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I am so lucky , to have the best parents in the world .
I am Icelandic by my father (who is himself part Inuit and part Danish . My mother is British with a French grand father and a Russian grand mother . when i was a kid I was raised in Icelandic , Russian , Danish and French . While my grand mother was teaching me Inuktitut (which i still understand but i am not sure i speak it as much as i used to . When i was a kid my parents were partly living in Arizona with the Navajo and partly in northern Africa with the Amazighs for work and i had an Amazigh baby sitter who always spoke to my brother and I in Arabic and Amazigh , i still speak Arabic because i kept on learning it and worked in the Middle East for a while and i understand basic Amazigh . Then i lived in japan for nearly 2 decades , went to school there and married a Japanese and i speak read and write Japanese fluently and while i was in japan i also studied Chinese and lived about 3 years in China and speak Mandarin though i can't read it or write it very well as i get mixed up with japanese kanji which are basically Chinese characters , which is the meaning of the word Kanji itself but with a different reading .
So since i speak fluently Icelandic , Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Chinese , i speak 5 of the 10 most difficult languages in the world , and yet i can't manage to learn German and i think that Polish is even harder than Russian or Chinese . For me though the most difficult language is the one i speak the best , Icelandic because it is such a mess and we have sounds that i can't explain . I think Arabic is the most beautiful, Japanese the most poetic, Russian the most passionate and Icelandic the most illogical . I don't think Mandarin is actually that hard but you need to train your ears to make the difference between the tones , and that's why i think Chinese are so good with classical music especially the violin, because their language is one of the best training to have a perfect pitch ear or absolute pitch , i am not sure of the exact term.
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A burglar entered my house in London while i was in Switzerland for two days . Our cats have an automatic feeding machine and we placed toilet boxes everywhere so they would always have a fresh one. We also have a system of cat cameras so we can check on them anytime we want and a very sophisticated alarm system .
So when the burglar entered we immediately received a message on our phone telling us that there was an intruder and the security company was automatically contacted and were already on their way . I couldn't have cared less if the burglar took some valuables from the house , i was only worried for my cats . So i started the alarm and turned all the lights on to make him leave. The guy took some antiques and some electronic devices and two paintings , and then he went to the kitchen , took some bottles of champagne from the fridge and some bottles of wine , and then ,.... He picked up a can of cat food, and fed the cats before leaving . He was arrested and I asked to talk to him at the police station . He turned out to be a young homeless guy i had seen a few times on the streets and who was clearly checking the neighbourhood and knew i was away . I asked him why he fed and pet the cats . He said that he loved animals and thought they had no food and were gonna starve . And that he had a dog himself but not enough money to feed him and therefore had to steal . I didn't press any charges , and because i am a veterinarian , i gave him a job at the clinic. That was 6 years ago, he is now on his third year of veterinary med school and will i am sure become a terrific vet . Jail would have destroyed his life when he is clearly a smart and kind person who just happened to find himself in an unfortunate situation . I actually had an argument with the police because they wanted to persuade me to press charges , and when i explained to them that he fed my cats and that i wasn't going to send to jail someone who is kind to animals , they laughed. It made me want to press charges against those pigs instead .
Actually this is offensive to pigs who are smart and kind creatures . Policemen on the other hand, are an insult to 4 million years of brain evolution.
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I remember being told that story by my French/British Parisian grand mother whom's mother , my great grand mother never forgave the US for disparaging the french after being offered a magnificent present , and until her last breath she never agreed to entertain american dignitaries in her parisian hotel particulier or at her French Brittany Chateau (she was very old french and Russian aristocracy) or even participate to any formal or informal events held in favour of Americans and made sure her absence was more noticeable and more felt than anybody else's attendance . She loathed Americans with a passion, it was apparently almost comical .
Uninterestingly enough , i was born and partially raised in Arizona from a French British and Russian mother and a Danish Icelandic father , and my great grand mother told my mother that if i was to keep the american citizenship i would never be on her will and would not get a penny by the time i turned 18 . Fortunately and for other reasons , i renounced officially my american citizenship when i was 16 and took the Icelandic one, (a country i visited constantly in my youth and have always considered home) . My grand mother lived in NY for a while due to her husband's businesses in the US when she was quite young . And being forced to remain in the US for as long as her husband did some trading there , she felt extremely lonely , and often told me that she compared herself to the statue, a french dame, forced in exil and even had long conversations with her (in french of course, it is all in her diary of monologues with Lady Liberty, or should i say , Son journal de monologues avec Dame Liberte).
So for me this statue is like an old relative of the family (that didn't sound so pretentious in my head), i heard so much about, long before making her acquaintance . And even today every time i find myself in NY for work, i always have some french words for her .
And my great grand father signed 6500 francs (a fortune in those days) in bonds to help finance the construction of the lady of Paris (as he called her referring to the Statue of Liberty ) and met Mister Bartholdi and especially mister Eiffel on several occasions. But this was nothing compared to what my great great grand father did , He was on the board of shareholders of the STE , the Societe de la Tour Eiffel and spend over 30 000 francs on the project. Mister Eiffel was just called Gustave when he visited and Valentine Eiffel (his daughter) and my great grand mother were childhood friends.
So, though i am not French and not planning on getting french citizenship any time soon, i am particularly fond of these two monuments which are a testimony of France's true magnificence and legacy, its engineering achievements and its libertarian values.
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If this happens on a domestic Japanese flight , the passenger's) causing the problem gets 10 years without parole . In Japan , this is the law. Anybody who deliberately , and unnecessarily , endangers the life of other people gets 10 years . Maybe you should do that in the US . All these spring breakers in Japan and in Europe would end up in jail the second they land . There actually was a crazy guy like this on a flight i took from Okinawa to Tokyo, the second we landed in Tokyo the police was waiting for him, and he got given the choice between jail time for 10 years or leaving the country after paying a fine of 13000 dollars, without the authorization to re-enter Japan for 10 years . And this is only because he was American, had he been Japanese , that was jail , no trial . We don't waste tax money on trials when the person has been identified and reported by the entire flying crew and passengers . You are so soft in the US this is pathetic . But then you drag a passenger out of the plane like an animal when he is actually just trying to fly back home and wasn't causing any problem until asked to leave the plane . Great logic !
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But when you are bad , you are worse than anyone , and that is enough to make it a shithole. Let's say that when Brazilians stop destroying the amazonian forest, selling endangered animal species overseas , overthrow their immensely corrupted government , deal with the favelas , deal with racism and white supremacy , deal with the drug business , the gangs, and stop killing people at randoms for a few bucks , then and only then i will stop calling it a shithole . Until then, i don't think i am generalizing at all , i think i am being very kind in fact , because to my opinion this country is far worse than a shithole , it is a mistake .
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If that was my kid i would have dragged the store to court and destroyed them , and made sure this guard never work another day in life .
If the parents of this little girl or anybody who knows them reads this , contact me and let me put my lawyers on it , they will work pro-bono, and they are relentless , i can assure you by the time they are done with the store , you will have enough to send your girl to Harvard and get her a car and a flat .
They apologized to you so they know they have done something wrong and they are trying to drown the fish , don't take the bait , you already won the case . Give your girl the future she deserves . She is an honest kid accused wrongly , she should get not only compensated for that but rewarded for being a good kid .
I am not joking here , contact me and and have a chat with my lawyers . Don't worry i am not after fame or your money, i enjoy very much not being in the spotlight and i am a veterinarian and make a very satisfying living doing what i like best, helping animals . I am just disgusted by this store's attitude which is trying to take advantage of you, after insulting your daughter , when you clearly deserve compensation and she deserves a reward .
If you do not want my help or to have anything to do with me, just do this, contact the store , get an appointment and tell them this .
My daughter suffered from being wrongly accused and i am going to attack you legally for psychological harassment and trauma , I may not win the trial but by the time this case is closed, it will have received so much coverage from all the media (newspaper, TV network, social media etc ) (especially when there is an innocent kid in the picture that it will cost you at least 3 million dollars and half a dozen of publicists and PR reps working full time for a year to clean up your image and it will never be fully cleaned .
then leave , i give the store 2 days top to call you back to buy your silence , if they propose you 500 000 dollars, make sure you get an evidence of this, this is called a bribe, after that evidence you can drag them to court for 3 million dollars and you will win , though they will officially propose a settlement for half this amount which i advice you to take so you can spare your daughter the trial . Then open a bank account to her name put all the money in it so she is the only one who can use it when she is an adult , never tell her that there is this money saved away for her so it doesn't change her , and keep raising her the way you do because you are clearly doing a terrific job at it .
And yes i did law before doing veterinary school .
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5 years ago i was at an exhibit of Sumerian artifacts at a Museum in Paris (a very famous museum) , and saw a tablet that looked very familiar . So i asked to talk to someone in charge of the pieces and asked detail about this ancient tablet , the person was trying to drown the fish, being very vague in her answers , so i blatantly asked, do you have a certificate of authenticity of this tablet ? She said yes of course , so i told her that it was a very dangerous thing to lie about the authenticity of pieces especially in such a world famous museum . She seemed embarrassed , so i just told her , i happen to know who owns the original and it has neither been donated to or even borrowed by any museum , and i am going to contact this person right away and let him know that there is a copy exposed here . She dared to say to me that this could be just two identical tablets . So i told her, i have admired the one at my friend's place so many times i know every detail of it, every dent on the stone , its exact shape , the detail of every cuneiform signs , and that this piece here was a perfect replica, except i don't see any mention about its origin and previous owner here. The lady was so fast at stopping me picking up my phone , and telling me that they do not authenticate all the pieces , to which i reminded her that a few minutes ago she assured me that they had a certificate of authenticity for this very piece , in their possession .
I left and told her , i am going to give you 2 days to talk to your superiors , in two days i will come back here with a few art experts to check if this tablet is still exhibited and if it is i will make that call to my friend and the consequences are going to be dramatic for your museum on an international scale . Two days later the tablet had magically disappeared from the exhibit along with several other pieces .
And the best part is that when i asked the some people where some of the pieces had gone, i was told that nothing had been removed . And this , people, was at the Louvres .
I wouldn't even be too surprised if the Joconde (Mona Lisa) exposed there, was not authentic .
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Timo , this is a very vast topic so i would rather answer to your other comment first and then if you have any specific other questions i will give me my opinion .
First of all , i am the guy on the photo on the left and as you can see , i am not Japanese . But i am married to a half Japanese half Icelandic who was born and raised in Kyoto and we now both live in Switzerland with our kids .
The things about halves or mixed race people WITH ONE OF THE PARENTS BEING JAPANESE (as opposed to the other mixed race Gaijin who are just called gaijin in Japan ), is that it all depends on the other half of the race . If you are Hafu (as they are called) with one of your parents being white , it will make things A LOT easier for you or for your kids. The darker the other parent , the harder it is going to be . They will face bullying at school , unless you send them to an international school , they will also be discriminated by society and they will feel it from a very young age hardly able to find any role model to identify with , because they just aren't any in Japanese society , except on some stupid tv programs . If the mother is not Japanese it will actually be a lot easier than if the father isn't, just because Japan is still a very male oriented society and also because the kid will have a Japanese family name which will help a lot when he or she looks for a job later.
My Japanese spouse (just to set the record "straight" i am married to another man) was born from a Japanese mother and Icelandic father and in spite of the white father , things were tough at school (it was the 70s, mixed race kids were VERY uncommon back then in Japan) . Things got a lot better when he was 14 and was scouted by a model agency , it surely mended his ego a bit . But had he been an unattractive Hafu , things would have been really difficult, especially during puberty . He was raised polyglot , Japanese , Icelandic, English and French because after a few catastrophic years in public school , he was sent to a private English and French one were things were far better .
So my advice to you, if you are going to have kids in Japan, you have to already think about their future . If you believe that you are going to spend the rest of your life in japan , then let them go through Japanese school for the first 13 years of their life so they actually learn proper Japanese and feel comfortable in the country . But the problem is that if after 10 years you decide to leave Japan , your kids will feel extremely awkward anywhere else (at least make sure you teach them your language at home so they actually have a way to adapt to a foreign country if you ever decided to leave Japan . But also while they are attending traditional regular Japanese schools , make sure you keep an eye on the bullying and let the teachers know that they need to report you any harassment your kids may be going through .
There are a few "progressive" Japanese kindergarten and primary schools appearing all over the country, make sure to check these one out and to apply the second you are pregnant , because it sometimes takes years for the kids to get accepted .
But if you believe you are not going to spent the rest of your life in Japan , then send the kids to an international school in Japan . At least you kid will not be bullied for being Hafu and won't even be called Hafu because he will be surrounded by mixed race kids who probably will become lifelong friends , like it was the case for my husband .
If you have any other question feel free to ask , but i'll answer later , because this is way past my bed time here and i am working in a few hours .
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@djedii6694 Etalage de richesse ? Passe ton bac d'abord et ensuite fait 10 ans d'etudes apres ca et obtient deux doctorat, bosse ensuite pendant 10 ans et tu pourras te payer un appart a Paris et 2 maisons en province aussi. Il n'y a aucun etalage ici. Ni aucune richesse.
Le probleme c'est que je paie aussi la tva et les autres taxes que le gars au smic paie donc je ne vois pas du tout la logique de ton raisonnement.
Je ne suis ni bobo, ni Parisien, je ne suis pas meme de citoyenete francaise (a moins que tu ne connaissent beaucoup de Francais de souche qui s'appellent Olfursson), ma mere l'est a moitie (l'aitre moitie Britanique) c'est pour cela que je le parle, mais je suis Islandais Danois et Russe comme mon pere. Les bobos sont ceux qui ne foutent rien et depensent l'argent de papa et maman. Je n'ai jamais recu un centime de mes parents et je me suis paye mes etudes moi meme.
"Au passage avant de critiquer l'expression françaises d'autres personnes, commencez par mettre des accents là où il faut, et écrire accorder correctement certains mots, comme "subventionné" (niveau CM1 il me semble, voire CM2)."
J'ai un clavier QWERTY donc sans accents , et je le jour ou tu pourras me repondre en Islandais, Danois, Russe et Anglais (loangues que je parle toutes couremment) , permets toi de critiquer mon Francais.
Quand a ma photo, ma gueule m'a permit de me payer mes etudes en France donc je m'en accomode tres bien.
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America is so fucked up this is hilarious .
I am married to another man we have three kids and life is fucking fantastic here in Switzerland , i was born accidentally (parent's job) in Arizona , you can't decide where you are born and who your family will be for the first decade and a half of your life , but you can change the rest of your life from that point on . I was lucky i have the most intelligent and caring parents on the planet who couldn't give less of a fuck of me being gay , my coming out lasted 3 seconds then they asked me to work hard prepare my future and try not to become an asshole , that was about it . My father told me , great whatever , gay is neither a personality nor a job or an occupation so make something more relevant of your life than being gay because this will get boring and irritating very soon if all you hear are stories about your gay life . Best fucking advice any parent could ever give to a gay kid . Anyway long story short . If you don't like your life or your family get the fuck away from it , jump on a bus on a plane , work your ass off and become the person you've always dreamt to be (in my case a veterinarian) the rest will fall into place naturally .
If your parents want to send you to those camps and threaten to disown you and cut out your resources , tell them to fuck off and leave the house , work your ass off in restaurants bars, clean the crappers do whatever it takes to sustain yourself and keep yourself alive without getting yourself into trouble , and get comfort in the fact that no matter how hard it is , it is always much better than lying to yourself and let people turn you into someone you will hate for the rest of your life . You are gay , this is not a disease not a fucking curse not a punishment from those fucking god misinterpretation, this is what you are , own it , no need to be proud of it , this is not a fucking peace Nobel prize but don't hate it , don't fight it and just live your life . I am a fucking nobody but if anybody needs to chat here , drop a line . You'll always get an answer . And for the cunts who just want to leave mean comment , piss the fuck off, comments will be immediately deleted and every cunt reported .
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I am wondering why you came to rescue dozens of squirrels . My question is not why you rescue them but how come you live in an area where dozens of squirrel need rescue. What do they need rescue from ? What is happening to them that so many of them need being rescued .
And finally from a veterinarian and ethologist (i am both) point of view , you might want to avoid let the squirrels lick pr eat the skin of the avocado or any other veggies as these are treated, sprayed with chemicals and the skin if licked can be quite toxic. Also these adorable animals are a little (read, a lot) overfed , you need to control the calorie intake of they won't live long. Avocado is VERY fattening and squirrels in the wild do not have access to it so you might want to stick to the kind of food they are more likely to find in their natural habitat , and if you need to buy that food , make sure it is organic .
I am REALLY not trying to be the bad guy here and you and your husband are my heroes for taking care of animals this way . But i have to give you a medical and professional opinion , but it comes from a good place , i only want the best for you and your babies, and them to have a long and healthy life .
Keep up the good work , you guys are terrific , and if you could tell me why so many squirrels in your are need rescue , that would be nice of you . And please put them on a diet , those babies are too fat !
All the best .
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We can think anything about Trump and Melania. But let's be freaking honest here. Melania's gown was a masterpiece, it is perfectly tailored, perfectly executed, it looks like it was sewn on her body and let's face it, Melania has the face and the body of a model so she will make the gown look even better on her. She has a gorgeous face, a stunning figure, great hair, the makeup is flawless and the dress is a success. Regardless to my political views or lack of it, strictly from an aesthetic point of view of the best gowns and who wears it best, nobody beats Melania so far, except maybe Jackie O but i still prefer the modern look of Melania.
Plus she is just wearing one tiny pear of enormous diamond earrings, no necklace, no bracelet, and her hair is not done up. The look is simple, minimalist, yet absolutely stunning, greatly due to the fact that she is a beautiful woman.
Something anybody honest will agree.
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Well the word Perfume or Parfum in French comes from the verb Parfumer , meaning hiding smell "BY" , ("PAR" in French) the use of "SMOKE" ( Fumer" in French ) , PARFUM, PAR FUM , BY SMOKE. Because in those days the only perfume was burning incense , mostly in church hall where people gathered and where the smell was hardly bearable , so they used those huge incense burners swinging at the end of a rope to hide the smell of filth . Scented oils came A LOT later , but the name remained Parfum , perfume with the same etymology in English (PER , old english for BY , the use of FUMES )
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I did modeling to put myself through med school (i was scouted so this wasn't a vanity thing, i just saw the opportunity to earn money while still being able to study), and Sean is absolutely right, the hardest thing is to keep contact with reality. One day you are working at a gas station in New Mexico and the following week you are walking the runways in Paris, Tokyo, NY and London, one day you are studying for your midterms and the next one you are having dinner with Lagerfeld or dancing with Madonna (Sorry Sean i did that before you!) so it is very difficult to keep in mind that one day everything is going to stop and you will be back where you started , so you'd better have a solid academic background to fall back on. I was lucky never to have been attracted by this kind of life, i always wanted to be a vet and this is what i am today. Actually, if anything, working for an industry which is so cruel to animals definitely strengthened my resolution to be of help to animals as a first hand witness of the agony they are put through for vanity. The other thing i am grateful to (so it may seem odd to thank them) are the dozens of people , female and male, who approached me and offered me (and many of my fellow male and female model friends), money for my (our) "company" . Whether my coworkers or myself accepted or not is irrelevant , but being surrounded by people who treat you like a piece of flesh they can buy or rent or lease (because the recruiters (read pimps) were everywhere too, often disguised as agents, photographers, close "friends") was a constant reminder of what life for most models goes on, once the career is over. And it seemed like once this door closes (shuts down actually) you are left with too options, escorting or porn, and none seemed very tempting to me.
You are wrong Sir, reality is not overrated , reality is the only thing which matters in life, and once you cut yourself away from it, your life stops being your life , it just becomes other people's life. A journalist of all people, should fully understand this concept and the importance of reality and sticking to it.
Today i live in the mountains of Switzerland half the year working for the Unesco biosphere and the other half in the northernmost part of Iceland where my family is from ( i was just born and partially raised in Arizona, Utah and New mexico), working as an ethologist for the Hornstrandir nature reserve. Sometimes i open some old boxes, albums and books i kept from that period and look at the photos or videos of those people everybody seems to know but whom i actually knew personally or worked with, like Naomi, Linda, Claudia, Christy, Madonna, George Michael, Boy george, Jean paul G, Yves SL, Karl, Vivienne, Kenzo, Yohji, Paco, etc, and old friends like Greg Hansen, Marcus, and the ones who are sadly not among us anymore, the gorgeous Albert Delegue and the Goddess Katoucha Niane, and still dear friends like Erin O'Connor, and my bestie Eve Salvail, and then i look out the window at the animals i take care off, the shelters i opened and the two clinics and i feel like reality is what matters.
I also realize that it is easier and more within anybody's reach to dance with Madonna and hang out with her than to support a thesis and complete veterinary school. So really when i hear that a model didn't rest for 6 months and didn't have a single day off, i can hardly feel sorry, especially when you still have a grasp on reality and know that there are single parents out there doing three jobs to feed their kids and nothing is glamorous or well remunerated about these jobs.
I am grateful to whatever allowed me to have this career, first and foremost this completely random DNA sequence which made me a potential candidate to this job), but i am also fairly certain i missed out on having a normal teenager and young adulthood and that in some way it must have left some damage here and there (i don't think a 16 year old boy should be offered money or a car by people three times his age to keep them company, or be exposed to a life of abuses he was absolutely not ready or made for. Maybe working at the gas station on road 491 in New Mexico wouldn't have been so bad. But sometimes when i think back of it, and because the day this car stopped and this model agency headhunter gave me his card after i checked his tires, refueled his car, and cleaned his windshield and told me to give him a call if interested, i often wonder if this wasn't all a test. After all the road back then was called road 666. Maybe Faust tempted me, or saved me because without it i might have never ended where i am today.
I wish Sean the best in life, he reminds me a lot of myself at that age (though he is far better looking than i was)but he seems equally simple and serene and chances are he will be a marine zoologist. That's all the bad i wish him.
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I don't read out loud , i am not a kid , and i do not pronounce the words when i write them .
I also never wrote or never claimed that any holy book had any verse related to killing one's wife or daughter if they dishonor one's self . You are paraphrasing me which is neither a sign of intelligence nor maturity .
Actually i have a degree in theology and i have read and analysed about 30 religious books and spiritual texts , the Bible, the Qur'an , The Zabur, The Injil, the Torah, The Zohar, The Tripitaka , the Pali Canon . the Tibetan book of the dead, The Egyptian book of the dead , The Kojiki , The entire Greek and Roman mythology, The Sumerian mythology , The entire viking Sagas and Scandinavian mythology, , and countless essays on religion OR spiritual philosophy from Taoism and Confucianism, to Sufism , Sikhism , Jainism Punic and Hellenistic religion, less known religions, from the Australian Aboriginals, to the Navajo, the Anasazi , The Dogons, the Celts, the Amazigh, The Inuits , The Ainu, etc etc .... I can't even remember them all . So i know a thing or two on religion .
My father also happens to be an Archaeologist and Theologian and my mother is an Anthropologist and Ethnologist . I have had the most academic childhood , and by the age of 20 i had read countless books, essays and thesis on the topic .
Maybe this is why unlike you , i do not use words such as LOL or YOUR instead of YOU'RE .
And you call me Too STUPID TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH.
Coming from someone who can't even spell properly, that's rich . My 12 years old son is smarter than you .
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@PierrotHG Le francais n'est pas ma langue natale du tout, je le parle mais ne l'ecris pas pas parfaitement. Comme je le disais a l'autre personne. Si tu peux me repondre dans un russe, un islandais ou un anglais parfait, je t'en prie, permet toi de critiquer mon francais. Autrement ton jugement ne me blesse pas du tout.
Le salaire des militaire fait parti du budget de la defense nationale, donc du budget de l'armee et ce budget est finance par les taxes donc les impots. Je ne vois pas du tout en quoi je me suis trompe , donc explique moi qui paie le salaire des militaires si tu n'es pas d'accord avec moi .
Et egalement , l'Article 34 de la constitution française intègre les militaires comme fonctionnaires d'Etat, les garanties fondamentales sont accordées aux fonctionnaires civils et militaires de l'État. Les militaires font donc partie de la finction oublique en France et donc sont remuneres par l'etat francais . Si tu ne sais pas ca dans ton propre pays, au lieu de critiquer mon orthographe ou ma semantique et ma syntaxe, tu ferais mieux de revoir des cours d'education civique.
Je trouve tres drole ton paidoye sur les francais de souche et autre tout en te permettant de me faire remarquer que mon francais est mediocre, mais en me rappelant que l'origine d'un nom de famille ne definie pas la citoyenete d'un pays.
Donc en quelque sorte tu concois le fait que je puisse etre Francais tout en etant incapable d'en maitriser la langue.
Cet un concept que je ne comprends pas. Comme je le disait , je ne suis pas Francais et mon pays est un pays de droit de sang ou Jus Sanguini, et non droit de sol comme la France, donc il ne suffit pas d'y etre ne pour en devenir citoyen on peut etre ne de la troisieme ou quatrime generation dans mon pays et ne toujours pas en optenir la citoyenete, et pour en obtenir la citoyenete il faut en parler, ecrire et lire la langue parfaitement.
Donc nom, je ne traite pas mes patients differemment en fonction de leur ethnicite ou de leur origine sociale, mais tout comme je n'ai pas la pretention de me dire Francais parce que je n'en ai pas la nationalite (par choix), je ne considere pas nom plus les gens n'ayant pas la nationalite de mon pays , L'islande comme Islandais. Pour moi etre d'un pays et en avoir la nationalite, sont deux choses totalement differentes. Je fais egalement la difference entre mes amis et connaissances francaise de souche et ceux qui n'en demande la nationailte que pour beneficier du systeme francais (ce que je me refuse alors que cela me permettrait de payer moins d'impots). Le nim de jeune fille de ma grand mere maternelle est Rochechouart. Je n'ai peut etre pas la nationalite francaise mais je suis bien plsu Francais de souche que la plupart de ceux qui se revendiquent de l'etre, peut importe ma maitrise de la langue. D'autant plus que la souche des Rochechouarts est l'une des plus vieille qui soit.
Tu peux ne pas etre d'accord avec moi, mais cela ne changera pas mon point de vue. Je ne suis pas Francais, je n'ai donc pas a vivre selon les principes francais. Cela n'empeche pas le fait que les impots que je paie en France, financent le salaire des militaires.
A moins bien sur que tu ne puisses me demontrer le contraire .
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I have the same house, except mine is a little bigger , but mine is 500 years old, that's what i call eco friendly. It doesn't have a gigantic pool , because we live in the mountain of Switzerland , and we have lakes , extremely clean, beautiful lakes , just like the air around the house and the natural breathtakingly beautiful view . We have solar panels everywhere and we produce our non polluting energy , and we recycle absolutely everything , that's eco friendly . My partner , myself and our kids are all vegetarian or vegan and nothing in the house is of animal origin , that's eco friendly , except for the animals of course . I'm a veterinarian so is my partner , and we turned the grounds around the house into animal shelters , were we rescue not only pets but also farm animals from the slaughterhouses , circus animals , zoo animals , and animals who used to work (read , be used) on movie sets , that's eco friendly . But then again we do not have the IQ of a football player or a supermodel , poor kids, lucky for them they will never have to work a day in their lives .
No guys this is not an eco friendly house, this is a , look at me i'm rich, house .
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I am also old and i mean OLD aristocracy , Danish, Norwegian, French, Russian and British , my direct family tree dates back to the 5th century and after that it become part legend part history since we can go back to the Gallic empire . And there is one thing about modern aristocrats that is common to all of them , it is this tendency to invent a purpose to their life as not to appear unoccupied . They truly invent purposes , they are artists , designers, free lancers of course . God forbids they show that they really don't need the money . I despise these types . If you are wealthy , flaunt it or do something relevant with your life, don't just invent an occupation that costs you more money than it brings you , so that you have something to complain about .
I could spend my life just living in hotel suites and travelling , and i sadly did that for a while , there was nothing more vapid and unrewarding . I went back to school became a veterinarian and today the only money i spend is on animals and on my kids and friends . I wake up at 6am and never sleep before midnight, exhausted after 14 hours working, but now i have real friends who like me for what i do , not who i am .
My family owns 17 castles over 4 countries and i don't even know how many other residences . I inherited 3 castles one in Scotland and two in France and 5 manors in London, Oslo, St Petersburg, Paris and everything has been turned into something useful . The castle are all used for animals , we opened shelters there for farm animals rescued from the slaughterhouse , and animals rescued from fur factories, circuses, horrid zoos and movie sets , people who live in the castle are either vet students or true animals lovers in need of a temporary place to stay with their pets until they get situated . Two manors are used as an alternative hospice for elderly and for physically and mentally challenged people and the one in Russia is a gay center where the LGBT community can feel really safe and where the russian anti gay nonsense can't reach and hurt them .
I would feel pathetic organizing art festivals in my backyard . Money is only worth spending if it is spent to help others (mostly animals in my case, i am not so empathetic toward people , except the disabled) and life is only meaningful if it doesn't solely benefit yourself and if you use yours to helps others .
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Philip don't even waste your time with those religious freaks . I work for the UN and often go to the middle east . My embassy warned me , never to disclose the fact that i am married to another man or even have adopted kids with him . I have to carry fake photos of my so called wife played by a friend of mine in my wallet . And if i ever land in the Emirates with my husband and kids , our kids can be legally taken away from us , and us thrown in jail . And if we go to Pakistan then not only us , but even our kids will be killed .
I speak Arabic fluently and know the law in most middle eastern countries , and have many friends there . But except for 2 of them , and regardless of the level of friendship i have with the others, i will never tell anything about my private life .
Now i also have muslim friends in the west . They know that when we meet, we never discuss religion and that i never want to ever hear a sentence starting by "in Islam,...." Just like i can't stand people starting a sentence with "As a Christian ,..." so this is definitely not a Muslim issue , even though this is one messed up religion which is completely getting out of control without realizing that they are digging their own grave . Because that much intolerance can never lead to anything positive . Christianism was exactly like this a few centuries back , and the only reason this faith is not considered today , or rather is not acting like a terrorist religion one anymore , is only because the Christians have learned to add a little holy water to their altar wine.and to evolve. If Islam does not evolve it will disappear or implode because islam is based on fear and you can never control people with fear for too long, in the end people will always choose freedom , freedom of speech , freedom of action , freedom to be whoever they want to be , and overthrow their oppressor .
The problem with muslim countries is that they are first extremely corrupted , and law is based on religion . As long as they do not evolve into an actual democracy with equal rights for all , and with Religion, Politic and Law completely separated and independent from each other , then those countries and their people will remain frozen in time, and become obsolete while the rest of the world keeps on evolving without them .
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A normal female ????? Coming from a doctor ! I am an MD and i definitely never address gender as Normal, because the opposite is, Abnormal . Say Average female , don't say Normal female . And stop being so American middle class . A vagina is not what makes a person a woman , neither does a double X in someone's karyotype . Tell the truth . You're on tv so make the best of it and tell people that they have to stop raising their kids depending on what they have between their legs, but allow the kids to become what they are meant to be . The only reason Jeanne had a hard time is because she was categorized as woman in a society which expects women to look a certain way . There is nothing wrong with Jeanne , our society is the problem. Thankfully it is changing for the better and people with Swyer syndrome do not have to go through what Jeanne went . Now this being said, and i say that as someone who swore to save lives, but if a doctor had done that to me or to my kids, i would have his head on a stick in front of my house .
I feel for that lady, but he is lucky to live in a world where there is now nothing wrong with being a tall women (runways are filled with these) and if she ever desires so , she can alter or enhance through cosmetic surgery and makeup any part of her body she wishes otherwise .
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Super high tech but the house has no soul . It has zero charm and feels like living in a hospital or an administration building .
I am not trolling, i know Japan needs to build very light houses because of earthquakes , and these houses are insanely safe and resistant to quakes , but what they gain in efficiency and modernity they have completely lost in charm and beauty . Compared to a traditional Japanese house like a Kominka or Nagaya , this is hideous. I left Japan after nearly 25 years in the country because i could never picture myself living in one of these modern houses and so far away from nature . I would have loved to have a traditional house in Tokyo o\with a garden , but only a billionaire can afford that , and i needed a house with a soul. Now i am back to Switzerland , i live in a 500 years old house with a view on the mountains and the lake , nature is on my door step and i do not have to worry about earthquakes or pollution and radioactivity .
The realtor is fantastic and i used to meet with many of them just like this guy but when they tried to sell me a house , i always told them what i wrote here, the house is great but it has no soul, no charm , no personality, it is empty and feels empty and sad. And Japanese people of my generation or older, ALL have a nostalgia of the old aesthetic and memories of their grand mother or great grand mother's house as kids , and all the realtors understood exactly what i meant.
Eventually i chose soul over a life in Japan . It was heartbreaking to leave the country after so many years but it was unthinkable to raise my kids in a house like this and turn them into zombies . Our house is part of the family, the kids will grow up in it, it will still be there in a hundred years so their kids and grand kids will enjoy it too . No modern Japanese house can provide any of these memories to kids and families , and those memories are priceless and to my opinion extremely important to keep families together. These modern Japanese houses are not built to last long, they will be destroyed and rebuilt within less than 50 years , usually even within 30 years or less which is unthinkable to me, because when even the house you live in is disposable , you can't really build anything solid in it.
My Japanese better half was raised in a traditional house in Kyoto so we perfectly agree on the importance of raising kids in a soulful house . and in contact with nature . Kids who are raised away from nature and in soulless environment become depressed and can even develop anti social behaviour, sometimes even flirting with neurosis and sociopathic tendencies.
Japanese commit a lot less suicide in rural areas and traditional housing , and i am convinced that there is a correlation between the house people grow up in and the kind of person they become.
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@michaelalguire419 Well the Egyptians , the Sumerians, the Romans , the Chinese, the Japanese, the Indians , the Mayans, the Incas , all seem t bathe , but for some reason from the middle age until the late 19th century, Europeans developed a phobia of water , mostly due to the plague and the fact that water was so polluted back then , bathing in it would have been seriously hazardous to one's health .
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He sure would .
You want to piss Japanese off, very simple , you either carry an american flag with you or you wear a Kimono as a foreigner , i combined both , i made a Kimono out of american flag print fabric and spent a day around Yasukuni , that was Hilarious . And the police couldn't do a thing against me , no law against wearing a kimono with an american flag print on it , but boy were they pissed . The next day i went there again with two friends , both of them also wearing a Kimono , one with a Korean flag on it and the other with a Chinese flag , i thought we were gonna get shot . That was beyond hilarious , all those angry people, completely powerless , demanding that i take this off, and me telling them , i can't it is against the law to be naked in public , or i'll take it off when you stope wearing a western suit and necktie .
I have since left the country , but to the Gaijin there , if you ever want to have some fun, do this . This is not illegal at all and it speaks volume and shows you and them what true meaning of democracy or freedom of speech (without a word) actually means .
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Thanks a lot Nature ... , sadly my kids do not share your views they are tired of learning different languages , they are fluent in Icelandic , Japanese , English and French but they find it hard to learn Russian On top of that we moved from London to Zurich and now we also have to speak and learn German , so it is a bit awkward at home . Speaking Icelandic or french with one parent, Japanese or English with the other , German at school or outside the house , and the Russian baby sitter who is instructed not to use any other language with the kids , i am starting to feel like i am torturing them a little . But i think speaking different languages is the greatest gift parents can do to kids , I hope they will understand that when they are older .
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@tinus1429 Tu es d'une hypocrisie sans nom et tu ne sais absolument pas de quoi tu parles. Je suis veterinaire et ethologue specialite canine et feline. Je travaille egalement pour le WAP (world animal protection) qui est la branche directe de l'ONU dedie a la protection animale. Je vis entre la Suisse (ou se trouvent mes cliniques et refuges) et Londres (ou se trouve le QG du WAP). Les deux villes sont les plaques toutnantes du blanchissement d'argent en Europe de l'Est. J'ai ete contacte plus de 70 fois en 7 ans de carriere pour m'occuper de chiens utilises dans les aeroports . Les problemes de sante de ses chiens sont tres frequents et ses animaux vivent un stress constant et l'entrainement qu'ils subissent pour detecter ses billets est si intense que cela leur detruis la cloison nasale. Ces animaux sont en fait de vrai junkie. Surtout ceux utilises pour la detection de drogues mes egalement pour detecter les billets. De plus la vie d'un chien ne doit pas etre de passer son temos dans des aeroports , jamais en plein air, jamais en pleine nature, et passer un quart de sont temps et toutes ses nuit dans une boite. Deplus ses chiens n'ont pas de maitres propres mais des agent different tous les jours, et ne sont presque jamais en conact avec d'autres chiens, pas meme les autres sniffers dogs. Ces chien viennent d'elevages uniquement dedies a produire des sniffer dogs, et donc sont separees de leur meres et places en famille d'accueil des qu'ils ont un mois uniquement (alors qu'un chiot devrait rester avec leur mere pendant au mojns trois a 5 mois pour un developement normal et sain. Ses chiens sont totalement asociaux due a cela. de plus ils subissent un entrainement drastique de 6 mois des qu'ils atteingnent l'age de 5 mois. Ils n'ont aucune enfance, une vie adulte atroce et meurent de stress et d'epuisement et de manque de contact avec leur congenerent au bout de quelques annees, De plus des que leur odorat se deteriore ils sont piques. Quand au femelles d'elevage des qu'elles ont eu 7 portees les unes apres les autres avec insemination artificelle a chaque fois, elles ne sont plus capable d'avoir de mise bas sans complications medicales et sont aussi piquees.
Voila la realite des sniffer dogs. Donc arrete tes conneries parce que ton commentaire la m'a vraiment donne envie de te coller mon pojng dans la gueule. T'es le genre de gars qui dis que les animaux d'abattoirs ne souffrent pas ou que l'experiementation animale est necessaire. je vois tres bien le genre de gars, au discours classique. Allez va t'eduquer un petit peut et retire ce commentaire debile que tu as laisse.
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bloody hell he is so full of himself and he is exaggerating everything , My aunt worked as directrice de salon for St Laurent at that time and it was a whole different story . Yves never mentioned Andre anywhere , they were never great friends , Loulou de la Falaise hated Andre and couldn't stand to be around him , and for her he was just the help. Even my aunt who actually liked him and was one of the rare person who defended him against racism , said that he was quite the pain in the ass and demanding way more than he was providing , always using the excuse that he was american and that it was the way things were made in america and that the world should follow the american example. Needless to say this attitude didn't make him popular with anyone in France . Karl never liked Andre either, karl was a Businessman and he knew who were the people he needed to pretend being friend with to be in the good graces of Vogue US , but the second Andre was out of the spot light , Lagerfeld dropped him faster than a barre of soap in a prison shower .
He is making himself appear extremely important in the fashion industry, using the fact that he was in Europe and that his career there was not very much covered by anyone so he can make up any story he wants but the fact is that he wasn't nearly the important public figure he claims to be .
Everybody in the fashion industry made millions between the end of the 80s and the end of the 90, All people working for major fashion magazines have made dozens of millions , Anna who has had a career of less than 30 years in the fashion industry is worth 40 million, Andre is worth 5 million , Even Plum Sykes is richer than Andre and she has a less than 20 years career while Andre has a 40 years career .
I like the character , the diva over the top attitude and the drama queen , but he is making up too many stories and when you lie like this, sooner or later people find out and you lose all credibility . In France his reputation is dead because people know who he was and how he liked to stir up shit between people. By the way the woman who called him Queen Kong was not that lady from St Laurent , it was Mister Berger himself . And that was his nickname in Paris for a long time .
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@thomashooper9148 You guys crack me up. You really think the princess is going to have your average middle lower class life in Tokyo or the one you'd have in Paris , NY or London . No , the finest areas of Tokyo are NOT affordable , neither are the finest areas of Paris . If the Princess was to live in Paris , she would have been raised in Versailles during the reign of Louis the XIV and would definitely not have settled for a shitty appartment under the roof in the suburbs , she would be now living in a House at Villa Montmorency . now go check the price of houses in Villa Montmorency in Paris and then multiply it by 3 and you will get an idea of the price for creme de la creme real estate in Tokyo . Seriously people, wake the fuck up , she's not going to live in Kita Senju or Nishifunabashi , in a chap apartment and shopping at Don Quijote and Maruetsu . The average Tokyo is affordable for the average people , the top quality Tokyo , isn't affordable .
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@temistogen Bezos or Gates could get it if they had bid over 450 ,but the prince who bought it said that he was ready to go up to 1,5 Billion dollars to have it .
Actually when it comes to "the arabs" as you call them , this is the other way round, we have as much oil as they let us have . Next time you drive your car , remember this .
And yes 41 trillion , which makes Bezos and Gates look like little players. I mean Putin has more money then Bezos and gates put together , but he doesn't give a fuck about art . I actually very much like the fact that this "Arab" as you call him has a huge appreciation for art and the means to acquire what he wants..
I get it, you're maybe Serbian, the muslims Bosniaks had some with your people and you still find the pill hard to swallow. But do not make up things like "the arabs have as much money as the west let them have" , you know this is not true and if it was true then the west is allowing them to have more money than most western nations, how generous of us .
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I studied the tea ceremony in Japan for over 15 years , and kept on studying after i left Japan and have now been studying and practicing for nearly 30 years. Maybe i haven't studied enough or maybe i will never get it because i am not smart enough, but although i find the principles of the tea ceremony absolutely wonderful i find the tea ceremony today in Japan to be merely a business, run by a few families throughout Japan and that the Motto is not Wa Kei Sei Jaku (peace, respect, harmony and serenity) but rather Kane, Kane, Kane, Kane (money, money, money, money).
