It takes about a week to see the affects of social distancing. See this video I posted earlier:
But yeah, there's a lot of idiots not doing it.
But yeah, there's a lot of idiots not doing it.
Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?
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I wouldn't go as far as awful but yeah it's not great. In Prague you can can excellent food but, as you mention, only if you're indulging in the foreign cuisine. Even the food in the supermarkets is of lower quality!
The other issue is the Czech love of salt. Everywhere I go (for food) my instructions usually involve "bez soli " or "mene soli" (without salt or less salt). I now have a few restaurants that I know do decent food and will make it the way I like it but not to British standards. One last problem is that, outside of Prague, the variety of food choices are severely limited..................a good Indian or Chinese meal is thus far impossible. One decent Sushi restaurant though.
Thank fuck the beer is fucking awesome and about £1 a pint (outside of Prague).
When I was last in Prague in the early 90s they served me some sort of weird dumplings. They were rather bland.
I also got the squirts from an evil dark sausage.
The people that served you or the dumplings?
The dumplings. The people were standoffish.
The Czech's love of their dumplings is as confounding as the Brits love of their Yorkshire Pudding, both are incredibly bland and only as good as the gravy/sauce that you mop it up with.
No, those two things happened on two different days. What a vacation that was!
They truly are lovely people, I knew I'd love it over here (I had visited Czech 3 or 4 times a year for 14 years prior to moving) but couldn't have imagined it would be THIS good. I had 28 great years in Britain and will always love the country and people but (sadly in a way) I don't miss it.
Haha. I used to do a lot of underwater photography when younger and the Frogfish was one of my favourite subjects. Called the frogfish because it walks on its fins and makes little jumps.
That would be the MSG. Next time ask for it without.
People often say Chinese food is healthy but actually not so much .... for a start it's all fried and a lot of it deep fried. Then there's a lot of salt and sugar added to virtually every dish along with the MSG. And of course with China being such a vast country every region is different. Personally I like Cantonese (the HK version) and Sichuanese (the spicy stuff) the best. Shanghainese is one of the worst - the sugar overload even in savoury dishes is awful.
Sacrilege !
True. I love living in China (and it's easy to get from there all over Asia & South Pacific) despite all it's warts, Shanghai is incredible, and there is little I miss from the UK (internet speeds, chocolate and football) but we come back at least annually because my daughter and parents live there.
Just get the army on the streets to deal with any thick selfish knobheads who can’t follow instruction
I think the reason for that can be explained by this:
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This virus has a far better success rate with the elderly ... if it's allowed to spread, as it did in Italy, then its chances to cause damage increase (esp as the hospitals struggle to deal with more folk).
As FYI, UK is on the list:
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I had a mad dream the other night where I was this spod who lived on an island in the middle of nowhere, and this fit bird had come to visit for some reason and she was trying to tell me that life isn't about just two villages on an island, and I was all like yeah I've seen everywhere else on the telly and I play footy in that village and I have pints in that village and that's sound. I'm happy here. But really I wasn't. Anyways sorry to just talk shit but that's what I do. It did occur to me when I woke up and thought about it for a bit, I still live round the corner from where I did when I was 12. And it's alright but fucking hell. After all this shit is over and if I'm not bankrupt, maybe fuck off somewhere that isn't an abandoned pub somewhere dead cold.
Explain Japan then
I ate a ton of steamed food in China, and lots of green vegetables.
I also lost about 10 pounds out the other end.
This week I've clearly remembered all my dreams. One the other night was brutal. I woke in physical pain in my balls and my arse and a quivering wreck because the psychic damage was even worse. The balls and arse started to feel normal after a few minutes but my head was in bits all day. I think it's all this in the ether. But it was fucking rancid.
THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS BEFORE BED
THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS BEFORE BED
I highly doubt it. I was just studying the figures for Italy and despite nearly 5,000 deaths they have had only 17 people under the age of 50 die - and all those that died under the age of 40 had serious underlying health issues. In fact of all deaths only 3 people had no other illness whilst over 74% had 2 or more (75% high blood pressure, 35% diabetes and 33% heart disease). The average age of all deaths being 80 years old.
It really is hitting old people hard. That said I don't see the elderly in the UK as being quite as vulnerable due to relatively higher 'isolation' compared to Italy's culture of greater mingling and personal contact with family and friends.
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Yeah my wife uses a steamer a lot for veggies and rice. That said we used to own two Chinese restaurants in Austria (selling more typical 'real' Chinese food) and the vast majority of dishes were stir fried or deep fried.
Italy threatening to do just that. 50,000 fined so far for breaking quarantine and it seems town mayors are going nuts as people sunbathe and picnic in the parks !
Hang on, Italy don't have military on the streets already?!
Nearly 800 people died in the last 24 hours!
As a very left wing man, this is hard for me to say, but FFS, if there's any time to bring in martial law, this is fucking it. (as an aside, please tell me it's martial law, not 'Marshall law' as people keep quoting).
Nearly 800 people died in the last 24 hours!
As a very left wing man, this is hard for me to say, but FFS, if there's any time to bring in martial law, this is fucking it. (as an aside, please tell me it's martial law, not 'Marshall law' as people keep quoting).
Yeah, there was almost no similarity, other than use of rice, between chinese food I've had outside of china, and chinese food in china.
Only exception were restaurants in socal where we were the only white people, and even then, it was better to just point at what people were having, and oddly most ordered off menu (these places were dives).
Haha yeah Martial law. Or is it Martian’s.
They may be using army in some places but it seems the Italian youth are as dumb as the British in many towns.