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As Dmitry already mentioned, it‘s a Georgian dish and with Georgia being close to Ukraine, a lot of Georgian dishes are common there. As a mater of fact, a lot of Georgian farmers sold their produce at the markets in Ukraine and their produce was always top notch. But hey, all of these types of filled dumplings (known as Iiaozi) came from China many moons ago and overtime reached out westward one way or another. I won’t be surprised if the Mongols brought these types of dumplings to Russia, Ukraine and Georgia
Ha, it was a few short years ago for a quick business trip. As business trips go, they are always the same to me - plane, airport, taxi, hotel, office, meeting, car, office, meeting, lunch, office, meeting, hotel, ambien (or lunesta), sleep. Repeat for every city. But what I remember is the food.@Jlaa - it's Georgian. Many Georgian restaurants in Kiev. When were you there and for how long?![]()
It‘s iiaozi, or at least that‘s what I was told by the mother of the Chinese girl I was dating back in college, they came from the Hunan province. But it looks like jiaozi is more commonly used.This is hilarious. “Liaozi” you say? How do you say this (phoenetically?). In Chinese, one way to say dumpling is 餃子, which, when phoenetically romanized, would be “JiaoZi” (for Mandarin).![]()
Ha, it was a few short years ago for a quick business trip. As business trips go, they are always the same to me - plane, airport, taxi, hotel, office, meeting, car, office, meeting, lunch, office, meeting, hotel, ambien (or lunesta), sleep. Repeat for every city. But what I remember is the food.![]()
so I decided to pursue the non-European history
I opted to take Russian history,
Russian mentality and national character was shaped many many hundreds of years ago.
Are you talking about Millenials and Gen Z and "woke" and "cancel" culture?now one imagines that the civil war does take place in USA and some wholesomely NEW entity arises in the territory of ex-USA,
если бы у лягушки были крылья, он бы не ударил себя по заднице- Риббет
Are you talking about Millenials and Gen Z and "woke" and "cancel" culture?
I've watched that piece before and sadly it does a good job of detailing the culture we find ourselves in.I mean people with a mentality/culture such as yours, and people with a mentality/culture that makes a burial of a low life scum and thug in a golden casket on national tv a thing
This is a pretty eerie prediction way back from 1984 which, as far as I'm concerned, has been confirmed accurate





I've had Rheumatoid Arthritis since my 20s and had terrible pain in the areas of the feet you describe for years. New medication changed that.One little complication I had this year as the result of COVID and my COVID project: I developed a modest case of plantar fasciitis. To those who don't know what this is, it is pain in the heel and arch area of the foot caused by a variety of factors, biggest among them spending a long time on one's feet, wearing un-supportive shoes.
I first noticed the foot pain around August, and it didn't go away. Finally went into the podiatrist's office, which confirmed what I already knew. A steroid injection into the bottom of my foot, some supportive and removable insoles for my shoes and getting rid of non-supportive shoes has pretty much solved the issue, and being careful to keep my feet supported going forward.
My pain was probably a 3 or 4 on a scale of 1-10, so not too bad. But, I have heard of PLENTY of stories about people being in such bad pain that they could not walk, particularly after getting up from bed in the morning, and having to go down the stairs on the butt until the plantar fascia got stretched enough so that it didn't hurt so badly.
The podiatrist said he is seeing a HUGE influx of plantar fasciitis cases due to people being at home during the COVID pandemic, not going out of the house, and being barefoot, wearing flip-flops or non-supportive slippers around the house, which aggravates the plantar fascia on the bottom of the foot.
So my advice to EVERYONE, particularly you gurus who spend long hours on hard concrete surfaces working on your Benzes, is to wear as supportive of shoes as you can. Take care of your feet !!!