The tea ceremony style i studied, which was also Urasenke and especially the Wabi Cha, was based on simplicity and humility, poverty even It was the tea made by monks in huts with very simple and unostentatious utensils. But i soon realized that a tea bowl could fetch for over a 100 000 dollars and a spoon owned by a famous master could go for over a million at private auctions. I also realized that the masters and the instructors teaching a simple and unostentatious lifestyle, were all millionaires and lived a very lavish lifestyle outside the Chashitsu.
This very quickly started to bother me and i started asking questions, which were not welcome.
I changed style and started studying with actual monks and then with actual hermit at the zen monastery of Eiheiji where i spent three years studying tea and Zen. There and only there have i found something that seemed close to the original meaning of the tea ceremony and definitely found peace, respect, harmony, purity and serenity.
I do not want to diss my former teachers from the Urasenke School or other teachers and masters from the Omotesenke or Mushanokojisenke or so many others who claim to be the true path of tea. But to be quite honest they all reminded me of Marie Antoinette in her Petit Trianon . The Petit Trainon is a part of Versailles that was offered by Louis the XVI to Marie Antoinette and wehere she lived like a shepherdess . She had an entire fake village built with actual villagers living in it but who were actual actors and workers for Marie Antoinette so she could pretend to live like a peasant, far from the luxury of Versailles, while still remaining the Queen and the richest woman in France. It may seem cute but it is also extremely condescending toward actual peasants and poor people who had to see their kids starve while Marie Antoinette dined in her little cottage out of the finest porcelain, eating dishes prepared by chef and wasting more food in a day than a poor family could ever have in a month.
Those tea teachers and masters are like aristocrats pretending to live like hermits while asking for money in exchange for teaching the tea ceremony which they claim to be based on poverty. The contrast and contradiction become very quickly disturbing when you experience it first hand like any other teacher, but unlike most of the other teacher, questions what i was taught.
One thing which disturbed me the most was that, although during lessons we were only served tea and cakes (and taught later own how to prepare the Kaiseki or meal served in full tea ceremonies, called Chaji , as opposed to Chakai when only tea and cakes are served), we (the students and teachers) were sometimes going out for dinner and then i could see my fellow students and my teachers eating out . And this is when it struck me that this was all a masquerade. The tea ceremony is based not only on simplicity and poverty and respect of naturebut it is also based on Zen. Zen is the true basis of the tea ceremony and its values. I had started studying zen at the same time and we were taught a few Zen teaching during the lessons. But to me the first thing important about zen was the respect of nature and the respect of life. Any true Zen master is de facto vegetarian or vegan as i was (and still am) because not taking animal life is one of the most fundamental principle of Zen. And here i was at these expensive exclusive restaurant with the other students and our teachers, all of them eating meat and fish , all of them in their most expensive Kimono and accessories. And i thought , where is the Zen teaching of respect for nature and animals and where is the unostentatious spirit and style of poverty. There i was in the Petit Trianon with Marie Antoinette and her friends and i was the only one thinking that it was very wrong.
I left soon afterwards the lessons and started looking for true teachers and masters. I found them at Eiheiji and other simple places even in the heart of Tokyo , among simple people, with simple and beautiful values.
This video is funny to watch for me. because this lady is wearing an extremely expensive Kimono and talks about the values of the tea ceremony, but not a single time does she mention the Zen Values attached to it. And , although i may be wrong, i am pretty sure that she had fish for lunch and may have steak for dinner.
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En islande d'ou je viens on peut tuer de baleines mais on ne peut pas baiser librement.
Je suis aussi moitie Danois et au Danemark il ne faut pas oublier que la violence animale est legale et que l'on tue des milliers de dophins chaque annee pour le fun comme un rite de passage pour enfant devenant adultes. Et aussi n'oublions pas que la zoophilie est legale au Danemark donc arreter de penser que ce sont des pays admirables. Loin de la ! Ce sont de vrais prisons ou il y a tres peut de libertes individuelles et ou tu es constemment observe, c'est comme vivre dans Big Brother (et je ne parle pas de l'emission tele debile, mais le livre).
Tu peut facilement meusurer le degre de democratie d'un un pays sur la facon dont les animaux y sont traites et les droits qu'ils y ont. Plus les animaux sont maltraites, plus les gens sont maltraites. Moins les betes ont de droits moins les gens ont de droits.
Je vous assure que l'Inde est bien plus progressiste que la Suede, la France l'est egalement, idem pour l'Allemagne.
La Suede, le Danemark, l'Islande ne sont que les versions occidentales, du Japon, de la Chine, ou de la Coree. Ca a l'air tres beau et tres lisse et tres propre en surface mais que tu grattes un peu.
Desole pour mon Francais ca n'est pas ma langue, je suis Islandais et Danois, mais j'ai vecu quelques temos en France et en Suisse, et tres longtemps au Japon et en Chine, (y compris quelques sejours en prisons pour mes opinions et mes activites), je suis veterinaire et ethologue et un peu trop activiste au gouts de certains. Mais je pense que defendre les betes ou defendre les gens est le meme combat. Sauf que les gens peuvent souvent se defendre aux meme, les betes ne le peuvent pas d'ou le camp que j'ai choisi. Mais pour moi ce reportage et cet interview ne font que me comforter dans l'idee que nous autres Scandinaves sommes champion en PR (pupblic relations) ou PRopaganda c'est la meme chose et que malheureusement la planete entiere semble nous voir comme ses societes modeles. Alors que c'est absolument faux !
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This happened in japan about 10 years ago , the problem lasted 2 months . They found the equivalent company in Japan of Via Communications , the telephone companies disclosed their addresses (no confidentiality in Japan when the police asks for it) and the police wiped them out in a week. 20 years time of jail for the CEO and his associates with no right of extradition and parole , all the employees got sacked and the ones who were not Japanese were sent back to their country with their visa cancelled and no right to ever re-enter Japan , even as tourists .
There is never been one telemarketing problem ever since , because after this incident , telemarketing is now illegal in Japan .
Besides in Japan , it is very easy to say who is not Japanese born and raised and anyone with a foreign accent calling a private house on behalf of a company will only hear the click of the person hanging up .
What you don't understand is that the CRTC is a company, and their aim is to make money , and if they solve the problem, they won't be making money anymore , so they blame the police and the police blames them and this just goes on and on and nowhere .
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@dynaa4168 The language that you speak doesn't determine your ethnicity . If so, then Basque people would be impossible to classify , same with Finnish people . And as for Northern Africans , nobody also has any clue where the Amazigh people language originates from and many of them look Scandinavian . So your comment is utterly ridiculous . Trying to explain what people are , based on the language they speak is not only silly, it is also dangerous .
I am from Iceland and though Icelandic is considered an Indo-European language with Germanic roots , i most certainly do not identify in the same category as Persians just because our languages are classified in the same category of Indo-European languages, as opposed to Arabs who have been mixing up with Farsi speaking people for centuries .This amalgam between language and ethnicity is so simplistic , it is beyond stupid .
Besides, being Persian is neither an ethnicity nor is it a language , it is simply being part of what was once called Persia , today Iran . And Iran is represented by almost a dozen of ethnic groups , including Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, Lors, etc... , and not all of them speak or understand Farsi , so reducing Persians to people who speak Farsi is also completely stupid . Especially since Iran also counts millions of Arabs who are just as Persians as the rest of the population of Iran . Persian is not a language it is the denomination of people from Persia (regardless of their ethnicity, while the language known as Farsi i the one classified as Indo-European , (this is not Persians who are Indo-European) and only uneducated english speakers , refer to the language of Persia as Persian, when in reality there are dozens of dialects spoken in Persia , by many different ethnic groups , all of them Being Persians in ancestry .
My comment was about ethnicity , not language . If Persians are called caucasians , then so are Arabs, not that i necessarily agree with it (for both Persians and Arabs, but i am against double standards and what works for one must work for the other .
The one i consider to be very much Caucasian however are the Amazigh people or Berbers, same with some Tuareg tribes. But some Amazigh people in particular have basically Scandinavian features and would not look out of place in Sweden or Norway , so i dare anyone to tell me that these people from Northern Africa are NOT Caucasian . For me they are even more Caucasian in ethnicity, language and culture than Spanish people, Southern French, Portuguese and Italians .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHD1fZAvmA
Even their music sounds Celt and Scandinavian .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KSVIVDMKM
Also Arabs are NOT an ethnic group, it is the denomination of people living or originally from the Arabian peninsula , which doesn't include a large part of northern Africa. And the Persian gulf coastline is also considered as part of Saudi Arabia which is itself part of the Arabian peninsula, which means that Persians from this coastline are also Arabs .
You have to understand what words mean before posting comments. Arab and/or Persian as words do no mean what you seem to believe they mean , same with Language and Ethnicity. And you also have to do your research regarding historical migrations and what they involved in terms of consequences in ethnicity , but also not mix up indigenous people with the different wave of migrations or invasions which may have followed and understand the differences in ethnicity within a same country or region within the country . If you don't understand that , then we must also classify Spanish people as Arabs since Spain was invaded by the Moors and was Muslim for over 400 years .
So next time do your homework, before wasting my time .
I am the son of an archaeologist, and theologian (father) , anthropologist and ethnologist (mother) and Historian (Grand father) and i have spent my entire childhood reading thesis on Northern Africa , Persia and the Arabian peninsula but also the fertile crescent civilizations from the Sumerians to the Ancient Egyptians to the modern Middle East . Plus i have spent several years between Northern Africa and the Middle East and all the way to India due to my work .
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I am a veterinarian and ethologist and run a few animals shelters and on the door of my clinic and the entrance of my shelters i have had posters made of rabbits (black, white, brown) with the title "All Lives Matters, starting with animals" . And i fucking dare anyone to have an issue with that and say it to my face, I don't give a shit if you are black or white or from Uranus, if you have an issue with that i will shoot you in the face. For me animal life matters far more than human life so if i am going to pick a team, this will be them first, vegans and ecologists second, and everybody else can go screw themselves.
I don't give a flying fuck about BLM . It is self-righteous, self-indulgent and a load of shit. I am not saying that against black people, i am saying that about anybody who agrees with this BS movement.
Besides the statistics in the US are clear, more whites are killed by policemen than blacks every given year.
I used to live in Africa, i can tell you how whites and asians are treated there. Try to starts a white life matters in any subsaharan african nation and see how many minutes you are still free or alive after that !
Give me a fucking break. The people whi are supporting BLM are either the ones who are trying to make money out of it, angry people who use it as an excuse to go rioting, and people who are scred to get shot in the face if they don't. I am neither so i don't support it. None of my black friends support it either, actually they all hate this movement, because it is giving a mediocre image of black people and it will take another generation to clean it up. It looks like black people have never been more taken seriously and care for and that this movement is actually going to help them but actually, behind closed doors, black people because of this movement have never been hated more. Employers now are refraining from employing black people even more because of this movement in order to avoid problems later on. You think BLM is serving your interest, but you couldn't have chosen a worst way to do it.
The only good thing about it, is that it is now giving muslims and chinese a break.
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She was, is and always will be a legend . She belongs with Marilyn and Elizabeth , Greta and Mae, Hattie and Lena, Lauren and Marlene, Hethel and Billie, Ruby and Vivian, Esther and the immortal goddess with a heart of gold and the most extraodrinary life, Mrs Baker, and all the other great legends who will never be forgotten .
Diahann you will be thoroughly missed . From Myrt to Edna through Julia, Claudine, Elzora, Nana and the sensational Dominique , you were, are and always will be THE one and only Diahann Carroll.
Some actors are lucky to be stunningly beautiful, some are lucky to be extremely talented, some are lucky to be superiorly intelligent, some are lucky a natural air of class and dignity to them with a striking charisma, and others are lucky to be kind.
If an actor is lucky enough to be one or two of these things , it is a major achievement or a blessing , Mrs Carroll was all of it and to top it all she was extremely humble.
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@siobhanprivitera7432 I am an employer yes. I have 7 businesses, and 73 employees. I welcome criticism from my employees and i will meet each and everyone of them at least twice a year (which is not easy since my companies are in 5 countries). I make sure that they all receive a wage which is better than the average wage paid for the same job by other similar companies. I also provide all the options in medical care and insurance to make sure that they all are completely covered while working for me and i reward hard work on a three years basis by an increase of wage and by promoting to higher positions the ones who show dedication and enthusiasm to their job. I also make sure that my employees don't do anything more (and less) than what they signed for (which is clearly and exhaustively explained in their co-signed working contract).I do not discriminate in any way based on any reason except one which is that i only hire vegans and vegetarians because of the nature of the work and my personal beliefs, other than that everybody is welcome, even people who are often frowned upon by other companies, such as pregnant women, elderly, openly LGBT+, people with physical or mental handicaps (as long as their situation doesn't impact their job and their safety or the safety of others), etc...
But one thing is certain, i do not condole people who signed a contract and then are reluctant to meet the expectations that they ratified in this contract. So whiners are not my cup of tea and if people are going to come to work reluctantly then they should either change their attitude or they change job.
So far none of my employees are like that and i have never had serious complains or feed backs that i am a tyrant. Even my PAs who have a hectic schedule which make Andrea and Emily's jobs look like a spa, do not complain, and i make sure that they are proportionally rewarded both financially and other advantages as well as the possibility to arrange their schedule the way they wish as long as the job is done, and lots of mini holidays and presents to make sure they do not get too exhausted or overworked. This being said i work 12 hours a day 6 (sometimes 7) days a week, 50 weeks a year. so this is not like anyone works for a lazy boss in my companies, since nobody works as much as i do except my partner and spouse.
But yes shut up or quit is maybe an expletive yet honest way to define my policy when it comes to whiners who can't take the load of work they signed for or who suddenly decided that they want more flexibility, or a raise or advantages that their work ethic definitely does not deserve.
I am Scandinavian one of the most heavenly place when it comes to working environment, but my companies are in Switzerland , France , japan, the UK, and Iceland , and i expect my employees in France or the UK to work as hard as my employees in Japan and Switzerland and with the same efficiency and same dedication. I do not see why a French or a Brit should have more advantages than a Japanese or a Swiss person.
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I am neither islamophobic (because i am not scared of islam or muslims) nor an idiot . I have visited plenty of muslim countries for work , and talked with thousands of muslim people , and have many muslim friends . I may not be theist and i do believe religion is the biggest bullshit on the planet, whatever crap you worship. But my muslim friend , TRUE muslim friends all agree that , vanity and religiion do not work hand in hand and beauty pageants are ALL about vanity . And before calling me an idiot , give me one, JUST ONE muslim countries , where women have equal rights as men , where they can take all their clothes off and walk freely , or cheat on their husband with 60 other men and get away with it , where she can cheat on her husband with 20 other girls and get even more away with it . Give me one muslim countries where there is no discrimination against women . JUST ONE .
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@nyc4233 He was given a chance and ruined it. That's the whole message. He had two allies in this fashion industry Vreeland and Lagerfeld, sadly for him, both are dead.
Being black has nothing to do with making hom what he was and what he is now, from his triumphs to his downfall. There are a lot of black people out there who made it and didn't ruin their career because they are smarter than him.
Elaine Welteroth is doing fine, she is black,
J Bolin is doing right, he is black, Virgil Abloh is doing fine, he is black too, so are Shiona Turini, Edward Enninful, all Black people, all doing mighty fine, even better than Andre.
Acting like a diva is cute in front of the camera, for show, doing it 24/7 is the best way to ruin your career. You are only as good as your team and when your team hates your guts, you shouldn't expect anything good in the future.
And don't use the Black Card , Andre used it too much and it caused his demise.
Naomi never used it once, and look at her now.
Ru Paul never either and look at him now.
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The funny thing is that the belt were almost identical and that the big speech of Miranda to Andy had nothing to do with the shape of the belt themselves, so Miranda changed topic in order to eviscerate Andy, but didn't address Andy's remark about the belt looking the same to her.
The other hilarious thing is that Meryl couldn't be further than Miranda and is a massive success. Meryl is a loving woman, loving mother, loving and caring co-worker who treats everybody with nothing but kindness. She is a perfectionist in her craft but she doesn't expect anyone around her to be and is oh so eager to help young actors with her experience and understanding of the art. The is the great thing about this film, showing that you can choose different paths to success but the one where your success doesn't mean the agony of others is the right one. Miranda chose one, Meryl, the other, and at the end of the day i suspect Meryl to be happier than Miranda.
When i became a CEO and started running my businesses my grand mother told this "You can rule with terror or rule with kindness. Terror will guarantee you that your employees will do the very best to meet your expectations and will revere you but will not like you while kindness doesn't guarantee you that your employees will push themselves to the fullest (because they will always be a part of them thinking He is kind enough to understand) but they will like you, r they will take advantage of you if some of them are ill intentioned" . Which is why when i hired my first employees and every time i have hired anyone ever since, i told them that i will be their employer and friend and expect them to be comfortable but also give 110% of themselves when they are at work and still be concerned about the well being of the company when they are not at work and just like me, make sure that this company is and remains a success because not only my job but theirs as well depend on it . I also told each and everyone of them that the second anyone takes advantage of me not being a dick of an employer, i will switch from Kindness to Terror and they will feel like vomiting the second the wake up until they go back to bed until they improve or if they are wise will just quit the job because i will not fire anybody.
It's been 20 years, 6 businesses (all still up and running) and nobody quit or vomited so far and i still get christmas cards and birthday cakes from my employees just like they get the same in return.
But i perfectly understand Miranda . It is not her company , she is the Editor in Chief but not the CEO so her job depends on her excellence, and her excellence depends on her employees excellence too and the company is way too large to be the friendly boss, so ruling with terror is a good way to ensure everybody keeps his/her job.
My PAs and Managers are under a lot of pressure and are sometimes forced to rule with terror because they have the responsibility of the businesses on their shoulders , not me . If the company doesn't work it'll fold and they'll lose their job, not me , so it is their number one responsibility to make sure that the businesses don't fold. I can't tell them how to rule because they are the ones who know the employees intimately, i just tell them not to be too harsh on the other employees and on themselves. But at the end of the day this is their responsibility to insure the companies sustainability and longevity.
That's why they get a good wage, not just to keep them motivated but also to keep them happy .
The problem with this film is that Andy doesn't get a good wage and is treated like crap by her boss who is not THE boss and her superior. I wouldn't have hired her, because this is a business and she is a journalist so she has nothing to do in a company where money is the aim. But i would have hired her at the animal shelters i run , because money is never the aim there and kind, responsible dedicated people is what we look for there. But you should never hire someone who is not business oriented to do business oriented job.
I am all three types of perfectionist , i expect the best from myself, the best from others and i do my best to meet other people's expectations, but i do not get angry at people when they fail to meet my expectation or at myself when i fail to meet my own expectation , but i will get extremely mad at myself if i disappoint the expectations that others have about me. That's why i became the boss . I can never work for someone , because if i disappoint that person in spite of doing my absolute best and giving it 150%, i will quit immediately with the awful feeling that since i did my best and worked to hard, this means only one thing, i am not good enough.
I wasn't raised in the US , in my country we do not give out medals to the last who arrives at a race or just for participating and we do not reward mediocrity. I come from a family of Craftmen well women at the highest level who are respected nationwide and even internationally. My mother who is an accomplished artist in her craft and now teaches it has one motto "perfection is the strict minimum, anything less than perfect is unacceptable" . We are far from the western idea of Erare Humanum Est ...
But she and her mother are living proof that if you put your mind and your heart to it , you can actually reach perfection. Perfection is not a matter of dexterity, it is a mindset. Anybody with enough practice can do things perfectly but the right mindset can make reaching perfection far easier and far quicker.
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Putain, je dois etre super suspect aux yeux des kadors parce que je regarde les ingredients de tout ce que j'achete, surtout les cosmetiques et la bouffem puisque je suis vegan et je ne veux rien comportant quoique se soit d'origine animale ou tester sur animaux. Je n'achete aussi que du fair trade et il faut que se soit 100% bio, y compris les cosmetique, le savon, le dentifrice etc, donc je passe plus de 80% du temps a lire les ingreditent, les lieux de fabrication, l'origine du produit, etc,....
Pourtant je n'ai jamais rien pique, dans le Karim il va vraiment perdre un temps de malade a me suivre partout. Paye ton Kador mon gars ! Et vous embauche ce gars la !
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@Moo.1336 And i understand your point too. Ok , Andy was maybe not a villain, but definitely not an asset to the company.
When she is interviewed she says, she wors hard she learns fast and she can do a great job, but when she starts working, she is the opposite of that . The giggle over a belt was wrong, the bringing of the book upstairs because some kids told her to, as opposed to what her superior Emily specifically told her to do was even worse, the whining with Nigel was incredibly unprofessional. the fact that she gives up on trying to get a plane for Miranda so she can go to the theater with her father, or that she tries to leave a working event where she has to be , just to be home with her boyfriend for his birthday was unthinkable, etc...
She had some real human qualities which she kept , and to my opinion, are extremely important, but she was not made to work for this company and could have really sabotaged it if `Miranda hadn't shaped her into an efficient and productive employee.
If Emily Andy , Nigel ad Nate came to a job interview, which one would you hire ? I personally would not even consider Nate, i would consider Andy until i meet Emily and i would give up on both after interviewing Nigel who is a pure gem for a company and as a human being.
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I couldn't agree more about some part of your message .
Being gay , i am of course not a big Trump fan ,but i guess he was far better than his opponent Hilary who is a murderer and a liar. Here in Switzerland the law regarding immigration is very strict , and without money you can't really survive in the country so there is not much insecurity . The only Muslims i know here are either blue blood from the emirates or representative of the UN , and i am fully aware that they despise the fact that i am married to another man, but their wives , my husband and myself have a very good relationship, and when the hubbies are away we usually have a lot of fun together . You've never truly laughed until you've been to a gay bar with 6 ladies in Burkas pretending to be drag queens .
Switzerland is a neutral country so we are all relatively safe, but if it ever gets salty for some reason, i can always go back to my homeland Iceland . That's the last country in the world people would attack and even if they do , my house there is on (well actually underground, it is built as a bunker or nuclear shelter) , a very remote island , i think i'll be safe there , but i am also sure it will come to that eventuality . I think people will always choose freedom and the pacifist people outnumber the sickos on this planet (all religions alike) .
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You seem very young , and you are clearly smart , I am sure you can reach your goals . I am thoroughly jealous, you can speak Hindi and Bengali , how lucky of you . Still working on my German and Spanish myself , i am sure i just need to understand how it is put together and then it will be ok. A member of my family is a dressmaker and tailor , she can create the most magnificent garments . I think learning languages is like leaning couture . A couture piece or a 17th century crinoline looks amazing and the more you look at it, the more you wonder how someone managed to turn flat fabric into a masterpiece . But,... If you unstitch every part and remember what goes where and how and when, then you can remake the garment yourself (even with basic stitching skills). Same with languages , you need to understand how it was and is created ,understand every part of it and how all the parts go together ,and then the better you can stitch, the better and faster you learn the language . Sadly this doesn't apply to a Saree and that is why i find Hindi so difficult , because a Saree requires no stitching and no cutting .
I am still learning how to stitch . I know people who speak 20 languages absolutely fluently and they do it effortlessly , those are real alien creatures for me . I do it very slowly and very painstakingly .
I wish you the best in your language learning process , let's not give up when it gets hard . As the Japanese saying goes , "Perseverance only begins when it gets hard and you get tired" , I know, this proverb is so depressing ;) .
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@Nepthu Well actually i am the gay child so i am the last person on earth who would disown his kids for being gay. And as a matter of fact my Japanese husband and myself have 6 adopted kids, all coming from various countries around the globe and all with a different skin complexion. So no i would not disown my kids for being gay, just like i would not disown them or anyone else for being from another colour than mine.
I only disown stupidity and cruelty.
I will not be the one throwing a stone at Roseanne, she did what she did because of her convictions, and whether i agree or disagree with her is irrelevant because she is not family or friend or related to me in any way. But i don't like hypocrites who have black people on their show because of quotas and then throw racist slur at them on a tweet.
I have my convictions and i will never be a hypocrite about them and/or compromise with them.
Simple example. I am vegan, i was raised, vegan, my parents were raised vegan and it goes on and on fro a few generations (because of religious beliefs at first and then a genuine love for animals), my husband is vegan, we are both veterinarians, and our kids are raised vegan. This is the one rule i will never compromise about. If any of my kids wants meat, i will provide the knife, the hen (both paid with their pocket money) and tell them were to cut , watch it die, then how to empty it, clean it and how to cook it. If they want to buy meat at the supermarket i will tell them to find a way to make their own money to buy it, and while they're at it, find a way to sustain themselves because there'll be no meat eaters under my roof.
See, no hypocrisy, no compromising.
And yes i will disown my kids if they decide to eat meat, because i am not supporting people i don't share the values of. Not even my own kids. They'll be allowed under my roof without meat until they are old enough to get emancipated and then if they want meat, they live on their own and i'll remove them from my will and my family name.
That's called integrity .
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@Morgan Olfursson You sound like a parent who would disown a child for being gay. Good thing you never make mistakes in your life. Not everyone is perfect.
We all make mistakes in our lives, which is why i won't throw stone at her, but we must all accept the responsibility of those mistakes, something she didn't do.
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@Ch9-7708 You don't need to be black to make your voice heard. I am Scandinavian (you don't get whiter than that), married to a Japanese and we voice our disagreement and discontentment with BLM everywhere. Fortunately we do not live in the US so disagreeing with this racist movement doesn't put your job or your life at risk. I am orifinally from Iceland, living in Switzerland and in both countries nobody gives a damn about BLM, as for my spouse's country, Japan had one walk on the street about 2 months ago, there were 2000 people (99% of them weren't japanese and 80% of them weren't black) and that was it. Nobody with half a brain cares about BLM and if any black or non black person has an issue with my opinion, it would be ridiculous of that person to think that i care,
My neighbour Iin my neighbourhood in Cologny here near Geneva) runs a bank in Zurich, he is american, has Oprah and Tina as clients and he even told them that if anybody in the bank was to even have a badge saying BLM this person would be fired on the spot regardless of that person's position within the bank or skin colour.
I am just a little veterinarian and i also made it clear to my employees that if anybody brings out this movement within the clinic, there would be repercussions.
Black life doesn't matter more or less than any other life, and this movement being run by racist makes it even more discriminatory. They are using this opportunity to push their agenda and in that agenda i can assure you that white lives do not matter, LGBT lives do not matter either, asian lives do not matter, Native nations lives do not matter.
If anything this movement is going to damage african americans and black people even more, because now employers refuse to hire black people and can blame it on the Pandemic.
The economic crisis right now forces me to down size my company and although i love all my employees, it would be extremely easy for me to cut the BLM supporters and just say that i don't need that many people.
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@TheAlchemicalPortal No Miaster Destruction , not only the Roths, this is an urban myth . The royal families of the middle East are rich beyond beliefs .Their assets are extremely private though and you won&t find it by googling their net worth . First of all because everything is under different names , using screen companies and other in between , Plus they do not need to place their money in Switzerland , because unlike the Roths, the Middle Eastern Royal family DO own their country and do not need anybody's permission to do whatever they chose . Trust me the 41 trillion is real .
And also don't underestimate the Chinese . You would be very surprised to learn about the assets and fortune of the president of China . Trust me here too, communism is long gone there , the only communist thing about china is the flag . Not a country has more billionaire than China . The Roths are filthy rich, no doubt about that and powerful , but not as rich as they once were .
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La superiorite technologique et militaire de l'occident ???!!!!
Non mais le gars crois que l'histoire humaine a 200 ans . Pendant que les Chinois discuttaient de science, de medecine et de philosophie et d'art il y a 4000 ans, les Grecs vivaient encore dans des huttes, quand les Indien d'Inde discuttaient des meme sujet en meme temos que d'astonomie, il y a 6000, en europes, les gens s'abillaient de peaux de betes et vivaient de la cueillete et de la chasse n'ayant pas meme decouvert l'agriculture et l'elevage. Quand les Egyptiens batissaient les Pyramides il y a 5000 ans les Europeens vivaient dans des grottes. Quand les Sumeriens et les Babyloniens contruisaient des villes et connaissaient l'existence des planetes et du systeme solaire, il y a 12000 ans, les occidentaux (ou plutot ceux qui allaient le devenir) se balancaient encore dans les arbres en bouffant des bananes. Et pour ce qui est de la superiorite militaire il a fallu attendre 4 millions d'annees d'evolution pour que les britanique il y a 200 ans possede un empire aussi grand que ce que Genghis Khan possedait il y a 1200 ans.
Donc on va commencer le reportage en arretant les conneries du style superiorite technologique et militaire de l'occident ok !
Et je suis Scandinave donc on fait difficilement plus blanc ou occidental que moi , mais je connais un peu l'histoire du monde, donc les docu qui commencent par , superiorite de l'occident, ca me fait un peu rigoler quand meme . Surtout en 2020 quand un petit groupe de chinois arrive a foutre en l'air toute l'economie mondiale que les occidentaux etaient si fier d7avoir batti et pensaient controler !
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The funny thing is that the belt were almost identical and that the big speech of Miranda to Andy had nothing to do with the shape of the belt themselves, so Miranda changed topic in order to eviscerate Andy, but didn't address Andy's remark about the belt looking the same to her.
The other hilarious thing is that Meryl couldn't be further than Miranda and is a massive success. Meryl is a loving woman, loving mother, loving and caring co-worker who treats everybody with nothing but kindness. She is a perfectionist in her craft but she doesn't expect anyone around her to be and is oh so eager to help young actors with her experience and understanding of the art. This is the great thing about this film, showing that you can choose different paths to success but the one where your success doesn't mean the agony of others is the right one. Miranda chose one, Meryl, the other, and at the end of the day i suspect Meryl to be happier than Miranda.
When i became a CEO and started running my businesses my grand mother told me this "You can rule with terror or rule with kindness. Terror will guarantee you that your employees will do the very best to meet your expectations and will revere you but will not like you while kindness doesn't guarantee you that your employees will push themselves to the fullest (because there will always be a part of them thinking "He is kind enough to understand") but they will like you, and maybe they will take advantage of you too if some of them are ill intentioned" . Which is why when i hired my first employees and every time i have hired anyone ever since, i told them that i will be their employer and friend and expect them to be comfortable but also give 110% of themselves when they are at work and still be concerned about the well being of the company when they are not at work (because their job and wage comes from it, no company no job, no job no wage) and just like me, make sure that this company is and remains a success because not only my job but theirs as well depend on it . I also told each and everyone of them that the second anyone takes advantage of me not being a dick of an employer, i will switch from Kindness to Terror and they will feel like vomiting the second they wake up to go to work (if they even manage to sleep) and until they go back to bed, and this until they change their attitude or if they are wise will just quit the job because i will not fire anybody.
It's been 20 years, 7 businesses (all still up and running) and nobody quit or vomited so far and i still get christmas cards and birthday cakes from my employees just like they get the same in return.
But i perfectly understand Miranda . It is not her company , she is the Editor in Chief but not the CEO so her job depends on her excellence, and her excellence depends on her employees excellence too and unfortunately the company is way too large for her to be the friendly boss, so ruling with terror is a good way to ensure everybody keep their job.
My PAs and Managers are under a lot of pressure, not from me but from work itself, and are sometimes forced to rule with terror because they have the responsibility of the businesses on their shoulders. If the company doesn't work it'll fold and they'll lose their job, so it is their number one responsibility to make sure that the businesses don't fold. I can't tell them how to rule because they are the ones who know the employees intimately, i just tell them not to be too harsh on the other employees and on themselves. But at the end of the day this is their responsibility to insure the companies sustainability and longevity.
That's why they get a good wage, not just to keep them motivated but also to keep them happy .
The problem with this film is that Andy doesn't get a good wage and is treated like crap by her boss who is not THE boss and her superior Emily as well. This is really a terrible situation for an employee to be. Personally I wouldn't have hired her, because this is a business and she is a journalist so she has nothing to do in a company where money is the aim. But i would have hired her at the animal shelters i run , because money is never the aim there and kind, responsible dedicated people are what we look for there. But you should never hire someone who is not business oriented to do a business oriented task.
I am all three types of perfectionist , i expect the best from myself, the best from others and i do my best to meet other people's expectations, but i do not get angry at people when they fail to meet my expectation or at myself when i fail to meet my own expectation , but i will get extremely mad at myself if i disappoint the expectations that others have about me. That's why i became the boss . I can never work for someone , because if i disappoint that person in spite of doing my absolute best and giving it 150%, i will quit immediately with the awful realization that since i did my best and worked so hard, this means only one thing, i am not good enough, and i am limited, which is the worst feeling in the world to me.
I wasn't raised in the US , in my country we do not give out medals to the last who arrives at a race or just for participating and we do not reward mediocrity. I come from a family of Craftsmen well women at the highest level who are respected nationwide and even internationally. My mother who is an accomplished artist in her craft and now teaches it has one motto "perfection is the strict minimum, anything less than perfect is unacceptable" . We are far from the western idea of Erare Humanum Est ...
But she and her mother are living proof that if you put your mind and your heart to it , you can actually reach perfection. Perfection is not a matter of dexterity or perseverance, it is a mindset. Anybody with enough practice can do things perfectly but the right mindset can make reaching perfection far easier and far quicker and the quality will only improve over time.
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It is important to NOT make English the official language of the US for one simple and VERY OBVIOUS reason.
The slaves that were brought to the US were forbidden to use their own language and forced to speak English, 300 years later none of the descendants are able to speak the original language of their ancestors, same with the many Aboriginals in Australia (not all of them fortunately) same with the Ainus of Japan, same with many dialects in France that completely disappeared over centuries , now the only two that remain almost unchanged and alive are Basque and Breton, same with the Inuit population of many northern countries who hardly speak fluent languages such as Inuktitut for instance . and the list is endless . And don't even get me started on the most obvious of all regarding the US , the many languages of the original Natives which are almost all lost today along with the populations that once spoke them .
If people can not understand that simple fact like those two extremely uneducated ones here , they should refrain from making stupid statements , calling it "obvious" . That debate was staggeringly and embarrassingly ridiculous .
I am from Iceland and my kids are taught Icelandic even though i live in Switzerland were we have three offical languages and we are doing just fine (way better than the US actually) . I am married to a Japanese and speak fluent Japanese, on top of French, German and Icelandic . So our kids also speak those languages , and because our kids are adopted (all five of them) they are also taught the language of their country of origin so that when they grow up (and three of them are already grown up) they can be able to visit those countries and understand its culture and also understand the culture of their siblings.
Keeping only one language in any country as the official one, has caused the death of thousands upon thousands of dialects which are nothing more and nothing less than languages originally spoken by a smaller group of people .
This video is not only almost unfathomably stupid and embarrassing, it is simply dangerous . American who do not speak English as a first or native language should DEMAND their language to be made one of the official languages of the country .
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Europa H2O Alien If you can not control yourself because you are with 200 other people, then don't take the plane . And if you are going to take the plane, instead of alcohol, get a xanax and do the rest of the passengers a favour .
And if you are going to blame the airline , then , the more the reason for you to take the train, your car or a ship .
You are exactly the kind of passenger i do not want to be allowed on planes..
I fly 4 times a week minimum between London where i work and Zurich where i live , plus i round trip per month to New York city and one ever two months to Tokyo and Hong Kong (i work for the UN) , very regularly to Berlin, Paris , and Venice because i like the cities and they are less than an hour away, and i fly back home to Iceland at least 4 times a year. I have never had any problem with Swiss air, with Japan air lines, or with Iceland air maybe because Swiss people, Japanese people and Icelandic people know how to behave . Even French, Germans and Italians know how to behave, actually Germans are terrific . The only times i have encountered bad passengers was in the US and in the UK and always because their ego was apparently too big for the plane or they had a little bit too much to drink .
If you can't control yourself, do not get on a plane . I will fly economy to Iceland, Swiss, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Hong Kong, but i will always fly business or first to the UK, the US because i do not want to have to put up with degenerates who believe that the plane belongs to them or the airline owes them anything when they bought the cheapest possible ticket they could find on the net . And i don't want to have kids next to me either so ....
And don't insult rats , rats are extremely well behaved animals .
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This is the most vile and disgustingly racist industry in the whole fucking world /
I worked 10 years as a model in Europe after being scouted , i never even asked for the job it was handed out to me and i did it to put myself through medschool . I am a melting pot , my mother is of French , British and Russian descend , and my father is of Icelandic (inuit) and Danish descend , i am as white as the next person i have extremely pale skin , green eyes , but because I have black hair and slightly "slanted" eyes , i was asked many times to dye my naturally black hair in blond or platinum blonde . because it'll look for Scandinavian , some make up artists even used make up to make my eyes rounder and i was pushed into having eye surgery to make them rounder and more western (which i never did) . So if me a Scandinavian guy with 1/8 of Inuit blood had to face racism , you can imagine what people like Naomi or other Black, Latin or Asian models have to go through . This is a fucking vile business . I got kicked out of the french fashion world because i spat at the face of JP Gaultier and slapped fucking Lagerfeld because he took me off three shows without telling me and i had to find out the following day of the evening i didn't go home with him . This industry is racist, this industry is full of sexual blackmailing , even when i was 15 and 16 i had to face the fucking pedophiles at the photo shoots , and the casting, you know the pig like men and women who come to see you after the casting and tell you they are very interested in helping you in your career "let's have drinks and dinner " Mam , Sir, i'm 15 i am not allowed to drink , Relax boy nobody needs to know , here have some coke (and i don't mean cola) . You guys have no idea what this business is about . Imagine when they took you from your village in eastern Europe or Africa and placed you in Paris in an apartment you share with 10 other guys or girls , they have your passport they have your visa and they put a ton of pressure on you . You have no idea how many model friends of mine from eastern Europe got raped at casting because they were too scared to say No and lose the job The casting directors and model agency agents talk a lot before casting and those agent are like pimps behind your back. And all the business cards you get from escort agencies telling you that they can help you make a quick buck if times get hard, you get approached by those bastard on a fucking daily basis , and after the show at private parties the big fish , mister and missus moneybags coming at you from every direction asking you to end the day with them, regardless of you being 15 yo. This industry is far more than just racist , it is really the most vile industry on the planet, not even second to hollywood. The fashion industry is number one in terms of all the shit that goes down behind closed doors .
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I did it for a hell lot more than 300. I wouldn't even have accompanied someone to a wedding for 300 , not even a hand job , i didn't do it for charity , i did it for money, add a zero you are getting close to what was my hourly rate .
The 893 are everywhere in Japan the second you start mixing up sex , money ,drugs , or anything considered illegal , you will sooner or later have to deal with the Yaks , but i was recruited by one of them before being approached by one of them . And by recruited i mean , as an escort so they never really bothered me . They are actually quite decent guys (and girls). But yup when you are in a hotel room somewhere and the guy takes his clothes off and you see all the ink , you start wondering if you're ever gonna make it out of that room alive.
Just never get a pimp , be your own. .
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just go visit some poor or homeless people in the US and Europe and you will see.
I lived in japan for a couple of decades and became friends with many homeless people there, because they look after all the stray cats in the city and i'm a vet. And once they started trusting me , they opened the doors of they cardboard houses to me and after removing my shoes and entering (every homeless takes his shoes off before entering his cardboard house) i was not only impressed by how spotless it was inside but also by the comfort they had . They used everything they could get their hand on. And because many of those homeless came from very different professional background and all shared their knowledge , i found that most of the homeless had a generator for electricity, some running on gasoline , some using solar panels (hundreds if not thousands of them collected from calculator and other devices they found in the trash) , the homeless had free electricity , heating systems fr cooking and keeping warn in winter , many of them had a hacked mobile phone, a computer and some of even for some of them internet access and they also had washing machine that they shared and used to keep clean . And all of this inside a cardboard house which from the outside looked like any house in a favela, but from the inside had a level of comfort and a standard that many people living in regular houses do not have .
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Thanks a lot Cheyenne Seeeokjinnn , gosh is that your real name , if so , how lucky you are ! Where is it from , you must have one hell of a family tree yourself . Is it easy to learn German for someone from Luxembourg and Holland ? I imagine your french is really good , Dutch are way too humble . Good luck with Japanese , it seems hard at first but it gets better . My advice to you when you learn Japanese , do not try to translate anything from your language to Japaneseand do not compare the language , the structure, the grammar, the semantic the syntax are completely different so you need to immerse yourself in the Japanese language , it worked for me , i started making real progress when i stopped trying to compare it to another language, then it became rather easy . Until you start learning out to count things and the onomatopoeia !
Strangely enough i am doing the only job that requires no language at all . I'm a veterinarian and ethologist and i wish i could communicate with animals , that would make my job way easier. Imagine if we could just ask the cat the dog or the hamster where they feel pain and what are the symptoms they experience .
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Your grammar is more than good , please do not apologize Szikla Granit . I couldn't agree more with what you wrote . The best part of learning languages is to open your mind to other cultures and it automatically destroys racism or any form of prejudicial behaviour toward other cultures or people , because learning languages is the best cure to xenophobia . On top of that, and this is my personal opinion , it allows me to express my thoughts in words that do not exist in one language . When we all gather during the holiday and we all speak a different language trying to make one another understand each other , i am always baffled by how limited languages are and how learning more than one , allows you to really accurately express yourself . For example the Inuits have nearly 50 words for Snow , but someone coming from a country where it never snows has no word for it . We all take for granted in the west that there are 5 different tastes , Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour and Spicy (for the Japanese there are 6 different tastes . Amai-Sweet , Shoppai-Salty , Nigai Bitter, Suppai-Sour, Karai-Spicy and Umami that we can't translate in any western language . Same with colours , there are about 60 different words for colours in the English vocabulary . The Bedouins and Tuaregs of the Sahara have less because not so many colours existed in that area yet they have much more words for Blue and Sand than there are in English or French . But strangely (because the great north is not very colourful) the Inuits have more colours than the British and the French , because they have a different colour word for every shade of white , every shade of grey , every shade of blue and every shade of black and they have the northern lights. The Japanese have about 500 words for colours coming from the Heian period and its frenzy of silk dyes and colour combinations and the Chinese have even more . That is why learning different languages is not only fun, it is so useful .
