hair in my soup

“ Her: i can't imagine there will be much controversy over noodles 
Her: touch wood
Me: hahaha
Me: Well, you never know
Me: it is, of course, the internet.
Me: They could argue about ANYTHING
Her: yes i spoke to somebody from a  bread forum the other day
Her: and even they have problems ”

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“ Someone (can't remember if it was someone I spoke to or if they wrote about it and I read it) pointed out that there is a species-based class system in Duckburg.

The ducks, for the most part, are the upper-class bourgeoise, while dogs are lower-class citizens (criminals, butlers, etc). Pigs usually just show up in crowds, suggesting they are simply the average, boring "common man."

None of this explains the combination of human and animal features of course, nor is there really any indication of why this system was put in place to begin with, but I find it kind of interesting. ”

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“ Whereas modern Mandarin is merely perversely hard, classical Chinese is deliberately impossible.

Here's a secret that sinologists won't tell you: A passage in classical Chinese can be understood only if you already know what the passage says in the first place.

This is because classical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse, miserly code for dissemination among a small, elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwards, anyway.

An uninitiated westerner can no more be expected to understand such writing than Confucius himself, if transported to the present, could understand the entries in the "personal" section of the classified ads that say things like: "Hndsm. SWGM, 24, 160, sks BGM or WGM for gentle S&M, mod. bndg., some lthr., twosm or threesm ok, have own equip., wheels, 988-8752 lv. mssg. on ans. mach., no weirdos please." ”

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