 2 frames per second at most, totally crude and almost static? Well, the cartoons they show on Chinese TV make Aquaman seem like Max Fleischer. They had, at best, one frame every 3 seconds. It was more like watching a slow-motion slide show that watching an actual cartoon.

The topics were the usual: Monkey King, Wong Fei Hung, etc.

Kind of like watching a film strip? The cassette "dings" when it's time to change to the next one. I always hated film strips in elementary school.

re: #139 Ay, Caramba

My sister went to china last February. Apparently most toilets are holes in the ground. Except of course for the tourist areas.

Hell, you still have Turkish styled toilets all over Paris.

A friend of mine worked in the magic kingdom, soddomite arabia.

He was walking around one day and walked into a square where they were hosing down the ground to wash away the blood from a recent beheading.

I think China is a wonderful tourist attraction. I have been going there for a long time, since the very first days of American tourists, when you had to have "minders" with you at all times.

But, please, harbor no illusions about individual rights. There really aren't any. The collective is all.

I have been going to China since 1978. Richard Nixon was immensely popular in China then. I mean, he was bigger than Elvis.

re: #110 gmsc

Hong Kong? Phooey!

OK, this thread is just getting started yet we've already mentioned Aquaman and Hong Kong Phooey -- the two worst cartoons ever made! Do we have bad taste, or what?

re: #138 bosforus

Isn't that kind of like saying the moon has a dark side.

I'm thinking if I'm in any square and anybody says a word like freedom..
I'd better run like hell...
But other than that..I expect China to be great

Just off-loaded my newest toy: Craftsman #137 10", 3 HP table saw in near new condition.

Cost: $75

Anybody got any wood they want me to cut?

re: #141 Walter L. Newton

I'm afraid to ask what that is.

re: #142 WhiteRasta

A friend of mine worked in the magic kingdom, soddomite arabia.

He was walking around one day and walked into a square where they were hosing down the ground to wash away the blood from a recent beheading.

and yet all we ever hear from the fools on Television is that America is the great evil in the world. that Gitmo is a torture center. That radical Christianity is just as dangerous as radical islam

idiots!

re: #144 zombie

OK, this thread is just getting started yet we've already mentioned Aquaman and Hong Kong Phooey -- the two worst cartoons ever made! Do we have bad taste, or what?

Remember Clutch Cargo?

re: #143 rawmuse

Richard Nixon was immensely popular in China then. I mean, he was bigger than Elvis.

Only Nixon could go to China.

- old Vulcan saying

re: #115 Killgore Trout

Heh. I'm always tempted to expatriate. I started fantasizing about the possibility of staying in Mauritius last month. The women there are beautiful and I could get used to the mosquitoes I suppose.

I know someone who did exactly that. Actually moved to Mauritius.

But he lasted less than a year, because he lost his job there.

And yes, he said the same thing about the women.

re: #52 Walter L. Newton

No, because it is actually a designated name of a cheese type. If it was the same recipe and made and sold in another country, it would still be American Cheese.

Just like Dijon mustard.

or French fries!

re: #151 Occasional Reader

Only Nixon could go to China.

- old Vulcan saying

hey..But nobody is bigger than Elvis...

re: #144 zombie

OK, this thread is just getting started yet we've already mentioned Aquaman and Hong Kong Phooey -- the two worst cartoons ever made! Do we have bad taste, or what?

Now this is freakin´ bizarre. Honest to God atheism, I just had the ¨Hong Kong Phooey¨ theme song running through my head, not 15 minutes ago. No joke. Weirod.

re: #146 Noam Sayin'

Just off-loaded my newest toy: Craftsman #137 10", 3 HP table saw in near new condition.

Cost: $75

Anybody got any wood they want me to cut?

Woo, baby!

re: #144 zombie

OK, this thread is just getting started yet we've already mentioned Aquaman and Hong Kong Phooey -- the two worst cartoons ever made! Do we have bad taste, or what?

You're just being too picky. You'd probably criticize "The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", too!

re: #144 zombie

OK, this thread is just getting started yet we've already mentioned Aquaman and Hong Kong Phooey -- the two worst cartoons ever made! Do we have bad taste, or what?

