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Do you like dates more or figs more? I prefer dates more since I don’t like the deeper hard to describe aftertaste as much as the money like sweetness of dates. I have to say, though, the giant seed inside the fig is annoying to spit aside and a waste of energy/resources to grow. Why don’t they find a way to make seedless dates?
A while ago, I had asked what happens to the second hand clothes that we put in the “donation bins”. I saw a news clip about this yesterday, and well. From now on, I will either bring them to the second hand shop or just throw them away.
I popped by Discord yesterday, and there was a group of people discussing astrology, quite seriously, actually. Like how their ex was a Leo and now their partner is Sagittarius or whatever… I think this is one thing I really, really can’t empathise with. How do people believe this stuff? Or maybe, in reality, they don’t take it as seriously as they appear to. I don’t have a spiritual bone in my body, so this is all a mystery to me. I know, I shouldn’t be so judgemental.
Anyhow. I’m making kidneys in mustard sauce today, Julia Child style. We buy our meat from a local nature reserve which grows cattle on a pasture, and when they slaughter, the meat is shared. Much offal has become popular (like the guy said he can’t have enough oxtail) but kidneys are one that Germans are not so keen on, it seems. Well, all the more for me.
Whenever you drive through some small ass village in the countryside here there often are boards that say “welcome to small ass village” when you enter and then “thank you for having driven carefully” when you leave. I find that second message so passive-aggressive. Like, what if I didn’t drive carefully? I find it confrontational and patronising. You’re trying to quilt me. Stop trying to quilt me, small ass village.
I think we should adopt the near-east, middle-east, far-east nomenclature for the whole globe. I would obviously live in the far-north. Hudson Bay in Canada is middle-west-far-north. California is in far-west-middle-north, while Baja California in Mexico is perhaps far-west-near-north.
Middle-east as we know it is actually near-north-middle-east, the actual middle-east is south of the Horn of Africa. You got far-north-middle-east up in the northern Urals, and moving east there you’ll reach far-north-far-east in Siberia. And so on. You get the idea. I think this makes a lot of sense.