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Plantar fasciitis - Wikipedia
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My trans Atlantic flights have been very different. In mid-November I was on a wide body Airbus to Copenhagen. I counted 10 people in the boarding area. On the plane, of my section of 70 seats, there were 3 people. I read an article explaining that these flights are actually profitable as the planes are loaded with cargo.To bring one of the topics here full circle, I was in a director's meeting this morning (even though I'm off this week, didn't want to miss anything) and the HR director was talking about future HR policies regarding telecommuting. One of the proposed requirements was that the employee had to be within (physical) commuting distance to telecommute. Guess that's one way to keep people close by and not be out of the area.
Hmm.
I'm in Indiana this week, and other than being cold, we were really concerned about getting COVID due to traveling. We came up the day after Christmas and the airport was jammed. We also didn't realize that Southwest had ended their center seat restriction, meaning the plane was packed. Fortunately, we were able to stake out our row and didn't have to give up the middle seat, but it was still a very full flight. We're going back on Saturday, so hopefully it won't be as crowded.
The one thing that really frosts me is that as I've been out and about around here (Indiana) I've seen a few people in public places with no masks. There is a mask mandate in place. No one seems to want to challenge these people, however. ???
You are lucky to have mild symptoms from it. For example on the road I live on 2 people have died from Covid. Many cases now locally for the past couple months. However there is still that type of people who are positive, supposed to be socializing and instead mixing with family members over Christmas and posting photos on facebook.In my opinion the whole affair is suspect and completely overblown. I can offer many similar stories. My girlfriend and I supposedly have it presently. She is a nurse and so she went for a test on Thursday which was positive. We have both been mildly sick for two days. I feel normal as I write this.
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This whole thing seems (to me at least) so politicized to the nth degree, that it's nigh impossible to separate actual hardcore science from politics/ideology for an anyone who's not a top grade expert. As I result there's a natural scepticism towards the "approved view" that I share with @sheward and, I admit, this scepticism might very well be throwing the baby out with a bath water. Same thing with climate change. That we live in "1984" with "mostly peaceful protests" in a "SYSTEMICALLY racist/oppressive/hateful country" just aids further scepticism of any official position that one is not allowed to question and criticize.In my opinion the whole affair is suspect and completely overblown
Flew back a day early today and it was busy, but not slammed like it's going to be tomorrow. IND was pretty quiet but TPA was jammed. We did our best to maintain distances and avoid any part of the airport that was crowded. I had to get nasty with a guy at the baggage claim as he was standing right up behind me waiting to get a bag. I turned around and told him to back up some (nicely) and he did. It's just not a social norm and sometimes people forget, I believe.My trans Atlantic flights have been very different. In mid-November I was on a wide body Airbus to Copenhagen. I counted 10 people in the boarding area. On the plane, of my section of 70 seats, there were 3 people. I read an article explaining that these flights are actually profitable as the planes are loaded with cargo.
I had a situation at my local post office two weekends ago (before Christmas) when I was there to mail @GRAEME JOHNSON's Lamin-X tube to him (since it is international, I couldn't mail it with the self-service kiosk, and had to stand in line).
The post office nearest my house is a small one, with a small L-shaped lobby area (with the self-service machine and supplies, PO boxes, etc.) and a double-glass door into the post office counter area where the clerks are. The counter area inside the glass doors holds about 3 people, socially distanced, in addition to the 2-3 clerk stations/PIN pads at the counter.
It was a Saturday morning, before Christmas, and the line was snaked out the double doors into the lobby, all the way to the back of the "L" in the lobby area. I'd say there were probably 30 people there -- 25 waiting in the lobby area, 4-5 inside the counter area at the front of the line and at the counters. I went to the back of the line (knowing I'd be in for a 30-minute wait), and before long an African American lady with a young son of around 7-8 years old got in line behind me.
The floor of the lobby, and inside the counter area, are WELL-marked with lines for social distancing. I was VERY careful to maintain proper distance with the 30-something lady in front of me -- I could tell from her furtive glances back at me that she was cognizant of the distance, and I completely respected that.