As long as no one mentions The Littles we'll be okay... wait...Dammit!

My reflexologist is Chinese, she escaped about 1971. She is older than me, but she looks to be about 35. I quiz her about what it was like during the Great Leap Forward. The stories she tells would curl your hair.

re: #145 HoosierHoops

I'm thinking if I'm in any square and anybody says a word like freedom..
I'd better run like hell...
But other than that..I expect China to be great

I wouldn't know what to expect but a very left leaning brother-in-law of mine moved there this summer to be with his girlfriend and study and the two people I talk to most at work are naturalized American citizens from China. Seems the sane want to leave and the kooks want to go (don't tell my wife I said that).

re: #147 Ay, Caramba

I'm afraid to ask what that is.

I was commenting on you hole in the floor toilets in China. Turkish toilets is another word for that, and many public bathrooms all around Paris (well, a lot of Europe period) are still of that type.

Many of the toilets are co-ed, a stall for me a stall for woman, all in the same room. There will be urinals for the men in the same room (with no covering, just stand with your back to the woman walking around the room).

I have even seen toilets with a mixture of stalls, some with johns in them, some Turkish styled and NONE OF THEM HAD DOORS OR CURTAINS in the front.

Bathroom going is really fun around the world. I have a slew of pictures of toilets from all over western and eastern Europe.

Go Speed Racer!

re: #146 Noam Sayin'

Just off-loaded my newest toy: Craftsman #137 10", 3 HP table saw in near new condition.

Cost: $75

Anybody got any wood they want me to cut?

never ever take your eye off the blade...table saws are totally unforgiving (you knew that I suppose)...

re: #159 rawmuse

My reflexologist is Chinese, she escaped about 1971. She is older than me, but she looks to be about 35. I quiz her about what it was like during the Great Leap Forward. The stories she tells would curl your hair.

Did they really give everyone fly swatters to kill all the flies in China?

re: #159 rawmuse

My reflexologist is Chinese, she escaped about 1971. She is older than me, but she looks to be about 35. I quiz her about what it was like during the Great Leap Forward. The stories she tells would curl your hair.

OK I'll bite..what is a reflexologist? Have you got bad reflexes?
serious raw

re: #139 Ay, Caramba

My sister went to china last February. Apparently most toilets are holes in the ground. Except of course for the tourist areas.

I just got back from a week in Shanghai on business. I really enjoyed myself. I did notice however that even in some of the tourist areas toilets are holes in the ground, but then again some of them were porcelein holes. I was lucky in that I got to do the little bit of touristing I did with a couple of very nice local colleagues.

The first time I was ever in China it was so different from the US that I could not even wrap my mind around the fact that it is on the same planet.

re: #119 HoosierHoops

Having gone to college in the bay area..and a ton of friends there..
I could really track you down...And maybe do lunch..But Zom
You are good people and a pretty dang good researcher and writer.
Good luck from a fan..
/I'll never tell dude/dudette...
LOL

The game is afoot!

Of course, all the clues I "accidentally" let slip when "my guard is down" are actually clever misdirection. Unless you carefully studied my comments in 2003-2004, when I did stupidly occasionally reveal something about my real interests, you are likely barking up the wrong tree. Everyone knows that this is the only accurate self-portrait of me!

I was almost killed by a mosquito.re: #152 zombie

I was almost killed by a mosquito.
Dengue fever.

Really awful, but a great way to lose 40 lbs.....

re: #161 Walter L. Newton

I was commenting on you hole in the floor toilets in China. Turkish toilets is another word for that, and many public bathrooms all around Paris (well, a lot of Europe period) are still of that type.

Many of the toilets are co-ed, a stall for me a stall for woman, all in the same room. There will be urinals for the men in the same room (with no covering, just stand with your back to the woman walking around the room).

I have even seen toilets with a mixture of stalls, some with johns in them, some Turkish styled and NONE OF THEM HAD DOORS OR CURTAINS in the front.

Bathroom going is really fun around the world. I have a slew of pictures of toilets from all over western and eastern Europe.

