And as to @ab writing coherently - well we all have moments of aberration, deviance and inconsistency. He had an off moment - don't worry, he'll revert. I now have acquired automatic skipover syndrome - see $ eye or ellipses and lo! passover has arrived.
Sure still out there. I used AVG for years, but now feel secure enough with the native Windows product to do away with others. In over 40 years of PC never a virus, although my online bank has once been hacked - $5000 fully covered by the Bank's insurance. When whinging about bank fees we should take their fraud insurance cost into account.
Doesn't make much sense - 170k car loans is pretty absurd and costs almost as much per month as the mortgage. With say 18-20k net after tax per month, 4500 is modest mortgage, but 9000 is excessive - what gives with the cars! Buy a bicycle and sell one car
'I declassified everything' Now tell me, all the talk of dementia, where does it really lie? The evidence is in the words. Even Bush Jr was not that stupid - close, but not quite.
@Comrad I'd try to write down to your level, but that would be a tall order, and I really dont give a stuff whether you comprehend or not. Go and read @Agentbob, he's your level.
In the youtube I posted there is a guy closing the door - there's no way I'd be going up in that plane and I wouldn't be happy sitting on the runway inside either.
typhoon, tai feng, cyclone, hurricane (but not monsoon) all the same phenomenon except in different locations, and the cyclone is upside down, so to speak. Two days ago Typhoon Muifa was marauding the east coast of China from Ningbo Shanghai up north to Bohai and Dalian, just falling short of the Korean peninsula. I was giving a lesson and could hear the wind howling so I switched the conversation to the howling of wolves and the roaring of wind - but not with much success. At least my wolf howl drew some laughter. By the way, our word typhoon almost certainly comes from Chinese 'tai feng' (feng = wind). Monsoon refers to a season rather than a single event.
I dream dreadful dreams in which I die in colour in gore in black and white; sometimes I dream of some loathsome undoable task at my ex place of work, or of an unattainable deadline - but at some point a voice speaks to me in the the dream saying 'just a dream, don't worry!'. Ex-wives never appear in my dreams thank goodness!
The Empire has long long gone, the partition was surely the last vestiges. Countries may well relinquish the queen as head of state but that does not spell death of the Commonwealth. There are in fact only 14 countries including Australia and Canada remaining constitutional monarchies while 40 odd are republics or have their own monarchy. Australia and Canada may also become republics in the not too distant future.
@ab silly man, with dots dashes brackets and punctuation you pretend to convey significant meaning. What tosh you write! Yet you do make me laugh ... well maybe sneer is nearer.
@OP when I arrive in hongqiao I take the first gaotie to kunshan which suits me better - quieter cheaper and close to zhouzhuang and suzhou. Sometimes ningbo. And besides I speak and understand very little shanghaihua apart from nong ho and zai wei!
@op interestingly I just got a 'Blue Typhoon alert for Kunshan and Shanghai' on my Oppo phone - and Yellow for Taian, Orange for Xiamen and Guangzhou - I assume Orange is the highest of those three - no Red yet.
@op not so, I've been half a dozen times since then, but no need to see the property, which is rented. I was staying in Xujiahui Christmas eve 2018 - that night it snowed very lightly in Shanghai.
@CA in Chinese culture relationships are often unions of families, so the parents tend to be more involved. Perhaps it was so in Western culture before, but now it is almost totally up to the children to choose as they will. In China it is largely thus these days too.
@CA ah, that is much better expressed! The first words were awkward in the extreme, but that gets the question across. Chinese women are the same as Chinese Men Or UK women or UK men or you or me - some are greedy some are grasping, most are kind and understanding and generous.
Huge win? Hollow Victory? Pyrrhic victory? Maybe Hollow is better, since the cost is probably being funded by idiot Trumpist donors. DOJ Appeals the decision. But nevertheless you let this exaggerated assertion stand? Yes it is true the judge handed a questionable decision to Trump. But huge win?
In fact it seems to have damaged the opinion of the legal fraternity about this judge's ability to deliver rational judgements.
I tell many of my online students not to abbreviate cannot as can't, because the listener is seldom, rarely, sure whether an ESL speaker is saying can or can't - 'cannot' and 'can not' are much better aren't they?
However @op 'whether we can't get that to work' is perfectly logical. In attacking a problem to be solved in a limited time you will discover whether you can or cannot solve it. According to Goedel's theorem, there are infinitely many propositions which cannot be proven or disproven, but of these you can be sure it cannot be proven that they cannot be proven, whereas with provability you have some possibility!
Speaking of limited time, Fermat's Last Theorem (for which he had a super-neat proof he said) took 358 years to solve in 1994.
That's because yesterday, fullmoon, was mid-autumn festival, zhong qiu jie - but you can buy tins of them all year round and the are considerably cheaper 'off-season'. They are not a great delicacy anyway, too sweet as I say. SF Chinese or other shopholders are just as likely to BS as any others.
The first Chinese moon-landing and mineral retrieval was (no coincidence) called Chang'e-5 as in the fairy story (no 5 there, unsurprisingly). Go easy on the mooncakes, they are mostly dreadfully sweet.
RE: Divine intervention or just luck?
@op Change your locks!And as to @ab writing coherently - well we all have moments of aberration, deviance and inconsistency. He had an off moment - don't worry, he'll revert. I now have acquired automatic skipover syndrome - see $ eye or ellipses and lo! passover has arrived.