@gladrags don't forget what the British freed of tyranny did to Charles the first - he was left head separated from body! Even America doesn't use that method of execution nowadays, but perhaps they could contemplate bringing it back? Florida still has death penalty, but not sure what jurisdiction applies to Presidential crimes
Sure to evoke the rabid righteous and religious rage of the demented right! But how sweet should it bear fruit. The frothing mouths here (one in particular) proclaim civil war as you can see.
The movie was released in 1959 but I saw it in my final high-school year I think - 1962. Wonderful melody, and lovely to play on guitar.
Manhã, tão bonita manhã Na vida, uma nova canção Cantando só teus olhos Teu riso, tuas mãos Pois há de haver um dia Em que virás Das cordas do meu violão Que só teu amor procurou Vem uma voz Falar dos beijos perdidos Nos lábios teus Canta o meu coração Alegria voltou Tão feliz a manhã Desse amor
@op doesn't your partner cook simple white chicken or soy chicken, cut it in half down the middle and then chop it with the meat cleaver? Plenty of splintered bones to be sure! Served with ginger and shallots
@crown the op perhaps chose an inappropriate word - memorial or commemoration or remembrance might be preferable. The dead did nothing heroic or to be admired, they just died in a flash. Almost 100,000 non-combatants were obliterated in a single act targetted at civilians. This thread is pointing no fingers, but is meant to be a reminder. It is a sombre occasion.
Curiously enough, while travelling in Sichuan China way back in 2008 I visited Leshan, a beautiful mountain national park. There they have wild roaming macaques, and the locals sell snackfoods for the tourists to feed them. Mine had been used up, but it being late August and pretty cold in the mountain mist, my hands in pockets were twice bitten by smallish female macaques. The local rangers washed my hands and were very keen to send me to hospital, but I was reluctant to spend my trip in a Chinese hospital. Perhaps I should have, would have if I had been aware of the fatality rate from rabies. In fact I may already have been vaccinated, cannot remember. The bite wounds actually took several months to heal fully, but who knows what diseases a monkey mouth may carry.
No one is pure atheist? I am - gods are an absurd notion and I have zero belief. I derive no benefit from it, It does not affect my ethics goodness or badness. But should you have belief, that is fine with me, I do not despise you for it.
I smoked. After many attempts one morning I woke up coughing and reaching for a cigarette but gave up on the spot. From 60 a day to zero. My then wife didn't and we parted soon after - couldn't stand the smell.
@op you use the present tense 'are' - when the deed is done it is done perhaps without thinking. there is no selfishness at the time, so the deed is not selfish. should it subsequently result in profit, that does not make it selfish. Your reasoning is tautological.
@op the question is rhetorical really or begging the question. Helping someone may involve a self-sacrifice so your question is facile really, and if you think about it you'll agree. Is saving someone in a burning car at risk to yourself selfish?
Another fear of spiders - the Australian wolf spider, large, often seen indoors on the roof (upside down of course). I had an uncontrollable fear when one appeared above the bed, that it would fall on us while we were making love! I wonder what the latin phobia would be called!
What gives with people being unable to make reasonable considered answers to a question which perhaps deserves an answer? Why did she go, what were her objectives, how did she/they expect China to react, what are the consequences, why do Republican Americans in particular react so, who here wishes she were dead? Not reasonable responses - why not think first? (in particular directed at Lindsay, plus most of the others of course). Think first and find some common ground.
Some Aussie expressions all meaning lacking in full comprehension or similar: A sausage short of a BBQ; A kangaroo loose in the top paddock; (also British) Not the full quid.
Exploited? Strange idea! What do I have anyone would want to exploit? Knowledge, thoughts, insight are given willingly as an act of friendship or generosity. Labour? Well I haven't done much of that and it was rarely for free if not for a friend! Exploitation is not within my experience, which is not to say it doesn't happen of course. Often I have students, immigrants, paid less then the legal minimum wage, usually by other immigrants - they no doubt are being exploited 'to avoid tax' as the employer states.
I see negative comments based on the overt gender bias - but then if you read the German novelists like Hesse you will see no significant evidence of women I think. Seems to be a feature of German literature.
antithetic apathetic sympathetic - there is something about this 'thing' - to me it is shades of Jonestown. How can half of that population steep into such folly!?
Has anyone given a thought to the oil war in 2020 and wondered whether that may be a factor? On 8 March 2020, Saudi Arabia initiated a price war on oil with Russia, facilitating a 65% quarterly fall in the price of oil. That situation no longer holds, so of course oil prices have risen accordingly. Over-production resulted in a drop to negative territory, and consequently prices were cheap between Mar and Nov 2020 - nothing at all to do with Trump, but the restoration of previous price started around the End of the Trump era.
~ At the low price the cost of fracking made that method marginal so it is not surprising that US production fell away - it simply wasn't profitable. Below is a chart of US production around that time.
@crown well they have the freedom to explore and read what they want by and large. Dream of Red Chamber is a famous Chinese novel. Genji Monogatari is a Japanese novel written over 1000 years ago by a woman. Hard read, but worth the effort. Don't extol your 'democratic freedom' too much. Of course I have no North Korean but I certainly do have south Korean students. Fundamentally people are not different.
@crown well yes, so far two of my Chinese and one Vietnamese students have read it - strange question. Literature is literature and reading is reading. Have you read Dream of Red Chamber or Genji Monogatari?
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RE: Politicians I Like to Kill
perhaps you could add Bolsonaro and/or Orban too!