That is disgusting.

re: #161 Walter L. Newton

Bathroom going is really fun around the world. I have a slew of pictures of toilets from all over western and eastern Europe.

I saw an analysis several years ago to the effect the the US essentially invented ¨bathroom culture¨; the idea that the bathroom (or toilet, to the Brits) can be something much nicer than, well, a shithole (literally).

re: #158 Lizard by the Bay

As long as no one mentions The Littles we'll be okay... wait...Dammit!

"The Littles" Intro

re: #162 Ay, Caramba

Go Speed Racer!

Want see full episodes of Speed Racer that you haven't seen in a while?

re: #164 MandyManners

Did they really give everyone fly swatters to kill all the flies in China?

I know you felt terrible this morning..
doing better Mandy?

re: #168 zombie

The game is afoot!

Of course, all the clues I "accidentally" let slip when "my guard is down" are actually clever misdirection. Unless you carefully studied my comments in 2003-2004, when I did stupidly occasionally reveal something about my real interests, you are likely barking up the wrong tree. Everyone knows that this is the only accurate self-portrait of me!

Oh come off it. That's a guy that posts on the "casual encounters" category of Denver's Craigslist. He doesn't get much action from what I hear reported.

re: #165 HoosierHoops

OK I'll bite..what is a reflexologist? Have you got bad reflexes?
serious raw

Foot massage.

re: #168 zombie

Everyone knows that this is the only accurate self-portrait of me!

Funny, I never thought of you as wearing glasses.

re: #165 HoosierHoops

Reflexogy is a non-western healing practice that focuses on the nerve endings in your feet. I go once a month. It can be painful.

But pain is progress.

Conversation cops step in to school students.

Future members of the CHRC, no doubt

re: #170 MandyManners

Ah, which part?

re: #168 zombie

Of course, all the clues I "accidentally" let slip when "my guard is down" are actually clever misdirection.

Including this one...

re: #173 HoosierHoops

I know you felt terrible this morning..
doing better Mandy?

Marginally. It's a seasonal thing. The cold screws my sinues and the rest of my body.

re: #110 gmsc

Hong Kong? Phooey!

Don't get us started again!

re: #179 Walter L. Newton

Ah, which part?

Not the photographs! The rest of it.

re: #177 rawmuse

But pain is progress.

Yes comrade, you are correct.

re: #178 Shug

Another small step towards Trudeaupia... Queens is a bastion of leftist bat-shattery.

re: #164 MandyManners

No, but she tells me horrible stories about arranged marriages to Party bosses and forced abortions.

re: #172 gmsc

Want see full episodes of Speed Racer that you haven't seen in a while?

Thanks Bro,
That really brings back memories. The last time I watched an episode I was around 6 or 7.
By the way, that has to be the gayest pose for a race car driver.

re: #172 gmsc

Want see full episodes of Speed Racer that you haven't seen in a while?

Cool!

re: #183 MandyManners

Not the photographs! The rest of it.

Ok, I'm sorry, but it is true. Sort of like just a cultural thing. I really thought it was cool. I like the bidets the best. It's sort of like a shave and a haircut, you know the whole bit. Get everything done in one sitting.

re: #177 rawmuse

I go once a month. It can be painful.

Maybe they´re just f****g with you. Ever think of that?

¨Hey, here comes that gaijin again who pays us to torture his feet... okay, everyone look really serious! Think ancient Chinese secret...

re: #161 Walter L. Newton

I was commenting on you hole in the floor toilets in China. Turkish toilets is another word for that, and many public bathrooms all around Paris (well, a lot of Europe period) are still of that type.

Many of the toilets are co-ed, a stall for me a stall for woman, all in the same room. There will be urinals for the men in the same room (with no covering, just stand with your back to the woman walking around the room).

I have even seen toilets with a mixture of stalls, some with johns in them, some Turkish styled and NONE OF THEM HAD DOORS OR CURTAINS in the front.

Bathroom going is really fun around the world. I have a slew of pictures of toilets from all over western and eastern Europe.