Unfortunately it was not the same with the lady and her son behind me. They were crowding me, literally 2-3 feet behind me the whole time I was in the lobby, working my way up toward the glass double doors. I started getting increasingly agitated, as the woman's son was BETWEEN me and her (literally six inches from me) and he physically bumped into me three different times while we were in line. When I was second or third from the glass doors, it got so bad that I literally moved laterally, six feet into the MIDDLE of the lobby away from the wall, to distance myself from this lady and her son. People coming into the post office were having to walk around me to go back into the lobby area to get in line, visit their PO boxes, etc. By this time I was SERIOUSLY pissed off.
The 30-something woman in front of me finally got up to the glass doors, and then went through them into the counter area. So that meant I was next, outside the doors waiting, yet still a few feet from the wall (and double doors) out in the middle of the lobby. Note that there were 20-25 people in line BEHIND me at this point in time.
As the woman inside moved up to the second position inside the counter area, it was my turn to go through the glass doors. Just before I opened the doors to go in, I said to the lady behind me, in a polite, but forceful voice, "Ma'am, I would appreciate it if you would maintain a proper social distance from me. You have been crowding me since you got in line all the way back there."
She got extremely incensed and said loudly, "Don't talk to me that way!". I said calmly but forcefully, "Ma'am, you have literally been 1-2 feet behind me for the past 20 minutes. Your son has bumped me three different times. The sign right here on the glass door says to maintain a six-foot distance. There are lines on the floor that you have completely ignored. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and I would appreciate it if you would follow the rules and be considerate of everyone around you."
She started to protest and deny that she had been so close to me, but also realized that she was completely in the wrong just by way of where she was standing at that moment (literally 1 foot behind the edge of the glass door).
I went inside, and a couple of people in front of me nodded in approval of what I'd said. For about the next 30 seconds, I'm waiting in line in the last position inside the glass, and what does the lady do? She opens the glass doors, comes inside the counter area with her son, and proceeds to stand 3 feet from me.
I literally just threw up my arms in absolute disgust, and said quite loudly, "Ma'am, if you cannot see fit to follow the rules that the state government has outlined for us to follow, then I will not put myself at risk and I shall leave so as not to inconvenience you any further."
And I walked out, shaking my head in absolute disgust. This woman thought that she was above the rules; she got absolutely incensed when I called her out for not following the rules; she decided to retaliate against me directly, by coming into the counter area and doing what she'd done previously (not socially distancing); and she set an absolutely poor example for her son.
THIS, is why we have such a fucked-up society here in America. Because SOME people think that the rules do not apply to them. That they can do whatever they want to.
I don't usually make the effort to call people out on things that I see. In this case, being in a pandemic and all, this woman's behavior was egregious enough that she needed to be called out. And when she was, her speech and actions basically said "I don't care what you say or think, or about the rules" and she kept on doing what she was doing. No remorse. No acknowledgement that she was actually doing the wrong thing. Nope, it was my fault for being a jerk and talking to her in a way she didn't think she deserved to be. That's just wrong.
Hopefully it's not much import tax. I think I put the value as USD $10.Wow Gerry you should have just left my stuff no need to have others put you at risk or have to waste
your time standing in line
I had a message from our Royal Mail a few days ago saying they had tried to make a delivery
from customs and excise but I was not in.
I assume this was the lens protectors and they wanted the import tax. I will try and sort this out tomorrow
now they are back at work
Many thanks Graeme Johnson

Wait what? you can swear on this forum?THIS, is why we have such a fucked-up society here in America. Because SOME people think that the rules do not apply to them. That they can do whatever they want to.
Did you read the forum rules?Wait what? you can swear on this forum?


Mate, this is three new thread for civilizational divisions:Watching the insanity from Washington with my jaw scraping the floor. Unreal.
Or as some of us call it: WednesdayWatching the insanity from Washington with my jaw scraping the floor. Unreal.
November 7, 1917 also fell on WednesdayOr as some of us call it: Wednesday

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