The choice of food in China is always a bit odd and the language barrier doesn't help but when I was offered what I believe is penguin yesterday, I wasn't sure what the heck to do. You don't want to insult anybody but the idea of eating an animal with the personality of a penguin is just not exactly appetizing. It could very well have been another bird but at that point it was just too late.
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As a runner, China is a tough place to come as the air quality often makes it so you can't walk across the street, let alone go for a run. In fairness, it's better than it was and I usually run on a treadmill. Secondly, since I'm usually only here for a few days, it's manageable but these poor people live like they are in the back of the airplanes in the 1980s
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I've travelled around the world on business and I have to honestly say, I've never felt compelled to shower at the airport. There are lounges which offer this but to think I'm going to get butt naked and hit a communal shower sounds like something I can't imagine anybody actually does. Then that thing into a private crapper and it'll be used constantly
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Half the time in China you don't know what you are eating. The other half of the time you know damn well and you want to puke thinking about it. I've had bull balls, jelly fish and chicken hearts and can't say I'm a huge fan of any of it. Their steak tastes like chicken, their chicken tastes like fish and their fish tastes like your sock.
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I'm shocked at the amount of smoking you still see in China. When the rest of the world has started to recognize the health risks, in China with the pollution, they believe that breathing through a filtered cigarette is actually safer than just breathing in the air.
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You just have to love coming off a 14.5 hour flight and then having to navigate the maze at Pudong airport which makes DeGaul feel desirable. The tunnels and trains and hallways and escalators just keep going like you are in an escape room. Then between the people shoving, everybody yelling and fellow passage cutting you in line and invading your space, it's actually a relief when you step outside in the 95F humidity.
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Nothing gets you ready for international travel to China quite like needing to board at Terminal 1 at JFK. This is the terminal that has been left behind by everybody. It's dark, it's crowded, it's poorly ventilated and somehow every store is Hermes or Gucci Once you get through the maze at security you are greeted with a full pat down which while you are sweating like a slob watching your laptop just sitting there waiting for somebody to just walk off with it.
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I have one Big Mac per year and have to say it's always a bit disappointing. The flavor is fine, the experience is passable but the meat quantity is nonsensical. Over the years they have cut the amount of food down so often that you are basically left with two McDonald's cheeseburgers.
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For the life of me, I cannot understand why Trump continues to get the kind of support from military families. He's a draft dodger, his kids haven't served, he insulted war heroes and he keeps sailors out in the ocean on their gigantic tuna can for his stupid war. Why we would support him now or ever is beyond comprehension.
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It's been like a month since I last had a salad and I'm getting ready to stab somebody for a decent bowl of leafy greens. I'm not the biggest salad fan but the idea of being forced away for months of one of my favorite vegetables is Ike pulling a fingernail off of me.
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When you spend a summer weekend on Fire Island, you inevitably find yourself with a Rocket Fuel in front of you. These things are basically desserts for adults and after having one or six, you feel like absolute dog shit. Then you spend the next day suffering from a miserable hangover as you fight traffic on the LIE.
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Karoline Leavitt lies like other people breathe. She's spent her career defending the indefensible and now she's gone which begs the e question of the devil you know. We are sure to get another blond bimbo as Trump has his preferences but knowing his history he'll try to find younger for the replacement
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Trump fled on a food cart while the rest of his staff and dozens of reporters were sent up on Air Force One with imminent danger. I get protecting the president but the idea that they'd send a plane out there when there were credible threats is both malicious and criminal. I'm not saying POTUS doesn't need extra protection but we shouldn't send the rat of his team up in his plane as some decoy.
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I ordered Chipotle today and when i was standing there I was shocked again by how little you get for $15. I sort of complained to the kid working the line who said he gives you 4 ounces of chicken which is basically a shot glass with of protein. I I get that this is expensive but they also skimming the ride and the beans. This is what we have become, a complete ripoff as a nation by a nation for a nation.
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As much as I am deathly scared of Trump running again, there are times when I see his numbers and wonder how badly he'd lose In an honest election. We know he can't be trusted to run a fair and true one but if in some alternative world this would be possible, he'd lose to the average democracy by double digits. Or at least I'd like to believe that to be true
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AI is creating new viruses by running combinations of trillions of nucleotides. I have no idea what that means but am sure it's not good. We had a global pandemic for an outbreak we could not control and now we are letting some backs with. Claude account take down the world. What could possible go wrong?
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I don't understand the market at all, Trump teases an Iran deal that doesn't happen but he still sees the market jump. It's so obvious that this market is being manipulated and he's so obviously personally benefiting but as long as everybody is making money, I guess nobody care.
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How did we go from the US being the policeman of the world to now waiting on Iran who is now demanding that we meet commitments before opening the Strait. This tells you all you need to know, we are now at the mercy of a regime we have no control over, a people we have no sway with and a world who no longer sees us a leader. We've lost our laser focus and now are a rudderless ship trying to get through a narrow water way with enemies all around.
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SpaceX "accidentally" hit the moon with a rocket and people are acting surprised. I'm sure this was intentional as Musk likely wanted to see if he could hit a moving target like that. I'm also sure that the reason the sand on my beach is now much wider on one side of the beach and much shorter on the other side has to do with the fact he screwed with all the waves because of the jarring of the moo.
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I'd love to know what kind of urinal this is and why the hell it's shaped the way it is. I mean, you could aim for the big oval and then when you drip off it will land in the bottom channel or maybe you kind of stratal it. Or maybe it's a stand up toilet to drip a deuce. I'm intrigued
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I woke my family up a at 4:30 this morning to rush them to the airport with the hope to get onto a flight for a much needed week away. Sadly for us, nobody got the message as Mother Nature threw our plans for a loop which meant we sat on the tarmac for 4 hours to only be sent back to the gate. Sadly after that it was more of the same as we reboarded and then spent another 2 hours waiting to finally take off. I've gotten on a plane and10 hours later I'm in Asia but apparently that os also what it takes to get to Bermuda.
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