Thanks so much for your comment, can i ask where your name originates from ?
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The funny thing is that the belt were almost identical and that the big speech of Miranda to Andy had nothing to do with the shape of the belt themselves, so Miranda changed topic in order to eviscerate Andy, but didn't address Andy's remark about the belt looking the same to her.
The other hilarious thing is that Meryl couldn't be further than Miranda and is a massive success. Meryl is a loving woman, loving mother, loving and caring co-worker who treats everybody with nothing but kindness. She is a perfectionist in her craft but she doesn't expect anyone around her to be and is oh so eager to help young actors with her experience and understanding of the art. The is the great thing about this film, showing that you can choose different paths to success but the one where your success doesn't mean the agony of others is the right one. Miranda chose one, Meryl, the other, and at the end of the day i suspect Meryl to be happier than Miranda.
When i became a CEO and started running my businesses my grand mother told this "You can rule with terror or rule with kindness. Terror will guarantee you that your employees will do the very best to meet your expectations and will revere you but will not like you while kindness doesn't guarantee you that your employees will push themselves to the fullest (because they will always be a part of them thinking He is kind enough to understand) but they will like you, r they will take advantage of you if some of them are ill intentioned" . Which is why when i hired my first employees and every time i have hired anyone ever since, i told them that i will be their employer and friend and expect them to be comfortable but also give 110% of themselves when they are at work and still be concerned about the well being of the company when they are not at work and just like me, make sure that this company is and remains a success because not only my job but theirs as well depend on it . I also told each and everyone of them that the second anyone takes advantage of me not being a dick of an employer, i will switch from Kindness to Terror and they will feel like vomiting the second the wake up until they go back to bed until they improve or if they are wise will just quit the job because i will not fire anybody.
It's been 20 years, 6 businesses (all still up and running) and nobody quit or vomited so far and i still get christmas cards and birthday cakes from my employees just like they get the same in return.
But i perfectly understand Miranda . It is not her company , she is the Editor in Chief but not the CEO so her job depends on her excellence, and her excellence depends on her employees excellence too and the company is way too large to be the friendly boss, so ruling with terror is a good way to ensure everybody keeps his/her job.
My PAs and Managers are under a lot of pressure and are sometimes forced to rule with terror because they have the responsibility of the businesses on their shoulders , not me . If the company doesn't work it'll fold and they'll lose their job, not me , so it is their number one responsibility to make sure that the businesses don't fold. I can't tell them how to rule because they are the ones who know the employees intimately, i just tell them not to be too harsh on the other employees and on themselves. But at the end of the day this is their responsibility to insure the companies sustainability and longevity.
That's why they get a good wage, not just to keep them motivated but also to keep them happy .
The problem with this film is that Andy doesn't get a good wage and is treated like crap by her boss who is not THE boss and her superior. I wouldn't have hired her, because this is a business and she is a journalist so she has nothing to do in a company where money is the aim. But i would have hired her at the animal shelters i run , because money is never the aim there and kind, responsible dedicated people is what we look for there. But you should never hire someone who is not business oriented to do business oriented job.
I am all three types of perfectionist , i expect the best from myself, the best from others and i do my best to meet other people's expectations, but i do not get angry at people when they fail to meet my expectation or at myself when i fail to meet my own expectation , but i will get extremely mad at myself if i disappoint the expectations that others have about me. That's why i became the boss . I can never work for someone , because if i disappoint that person in spite of doing my absolute best and giving it 150%, i will quit immediately with the awful feeling that since i did my best and worked to hard, this means only one thing, i am not good enough.
I wasn't raised in the US , in my country we do not give out medals to the last who arrives at a race or just for participating and we do not reward mediocrity. I come from a family of Craftmen well women at the highest level who are respected nationwide and even internationally. My mother who is an accomplished artist in her craft and now teaches it has one motto "perfection is the strict minimum, anything less than perfect is unacceptable" . We are far from the western idea of Erare Humanum Est ...
But she and her mother are living proof that if you put your mind and your heart to it , you can actually reach perfection. Perfection is not a matter of dexterity, it is a mindset. Anybody with enough practice can do things perfectly but the right mindset can make reaching perfection far easier and far quicker.
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Anzac , if you were talking to me , then no , i have never eaten a piece of meat in my life. I was raised by a vegetarian mother , and i am a sort of vegan today , no fish either . Only unfertilized eggs from the hen we raise freely on though we have cows we never milk them , their milk is for the calves . and no animal we look after , will ever end up at the slaughterhouse . And just for the record i am a veterinarian an ethologist , i also run about 7 shelters for various types of animals and i work for the WAP at the UN , not some hippie .
And no it is not part of nature , it is a human choice to eat other animals , and at least in nature other animals have the guts to kill their own food , not buy it at the supermarket. So listen Anzac, if you are such a pro nature person, then why don't you fucking start raising cows, sheep, rabbits , chicken and then when you feel hungry you cut their throat and cook them . Because i am never seen a lion going to a fucking supermarket . Or better than Anzac, why don't you go work for a slaughter house . Because to my opinion, and regardless how i despise those people, they are the only ones who at least deserve to eat meat .
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This is a terrible approximation and a VERY reductive one . They are closer to my opinion to the Japanese Onnagata from the Kabuki theater ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78H9pg_Ip9Y
or the Otoko Geisha , the male Geisha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kd48DzyQ2c
though the onnagata and Otoko Geisha have no spiritual dimension to their act , so the Lengger go even deeper than the Onnagata , or Male Geisha is their art .
I am not too familiar with the Lengger and this is why i won't say too much here, but if you call an Onnagata a Drag Queen , you would be in trouble in Japan . Onnagata start at age 6 and it takes over 20 years to master the act , and then a life of complete dedication . Plus as you pointed it Danielle , Lengger , Onnagata or Otoko Geisha has nothing to do with sexuality , many are straight , some might be gay , some might be on a journey toward womanhood , but their act is not a transfiguration of their sexual orientation . Though i have never met a straight drag queen , and being gay myself , and often going to drag shows, i know many .
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Class act
Jealousy and bitterness is so hilarious to watch !
Yes Lady C , Meghan is greedy and needy and demanding and unlike you she is also, young, beautiful, with a higher Title than yours, rich because she worked for it, and she is still married to a Prince while you are married to,....oops my bad, you were married to Lord Campbell for less than a year and your name is not Lady Campbell at all, it is George (Later renamed Georgia because apparently it took that long to your parents to figure out you were a girl, don't worry i know the fucked up genitalia story) Ziadie, born in Jamaica from a shop girl.
Yes, you are one to talk about being an attention whore, you should know !
You tricked her husband into believing you were a woman, then you milked every penny you could from him when he decided he didn't want to be married to a liar and a freak,. You tried to white wash yourself and tried to retain your husband's name because Campbell and Lady from England sounds better than Zaidie from Lebanon. Yes you really are one to talk !
I guess we all know the four letters word, the C in Lady C... stands for.
Boy are you tragic and pathetic,... and i do mean, Boy !
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Jealousy and bitterness is so hilarious to watch !
Yes Lady C , Meghan is greedy and needy and demanding and unlike you she is also, young, beautiful, with a higher Title than yours, rich because she worked for it, and she is still married to a Prince while you are married to,....oops my bad, you were married to Lord Campbell for less than a year and your name is not Lady Campbell at all, it is George (Later renamed Georgia because apparently it took that long to your parents to figure out you were a girl, don't worry i know the fucked up genitalia story) Ziadie, born in Jamaica from a shop girl.
Yes, you are one to talk about being an attention whore, you should know !
You tricked her husband into believing you were a woman, then you milked every penny you could from him when he decided he didn't want to be married to a liar and a freak,. You tried to white wash yourself and tried to retain your husband's name because Campbell and Lady from England sounds better than Zaidie from Lebanon. Yes you really are one to talk !
I guess we all know the four letters word, the C in Lady C... stands for.
Boy are you tragic and pathetic,... and i do mean, Boy !
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I wear a mask every time i am out here in Switzerland during the flu or cold season and if i am on a train or a plane at any time of the year i wear a mask as well. And i dare anyone to ask me to take it off . My kids wear one at school since i visited it and explained to the board members that if they refuse to allow my kids to wear one, i will demand the school to pay for any medical fee my kids may have to go through and that if they happen to miss school because of the cold or the flu i will also demand that the teachers visits them daily to make sure they do not miss anything from the curricular , since they will be responsible for my kids being sick . They will also have to pay for the day care i will hire to look after my kids while i'm at work .
Trust me Jocelynne you can do exactly the same with your school .
I lived in Japan for 20 years , and there , if you are sick (i mean sick as flu and other seriously contagious diseases, not just a little cold), you are not allowed to go to school , to avoid spreading disease. Same if you are an adult, you must stay home and work from home or take a few days off until you get better .
Masks are not an alternative to hygiene though . Even if you wear a mask, you need to wash and sanitize your hands several times a day , and the mask must be put in a plastic bag before being thrown , and they are of course used once and only once .
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I am travelling in Japan right now and although everybody is wearing masks (which is not unusual at all in Japan at this time of the year) i feel actually far safer in Japan than i am in Europe (where i am from) . Japanese have a natural tendency to wear masks which will certainly avoid the virus to spread, and to clean their hand thoroughly with antiseptic gels and wipes. The only thing which worries me in Japan is the metro and trains, because you breathe the same air as everybody else, but then again Japanese wear masks so i still feel far safer breathing though a mask myself as well in a Japanese subway or train rather than in a French, British, German one where nobody wears masks and nobody carries antiseptic wipes and gel to clean their hands.
I am not worried at all about the Olympics, i will be in Tokyo again this summer and will enjoy them. Japan is the champion country of getting over adversity and i am sure the 2020 games will be an utter success and will go flawlessly. I may not be all in favour in Japan ragarding many things (especially when it comes to the way animals are treated in this country , i am a vet ) , but when it comes to thorough organization and coordinated effort to insure flawless execution of any task, Japan can teach the world a lesson.
When it comes to the Olympic Games , rather than the Corona Virus , i am more worried of the heat . Japan and Tokyo are incredibly hot and humid in summer, even by Japanese standards , and the heat and humidity is rising every year, so i think that the danger will come more from athletes and tourists getting heatstroke rather than contracting a deadly virus.
I do hope people are not going to be stupid and think that Japan is more dangerous because it is closer to China or amalgam the two countries. Japan is closer to China geographically, but we live in 2020 and any country on the planet is only a few hours flight away from the next. I am actually more confident in the safety of Japan due to the fact this is an Island nation which limits population flux to planes and ships where it can be controlled. Rather than European countries where anybody can go over the border without any checkpoint and millions of people cross borders in a daily basis with trains and cars , just to go to work and tourist can travel the whole continent with a railway pass.
Personally being from Iceland i know that islands are safer than mainland nations .
Japan made one massive mistake though by not shutting down the airports and maritime ports to all flight and shipment from or passing through China the second they found out about the virus . And because it coincided with the Chinese New Year (The biggest celebration in China) Japan was flooded with Chinese tourists who came to visit Japan and many Chinese residents in Japan also went back to China to celebrate with their family, and then came back to Japan. This is what caused the outbreak and Japan could and SHOULD have stopped that by not making capitalism go first and try to think about people rather than money. That was Japan's biggest mistake regarding this virus . Maybe it is time Japan understand that this is not all about money and that people have to come first. Well actually animals and the planet should come first and people second, but definitely not money.
Capitalism will lose when facing nature , because our planet doesn't function based on economy , and if we prioritize economy over biology , we will lose the game. That is why i don't even blame Chinese people for the spread of the virus in Japan. I 100% blame the Japanese government who could have stopped it but didn't do anything. The official people who didn't shut down the airports are the ones who can avoid getting contaminated, because they don't take the trains, they don't get the bus or taxis and use their own car with driver and their own private plane, so they knew that by even keeping the borders open to avoid bad relationships with China, and letting the virus in, they would not be exposed. They are the ones who sacrificed the people for money and geopolitics. So unlike most Japanese people and most people in general, i do not blame the Chinese.
The funny part is that now mask manufacturers are becoming billionaires , so somehow it will bring money to Japan, since now it is impossible to find any mask in the country and there is a few weeks waiting list to order them. And the few stores which still sell them can only sell one box or one mask per customer. So someone is going to become filthy rich thanks to the virus.
Personally i am only concerned by the hundreds of millions of animals which are being tested on in China and Japan now to find a cure. These are the real victims and nobody talks about them. And they are pointless victims because we know that testing on animals doesn't mean at all that it works on humans. But i trust China to have no problem at all to "find" human test subjects. Probably among the Uyghurs population.
Anyway i'm off to Kittyland to get presents to my kids !
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Putain, je dois etre super suspect aux yeux des kadors parce que je regarde les ingredients de tout ce que j'achete, surtout les cosmetiques et la bouffem puisque je suis vegan et je ne veux rien comportant quoique se soit d'origine animale ou tester sur animaux. Je n'achete aussi que du fair trade et il faut que se soit 100% bio, y compris les cosmetique, le savon, le dentifrice etc, donc je passe plus de 80% du temps a lire les ingreditent, les lieux de fabrication, l'origine du produit, etc,....
Pourtant je n'ai jamais rien pique, dans le Karim il va vraiment perdre un temps de malade a me suivre partout. Paye ton Kador mon gars ! Et vous embauche ce gars la !
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This is too heartbreaking i just can't watch and had to leave halfway through it .
I was born in Arizona because my parents worked there for a while (I am Icelandic with an Inuit grand mother) . My mother is an ethno-anthropologist and was staying with the Navajo and other Native people in the 70s to record their culture , arts and languages as both tangible and intangible world heritage for the Unesco . (i never use the word Native americans , as their culture predates america by 1000s upon 1000s of years if not hundreds of thousands of years) , and my father is an archaeologist who was working with the Tribe leaders to not dig up things but actually preserve burials as they are among the most sacred places and my father is complete against excavating graves and digging up the dead , and only works on ancient cities sites , if he finds a burial then the site is closed and the holes are filled up and left undisturbed . So i was born there and spent my childhood on the reservation (another word i usually not use and replace by Navajo territory or land ) between Utah , New Mexico and Arizona . In spite of going to school in the US i never considered myself american , even though i was by birth . I left the country with my parents years later, heartbroken of having to say good bye to my Navajo and other Native friends . But my father told me one simple thing. This is not our place , we came , we observed, we exchanged and now it is time to leave , which is what should have been done hundreds of years ago. When i turned 16 i legally and very officially renounced my american citizenship . This is not my land , my father is right, this is theirs , and i have no right to be there until it become rightfully theirs again and they invite me . Just like i would never live in Israel unless the Palestinians , get their stolen land back . Same with Australia , the Ainu territories of Japan, the Amazigh territories of northern Africa , and of course the Inuit territories of northern Europe and northern America .
I was raised right , i do not take what is not mine, and i do not benefit from what causes pain and suffering, which is why i also do not eat or wear or use anything of animal origin .
This is a wonderful documentary , but sadly , all i can see is the damage done .
I can only wish well to the Native people and everywhere and just not be there , to avoid adding to the damage . The biggest damage of all, being that their are all using English in an effort to preserve their culture . The truth behind this is what made me stop watching this otherwise wonderful documentary halfway through .
Navajo and every other culture need to make their language the official one, no english or spanish should be taught to kids or only as a a second language and only after thy have mastered their own . And those people should also start their own currency, not use dollars or any other currency . Create your own nation, with its rules, its laws, its language, its currency , its political system (if you need one) . The fight is lost as long as you keep on using english and dollars .
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J'ai vecu en france pendant quelques annees et j'ai autant de bien que de mal a dire sur la france et les francais.
Je suis Scandinave Islandais mais je n'aime pas comparer les pays et les cultures car il y a du bien et du moins bien partout.
Personellement en Islande on chasse encore la baleine donc je ne vais certainement pas parler de cruaute animale ailleurs.
Mais regardant la france et les francais je dirais, ... en commencant par le negatif,
- la france me parait tres dangereuse. Je trouves les grandes villes tres peu sures et je n'etait jamais a l'aise dans la rue le soir (alors que je suis un homme plutot sportif et que je fais 198cm de taille. Donc j'imagine a quel point cela doit etre difficile pour les personnes moins imposantes physiquement et en particulier pour les femmes parce que la france me parait vraiment dangereuse.
- la france est le pays le plus procedurier que je connaisse. Je n'ai jamais vu un pays avec autant de demarches a effectuer pour obtenir quoique se soit. Petit exemple. Je suis arrive comme etudiant et pour obtenir un visa d'etudiant il fallait remplir des dizaines de documents a la prefecture de police (devant laquelle il fallait faire la queue a 3 heures du matin en plein hiver pour etre sur d'avoir un ticket a l'ouverture pour y etre recu a un guichet 6 heures plus tard) et toutes la documentation etait en Francais. Donc il fallait deja lire le francais pour pouvoir obtenir un visa d'etudiant pour apprendre le francais. Ensuite, il y a les postes et les banques . Dans les banques il faut un titre de resident pour ouvrir un compte mais pour obtenir un titre de resident il faut un RIB donc il faut un compte bancaire francais. Je ne comprends pas la logique. La poste perds mes colis mais quand je demande de le retrouver , tout le monde que se soit au guichet ou au telephone, me dit. "on ne sait pas ou il est". La aussi manque de logique parce que c'est un peu leur boulot de savoir ou les colis sont ! La securite sociale et les apl j'ai laisse tombe parce que je devenais dingue a essayer de comprendre la procedure d'optention), j'ai pris une assurance privee internationale et j'ai paye mon loye a 100 % tout en travaillant dans des restos et des salles de sports et des cliniques veterinaires etc pour gagner de l'argent en plus de mes etudes.
- Les gens sont desagreable dans les boutiques et posent trop de questions, souvent tres personelles. Je ne voit pas pourquoi je dois expliquer ou je vis, d'ou je viens, ce que je fais dans la vie et si je suis celibataire ou pas quand je vais acheter une chemise.
Idem avec les policiers qui posent beaucoup trop de questions personelles pour un simple controle d'identite, surtout quand ils ne savent pas ou se trouve l'Islande et pensent que la Scandinavie est un pays ou que Reykjavik est en Russie ou Europe de l'est.
- Les transports en communs sentent tres mauvais et sont tres sales, surtout le metro, les trains et les bus, mais parfois meme les taxis, surtout en ete.
- les hopitaux sont une catastrophe et il me semble que l'on est plus au risque d'attraper une maladie supplementaire que de s'y faire soigner, et le personel medical est certes fatigues mais ca n'est pas une raison pour etre desagreable avec les patients, surtout quand le patient a du mal a communiquer. Savoir au moins parler anglais devrait etre le strict minimum dans un hopital. Ne serait-ce que quelques membres du personel medical parce que les touristes se blessent aussi parfois et devrait pouvoir etre pris en charge dans un anglais correct.
- les greves, mais bon c'est votre sport national et quelque part cela a permis de changer beaucoup de choses dans le bon sens donc ca n'est pas vraiment une critique, mais il ne faut pas tout meme faire greve pour tout et n'importe quoi, surtout n'importe quoi !
- les salaires Francais ne sont pas du tout en rapport avec le cout de la vie en France c'est absolument ridicule, grotesque meme. Je ne comprends pas comment les Francais acceptent ca aussi docilement.
- le feminisme est aussi vraiment ridicule en france. Je pense que les francaises ne comprennent pas ce que le feminisme signifie vraiment. par chance je ne suis pas attire par les femmes donc ca ne me concernait pas.
- et toujours sur le sujet, les francais sont vraiment en retard regardant l'acceptation de la communaute LGBT, il faudrait penser a evoluer de ce cote la.
- les francais je dois l'avouer ne sentent pas toujours tres bon, surtout les odeurs de sueur et de cheveux sales, c'est parfois vraiment atroce, mais ca n'arrive pas meme a la cheville des odeurs de pisse dans les petites rues, les gares, etc. La c'est vraiment infecte. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi les hommes francais pensent qu'un mur ou un arbre est un urinoir !
- les francais sont parfois un peu arrogant mais j'apprecie le cote patriotique parce que ca n'est jamais vraiment chauvin ou nationaliste, juste patriotique mais avec un sense de l'auto-derision.
- ca ne me concerne pas directement mais les francais devraient faire plus attention a leur dents, vous avez vraiment des dentitions assez effrayantes parfois.
- les francais (les mecs, parce que je ne sais pas pour les nanas), ne sont pas vraiment tres bons cote sexe. Mais bon, je suis scandinave donc la barre est assez haute, sans mauvais jeux de mots !
Bons cotes.
- Il y a un vrai sentiment de liberte en France, dont les francais ne sont pas meme toujours conscient.
- la nourriture est saine et vraiment excellente a condition de manger bio et de se fournir chez les producteurs locaux.
- le pain est phenomenal, mais alors vraiment phenomenal et la vienoiserie est a couper le souffle.
- le pays est absolument magnifique que se soit Paris. ;es autres grande villes ou la campagne, il y a tous les reliefs, tous les climats, toutes les architecture, la faine et la flore sont exceptionelles.
- La culture francaise et son histoire sont tres tres riches et les arts en france, passes ou contemporains, des plus populaires aux plus bourgeois et aristocratiques sont sublimes.
- les francais en regle generale sont chaleureux et plutot gentils, sauf quand ils bossent !
- le systeme social bien que complique est un des meilleurs au monde.
- vous avez un tres bon systeme juridique egalement.
- un pays qui fonctionne au sufrage universel direct est toujours un indicateur d'une vrai democratie.
- vous avez d'excellent docteurs en medecine, et parmis les meilleurs veterinaires qui soient.
- les services de sapeurs pompiers sont particulierement efficaces et les pompiers que j'ai rencontre etaient tous vraiment tres professionels. Pour ca la france se distingue vraiment.
- j'aime le fait que (quand j'y vivais) on pouvait fumer partout et j'apprecie que l'on puisse le faire dans les rues et les parcs encore aujourd'hui.
- vous avez une vie de rue que je trouve geniale. Vos rues sont vraiment vivantes, surtout l'ete et se ballader dans les villes et les village francais au printemps ou en soiree l'ete est un regal. On se croirait vraiment dans un livre de Pagnol parfois. Et le cote ambiance terrace de cafe et restos aussi est genial c'est aussi comme etre dans un roman de Maupassant ou un tableau de Renoir parfois.
- le sens d'auto-derision des francais est adorable.
- la france a un super melange ethnique ce qui rend le pays vraiment interessant mais aussi fait que beaucoup de francais sont vraiment tres tres beaux (et belles), et qu'il y a vraiment de quoi satisfaire tous les gouts. Compare a l'Islande ou il faut vraiment aimer les personnes blondes aux yeux bleus parce que c'est 90% de la population (j'ai eu beaucoup de chance d'avoir les cheveux noirs et les yeux gris/vert comme Bjork).
- et enfin un des meilleurs cote de la france est sa position geographique, on peut aller en espagne, en italie, en suisse, en allemagne, en belgique, aux pays bas, et en angleterre tres facilement.
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12. When Trump said the virus was miraculously going to go away, entire US was in “warlike” mode, wanting to show China how it will be dealt with. Little did they know that it didn’t miraculously go away and when it miraculously didn’t go away, it was because China suddenly wasn’t transparent anymore while they have been sleeping for 2 months.
TRUMP DOESN'T REPRESENT THE ENTIRE WEST AND I AM NOT AMERICAN.
BUT YES TRUMP IS FOR ONCE, COMPLETELY RIGHT TO BLAME CHINA, BECAUSE THIS PANDEMIC IS 100% CHINA'S FAULT .
13. People rapidly draw the “boycott” card for products made in China but they were perfectly OK with wearing their luxurious Adidas and Nike gear made in the sweatshops and thus contributing indirectly to child slavery
ADIDAS AND NIKE ARE NOT LUXURY. SORRY I AM FROM SWITZERLAND , THINGS MADE IN SWEATSHOPS ARE NO LUXURY GOOD TO ME.
CHINA WAS VERY WILLING TO OFFER CHILD SLAVERY , MOSTLY UYGHURS AND TIBETANS KIDS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS ! BOTH ARE EQUALLY GUILTY, THE BUYERS AND THE PROVIDERS, THAT'S WHY I DO NOT BUY ANYTHING MADE IN SWEATSHOPS, IN CHINA OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
14. People are very eager to condemn the Cultural Revolution (off course it was not a positive event in Chinese history) but they are perfectly OK with the French revolution where they decapitated kings and queens, the “Belgian” Congo massacre where they chopped off the hands of slaves, German lunatic Hitler because it is “too old”... Suddenly WWII is too old and 1989 is “too new”.
YES THE FRENCH REVOLUTION LED TO THE HUMAN RIGHT DECLARATION. BUT CAN YOU SHOW ME HOW THE CHINESE REVOLUTION LED TO ANY IMPROVEMENT IN HUMAN RIGHT ?
THE FRENCH REPLACED MONARCHY WITH A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, BUT THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS ONLY DEMOCRATIC AND A REPUBLIC, IN NAME NOT IN FACT OF THEIR WOULDN'T BE KIDS WORKING IN SWEATSHOPS TODAY MAKING NIKE AND ADIDAS !
15. When Hong Kong strives for universal suffrage, the West is eager to put oil on fire but oil was clearly in shortage when there were no voting rights under the Brits
AND YET MOST HONKONGESE TODAY WOULD RATHER BE UNDER BRITISH ADMINISTRATION AGAIN, THAN CHINESE SO... I GUESS THIS IS NOT ALL JUST STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.
16. When China donates masks, it is because they want to exercise diplomatic influence. However, when masks are in shortage, they are eager to accept the masks until the situation is solved so they can go full blast again.
THAT'S BECAUSE CHINA STARTED THE PANDEMIC, AND FOR THAT REASON CHINA MUST DO EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER TO END IT . EVEN IF IT MEANS GO BROKE .
17. When China police apprehends people who violated corona confinement measures, everyone was appalled but they can perfectly accept that a commander of an aircraft carrier is sacked because he rang the bell to protect his crew from the coronavirus
THE PROBLEM IS THAT WHEN THE CHINESE POLICE DOES IT, IT ENDS UP IN JAIL AND BROKEN BONES. MAYBE THE CHINESE POLICE COULD LEARN A BIT OF MANNERS. BUT THEN AGAIN THE CHINESE REVOLUTION NEVER LED TO ACTUAL HUMAN RIGHTS !
18. Everyone criticizes that China would have been able to curb the virus when it had acted earlier but they are perfectly ok when Dr Fauci admits that earlier mitigations would have saved lives in the US...
YES , AGAIN BECAUSE IF CHINA HAD STOPPED PEOPLE FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY AND SHUT DOWN ALL ITS BORDERS IN NOVEMBER 2019 THEN THE WORLD WOULD NOT BE LIKE THIS TODAY. YES AGAIN THIS IS ENTIRELY CHINA'S FAULT . AND SADLY THIS IS THE THIRD OR FOURTH PANDEMIC THAT CHINA HAS SENT THE WORLD AND THIS TIME IT IS THE WORST ONE.DON EXPECT ANYONE TO BE INDULGENT WITH CHINA THIS TIME, THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, CHINA HAS BECOME THE WORLD'S SCAPEGOAT. WHETHER IT IS FAIR OR NOT IS IRRELEVANT, IT IS NOW A FACT AND CHINA IS GONNA HAVE TO CLEAN THAT IMAGE OR WITNESS ITS OWN ECONOMICAL COLLAPSE. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GO ON THEIR KNEES IN FRONT OF ALL THE WORLD'S CAMERA AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE NOW KILLED AROUND THE WORLD. IF THEY REFUSE TO TAKE FULL AND COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY, I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT NO CHINESE BETTER FLY TO THE WEST ANY TIME SOON BECAUSE WE WON'T BE FORGIVING EITHER.
19. They are saying that the "travelling" Chinese lead to the spread of the virus but they are OK to mix infected Italy holiday returners without any isolation measures
BECAUSE AGAIN, CHINA STARTED IT, SO WHATEVER HAPPENED AFTERWARDS IS CAUSE BY THE FIRST DOMINO WHICH FELL AND THIS FIRST DOMINO WAS CHINESE. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY DOMINOS FELL AFTERWARDS AND WHERE, THE FIRST ONE WAS CHINESE AND THIS IS THE ONLY THING THE WORLD KNOWS FOR SURE.
20. They are criticizing China for conducting propaganda but they are perfectly OK when a US senator says that the virus escaped a lab in Wuhan, that he has no proof of it but because China is not transparant, the burden of proof is on China.
ACTUALLY WE DO HAVE PROOF BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT IT , BECAUSE AS I MENTIONED IN A PREVIOUS COMMENT, I WORK FOR THE UN.
21. They are saying China owes Britain money for damages due to corona, but they are perfectly OK with their rich history of Opium war killing millions of Chinese by doing an illegal drug trade simply because of money.
BUT THAT WAS A WILLING TRADE ON BOTH SIDE. CHINA AND CHINESE ARE DEFINITELY NOT JUST THE VICTIMS OF THE TRADE. YOU NEED TO REOPEN YOUR BOOKS . THIS PANDEMIC HOWEVER WAS ENTIRELY CAUSED BY CHINESE AND WAS NEVER A TRADE BETWEEN CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES. SO, YES THE UK AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO DEMAND COMPENSATIONS IN THE FUTURE AND CHINA BETTER COMPLY OR THOSE COUNTRIES ARE GOING TO MAKE CHINA REGRET IT. YOU CAN BE SURE OF THAT.
22. They are perfectly OK that Chinese died because of the Opium war as the "user" of drugs is responsable for his own behaviour but they are OK to combat drugs cartels in South America because it becomes a "social problem".
WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL CURRENT PANDEMIC ?
23 They are shocked by facial recognition and social credit system in China (big brother watching you) but they are perfectly OK with it that Washington will start to implement... facial recognition...
ACTUALLY NO , NO AMERICANS ARE OK WITH IT AND THIS WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED IN THE US OR ANYWHERE IN THE WEST AND UNLIKE CHINA, IN THE WEST POWER IS TO THE PEOPLE, SO WHEN WE SAY NO, IT MEANS NO AND NO POLICE OR ARMY WILL MAKE US ACCEPT THIS FACIAL RECOGNITION BIG BROTHER SYSTEM. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN IN THE WEST. IF YOU BELIEVE IT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE IN THE WEST THAT'S BECAUSE YOU REALLY DO NOT KNOW WESTERN NATIONS AND WHAT WE ARE MADE OF.
24. They are criticizing central led government but they are perfectly OK with Federal government seizes masks and other coronavirus supplies
BE A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC HERE. WHO ARE "THEY" ?
25. When a son or relative of a communist party member gets a government role, they criticize it is corruption but they are perfectly ok when Jared kushner represents the US government
AS I SAID, I AM NOT AMERICAN AND WHO IS THIS "THEY" ?
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I can go on whole day. Don’t worry, it is not such a complicated matter. It’s actually something which already existed before you and I were born. It is called DOUBLE STANDARD like in Double Happiness ). Feel free to extend the list
SO CAN IS, AND NO IT IS REALLY NOT COMPLICATED TO REFUTE YOUR FEEBLE ARGUMENTS.
YES AND CHINA COULD TEACH THE ENTIRE WORLD A LESSON ON DOUBLE STANDARDS, I AM SURE THE UYGHURS AND TIBETANS AND HONG-KONGESE AND/OR ANY CHINESE CITIZEN WHO IS NOT OF HAN ANCESTRY CAN TESTIFY ABOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS WITHIN ITS OWN COUNTRY !
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I am a wild life vet and ethologist and i can say in all honesty and all objectivity, that these two are utterly mental. This is anthropomorphism at its finest and most ridiculous. This is so self-righteous and self-indulgent it is actually laughable. Plus nothing scientifically relevant comes out of it. It is exactly like us living with dogs and cats , nothing more nothing less. The animal here is more exotic and has a dark or mysterious image attached to it so it gets attention and mediatization but that's about it, and the zoological interest ends there. Wolves are wolves, humans are humans, we are not supposed to bond or live together , if anything we should be the smart ones here and just try to avoid contact and let them live their wolves lives.
I have met Ellis once and asked him a simple question "what's the point" and his answer was , "just getting to understand them" . The guy is a former gamekeeper, and marine, he has about the IQ of a fried oyster and the academic background to match.
"just trying to understand them" I have also been trying to understand wild animals, so i spent half my time discreetly observing them without ever interfering and the other half getting three PhD and reading as many theses and meeting as many people as i could. I didn't call TV networks and gave talk shows.
He is such a fraud we should invent a new word to define fraud.
And eventually, he just uses animals to make money and it doesn't benefit animals whatsoever .
The sad part is that people find him interesting.
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N'etant pas en faveur de ce que les Etats Unis ont fait et continuent de faire au moyen orient et etant un supporter de la Palestine bien plus que de l'Etat d'Israel qui est bien plus machiavelique que Charles Pasqua a mon avis , je ne vais pas soutenir les Etat Unis regardant l'Irak ou le reste du moyen orient . Les Etats Unis ont totatelemt detruit cette region et ses habitants sont dans une situation bien plus alarmante aujoud'hui qu'ils ne l'etaient avant que les Etats Unis s'en melent . La vague de refugies actuelle en etant un parfait exemple .
Je soutiens entierement la France pour son opposition a la guerre en Irak et pour avoir soutenu la Palestine dans le passe , ce qui m'a pose quelles probleme dans mon boulot , je travaille pour l'onu , qui est une enorme farce .
La remarque de madame Rice lui a coute enorment aux Etats Unis , puisque l'embassade de France a demande des excuses publiques qu'elle a ete oblige de faire. Je me souvient de la communaute francaise a NY etant furieuse et un journal francais americains du style Le canard enchaine , titrant "Let's do it again, with Germany, Japan and Italy and against the US" .
La france n'a deployee ses armees au moyen orient , simplement parce que les Francais ont elu un sioniste qui bosse pour Israel .
Je n'ai absoluement rien contre les Musulmans , cet une religion comme une autre et j'en ai toujours cotoye ayant de tres bon amis aux Emirats et en Arabie Saoudite , tout comme j'avais de tres bon amis Algeriens lorsque je vivais en France et il n'ont jamais pose le moindre probleme . Les media ont diabolises l'islam tout comme a une autre epoque ils diabolisaient les juifs et les Japonais . Le fait que la plupart des medias soient controlles par la diaspora israelienne aujourd'hui fait qu'il n'y a plus vraiment d'integrite dans la presse et que c'est devenu un simple moyen de propagande and faveur des sionistes. Et je sais de quoi de parle, je travaille pour l'une des plus grandes organisations sioniste qui soit .
La France doit absolument arreter de ce mettre du cote des Etats Unis , car au final cela va lui couter tres cher .
Vous avez un tres bon humoriste en France monsieur Dieudonne qui pour moi incarne parfaitement ce qui dans le passe a fait la grandeur de la France . Certes il pousse parfois la plaisanterie tres tres loin mais il a le merite d'etre extrement courageux .
Je ne suis ni pro islam ni anti juif , j'i de tres bons amis des deux cotes, , je suis par ailleur totalement athe. mais je suis contre Israel et contre la politque americano-israelienne-sioniste qui detruit cette planete et ne favorise qu'un petit groupe de personnes . Et je suis bien sur oppose a toute forme de discrimination et n'accepte absolument pas la facon dont les musulmans ou arabes sont traites aujourd'hui et comprends parfaitement le fait qu'ils se rebellent et decident de faire exploser ce qu'ils peuvent . Si la communaute chretienne ou so called "blanche" etait traitee et diabolisee de la facon dont l'est la communaute musulmane ou arabe les consequences seraient sanglantes .
Je ne supporte absolument pas les etats et groupe terroristes comme la Syrie ou Isis , mais egalement Israel , les Etats Unis qui en sont egalement .
Ma grand mere a ouvert deux centre d'hebergements de refugies en France sur ces terres et n'a jamais eu le moindre probleme avec eux . Comme elle le dit, nous sommes la cause du probleme , nous nous devons au moins d'avoir la decence d'essayer d'en etre la solution .
Oh so you are from the city of Traboules and headquarters of Interpol , i have some friends there .
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I studied the tea ceremony in Japan for over 15 years , and kept on studying after i left Japan and have now been studying and practicing for nearly 30 years. Maybe i haven't studied enough or maybe i will never get it because i am not smart enough, but although i find the principles of the tea ceremony absolutely wonderful i find the tea ceremony today in Japan to be merely a business, run by a few families throughout Japan and that the Motto is not Wa Kei Sei Jaku (peace, respect, harmony and serenity) but rather Kane, Kane, Kane, Kane (money, money, money, money).
The tea ceremony style i studied, which was also Urasenke and especially the Wabi Cha, was based on simplicity and humility, poverty even It was the tea made by monks in huts with very simple and unostentatious utensils. But i soon realized that a tea bowl could fetch for over a 100 000 dollars and a spoon owned by a famous master could go for over a million at private auctions. I also realized that the masters and the instructors teaching a simple and unostentatious lifestyle, were all millionaires and lived a very lavish lifestyle outside the Chashitsu.
This very quickly started to bother me and i started asking questions, which were not welcome.
I changed style and started studying with actual monks and then with actual hermit at the zen monastery of Eiheiji where i spent three years studying tea and Zen. There and only there have i found something that seemed close to the original meaning of the tea ceremony and definitely found peace, respect, harmony, purity and serenity.
I do not want to diss my former teachers from the Urasenke School or other teachers and masters from the Omotesenke or Mushanokojisenke or so many others who claim to be the true path of tea. But to be quite honest they all reminded me of Marie Antoinette in her Petit Trianon . The Petit Trainon is a part of Versailles that was offered by Louis the XVI to Marie Antoinette and wehere she lived like a shepherdess . She had an entire fake village built with actual villagers living in it but who were actual actors and workers for Marie Antoinette so she could pretend to live like a peasant, far from the luxury of Versailles, while still remaining the Queen and the richest woman in France. It may seem cute but it is also extremely condescending toward actual peasants and poor people who had to see their kids starve while Marie Antoinette dined in her little cottage out of the finest porcelain, eating dishes prepared by chef and wasting more food in a day than a poor family could ever have in a month.
Those tea teachers and masters are like aristocrats pretending to live like hermits while asking for money in exchange for teaching the tea ceremony which they claim to be based on poverty. The contrast and contradiction become very quickly disturbing when you experience it first hand like any other teacher, but unlike most of the other teacher, questions what i was taught.
One thing which disturbed me the most was that, although during lessons we were only served tea and cakes (and taught later own how to prepare the Kaiseki or meal served in full tea ceremonies, called Chaji , as opposed to Chakai when only tea and cakes are served), we (the students and teachers) were sometimes going out for dinner and then i could see my fellow students and my teachers eating out . And this is when it struck me that this was all a masquerade. The tea ceremony is based not only on simplicity and poverty and respect of naturebut it is also based on Zen. Zen is the true basis of the tea ceremony and its values. I had started studying zen at the same time and we were taught a few Zen teaching during the lessons. But to me the first thing important about zen was the respect of nature and the respect of life. Any true Zen master is de facto vegetarian or vegan as i was (and still am) because not taking animal life is one of the most fundamental principle of Zen. And here i was at these expensive exclusive restaurant with the other students and our teachers, all of them eating meat and fish , all of them in their most expensive Kimono and accessories. And i thought , where is the Zen teaching of respect for nature and animals and where is the unostentatious spirit and style of poverty. There i was in the Petit Trianon with Marie Antoinette and her friends and i was the only one thinking that it was very wrong.
I left soon afterwards the lessons and started looking for true teachers and masters. I found them at Eiheiji and other simple places even in the heart of Tokyo , among simple people, with simple and beautiful values.
This video is funny to watch for me. because this lady is wearing an extremely expensive Kimono and talks about the values of the tea ceremony, but not a single time does she mention the Zen Values attached to it. And , although i may be wrong, i am pretty sure that she had fish for lunch and may have steak for dinner.
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@Moo.1336 I actually think that Andy is the vilain. She is not dedicated to her job and she doesn't respect her boss. I would be extremely pissed if one of my employees laughed or giggled when i try to work and other employees try to do their job too. I think Miranda reaction to someone acting like a child was completely justified, but she should have addressed the question Andy raised and then give her the bog speech on cerulean blue if she wants. I personally would have just told Andy. If you are going to giggled when other people try to work you can go look for a job at starbucks, that's more your level, and left it there.
In over 15 years in my job i have only reprimanded one employee but she felt it really harshly. She did something that was unthinkable to me so i dismissed her immediately for the rest of the day and then called her in my office the next day in the morning and let her have it, and trust me, Miranda was kind compared to me, because she endangered a life by her attitude and there was no way i was going to let her get away with her attitude. I really went hard on her because i wanted to test her and see if she was dedicated to her job or was just doing it to make money in which case i didn't want her working with me. So i tried to see if i could make her quit that day or if she was going to cling to her job for the right reason, and gave her a month to change her attitude toward her job and during this month i put her constantly in the situation she found herself when she made that tremendous mistake to see her reaction each and every time. She didn't quit, she completely changed her attitude and now she is probably one of my closest and most indispensable employees. I think that is what Miranda did to, she pushed Andy relentlessly and Andy changed and became the perfect employee, but she started as the vilain of the story not Miranda.
I think there are two types of people who watch this film, the ones who watch it from the perspective of employees and the ones who watch it from the perspective of employers and they both receive the film completely differently. And then you have the worst type, the ones who watch it from the perspective of Nate, but these people usually end up working at starbucks forever.
