@op and do you approve or disapprove? As I pointed out back then, this was always far from a done deal. Struck me as rash back then, still does now. So what say you?
@wsg the @op frequently, well always, sails close to the wind... I'm sure there is a case for exclusion, but for me avoidance is enough. I have zero respect for her opinions, yet acknowledge she is entitled to them nonsensical though they be.
OMG Windows 7 - I suppose you've got Win95 tucked away there somewhere too ... 2009. Amazing that the inbuilt redundancy in the hardware didn't kick in long ago. Mind you three of my computers are still running windows 10! But Windows 7?
Nothing that Microsoft has done since Win7 has improved my computer experience however. The stupid stuff in Win11 Explorer and task bar search are hugely irritating, so stick with Win7 I say!
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.
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@wsg no he wasn't you idiot! He meant what he was recorded as saying, literally.