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New From Maestro Ry Cooder: "Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right"

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/20/2018 8:53:32 am PDT

re: #250 wheat-dogg

People here have all kinds of counter-intuitive ideas derived from Traditional Chinese Medicine, such as cold weather (anything below 20 degrees C) promotes illness, so it’s best to wear as much clothing as possible. Babies look like little Eskimos when it’s still in the mid-teens C (50s F), because their grandparents don’t want them catching cold. And oh boy never let a Chinese auntie catch you walking barefoot on a cold tile floor..

Germans are famous for wearing socks and sandals.

My notion was always that it is warm enough for sandals then there is no need for socks…