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Good , as long as mostly everybody in this comment section understood that this guy why a pile of shit and a sad excuse for journalism and that Naomi owned him and tricked him at his own game . He wanted sensational, he wanted the blackberry in his face , he wanted the angry black woman , and he got Classy , Articulate , Passionate , Relentless NAOMI FREAKING CAMPBELL .Congrats Naomi for not leaving the room you stayed until the end you faced him and he realized he couldn't do anything and you would not talk about anything but the racist fashion industry . Poor tragic guy , he probably needs to put the money on the table for a shag , and could never even dream of nailing a model . He goes home to his piggy wife every night eats the same shitty food and take care of his kids while Naomi lives a life he can only report because that is his job, to report other people's life , instead of having one of his own .
Bravo Naomi , you fucking nailed that interview and turned this interviewer into a pile of shit and hended him the mirror so he can take a good look at himself . All this while looking like and absolute Goddess .
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I know it is not the same , colons massacre the previous and rightful inhabitant . That bit is quite clear .
No no i just find it hilarious when , suddenly we hate foreigners, when we are the "rightful" "indigenous" people (which means , not americans), but seem to have no such values when we were and still are the invaders . Just keeping you honest in your comment, that's all.
No i don't hate foreigners, i actually love them, they bring new culture, new ideas, new concepts, a bit of exoticism i find delightful . I think people who hate foreigners , are people who feel threatened by them , or people who are uneducated (which is basically the same thing), and people who think that foreigners are going to take their job and their money and their resources and their land and their country and force them to become something else or kill them (rings a bell Westerners ?) . I am not threatened by foreigners, because i am professionally and financially secure, i have traveled a lot in my life and often lived abroad , being myself the foreigner , and i have never been a nuisance to anyone in these countries . People who fear foreigners are just uneducated people brainwashed by the media and unable to think by themselves . Luckily for me , i am not one of these , because i was raised right , and taught to make my own opinion based on my own observations and personal experiences , not TV or other media which only show or tell or depict what they want you to know or believe .
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Daniel this is the most stupid argument, you are even more stupid than the ones who eat and kill dogs and cats .
Cow chicken, rabbits and sheep have exactly the same right to live as dogs and cats ,
No animals should be killed to be eaten , i have lived all my life without a single piece of meat of any sort entering my mouth , and i have lived without a single problem. If you agree to eat beef and chicken then shut the fuck up , in that case you must allow other cultures to eat dog and cats if they see it as food . Pigs have been proven to be more intelligent than cats , and cows are extremely kind and peaceful animal , horses are said to be loyal to their owners and yet we eat them all in the west so who the fuck are we to judge what they eat in the east . In India cows are sacred and they do not eat them , so they have the right to consider us the way you consider chinese people to be . Your argument is beyond stupid. If you are not a vegetarina or a vegan then you should shut the fuck up.
I am a vegan so for me , you eating cows chicken or whatever else is as disgusting as the chinese eating dogs .
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You can't compare Danish and American taxes . Of course Denmark has a great healthcare system and everything is free, education , medical bills , but the consumption tax is 25% and the income tax is 60,2 percent . If you want to lose over 60% of your wage every month or yearly (it's the same) just to get free education, be my quest , move to Denmark and enjoy the Hygge, And i say that as the son of a Danish/Icelandic man , but personally my wage allows me to send my kids to boarding school in Switzerland , how ? Because i live in Switzerland , a fiscal paradise with and extremely good quality of life . If i lived in Denmark my kids would have to go to public school , for free sure , but still public school, and i would rather have had a vasectomy rather than send my kids to public school . Do you think i killed myself studying , to make a six figure salary, just to have 60% of it go to welfare . You want to call it Hygge , sure , i call it extortion . Why would i want to give 60% of my wage for people to enjoy the hygge that I pay for , and not be able to enjoy the fruit of my labour , myself .
Don't be ridiculous Elizabeth, i don't think you have any idea what life is like in the fabulous land of Hygge .
What is your other EU citizenship ? With a Name like Martin i would go for either British, German or French, though if you have the EU citizenship that rules out British .
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That's unfortunate and you should definitely choose more wisely whom you decide to call your friends . But YOU convinced him that he could trust your friends when clearly you couldn't , so basically, YOU are the one who made the mistake , not him and not your friends . YOU chose unreliable friends, you convince your BF to trust them and now you complain about a situation that YOU created , while taking no responsibility whatsoever . This is extremely self-indulgent, very self-righteous and a tad immature , don't you think ?
But at the end of the day you just indirectly outed your BF and probably lost a few friends . Hence my answer , this is unfortunate , but this is also not the end of the world . You should get over it , have a nice chat with your so called friends about their shitty idea of what friendship is , apologize to your bf for creating a mess (which, make no mistake, YOU did) , and then move on . If your BF likes you he will understand that you didn't try to mess things up and will eventually forgive you , if not , he is not BF material . Your friends , should apologize to you and him and if they don't , they are not friends material . And you, you should figure out what team you bat for before you make an even bigger mess in the future . Trust me , i have known A LOT of Pans and Bi people . It is all fun and game and very cute when you're 13, but when you're 30 , if you want a stable relationship and not seriously mess people's life this time , you're gonna have to figure out what you want and stick to it , especially if you decide to stick to dating girls or women . Because the net is full of stories of ex wives and kids who got their life seriously messed up when hubby and daddy decided to leave them for the best buddy he had been having an affair with for the past 5 years . And yes Gay men or Straight men , cheat too and leave their wife and kids sometimes , but there is a massive difference between , cheating and deceit . So at least until you make your decision remember to always let your partners know you swing both ways . But , of all the Pans and Bi guys and girls i have met in my life , 99% of them picked a team by the time they were 40 because they realized they were just in complete fucking denial and also had done enough damage to others and to themselves .
As i said i din't sugarcoat things, but i am not a dick or your enemy here ok .
Thanks for your reply, and sorry if mine stings a little , but usually good advice have that bitter taste .
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You are very much welcome . And i can assure you i didn't mean to be dick or disrespectful , i am just not very tactful .
Good thing you moved on from these clearly toxic friends and bf.
Figure things out in your own time , and meanwhile be safe in every sense of the term .
Disproving parents are usually jerks with good intentions so just discuss the matter clearly, calmly, respectfully and intelligently, that usually does the trick . I am gay, i have parents, i am also a father and my son is gay and one of my daughters is "confused" , i know a bit about parenting) and how complicated it can be, but you can't switch or dismiss parents (and/or kids), the way you can with friends or BFs so cut yourself and your parents some slack if things get too spicy , take a break , breathe and reboot ).
As for gender identity, we all go through this , that's just being a teenager. BUT, if you ever get confused about your own to the point that you feel like you wanna get a ticket to Transylvania , make sure you let me talk you out of it and explain to you in detail (I'm an MD with a degree in neuroscience ) why this one way ticket (there is no coming back once it's been chopped off) should not be purchased lightly , especially since the generally accepted idea of being a man or a woman is just a stupid and completely antiquated social construct which has nothing to do with having (or not) a dick or a vagina , so the mutilation is completely unnecessary and irreversible without serious biological and psychological damage and consequences.
Anyway, take care of yourself young man or old man i have no idea how old you are now .
You seem like a good guy.
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You are actually absolutely right Roland .
Now to answer some of your questions (even though they were not addressed to me ) .
In Japan while you are student at the university, you can be as deviants or outcast as you want, these are the only 4 free years of your life and you are free to spend them however you see fit, as long as you stay within the law, and agrees that once you graduate and start working in a company you put all that deviance and outcastness aside and conform to the norm , meaning, you become the good , servile and obedient Salaryman and Office lady , with the suit, the clean hair cut and the stressed and tired look .
Now if you are an adult and are still deviant or an outcast, people will ignore you, you just cease existing , (unless you have money, lots of it) you won't find a job so you will struggle and eventually you will either have to do something illegal to survive , hoping never to get caught (because the police is vicious and extremely corrupted in japan) or live on the street and maybe die . Having a voice in japan is directly linked to whom you know, and your financial status. If you are poor and have no network or relations , nobody cares about what you have to say, you are an outcast and i already told you what happens to those . There is a very minimum welfare system in japan , for single mothers , and people with disabilities preventing them from working. But no welfare for unemployed people, because there is always a little job you can do in japan , and make a minimum of money . There is not medical assistance, if you are too poor to pay the doc or go to the hospital or the dentist , then you just can't go there , because any medical facility you go to, you first have to fill up a questionnaire , about not only your medical condition , but also about your financial status , (employed / unemployed) address (make sure you're not a homeless) and your insurance coverage (but every insurance in japan is a private one, you need to pay for it every month if you want to be covered ) , so if you can't pay before leaving the doc, hospital or dentist, they will call the police and then you will have to deal with the legal system , which is NOT in your favour , at all . So you might be looking at jail time if you can't pay the fine and the medical bill, or any bills . If you are a foreigner, this is even worse , but at least they understand that you have a voice and an opinion and nobody will shame you for that , that's the only good part about being a Gaijin in japan , other than that, this is only duties duties duties and no rights , except the right to work . You can't vote in japan if you are a foreigner , which is the same in almost every country , except that in other countries you can more or less easily become a citizen. Japan however, is a country of blood right, not soil right , meaning that you are Japanese if you are Japanese by blood and ancestry , not because you were born in the country . many people in Japan are the fourth generation of their family living in japan but they are still foreigners and do not have the Japanese citizenship just a visa which doesn't allow them to vote or have a voice or have any political career or ever have a chance to change this . However if you are the fourth generation of your family born in the US or Europe or anywhere else , but your name is Yamada or Suzuki and you can attest of having japanese ancestry , you can get the Japanese citizenship within a month . That's what blood right over soil right means .
Now regarding the last part of your comment .
What is the ideological root of this self discipline , i could give you the very long version with its confucianist roots, and the shinto roots, cult of the emperor , pre Meiji Japan ultra nationalism , but this would add another 100 lines and i don't want to bore you any further , so i will give you the short version. Kids brainwashing from birth by parents and school that your life is not important and your opinion even less , and any form of selfishness is the most absolute shame you can bring upon yourself and your family , friends and coworkers , while any form of selflessness is as close as you will ever get to the divine .
Hope i didn't bore you . I am not Japanese, i am Icelandic , but i have lived nearly 25 years in Japan, graduated from kyoto university med school with other Japanese students , worked for seven years in the medical field in japan while studying geopolitics and japanese society , then started working for the gaimusho or ministry of foreign affairs and then for the UN .
If you are interested in how Japan fucntions, i couldn't recommend you enough to read this book. A japanese mirror by Ian Buruma , this is probably the best one ever written on the topic .
Have a great day Roland .
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Vignesh , where are you from ?
Japan teaches kids to hate foreigners, is that what you call good manners ? Japan teaches kids that animals are just here for our mere amusement or food , is that what you call respect , Japan teaches kids that Japan did nothing wrong during the war , is that what you call good things, Japan teaches kids that the Ainus population where invaders from the north , what do you call that ?
Don't be ridiculous Vignesh, i have lived 25 years in japan , married to a Japanese , and that is why we sent our kids to boarding school in Switzerland .
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So a dolphin who gang rape SOMETIMES is not a mark of evolution and intelligence, then can i remind you of the atrocities of human kind , what does that make us , following your own logic . Look it up .
I never said humans were bad i said we're not better , so avoid the fucking paraphrasing ok . And what is your degree by the way to have such a view on human kind , what do you back it up with ? I am a former MD specialized in the brain , i am also a vet and and ethologist , my mother is an anthropologist and ethnologist and my father is an archaeologist , that means the three of us have about 10 Phds how about yourself ? Do you really want me to write you a thesis here about how not superior to animals we are , because i can drop 300 pages with medical , ethnological, ethological , anthropological references . I can demonstrate to you as simply as 1+1=2 that we are not superior to animals . You are just doing the basic mistake of any amateur , you are doing anthropomorphism , which is why i can tell you have no knwoledge of the topic and just speaking out of your ass .
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Vilifying you , attacking you , oh poor sweet heart you feel attacked by a few words on the internet and yet you don't care about animals being tortured in labs . But when someone shoves the fucking truth down your throat you feel vilified ?! Better lose your gag reflex and man up a little . And you dare telling Lynxy to get a freaking backbone ! What a fucking whining queer you are , how about you grow a fucking pair and learn to take some heat , man you're such a weak pussy , this is pathetic, i was so damn right, you are weak as fuck , and you sure got that part right , you are gay indeed, the full cliche , see you on ru paul drag race honey. Vilified my ass .
I get the screen name now , nothing to do with animals, you're just an old queen, why don't you just change it to silverfoxy and get it over with , is Foxy your drag daddy name or the screen name on your grndr account ?
adjective, foxy
Meaning ,
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foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
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Slang.
sexually appealing; attractive. (you are not clever, Foxy, but definitely cunning and not in a good way.)
stylish; modish:
a foxy outfit.
exciting and appealing, as a place, entertainment, or the like.
( that's just some old queen's wishful thinking , just hopes and dreams right there , coz if you truly were you would have posted a pic of your brick , )
Come on give us your grndr account name and let us all see your mug FoxyDaddy .
Now that you came out this Foxy screen name sounds so damn pathetic .
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It is important to NOT make English the official language of the US for one simple and VERY OBVIOUS reason.
The slaves that were brought to the US were forbidden to use their own language and forced to speak English, 300 years later none of the descendants are able to speak the original language of their ancestors, same with the many Aboriginals in Australia (not all of them fortunately) same with the Ainus of Japan, same with many dialects in France that completely disappeared over centuries , now the only two that remain almost unchanged and alive are Basque and Breton, same with the Inuit population of many northern countries who hardly speak fluent languages such as Inuktitut for instance . and the list is endless . And don't even get me started on the most obvious of all regarding the US , the many languages of the original Natives which are almost all lost today along with the populations that once spoke them .
If people can not understand that simple fact like those two extremely uneducated ones here , they should refrain from making stupid statements , calling it "obvious" . That debate was staggeringly and embarrassingly ridiculous .
I am from Iceland and my kids are taught Icelandic even though i live in Switzerland were we have three offical languages and we are doing just fine (way better than the US actually) . I am married to a Japanese and speak fluent Japanese, on top of French, German and Icelandic . So our kids also speak those languages , and because our kids are adopted (all five of them) they are also taught the language of their country of origin so that when they grow up (and three of them are already grown up) they can be able to visit those countries and understand its culture and also understand the culture of their siblings.
Keeping only one language in any country as the official one, has caused the death of thousands upon thousands of dialects which are nothing more and nothing less than languages originally spoken by a smaller group of people .
This video is not only almost unfathomably stupid and embarrassing, it is simply dangerous . American who do not speak English as a first or native language should DEMAND their language to be made one of the official languages of the country .
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When you let Israel do the same on a daily basis to Innocents in Palestine and even provide the weapons and the forces to help, when you let the US do that to the entire middle east and provide the weapons and the troops to help , this is equally unfair and disgusting . so what the fuck do you expect ? You think that people are going to patiently wait until the end of the genocide and watch . This is a terrorist attack when it happens in your country and "just" war when it happens somewhere else ? For the Palestinians , for the Iraqi , for the Afghani for the Syrians , this is what happens every day , this is not 19 people killed , this is hundreds of thousands that are killed every year and millions since the beginning of the conflicts . and the terrorist are Israeli, Americans, Europeans . What the fuck do you expect ? This is only going to get worse and though i definitely do not condole the act , i completely understand it .i am truly sorry for these 19 victims and the dozen of people wounded , but do you feel sorry when an entire family in the middle east of innocent people , or an entire city is wiped out by British bombs ?
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Hey Stephanie , you are a terrific mother , and your daughter is right to be grateful , you offered her one of the most valuable gifts , and this is really smart of you , not to let their heritage die out . French is such a beautiful language when it is spoken properly . Thanks to you she is or will be able to read Moliere , Corneille, Maupassant, Zola, Descartes, Jules Verne, Pagnol , Flaubert , Proust, Sagan, but also Rimbaud, Voltaire, Verlaine, Rousseau , Baudelaire , is priceless . French literature is one of the most amazing and one of the most important . But she can also understand the message behind the songs of Barbara, Piaf, Jeanne Moreau , Georges Brassens , even the more contemporary Mylene Farmer who has amazing lyrics and the amazing sense of humour of people like Coluche, Devos, Desproges , Bedos , Sylvie Joly and understand her real heritage . But the most beautiful thing she can ever read in French is this (and the French were the first to ever declare this . "Tous les Hommes naissent et demeurent , egaux en dignite et en droits, ils sont doues de raison et doivent agir les uns envers les autres dans un esprit de fraternite, les distinctions sociales ne peuvent etre fondees que sur l'utilite commune. La liberté consiste à pouvoir faire tout ce qui ne nuit pas à autrui : ainsi, l'exercice des droits naturels de chaque homme n'a de bornes que celles qui assurent aux autres membres de la société la jouissance de ces mêmes droits. "
Merci pour votre commentaire Stephanie , votre grand mere et vos parents on eut la bonne idee de vous donner un nom Francais dont vous pouvez vraiment etre fiere , la culture Francaise passee (tout du moins) est d'une des plus importantes de l'histoire moderne. Ce pays est le berceau des premieres idees et pensees , de liberte, d'egalite et de justice pour tous et pour cela il faut absolument en preserver la culture et la langue .
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@ashleygraves5371 Well yes you clearly implied that ! People of all colour go missing and found with organs missing, and black people are not the ones topping the list in terms of numbers, far from it. Get you facts straight and quit acting like a bitter frustrated typical ABW. And no i am not one of those who talks on the net and zip it public, but maybe people don't say things to black people's face, because instead of reacting like a human being and entering a discussion with a proper argumentation, most of you guys, pull out a gun and shoot your interlocutor. Maybe if you acted like actual Homo-sapiens and not like you had just climbed out of the tree or off the water, people would actually talk to you to your face like they do it online. Do not mistake fear and respect, these are two completely opposite things. When someone fears you, this doesn't mean that that person respects you.
You can't go on the street yelling Black life matters and forget that all life matters. The point of the slogan is that Black lives matters too, not that Only black lives matters. If this is how you see it, you are in for a massively rude awakening.
So instead of spilling your bile and acting all superior and menacing (which impresses nobody but yourself) try to act like an actual human being and earn respect rather than trying to impose it with vile language, bad spelling skills and a truly despicable attitude. This will only set you back 5 decades and make other black people look bad by assimilation, which is the last thing they want. Now go wash your mouth with soap and try to learn some dignity and self-respect instead of acting like a fool.
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Ray Ybarra Scandinavian organs are supposed to be the healthiest. I was always told to be careful in some parts of the world, because apparently ours are worth gold. Most Scandi do not smoke either, we hardly drink, except for the Finns, we usually eat quite healthily and are raised in a clean country with very little diseases, and we age quite slowly but with rather natural big bone and muscle structure.
When i worked in Eastern Africa i was shocked by the number of people found dead with organs missing there, and thought that it was some medical black market, but actually i found out it was for magic purposes and that the organs were used by "Witch Doctors". Even kids were routinely mutilated there, and if you were born with Albinism then you were in perpetual danger, since they believe that the organs of Albino kids cure aids .
I am always amused when i hear the Black Life Matters slogan, because if there is one continent in the world where black lives do not matter, it is Africa.
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@ashleygraves5371
"Get a social life" !!! Coming from the person who answered my comment 2 minutes after i posted it !
That's bloody rich ! You do know that social media and actual social life are two different things right ?
Your first comment was 3 months ago, and in three months, you managed to get engaged, married and pregnant, sounds classy. One wonders in what order, given the rush, but hey, they do make great wedding dresses for pregos these days. Was it white ? So how were the receptions and parties for the engagement and the wedding? Church or civil service ? Lots of guests i assume too ?
And that dear child to be, who is going to get the benefit of your wonderful semantic and spelling skills, along with your refined language. How blessed !
Morgan Olfursson
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@ashley graves You start shit and then ask people to leave you alone, that's grotesque. And Bob's right, your spelling is dreadful.
ashley graves
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Morgan Olfursson Learn how to get a social life. Instead of commenting on old ass comments that I completely forgot about.. I have gotten engaged, married, and now pregnant.. Meanwhile you’re trolling people. Fucking loser lol .
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Bravo, elle est le futur. Je suis veterinaire et vis egalement sans dechets dans les montagnes suisses. Etre vegan aide beaucoup, parce que l'industrie de la viande est extremement polluante en plus d'etre cruelle. J'ai la chance de vivre en pleine campagne donc je n'ai pas meme a aller en supermarches, j'achete directement chez les petites exploitation agricoles locales (pour un tiers du prix de supermarches). Pour les produits cosmetiques, pour moi c'est savon de marseille bio pour tout (les cheveux, le visage, le corps, les mains, etc,... Pour la lessive je fait exactement comme elle. Idem pour remplacer les films plastique, j'ai des petits bonets qui couvrent tout, et je les realize moi meme a temps perdu. Et puis j'ai la chance d'avoir un jardin donc je peut faire pousser mes legumes et mes fruits et je ne mange quasiment rien d'exotique qui ne puisse pas pousser sous nos climats.
Pour les eponge, j'utilise des eponges marine qu'une amie cultive elle meme dans une ferme aquatique et elle m'en envoie une vingtaine, deux fois par an. Ca se degrade au bout de quelques semaines, mais c'est exactement le but et ca ne pollue absolument pas.
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Peach Dreams , i think the example of autism and cystic fibrosis are incorrect because you are born autistic and cystic fibrosis is a hereditary affection that is detected at a very young age around 5 or 6 years old so this is not like the life of those people changed dramatically .
Personally i find people with aids or (and i mean OR) contagious diseases to be in the most terrible situation , because of the huge stigma still attached to it . People with contagious diseases can not even live among other people like disabled people can , and have to face a truly solitary life with usually (thanks to modern technology) the internet for companionship or some animals that can not contract the diseases. These people are by far the ones i feel for the most .
I run animal shelters and i am forced to separate the healthy animals from the sick ones and to avoid re-infection some animals have to be kept alone , and this is truly heartbreaking to see an animal desperately looking for attention , especially in the case of scabies or mange which is a disease that takes a very long time to treat and requires full isolation .
Dogs are extremely social animals and so are human beings so for me forced isolation without contact if by far the worst thing . It is like suffering like being in jail in solitary confinement , sometimes for life without committing any crime and ostracized by society . The epitome of unfairness to my opinion .
Fortunately just like most animals can't contract contagious human diseases , neither can human contract most animal contagious diseases so we are the only social interaction isolated animals can get and animals are, beside the net, the only truly social interaction some people condemned to isolation , can get .
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Ok so that's why you stayed in China, you married a doctor after being an english teacher (the lowest of the lowest in terms of what a white foreigner can do in China). You lured your wife into marrying you , because you had no more future in south africa now that the blacks got their country back (or what's left of it) so you were definitely not in odor of sanctity back there , and well no real future career prospect either, and being a white guy in Europe is not something people give a fuck about so you were certainly not going to marry a Brit or Dutch or French doctor , because they are guys like you everywhere and they are nobody's first choice. So you used positive discrimination (ie, being a white guy in China) to your advantage , went there , became an english teacher because it requires zero qualification besides being a native english speaker and being white. Used the fact that you are white to seduce a gullible woman with money and voila !
Well done Man .
But when she is going to divorce you , and chances are she will once she realizes she can do a lot better , you are up for one monumentally rude awakening . No marriage, no visa, leaving China, being back to south africa or europe with no career whatsoever .
Even gigolos know better than to marry in countries like Japan or China .
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@miguelmendes967 Non j'ai tres bien compris, mais la revisitation afro-centriste de l'histoire est aussi stupide et inexacte que l'histoire ecrite par les forces coloniales.
Le fait est que les ancients Egyptiens n'etaient ni blancs, ni noirs, mais que l'Egypte a tourjours ete un carrefour de cultures et d'influences ethniques. La population Egyptiennes classique etait majoritairement Nord Africaine, cela ne veut pas dire Arabe, mais Nord Africaine et toute cette zone d'Afrique du Nord etait un espace qui a connu toutes les influences, Europennes, Sub-sahariennes, Arabes, Asiatique, de l'Inde a la Chine, etc, ... Les peuple Amazigh sont les descendants direct de cette culture, idem pour les Basques, et les Celtes, c'est pour cela qu'il y avait des ancients Egyptiens a la peau blanche et aux yeux clair, mais aussi des Egyptiens a la peau brune ou noire, des Egyptiens aux traits Asiatique et Indien surtout des femmes de ces contrees la qui etaient reputees pour leur beaute, des Egyptiens au cheveux noirs, blond et meme roux.
C'est ca qui a fait la grandeur de l'ancienne Egypte, par cette vision coloniale que tu refuse a raison, mais pas non plus cette vision Afro-centriste que tu defends.
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@chourineur9250 C'est un sujet vraiment complex l'Afro-centrisme. D'un cote c'est necessaire de retablir un sens de fierte a une appartenance ethnique qui a ete la plus oppresse au monde avec les Indiens d'Amerique, mais de l'autre cote, revisiter l'Histoire comme certains le font est vraiment stupide et ne fait que reproduire un schema que les Europeens ont applique pendant des siecles et dont les Sionistes in fait un art pour controller et endormir les populations.
L'important est de nous pas nous laisser separer. Car c'est exactement comme cela que l'on donne le pouvoir aux autres. Diviser pour mieux reigner a toujours ete le nerf de la guerre.
Je refuse de m'ooposer aux Afro-centriste s mais je refuse egalement de laisser ceux, bas de la casquette comme tu le dis justement, s'imaginer et revendiquer des ancetres avec lesquels ils n'ont aucune heredite.
Ce qui m'enerve surtout chez certains Afro-centriste, surtout les femmes, c'est quand elle revendiquent des droits et pretendent que la France ou d'autres pays d'Europe leur doivent reparation et respect etc,.. mais qu'elle le font en France ou en Angleterre ou en Allemagne, alors que l'on sait tous pertinemment que si elles faisaient la meme chose dans la plupart des pays d'Afriques ou les femmes n'ont quasiment aucun droit, elles se feraient fusiller ou pendre. C'est surtout ce genre de discours debile qui m'embete.
J'ai vecu en Afrique pas mal de temps a cause ou grace a mon boulot et honetement quand je vois des immigrants se plaindre en Europe, je me dis que tout de meme ils ont la memloire sacrement courte.
Je bossait pour l'ONU comme medecin donc envoye en mission en Afrique en fonction des conflits avec les casques bleues. Et honetement, apres ma 3eme mission en Afrique au Rwanda, il m'a fallu 4 ans pour m'en remettre et j'ai laisse timbe la medecine conventionelle, suis retourne a l'ecole et suis devenu veto, parce qu'apres ce que j'ai vu je ne voulais plus aide des gens.
Les africains en Europe qui se plaignent du traitement qu'ils recoivent, j'ai un peu envie parfois de les coller dans un avion back home.
Mon dernier jour au Rwanda j'ai vu un soldat de l'armee civile Rwandaise dans le village ou nous etions, demande a ce que les femmes soient trainees au milieu du village, il a fait venir a lui une femme enceinte lui a ouvert le ventre a la baillonette, l'enfant est tombe au sol vivant, le soldat l'a jete en l7air d'une main et la receptionne sur la pointe de sa baillonette. Il a ensuite utilise la baillonette pour griller l'enfant qui bougeaot encore sur le feu de bois, et ensuite a demande au pere de se presenter et il a coupe la jambe de l'enfant et a dit au pere de la manger. sinon ces autres enfants etaient les suivant.
Un medecin c'est interpose et a recu un coup de crosse dans le visage et est tombe net. j'ai essaye d'aider la femme enceinte qui se vidait de son sang et son crane a explose devant moi parce qu'un soldat derriere moi lui a tire dessus.
Tous ca c'etait des black qui 2 ans auparavant etaint voisins et s'entendaient tres bien.
Le nombre de femmes et d'enfants qui ont ete tues au Rwanda et dans les autres conflits africains est incomptable. Dinc quand je vois la nana Africaine a Paris demandant du respect de la part de la France ou le gars afr0-centriste venant nous bassiner avec son ascendance Pharaonique, ou disant que tous les problems en Afrique viennent des blancs, j'ai envie de leur monter Charles de Gaulle ou Orly du doigt et meme leur paye le ticket.
Je suis d'Origine Scandinave et Inuit du cote de mon pere, Britanique et Russe du cote de ma mere. Mon arroere grand mere est arrive de Russie juste apres la revolution Russe et personne je pense ne l'a entendu faire l7apanage de la Russie. Certes elle regrettait certainement les Tsar vu qu'elle venait de l'aristocratie Russe mais elle c'est battue comme une malade apparemment pour faire sont trou en France (et c'est pour ca que nous devons tous apprendre le Francais dans ma famille, alors qu'aucun de nous ne l'est).
Elle est passe de la vie de chateau a St Petesbourg a une chambre de bonne et une vie de domestique a Paris, en 1918 et elle ne c'est pas plaind et a bossee comme une malade. Donc quand un Africain passe de la brousse, des moustiques portant toutes les maladies imaginable, de la malnutrition et d'un pays qui se fou royalement des droits de l'hommes et surtout des femmes et des gosses, a Paris dans les annees 2000 et que cette personne se plaind et ne fou rien en dependant surtout des aides sociales ! Ca me fait moyennement rire.
Et en plus on se fait bassiner avec des conneries du genre "nous descendons des Paharons".
Ok les blancs on a foutu le bordel en Afrique , c'est pas discutable c'est un fait, mais bon, qu'est ce qu'on doit faire, vider les banques et reconstruire l'afrique noire, il n'y avait rien quand les blancs sont arrive, donc reconstruire quoi ?
Que les Algeriens, l'aient mauvaise apres le bordel qu'n a foutu dans leur pays et la facon dont on les a traite, totalement d'accord, comme les Indiens d'Inde auquels les Britaniques ont tout pris.
Mais en Afrique honetement c'etait des dizaines de milliers de peuplades qui se faisaient la guerre depuis des millenaires, et qui vivaient d'une facin pasy si differente des populations de la jungle Amazonienne. Donc cote richesses et resources ....
L'esclavage est inexcusable et nous le savons tous, mais comment mettre un pri de compensation dessus et qui compenser. Au Etats Unis au Bresil, aux Carraibes, etc,...je veux bien, puisque les descendants de ces esclaves vivent encore la-bas. Mais aucun des blacks en France ou en Europe ne descend des esclaves, puisqu'il viennent d'Afrique, donc compenser qui ?
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@baberoot1998 What a brilliant piece of repartee, very impressive , what are you , 12 ?
You'd know about moronic and lowlife wouldn't you ! God believers always do . Using the "god put animals on earth for me to eat them " , really wesley , in 2019 ! Crawl out from that rock you've been spending the past 2000 years underneath of . As for murderer i told you, we are both in the same club . You kill animals , i kill people . Except the people i kill deserve it , the animals you kill, do not . So honey, you're the self righteous cunt here , not me . And a hypocrite on top of that .
And sweetheart, don't block me in order to get the last word , i am a little better than that with computers . I won't block you, because i don't need to . So have the courage of your opinion and if you have anything to say t me , say it , knowing that i will read it and expect an answer , Unless of course , all you can come up with is as ridiculous as
Wesley Hunter
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@Morgan Olfursson You...are a murderer. A lowlife idiot. Your moronic thinking...is appalling. Truly...a moron you are.
Toddles.
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@blosphere1234 That is because Japan is so adapted to technology that for Japanese this is called average when for someone like me, this is called unnecessarily high tech.
I think technology is great if it makes your life easier so you can have more time for yourself or your family and friends, but in Japan technology helps people have more time to work , which i find so depressing .
I have a friend who is an ex colleague from work and she could start her laundry machine and even microwave from work, so that when she arrived home she just had to get the clothes off the washer/dryer and dinner would be ready, plus she shopped online so she didn't have to worry about wasting time at the supermarket . I thought this was brilliant, until she added that thanks to that she could leave the company at 9;30 pm instead of 7:30 . I felt extremely sad for her . I left the company at 5;30 every day and went straight to meet my friends and have dinner or see a movie or have a walk in the park, get a drink in a pub and still had time to unwind when i got home around 10:30 before getting myself to bed, while my colleague probably reached home at 11pm and just collapsed on her bed .
Japanese .
Japanese are insanely good at inventing technological devices, .....
for all the wrong reasons.
Don't get me wrong i love Japan, i just feel a little sad for most of Japanese people i have met who seem to let life passing them by.
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I own 11 real estate properties in Europe (UK, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland), and i must say i don't lease to Chinese, this is not anti Asian at all, because i will prioritize Japanese among any other ethnic group or country. I am also reticent to lease to Black people who are actually from Africa, i have absolutely no problem with Middle Easterners, and as for Whites i will prioritize Swiss then Scandinavians, Belgians, Dutch, Irish, Americans, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Brits, Italians, Eastern Europeans, Greek, Turks.
This is not based on race but on experience. The people i have had the most difficulties with were Chinese, Africans and Eastern Europeans, the ones i have never had a single problem with are Japanese, Swiss, Middle Easterners and Scandinavians.
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Well, Japan is a sort of democracy and China is definitely not . It starts and ends there .
I have lived over 20 years in Japan , never had a problem. Lived about 5 years in China and spent 3 of it in jail for having an opinion. I now live in Switzerland and though i am married to a Japanese (well half Japanese) nothing in the world would ever make me live in Japan ever again, let alone China . Being treated like a second class or even third class person, not being granted any right or any credit and constantly being scrutinized . who in his or her right mind wants to live that kind of life ? Plus i am a veterinarian and ethologist and animals rights in asia are a joke,. The ideograms for animals are 動物 literally , moving things, not livings things , meaning that they are actual things and can be used as such so you can buy a dog or a cat from a pet shop and as long as you've got a receipt you can kill it on the street and go back into the store buy a second one , etc etc ... and this is perfectly legal . You bought it , it belongs to you , you can do as you please with it . Same if your neighbour runs over your dog with his car (even deliberately) all he has to do is pay you back the price of your dog. And as a foreigner in these country , you have about as much right as that dog .
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Hi neighbour,
I'm from Iceland ( I just lived in Japan for a long time) and i understand perfectly how Finnish people think, this is the same with Icelandic people and i think most Scandinavians . We don't waste our time with random people calling home , and unless you were born and raised in Iceland , Finland, Noway , Sweden or Denmark , there is no way , you can ever sound like a native and if you don't , nobody will trust you on the phone or buy anything you try to sell. I think this is a great advantage to live in countries where foreigners have a hard time learning or speaking the language , it creates a natural barrier and only people who really try to make the effort to learn the language have a chance to settle for a long time . Plus the weather alone in Scandinavia is enough to dissuade people .
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@screwy62
Donc en gros tu achetes ce qui te plait sans te soucier des consequences sur ta sante (dont je me branle royalement) ou sur l'environement, sur le mal que ca peut occasioner a d'autres personnes (commerce non equitable) ou sur des especes animales, sur des climats, sur des habitat, etc. Donc voila en gros tu es un gros egoiste qui se fou royalement de l'impact qu'il peut avoir. Et le plus triste est que non seulement tu t'en vantes, mais en plus tu en es fier et tu viens me donner une lecon de morale alors que moi je fait tout le contraire de ce que tu fais et n'achete rien qui soit nuisible a la planete ou a se habitants de toutes sorte, y compris toi mon gars !
Bah si je propose enormement de chose en retour comme manger et acheter bio par ce quon se souci de la planete et de soi, manger et acheter vegan, parce qu'on se souci de la planete et des especes animales et que l'on ne veut pas etre complice d'un genocide a l'echelle planetaire avec toutes les retombees sanitaire et ecologique que ca a. Manger et acheter uniquement des produit issus du commerce equitable pour que ca ne soit pas un gamin de 5 ans qui les fabrique etc,... Parc contre de solution pour ne pas me faire suivre dans les supermarches, je m'en fiche un peu, parce que je vais dans un supermarche 5 fois par an au max.
Screwy 62
1 hour ago
@Morgan Olfursson libre à toi de de la raconter en exposant ta vie et tout ton CV façon petit arriviste se la jouant bobo ecolo à deux ronds, de mon côté je sais ce que le terme vie privée veut dire donc j'ai un métier me permettant de vivre confortablement sa's avoir non-plus à regarder le prix de ce que j'achète et n'étant pas vegan je fais pas tout un patacaisse à lire la composition de ma bouffe je prend ce qui me fait envie c'est aussi simple que ça. De plus on en revient toujours au même point tu chouine d'être surveillé dans les supermarchés alors qu'il y a largement ce qu'il faut en magasin bio et vegan sans compter internet. Après tu l'ouvre énormément à dire que les méthodes sont dépassées mais sa's rien proposer en retour, comme je te l'ai dit si tu veux que ça évolue donne donc une partie de ta fortune en recherche et développement et offre tes services aux supermarchés puisque tu semble avoir la science infuse
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@screwy62
J'aime enormement ta facon de mettre les vrais problemes de cote et de me parler de securite. J'ai pourtant ete clair regardant la securite et je ne vais pas me repeter encore. Donc non je ne suis pas payer pour les solutions alternative donc cela ne me concerne pas. Ce qui me concerne c'est la planete, les betes et le commerce equitable. Point barre. Evite aussi les expression du style "tu te la racontes" on dirait un gamin du 93 en survet et doudoune et ca n'impressione personne en plus de te faire paraitre vulgaire et inculte.
Je ne comprend egalement pas pourquoi tu continue a parler de moi au feminin. Il me semble que mon nom et la photo de moi sur le profile sont suffisemment explicitent pour ne pas semer le doute quant au fait que je suis un homme et non pas une femme. Donc d'ou te vient ce doute ?
Je n'ai pas d'avion donc je ne sais pas vraiment combien de kerozene cela consomme. Lorsque je ne suis pas en confinement comme en ce moment, je ne prends pas l'avion tres souvent. L'avantage avec le fait de vivre en suisse est que l'on peut aller partout en voiture, et ma vouture est electrique. Ma maison est egalement equipee de panneaux solaire et je produit plus d'electricite que je n'en consomme donc je revends le surplus ce qui me permet de gagner de l'argent et de recharger ma voiture sans avoir a utiliser l'electricite nucleaire.
J'ai un bateau a voile que je prends sur le lac de Geneve et avec lequel nous descendons parfois vers Lausanne et ailleurs, mais c'est un petit voilier pas un yacht, donc la encore aucune polution.
Donc mes voyages sont vraiment ecolos. Et lorsque nous partons en avion quelque part c'est toujours avec des eco friendly flights et des compagnies comme atmosfair, Tui Airways, Tulfy, etc,... qui sont toutes des compagnie eco friendly qui reversent une partie du prix des tickets au reboisement et a l'ameliorations des habitats. Donc plutot que de donner a une organisation ecologique directement, nous partons en vacances et nous aidons l'environement. De plus lorsque nous partons en vacances c'est toujours dans le cadre de mon travail et je demande juste a pouvoir amener mes enfants avec nous et les enfants sont toujours sensibilise a l'ecologie et meme aident partout ou nous allons, Ne serai-ce qu'en nourrisant les betes des parcs naturel que nous allons visiter ou en aidant les volontaires qui y travaillent. Je ne suis pas du tout du genre a aller au club med ou a ibiza ou New York, mes vacances sont toujours productives et toujours dans le cadre de montravail, donc c'est plutot le Kenya, la Tanzanie, la Jordanie, Kurdistan, le Nepal , le Tibet, les Galapagos, l'Ile de Paques, etc,...
Donc tu imagines bien a quel point tes preocupations de supermarches me passent au dessus de la tete !
Je l'ai expliquer clairement depuis le depart de cette discussion, toute ma vie est basee sur l'ecologie, l'aide aux animaux et le commerce equitable. Cela fait plus de 40 ans que je vis comme ca et mes parents et grand parents vivent et vivaient comme cela avant moi donc tu ne trouveras absolument rien dans ma vie qui ne respecte ces trois priorites. Ni la maison dans laquelle je vis, ni la facon dont j'eleve mes enfants, ni la facin dont je m'aliment ou m'entretient, la facon donc je me deplace, les vacances que je prends, le travail que je fais, mes convictions religieuse etc, TOUT est base sur ces trois principes, Ecologie, Animaux, Commerce Equitable.
Screwy 62
22 minutes ago
@Morgan Olfursson du coup c'est bien ce que je dis tu te la ranconte et tu chouine d'être surveillée tout en étant incapable de proposer une alternative tout en critiquant le système en place ce qui est on ne peu plus hypocrite, si tu n'es pas contente alors ne vas JAMAIS dans les supermarchés sachant le alternatives disponibles, quand au côté bobo écolo dis moi combien de kérosène ton avions quand tu le prend, ou combien de diesel consomme le bateau? Quitte à donner des leçon commence donc par faire des voyages vraiment écolo après tu pourras peut-être donner des leçons.
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This idea of reward and competition is so american or western of you , just like this belief that every artist wants a trophy . In Japan, art is its own reward . Getting a trophy would make it tacky and the artist would lose a lot of his credibility .
In Japan there is a supreme recognition called Nigen Kokuho meaning Living National Treasure . and no Japanese artist wants it . because it you get the reward (and this is awarded by the Emperor himself), though it means that you are the best in your specific artistic field , it also comes with a lot of duty. The artist once awarded a National Living Treasure (award which last until his last breath) has to produce pieces constantly and even perfect his art , and also hire disciples which he or she must trains to prepare a new generation or artists in this specific field . And though his award comes with money , and the Ningen Kokuho pieces may well sold for the equivalent of hundred of thousands of dollars, most of these artist curse the day they are awarded , (especially since in japan, you can't decline the award) and wish they were still working at their own pace and doing their things and could really do without the burden of fame .
Plus if someone else wanted that title and you got it, the rivalry may last even after your death .
Trust me , in japan , we really do not like recognition , and being in the shadows is considered a very pleasant way to spend one's life.