And some of the most advanced toilets in the world are in Japan. They have little sprayers that wash down your ass, little fans to blow it dry.

/never been to Japan, but heard about it from someone who was.

I worked in Ethiopia. My guard was arrested because his sister wanted to extort some money from him as he worked for a 'rich' foreigner (I was a development worker). She claimed that he was in possession of a hand grenade. He wasn't. The police knew it was a fabricated accusation. Nevertheless they held him in prison for four and a half weeks until bribes were being paid.
As Ethiopians are incorruptible (to foreigners) the money had to cross local hands before being accepted.
After such kinds of experiences one gets humble and very happy indeed to be living in a western legal system.

re: #189 Walter L. Newton

I like the bidets the best.

¨

I have come to acknowledge that bidets make a lot of sense. We should adopt them, IMHO.

re: #191 Alouette

And some of the most advanced toilets in the world are in Japan. They have little sprayers that wash down your ass, little fans to blow it dry.

/never been to Japan, but heard about it from someone who was.

I think you can find those in the US in some really fancy expensive hotels.

Not that I've ever been to a fancy expensive hotel.

re: #190 Occasional Reader

It did occur to me. Except that I went on recommendation for an ailment for which there was no standard treatment, and my practitioner made the ailment go away.

re: #193 Occasional Reader

¨

I have come to acknowledge that bidets make a lot of sense. We should adopt them, IMHO.

Bidets are a great sanitary invention.

re: #163 albusteve

never ever take your eye off the blade...table saws are totally unforgiving (you knew that I suppose)...

I bought a chainsaw roughly this time last year - and I still have all my limbs. But your concern is appreciated.

re: #191 Alouette

And some of the most advanced toilets in the world are in Japan. They have little sprayers that wash down your ass, little fans to blow it dry.

/never been to Japan, but heard about it from someone who was.

I just went last month (to Japan not to.....forget it). You are correct. Moving spray, heated seats -even in office bathrooms and cheap restaurants.

re: #191 Alouette

And some of the most advanced toilets in the world are in Japan. They have little sprayers that wash down your ass, little fans to blow it dry.

/never been to Japan, but heard about it from someone who was.

My favorite was the public kiosk toilets on the streets of Paris. About the size of a small apartment bathroom. Sliding automatic door on front. Everything is electronic, senses you are sitting, senses you have got up, flushes for you.

Only one small thing. After you stand up, you better get right on out, because the whole inside of the kiosk is washed down with water and cleaner.

You will get a shower if you are not careful.

re: #155 Occasional Reader

Now this is freakin´ bizarre. Honest to God atheism, I just had the ¨Hong Kong Phooey¨ theme song running through my head, not 15 minutes ago. No joke. Weirod.

Some of those atrocious Hanna-Barbera and other lo-grade cartoons did have great theme songs. I've always thought that the theme song for "Top Cat" was one of the catchiest ever.

re: #195 rawmuse

It did occur to me. Except that I went on recommendation for an ailment for which there was no standard treatment, and my practitioner made the ailment go away.

Out of curiosity, may I ask what ailment?

re: #191 Alouette

And some of the most advanced toilets in the world are in Japan. They have little sprayers that wash down your ass, little fans to blow it dry.

/never been to Japan, but heard about it from someone who was.

And in general, that kind of toilet is called a bidet.

re: #167 rawmuse

The first time I was ever in China it was so different from the US that I could not even wrap my mind around the fact that it is on the same planet.

The Olympics coverage of the Marathon Race this Summer was quite telling. Along the route they had constructed walls to hide the tar-paper shacks, but the helicopter coverage showed it all.

re: #187 Ay, Caramba

Thanks Bro,
That really brings back memories. The last time I watched an episode I was around 6 or 7.
By the way, that has to be the gayest pose for a race car driver.

To be fair, that rotating pose at the end beat the "bullet time"/Matrix thing by entire decades.

re: #188 Racer X

Cool!

Somehow I thought you'd get a kick out of that.

re: #201 Occasional Reader

Severe ringing of the ears.

re: #161 Walter L. Newton

I was commenting on you hole in the floor toilets in China. Turkish toilets is another word for that, and many public bathrooms all around Paris (well, a lot of Europe period) are still of that type.

