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pretzellogic
Posted on: Hanukkah
December 13, 2010 at 2:03 AMMy Chinese is far worse than yours, so I don't really understand what you wrote in Chinese. Certainly doesn't help that I only know about 450 characters or so.
Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi
December 12, 2010 at 12:50 PMwell, I've had the "let's use both sides of the highway" happen quite a few times. I guess at some point, you get used to it. Just like you get used to people driving on the sidewalk, and driving the wrong way down the street. Even worse is when you start doing it (at least on my wife's bike I did this) :-)
Posted on: Hanukkah
December 12, 2010 at 12:06 PMmillions died in WWII, WWI, and plenty of other events that I don't need to name. I guess I wonder how these other plentiful unnamed events stack up if your metric is that millions died, and a school system only has so many hours to teach children what they need to know. And if a mere hundreds of thousands died, then where does that fit in the ranking of what should be taught? There have been plenty of genocides throughout history. Certainly by such a metric, an event where 4000 people dying in 4 airplanes, 3 buildings and a field in Pennsylvania doesn't need to be taught.
Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi
December 12, 2010 at 6:17 AMAbelle, The first time we came to live in China, we were moving to Lanzhou, and the friend's house we were going to stay at was far from downtown Lanzhou, and far from the airport. We had to negotiate with an illegal taxi to take us directly to my wife's friend's house. I remember the driver doing something similar, not weaving in and out of traffic, but merely doing 100 mph with me, my wife and infant daughter in the backseat, unstrapped in. I think I would have rather paid the extra 50 RMB for at least a shuttle bus and regular taxi.
Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi
December 12, 2010 at 6:12 AMI've had those issues as well, where the driver is likely telling me something helpful, but I don't understand at all or misunderstand. Unlike you, i'm not able to figure it out later on, although here and there, that improves.
Posted on: Hanukkah
December 12, 2010 at 5:35 AMI'm curious to know what your metric is for "really important"?
Posted on: Skincare: Moisturizing Cream
December 11, 2010 at 6:34 AMclaudielo, I was curious about the Concorde fine as well. I think United/Continental can easily pay it, but i'm more curious about the liability and exposure to lawsuits by the families that had family members that died on the Concorde.
Posted on: Hanukkah
December 11, 2010 at 4:28 AMI've noticed that as i've traveled to other countries, the people in that country don't know a lot about something that I heard regularly about back in school. Then at some point, they point out stuff that I never heard about happening in their country :-)
Posted on: Connecting with Email
December 10, 2010 at 4:40 PMI neglected to mention that in ancient times, when your computer would boot up, you would get the c: prompt. if you typed in "dir", you'd get the C: drive directory.
Posted on: How to Protect the Environment
December 13, 2010 at 2:28 AMIn the dialogue where it says, "chūmén shì jì de guān kōng tiáo (when leaving the room, remember to turn off the air conditioning), shouldn't that be "chūmén shíhòu....?