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It is very difficult when the country doesn't have a word for this.
Trans are called trans in chinese because there is no actual chinese word for it , and this says a lot about how accepted and respected people are . Any country that doesn't have a word for Transgender has basically no place for them either .
At least Chinese use the word Trans as it is . The Japanese version is sickening . A mixed race person in Japan is called Hafu which is short for Half Breed , literally , there is no such thing as biracial because for japanese you are neither of the race , you are just Half or Hafu . And if you wonder why i talked about Biracial people on the topic of Transgender , it is because in japanese the word for Transgender is Nyu Hafu , which is the contraction for New Half , in other term, you are a new version or a new type of Half, except in this case you are not Half Breed , you are Half Gender . You are neither man, nor woman you are not both either , you are just half of each . Which is why though Transgender can legally have reassignment surgery and have their gender official changed on their ID . it is always mentioned that it has been changed , and that the person was actually born as a boy / Oh and cherry on the cake, so far only Japanese men can become women, it is still forbidden for women to become men through surgery and officially in terms of social identity on passport and ID . Which is for me the most sickening form of discrimination because not only it forbids you to fully live your life as a woman after you have transitioned because any employer will know when they see your ID that you were once a man and this is going to make finding a job almost impossible in Japan . But also the epitome of machism as clearly for Japanese , becoming a girl is acceptable for a man if he wants to give up all his privileges (because make no mistake , Japan is an extremely Male oriented and Male dominated country and society) , but it is forbidden to a woman to ever expect becoming a man and gain the Male's social, political and professional privileges .
Oh and to top it all , when Japanese Female to Male transgenders asked why it is forbidden for them to become men legally, the official answer , and that is from the ministry of health was that , attaching a male genitalia on a female body is still very difficult and not legal in Japan anyway, and also that , (hold on to your chair), that because females do not have a Y chromosome they can't really become males .
I am a gay male, not transgender , married to a Japanese man , and i have lived 25 years in Japan , mostly working in the medical field . Though as a gay man i never really suffered in japan , which i must admit is not a country where it is difficult to be gay, as long as you don't brag about it and scream it on every roof . But because i couldn't get married and have kids there , we moved to Europe , where i am from and got married in Iceland and now live in Switzerland . My husband truly loves his country but nothing in the world would ever make him live there again .
Japan is very VERY far from being a place for Transgender people and i suspect the rest of Asia is no exception .
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@oracle1683 Never been overseas ? Don't make me laugh. My entire life is overseas, i wasn't even born in the country i have the citizenship of and even today i live in a country i had to learn the language of.
Just for the record, i have lived in China, Japan, France, England, Iceland, the US, Russia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Congo, Mauritania, Denmark, Norway, Guatemala, Mexico and Argentina . Half of these countries i have lived before i even turned 15 because of my parents' job.
Never been overseas,...you're funny.
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@laurentpaturet8944 Je ne cotise pas pour ma retraite en france et mes enfants vont chez leur dentiste la ou je vis, donc en Suisse. Donc pour cela tout ce que je paie en France ne me profite pas du tout et ne me profitera pas non plus dans le futur parce que je n7ai aucune intention de finir ma vie en France. Je participe au systeme de solidarite (malgres moi, parce que je n'en ai pas le choix, donc ca n'est une participation volontaire), mais je n'en profite absolument pas. Non tu ne paies pas mes medocs ou ma retraite puisuque mes medecins sont en Suisse et tu ne paies pas ma retraite puisque c'est le gouvernement Suisse et Islandais qui va me la reverser.
Je peux retourner en Angleterre, en Suisse ou en Islande, cela n'y changera rien, mon employeur est international et le quartier general est base en France donc peut importe ou je vis, je reste assujetit au droit du travail francais, et il est hors de question que je quite mon travail simplement parce que je refuse de payer (ou de participer a payer) le salaire le salaire des militaire. Je suis content de participer au salaire des professeurs de l'education nationale, je suis fier de participer au salaire des medecins et infirmier(es) fonctionnaire egalement et de participer au paiment des frais medicaux des plus demunis ou au RSA. Je n'ai aucun probleme avec ca, mais je suis contre les militaires, donc je pense que la defense devrait etre financee par des investisseurs prives plutot que par les taxes. D'autant plus que si le budget de l'armee etait redistribue ailleurs cela permettrait de creer enormement d'emplois et de redresser l'economie nationale.
Le budget de l'education nationale en France est de 51 milliard d'auros par an, (avec un hausse accordee de 1,2 milliard pour l'annee prochaine), le budget de la defense nationale est de 36 milliard par an et augmentera de 1,7 milliard d'euros par an jusqu'en 2022 et ensuite de 3 milliard d'euros par an a partir de 2023.
De plus si un militaire est blesse l'etat prends en charge les frais medicaux. Donc en gros l'etat nous preleve de l'argent pour payer le salaire des militaires puis nous prelever aussi de l'argent pour les soigner. Donc notre propre salaire sert a payer nos propre frais medicaux, ce qui dire que pour ce qui est des frais medicaux lies au militaires, nous sommes oblige de les traiter gratuitement.
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@existentialhangover1124 You never work for free. People who believe that they work for free are people who believe that every minute of their life doing something for the company deserves remuneration . I have no idea what sort of job you do, but if you bring work back home, you do not get paid, if you decide to leave the company a little later than usual or arrive a little earlier so you can have the time to spend on a project , you do not get paid either. but your employer will notice that and when he or she has to choose who is going to get the promotion , you will be at the top of the list. The person however who complains about unpaid overtime or refuses to ever bring work home, is the last person who will be promoted and the first person who will lose his/her job it the company hits a hard time.
I got where i got because i worked over time , and i don't mean 30 minutes or one hours overtime every day, i mean leaving the company at 11pm when everybody else in my position left at 5 or 6pm. I also never took a single extra day off the first 3 years and no holiday and went to work when i had a cold or a broken arm . I never complained, always smiled (especially when i didn't want to) said good morning to everyone in the morning and good evening to all the people who left before me and apologized to the ones who left after me when i left earlier. I tried to help others when they needed it and always remembered to make a gesture of gratitude toward those who helped me. The boss noticed me after a few years and realized i was reliable and also had a good reputation in the company and that everybody knew me, even the ones i didn't work with. And i never asked a promotion, i asked for more work , that's how you get promoted, never by asking for it .
6 years after i entered the company my wage had doubled and i was buying my first house.
You are never going to get anything just by demanding it, you need to earn it, and you are even less going to get anything if you complain.
As i said, if you do not like your job or your wage or your schedule or your boss, change job, but don't expect your boss or schedule or wage to change just because you don't like it or complain about it. There is always somebody ready to take your place and your employer knows it so if you complain and do not make enough effort why should your employer keep you ? Your boss is not your mother or father or a meber or your family or a friend or a wife or a husband, he or she has no obligation toward you. It is just a contract, you work you get money, you want more money you have to work longer and harder, you want a better position with a better wage and better advantages, you have to work 5 times harder than anybody else in the company, twice longer and never complain. IF you are not ready to do that, do not complain if 20 years later your wage increased by 10% and you are still doing the same menial task you did when you started. Nobody will take a chance on you if you do not show that this is worth it.
If you have no ambition and not intention to be a hard worker, McDonald's and Walmart are recruiting.
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@LivyRivy What kind of life do you really want ? A life where you do as little as possible and get away with as much as you can . In that case become an investment banker, throw your ethic out the window and become a politician while you're at it, or start selling weapons , it is very lucrative and doesn't require much effort.
Sorry but i base my life on being useful to others, in my case, i chose animals and the planet, and sometimes kids. This requires efforts and dedication, and a taste for precision and excellence because a single mistake can be fatal in my field of work. So i need to surround myself by a team of people who have the same work ethic.
I also want co-workers who like their job and do not just watch the clock to know when they are finally going to be free t go home or take a break, these are the worst people to work with. I like my job and don't mind working 14 hours a day so i don't envy people who work only from 9 to 5 but consider it agony to go to work everyday.
Maybe they should reconsider their career and do something they like.
But one thing is certain, without hard work you will achieve nothing in life, so if maybe doesn't have to become your entire life, but it better represent a large part of it if you want to actually have a life. Because this is not fun to count every penny you spend just to make it through the month either. When you refuse to work hard to often endless poor and maybe you'll have a lot of time to yourself but let me ask you the same question, "What kind of life do you really have when you have to wonder how you're going to pay the rent next month or feed the kids ?"
You'd better choose a job you like , study hard at school to get that job and then work your ass off for the first 20 years , until you get a secure and safe position where you do not need to work as much anymore and can also enjoy your days off and holidays to the fullest.
Unless you were born wealthy and in that case , pretend to work at a museum or at some kind of public office /
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Must have been in recent years Nicholas. I lived in France for 5 years in the early 90s and not too many people spoke english then . Especially in administrations , hospitals, railway and bus stations , i mean you know the places where it matters most .
I was lucky to sort of speak the language prior to moving there because I remember clearly going to the Prefecture de Police with a Japanese friend of mine who was asking for a student Visa and there , everybody not only spoke only french but even the application was in French . That is the first time i actually got angry in France . I told the clerk that she was working at a place where foreign students were coming to ask a visa to be able to study French and they already had to be able to speak it and read it perfectly in order to ask for IT ??? This was beyond stupid . This and the fact that students had to ask for visa on November and they had to queue in front of the prefecture de police since 4 am if they wanted to get in , and had to do it in the freezing cold , on the street . That day was not a day i loved France , especially since i had lived in Japan before that and when it was my turn to ask for a visa , they had people speaking English, Korean, Chinese, German, Russian Arabic Spanish AND French ! working at the immigration bureau , and people could wait indoor 24/7 and you could ask for a visa any time of the year . France is a great country but no i wouldn't say that the service is worth anything , not even in cafes and restaurants, except if you can afford to eat at Coste .
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I LOVE THAT SEX IS IS JUST NOTHING MORE THAN SOMETHING PLAYFUL IN JAPAN , EXACTLY THE WAY IT SHOULD BE . IT'S A COSPLAY GAME NOTHING MORE , NOTHING LESS, NOTHING TO BE FREAKED OUT ABOUT . THIS IS NOT ABOUT JAPAN, WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT FANTASIES , JAPAN AND JAPANESE ARE JUST WAY MORE OPEN AND COMFORTABLE WITH THEIRS . IF ANYTHING I FIND IT REFRESHING AND SORT OF COOL .
THE PEOPLE CALLING THEM WEIRD AND MESSED UP OR WHATEVER ELSE, ARE THE ONES WITH THEIR VERY SELF INDULGENT , SELF IMPORTANT, SELF RIGHTEOUS , JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BELIEFS . JAPAN DOESN'T HAVE WESTERN AND MIDDLE EASTERN MONOTHEIST ROOTS , CULTURE AND RELIGION AND THEREFORE WAY OF THINKING ARE NOT BASED ON THE BIBLE, THE TORA OR THE QURAN , SO OF COURSE SEX IS VIEWED DIFFERENTLY THERE . I THINK EVERY CULTURE OR CIVILIZATION THAT IS COMFORTABLE WITH SEX IS A HIGHER CIVILIZATION . ANCIENT ROMANS AND GREEKS WERE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH SEX AND SEXUALITY, EGYPTIANS , AND SUMERIANS WERE TOO, HINDUS WERE AND STILL ARE , AND SO WERE THE INCAS AND MAYANS , AND THESE ARE ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT CIVILIZATION IN RECORDED HISTORY . I AM NOT SAYING THAT JAPAN IS THE EQUAL TO THE ANCIENT SUMERIA OR EGYPT BUT 1500 YEARS AGO IT HAS ALREADY REACHED AND ACHIEVED A WAY HIGHER LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION THAN EUROPE AT THAT TIME . SO YES , JAPAN IS SOMEHOW AHEAD OF US IN SOME WAYS . SEX BEING MAYBE ONE OF THOSE WAYS .
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@alexalex-wb3ub Pas pour l'argent , pour leur survie et pour eviter la famine. Il n'y a aucune discrimination de ma part. La chine tient completement l'Afrique. Si on te demande d'aider ton voisin mais qu'en contrepartie tu dois voir tes enfants crever ti fais quoi ?
Je sais tout de la mentalite de ses pays musulmans, j'y ai en partie grandit et je parle l'arabe bien mieux que le francais/
Non le nazisme radical c7est ce que la chine fait aux Uyghurs.
Bien sur, si tu es avec eux tu es contre nous parce que le but de la chine est de dominer la planete et elle va y parvenir bientot si on n'y fait rien et nous serons ;a nouvelle afrique. Malheureusement je connais encore mieux la chine que les pays musulmans, parce que j'y ai vecu encore plus longtemps j'y ai meme ete en prison a cause de mes activites, qui n'avaient rien d'illegale, sauf en chine !Ma menace n'est pas personelle, le danger ne vient pas de moi mais de la chine.
Juste pour finir, je travaille pour l'ONU aujourd'hui et je vis entre Geneve et Londres. Ma famille est dans la milieu diplomatique et bancaire (c'est pour ca que je n'ai passe que quelques temps en prison en chine et n'ai pas pris une balle dans la tete comme mes collegues chinois . Et encore c'etait bien avant Ping.
Alors maintenant arrete de faire ton malin et va t'acheter une education.
Allez salut bonhomme.
alex alex
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@Morgan Olfursson TU DIS : "Les pays du moyen orient et autres pays musulmans en afrique et de part le monde sont oblige de fermer leur gueule parce que la chine les tiens financierement. ", Tu veux dire que ces pays musulmans font ça pour de l’argent. MAIS ARRÊTER TA DISCRIMINATION pour ces pays non développés, aucun respect pour eux. Tu ne sais rien sur la mentalité de ces pays musulmans. Tu ne peux pas accuser ces pays musulmans à tort comme ça. TU DIS : " interdisant les chinois dans nos commerces, nos etablissements et leur montrant qu'ils ne sont pas les bienvenus dans nos villes et dans nos pays" MAIS ARRÊTER TON RACISLEME RADICAL, C’EST DU NAZISME TOTAL !!!!! TU DIS : " si tu es avec eux tu es contre nous et crois moi on ne fera pas la difference entre eux et toi et tu ne vas pas apprecier ce qui va t'arriver" En plus tu me menaces, c’est vraiment très malsain, ces sont des discours de voyoutisme contre la valeur universelle de notre société moderne.
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@pmartin20002001 You sure have our support.
I am a lot more concerned with the ecological disaster which was the consequence of colonialism, the complete destruction of fauna and flora in the colonized nations, the disappearance of countless animal species, the destruction of natural habitat, resulting, and of course the slaughtering and/or slavering of local indigenous population as well as the robbery of their natural resources.
Native people in the US are by far the ones who paid the biggest price, but you are absolutely right , Asia suffered immensely , starting with India, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, etc,.... Japan received two atomic bombs on innocent civilians, this alone sums it all, Australia is still a stolen land just like the US and Canada. And the almost entirety of the Africa n continent is still the most damaged place on earth.
As a veterinarian and ethologist , my heart goes to the most innocent victims of all, the animals , they are always the ones paying the biggest and bloodiest price of human&s greed and stupidity (and i will target my own people here, since we still hunt whales in Iceland so the clean up for me starts here). And then i feel so very deeply for the children, who are the second most innocent victims, whom, because they grow up in such places , have no choice but to become the ones forced to reproduce their parents mistake, due to lack of proper education and the possibility to take control of their life and their country, which are so corrupted, they don't offer any room for improvement.
And then you have fake saviour organizations like the UN who are just here to make sure that nothing changes and to maintain the status quo .
It is a very very sad time, but we have the strongest weapon of all, knowledge or what is going on and the possibility to spread that knowledge. So i'm definitely on board and i would offer any kind of support to any organization dedicated to fix the mistake of our common past. As long as it includes in its project the safeguarding of wild life and ecosystems in its agenda.
Because whether a whale or a dolphin is killed by an icelandic people, Japanese people or Danish people, or animals are hunted in Africa or India by rich dentist from the US and Denmark for sport or by poachers from China for ivory and traditional medicine, it doesn't change anything for the animal, so i will support any organization, as long as it includes, not only the reparation for what was done to indigenous populations but also to work for better tomorrows for the wild life and biodiversity of said countries .
As the Mahatma Gandhi once said
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”
I believe that if we do not change the way we treat animals, there isn't a single chance to change the way we treat each other.
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Ian H Japanese doesn't need more kids , they need people to live less long . How do you want to have kids when the 120 years old great grand mother , the 98 years old grand mother, the 70 years old mother , are under your roof and you already need two income to support them , but you can't both work because you need someone to stay home to look after them , so usually the husband works 16 hrs a day , to support the wife , the mother the grand mother the great grand mother and himself , there is no way he is going to get kids on top of that . I am telling you, the problem in Japan is that people live too bloody long .
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this chef is funny and he is not vain, i like that .He brags about how good the ingredients are , not him . This is a true chef .
He also knows that Sushi though very popular and expensive food in the west is the most basic food in japan and dates back hundreds of years as it is the simplest cuisine.
The most basic source of income in the old days in Japan was fish and fishermen were the most basic workers with often miserable wages . They would have to go very far at sea and often stay at sea for a few days . No food could be kept fresh in the hot and humid summers on a ship . So they brought too things , rice and dried seaweeds which were the most inexpensive things at the time . To keep the rice fresh and edible for several days it was mixed with salt and vinegar . Wasabi (which was also very easy to keep fresh for several days ) was also thought to have antiseptic properties and therefore , to avoid food poisoning was brought aboard the ships and spread on the rice, and the soy sauce which was cheaper than salt and can be kept for months without cooling was brought along too as seasoning or the Japanese equivalent of dressing . The raw fish ans other seafood were the only source of proteins while at sea and of course you don't make fire on a boat made out of wood so it was eaten raw , with vinegar rice , seaweed, wasabi and soy sauce and there you have it , Sushi .
This chef of course knows where sushi came from and that it was the dish of the poorest among the poor workers and the most humble food , a feudal loard would have never been caught dead eating it . That's why i like this chef's humility . He is like the fishermen .
Simple and dignified and with a good sense of humor.
Don't let the photo fool you , i am Japanese , Kyoto born and raised, this is my husband's account .
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and Switzerland where i live, we are richer than you , don't forget that . and we are very very well armed, one nuclear missile pointed at switzerland from the US and you can kiss your nation goodbye and we will survive economically, even after we blaseted the US , because we are richer than most countries combined. Don't forget that the world real leaders, not the americans, but the Rothschild , The Rockefeller , the Morgans (who incidentaly are relatives that's is why i know exactly what i am talking about) all live here in the mountains of Switzerland , this is where the headquarters are, and if you think the gold is in the federal bank , think again it is here . And we have the support of Russia and China and many other countries because we hold their money just like we hold yours. Americans don7t have any fucking power , this is just a facde to make you feel superior, the real power that be are all here in my lovely quiet clean safe secure country . Why do you think nobody ever messes with Switzerland .
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It only proves one thing , that Bjork is way better than Gaga , well actually you can't even compare the two ,as Bjork is an artist ,while gaga is an entertainer , so these are completely different worlds. Most people don't know who Bjork is , well i disagree with that . I would say people who do not know what real music is do not know Bjork , and i don't think there is one person in Europe at least who doesn't know who Bjork is . Gaga is like Pepsi , it is very famous , very popular everybody must have heard the name and tried it at least once in their life , but it terms of beverage it is crap , just sugar mixed with sugar mixed with sugar mixed with syrup mixed with sugar . And if Gaga is Pepsi she only exist because Madonna was Coca Cola , at least Coke had the advantage to be original , but in terms of beverage they are both crap . Now Bjork is like a Mouton Rothschild . That is the best and most simple explanation i can give t differentiate Bjork from Gaga .
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Show me one thing original about gaga , just one . I do not the slightest form of respect for gaga as an entertainer, she looks cheap she sounds cheap and banal vocally and her music is horrendous , and her fans skin cats to make an outfit . She is pespi cola nothing more nothing less . Everybody worked hard before becoming famous, Madonna did. Njork did . Grace did and they became tremendous artists , gaga worked hard and became , well, she became gaga , some marketing product because that's what she is . She wears someone else's clothes she pays people to be creative FOR her, she pays people to sample other people's music to create hers, she pays people for her looks , there is NOTHING creative and NOTHING original or even remotely relevant about gaga.She might be something for a 15 years old raised with the kardashians and miley cyrus or kesha but for anybody with half a brain and a knowledge of music , she is pure rubbish . anybody with a training in singing and music can replace her tomorrow . She has no personal message nothing that she said is original , what , gay rights , stop the war and be yourself , yes how original / no sorry gaga is not even worth talking about her i believe.
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I was behind the scene i met the real creative people , the ones whom you will probably never know about, i met and still meet the real artists , the real creative geniuses . the ones gaga herself takes inspiration from , (read the ones she copies) . I am in the art scene , i am not an artists , i am an enthusiast , a collector an amateur . I have met Bjork several times , being Icelandic myself and living near the arbour in Reykjavik probably helped , we were neighbours and met at the local pubs since the sugar cubes . I have had the privilege thanks to my friend the amazing dancer Jonte to meet Grace Jones at a music festival in France . Because grace loves him so much and considers him to be her "female" alter-ego we could chitchat for a while and she was delightful to talk to . And finally i have worked with or for Madonna in 1994 in Japan and 1995 in the UK thanks to the now famous Alexander mcqueen whom i used to hang out with in the gay bars of south London when i was doing escort .
Today to my neighbours and clients i may be just a little veterinarian living in Zurich with my Husband and our 3 adopted kids but i am not your average joe and i have a few phone numbers on my contacts list that would make a PR rep drool with envy , and i have had a life you can't even comprehend honey so please skip the "deal with it part" and the "i don't understand creativity" , no darling YOU don't understand creativity if you think that gaga is creative . There are thousands of people who are a million times more creative than gaga who are still underground because they don't have the right face, the right skin colour , the right name , the right background . Gaga used to hang in the underground scenes in NY with a fucking platinum credit thanks to rich doctor daddy before returning to her very VERY upper class neighborhood . Born this way born what way , a rich bitch who stole all she could from the underground gay scene (like madonna did , especially with Vogue) and promote it as her own . Please , don't be ridiculous , she is SHIT any gay man over 35 who used to be part (not hang out) BE PART of the underground scene as a kid will confirm you that . Germanotta was chosen by Interscope Records who created Gaga , she was chosen among a group of 73 auditioning girls. There were 4 auditions, after the second one there were 2 black girls left who were far better singers and musician than Germanotta , one lesbian girl who is going to become a legend and already is in the underground scene , and two white girls including stefani, after the third autidion only stefani, the other white girl and the lesbian remained , after the 4th audition only Germanotta remained , so they got rid of the black then the gays who were far better than Germanotta , and stuck with the rich white girl , well mannered, polished, graduate from Tisch , NYU . You now nothing about the real art scene , you know nothing about the real true artists out there ,so please stick to the kardashians and youtube and gaga and avoid the lecture , because you would have to have something to lecture me about . Talked to me again after you've met Bjork , Jones , and worked with Madonna and McQueen (well maybe not McQueen) but hey you get what i mean .
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Nfinite, i won't be rude , but not knowing Bjork and Knowing Gaga is not something you should be proud of . Gaga is a silly entertainer like Madonna (well she wishes she can be like Madonna some day) , but Bjork is music royalty , she is respected by the greatest musicians, singers, and composers of our time, from classical to electro. Madonna and Gaga however , aren't . Bjork has been compared to Mozart , Beethoven , Rachmaninoff , Gaga will never be . Bjork started her career at 6 years old , and studied music as a composer her entire life , working with the greatest musicians and composers on the planet and singing for the most prestigious venues , and at 16 years old she was one of the most known artist in Europe, not because of a mega PR corporation like gaga, but because of talent alone, and less than 8 years later with Debut she was a revolution in Music . yet again not because of PR but because of her tremendous talent and her , never heard before music , which is more than we can say about gaga . She made one film and received the golden palm for best actress , her first movie. No no Nfinite and especially you Everhart , comparing Bjork to gaga is like comparing Da Vinci or Michelangelo to Lassen and Bob Ross and their fucking dolphins and mountain landscapes, that's about gaga's level in the music industry . fast cheap and easy listening for people who n\know shit about music .
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Icarus, Gaga is not an artist, she is an entertainer . She went to a school to study music for years, of course she can play instruments you dumb ass. You think that because you can play Bach or Tchaiko that makes you an artist . I play the guitar more than decently and i studied violin and piano for decades , i can play all three of them , that doesn't make me an artist. Get a clue man , playing one instrument doesn't make you an artist, and do not compare what Bjork can do with a music instrument to what Gaga does with it , please , you cleraly know nothing about music and composing . No no gaga's voice is not one of the best of today , she is just a singer among hundreds , the best voice of today are in opera halls around the world not in the pop industry , gosh you really know shit about music don't you ? There are thousands upon thousands of people who write their own song, that doesn't make it a sign of quality . Nobody except her and her family gives a fuck about her aunt , sorry. I am gay and she pushed nothing at all for us, if anything she used us to promote her career . she just walked on a path or a trail that a lot of people opened before her with their own flesh and got bruised in the process, gaga never injured herself when she so called, fought for our rights as gays , don't be ridiculous . If you are gay Icarus you should seriously study about our civil rights history, because gaga is not on the list .
No she is not an incredible actress , Meryl Streep is , Jodie Foster is , Viola Davis is , Catherine Deneuve is , gaga isn't . Sorry . easy to get a GG when you have her connections. When she wins a real award we'll talk .
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And Japanese have an issue with foreigners for two reasons , they are an island country and have a very deep rooted culture that took thousands of years to develop and centuries to reach peace (as Japan was constantly fighting domestic conflicts) and they don't like change , because change , they just love their little routine , they find it reassuring nd peaceful . That's the first reason .
The second is even more simple to understand . The only pacifist interaction Japan ever had with the world was China and the Netherlands . Portugal and Italy tried to push Christianism on them , England tried to colonize them and make it part of the commonwealth , Mongolia tried to invade them and was only stopped by a typhoon , hence the term Kami Kaze , and american forced them to open the country to trade , then dropped two atomic bombs on them killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians , including my spouse's entire family and relatives in Nagasaki . So yes i'd say that Japanese have good reason o dread contact with foreigners . The country is open to foreigners, I have lived there 25 years and never had a single issue but when you enter Japan , you are constantly reminded that you are abroad and that you don't really or fully belong , regardless if you just landed minutes ago , or have been there for 3 generations . Japan is a country of blood right not soil right , meaning that if you can not testify of Japanese ancestry and Japanese blood , you will never be called Japanese , even if your family has been in the country for 5 generations , and you won't be granted citizenship either , unless you ask for it and grow through the extremely litigious and very discouraging paperwork . But even if you get granted citizenship, the entire country will still see you as a foreigner , plus to get the Japanese citizenship you have to first give up your own as a gesture of commitment and because Japan doesn't allow double citizenship . And once you have it you will get none of the advantages of being Japanese ,m but you will sure get all the duties and will have no excuses anymore to not play by the rules, which in Japan is not something to take lightly . People who do not respect the rules and the codes in Japan are targeted as outcasts and in Japan it is better being dead than being an outcast , because you will be ostracized so badly that your life will become a living nightmare .
Japan and Japanese do not hate foreigners . They hate change and having to adapt to new things . And they also are brainwashed since birth in thinking that Gaijin are dangerous so that surely doesn't help, especially with ALL the media in Japan depicting Gaijins as strange, dfferen and often fearsome , but nothing like Japanese . Which is why after 25 years and in spite of being offered citizenship by the government (which happens to about 10 gaijins in the country every year) , i turned it down and left the country with my beloved , because we wanted to have a family and nothing , and i mean NOTHING in the world would ever make me raise kids in Japan and my spouse agreed .
Japan is not a bad country , but it is not a great one either . Freedom is just a notion there , human rights and democracy and equal rights are ,....in progress , but it'll take another 100 years to reach what i consider actuall democracy and equal rights and opportunity for all . But still , Japan is the best there is in Asia when it comes to it .Not enough for a free spirit like me though . I'm Scandinavian , we invented human rights and equal rights and freedom so Japan is a beautiful little garden i like to go have a walk in every now and then , but i will not raise my kids in a place as artificial as this .
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@ruslankazimov622 Exactly what is your point ?
As a former model myself (in Japan) i can assure you that there is no such thing as underage models. You can be a model from age 2 so exactly what do you mean by underage models?
Japanese companies pay millions to famous foreign people because it boosts the sales. Japanese like to identify with those global celebrities, and Japan is not a global market in the entertainment industry so of course they tend to hire sometimes foreigners, but mostly to sell to a young audience. Traditional japanese brand favour Japanese celebrities for their ads. It is just a matter of targeted market.
I think Japanese are pretty good at Judo as they often get most of the medals during the olympics, which is a pretty physical sport , Ichiro is a very famous baseball player, inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Yuzuru Hanyu two times olympic champion in figure skating, Kohei Uchimura seven times olympic medalist in gymnastics, Kosuke Kitajima olympic gold medalist swimmer, Saori Yoshida three times olympic medalist in wrestling, Fumie Suguri three times world champion medalist , four times, four continents medalist in gymnastics, Sawao Kato
Men's Gymnastics, one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Between 1968 and 1976 he won twelve Olympic medals. Mitsuo Tsukahara 5 times olympic gold medalist, and here is a list of world champions and olympic gold medalists
Kentaro Minagawa, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Miki Ando, Ken Mizuno, Yuka Sato, Hiroki Yamada, Kazuhiro Koshi, Maki Tabata, Joji Kato, Tomoka Takeuchi, Makoto Okiguchi, Tae Satoya, Nobutaka Taguchi, Ryōta Murata , Kai Ozaki, Masaru Inada, Miyuki Hatanaka, Maki Tsukada, Takashi Ono
Hiroki Hirako, Eriko Ishino, Chiharu Icho, Chikako Fushimi, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Keiichiro Nagashima, Eri Yanetani, Eiko Nakayama, Teruhiro Sugimori, Soko Yamaoka, Kazuyoshi Funaki, Sayuri Osuga, Aiko Uemura, Shiho Nakashima, Yuka Fujimori, Daiki Ito, Chikage Tanaka, Satoru Terao, Yūya Oikawa, Hiroshi Suzuki, Manami Hino, Daisuke Murakami, Miki Ito, Satoshi Ishii, Yuichi Onda, Akito Watabe, Akira Sasaki, Ayako Tsubaki, Madoka Natsumi, Madoka Natsumi, Kenichi Yumoto, Akinori Nakayama, Kiyofumi Nagai, Ryoko Tani, Yugo Tsukita, Sayuri Yoshii, Ichiya Kumagae, Takehiro Kashima, Takehiro Kashima, Madoka Harada
Yukio Endo, Tomomi Okazaki, Itaru Chimura, Atsuko Takata, Takahisa Oguchi, Shigeaki Ushijima, Mika Ozawa, Ayumi Tanimoto, Naoki Yuasa, Masato Uchishiba, Isao Inokuma, Koki Sakamoto, Masaharu Yamada, Masaji Ogino, Masae Ueno, Norihito Kobayashi, Takuya Nakase, Ryuzo Hiraki, Takahiro Fujimoto, Takanobu Okabe, Ikuei Yamamoto, Yasunobu Sekikawa
, Seiichiro Kashio.
Juyst because you do not know them it doesn't mean that they are not all recognized as some of the best athletes in the world and they are all Japanese, so there goes your theory about Japanese being "pretty bad at physical sports" .
And last time i checked Chess was not a physical sport.
And since your knowledge of Japanese chess player is about as bad as your knowledge of Japanese athletes, then i suggest you check Hikaru Nakamura .
Ruslan Kazimov
31 minutes ago
@Morgan Olfursson Why Japanese companies pay millions to foreign celebs to take part in their weird contests, ads and events? I also know they hire underage models from foreign countries , because adult ones they look old for japanese consumer, but media never shown it due to that that weird reason, and age of consent must be 12 there, right. Superiorty complex is a joke. They are pretty bad at physical sports, and to be fair, I don't know any Japanese chess player despite following it for a decade.
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Your best video . I love your sense of humour .
I must be a freaking genius because i don't like the company of people except Parents my husband his parents and our kids but even i love them i still prefer being on my own with my dogs and cats . As for intelligence, i am both an MD and a vet and an ethologist and i never really struggled to get 3 PhD .
I find the company of people mostly boring , it leads to useless discussions , often ends up in argument or divergence of opinion . If we are going to eventually agree about something then there is no point in the discussion and if we are eventually going to disagree there is even less point to the discussion . I don't understand how people can have fun at parties in bars or club, just by talking about the most insignificant things and bragging, gloating, soaking up at each other's awesomeness and others mediocrity I find it extremely reductive and a total waste of time.
When i was single I would only go to bars or club for sex, basically just to find a partner and i would rink heavily to gather the strength to endure the tedious task of socializing just to get a shag . After i found the one , my greatest relief was that my days in bars and clubs were over . I do have friends but i don't really feel the urge to contact them or connect with them regularly . My best mate and I meet probably twice a year and we have a night out , or we go on a trip together , and that's fulfilling enough to me.Which is odd because I am not anti social at all, actually people find me quite a fun and cool guy to be around as I am respectful and tactful but never serious when socializing and just goof around and have no inhibitions whatsoever since i see socializing as a stage and i'm a comedian playing a role , so for me there are no limits since nothing is truly real or what it seems and it is all made believe . I am truly myself when i am alone or with my close family, but i am still sure that my dogs know me better than my husband (yes that's me on the pic and i do have a husband) I think people who need to socialize constantly or feel only happy when around a\other people are people who are scared of being alone, or scared of rejection and lack self confidence and/or self esteem and try to give a meaning to their life through social recognition, while I believe the absolute opposite. The only recognition or validation of my life is the one i grant myself , through hard work, through not being a total cunt, through using my brain or body and time for relevant purposes (altruistic or selfish) not one i expect to find in someone else . I don't think that people with many friends are good people and loners are to be suspicious about . If you have 50 friends who are totals cunts who think that you are great then here is the confirmation that you are indeed a total cunt too . I live in a rural area in Switzerland in the mountains around Zurich , this little beautiful village is filled with hunters , they socialize a lot, have many friends , and are always stuck in the local bars when they are not hunting or shagging their wives and girlfriends (often swinging them) they are the pillars of this little community , and they often give me or my partner some bad looks because we are gay , and both vets and try to save animals while they enjoy killing them , and also maybe because i come from a wealthy family but also worked my ass off to make money and so did my husband and we bought the old castle like manor which is the landmark of the area , to raise our kids and turned the ground into an animal shelter. When i look at my life style and theirs , my IQ and theirs , then your video makes perfect sense .
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nimber 5 , ninjutsu has nothing to do with Ninja and Ninja has nothing to do with what us Japanese call Shinobi.
Number 4 , Ninja or actually Shinobi were not assassins , Samurai were .
Number 4, if you needed James bond to know about Ninja you shoudl not brag about it , especially if this is your bible on the topic because you couldn7t be further from the truth .
Number 2 is legit though chronologically a little inaccurate , because of the era Chiyome and the Takeda clan are not exactly (read not at all) the same .
and finally nimber one made me laugh to tears . This man has been denounced as a fraud by the Japanese historians and genealogists long before you even made this video, there are at least 20 people in japan who come out every year as the last ninjas and all of them are automatically and quickly debunked . This man is just one of them . It is a common joke in Japan to tel someone to open his own ninja school and get money from ignorant tourists by pretending to be the last one .
Anyway , Mojo, time to care about accuracy rather than views because eventually too much innacuracy will do you more arms than good, and a law suit for libel can cost you a lot of money and the shut down of your entire account .
Youtube won't protect you.
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Lived in Japan 25 years , never gained weight . (and i truly apologize for the photo of me which could be wrongly presumed as condescending i didn't chose it for your video!) , but man i just did what every Japanese does , i did sports , i walked a lot, and i ate Japanese , not mc donalds or BK or any other crappy place like that , just eat rice, vegetables and fish , and some wagashi , and drink tea . That's how most of the Japanese stay in shape . You are just one of those Gaijins who think that because we are Gaijins we can get away just looking the way we do , HUGE , MASSIVE FUCKING MISTAKE. The gaijin banzai period died along with the bubble period , now you'd better , be fit, be well dressed and well mannered , or you will be surprised how quickly they will replace you at work , and if they do , that's sayonara Japan , unless like me you marry a Japanese , but it doesn't work i married a man so it didn't really help .
Cool videos though , and there's nothing wrong about being fat , if you feel good with yourself this way then don't change a bloody thing , but watch your health .
EAT JAPANESE !! it's better and cheaper , and don't blame your tiny kitchen , everybody's got a tiny kitchen in Japan , doesn't stop us from cooking . If you're not gonna use it you may as well live in a guest house , you'll save on the rent and can use the money to eat better and go to the gym .
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Do you take a minute of silence for what the UK is doing to the middle east every day ?
When you let Israel do the same on a daily basis to Innocents in Palestine and even provide the weapons and the forces to help, when you let the US do that to the entire middle east and provide the weapons and the troops to help , this is equally unfair and disgusting . so what the fuck do you expect ? You think that people are going to patiently wait until the end of the genocide and watch . This is a terrorist attack when it happens in your country and "just" war when it happens somewhere else ? For the Palestinians , for the Iraqi , for the Afghani for the Syrians , this is what happens every day , this is not 19 people killed , this is hundreds of thousands that are killed every year and millions since the beginning of the conflicts . and the terrorist are Israeli, Americans, Europeans . What the fuck do you expect ? This is only going to get worse and though i definitely do not condole the act , i completely understand it .i am truly sorry for these 19 victims and the dozen of people wounded , but do you feel sorry when an entire family in the middle east of innocent people , or an entire city is wiped out by British bombs ?
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What a bunch of whining pussies. You think you have it tough. Try to walk in my partner and I shoes for a mile , do that when you are an interracial , international (we are both from a different country) couple and gay and with adopted kids who have backgrounds that do not match any of the parents features , you will see what struggling really means .
I am scandinavian, he is Japanese, our kids are a patchwork of the 5 continents . You think people still don't accept you fully YET , guys, people do not accept us, PERIOD .
When was the last time someone threw something at you for being a couple , when was the last time you go harassed by random people and even by the police for kissing , when was the last time you struggled to have kids, even from an adoption angency , how many times have you entered an adoption agency only to hear the director telling you, sorry but NO , when was the last time, a police officer arrested you thinking you were two pedophiles stealing someone else's kids ?
...and i could go on for days . You think you have it hard , well, think again
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I was really not joking, i don't give a flying fuck what society says, if a kid tortures an animal i will do to that kid the exact same thing he or she did to that poor animal and feel nothing about it . And then make sure his or her parents see the end result . I love my kids my parents , my family my partner and my friends because i know they are good people , but other than that i am not an altruist and i am not a philanthropist i have no compassion for human beings whatsoever and i would never hesitate hurting a person to help an animal .
My neighbours have the stupid habit to let their kids play freely around the house , and also their dogs , but they are warned , and i made sure they understand i am being serious, that if some day i have to chose which one to avoid running over , the dogs will be the first and only choice . I will avoid the dogs and run over the kids if both are in front of the car , i will not avoid the kids or throw my car into a wall or a tree i will run over the kids . Trust me, except for the people i care about, no other human being should expect empathy from me . What society dictates is the very last of my concern . If a person, adult or kid, skins an animal . i will skin that person , and i'm a vet , i can keep that person alive for a week without a single layer of skin and the entire dermis exposed .
I am a real animals right activist , not some peta bullshit , i have a lot more human blood on my hands than it is safe to admit on the internet . I haven't killed a kid yet , but only because i have never seen a kid kill an animal in front of me .
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You want to piss Japanese off, very simple , you either carry an american flag with you or you wear a Kimono as a foreigner , i combined both , i made a Kimono out of american flag print fabric and spent a day around Yasukuni , that was Hilarious . And the police couldn't do a thing against me , no law against wearing a kimono with an american flag print on it , but boy were they pissed . The next day i went there again with two friends , both of them also wearing a Kimono , one with a Korean flag on it and the other with a Chinese flag , i thought e were gonna get shot . That was beyond hilarious .
I have since left the country , but to the Gaijin there , if you ever want to have some fun, do this . This is not illegal at all and it speaks volume and shows you and them what true democracy means .
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What does it have to do with what i wrote / Have i ever compared Japan to Russia ?
The Japanese invaders , the descendants of the Yamato people who are a mix of Korean, Chinese south east asians and people from the pacific ocean but claim to be a pure breed , destroyed the Ainu culture and people . The genocide was not only physical, it was cultural . I have an old Ainu friend . When he was a kid , he was forced to go to a Yamato school , where he was taught that his ancestors were the Yamato people, not the Ainus and that Ainus where a bunch of barbarians . Until he went to school he had a Ainu name and he spoke the language with his grand mother whom he adored . At school his name was taken away and he was forced to get a Japanese one , and to be proud of it . Little by little the school took not only his name, but also his culture away from him and turned him him away from who he really was . To the point that he started to hate the Ainu and to to call them the barbarians. His grand mother had always treasured and loved him, but by the time he was 13 he was ashamed of her , she had never managed to learn Japanese and was unable to pronounce his name correctly so she kept on calling him by his real name , and he would get angry at her, demanding violently that she calls him by what he believed to be his real name . When she told him that she was sorry that she couldn't pronounce his japanese name properly because she was "not educated" like him , he told her that she was stupid and that is why Ainu were inferior . This kid had loved his grand mother until he was forced sent to school . The schools for Ainu were boarding schools they had to stay there months and months at a time to erase as much as possible from their prior life and identity , the brainwashing was constant and extremely efficient . When his grand mother felt she was about to die , she asked for him to visit her to say her goodbye , at that time he was a young adult , she bequeathed to him, everything she owned from her Ainu ancestors , and told him to just put it in a box and forget about it for now and maybe when he grows up he would be happy to open that box . Now he is an adult and realizes very well , what the country did to him . They took away his culture, his language , his name , his identity , and the best years of his life he could have spent with his family . All this he told me, he can forgive and forget , but what he will never forgive is that they took him away from his grand mother who loved him so much and made her call her stupid .