Many of the toilets are co-ed, a stall for me a stall for woman, all in the same room. There will be urinals for the men in the same room (with no covering, just stand with your back to the woman walking around the room).

I have even seen toilets with a mixture of stalls, some with johns in them, some Turkish styled and NONE OF THEM HAD DOORS OR CURTAINS in the front.

Bathroom going is really fun around the world. I have a slew of pictures of toilets from all over western and eastern Europe.

I took a tour of western Europe in the early 80s. It was always interesting trying to figure out how a particular toilet flushed ~ pull chain, button on top, lever on side, petal (not puddle) on floor...

re: #168 zombie

The game is afoot!

Of course, all the clues I "accidentally" let slip when "my guard is down" are actually clever misdirection. Unless you carefully studied my comments in 2003-2004, when I did stupidly occasionally reveal something about my real interests, you are likely barking up the wrong tree. Everyone knows that this is the only accurate self-portrait of me!

or reflections in sunglass lens? Car window and one mirror? And a storefront window? Unless you have decoys shooting film for you? :-)>

Paris public street toilet kiosk...

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Ah, it brings back memories.

re: #197 Noam Sayin'

I bought a chainsaw roughly this time last year - and I still have all my limbs. But your concern is appreciated.

doh!...

re: #194 reine.de.tout

I think you can find those in the US in some really fancy expensive hotels.

Not that I've ever been to a fancy expensive hotel.

I was at a really fancy expensive hotel last week for my son's wedding. It had regular toilets. Maybe it wasn't all that fancy, but sure cost a lot!

It's scary how that onion video feed closely mimics what you actually see in China.

I haven't been back since 1989...

Zombie as a SEAL. That's funny.

re: #208 Walter L. Newton

We have those in San Francisco. There was a problem of the druggies using them to do their thing inside. I am not sure if we still have some or not.

re: #205 rawmuse

Severe ringing of the ears.

Interesting. I have tinnitus, too. Not severe, but mildly annoying. I´ll have to check it out. Thanks.

re: #200 zombie

Some of those atrocious Hanna-Barbera and other lo-grade cartoons did have great theme songs. I've always thought that the theme song for "Top Cat" was one of the catchiest ever.

Why does Phil Silvers rate being caricatured as a Cat, while Jack Benny only rates being caricatured as a mouse?

re: #178 Shug

Good grief.

Totalitarianism in the 21st century will be so NICE.

re: #162 Ay, Caramba

Go Speed Racer!

Well, needless to say, that is the greatest song ever written. It's not even in the same category with other theme songs. I'd rank the Speed Racer theme slightly above Beethoven's Fifth and Bach's Ode to Joy.

re: #177 rawmuse

Reflexogy is a non-western healing practice that focuses on the nerve endings in your feet. I go once a month. It can be painful.

But pain is progress.

Best regards Raw...I have been very lucky with my feet.. I had a knee op.
That was pain...And then the famous one.. Honest to G-d. I feel out of bounds during a high school game and caught my wrist on the sharp corner of the bench and ripped my hand open..67 stitches.. ugly..people were fainting and I was in shock...surreal..
I'm not a big fan of pain..LOL

re: #186 rawmuse

No, but she tells me horrible stories about arranged marriages to Party bosses and forced abortions.

Gah.

re: #206 poopeedoo

I took a tour of western Europe in the early 80s. It was always interesting trying to figure out how a particular toilet flushed ~ pull chain, button on top, lever on side, petal (not puddle) on floor...

Yes (that seems to fit right in with you screen name). I love to journal when I travel and I have made list of the different flush devices. And faucets are the same way. They have multiple ideas for turning the water on and off.

I know the French thinks it's very unsanitary to touch and toilet fixtures, thats why the foot switches, knee switches etc.

re: #189 Walter L. Newton

Ok, I'm sorry, but it is true. Sort of like just a cultural thing. I really thought it was cool. I like the bidets the best. It's sort of like a shave and a haircut, you know the whole bit. Get everything done in one sitting.

