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That makes sense. I was also thinking possibly some sort of natural pesticide (the kind where you introduce the right sort of bug to eat the wrong sort)
1 year agoYeah, that about sums up my feeling
1 year agoHoly moly!
1 year agoLooks like a giant silkworm cocoon... Possibly eaten by humans and tacked to trees as some kind of insecticide holder?
1 year agoTrust me, I am not patient. It's one of the reasons that I jump so quickly to yelling at people (that, and yelling working where being polite didn't).
1 year agoI was going to comment on your apparent infinite patience - it seems you are human after all 😃. Sorry for all the challenges you're facing, hopefully Beijing will be less Kafkaesque!
1 year agoHi great to see you are on the road again. Keep it up. With Shanghai opening up now and you on the road, hopefully things lighten up going forward.
1 year agoThanks!
1 year agoGlad to see you're over the (initial) hurdles and have set off! Good luck!
1 year agoExactly
1 year agoThe guy was obviously looking for a “just getting into cycling but with a bike that gives me a lot of face..” bike. Amazes me these days the people willing to spend that much money without even the knowledge of how to change a flat!
1 year agoOh dear, not a very smooth start... Fingers crossed for fewer bumps going forward!
1 year agoThanks - very interesting! I'm no expert but like learning little bits and pieces about China. Hopefully tourists will be let back in unmolested at some point...!
1 year agoMost people don't keep pushing on topics that they know I'm going to have a different opinion on after I've said we shouldn't have this discussion.
The most anti-Party rhetoric people I know are senior Party members; the ones likely to say things (privately, to me) about China's behavior being an embarrassment are senior officials.
I knew, even before it came out, that the author of last year's book was someone important on the grounds that he was publicly writing that the June 4 Incident was a horrible tragedy caused by an over reaction by the government...... and this book was being translated by a central government publishing house.
I think that might be Maxwell Smart--Agent 86--under the Cone of Silence. (Ancient pop culture reference)
1 year ago