Somehow to me the tribal and racial and gender, age, religion, colour belief prejudices rages hate wars have never been a cause for looking at a human as other than another human the same as me. Anything else is incomprehensible, but that's perhaps some shortcoming in my understanding. I dislike the radical right left extremist or fervent religiosity but they are people just as I am and capable of anything I am capable of in thought and affection and generosity.
But I wish the bloody neighbour wouldn't hog the street parking!!!
For the meditation and the jangling nerves I have only to close my eyes - there is the everpresent buzz of tinnitus. It greets me in the mornings when I wake, these last 30 years or more. Like the summer sound of distant thrumming cicadas. In a way it is reassuring and peaceful not an irritation like a leafblower or whippersnipper or fourcheeses is.
As in the real world, I much prefer to hang out with people who can actually discuss, and are capable of being convinced, of changing their minds, and that includes me - I have to be prepared to move too.
Well then forget them and be done, regret not the madeleine deceased. Oh a distant memory of a Madeleine long gone - luscious she was - no she was a Margarita. I'll drink to that, lemon salt and all. She told me one night how convenient it was that neither of us had another, but I had to tell her that in fact I did, and that was that. The luscious Margarita, 1969-70 vintage. It's reminiscence time.
Well done, ol' feller. A short string of sentences that can be comprehended. A rarity indeed. Brevity. Of course meaning is missing, but that would be asking too much.
What are you actually trying to say. Rejection of a drug trialled and found neutral or equal to placebo is somehow biassed and anti-Trump obsessed? Say a sample of 1000 returns 502/498, you feel secondary trials of 10,000, 100,000 are justified? Is there a pragmatic bone in your body? Were there strong indications of efficacy? Not that I've seen reported. Would you like to cite some credible sources, preferably not the POTUS
So this bloody idiot wants to blame Obama as the punch line? Actually it's not Trump and certainly not Obama. It is simply America, the Civil war never ended this thing. It has always been running there under the surface. The skeleton in the wardrobe, the white elephant in the room. It has never gone away, no matter how much and how long the Americans pat themselves on the back, land of freedom and equality.
This blogger claims not anti black, but his every word reeks it.
You guys are simply absurd. Your guys chose Bush, bad enough, a laughing stock already. But then you doubled down, quadrupled down and elected the oafish current POTUS. And ostrich-like try to distract by nonsense assertions about Obama. Bloody idiots, you have got what you deserve.
Whether they wanted to or intended to or not is the difference between murder and manslaughter. Manslaughter is what Noor was convicted in the Minneapolis killing. They were certainly accomplices. Why did it take 8 minutes?
@Chat he traipses after me where'er I walk, and no cool gales fan the glade
Tedious man suffers from verbal diarrhoea and delusions of language skill. He collects my comments to add to his litany perceived failures. He seems to think that by sheer weight of jumbled words he can silence someone who can actually think.
... a USA looked upon as the leader of the free world
Not any more, it's not. 3years cancelling international contracts and withdrawing. To make America great again. Leaving the field to the Chinese One Belt One Road initiative amongst others.
Respect for America has dwindled just as its self-focus has grown.
Is it worthwhile comparing the response of the Chinese to the Riots and protests in Hong Kong last year, and the deaths that occurred that, and the outrage expressed by the Americans over suppression of freedom? What say you? That is dictatorshop and tyranny, I heard the enraged American and Western press shout. What do we have now, in USA, just asking of course.
One set of words that is particularly challenging is that of {wind, winded, winding, wound}. As in 'the long and winding road'; 'the answer is blowing in the wind' or 'the wound wound in tight wrapping' and 'winded by the winding uphill run'
@shokoman possibly - I do a fair amount of thesis proofing; currently doing one in intuitionistic fuzzy sets by a Bulgarian! and another in Gender in Vietnam SME Microeconomics - yours cannot be more obscure I guess...
@Catfoot we didn't learn English as native speakers the same way you learn as an ESL speaker, phrasal verbs for example simply accrued in our understanding without ever being given a name. English is a language full of inconsistencies and inexplicables, particularly when it comes to pronunciation.
@Vier surprise surprise I disagree of course about your knowledge and understanding of the difficulty for a mature age student of either English or Chinese, mostly in regard to being heard and understood. You do not understand how the absence of a sound from the habitual language creates barriers for the speaker. In your case you write voluble English, but it is barely comprehensible, always bringing to mind 'colourless green ideas sleep furiously'; full of almost correct words, but devoid of meaning. On this occasion you wrote semi-coherenly, so you get a tepid congratulation.
Just another form of Cherry-picking. USA (DT) boasts of its amazing record-making testing regime. The increase in tests compared to other countries should have the affect of lowering the mortality rate (deaths per confirmed test), not of exaggerating it. The Death/Test ratio is what it is, and varies hugely because the testing rate likewise varies hugely. 7% (which is about where USA is running) is yes, very high, not the highest. Compare with Australia, adjust if you wish per-capita, and the two stories are indeed very different. So to is the daily case curve. I suggest the slow decay rate of USA reflects the lack of cooperation, and the insistence on rights and freedom, come what may.
The test selection criteria may be quite different ; Australia is reporting less than 1/1000 confirmations.
Oh, just use html quote tag! so simple! DUH! Silly me. Most chat sites removed all html because it was often used to wreak havoc, as long ago as Asiafriendfinder in 1999
That is rubbish, and based on a misquote - the issue of immunity here is the duration of the immunity, and what you suggest about immunity being lifelong is not a fact. Some such immunities are relatively long-lived. Some are quite short lived. They simply don't know what the immune response is yet, nor how long it will last. You claim this is a quote: "we don't know if being immune to covid 19 will give you immunity to covid 19." That is a nonsensical non-quote, or else a blatant dishonesty.
So is there an industry standard MTBM - that could be either Mean or Maximum Time Between Messages? Exceeding it incurs demerit points, like on a driving licence, and finally cancellation? I'm pretty sure that's happened to me a few times.
Who would venture into bonds which in essence dived and have stayed below the horizon since GFC? You did mention the bond market after all. Looking at NASDAQ and FTSE both share March 23 as a low, a mere two months ago, so your thinking is perhaps slightly tardy, don't you think?
Quick on the draw? Naw! But there's plenty of scope for oncoming dips for sure. When the elections are looming, Don't quibble don't quabble There'll be the time To swoop on a Wobble.
While on this theme you might want to put your feet up and watch a 2004 Hong Kong movie: Dumplings
Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.
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RE: A bit of good Covid-19 news for a change
Something like 1 in 8 was the overall improvement. This is the kind of incremental improvement in treatment we can realistically look forward to.