*blink*

re: #212 rawmuse

We have those in San Francisco. There was a problem of the druggies using them to do their thing inside. I am not sure if we still have some or not.

Really, than the colonies are starting to advance.

re: #168 zombie

The game is afoot!

Of course, all the clues I "accidentally" let slip when "my guard is down" are actually clever misdirection. Unless you carefully studied my comments in 2003-2004, when I did stupidly occasionally reveal something about my real interests, you are likely barking up the wrong tree. Everyone knows that this is the only accurate self-portrait of me!

Forget about it..I got you pegged.. I'll never tell..
LOL

re: #199 Walter L. Newton

My favorite was the public kiosk toilets on the streets of Paris. About the size of a small apartment bathroom. Sliding automatic door on front. Everything is electronic, senses you are sitting, senses you have got up, flushes for you.

Only one small thing. After you stand up, you better get right on out, because the whole inside of the kiosk is washed down with water and cleaner.

You will get a shower if you are not careful.

Boston has one of those. I pass it on the way to work. Occasionally I see someone standing outside cursing at it and walking in place trying to hold it in as they wait for it to clean itself.

re: #213 Occasional Reader

Interesting. I have tinnitus, too. Not severe, but mildly annoying. I´ll have to check it out. Thanks.

And Reflexology helps rawmuse?

The more I learn about other countries, the more I love America.

Being a yokel ain't all that bad.

re: #223 Bloodnok

Boston has one of those. I pass it on the way to work. Occasionally I see someone standing outside cursing at it and walking in place trying to hold it in as they wait for it to clean itself.

For only $89,000 you can have an automatic self-cleaning toilet of your very own.

re: #213 Occasional Reader

Well, no promises, but my treatment took 10 consecutive visits, daily, for 30 minutes. After the 4th day I was thinking to myself, "damn, this really hurts" but I did not cry out or weep.

On the 5th day Angie said to me "You belly strong man! Most men cry out by now!"

That was it. I let it go. Cathartic weeping and wailing.

The stimulus spot for the inner ear is in the web of your toes, between 4th and 5th toes. They get in there with little sticks and press hard. At the end you are amazed than no skin has broken and you have no bruises.

re: #212 rawmuse

We have those in San Francisco. There was a problem of the druggies using them to do their thing inside. I am not sure if we still have some or not.

I think they were very efficient and handy. They used to cost 2 francs (pre Euro) but the French started to complain, said toilets are a right not a privilege, and at least in Paris, they took the coin acceptors off of them.

The one in the picture reflects that, it says on top "gratuit."

re: #225 MandyManners

The more I learn about other countries, the more I love America.

Being a yokel ain't all that bad.

That can be taken too far, of course. There is plenty we can learn from other countries, and vice versa.

re: #223 Bloodnok

Boston has one of those. I pass it on the way to work. Occasionally I see someone standing outside cursing at it and walking in place trying to hold it in as they wait for it to clean itself.

I tried to negotiate one of those in Paris in the mid 80's. There was so much intoxication involved...public nudity....policemen.. Wasn't pretty. I barely remember what even happened. Completely forgot about it until reading this thread.

re: #204 gmsc

Uh oh. Cat's out of the bag.

The Trick Race

re: #223 Bloodnok

Boston has one of those. I pass it on the way to work. Occasionally I see someone standing outside cursing at it and walking in place trying to hold it in as they wait for it to clean itself.

Gee, I've spent so much time traveling in Europe over the last 10 years, I'm missing a whole feast of exciting public toilet developments right here in the good old US of A.

re: #227 rawmuse

The stimulus spot for the inner ear is in the web of your toes, between 4th and 5th toes. They get in there with little sticks and press hard.

Of course, you can get that done for free in a Chinese prison...

Anyway, I'll give it a try. Thanks.

re: #229 Occasional Reader

That can be taken too far, of course. There is plenty we can learn from other countries, and vice versa.

True.

re: #234 MandyManners

True.

For instance, how to walk.

We Americans don't walk very gracefully, in general.

re: #224 callahan23

And Reflexology helps rawmuse?