Today he is one of the biggest militants to restore the Ainu identity and give them back their land and everything that was stolen from them .
Japan did worth than Russia in a sense, they didn't persecuted the Ainu, they turned them against one another and brainwashed them into self hatred and denial . This is worse than rape , and japan keeps on teaching to kids all over the country that the Ainu are the barbarian from the north that they enlightened with the true Yamato spirit .
Now please moon paper bore someone else . we're done .
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Oh China and Chinese hate japan and japanese . I wonder why ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdM3_kzhscM
And yet your streets are crowded with Chinese tourists, more than any other tourists are chinese in Japan , and they are not just tourists, they are buying real estate in Japan more than anybody else .
You see they don't hate you, so many of them visit you and have decided to live there , or,...., or, they are trying to invade you . Either way i don't care , i live in Europe . Not my problem .
And quit with the stupid youtube references to war , or the A bomb, i'm not the one who dropped it , i am not even american , so i don't feel responsible at all .
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More smarter ?? More smarter ????? More smart , or smarter but not more smarter , that is not actual English . And no , this is not just spelling mistakes, you actually do not understand grammar and semantic either .
I am the animal on top of you , my family is , unbeknownst to you, you actually work for us, and we don't even need to hunt you, you do it deliberately , we made sure of that . And that is not a joke . You clearly have no idea where you stand in the food chain .
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It is important to NOT make English the official language of the US for one simple and VERY OBVIOUS reason.
The slaves that were brought to the US were forbidden to use their own language and forced to speak English, 300 years later none of the descendants are able to speak the original language of their ancestors, same with the many Aboriginals in Australia (not all of them fortunately) same with the Ainus of Japan, same with many dialects in France that completely disappeared over centuries , now the only two that remain almost unchanged and alive are Basque and Breton, same with the Inuit population of many northern countries who hardly speak fluent languages such as Inuktitut for instance . and the list is endless . And don't even get me started on the most obvious of all regarding the US , the many languages of the original Natives which are almost all lost today along with the populations that once spoke them .
If people can not understand that simple fact like those two extremely uneducated ones here , they should refrain from making stupid statements , calling it "obvious" . That debate was staggeringly and embarrassingly ridiculous .
I am from Iceland and my kids are taught Icelandic even though i live in Switzerland were we have three offical languages and we are doing just fine (way better than the US actually) . I am married to a Japanese and speak fluent Japanese, on top of French, German and Icelandic . So our kids also speak those languages , and because our kids are adopted (all five of them) they are also taught the language of their country of origin so that when they grow up (and three of them are already grown up) they can be able to visit those countries and understand its culture and also understand the culture of their siblings.
Keeping only one language in any country as the official one, has caused the death of thousands upon thousands of dialects which are nothing more and nothing less than languages originally spoken by a smaller group of people .
This video is not only almost unfathomably stupid and embarrassing, it is simply dangerous . American who do not speak English as a first or native language should DEMAND their language to be made one of the official languages of the country .
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The five letters of her name in French Jolie means beautiful so angelina jolie is literally a beautiful little angel , and boy does she deserve that name ! Brainy , stunningly beautiful and an angel with kids and suffering people around the world . She is by far the number 1 , two are Theron and Johansson ex-aequo But Rachel was and will always be an icon , the number one and especially 2 are bullshit , you see girls like this everywhere , even crawford, there is no sexappeal there just some airhead bimbo , sexyness is in the brain not in the silicone . And where the fuck is Salma Hayek , or the Japanese beauty Kuroki Meisa or the french model Noemie Lenoir , or the french actress Isabelle Adjani
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part 2
Depuis lors – soixante-quinze ans – jamais une assemblée parlementaire n'a été saisie d'une demande de suppression de la peine de mort.
Je suis convaincu – cela vous fera plaisir – d'avoir certes moins d'éloquence que Briand mais je suis sûr que, vous, vous aurez plus de courage et c'est cela qui compte.
On peut s'interroger : pourquoi n'y a-t-il rien eu en 1936 ? La raison est que le temps de la gauche fut compté. L'autre raison, plus simple, est que la guerre pesait déjà sur les esprits. Or, les temps de guerre ne sont pas propices à poser la question de l'abolition. Il est vrai que la guerre et l'abolition ne cheminent pas ensemble.
La Libération. Je suis convaincu, pour ma part, que, si le Gouvernement de la Libération n'a pas posé la question de l'abolition, c'est parce que les temps troublés, les crimes de la guerre, les épreuves terribles de l'occupation faisaient que les sensibilités n'étaient pas à cet égard prêtes. Il fallait que reviennent non seulement la paix des armes mais aussi la paix des cœurs.
Cette analyse vaut aussi pour les temps de la décolonisation.
C'est seulement après ces épreuves historiques qu'en vérité pouvait être soumise à votre assemblée la grande question de l'abolition.
Je n'irai pas plus loin dans l'interrogation – M. Forni l'a fait – mais pourquoi, au cours de la dernière législature, les gouvernements n'ont-ils pas voulu que votre Assemblée soit saisie de l'abolition alors que la commission des lois et tant d'entre vous, avec courage, réclamaient ce débat ? Certains membres du Gouvernement – et non des moindres – s'étaient déclarés, à titre personnel, partisans de l'abolition mais on avait le sentiment à entendre ceux qui avaient la responsabilité de la proposer, que, dans ce domaine, il était, là encore, urgent d'attendre.
Attendre, après deux cents ans !
Attendre, comme si la peine de mort ou la guillotine était un fruit qu'on devrait laisser mûrir avant de le cueillir !
Attendre ? Nous savons bien en vérité que la cause était la crainte de l'opinion publique. D'ailleurs, certains vous diront, mesdames, messieurs les députés, qu'en votant l'abolition vous méconnaîtriez les règles de la démocratie parce que vous ignoreriez l'opinion publique. Il n'en est rien.
Nul plus que vous, à l'instant du vote sur l'abolition, ne respectera la loi fondamentale de la démocratie.
Je me réfère non pas seulement à cette conception selon laquelle le Parlement est, suivant l'image employée par un grand Anglais, un phare qui ouvre la voie de l'ombre pour le pays, mais simplement à la loi fondamentale de la démocratie qui est la volonté du suffrage universel et, pour les élus, le respect du suffrage universel.
Or, à deux reprises, la question a été directement – j'y insiste – posée devant l'opinion publique.
Le Président de la République a fait connaître à tous, non seulement son sentiment personnel, son aversion pour la peine de mort, mais aussi, très clairement, sa volonté de demander au Gouvernement de saisir le Parlement d'une demande d'abolition, s'il était élu. Le pays lui a répondu : oui.
M. le garde des sceaux. Le plus haut magistrat de France, M. Aydalot, au terme d'une longue carrière tout entière consacrée a la justice et, pour la plupart de son activité, au parquet, disait qu'à la mesure de sa hasardeuse application, la peine de mort lui était devenue, à lui magistrat, insupportable. Parce qu'aucun homme n'est totalement responsable, parce qu'aucune justice ne peut être absolument infaillible, la peine de mort est moralement inacceptable. Pour ceux d'entre nous qui croient en Dieu, lui seul a le pouvoir de choisir l'heure de notre mort.
Pour tous les abolitionnistes, il est impossible de reconnaître à la justice des hommes ce pouvoir de mort parce qu'ils savent qu'elle est faillible.
Le choix qui s'offre à vos consciences est donc clair : ou notre société refuse une justice qui tue et accepte d'assumer, au nom de ses valeurs fondamentales – celles qui l'ont faite grande et respectée entre toutes – la vie de ceux qui font horreur, déments ou criminels ou les deux à la fois, et c'est le choix de l'abolition ; ou cette société croit, en dépit de l'expérience des siècles, faire disparaître le crime avec le criminel, et c'est l'élimination.
Cette justice d'élimination cette justice d'angoisse et de mort, décidée avec sa marge de hasard, nous la refusons. Nous la refusons parce qu'elle est pour nous l'anti-justice, parce qu'elle est la passion et la peur triomphant de la raison et de l'humanité.
Demain, grâce à vous, la justice française ne sera plus une justice qui tue. Demain, grâce à vous, il n’y aura plus, pour notre honte commune, d’exécutions furtives, à l’aube, sous le dais noir, dans les prisons françaises. Demain, les pages sanglantes de notre justice seront tournées.
À cet instant plus qu'à aucun autre, j'ai le sentiment d'assumer mon ministère, au sens ancien, au sens noble, le plus noble qui soit, c'est-à-dire au sens de « service ». Demain, vous voterez l'abolition de la peine de mort. Législateur français, de tout mon cœur, je vous en remercie.
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Merci Ryad , i think every culture, every country every language is so damn worth studying about , my dream would be to live 600 ears with a functioning brain so i could learn more .
You come from an Amazing country with a very rich History . A sad one too ,because of the war with France and the colonialism, and war of independence, which has left a huge scar had terrible consequences , but also a fantastic country with so many cultures and types of people , from the Kabyles and the Berbers , the Tuaregs and Bedouins culture. The rich oral tradition , the amazing legends of the desert , the folklore , the traditional Music or even the modern Rai , the rich textile and jewelry tradition, the breathtaking beauty of the Sahara. There is so much more about Algeria than what people know or believe because of bullshit massmedia so called culture. . And my favorite is by far the unexplained paintings of Aliens in the caves of Tassili and other southeastern Algerian sites .
So you know what Ryad , Enorme respect pour toi et ton pays de la part d'un Islandais .
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Иван Неплохов Privet! Prijatno poznakomit'sja.
I don't read it very well I just understand and speak it ! I am not that good at reading it and definitely not at writing it , and i would never damage a language as beautiful as Russian which is one of my all time favorite Mne ochen zhal!
I could do a google translate or ask my mother but that would be dishonest .
I did understand bits of it , and i thank you , and agree with what i understood. Indeed each new language broadens my horizon and my vision of the world and i will do my best to transmit it to my kids,
They do already learn how to write and read Russian so they willbe better than me soon . Sadly i do not have the cyrrilic alphabet on this keyboard so i can't even try to answer to you in Russian .
But thank you very much for your comment .
spasiba Bollshoy
I so envy you too , for being able to read it prefectly, i would love to read Vasily Zhukovsky, Tyutchev, Goncharov and especially Turgenev and Dostoïevski , in the text in Russian , not the translation . You are so lucky for that .
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Hey Mustafa . Thanks a lot for your message . I unfortunately do not speak Turkish so i can't really say anything about the language . I only know that i love the country, which i visited several times , as one of my best friends is Turkish his name is Yildirim , still living in Denizli which is so convenient because when i visit him we can often go to Pamukkale, for me probably one of the most beautiful places i have visited . But honestly everything is beautiful in Turkey , Antalya has the most majestic sea shores , the Tower of Babel like Uchisar Castle is breathtaking , the troglodyte dwellings of Cappadocia are so damn beautiful . I also love your cuisine , and i think people do not realize that turkish cuisine is, along with the chinese and french cuisine one of the top three most elaborate, varied and complicated cuisine in the world . Your country has an amazing history , and your language is unique. I know it's structure is closer to Basque and Japanese than any other language , which makes Turkish a very difficult language to learn and also a very mysterious one . I was lucky enough ,because of my job, to visit eastern Turkey , near Iraq and Syria , and all the Kurdish areas and this is so sad to see these places and people facing so much hardship , because those people were the most welcoming , and generous i have met in this part of the world and the natural sites can bring anyone to tears with their wild beauty . You come from and live in a unique country Mustafa , be proud of it , and yes learn Kurdish because this language and the people who riginated it and are still
speaking it must be protected and the best way to protect them is to understand them first .
And thank you for what you said about my family . I realized that i never explained why we traveled that much and they have this obsession with languages . My father is an archaeologist and my mother is an ethnologist and anthropologist and works for the Unesco in the department on intangible world heritage and its preservation, and nothing is more of an intangible world heritage and deserves more to be protected and preserved than languages .
I am just a veterinarian and ethologist , but i work for the WAP (world animal protection) so i do travel a lot , mostly war torn areas though , because war is not only about people , and animals pay the bill as well. My dream would be to speak their languages but it is unfortunately not possible yet , that's why i became an ethologist .
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Thanks so much Mustafa . I am truly flattered by your comment . I do agree , my parents have the best jobs and the best personalities and gave my brother and I the best education . I don't remember them ever raising their voice in the house , nothing was ever a conflict and we always discussed everything calmly and intelligently and we had a book to read every week , and every week in a different language and write a little summary of it in a language different from the one it was written it , that was my mother's way to keep the blood flowing in our brain . I am so glad we agree on your country , for both, it's beauty , and the cuisine and the people .
Now for the serious part . Being gay in Turkey . If you feel like you know me , then you defenitely know that i never sugarcoat anything . You have to see the glass half full . Trust me, in this part of the world and as a mostly Muslim country Turkey is a model of open mindness . But not only as a mostly Muslim country , also as a country itself . Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in the Ottoman Empire in 1858. Do you realize how modern this is. In the same time in Europe , gays were killed for being gay , and when they were not killed they were thrown into jail or mental institutions for years , sometimes decades . I can assure you that when it comes to homosexuality, Turkey is a model to many countries . On top of that homosexual activity has always been a legal act since the day the country Turkey was founded in 1923. Gay people came from around Europe to seek asylum in Turkey , and since the 1950s under the Geneva convention Turkey is officially a place of refuge for many gays in that area of the world (I mean you share a border with Syria and you know what happens to gay people there . Transsexuals have been allowed to change their legal gender since 1988.
Now this being said i agree with you Mustafa , what is in the penal code and what happens on the street everyday are two completely different things and even if you have some major gay right activists in organization such as KAOS GL or LEGATO (i really hope you live in Ankara man) , things in the country side are not that easy . But it is not easy for gay people in the countryside in Engand, in France , i Germany , in the US in Japan . But nobody is going to legally kill you or throw you into jail in Turkey for being gay , and the hardest part of the job is done , the rest will follow eventually as long as gay people in Turkey do not give up the fight and demand equal rights, right to marry, right to adopt kids, right to be recognized etc etc ... the list is not exhaustive .
But when things get tough , remember this article in the news ."In 2013, a Turkish vendor was charged with selling "immoral" DVDs because the DVD movies featured gay sexually explicit content. The court in Istanbul, Judge Mahmut Erdemli, overturned the criminal charges. He ruled that gay sex is "natural", stated that an individual's sexual orientation should be respected, and cited examples of same-sex marriages in Europe and in the Americas." As long as you have remarkable people like Judge Mahmut Erdemli in your country , things can only get better .
Now i have a question regarding for me the hardest challenge you might face or might have faced already . I know that Turkey has a compulsory military service , and i know (because i have met a few Turkish army guys with my job) that the turkish army is very openly discriminatory against gays . So how did it work for you. Have you been there already and if so how did it go ? And if you have done your service yet , what are your feelings about it ?
And also , because i haven't returned to Turkey in a while , how are things going with the local religious groups and gay ? Is it still a don't ask don't tell situation or have things gone better or worse ?
Man , your English is excellent and if things get too tough you know you can always get the F... out of Turkey and try to work and get a different life elsewhere . What do you do for a living , or are you still a student and if so what are your plan for the future ?
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First of all MC Hammer this hairdo circa 19983 is ridiculous and you don't interview people looking like that . Second of all, this is not Koroshi this is Karoshi , if you managed to speak the language a little bit , you could at least manage the pronounciation of the simple syllable KA , as in Karate , you don(t say Korate , so why do you keep on pronouncing it Koroshi , KA Over or Excess ROー Work (this is a long syllable) and SHI Death .
And finally this premiuim friday is a complete joke , over 90% of the companies in Japan do not have a premium friday, they just don't believe in it and it is not a duty so legally they can refuse it . And in most of the companies where premium friday is not only practiced but also promoted (asking the employees to actually leave early) , most of the employees prefer to stay , because they know that whatever is left to be done after they leave early, will have to be done during the week end (unpaid) or during long, exhausting extra hours the following week making them go home very late and wake up extra early the following day . The only companies where Premium Friday is very much accepted and practiced are foreign companies in Japan and foreigners liveing there , and trust me , nobody would ever die of Karoshi their to begin with . So this is pure bullshit .
I have lived 25 years in japan , , graduated from Japanese med school Kyodai , Kyoto university , worked in the medical field for 7 years and for the misnitry of foreign affairs and the UN . I am not Japanese but i do know Japan , and sorry but this video was half inaccurate and half embarrassing because of your Roppongi look .
But hey , i am pretty sure you will never suffer from karoshi . My advice to you , learn the language a little more, learn how to pronounce it properly and also Keigo (when you interview people that's the strict minimum and an absolute must in Japan ) .
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Eveery French knows that the croissant is not originally from France , because Croissants , Pain au Chocolat, Pain au Lait, Pain aux Raisins, etc are all called Vienoiseries in French and Vienoiseries means from Vienna , the capital city of Austria .And nobody in France eats french toasts , they eat pain perdu which is a sort of french toast made from the hard left overs of breads . literally Lost/ Bread Pain Perdu as you mention, but i can assure you that pain perdu, doesn't taste at all like french toast , and you don't buy it in France, you make it yourself .and there is a reason. If a bakery sells pain perdu this means that it can't sell all the bread it makes which is already not a sign of good taste for the bread , so if on top of that they try to sell again the unsold hard bread this makes them look even worse, In french villages at the end of the day, you can go to the bakery and ask for the invendus , unsold bread and they will usually sell it to you for a miserable fee or just give it to you. When i lived in France in a little village , because i was taking care of horses , i got all the unsold bread from the previous day, every morning when i went to buy my bread and croissants, the baker gave it to me for free as a treat to the horses.
Don't expect that in Paris !
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@Gengonglike Arbukle Then what's the point of living there if you don't want to comply to the rules of the country . And how pretentious of you to believe you should expect people to identify with you, whatever the country you live in . In hat case stay in yours . Japan is not a great place for foreigners but at least during my 25 years there i played by its rules . I learned the language perfectly , graduated university there , worked for countless Japanese companies, immersed myself completely in the culture(both modern and traditional ) to the point of sometimes not speaking anything but Japanese for years . 90% of my friends there were or still are Japanese . And i ended up working for the ministry of foreign affairs , and was eventually offered citizenship (though i didn't ask for it ) something they offer to about 4 people a year , and grant to less than a hundred . I left for the very opposite of the reason you invokes , You want to change the country so it adapt to your little self . I was raised right and understand that you can only change yourself not the people around you and should adapt to their lifestyle or leave . So i left when my human rights bumped into a wall or a door that i could neither break nor open . Japan is not a great place for foreigners to live , but as a society it functions far better than 99% of western , african and other asian nations . They have a saying in Japan . Hito furi mite waga furi naose , which means do not judge others before judging yourself . I think you should meditate on that . Because your comment was really embarrassing .
where are you from and what is your ethnicity ?
Gengonglike Arbukle
1 month ago
@Golden_ Sh0t It's a bad place if you want to get deep in the culture and work as they do. If I were to live there I would have my own property, my money would come from the internet, I would comply only with street rules and reasonable manerisms. Beyond that I would not work fora Japanese company, I will associate only with individuals who identify with me.
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@seboritter Customer service and friendliness to customers in Japan is like nowhere else . Japanese re BY FAR the most amazing people when it comes to customer services . Let me tell you a short story . I once ordered a pair of shoes (just a cheap simple pair of shoes online) it arrived the very next day in the morning . It turned out the store sent me two left foot shoes . I contacted them and told them that there was a problem . They not only apologized for what seemed hours, to the point that i was the one feeling embarrassed but when i said that i would return the shoes that day and they can send me the pair i ordered later they told me not to do that and that they would take care of everything (which i thought was that they would contact the delivery company and have them come pick up the parcel and then would send me a new pair ) . in the afternoon i got a phone call from and employee of the store , asking me if i was home . I said yes , he said that he was on my street and would arrive in a few minutes with the pair i ordered and to pick up the other shoes . He rang the bell , i opened the door , he gave me the new pair of shoes , asked me if they were for me and if so to try them on and see if they fit as he had also brought the size above and the size bellow just in case . I asked him how he came and if he came just for me , and he said yes and that he took the train , from Osaka to Tokyo right after i called . He left after giving me another paper bag which contained chocolates , a little gift and a 50% discount receipt for any further purchase at the store . I offered him a coffee or tea or a beer but he refused politely , saying that he had to be back to Osaka soon .
This was december 31st .
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Representing Japan, what a joke. The girl was only born in Japan, she moved to the US when she was 3 and has lived there ever since. She was trained by american coaches, in the US, learned everything she knows from the US, never lived in Japan after that. Speaks far better English than Japanese, went to an american school, has a completely american culture, and only her mother is Japanese. But yes she represents Japan. I have lived 25 years in Japan and she is supposed to represent a country she was just born in basically, for a sport she learned outside this country from coaches who are not even Japanese. Come on, just cut the crap. The parents were approached by the Japanese tennis association when they figured out that Naomi could actually be a winner or one of the best female or male tennis player and offered the parents and Naomi (30 000 000 dollars) to have Naomi represent Japan, plus they promised her that she could endorse japanese brands like Yonex, Asics, Nissan, Shiseido, Nissin, Citizen, Wowow, ANA, etc, for up to an extra 50 million dollars so i guess for 80 million dollars it was easy to represent Japan.
But let's make no mistake, this victory is completely american and eventually it was two americans compete against each other.
Japan has this funny habit to use foreigners when it benefits them only, When you see the yearly marathon in japan where all Japanese universities compete against each other, you always see a LOT of black athletes. These are athletes that japan go pick up in Africa and offer a scholarship to one university in Japan and in exchange, they have to compete in the marathon. But when you see the end of the marathon they only show a Japanese runner as a winner even when it is a black person who crossed the finishing line first, It is actually quite hilarious to watch.
If this girl here wasn't a winner, Japan would be ashamed to call her Japanese and they have always hated black mixed race people to be called Japanese.
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First of all MC Hammer this hairdo circa 19983 is ridiculous and you don't interview people looking like that . Second of all, this is not Koroshi this is Karoshi , if you managed to speak the language a little bit , you could at least manage the pronounciation of the simple syllable KA , as in Karate , you don(t say Korate , so why do you keep on pronouncing it Koroshi , KA Over or Excess ROー Work (this is a long syllable) and SHI Death .
And finally this premiuim friday is a complete joke , over 90% of the companies in Japan do not have a premium friday, they just don't believe in it and it is not a duty so legally they can refuse it . And in most of the companies where premium friday is not only practiced but also promoted (asking the employees to actually leave early) , most of the employees prefer to stay , because they know that whatever is left to be done after they leave early, will have to be done during the week end (unpaid) or during long, exhausting extra hours the following week making them go home very late and wake up extra early the following day . The only companies where Premium Friday is very much accepted and practiced are foreign companies in Japan and foreigners liveing there , and trust me , nobody would ever die of Karoshi their to begin with . So this is pure bullshit .
I have lived 25 years in japan , , graduated from Japanese med school Kyodai , Kyoto university , worked in the medical field for 7 years and for the misnitry of foreign affairs and the UN . I am not Japanese but i do know Japan , and sorry but this video was half inaccurate and half embarrassing because of your Roppongi look .
But hey , i am pretty sure you will never suffer from karoshi . My advice to you , learn the language a little more, learn how to pronounce it properly and also Keigo (when you interview people that's the strict minimum and an absolute must in Japan ) .
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@aliciarobertson4979 Actually no, this is just a very 20th century false idea that X and Y determine the gender of a person. The X chromosome is presents in everybody, both male and female, male have 1 and females have 2 (well male have 2 and female have 4 to be more accurate). The Y chromosome determines partly how hormones are going to influence the growth of a person, because of the SRY gene, but it is not really determinant of a person turning actually into a man. The absence of the Y chromosome also determines that certain hormones will not be released and that some 'male determinant" triggers will not take place. In other words, it only determines how your body may look, but we all know that gender has nothing to do with how one looks. Plus this is only a biological gender. Some people are XX some are XY, some are XYY, and some are XXY, sadly society consider only people who are XX to be females while the other three are considered males. Besides gender is also and foremost an identity rather than a physiology so regardless of what our chromosomes are, we are not our chromosome and our chromosomes are not us.
This being said, lady C was born with a defective Y chromosome and then some anomaly in her X chromosome, resulting in a very uneasy genitalia. But regardless of medicine, Lady C was still born male, and even today, this person would still be considered male at birth.
So we can turn it any ways we want, but no surgery in the world can change the DNA sequence of someone, so with a Y chromosome, Lady C is still genetically a male. Just like any transsexual, Lady C can't give birth, can't get pregnant and never have menstruation or mammary glands (breasts) and His body doesn't produce any estrogen but produces testosterone in the same quantity as a male's body does.
Have you had your niece get a karyotype test ? What were the results. Is she XX or XY, or XXY, or XYY ? What was the diagnosis of the geneticist regarding the defective gene sequence?
I am a former MD , i am now a vet, but i am the son of a geneticist and i have started reading theses on the topic when i was 13 and never stopped looking into it.
I really do not know about your niece, because she is not famous and therefore non of her test results are available, but lady c's are and although she changed her gender to female, as my father (who is an archaeologist) and my mother say, if we dig Lady C's body up from the grave in 1000 years when there are only bones left and we have the bone analyze, every test will say that this was a male.
You can pretend to be something while you're alive, and society grants us this right, Which is a good thing i think. But you can't cheat nature and biology.
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@blancdemaisô Je le parle bien mieux que tu ne le parleras jamais . Et je n'essaie rien de prouver du tout, ni a toi, ni a personne d'autre. Bien sur que j'en ai rien a faire de ton opinion, uniquement les cretins de ton genre qui feraient mieux de s'acheter une vie, se sentent mal a l'aise quand on les critique. Perso, ca m'amuse au plus haut point.
"By the way i hope you wasn't trying to prove that you speak french, cause obviously you don't"
Coming from someone who can't even write English properly, that's bloody rich !
Try , "I hope you weren't trying..." and not "I hope you wasn't trying....".
blancdemaison
23 minutes ago
@Morgan Olfursson oh please don't care, but i know you are a liar.
By the way, i hope you wasn't trying to prove that you speak french, cause obviously you don't
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It is important to NOT make English the official language of the US for one simple and VERY OBVIOUS reason.
The slaves that were brought to the US were forbidden to use their own language and forced to speak English, 300 years later none of the descendants are able to speak the original language of their ancestors, same with the many Aboriginals in Australia (not all of them fortunately) same with the Ainus of Japan, same with many dialects in France that completely disappeared over centuries , now the only two that remain almost unchanged and alive are Basque and Breton, same with the Inuit population of many northern countries who hardly speak fluent languages such as Inuktitut for instance . and the list is endless . And don't even get me started on the most obvious of all regarding the US , the many languages of the original Natives which are almost all lost today along with the populations that once spoke them .
If people can not understand that simple fact like those two extremely uneducated ones here , they should refrain from making stupid statements , calling it "obvious" . That debate was staggeringly and embarrassingly ridiculous .
I am from Iceland and my kids are taught Icelandic even though i live in Switzerland were we have three offical languages and we are doing just fine (way better than the US actually) . I am married to a Japanese and speak fluent Japanese, on top of French, German and Icelandic . So our kids also speak those languages , and because our kids are adopted (all five of them) they are also taught the language of their country of origin so that when they grow up (and three of them are already grown up) they can be able to visit those countries and understand its culture and also understand the culture of their siblings.
Keeping only one language in any country as the official one, has caused the death of thousands upon thousands of dialects which are nothing more and nothing less than languages originally spoken by a smaller group of people .
This video is not only almost unfathomably stupid and embarrassing, it is simply dangerous . American who do not speak English as a first or native language should DEMAND their language to be made one of the official languages of the country .
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Oh another jewish family taking advantage of people while trying to pass themselves as good samaritans and victims of the holocaust , how surprising . My great grand mother was a very VERY wealthy Russian jewish lady so i know exactly what i am talking about. She married into Orthodox Russian aristocracy , but she also hated the way her blood related family took advantage of people while pretending to help them , so when world war 2 struck , she saw it as an opportunity to get rid of some family members . After the death of her husband, She packed a few wagons for her jewelry , art collection, valuable antiques, money , her daughter (my grand mother) and herself on her way to France (where she ended up marrying a elderly French aristocrat , while her daughter married a British banker and industrialist grandpa ), while she packed a few trains for her blood family members on their way (the trains) to Auschwitz and Dachau , and voila ! She inherited the entire family fortune and lived happily ever after , then she inherited the family fortune and estates of her second husband, which went down to her daughter (my grand mother) who then inherited a large part of the family fortune and estate of her late husband , which eventually will go down to my mother . So i am really not one to spit on the jews because they are masters at handling other people's money and turning it into more money and more power and i directly benefit from it . But as i wrote, i am not surprised . They have been doing that for centuries if not thousands of years .
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@frush3170 Je ne suis pas Francais、 combien de fois est ce que je dois le repeter, il faut arreter un peu d'attaquer les gens sur leur orthographe quand ca n'est pas leur langue natale. .Je ne travaille pas dans un cabinet medical, et je gagne un peu plus que 10 000 euros par mois tout de meme.
Ce ne sont pas les soldats qui protegent des invasions, nous ne sommes plus au 17eme siecle. Ce sont les lois qui nous protegent, et les accords diplomatiques. Tout ce joue a tres haut niveau, pas dans les casernes ! Il faut se reveiller et vivre avec son temps bonhomme.
Les soldats ne font ce que l'etat leur demande, et l'objectif premier de l'etat n'est pas notre protection. Je pense que la situation actuelle en est un exemple flagrant.
Et enfin, etre medecin (et le salaire qui va avec), ne m'est pas tombe dessus un beau matin par hazard. J'ai trime 7 ans en fac de medecine, et je n'ai pas obtenu mes doctorats en me roulant les pouces. Donc je merite chaque centimes de mon salaire, et le fait qu'on m'en ponctionne une partie tout les mois et qu'en plus je doive en reverser une autre partie tous les ans pour soutenir ces cretins de militaires, ne m'amuse pas enormement. D'autant plus que ces cretins ont le salaire qui correspond a leur cerveau et du coup ne se font rien prelever.
Donc le fait reste que je n'ai pas trime a devenir medecin pour soutenir des militaires. D'autant plus que quand ses connards se blessent ils viennent nous voir et on doit en plus les retapper gratuitement, pusique les militaires ne paient pas les frais medicaux.
A non pas gratuitement, pardon, l'etat paye, avec mes impots, donc du coup je paie pour les retapper!
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Go vegan , you stupid people . Never ate a piece of meat or fish or anything of animal origin in my entire life and i am more than fine, healthy , athletic, perfect eyesight, all my hair, never had a single cavity in my life, no cholesterol no blood pressure,etc,...
There are thousands of people who live a vegan life and are far healthier than meat eater. The oldest vegan being a Japanese 104 years old monk , who has never eaten meat or fish or eggs in his entire life, not even milk .
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Very interesting video . The first family is the epitome of intelligence , they are absolutely tremendous in their approach to foster caring . I think most people forget the meaning of the word care in foster caring. It has nothing to do with culture , ethnic group or religion , it is about care , and that's all there is to understand .
I am a former foster care parent , i say former because we adopted the child eventually . This is our third adopted child . I am originally from Iceland , my father is Icelandic and Danish my mother is British on her father's side and French/Russian on her mother's side . My grand parents are very religious, my parents are agnostic but not very religious , and i am a complete atheist though i respect peopl's beliefs as long as they don't try to make it interfere with my life , my freedom and my rights, starting with my grand parents . I am married to a Japanese a veterinarian born and raised in Japan (also a sort of atheist) and i have lived in Japan for a long time myself , along with about 20 other countries on the five continents , because of my job , I am also veterinarian but work for the WAP which is a branch of the UN based in London meaning that i do "animalitarian" work around the world , mostly in war areas or areas struck by natural or man made disaster , to rescue animals and provide shelter for them, and i also run 7 animal shelters rescuing animals from various background, from the slaughterhouses , to regular pets, exotic pets, animals rescued from zoos, circuses and movie sets etc . Our kids have never suffered any form of cultural social or religious shock . We just take care of them the way any parent would take care of them, we provide shelter , safety, healthy food , and the best possible education we can think of . We first lived in London where we both worked but the first time the kids suffered bullying we realized , we were never going to put up with that kind of crap . Our kids are from different countries originally and had to learn the English language along with trying to adapt to a foster family and a new country , so it was clear for us that we would never allow bullying and our first priority became immediately their safety and well being . So we all moved to Switzerland where we opened a new clinic (we both speak French and German so it was not that difficult , and the kids were sent to the best school where bullying was not an option for any of the other kids there . Fostering or adopting kids means first of all , care , then rethinking entirely the way you live and compromise for the kids and not the other way round , the kids didn't chose to be with us, we chose to have them , so of course the most important thing was to adapt to them and their needs and not ask them to adapt to us and ours . This was the best decision we ever made , our life changed completely , but for the better and i couldn't be more grateful to our kids for that , i owe them a lot and they do not owe us anything .
I am surprised by the parents who foster kids and do not compromise but expect the kids to do so , this is so immature , how can those people even be accepted and listed as potential foster parents , let alone granted the right to adopt .
We struggled enormously to adopt our first two kids , not because we were from different cultural background , or atheists , or vegetarians , but because we are both men . It took years and years or very litigious paperwork 5 lawyers and 2 psychologist guaranteeing that we were not potential serial killers or psychopaths to be granted the right to adopt . Bu it was worth , even it was completely ridiculous and that is also part of the reason why we all moved to Switzerland , because the UK needs to stop discriminating for absolutely no reason grow the f .. up asap before causing more damage to kids who could benefit from excellent foster care or adoptive parents if this country stopped judging books by their cover , as the young lady so eloquently puts it .
Thanks for the upload BBC news that was very good .
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@TheScmtnrider Jon man , don't go there with me . I am a wild life veterinarian and ethologist , i also work for the WAP (world animal protection) which is a branch of the UN and spend half the year at the UNESCO biospheres and the other part either on animalitarian mission i am sent to by the UNESCO or the WAP, or back home in Iceland in the Hornstrandir reserve where i look after arctic foxes to protect them from the fur poachers. I am also you can well imagine, completely vegan and neither eat, wear or use anything of animal origin. My shoes are made of fake leather , my burger is made with tofu and
You can keep yourself warm today in 2019 without the use of fur so it doesn't justify the killing, we are not neanderthals anymore , well clearly you are, but the rest of us aren't we sort of evolved past the last 4 million years .
So no Jon, killing animals for their fur, skin, feathers, meat is completely unjustified in 2019. I am living proof of it. The only reason you do it is because it is easy and cheap . I do not condole animal cruelty to make my life easier and cheaper, i was raised better than that.
I have never watched a disney movie in my life, so there is no anthropomorphism here . I know animals are animals and we are a form on animals too with a more complex brain we clearly have no idea how to use , Exhibit A, You.
Now kindly piss the fuck off.
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It is now proven that the Culprit was China, and not a market but a Lab in Wuhan and that the Chinese government has tried its best to cover it. The truth is out, and now China is at risk of being sued for 6,5 trillion dollars. The cat is out before it could be eaten by the chinese.
Whatever happens, China is over, it has ruined its image for the two decades to come. The world hasn't been in this situation since world war 2 and if there is even one hint of a doubt that China is the first country to have deliberately started or covered up a bacteriological war, then you can be sure that china will not only be over economically, it will be wiped out from the face of the earth.
Either way this country is over.
Remember Germany, Italy and Japan right after the war, it took 20 years to Japan to recover, Germany did it in about the same time and Italy never really truly recovered, but this time, the entire planet sees China as public enemy number one. It will take more than an entire generation for China to clean its image, and if it refuses to apologize and compensate, well,... good luck keeping its economy afloat and feeding nearly 2 billion people in complete autarky, and with no support whatsoever from the international community.
Even the UN is now thinking of kicking China out of the G8 if they refuse to show more honesty in the data they are providing the planet with.
China may be powerful and rich, but China has 1,5 billions mouths to feed, and already an extremely bad reputation worldwide. Money is not gonna help this time.
China SERIOUSLY better stop lying and start coming clean really soon, before the international community loses patience. Nobody is buying those chinese numbers anymore
Today
United States Confirmed 533,378 Recovered 32,026 Deaths 20,601
Spain Confirmed 166,019 Recovered 62,391 Deaths 16,972
Italy Confirmed 152,271 Recovered 32,534 Deaths
19,468
Germany Confirmed 125,452 Recovered 51,853 Deaths 2,871
France Confirmed 93,790 Recovered 26,391 Deaths
13,832
United Kingdom Confirmed 78,991 Recovered 0 Deaths 9,875
AND YET MIRACULOUSLY...
China Confirmed 82,052 Recovered 77,575 Deaths 3,339
...CHINA HAS LESS CASES THAN MOST FIRST WORLD NATIONS ALTHOUGH IT IS THE EPICENTER OF THE PANDEMIC AND EVEN MORE MIRACULOUSLY HAS A 90% RATE OF RECOVERY.
AND THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL NUMBERS PROVIDED BY CHINA AND THAT CHINA WANTS THE WORLD TO BELIEVE. WELL, ACCORDING TO THE BACTERIOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS I WORK WITH, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OPTIONS TO THESE NUMBERS. EITHER THESE NUMBERS ARE FAKE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT MATCH ANY OTHER WORLD DATA ON HOW THE PANDEMIC IS AFFECTING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET ,.....OR,...... THE RATE OF RECOVERY IS SO HIGH IN CHINA THAT CHINA MUST HAVE DEVELOPED A VACCINE (WHICH IT REFUSES TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD) . AND SINCE IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER 6 MONTHS TO EVEN START DEVELOPING A CURE, LET ALONE MANUFACTURE IT ON THAT SCALE, THIS WOULD PROVE THAT CHINA HAD THE VACCINE, BEFORE THE OUTBURST, AND THEREFORE MAY HAVE DELIBERATELY STARTED A BACTERIOLOGICAL WAR.
China better come up with an honest and serious explanation soon, because if they don't and the world finds out what is going on, China will face the reprisal of the entire planet, and i feel truly sorry for anyone of Chinese origin living outside China.
Just for the record, and at this point i couldn't care less being honest about it. I work for the UN in the medical field, and this is because i know what i know (which is more than i posted here) that me and my colleagues have sent our families as far as we could. My kids are safe in Iceland (my homeland) with their grandparents, in the Hornstrandir region where i grew up, and if a Chinese comes anywhere close to them, i won't hesitate and shoot.
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Jealousy and bitterness is so hilarious to watch !
Yes Lady C , Meghan is greedy and needy and demanding and unlike you she is also, young, beautiful, with a higher Title than yours, rich because she worked for it, and she is still married to a Prince while you are married to,....oops my bad, you were married to Lord Campbell for less than a year and your name is not Lady Campbell at all, it is George (Later renamed Georgia because apparently it took that long to your parents to figure out you were a girl, don't worry i know the fucked up genitalia story) Ziadie, born in Jamaica from a shop girl.
Yes, you are one to talk about being an attention whore, you should know !
You tricked her husband into believing you were a woman, then you milked every penny you could from him when he decided he didn't want to be married to a liar and a freak,. You tried to white wash yourself and tried to retain your husband's name because Campbell and Lady from England sounds better than Zaidie from Lebanon. Yes you really are one to talk !
I guess we all know the four letters word, the C in Lady C... stands for.
Boy are you tragic and pathetic,... and i do mean, Boy !
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Vice , first of all i have contacted my lawyers and they have contacted youtube , so you are going to hear from both of them . I am Japanese (don't mind the photo, that's my husband . And my mother is a Geisha , and authentic one , on of the last real ones . When you say that the prostitutes of Yokohama were injecting themselves with the chemical , you have absolutely no real evidence , and even if it is true , then maybe 1% of them did it , not all of them so you have absolutely no right to put them all in the same bag . Now i have contacted some historian in Yokohama and you are going to hear from them too . But that's between them and you now, and the Yokohama prostitutes .
My issue with you is not that . When you mention , Yokohama prostitutes or prostitutes in general , why do you post an image of a group of Geisha ? Geisha are most certainly not prostitutes , they are artists , they are singers, musicians , dancers and are versed in all the traditional Japanese arts , and NEVER TRADE SEX FOR MONEY . They earn more than a politician solely for they presence, my mother earnsmore than three politicians put together . Because they are the top entertainers of Japan, and the entertainment never involves nothing physical , let alone sexual . If you do not know the difference between a Geisha and a prostitute, both in terms of profession and appearances , then consider yourself educated now .
My mother has more connections after nearly 40 years in the profession , than the prime minister of Japan whom she counts as a personal friend , along , with the previous one, and the previous one , and the previous one , and the previous one , along with many members of the imperial family , and most of the CEO of all the major corporations in Japan and many abroad as well, and insulting a Geisha in Japan or abroad is , as you are going to learn it, a huge mistake .
When my lawyers contact you , i couldn't advise you more than to give serious notice and suite to their request , because if you don't . . .
Well let's just say that if you don't , the problem with Geisha is that they have also many connections with another , more infamous , group of Japanese people, with ramifications worldwide , who do not use lawyers .
You are going to be asked to have this photo or video removed and regardless how much money this video brings you , you might want to think twice before refusing the request .Trust me, Geisha are way above the law in Japan .
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Ca pue le rat mort a plein nez .
