Krem

In September 2017 a Twitter thread insulting the national flag of every country in the world received national media coverage

lol

:do-not-hump:

knee becoming horse chest

arm becoming horse neck

belt becoming front-mane

horse tears becoming bridle

8/10 on the ay-eye nonsense scale

similar to shaanbei yaodong are the cave houses in the sierra nevada in andalucia. especially the sacromonte caves in granada, traditionally inhabited by roma who were not allowed to live inside city limits

Ail Ditler

Durian Deng

he might be rough and tough on the outside, but on the inside he's a stinky softie

fruit pie, nana, grape

gammon inglan, give us an ape

I was thinking about from a learner's perspective. and local people, especially middle age and older, don't talk like people on TV.

but yeah sichuanese or like hubeinese with their weird bendy tones and stuff is way more difficult for me as a non-native than southeastern mandarin, but i found most people in central/western china can code-switch to a kind of standard mandarin as well

since southerners including taiwanese don't distinguish s/sh, z/zh, c/ch, and in some cases r/l and f/h, it could be a bit difficult to listen and understand for beginners.

i was travelling in Vietnam a few months ago and considered taking the train from Hanoi to Danang. a friend did it last year and looked pretty comfy.

looks close enough on the map and i've been spoiled by hsr in mainland China and Taiwan. well Vietnam has no hsr but it should at least be as fast as a regular train right? like 8 hours at the most? nope, almost 20. ended up not taking the train and just staying longer in hanoi instead.

Vietnam really needs to suck it up and ask China to build their railway up.

we were also in Laos and considered taking the new HSR from Luang Prabang to Vientiane. built by the chinese and looks like the chinese HSR, even connects to Yunnan, should be great. turns out tickets are crazy expensive (LPB to Vientiane costs about the same as a cross-country ticket in China) and also you have to book them half a week in advance

sigh, the chinese system really is the best in the world, not even close

famous non-reader mao zedong. guy who wrote poetry with a calligraphy brush? guy who could probably quote much of water margin? no actually he just read two books

oh yeah i'm wasting a lot of time adjusting objects along xyz axes in planet zoo right now. but the late 90s/early 2000s were a magic age of very average games with blurry isometric pre-rendered graphics named "___ tycoon"