It helped me. Your results may vary.
Get references. Mine enjoys a good reputation with musicians.

re: #227 rawmuse

Well, no promises, but my treatment took 10 consecutive visits, daily, for 30 minutes. After the 4th day I was thinking to myself, "damn, this really hurts" but I did not cry out or weep.

On the 5th day Angie said to me "You belly strong man! Most men cry out by now!"

That was it. I let it go. Cathartic weeping and wailing.

The stimulus spot for the inner ear is in the web of your toes, between 4th and 5th toes. They get in there with little sticks and press hard. At the end you are amazed than no skin has broken and you have no bruises.

WTF?
You mean..and I'm just wondering..That natural exercise including running does simulate those deep tissues?
Do you belong to a gym?
I'm kind of old school with the healthy food and running..( esp. after ice cream)
:)

re: #235 Occasional Reader

For instance, how to walk.

We Americans don't walk very gracefully, in general.

Huh?

re: #235 Occasional Reader

That's because we're so obese.

Some things we can teach the rest of the world, on the other hand (beyond the obvious);

-Adequate, modern heating, plumbing and air conditioning. Really, guys, get with it, these are not new inventions.

-Along the same line; building insulation. Yes, Brits, I'm looking at YOU.

-This wonderful invention that hangs on a window called a ¨screen¨, to keep bugs out. Bizarrely underused in most of the world.

And so on.

re: #237 HoosierHoops

No this is stimulus of the nerve endings. You will know when they are doing it, because you will feel it in the corresponding places in your body.

re: #236 rawmuse

It helped me. Your results may vary.
Get references. Mine enjoys a good reputation with musicians.

Well thanks I'll research my area about practicioners and will give it a try.

re: #238 spirochete

Huh?

In my humble opinion. We tend to clomp along.

re: #235 Occasional Reader

For instance, how to walk.

We Americans don't walk very gracefully, in general.

Nah, we walk like we do everything else - IN A DIABOLICALLY EVIL MANNER!

re: #239 Ay, Caramba

That's because we're so obese.

Saw on the Discovery channel the other day - there are over 2 million Americans who weigh over 500 lbs.

re: #239 Ay, Caramba

That's because we're so obese.

Well, there are all sorts of things we could learn from various countries involving food, really.

re: #243 Occasional Reader

In my humble opinion. We tend to clomp along.

We ninja walk at my home.

In case you haven't figured it out, I am a fan of many things Chinese. I do Tai-Chi, and take lessons.

But the whole commie thing, forget it. And their music is absolutely dreadful.

re: #246 Occasional Reader

Even though the Brits and Europeans are getting fatter you can still easily spot the Americans in a crowd. We are a fat ass nation.

re: #248 rawmuse

In case you haven't figured it out, I am a fan of many things Chinese. I do Tai-Chi, and take lessons.

But the whole commie thing, forget it. And their music is absolutely dreadful.

You mean the pop music or the chinese opera? They're both awful in my opinion.

re: #245 Racer X

Saw on the Discovery channel the other day - there are over 2 million Americans who weigh over 500 lbs.

Are we Number One or what? I bet half of these are the poor.

Later, my turn to cook tonight.

re: #245 Racer X

Saw on the Discovery channel the other day - there are over 2 million Americans who weigh over 500 lbs.

I think it was the other way around.

re: #251 Ay, Caramba

Are we Number One or what? I bet half of these are the poor.

Almost certainly. Obesity is definitely associated with poverty in the US.

re: #249 Killgore Trout

Even though the Brits and Europeans are getting fatter you can still easily spot the Americans in a crowd. We are a fat ass nation.

You forgot EVIL - it's FAT AND EVIL that defines an American!

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re: #248 rawmuse

I've always been impressed by tai chi. It just looks cool. I recently started doing zazen a few times a week. I really like it. I'm getting a little stuck and I've considered joining a local zen center but i suspect they're all run by new age moonbat idiots.

re: #255 gmsc

You forgot EVIL - it's FAT AND EVIL that defines an American!

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Fat, Evil, and Armed.