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Post by onlyMark on Dec 21, 2022 8:15:19 GMT
As Patrick says and following on from that, we all know there are words some people can say whilst others can't. Racist language is racist. I knew a family in the UK thirty years ago who had a black Labrador called Negra. The vet surgery refused to record the name of the dog because they said it was a racist word.
The last movie I saw - I was probably on a plane coming back from Colombia but can't remember.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 20, 2022 15:58:31 GMT
I've had a couple of opportunities to fly Condor long haul in the past years and avoided it every time preferring most other airlines. I have recently had to opportunity again and booked elsewhere.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 20, 2022 14:43:41 GMT
I see that a film critic, Kathia Woods, has criticised the new Avatar film because of white actors playing "poc" (people of colour). She says on her twitter account, "At some point we gotta talk about the cultural appropriation of Avatar and white actors are cos playing as poc. It's just a mess and so not necessary & no amount of visual effects/CGI is gonna erase that."
Apparently 3 metre tall blue aliens with pointed ears in a science fiction film are now 'people of colour'. I wonder if anyone asked them if they are offended - never mind some of the actors are black anyway.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 20, 2022 12:44:39 GMT
Yes, there is a requirement to wear a mask on public transport, but not airlines. There is also a requirement to wear one in certain establishments, can't remember which, but I think it might be in doctor's surgeries and maybe somewhere else.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 20, 2022 7:05:00 GMT
I think Mark could probably expound on this more having had a new house constructed in recent years. We didn't have it done from start to finish in one go. We had parts done when we had the money - which means it took in total six years. It would have been quicker, and probably cheaper, to knock the whole thing down and re-build as a new place, but we knew there would be many pitfalls obtaining a new build licence rather than a renovation licence. We started with a UK builder who could neither give accurate, or even semi-accurate time or cost estimates. He as sacked after the first part was tackled. We then moved to a Spanish builder who gave an accurate time estimation, or at least within about a week or so, but the main thing for us is he would quote a price and it was fixed. No matter the risk of things going wrong or changing in price, the cost was the cost. This was a godsend for budgeting purposes.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 20, 2022 6:54:41 GMT
I fell sick within 48 hours of sitting next to three German teenagers who wouldn't wear their masks on a flight from Frankfurt to Seattle. I presume Lufthansa and when they'd ended their mask policy?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 19, 2022 19:11:17 GMT
I wore Doc Martens for many years. I found that if I bought brown ones and used black Cherry Blossom shoe polish they'd buff up really well. Especially after a final wipe with an old pair of stockings. Several pairs had the sole worn out enough to puncture them.
You know you can get vegan Doc Martens now?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 13, 2022 21:08:12 GMT
It's my middle name.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 13, 2022 20:12:58 GMT
What do people think of ordering "special meals"? Some say that if you order a halal, kosher, vegetarian etc meal it is produced in smaller quantities and often better than the standard one. I always now order a 'special meal'. Nearly always it is vegetarian Indian (if that is a choice which it often is) and it isn't smaller. I tend to think a veg curry that's reheated and kept warm is better than some random piece of fish or meat. If I order just vegetarian it seems to just be some variation of pasta, which I'm not keen on anyway. Flying back and forth from Zambia meant there was always a good proportion of Indians who didn't seem to know they could order a special meal. The looks I got when I was served some curry smelling food and they had some less than appetising standard meal made me feel smug.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 13, 2022 7:29:12 GMT
You had just six(?) days in Singapore?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 10, 2022 13:19:38 GMT
If that is an answer to me k2, I was referring to your post just before mine. I have had a few biryani's in my time, so probably has young Mick. That one does look good. I can almost smell it from here.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 10, 2022 9:50:44 GMT
Is that a large bowl of noodle and dumpling soup, a soup with large noodles, a soup with large noodles and large dumplings or maybe all three?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 7, 2022 8:39:29 GMT
I have an uncanny intolerance for discomfort. Twelve hours in economy wouldn't happen because I wouldn't do it. In any case I always get an aisle seat but never for more than four hours. If longer I now have the money to do stuff I couldn't do when younger. I once flew from the UK to NZ in economy. Never, ever again.
Weather related, every one else is having snow but we are not here. Unusual that the 1st December or thereabouts will see snow falling and people are talking about climate change.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 6, 2022 21:49:55 GMT
No crowding in first class for you though. That's a good thing.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 6, 2022 13:42:20 GMT
No hiccups with the flight?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 5, 2022 6:04:46 GMT
It's a cooking technique I've used a few times, more often in pre-heated sand than anything.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 4, 2022 21:14:32 GMT
Off the top of my head I think they are two different Islamic sects anyway.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 2, 2022 19:58:10 GMT
4. Tay Hai - Rustom
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 1, 2022 11:28:31 GMT
Correct.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 1, 2022 7:39:13 GMT
One for K2 to report on - "Lyon has a long-standing tradition of tucking into wine and offal at breakfast." "I've always found French petit déjeuner (breakfast) insubstantial, but that wasn't the first thing that came to mind as I scanned the menu on the blackboard. Gone were the tartines and croissants, replaced instead by a list that read like a biology textbook: rognons de veau (calf's kidney), tablier de sapeur (fried, breaded tripe), tête de veau (calf's head). This was mâchon, a long-standing Lyonnais breakfast tradition where no part of the animal goes to waste." www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221130-mchon-the-french-breakfast-you-dont-know
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 1, 2022 6:58:58 GMT
If I say to you "pinch punch" today, who knows why I say it?
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 30, 2022 20:10:26 GMT
1. When You Are A King. White Plains, 1971.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 30, 2022 14:02:02 GMT
In the winter of 62/63 I was a young kid but remember the cold and snow well. We were living in a terraced house with an outside toilet out the back and down the yard. One fireplace in the living room and a gas cooker in the kitchen. My parents and my brother and I had a 'pee bucket' in the bedrooms for the night time. It would be frozen over in the morning. Our car had no heater either. An old Austin A30.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 30, 2022 7:49:39 GMT
arse
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 19:03:01 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 8:14:39 GMT
I'm very sympathetic to the plight of Ukraine just to make that clear - but, and there has to be a but, purely on the subject in the video of power cuts and living with them, it's worth making a video about it to bring it to attention for sure, but for example, those dastardly coal mine workers in the UK holding the UK to ransom instigating the three day week etc etc and the power supply situation in many countries makes this situation not unusual. Having no internet was mentioned many times, and having to use the data on the phone which was getting blocked up was never a concern. I see they have a gas cooker, hopefully not supplied from Russia.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 27, 2022 7:48:21 GMT
Thanks for the info Tod.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 22, 2022 17:09:43 GMT
(A slight pedantic correction there Casi - now known as Puducherry. Been many times.)
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 22, 2022 17:07:39 GMT
Post 61 shows a couple of treadmill cranes. I've seen illustrations of these on building medieval bridges. Nice to see them actually working -
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 20, 2022 16:03:51 GMT
Does he/you know about "Find my Phone"? I presume he has done something about any banking or payment apps?
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