Pas d'assurance sur un batiment historique, pas de participation de l'UNESCO alors que Notre Dame est classee, et 800 millions venant des plus grandes boites et fortunes francaises qui peuvent touts le deduire de leurs impots plus tard . Ca sent la magouille de premiere. Les fausses factures vont pleuvoir et les devis vont etre gonfles au max et l'etat va s'en mettre plein les poches . Sa sent 1789 et la fracture sociale. A une epoque ou la france pue la misere et la plupart des gens n'ont pas meme de quoi nourrir leur gosses convenablement et se soigner ou se loger, et se font en plus taxer comme des malades, le gouvernement va utiliser un milliard (on va le depasser je pense) pour une eglise, bravo la laicite republicaine ! Les super friques viennent afficher leur aisance dans un gouvernement qui favorise les riches au detriment des pauvres . On est en plein 1789 . Les gros patrons viennent simplement de dire au Francais de "manger de la brioche si ils n'ont pas de pain" . Et puis la France laique interdisant le port du voile mais prete a debloquer des centaines de millions pour reconstruire un edifice religieux quand les SDF crevent de faim sur le parvis de Notre Dame . Et le Vatican qui apparemment ne se bouge pas trop les miches .
Ca va peter mechemment cette fois ci . Je vous le dis , ca ne va pas etre des petites manifs dans les rues , ca va etre la prise de la Bastille et demander la tete de Macron .
Je plainds les gars qui bossent dans les boutiques Vuitton ou pour Pinault et Arnault et chez L'Oreal , pour le meme salaire depuis 40 ans, et qui se sont vu refuser avancement apres avancement, et voient maintenant leurs boss signer des cheques de 2oo millions .
Tout le monde a son bouc emissaire en France en ce moment et chacun est comme une bombe a retardement et la le gouvernement vient de tendre un flamme pour allumer la meche.
Ca va etre un ete sanglant si le gouvernement decide d'utiliser 800 millions de donations pour une eglise !
Et puis ne parlons pas meme des ecolos si le gouvernement decide de deboiser des forets de chenes entiere pour reconstruire un toit au lieu d'utiliser des materiaux moderne, plus ecologique, plus solide et moins couteux.
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Putain, je dois etre super suspect aux yeux des kadors parce que je regarde les ingredients de tout ce que j'achete, surtout les cosmetiques et la bouffem puisque je suis vegan et je ne veux rien comportant quoique se soit d'origine animale ou tester sur animaux. Je n'achete aussi que du fair trade et il faut que se soit 100% bio, y compris les cosmetique, le savon, le dentifrice etc, donc je passe plus de 80% du temps a lire les ingreditent, les lieux de fabrication, l'origine du produit, etc,....
Pourtant je n'ai jamais rien pique, dans le Karim il va vraiment perdre un temps de malade a me suivre partout. Paye ton Kador mon gars ! Et vous embauche ce gars la !
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The problem is that it is that the jokes on tv shows are made by the same people who are actually racist. Noboduy will have a problem about black people making fun of black people or arabs making fun of arabs, but this is when white people make fun of blacks or arabs or jews that no matter the reason, some people will naturally get offended . White people showing other racist white people will make everyone laugh . But do not make another ethnic group look bad . Same if you are straight , nobody will laugh at your homophobic jokes, no matter how much you support the gay community .
When all of this racism, xenophobia, prejudice, homophobia is long gone and forgotten , we will all have a laugh about it , until then ,....
And i made a mistake about the jewish jokes. Most of the media are controlled by Jewish lobbies and we basically never see any joke against the holocaust and i think this is those double standards that annoy people .
Amd you mister Thoughty2 are sort of pushing those double standards . The way you started this video speaks volume . There are a lot of Jewish people in palestine who kill Palestinians on a daily basis and nobody talks about it .
The largest number of victims from radical islamist groups are muslims and nobody else . Something the media never really mention . A lot of minorities are pissed off to still be treated as second class or third class citizens, and things are getting worse , so of course they are not about to laugh at jokes against them , any time soon . Now more than ever .
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@miguelmendes967 Moi personellement non, mais mon pere, mon grand pere et mon arriere grand pere oui. Je suis fils, petit fils et arriere petit fils d'archeologue, theologien et historien. J'ai vecu 3 ans en Egypte quand j'etais jeune au milieu des fouilles, et c'etait dans les annees 70 donc sans internet et toute la journee je lisais des theses d'egyptologie, ecrite par des gense de tous les horizons, et a table le soir nous dinions avec des egyptologues venant de tous les pays, y compris des pays Africains, donc j'ai grandit en apprenant tout ce que je pouvait apprendre sur l'Egypte ancienne. Donc non je ne suis ni egyptologue ni expert, mais j'ai tout de meme lu plus de 600 these sur le sujet, y compris les theses des plus grands egyptologistes contemporains, qui se fichent royalement que les Egyptiens ancients aient ete blanc ou noir ou jaune ou vert ou bleu.
Et puis surtout ma mere effectuait les fouilles au cote de mon pere, et ma mere n'est pas egyptologue, geneticiste ethnologue et anthropologues, c'est a dire qu'elle collectait et analysait les prelevement d'ADN de toutes les populations locales et les comparait aux resultat des test effectue sur les mommies.
Tous les test effectues sur des mommies, y compris Toutankhamon, Ramses, Nefertari et plusieurs autres , montrent un appartenance ethnique au peuple d'Afrique du nord et en particulier au peuple Amazigh, mais egalement Basque, et dans certains cas plus etranges, Celtes, Certaines mommies du sud de l'Egypte montre un appartenance ethnique avec certains des peuples de Soudan et en particulier les Nubiens bien entendu, mais personne ne remets cela en cause. Par contre aucune mommie decouverte au nord d'Aswan na jamais revele la moindre appartenance avec des peuple Nubiens ancient ou Soudanais.
Comme je le dis, je ne suis pas un expert mais j'ai tout de meme ete eleve par des experts.
Personellement je n'ai rien contre l'idee de Pharaons noirs et je suis sur que nous n'avons pas tout decouvert sur l'Egypte, et il y avait, c'est indeniable, des Pharaons noirs au sud de la valley de Nil et dans le nord du Soudan.
Je ne fais pas d'Euro-centrisme. Je ne suis pas meme Francais. Je suis Islandais et Inuit Groenlandais par mon pere, et du cote de ma mere, je suis Russe, Britanique et Kalbeliya Indien du Rajasthan. Donc certes je ne suis pas Black mais bon je crois etre suffisemment ouvert d'esprit pour ne pas baser toutes les connaissance de l'humanite sur l'apport de l'Europe dans le domaine !
Miguel Mendes
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@Morgan Olfursson Tu devrais faire preuve de plus d'humilité, mais je suppose que tu es expert dans le domaine.
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My cat wakes me every morning at exactly 5:25, this is absolutely terrifying. He comes on me and bites my ear, i wake up, look at the clock and it is 5:25. This , regardless of the time i fed him before sleeping, the time i got back home, the time he went to bed, how much food he's got left, the weather, the time of year, etc... It's been 4 years and he has been waking me up at the same time, ever single day, including weekends and days off , which is a little annoying ! I am a veterinarian and ethologist and i still do not understand his behaviour. I know he likes attention because he was abandoned when he was only a few days old along with his five brothers and sisters and i rescued them, and he was always the most needy of them, and constantly slept on me, demanding to be pet, and it never changed to this day. I still have all his siblings at home with me, but he is the only one acting this way. I must admit that this is a little creepy sometimes, because this is never 5:24 or 5:26 but 5:25 , and this is not even a matter of routine of mine which he picked up, because i do not need to wake up this early and never set the alarm clock to 5:25.
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@noahmiller8042 They ate sugary food but no meat . Especially the Sumerians for whom meat was forbidden by law .
You can find evidence of it by checking out the sumerian vegan diet essay written by archaeologist and anthropo-ethnologists .
Thei diet consisted exclusively of vegetables, fruits, seeds , beans, cereals, roots, honey, bread etc . No evidence at all of Sumerians hunting animals for food or breeding them for that purpose either .
The early ancient Egyptian who took example on the late Sumerians followed that type of diet and dietary restriction, until later on, meat , and only some types of meat, became allowed to people of the highest status only .
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@baberoot1998 I didn't imply murdered , my uncle shot the butcher. I am not implying anything because i am not hiding anything . We shot him and in the most painful way . As for murder, this is not more of a murder than what takes place in slaughterhouse, fur farms, feather farms, around the globe around clock or what hunters do with animals . So call it murder if you wish, but if you have steak and chicken for dinner than welcome to the club of murderers .
No i don't kill ants , mosquitoes, or roaches (although i hate roaches, if i ever see one, i'll catch it if i can and get it out of the house). I use plants which naturally repel insects all around and in the house. Ants are wonderful creatures i would never kill one, same with bees . I love spiders and i am actually quite the insect lover.
Well i don't believe in imaginary guys in the sky, So the opinion of people who believe in god is about as valuable to me as a pile of horse shit. Actually less valuable than a pile of horse shit , because you can use it as fertilizer .
By the way, when you get cancer (as a meat eater you are very much likely to get one) instead of asking a doctor like me to treat you , go to a church and ask your fucking god to heal you , see how it works !
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@johnrankin7135 I'm a former MD for the UN, mostly, based in war areas or areas struck by natural or man made disaster for about 10 years. Now working as a wild life vet and ethologist for the WAP (world animal protection which is a branch of the UN) still in the same areas, mostly the Middle East and Asia .. I am both an MD specialized in physical and neurological trauma and a wild life vet specialized in felidae and canidae, but i do not treat human beings anymore, unless it is an emergency and solely because of the oath i took.
I do not kill people because they eat meat . I just did to them what they did to other living creatures . Their mistake , was to do it in front of me . I have the same relation toward human being s who mistreat animal as you have about humans who mistreat kids . If anyone is stupid enough to do that in front of me , there'll be consequences proportional to what they did . If they hurt, they get hurt, if they kill, they die .
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@johnrankin7135 Whether you believe me or not is irrelevant to me . Not more of a psychopath than people who believe that animals are here to be hunted , killed, used, worn, eaten , played with , etc...
At least i feel no pleasure in killing or hurting people who mistreat or kill animals . While people who hunt animals , and kill them or hurt them, feel pleasure in it, Which puts these people far more inside the psychopathic category than i am . I respect life, whatever form it takes , people who eat animals though they do not need it at all to live , do not respect life, they put themselves first , i don't . And this not only about animals, this is about nature in general, the mountains in the middle of which i live, the oceans , wild life, pet life , farm life . My entire life is about respecting nature and this planet , and if for that i need to put some people who disrespect it , 6 feet under, i won't hesitate a second .
Now if you are done boring me, i'll get back to work.
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It is now proven that the Culprit was China, and not a market but a Lab in Wuhan and that the Chinese government has tried its best to cover it. The truth is out, and now China is at risk of being sued for 6,5 trillion dollars. The cat is out buddy. And this time it wasn't eaten by the chinese.
Whatever happens, China is over, it has ruined its image for the two decades to come. The world hasn't been in this situation since world war 2 and if there is even one hint of a doubt that China is the first country to have deliberately started or covered up a bacteriological war, then you can be sure that china will not only be over economically, it will be wiped out from the face of the earth.
Either way this country is over.
Remember Germany, Italy and Japan right after the war, it took 20 years to Japan to recover, Germany did it in about the same time and Italy never really truly recovered, but this time, the entire planet sees China as public enemy number one. It will take more than an entire generation for China to clean its image, and if it refuses to apologize and compensate, well,... good luck keeping its economy afloat and feeding nearly 2 billion people in complete autarky, and with no support whatsoever from the international community.
Even the UN is now thinking of kicking China out of the G8 if they refuse to show more honesty in the data they are providing the planet with.
China may be powerful and rich, but China has 1,5 billions mouths to feed, and already an extremely bad reputation worldwide. Money is not gonna help this time.
China SERIOUSLY better stop lying and start coming clean really soon, before the international community loses patience. Nobody is buying those numbers anymore
United States Confirmed 533,378 Recovered 32,026 Deaths 20,601
Spain Confirmed 166,019 Recovered 62,391 Deaths 16,972
Italy Confirmed 152,271 Recovered 32,534 Deaths
19,468
Germany Confirmed 125,452 Recovered 51,853 Deaths 2,871
France Confirmed 93,790 Recovered 26,391 Deaths
13,832
United Kingdom Confirmed 78,991 Recovered 0 Deaths 9,875
AND YET MIRACULOUSLY...
China Confirmed 82,052 Recovered 77,575 Deaths 3,339
...CHINA HAS LESS CASES THAN MOST FIRST WORLD NATIONS ALTHOUGH IT IS THE EPICENTER OF THE PANDEMIC AND EVEN MORE MIRACULOUSLY HAS A 90% RATE OF RECOVERY.
AND THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL NUMBERS PROVIDED BY CHINA AND THAT CHINA WANTS THE WORLD TO BELIEVE. WELL, ACCORDING TO THE BACTERIOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS I WORK WITH, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OPTIONS TO THESE NUMBERS. EITHER THESE NUMBERS ARE FAKE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT MATCH ANY OTHER WORLD DATA ON HOW THE PANDEMIC IS AFFECTING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET ,.....OR,...... THE RATE OF RECOVERY IS SO HIGH IN CHINA THAT CHINA MUST HAVE DEVELOPED A VACCINE (WHICH IT REFUSES TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD) . AND SINCE IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER 6 MONTHS TO EVEN START DEVELOPING A CURE, LET ALONE MANUFACTURE IT ON THAT SCALE, THIS WOULD PROVE THAT CHINA HAD THE VACCINE, BEFORE THE OUTBURST, AND THEREFORE MAY HAVE DELIBERATELY STARTED A BACTERIOLOGICAL WAR.
China better come up with an honest and serious explanation soon, because if they don't and the world finds out what is going on, China will face the reprisal of the entire planet, and i feel truly sorry for anyone of Chinese origin living outside China.
Just for the record, and at this point i couldn't care less being honest about it. I work for the UN in the medical field, and this is because i know what i know (which is more than i posted here) that me and my colleagues have sent their family as far as they could. My kids are safe in Iceland (my homeland) in the Hornstrandir region where i grew up, and if a Chinese comes anywhere close to them, i won't hesitate and shoot.
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On top of that he is so damn cute . But darling a first generation immigrant, brown, yellow black or whatever colour you like, muslim, christian, buddhist, chamanist, shinto , atheist, gay straight something in between or beyond, left wing, right wing, something in between or beyond, CAN make fun of the president or royalty in most European countries. This is not something specific to the US . America , did not invent freedom or speech and the first amendment has identical though contradictorily much older twins in Europe, a journalist should know that !
Other than for this last part, that was a great speech .
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I was reading most some comments here left by Asians and Latins and Middle Eastern people and you guys are all like ,... My mother does it this way , my mother do it differently, my mother does it better, my sister does it the same , my 7 years old daughter knows how to cook rice, my aunt does it better .
Damn , is there any man in Asia, the Middle East or the Latin world who cooks ?
Well i'll be thr first then . I cook rice that way , and i'm a man , my son cooks rice that way and my father cooks rice that way , but then again, i am Scandinavian , men here do not see it as something degrading to cook or help in the kitchen , or clean and wipe and vacuum and do the washing up and do the beds and the grocery shopping, while taking care of the kids and working from 9 to 5 . It's 2018 guys, help your mothers and aunts and sisters and for F sakes, don't make your 7 year old daughter cook, make her study , so she doesn't become a housewife .
And you guys , this is not because you have a stick between your legs that you can't pick up the other stick called broom . Now get to work ! Your mother is human being not a cook or a maid , and she doesn't even get paid for that , so help out !
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Is the last couple vegetarian ? I see them eating the eggs the hens and goose lay, but i don't see them eating meat. Clearly the horses and goats aren't destined to be eaten, i don't see them cooking chicken either, and there are all those pets, dogs, cats, birds, etc....
If they are vegetarian they are my absolutely heroes. I am a wild life vet and ethologist and you guys, (i seriously doubt you waste money on the internet and would ever read that), but if anybody reads that and knows how to contact them, i truly want to help them. Now if the chicken are ending up in the casserole i am a little less inclined to help but i still will for the sake of the other animals. But one thing is certain is that i have far more respect for people who can kill their own food than people who buy it at the supermarket.
I would be willing to help Bob find a job, the first guy because of the very toxic marriage and family he is trapped in.
But this couple right here, if i can send them 400 dollars a month i will gladly do it, just to make sure those animals have a long and comfortable life, and their care taker get a bit of the solace they so deserve.
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You don't wanna stuff somebody's physical extension in your back pocket . That was an unfortunate choice of words, or damn , do i have a dirty mind !
20 years in Japan , never had a business card made and i went from modeling to , med school, to working for my embassy, to working with the Gaimusho or ministry of foreign affairs to working for the UN than the WAP branch of the UN (not joking ) , never had a card made , some of the companies i worked for made some for me , but i found them awkward to exchange so i never carried them with me . I have a good memory and remember names and faces and jobs usually too, and the Japanese i met usually rmember the nearly 2 meters tall clumsy Scandinavian who speaks Japanese like the Mama of a bar in Nichome at 5 am .
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I visited Kowloon when i was in my early 20s and if was hellish .
Now in regard to the dog meat, or cat meat, or every sort of animal meat served in Kowloon or in Hongkong for that matter and in many places in China, i do have an issue with your vision of things. Dog and cat meat is normal in some areas of the planet, and i really do not see why and how a cat, a dog, a whale or a dolphin, would have more right to live than a cow or a sheep or a chicken. If you are going to eat meat, i find it very hypocritical to decide which is ok to eat and which is not. I am vegan, never ate anything of animal origin in my entire life, i have the right to be enraged by people serving dog or cat, just like i am equally enraged with people eating beef or chicken.
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@g.lowenklee2268 Oh i see, so when you are poor you are forgiven for not trying to keep your house and streets clean. How convenient.
I lived in Japan for many years, i often visited poor areas in Japan to help people there. There houses and streets were immaculate.
I was always very surprised by the cleanliness of these areas, and asked people about that. They all told me two things "Cleanliness has nothing to do with money but has everything to do with self respect, which itself is NEVER related to money" and "You never can expect to achieve success in life if you do not start by keeping your life, brain, body and soul as clean as possible. Homeless people in Japan who live in houses made of cardboard boxes and plastic (and who receive zero help from the government) , wash themselves every day, brush their teeth, collect trash to sell to make money , never EVER beg for money, sweep the area around ther cardboard houses, NEVER throw trash outside the designated areas and at the designated time, separate recyclable trash from non recyclable ones, and remove their shoes when they enter their cardboard houses. Plus they offered me tea whenever i visited them.
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By contrast, being abjectly poor creates a sense of powerlessness, and if you're born into squalor you tend to despise your surroundings, both of which encourage lack of upkeep and self-destructive habits."
Not in Japan.
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FIST OF ALL YOU MISREAD OR MISUNDERSTOOD HALF OF THE THINGS I HAVE WRITTEN, AND INCE IT WAS QUITE CLEAR , THAT ONLY MEANS YOU ARE STUPID .
NOW THIS 。。。You can be a man and identify as woman all you want but it doesn’t mean you’re right.
Why? Because you were born with a penis.。。。AND YOU TELL ME I DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CULTURE AND NATURE ??? AL , SORRY , MY BAD, YOU ARE BEYOND STUPID.
WERE YOU TAUGHT BIOLOGY BY MORMONS OR BY EVANGELISTS ?
Sexual orientation and genders are two different things, there is only two genders male and female
WRONG, THE NATURE AMERICANS HAVE 3 GENDERS, THE JAPANESE AND SOME SOUTH AMERICAN NATIVES HAVE 3 AS WELL , THE INUITS HAVE THREE , THE CHINESE HAVE FOUR , IN SOME AREAS IN AFRICA THEY HAVE FIVE , IN INDIA THEY HAVE UP TO 7 , THE ANCIENT GREEKS HAD THREE , THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS HAD OVER TEN . AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION I AM TALKING ABOUT GENDERS . WHY ? BECAUSE NOT EVERY CULTURE BASES EVERYTHING ON THE FUCKING BIBLE AND A DICK LIKE YOU DO . SOME ARE A LITTLE MORE EVOLVED AND UNDERSTOOD THAT GENDER IS IN THE BRAIN NOT IN THE PANTS AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANATOMY , BECAUSE GENITALIA IS JUST AN ORGAN , IT IS JUST PHYSIOLOGY . YOU ARE THE PERFECT DEFINITION OF JUDEOCHRISTIAN/MUSLIM RIGID PHALLO-VULVO-CENTRIST FREAK THIS IS HOPELESS . YOU ARE SO BRAINWASHED AND CLOSED TO ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION, IN SPITE OF YOUR INTERNET ACCESS GIVING YOU ACCESS TO THE WORLD , YOU STILL LIVE IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE AGE .
MOST OF THE CULTURES I MENTIONED DO NOT ASSOCIATE A DICK WITH A MAN , THEY DON'T CALL A BABY WITH A PENIS A MALE THEY JUST CALL IT A BABY WITH A PENIS OR A BABY WITH A VAGINA, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT WHAT DEFINES GENDER AND THAT GENDER COMES MUCH LATER AND IS NOT DEFINED BY GENITALIA . YOU ARE THE ONE WHO STILL THINKS LIKE A MIDDLE AGE CHRISTIAN .
Don’t get confused with gender (biology) with gender roles.
Two separate things. Not the same.
AND YOU, DON'T CONFUSE A FUCKING DICK OR CUNT AND GENDER , THESE ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS AS WELL. . AND LEARN THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BIOLOGY , PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY BEFORE TRYING TO GIVE ME A FREAKING LECTURE ON THE TOPIC .
WE ARE DONE HERE I DON'T WASTE MY TIME WITH A TEENAGER TRYING TO BE SMART , I HAVE TWO LIKE THIS AT HOME BUT UNLIKE YOU THEY KNOW BETTER THAN TO SUPPORT A THESIS ABOUT THINGS THEY DO NOT FULLY COMPREHEND AND SO DO I .
MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION DO NOT IDENTIFY GENDER BASED ON GENITALIA, YOU ARE NOT THE FUCKING UNIVERSAL REFERENCE BECAUSE YOU'RE A BIBLE HUMPER .
GET A FUCKING CLUE AND GET STEP UP FROM YOUR DARK AGES BOOKS AND 16TH CENTURY BIOLOGY .
BY THE WAY YOUR ENGLISH IS DREADFUL AND THAT TELLS A LOT ABOUT YOUR SO CALLED EDUCATION .
DON'T EVEN START ATTACKING MY ENGLISH UNLESS YOU CAN ANSWER TO ME IN ICELANDIC .
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For me it is simple. If it is made in China i don't buy it, i don't use it, i don't touch it and i certainly don't eat it .
Whether it is food , clothes, electronics , shoes , toys, anything . I don't go to this country and i don't even want chinese people near me or around me . so i do not go to touristic areas that many chinese frequent, i do not go anywhere near china town .
I run a company here in Switzerland and we do not hire chinese , because they travel back and forth and can bring back germs and diseases, Besides i am in the medical inddustry so i know way too well how dirty and dangerous china is . On top of that i am married to a veterinarian and chinese have zero respect for animal life so we don't want anything chinese or chinese peope around us or our kids .
This is as simple as that .
I have many Chinese friends , but they usually hate China and do not want to have anything to do with the country , and completely agree with me .
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Le seul probleme est de faire des masques qui protegent vraiment. C'est quasiment impossible, car les fibres de tissue sont BEAUCOUP trop large et laisse passer les Virus, et les masque chirurgicaux sont polluant. Personellement, je mets un masque uniquement au travail et comme je suis veterinaire, ca ne me change pas vraiment de l'avant Pandemique. Mais pour eviter de trop en utiliser, je porte un masque chirurgical sous un masque en tissue ce qui permet de faire durer le masque chirurgical un jour entier plutot que de le changer tout le temps. Et puis si je sors dans la rue, je ne mets qu'un masque en tissu (soie, car le tissage est beaucoup plus fin). Je fais mes masques en tissue moi meme. J'ai achete en ligne un Tanmono qui est un rouleau de tissu utilise pour confectioner les kimono traditionel au Japon. J'ai choisi un tissu de soie Habutae, qui est la soie la plus finement tissee et la plus epaisse, de soie blanche non teinte et entierement tissee a la main. Le tissu m'a coute l'equivalent de 200 euros, il mesure 38 cm de large sur 12 metres de long. Avec cela je peut faire plus de 1000 masques. Tous sont lavables et reutilisable. Je peux choisir de les realiser avec plusieur epaisseurs de soie, de deux a 7 epaisseur pour une protection plus ou moins forte dependant de l'utilisation que je veux en faire. avec 7 epaisseurs, on ne respire pas bien mais on se sent vraiment protege. De plus je peux les faire plus grand que la plupart des masques vendus dans les commerces, donc mes masques recouvrent bien le nez et la bouche jusque sous les yeux et sous le menton. Je me suis meme fait des echarpes de la meme soie pour me les enrouler autour du nez et de la bouche quand je sors en hiver pour plus de protection.
Zero, dechet, biologique, mais bon pas vegan parce que la soie est d'origine animale.
Par contre tu peux respirer des fibres de soie sans risque, alors que respirer des fibres de plastique et les avoir bloquees dans tes poumons c'est moins bon pour la sante.
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@Tomato35-g7y Je ne sais pas ce qu'est un BEP exactement , je ne suis pas Francais et j'ai fait mes etudes en pensionnat a L'Aiglon et au Rosey en Suisse et non pas en France . .
Ceryains grands dirigeants paient mon salaire donc il n'est pas dans mes intentions de leur cracher dessus . Mais je ne considere pas Arnault, Pinault ou Bettencourt comme de grands dirigeants, quelque soit leur compte e banque . Ce sont ceux qui, a ton niveau de Francais moyen, constituent peut etre de grands dirigeants, mais a mon niveau c'est davantage António Guterres , Christine Lagarde , Donald Tusk, Shinichi Kitaoka, Le Houérou, Audray Azulay , qui sont les personnes avec les equipes desquels je travaille regulierement .
Mais je doute que ses noms te parlent .
Donc evite de me faire perdre mon temps. Discuter avec quelqu'un qui se prrsente comme "sucette" est suffisemment rabaissant . D'autant plus que tu ne sais pas meme epeler Sucette correctement .
Lollipop et non pas lolipop .
Salut.
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How about Bjork ? She is modern and is FAR better than the Beatles or Dylan or The Doors or The Who , etc ,....
She is as good as Mozart and her music is about as much technical as the classical prodigy's .
Talking of prodigies , Marilyn Manson, Michael Jackson , George Michael , Boy George , Annie Lennox Eurythmics , the Cure, Nirvana, Grace Jones, Tracy Chapman. Dee Lite, all of them were or still are phenomenal composers . Even some of Beyonce's music are constructed like 1940s, 50s, 60s masterpieces of Soul or Rythm and Blues , the same which made Elvis a legend . So music may not be too great today but great music didn't end in the 50s or 60s, there were phenomenal pieces in the 80s and 90s. Electro music is just as good as the Beatles if created properly and they are some masterpieces of electro, (I mean Daft Punk and Gorllaz alone) just like there are some VERY bad music dating back to the 50s, 60s and 70s .
But i agree on on thing, Gaga is a disaster , same with Perry , Britney , Rihanna, Arianna, Cyrus , Bieber , I don't even like Adele , her voice is amazing but it ends there .
And I forgot the queen of pop who made some truly good ones in the 80s and 90s and brought something with Ray of Light , but we have to thank Mirways for that and she hasn't been relevant ever since .
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I don't see the dilemma in either first or second case scenario /
In either case and if i know none of the people on the tracks , i will keep on walking and just go to my favorite coffee place and have my coffee . I say that because there is a track i need to cross to go there in Zurich Switzerland where i live.
If there is an animal and a human being on the tracks and i have to pull the switch to save one , you can of course be sure that i will chose the animal . I am a veterinarian and i will chose the life of an animal over the life of a person anytime . Even my neighbours know that, because they always have their kids and pets playing on the road , and i told them that if some day i have to chose between their kids or their dogs to roll over , or getting myself into a tree to avoid both , i will save the dogs and myself . Now if there are two animals on the tracks , that is a far trickier question to me, if i have to save just one . I will probably chose the cat over the dog , but this is just because i am far more of a cat person .
But honestly even if there is a pregnant woman, or a kid or an elderly on one track and an old raccoon with scabies and rabies on the other , i will choose the raccoon .
I don't know if that makes me a psychopath or just someone with not much empathy for human beings , which is true . Apart from my family and friends i don't really care .
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@Dyna A The language that you speak doesn't determine your ethnicity . If so, then Basque people would be impossible to classify , same with Finnish people . And as for Northern Africans , nobody also has any clue where the Amazigh people language originates from and many of them look Scandinavian . So your comment is utterly ridiculous . Trying to explain what people are , based on the language they speak is not only silly, it is also dangerous .
I am from Iceland and though Icelandic is considered an Indo-European language with Germanic roots , i most certainly do not identify in the same category as Persians just because our languages are classified in the same category of Indo-European languages, as opposed to Arabs who have been mixing up with Farsi speaking people for centuries .This amalgam between language and ethnicity is so simplistic , it is beyond stupid .
Besides, being Persian is neither an ethnicity nor is it a language , it is simply being part of what was once called Persia , today Iran . And Iran is represented by almost a dozen of ethnic groups , including Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, Lors, etc... , and not all of them speak or understand Farsi , so reducing Persians to people who speak Farsi is also completely stupid . Especially since Iran also counts millions of Arabs who are just as Persians as the rest of the population of Iran . Persian is not a language it is the denomination of people from Persia (regardless of their ethnicity, while the language known as Farsi i the one classified as Indo-European , (this is not Persians who are Indo-European) and only uneducated english speakers , refer to the language of Persia as Persian, when in reality there are dozens of dialects spoken in Persia , by many different ethnic groups , all of them Being Persians in ancestry .
My comment was about ethnicity , not language . If Persians are called caucasians , then so are Arabs, not that i necessarily agree with it (for both Persians and Arabs, but i am against double standards and what works for one must work for the other .
The one i consider to be very much Caucasian however are the Amazigh people or Berbers, same with some Tuareg tribes. But some Amazigh people in particular have basically Scandinavian features and would not look out of place in Sweden or Norway , so i dare anyone to tell me that these people from Northern Africa are NOT Caucasian . For me they are even more Caucasian in ethnicity, language and culture than Spanish people, Southern French, Portuguese and Italians .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHD1fZAvmA
Even their music sounds Celt and Scandinavian .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KSVIVDMKM
Also Arabs are NOT an ethnic group, it is the denomination of people living or originally from the Arabian peninsula , which doesn't include a large part of northern Africa. And the Persian gulf coastline is also considered as part of Saudi Arabia which is itself part of the Arabian peninsula, which means that Persians from this coastline are also Arabs .
You have to understand what words mean before posting comments. Arab and/or Persian as words do no mean what you seem to believe they mean , same with Language and Ethnicity. And you also have to do your research regarding historical migrations and what they involved in terms of consequences in ethnicity , but also not mix up indigenous people with the different wave of migrations or invasions which may have followed and understand the differences in ethnicity within a same country or region within the country . If you don't understand that , then we must also classify Spanish people as Arabs since Spain was invaded by the Moors and was Muslim for over 400 years .
So next time do your homework, before wasting my time .
I am the son of an archaeologist, and theologian (father) , anthropologist and ethnologist (mother) and Historian (Grand father) and i have spent my entire childhood reading thesis on Northern Africa , Persia and the Arabian peninsula but also the fertile crescent civilizations from the Sumerians to the Ancient Egyptians to the modern Middle East . Plus i have spent several years between Northern Africa and the Middle East and all the way to India due to my work .
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It is now proven that the Culprit was China, and not a market but a Lab in Wuhan and that the Chinese government has tried its best to cover it. The truth is out, and now China is at risk of being sued for 6,5 trillion dollars. The cat is out before the Chinese could eat it.
Whatever happens, China is over, it has ruined its image for the two decades to come. The world hasn't been in this situation since world war 2 and if there is even one hint of a doubt that China is the first country to have deliberately started or covered up a bacteriological war, then you can be sure that china will not only be over economically, it will be wiped out from the face of the earth.
Either way this country is over.
Remember Germany, Italy and Japan right after the war, it took 20 years to Japan to recover, Germany did it in about the same time and Italy never really truly recovered, but this time, the entire planet sees China as public enemy number one. It will take more than an entire generation for China to clean its image, and if it refuses to apologize and compensate, well,... good luck keeping its economy afloat and feeding nearly 2 billion people, in complete autarky, and with no support whatsoever from the international community.
Even the UN is now thinking of kicking China out of the G8 if they refuse to show more honesty in the data they are providing the planet with.
China may be powerful and rich, but China has 1,5 billions mouths to feed, and already an extremely bad reputation worldwide. Money is not gonna help this time.
China SERIOUSLY better stop lying and start coming clean really soon, before the international community loses patience. Nobody is buying those numbers anymore
United States Confirmed 533,378 Recovered 32,026 Deaths 20,601
Spain Confirmed 166,019 Recovered 62,391 Deaths 16,972
Italy Confirmed 152,271 Recovered 32,534 Deaths
19,468
Germany Confirmed 125,452 Recovered 51,853 Deaths 2,871
France Confirmed 93,790 Recovered 26,391 Deaths
13,832
United Kingdom Confirmed 78,991 Recovered 0 Deaths 9,875
AND YET MIRACULOUSLY...
China Confirmed 82,052 Recovered 77,575 Deaths 3,339
...CHINA HAS LESS CASES THAN MOST FIRST WORLD NATIONS ALTHOUGH IT IS THE EPICENTER OF THE PANDEMIC AND EVEN MORE MIRACULOUSLY HAS A 90% RATE OF RECOVERY.
AND THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL NUMBERS PROVIDED BY CHINA AND THAT CHINA WANTS THE WORLD TO BELIEVE. WELL, ACCORDING TO THE BACTERIOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS I WORK WITH, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OPTIONS TO THESE NUMBERS. EITHER THESE NUMBERS ARE FAKE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT MATCH ANY OTHER WORLD DATA ON HOW THE PANDEMIC IS AFFECTING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET ,.....OR,...... THE RATE OF RECOVERY IS SO HIGH IN CHINA THAT CHINA MUST HAVE DEVELOPED A VACCINE (WHICH IT REFUSES TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD) . AND SINCE IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER 6 MONTHS TO EVEN START DEVELOPING A CURE, LET ALONE MANUFACTURE IT ON THAT SCALE, THIS WOULD PROVE THAT CHINA HAD THE VACCINE, BEFORE THE OUTBURST, AND THEREFORE MAY HAVE DELIBERATELY STARTED A BACTERIOLOGICAL WAR.
China better come up with an honest and serious explanation soon, because if they don't and the world finds out what is going on, China will face the reprisal of the entire planet, and i feel truly sorry for anyone of Chinese origin living outside China.
Just for the record, and at this point i couldn't care less being honest about it. I work for the UN in the medical field, and this is because i know what i know (which is more than i posted here) that me and my colleagues have sent their family as far as they could. My kids are safe in Iceland (my homeland) in the Hornstrandir region where i grew up, and if a Chinese comes anywhere close to them, i won't hesitate and shoot.
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When i was 17 i was being sued by the Chinese government for burning down a fur factory with a team of animal rights activist, after rescuing all the animals in it. It didn't make me a millionaire but my parents were never prouder of me. Thank god i am from Iceland and the Icelandic government pressurized the Chinese one (china was far from being the superpower it is today, in those days), to release me. I still was given two options tell where the animals were or do community services (meaning jail time), i chose jail, best time of my life, Chinese jails in those days (and still today) were filled with the best people in the country, all called dissidents, so i made contacts there which are still among my best friends today!
Keep your millions, the experience of my teenage and my idyllic childhood were far better than all the millions.
Today i'm a veterinarian and ethologist, working for the WAP (branch of the UN) and the Unesco Biospheres, around the world. I don't drive a BMW i don't have a house in Chelsea, but i feel like i have succeed and i am glad to do a job which is meaningful, rather than just being a piece of the big mercantile and capitalist machine.
As for my kids, i'd rather see them become escorts than brokers.
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You want to piss Japanese off, very simple , you either carry an american flag with you or you wear a Kimono as a foreigner , i combined both , i made a Kimono out of american flag print fabric and spent a day around Yasukuni , that was Hilarious . And the police couldn't do a thing against me , no law against wearing a kimono with an american flag print on it , but boy were they pissed . The next day i went there again with two friends , both of them also wearing a Kimono , one with a Korean flag on it and the other with a Chinese flag , i thought e were gonna get shot . That was beyond hilarious .
I have since left the country , but to the Gaijin there , if you ever want to have some fun, do this . This is not illegal at all and it speaks volume and shows you and them what true democracy means .
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I am travelling in Japan right now and although everybody is wearing masks (which is not unusual at all in Japan at this time of the year) i feel actually far safer in Japan than i am in Europe (where i am from) . Japanese have a natural tendency to wear masks which will certainly avoid the virus to spread, and to clean their hand thoroughly with antiseptic gels and wipes. The only thing which worries me in Japan is the metro and trains, because you breathe the same air as everybody else, but then again Japanese wear masks so i still feel far safer breathing though a mask myself as well in a Japanese subway or train rather than in a French, British, German one where nobody wears masks and nobody carries antiseptic wipes and gel to clean their hands.
I am not worried at all about the Olympics, i will be in Tokyo again this summer and will enjoy them. Japan is the champion country of getting over adversity and i am sure the 2020 games will be an utter success and will go flawlessly. I may not be all in favour in Japan ragarding many things (especially when it comes to the way animals are treated in this country , i am a vet ) , but when it comes to thorough organization and coordinated effort to insure flawless execution of any task, Japan can teach the world a lesson.
When it comes to the Olympic Games , rather than the Corona Virus , i am more worried of the heat . Japan and Tokyo are incredibly hot and humid in summer, even by Japanese standards , and the heat and humidity is rising every year, so i think that the danger will come more from athletes and tourists getting heatstroke rather than contracting a deadly virus.
I do hope people are not going to be stupid and think that Japan is more dangerous because it is closer to China or amalgam the two countries. Japan is closer to China geographically, but we live in 2020 and any country on the planet is only a few hours flight away from the next. I am actually more confident in the safety of Japan due to the fact this is an Island nation which limits population flux to planes and ships where it can be controlled. Rather than European countries where anybody can go over the border without any checkpoint and millions of people cross borders in a daily basis with trains and cars , just to go to work and tourist can travel the whole continent with a railway pass.
Personally being from Iceland i know that islands are safer than mainland nations .
Japan made one massive mistake though by not shutting down the airports and maritime ports to all flight and shipment from or passing through China the second they found out about the virus . And because it coincided with the Chinese New Year (The biggest celebration in China) Japan was flooded with Chinese tourists who came to visit Japan and many Chinese residents in Japan also went back to China to celebrate with their family, and then came back to Japan. This is what caused the outbreak and Japan could and SHOULD have stopped that by not making capitalism go first and try to think about people rather than money. That was Japan's biggest mistake regarding this virus . Maybe it is time Japan understand that this is not all about money and that people have to come first. Well actually animals and the planet should come first and people second, but definitely not money.
Capitalism will lose when facing nature , because our planet doesn't function based on economy , and if we prioritize economy over biology , we will lose the game. That is why i don't even blame Chinese people for the spread of the virus in Japan. I 100% blame the Japanese government who could have stopped it but didn't do anything. The official people who didn't shut down the airports are the ones who can avoid getting contaminated, because they don't take the trains, they don't get the bus or taxis and use their own car with driver and their own private plane, so they knew that by even keeping the borders open to avoid bad relationships with China, and letting the virus in, they would not be exposed. They are the ones who sacrificed the people for money and geopolitics. So unlike most Japanese people and most people in general, i do not blame the Chinese.
The funny part is that now mask manufacturers are becoming billionaires , so somehow it will bring money to Japan, since now it is impossible to find any mask in the country and there is a few weeks waiting list to order them. And the few stores which still sell them can only sell one box or one mask per customer. So someone is going to become filthy rich thanks to the virus.
Personally i am only concerned by the hundreds of millions of animals which are being tested on in China and Japan now to find a cure. These are the real victims and nobody talks about them. And they are pointless victims because we know that testing on animals doesn't mean at all that it works on humans. But i trust China to have no problem at all to "find" human test subjects. Probably among the Uyghurs population.
Anyway i'm off to Kittyland to get presents to my kids !
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I am always surprised by how, a country with such beautiful values, has become such a money obsessed shallow modern nation which values things over moral codes, ethics and principles,and with so little respect for life today, both human and animal and nature in general . China is such a paradox. I have been to Shaolin a few times and i have never seen people more respectful of things, but not attached to things other than natural things. The way they respected the food they ate was the most important teaching to me. Only vegetables and cereals, fruits and grains, no animal life was ever taken and no animals are hurt at Shaolin, i have never seen happier dogs and cats than there. This is what made my stays there so enjoyable (I am a wild life veterinarian and ethologist and was in China to study the golden snub-nosed monkey and the south china tiger in their natural habitat. Every time i got the chance i would go to Shaolin and spend a few days there, chatting with the monks and the students (i studied Chinese), and i would discuss as many topics as i could in the little time i was there and train a little too.
And the respect for life was always the answer to every question i asked.
And yet, today, maybe no country more than china, devalues life, and values unimportant things, and is more cruel to animals.
I am afraid the teachings of Shaolin are now a rare thing in this once magnificent nation.
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You think this is extra packaging, you should see what you find in supermarkets and convenience stores in Japan. They wrap every strawberries, cherries, figs, plums, lemons, even chestnuts and walnuts individually, they even wrap watermelons.
When you buy a lunchbox, each piece in it is wrapped individually and placed in a plastic container, itself placed on a disposable wooden tray,itself with a matching lid and the whole wrapped in clear film. And it comes with disposable chopsticks and a wet cloth also wrapped in plastic. I was embarrassed as a human being when i lived in japan and mostly left the country because of how disgustingly non ecological it is. 99% of the japanese wouldn't buy anything if it is not wrapped twice , and they couldn't care less about environmental issues.
I am married to a Japanese who would get mental in supermarket and was even escorted out by security and the police on numerous occasions for trying to explain how wrong this is.
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@user-ff8ww8bq9q You have an issue with the truth ?
If you knew what i know, you would not think this way .
China SERIOUSLY better stop lying and start coming clean really soon, before the international community loses patience. Nobody is buying those numbers anymore
.
These are the official numbers provided by the respective government of each country
Let's see if you're good at math and statistics.
United States Confirmed 533,378 Recovered 32,026 Deaths 20,601
Spain Confirmed 166,019 Recovered 62,391 Deaths 16,972
Italy Confirmed 152,271 Recovered 32,534 Deaths
19,468
Germany Confirmed 125,452 Recovered 51,853 Deaths 2,871
France Confirmed 93,790 Recovered 26,391 Deaths
13,832
United Kingdom Confirmed 78,991 Recovered 0 Deaths 9,875
AND YET MIRACULOUSLY...
China Confirmed 82,052 Recovered 77,575 Deaths 3,339
...CHINA HAS LESS CASES THAN MOST FIRST WORLD NATIONS ALTHOUGH IT IS THE EPICENTER OF THE PANDEMIC AND EVEN MORE MIRACULOUSLY HAS A 90% RATE OF RECOVERY.
(Confirmed 82,052 Recovered 77,575)
AND THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL NUMBERS PROVIDED BY CHINA AND THAT CHINA WANTS THE WORLD TO BELIEVE. WELL, ACCORDING TO THE BACTERIOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS I WORK WITH, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OPTIONS TO THESE NUMBERS. EITHER THESE NUMBERS ARE FAKE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT MATCH ANY OTHER WORLD DATA ON HOW THE PANDEMIC IS AFFECTING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET ,.....OR,...... THE RATE OF RECOVERY IS SO HIGH IN CHINA THAT CHINA MUST HAVE DEVELOPED A VACCINE (WHICH IT REFUSES TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD) . AND SINCE IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER 6 MONTHS TO EVEN START DEVELOPING A CURE, LET ALONE MANUFACTURE IT ON THAT SCALE, THIS WOULD PROVE THAT CHINA HAD THE VACCINE, BEFORE THE OUTBURST, AND THEREFORE MAY HAVE DELIBERATELY STARTED A BACTERIOLOGICAL WAR.
China better come up with an honest and serious explanation soon, because if they don't and the world finds out what is going on, China will face the reprisal of the entire planet, and i feel truly sorry for anyone of Chinese origin living outside China.
Just for the record, and at this point i couldn't care less being honest about it. I work for the UN in the medical field, and this is because i know what i know (which is more than i posted here) that me and my colleagues have sent their family as far as they could. My kids are safe in Iceland (my homeland) in the Hornstrandir region where i grew up, and if a Chinese comes anywhere close to them, i won't hesitate and shoot.
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@overcraft31 Et voila, comment on se fait traiter de sexiste quand ce que je fais c'est exactement l'inverse du sexisme, puisque je donne aux femmes les memes droits que les hommes et du coup les meme risques.
Ta vision du sexisme est bien arrangeante.De nous deux ici, c'est moi le veritable feministe.
Bah si je suis pere et si j'ai trois filles, mais mes filles ne sont pas connes. Tout d'abord elles savent se defendre, (ca j'en ai pris soin des leur plus jeune age) et savent que je leur donne carte blanche pour tuer un homme ou une femme qui les maltraiterait. Mais mes filles ne seront jamais des victimes, c'est absolument certain, parce que je ne les eleves pas dans ton idee du feminisme, et etre une victime est un etat d'esprit et un discours que les pseudo feministes de ton style utilisent en permamence en faisant passer les femmes pour des victimes alors que moi je fais passer les femmes (en commencant par mes filles) pour des personnes capable de se defendre, comme c'est le cas avec ma mere. C'est ca le vrai feminisme. Faire passer les femmes pour des victimes sans defense comme tu le fais est bien plus sexiste, que mon discours.
overcraft31
25 minutes ago
@Morgan Olfursson Gros con et sexiste en plus! Elles les quittent mais ces mauvais hommes les RETROUVENT et les TUENT. Toi comprendre?
Tu es père? J'espère que tu n'as pas de filles. -_-
Adieu!
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@harumomji Les aggresseurs sont simplement capable de manipuler les gens betes et faibles. Il faut juste arreter de croire au pere noel et se laisser mener par le bout du nez.
Si ton aggresseur commence a te couper du monde, tu le lui fait savoir et tu commence a prendre les choses en mains, mais ol faut arreter de jouer les victimes, c'est comme ca qu'on finit par en devenir une.
Si tu vis dans un pays ou la police est corrompue ou que les droit du couple sont tres tres speciaux ok je comprends mais en France, ou aux etats unis ou meme au Japon , non. Tu peux porter plainte et quitter le domicle conjugual dans la demie journee pendant que le conjoint conjointe est au taf et c'est fini, tu es tranquille. Ouai peut etre que le gars ou lala nana va essayer de te tuer apres ca, et alors, tu prefere rester avec la personne plutot que de tenter de t'en sortir au risque d'y laisser quelques plumes. Non non, il n'y a qu'une type de victime, quelque soit le sexe , c'est la victime qui se victimize des le debut. Les gens qui ne se victimisent pas ne finissent JAMAIS victimes des manipulateurs.
Les plaintes avec avocat sont immediatement prises au serieux et en quelques jours tu peux obtenir l'interdiction ton ta partenaire d'etere a moins de 100 metres de toi. Il suffit de se presenter au bureau de police avec un avocat et TOUT le monde peut faire ca. Ensuite tu intentes un proces a ton/ta partenaire, une procedure de divorce en cas de marriage, et tu refais ta vie en essayant d'etre moins debile regardant le partenaire suivant.
On parle de cas en France la pas au moyen orient ou en amerique du sud ou certains pays d'asie et d'europe de l'est. Faut arreter les conneries ok .
coconut o i l
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@Morgan Olfursson tu sais (je réponds à ton deuxième commentaire), les agresseurs sont très très forts pour abuser de leurs partenaires, homme comme femme comme non-binaire aussi. je sais ce que ça fait, les agresseurs savent faire en sorte que tu sois coupé du monde, coupé de tout le monde parce qu'ils veulent que ce soit eux-mêmes le centre de l'attention. les plaintes, je peux t'assurer que c'est pas facile comme tu l'écris, la plupart du temps ces plaintes-là ne sont pas prises au sérieux et donc tombent à l'eau ! c'est pour ça que certain(e)s victimes d'abus domestiques décident de faire justice eux-mêmes en les tuant. en fait tellement ils sont habitués à être coupé du reste c'est assez difficile de demander de l'aide. et malgré toutes ces lois contre les violences conjugales ces lois sont très mal appliquées...
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He is just a fad like Bob Sapp or whatever it is called of the other black guy who was with Thane Camus for a while . this is Jpana using quotas to say, we're not racists. But when you really live in Japan , you know that this is just the tree trying to hide the forest abou the situation for blacks but also any foreigner in Japan , the harder , the darker your skin complexion, unles of course you're chinese or korean in which case japan hates you anyway, even as a tourist .
"5 years in japan and i'm Scandinavian, i had it easy , and my skin colour and last name had a lot to do with it . I didn't look for jobs i picked up the ones i liked . And was scouted to do modeling almost every time i was out on the town for fun . My black, Irani, non japanese asian , friends were lucky to get a job at a restaurant or construction work .
This guys is a sensation now , like everything new and fresh in japan , in 2 years nobody will remember his name . And when his visa expires (unless he gets eijuken) he will have to leave , that's how Japan truly functions .
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People like bin laden or hitler , ... what about people like Chaim Weizmann, Yosef Sprinzak,Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Zalman Shazar, Ephraim Katzir, Yitzhak Navon, Chaim Herzog, Ezer Weizman, Moshe Katsav, Shimon Peres, Reuven Rivlin and Satan himself Benjamin Netanyahu , and all the people in his government and what they do to Palestinians and the world over. Damn behar you are THE BIGGEST ASS LICKER SIONIST THE WORLD HAS EVER FUCKING KNOWN !
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Prenups are so useful !
I made one, it has one line on it. What was mine before marriage and what was bought by my own money during marriage will remain mine if marriage ends and will go back to my blood family if i die.
And i am big time gay, we have been married for 10 years , things have been good since day one and are good,....now, ..... and hopefully will remain good in the future . But one never knows.
Today we have kids so i included my kids as blood related on my will, to match the prenup, and of course i made sure in my will that my better half will get enough to keep him financially safe for the rest of his life. But it is crazy not to have a prenup, especially when you have assets.
Homophobia is alove and well, in american and everywhere else. People who think homophobia is on its way out are straight peope, for us gay, the risk is everywhere and present at every corner.
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Chloe fucking K , miss i have a collection of 200 fur coats, bags and accessories , dares showing her face to this sanctuary , and the guy doesn't feed her to the beats . I would have skinned her alive myself and made a coat out of her .
Whoever this guy is , one thing is certain, those animals are happy , they are well fed, they have a lot of room and if he was bad to them , they would never allow him to handle them this way . This is true affection between him and the animals and vice versa . And i am a vet and an ethologist specialized in felines , i can tell when an animal is mistreated , stressed or unhealthy and those aren't . The Global Fed for An Sanct however has a lot to answer for so they shouldn't open their big mouth, not with the 70 lawsuits, impending . Kellie Heckman , how dare you showing your face here when you refuse to answer to the WAP regarding some of your practices . I swear to god , you and peta ARE , the disaster waiting to happen .
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@DrewPicklesTheDark I have done both Africa (well i have done about 15 countries in Africa) and Brazil and Africa was safer especially Northern African countries from Morocco to Egypt and South Africa which are both far better than Brazil . The only place in Africa i found worse than Brazil were Sudan , Somalia and Congo , but it is the corruption and the fake government that is terrible there and makes everything unsafe and unreliable , while people in those countries were actually incredibly kind and friendly , something i really can't say about Brazilians. When Brazilians are kind with you, that's usually because they expect something from you . You were right not to go and if given the opportunity again, you should decline it . Brazil is beautiful, the forest is amazing , the ecosystem (or what brazilians haven't destroyed yet) is unparalleled , the fauna and flora is exquisite , but man , the people , are an absolute disaster . The government and people of Brazil are as fake as the tits and asses on the beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana .
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@Erick-uf9ek "The problem is that the black population is mostly bad educated, living in the poorest parts of the country, because after slavery, no one have taken a step to help black people get on society again, they're always behind, for example, in my classroom, only 4 of 30 people are black, but black people make more than 50percent of the population, also south of Brazil is where the most white people, but still, its not white supremacy it is a vicious cycle."
This is the very definition of a white supremacist country where racism is constitutionally unpunished and not criminalized . If racism was illegal in Brazil and if it wasn't a white supremacist country, then black kids would have the same education as white kids and the same chances in life . My country is 99,99% white with some and there are areas in it where nobody has ever seen a non white person, except on TV or on the internet . And yet non white people have EXACTKY the same rights as white people , like everywhere else in Scandinavia and we do not need to have black people representing 50% of the country .
Srry but you explained yourself exactly why and how Brazil is a white supremacist, racist country .
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@derricklanders7260 Have you even tried to live anywhere else before stating that you wouldn't want ? No , Iceland doesn't have white supremacists, we are also very tolerant of immigrants and we have no prejudice toward any form of minority, whether it is religious, physical , ethnic, or sexual . We embrace it all, something we can really not say about the US .
No Derrick the US doesn't have some black spot in its history , its history itself is a black spot and based on the biggest genocide in record modern history . It is estimated that over 250 million indigenous inhabitant of what now constitutes , southern, northern and central America were massacred since Europeans set foot on the continent . 70 million people in what is now the USA . So don't you dare call it a black spot , unless you want to call world war two and one a black spot as well, since even put together , it hasn't cost as many lives as the History of your country .
And why would you say that i have the chance to live in a country with an homogeneous (not homogenous, learn how to write your own language) as opposed to u\you in the US after saying that you wouldn't want to live anywhere else . Try to make more sense and be more coherent in your comment . if you don't like living in the US because of its heterogeneous population, nobody is forcing you to stay there, get on a plane and move back to where the hell your ancestors came from . I did it . I was born in the US , Arizona, my parents both worked there at the time as an archaeologist (father) and ethno-anthropologist for the UNESCO , documenting the Natives culture and traditions as tangible and intangible world heritage), and i was raised on reservations . So you see Derrick, until the age of 14 i was living in the US and had american citizenship . I renounced it officially and legally when i turned 18 and took my father (Icelandic) and mother's (British) citizenship as both of them were born and raised European . So you see Derrick, there is nothing about the US you can teach me, which i do not already know , I , unlike you, made the conscious decision to choose my country after living in several places . I also lived in Japan for a very long time, married to a Japanese, and now living and working in Switzerland . I could have retained my American citizenship , but i made the conscious decision not to be part of a country that i consider to be a disaster and a mistake and human history , I grew up with Natives and they are the only ones who owns the right to claim that land , everybody else is an immigrant . So the fact that you consider it a chance for me to live in a country with little heterogeneity , apparently regretting the lack of homogeneity in yours, makes YOU sound like the supremacist and totalitarian (whatever your ethnicity is).
I am lucky to claim citizenship of countries where people are decently educated and where the population shows intelligence and respect toward others and doesn't reject the unfamiliar. Only Americans believe that the US influence things on a global scale, we do not feel influenced by the US at all here in Europe or in Japan where my husband is from . I consider the UK to be far more influential today , same with the Middle East , same with China . I think France is one of the most influential country culturally speaking , But i also cherish the neutrality of the country i live in Switzerland, and the lack of interest for the US of the country i call home, and consider myself from, Iceland . And this has NOTHING to do with an homogeneous population , it has to do with using our brain properly and not being sheep programmed since birth to be idiotic patriots .
Now kindly bore someone else .
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Animals life matters but i don't see anyone going vegans by the millions and protesting around the world.
I think LIFE matters and it has nothing to do with the colour of the skin or the kind of skin, whether it is black, white, yellow, brown, red and whether it is Human or Animal skin. If you disrespect any life form than making one matter more is irrelevant. Either ALL LIVES MATTER or NO LIVES MATTER.
I chose to believe that all lives matters so being vegan was of course necessary, not using or buying anything of animal origin was the right thing to do to me.
I was lucky to be born from a Jain mother who taught me the 5 principles of this 5000 years old belief, do not harms or kill any human and animal life form, do not damage nature, do not lie, shows respect to all and everything and make your life meaningful by making it useful and beneficial to everything (not just humans) around you.
That's what it means to respect LIFE. When i see protesters holding those signs about black life matters, walking the streets with such conviction and then having a break at a fast food to get a burger or some chicken, it sounds very self-righteous and self-indulgent.
ALL LIFE MATTERS. Starting with the most defenseless of all lives, which are Animals.
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Balmain Chanel Thanks a lot Balmain Chanel.
That's really sad that he would try to minimize a problem that was caused by one country. If Chinese in Wuhan weren't living like scavengers we would not have had the Coronavirus, so people can turn the situation however they like, the fact remains that the world owes this disease to China, and the Chinese government will have to take responsibility because the world is beyond pissed at them now.
He should be triggered if he is of Chinese ancestry or his partner is, he should also be seriously scared. Because when people are finally gonna be able to come out of confinement, it is going to be seriously hazardous to one life, to be Chinese on the streets. I am married to a Japanese and my spouse is already feeling the hatred, but this is nothing compared to what Chinese people are going to have to face when the pandemic is over. There is not one country who is going to accept Chinese tourists for the next 20 years.
It will take an entire generation for people to get over the Coronavirus. And sadly chances are that even if the situation gets better during summer, the virus will return either in the fall of next year in winter, so we are far from being out of danger until someone finds a vaccine, and China better be the first country to find it, because this is China's only chance of redemption.
This being said, what amuses me the most with Pearly Shell constantly changing topics and making things up like me allegedly saying that i am Black. For fuck's sake, there is a damn photo of me on my profile, why would i write that i am black !
On a different note, what is the reason of your screen name ? Are you into french haute couture ?
My mother is half French and my aunt on her side of the family used to work as a seamstress for Givenchy.
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@James Kirk Oh lala mais alors toi t'es un gros lobotomise de base !
James Kirk
4 hours ago (edited)
Oui la supériorité technologique de l'Occident , ne t'en déplaise. On a tout inventé. On fait Paris Pékin avec 600 personnes en A380 à 12000 m, On est allés sur la Lune, on a inventé l'internet et l'informatique, la voiture, le train, le numérique, le cinéma, la photographie, les vaccins, le laser, le portable, l'électricité, la radio la télé, la radiographie, le nucléaire, tout. Les scientifiques chinois de Wuhan travaillent dans un labo FRANCAIS avec une technologie OCCIDENTALE. Alors ferme ta grande gueule de soumis !
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You are absolutely right This is why my kids are allowed (and their Teachers are aware of it) to walk out of the school the second they disagree with the teacher and ti skip the parts of the program they find stupid, irrelevant or unnecessary , So i can assure you that they do not spend a lot of time in History class , they also do not spend time in Biology either and if the weather is good, or their grand mothers or fathers are in town or there is a great art exhibit somewhere , or one of the dogs or cats is sick, i personally call the school to let them know that my kids will be spending time with their grandma or at the Museum or hiking in the mountains or taking care of the pets . School is the place where my kids decide to go whenever they want to and for the right reason, not an institution they are forced to go to . And if they couldn't sleep well and need a few extra hours in the morning, then so be it . My kids will never be force to go against their biological clock.
I see schools as a right , not a duty .
They are all excellent students, i am a veterinarian , married to an MD we understand the value of education , but it goes second after my kids' well being and nothing in the world is more important to me than making sure my kids enjoy their childhood thoroughly . My parents raised me like this, which, in the 70s , was a novelty , but today should be mandatory.
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This is because of stupid videos like this that earlier this year in Omiya Japan 7 Bonsai have been stolen from a store and the owners who are old friends are devastated and have lost all purpose to even live . One of the trees was in the owner's family for 19 generations and was still alive and well in spite of its nearly 450 years of age. It has been taken care by the same family and each generation made sure to carry on the work of the previous one and make sure to raise the next generation with the knowledge of how to take care of this tree and the others.
The thieves went for the oldest and the most expensive because of stupid videos like this . But for my friend , it is like if his grand father had been abducted and not even a ransom is asked . He is the one offering money to get him back, but what scares him and hurts him the most is that the thieves have no idea how to take care of the tree and stole it only to sell it , and that this tree will probably die. All that my friend is asking is that the tree is properly taken care of .
Though i do not live in Japan anymore, friends of mine and myself have hired 27 people in Japan to find this tree (because the Japanese police couldn't care less (as usual) about looking for a tree or an animal and won't move a finger, unless of course a foreigner is involved in which case they drop everything to catch the Gaijin, but that's off topic) , but one thing is certain, if we find the thieves and then the tree and this tree is damaged or dead , so will they be. The 27 people we hired are not the most friendly ones and they have connections all over the country , so those thieves will be eventually found and then it is in their best interest that the trees are still alive and well.
Meanwhile , stop posting bullshit videos like these. Bonsai are like animals , they are living things, it is not about the price tag. This is videos like this that make people go and steal people's Bonsai or Pets to sell them on the black market.
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Those piles of shit screaming at the doors are fucking losers .Probably living on fucking welfare spending half the day in front of the TV , drunk , and the other half at a local pub when they fucking can afford it . And Japan or anybody should fucking apologize to them ? Riiiight , that's gonna happen . We should let them scream, the emperor sure did , the British gvnmt sure does. There is a time when you just don't dignify stupidity by acknowledging it , you just ignore it .
Besides Brits demanding an apology for war crimes is so cynical in its hypocrisy, it is almost laughable . People from the country which has killed more people on foreign land , in the past 500 years than any other country , asking for an apology, and those sad cunts don't even see the fucking irony in it . That's why i say, you just don't acknowledge stupidity , especially not, self indulgent self righteous stupidity . I'm Brit , or at least it says so on one of my passports, i am also Icelandic , another country the Brits seem to have a fucking issue with , and for the past 10 years i am as well Swiss . I am also married to a Japanese with 4 fine kids , and if a fucking war starts between the UK and Japan or any other country , and even though i would never fight for or against anyone , defending Britain will be the fucking last thing on my mind . Those war prisoners are obviously feeling good enough 70 years later to still yap like dogs on the street so i guess they were not so mistreated after all .
We don't see Jews yapping when Merkel visits the UK or even Israel so maybe Brits should get a fucking clue and stop acting like retarded kids , Akihito has nothing to do with what happened during world war 2 . His country was destroyed, occupied, and now HE should be apologizing ? He'll apologize when the US and the UK (who knew about Hiroshima and Nagasaki) apologize to Japan . When you want something you need to give something first, even a 5 year old understands that . If my kids start yapping everytime they want something, they can yap for month , i will just ignore them . That's how you deal with kids , and that's how Akihito dealt with those retards .
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As long as there are human beings on this planet the second last thing that will disappear in this world will be racism , slavery in any form it takes, and the very last thing that will ever disappear will be cruelty toward animals .
So one advice to you people, if you do not show any form of kindness toward animals , and stop using them (and i mean using them as food, clothes, accessories, pets etc) then never call on anyone who doesn't respect you. If you can't respect another living creature because you think this is not relevant or important enough , or that your hunger for meat is more important or legit or relevant than what happens in the slaughterhouses or in the meat fur feather industry , then never fucking blame anyone who disrespect you, because you are no better than that person . It starts with you no people around you .
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There is nothing crueler than mouse traps. They die slowly and painfully of thirst and starvation . and then you have the former equestrian lady who practiced one of the cruelest activity for horses , a sport where horses age very prematurely due to constant activity and pain and get injured very often, resulting in them being sent to the slaughterhouse at an early age, just for the sake of entertainment . I come from a family where Karma is not something we take lightly . When you do hurt the ones around you or do not really care if they get hurt, one day or another, there is payback. I think that deliberately hurting another living creature (human or animal) is one of the cruelest thing a person can do. And sometimes nature has a way to get things even .
I am not saying that anyone deserves anything and i thing that what happens to Cambry is a terrible and very unfortunate thing, but so is what happens to most horses in the equestrian world and what happened to these mice .
I am not some pseudo hippie guru bullshit, i am a veterinarian and ethologist and being from Iceland, i have worked with horses for a long time, but i have an Greenlandic Inuit grand mother and she taught me about Karma and how respecting nature is the only way to be guaranteed a good life and the ones who do not show respect for nature and animals and put their own comfort or amusement first, always pay the @price for it (directly or indirectly).
That comment is not gonna make me popular , but it is not my intention to get likes or dislikes or even a little heart . It is just an honest comment, which doesn't come from a bad place at all.
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I studied the tea ceremony in Japan for over 15 years , and kept on studying after i left Japan and have now been studying and practicing for nearly 30 years. Maybe i haven't studied enough or maybe i will never get it because i am not smart enough, but although i find the principles of the tea ceremony absolutely wonderful i find the tea ceremony today in Japan to be merely a business, run by a few families throughout Japan and that the Motto is not Wa Kei Sei Jaku (peace, respect, harmony and serenity) but rather Kane, Kane, Kane, Kane (money, money, money, money).
The tea ceremony style i studied, which was also Urasenke and especially the Wabi Cha, was based on simplicity and humility, poverty even It was the tea made by monks in huts with very simple and unostentatious utensils. But i soon realized that a tea bowl could fetch for over a 100 000 dollars and a spoon owned by a famous master could go for over a million at private auctions. I also realized that the masters and the instructors teaching a simple and unostentatious lifestyle, were all millionaires and lived a very lavish lifestyle outside the Chashitsu.
This very quickly started to bother me and i started asking questions, which were not welcome.
I changed style and started studying with actual monks and then with actual hermit at the zen monastery of Eiheiji where i spent three years studying tea and Zen. There and only there have i found something that seemed close to the original meaning of the tea ceremony and definitely found peace, respect, harmony, purity and serenity.
I do not want to diss my former teachers from the Urasenke School or other teachers and masters from the Omotesenke or Mushanokojisenke or so many others who claim to be the true path of tea. But to be quite honest they all reminded me of Marie Antoinette in her Petit Trianon . The Petit Trainon is a part of Versailles that was offered by Louis the XVI to Marie Antoinette and wehere she lived like a shepherdess . She had an entire fake village built with actual villagers living in it but who were actual actors and workers for Marie Antoinette so she could pretend to live like a peasant, far from the luxury of Versailles, while still remaining the Queen and the richest woman in France. It may seem cute but it is also extremely condescending toward actual peasants and poor people who had to see their kids starve while Marie Antoinette dined in her little cottage out of the finest porcelain, eating dishes prepared by chef and wasting more food in a day than a poor family could ever have in a month.
Those tea teachers and masters are like aristocrats pretending to live like hermits while asking for money in exchange for teaching the tea ceremony which they claim to be based on poverty. The contrast and contradiction become very quickly disturbing when you experience it first hand like any other teacher, but unlike most of the other teacher, questions what i was taught.
One thing which disturbed me the most was that, although during lessons we were only served tea and cakes (and taught later own how to prepare the Kaiseki or meal served in full tea ceremonies, called Chaji , as opposed to Chakai when only tea and cakes are served), we (the students and teachers) were sometimes going out for dinner and then i could see my fellow students and my teachers eating out . And this is when it struck me that this was all a masquerade. The tea ceremony is based not only on simplicity and poverty and respect of naturebut it is also based on Zen. Zen is the true basis of the tea ceremony and its values. I had started studying zen at the same time and we were taught a few Zen teaching during the lessons. But to me the first thing important about zen was the respect of nature and the respect of life. Any true Zen master is de facto vegetarian or vegan as i was (and still am) because not taking animal life is one of the most fundamental principle of Zen. And here i was at these expensive exclusive restaurant with the other students and our teachers, all of them eating meat and fish , all of them in their most expensive Kimono and accessories. And i thought , where is the Zen teaching of respect for nature and animals and where is the unostentatious spirit and style of poverty. There i was in the Petit Trianon with Marie Antoinette and her friends and i was the only one thinking that it was very wrong.
I left soon afterwards the lessons and started looking for true teachers and masters. I found them at Eiheiji and other simple places even in the heart of Tokyo , among simple people, with simple and beautiful values.
This video is funny to watch for me. because this lady is wearing an extremely expensive Kimono and talks about the values of the tea ceremony, but not a single time does she mention the Zen Values attached to it. And , although i may be wrong, i am pretty sure that she had fish for lunch and may have steak for dinner.
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I go eat to the same restaurant everyday near my clinic (i'm a vet) and the reasons i go there are simple. The restaurant doesn't allow kids and teenager, , the restaurant has a non smoking , warmed area for dogs . the customers can choose, smoking or non smoking , dogs are given water and treats for free , and the restaurant serves only vegetarian or vegan dishes only made from premium organic vegetables , fruits, cereals, nuts , unferilized eggs from chicken living freely on the farm next to it also owned by the same person who runs the restaurant . Chicken who will never be slaughtered, cows who are hand milked and not artificially and repeatedly impregnated and fed only organic from crops produced by the farm . This place for me is heaven on earth .
I have 5 kids (luckily most of them are adults or old teenagers and i would never bring the youngest to any restaurant . I only take them to museums once they have proven that they can behave . I would never bother other people with my kids just like i have never accepted people to bother me with theirs and made sure they clearly understood that it was in their and their kid's best interest to keep it quiet when socializing outside their home and that the world didn't have to put up with their unruly brats , and that i surely wasn't going to.
So for me those restaurants are the future . If parents can't raise their kids properly enough to turn them into well behaved little human beings, then they should keep them at home or use a condom.
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The world criticizes China for imposing a lock-down on a city such as Wuhan hence depriving their people of the liberty and freedom to move around and which is against human rights but they are perfectly ok with it when they impose themselves a lockdown in Europe
NOW I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE WORLD COULDN'T CARE LESS NOW WHAT CHINA DOES DOMESTICALLY.
2. When the coronavirus didn’t reach their shores yet, they criticized China for being fuckups not being - in the slightest extent – capable of containing the virus. However, when the virus reached their shores and when they imposed the above-mentioned lock-downs and it appears not to be working because their people do not have any decent civic behavior, it is because China’s figures are under-reported.
YES CHINESE FIGURES ARE COMPLETE LIES, WE KNOW THAT NOW.
AND OUR CIVIC BEHAVIOUR IN WESTERN NATIONS DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT WE STILL OWE THIS VIRUS TO CHINA.
3. When China presumably tries to “influence” Germany into praising them for the corona approach, the world was astonished to oblivion, but they can perfectly accept when the US is trying to “influence” the Central Asian countries to form a block against China.
YES, BECAUSE CHINA IS NOW THE WORLD PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, AND WE ARE AT WAR AGAINST CHINA. MAKE NO MISTAKE THIS IS ANECONOMICAL WAR NOW AND CHINA IS OUR ENEMY SO OF COURSE LIKE IN ANY WAR WE ARE GOING TO ASK WHO ARE OUR ALLIES AND WHO ARE OUR ENEMIES AND COUNTRIES WILL HAVE TO DECIDE WHICH SIDE THEY'RE ONE, CHINA, AGAINST CHINA OR NEUTRAL, EXCEPT NEUTRAL IS BY FAR THE WORST DECISION BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU ALONE.
4. When a Chinese doctor was being reprimanded for speaking out about the virus, it was a clear sign of communist cover-up but they can perfectly accept that hospital staff in the US are prohibited of voicing out the fatal ramifications of having a shortage of personal protective equipment.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT PROHIBITED, IT IS ALL OVER THE NEWS AND THE NET AND NO GOVERNMENT IN THE US OR ELSEWHERE IS COVERING IT UP . QUITE THE OPPOSITE, IT IS COMPLETELY ACKNOWLEDGE AS A MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUE RIGHT NOW.
5. When the virus was in China killing thousands of people, Denmark and Belgium were having fun with “funny” cartoons with the corona symbol on the China flag but when the virus wreaked havoc in their own countries, suddenly cartoons are no longer a civilized means of communication and you simply cannot laugh with the death
YES , BECAUSE WE DIDN'T START IT.SO IT WAS CHINA'S DOMESTIC PROBLEM, BUT NOW THAT IT HAS BECOME THE WORLD'S PROBLEM, IF CHINA THE COUNTRY WHO STARTED IT, DARED MAKING FUN OF ANOTHER COUNTRY ABOUT THE VIRUS, THIS WOULD BE AN EXTREMELY BAD MOVE.
6. When Taiwan is successful in curbing the virus, it is because China has been transparent with providing data and that the medical system in Taiwan is top notch. But if in Europe countries are not able to contain the virus, it is because China has not been transparent with providing data.
THAT'S BECAUSE TAIWAN NEEDS CHINA AND THE TAIWANESE GOVERNMENT WILL ALWAYS ACCEPT TO GO ALONG WITH THE CHINESE IDEOLOGY AND NEVER AGAINST IT. BUT IN THE WEST WE DO NOT NEED CHINA SO WE DO NOT HAVE TO PRETEND THAT CHINA HAS ANY FORM OF TRANSPARENCY, BECAUSE WE KNOW IT IS A LIE. CHINA IS HIDING EVERYTHING. EVEN HONG-KONGESE, JAPANESE, MALAYSIANS, FILIPINOS, INDONESIANS, AGREE THAT CHINA IS HIDING A LOT AND HASN'T SHOWN ANY TRANSPARENCY ABOUT THE VIRUS.
7. In the wake of Hong Kong protests and the coronavirus, people are adamant on boycotting everything which comes out of China but they refuse to empty half of their household equipment which is…made in China. Luxury after all does matter it appears….
LUXURY AND MADE IN CHINA DO NOT EXACTLY COME TOGETHER !
8. When you ask them to empty half of their household equipment NOW, the people will say they will boycott AS FROM NOW because if they have to boycott everything they enjoyed in the past, they would not longer have their mobile phones to post anti-China sentiments on Facebook.
AND ?? WHO CAN BLAME THEM. NOW CHINA IS THE ENEMY SO WHAT DO YOU DO TO YOUR ENEMY, YOU BOYCOTT HIM. WE DID THE SAME WITH GERMANY AND ITALY AND SPAIN AND NOW WE ARE ON THE BEST OF TERMS ! THAT'S CALLED GEOPOLITICS. BUT CHINA IS THE FIRST COUNTRY IN HISTORY TODAY TO HAVE MANAGED TO GET THE ENTIRE PLANET AGAINST IT. EVEN NAZI GERMANY HAD ALLIES !
9. When China seems to be able to control the virus and flatten the curb, it is simply because they are corrupt, try to cover-up the situation and under-reporting the figures of infections but they can perfectly live with the fact that majority of the Western countries have stopped testing and thus…underreporting their figures.
NO IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE LYING, THEY HAVEN'T CONTROLLED ANYTHING ! THAT'S CALLED PROPAGANDA AND THAT IS THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK.
10. When Huawei became too powerful, they had to put a lid on it with a (google) trade ban but meanwhile they cannot live with a market such as China which applies – according to them – protectionist measures
YES WELCOME TO CAPITALISM AND GEOPOLITICS. CHINA DOES THE SAME ALL THE TIME !
11. When the trade ban is supposed to paralyze a nation such as China, they are perfectly OK with the fact that masks can still come from China and the US is prepared to “steal” them away from France, Germany….cash on the tarmac. There should be a trade ban on masks and medical equipment…I am sure the US won’t mind because they have the same ban or Iran.
BECAUSE CHINA STARTED THE PANDEMIC SO IT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO BE COOPERATIVE. IF CHINA EVER DECIDES TO STOP DOING ITS ABSOLUTE BEST TO STOP THIS PANDEMIC, THEN I FEEL REALLY SORRY FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
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I have 5 kids and many cats (MANY) , my oldest cat came long before the kids and she is still my favorite , and by favorite i mean , she comes before anything and anyone else, which includes , partner and kids. There is nothing on this planet i love more than my cat Artemis , She is very old now , i found her on the street in Japan when i loved there , she then moved to England back with me , then a while in Iceland , and now in Switzerland , The day she dies , i will be devastated for years .
For the record i am a veterinarian and ethologist (i worked with wild animals for a long time) , married to another vet and we run animal shelters as well, so our lives revolves completely around animals . We have over 30 cats as pets plus the ones in the shelters and 11 dogs, plus the ones in the shelters , horses , ponies, donkeys, cows, rabbits, hens and roosters , ducks, swans, crows, ravens, eagles, falcons, owls, alpaca, wolves, monkeys , bears , plus the more exotic animals , like monkeys and reptiles a jaguar, a panther and a lynx all rescued from many places, abusive owners, slaughterhouses, fur, skin and feather factories, farms, really bad zoos, breeders, movie set , med labs, etc .... but at the end of the day , Artemis is the one i love the most .
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There was nothing funny about the hamster story. Had i been famous and invited as a guest i would have told that person that she is a murderer and a psychopath or a sociopath in the making, told her to get psychological help and , then i would have left the stage , but not before telling Graham that he had some seriously messed up audience members and that i didn't feel safe being in the same time zone as this person, and better leave the stage before someone (her) started picking up her teeth after i am done with someone who enjoys torturing animals and finds it something hilarious to tell as a form of entertainment on national tv.
This story was sickening. and i am appalled that Gillian could read it without vomiting, i felt nauseous just hearing it.
I am a vet and if a hamster was brought to my clinic and i was given this explanation as to why it ended up a big mass of broken bones and internal bleeding , i think i would have asked the parent to remove that child from my premises before i use her as a throwing ball and teach her how to fly through my window.
Kids like this should be locked up in mental institution and left to die there.
She is an absolute monster. If any of my kids ever shown any sign of aggressiveness toward animals i would have my own child put under very serious psychological scrutiny, but if my kid did what this monster actually did, i would call social services myself and demand this psychopath to be removed from my care before i take care of it myself. And i would never see this child again.
This was disgusting , and one thing is certain, this is the very last thing with Graham Norton or Gillian i ever watch .
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@dogwithwigwamz.7320 Exactly Steve .
Man i am truly sorry to read about your situation. Where do you live ?
If you are in the UK, Switzerland, France or Iceland, i would gladly try to help you, because. I now work mostly in Switzerland, and we do need staff here, or at the shelters in France, Scotland and at the Nature Reserve in Hornstrandir (northern Iceland) where i spend winter looking after arctic foxes. So if you are in any of those countries, contact me privately on the discussion section of my account. I really can't promise much, but i would definitely be eager to help out.
We are exactly now in the situation when we have to option, survival of the fittest or survival of the group through mutual help and support. I am definitely choosing the second option (mostly because i am not that fit !, but also because this is our only way to overcome this dreadful period in history).
Until then to not do anything reckless and be sure that stealing fruits and veggies to stay alive does not make you the bad guy, and if you have to steal a car to sell it and buy yourself some food, make sure to steal a Porsche, a BMW or a Benz, they sell better and the owner will definitely not miss the money !
On a more serious not, be sure you can contact me anytime, if you are in any of the countries i mentioned.
The WAP (world animal protection) team i work with, also need staff in Japan rught now, but i am not so sure you are willing to fly to Asia, let alone work in the Tohoku region of Japan, (the Tohoku region is where the prefecture of Fukushima is). The pat is really good though !
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?, ?, The museum is a collaboration , the louvre is only there in name and for the cachet that it brings as the most famous art museum in the world . The financing of the museum is Arabic.
US$525 million was paid by Abu Dhabi to be associated with the Louvre name, and an additional $747 million in exchange for art loans, special exhibitions and management advice. Arabtec is leading a consortium that is building the museum under a $653 million contract awarded early in 2013.
The Louvre as i wrote is only there in name.
Abu Dhabi museum is owned by (Abu Dhabi tourism and culture authority ) which is a branch of the louvre museum in Paris .
Wrong , big time WRONG and antiquated since the Department of Culture and Tourism was established in February 2012 by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, TO REPLACE Abu Dhabi's two main tourism and culture agencies, the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage.
The Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (TCA) was established in February 2012 replacing the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage (ADACH) and the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority. And Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) was a statutory body in the United Arab Emirates established in 2004 under the Government of Abu Dhabi’s economic diversification strategy.
Nothing to do with the louvre in terms of financing and ownership.
I work for the UN , i know my facts, that's what i am paid for. And i am very well paid. I also travel to the middle east officially , very regularly, and my son who is an art appraiser and restorer who works for the Louvre and the British Musuem, often works with the Middle East since he is specialized in middle and far eastern art. So unlike you, i know exactly what i am talking about.
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Now on a completely different note , because i am not only gay and a militant for the LGBT cause and an activist for equal rights, i am also a veterinarian and a former MD , but mistly a vet now and an even bigger activist for animals rights . I am always confused when i see oppressed people eating meat and always wonder, how do you expect respect and compassion when you don't show any yourself .
I think when you treat animals like food , then you shouldn't complain about straight organisation, treating you like crap either. Either way, it is a complete lack of empathy and compassion . If you can't show any, don't expect to receive any .
I run a few clinics and animal shelters because i am married to another vet and we opened several clinics here and there , but when recruit workers or vets , though i am very willing to hire trans and gays to support the community, the first and foremost condition is to be vegan or at least vegetarian , eating , using or wearing anything of animal origin is an immediate deal breaker and is clearly stipulated on the contract they sign . So i would hire a straight vegan far quicker than any trans or gay dead flesh eater .
It is all about compassion at the end of the day. If you can't show any, don't expect any .
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I want to say something to the parents of the kids who were raped.
My friends have already paid the family who will take care of Marissa when she is released. Don't worry, she won't hurt a soul after she is out of prison, my friends took care of that. She won't be killed, this would be too easy. She will be taken to a facility with all the medical implements necessary to make sure she wishes we had killed her, for the rest of her long life, through which she will go without any form of sensory sensibility, no eyesight, no sense of touch,(no hands and no feet), no sense of smell, no sense of taste, no hearing, and we will remove the tongue. She's gonna go through life like a turned off tv, completely useless and unable to understand anything of what is going on around her or to communicate with anyone. Trust me she will wish she was dead for the rest of a her life with only her memories for comfort. This will slowly but surely drive her insane, silently without anyone noticing, but it won't kill her.
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Non mais il faut arreter le delire quand meme. Les saignements, les contractions post partum douloureuse, ok, mais le ventre plat et l'estime de soi, non mais arreter vos conneries.
On vous a pas mis un couteau sous la gorge en vous disant de tomber enceinte, et si vous etes conne au point de tomber enceint sans faire une recherche complete de ce que ca engendre comme risque ou comme douleur etc, alors c'est votre faute, pas la faute de la societe. Non mais vraiment il faudrait que vous soyez servi un manuel complet avant de faire quoique se soit a vous entendre. Fautes vos putains de recherches par vous meme.
Ventre plat et estime de soi, non mais je reve !
Le pire c'est que je suis sur que leur mari sont ceux qui en prennent plein la gueule avec ca alors qu'ils n'y sont absolument pour rien.
C'est pas une video informative sur l'apres accouchement, c'est une video pour dire au mecs de ne pas se marier et de concerver un appartment ou une maison en leur nom uniquement meme quand ils sont dans une relation et demander a la femme d'en faire autant.
Le pauvre gars marie a cette femme ici, mais comme je le plainds !
En plus elle est Juive donc imagine toute la famille derriere qui te mets bien la pression !
l'Horreur !
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