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Skriven 2014-02-20 23:44:49 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10042 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: running codgers 223
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 18 Feb 14  11:23:00 <=-

 ML>> I was seduced by the name "crispy beef curry" and didn't
 ML>> tumble to what it was until after ordering it. It wasn't
 ML>> bad at all, just very resilient, and you knew that you
 ML>> were eating filet of old animal. The burger/meatloaf was
 ML>> pretty much as expected.
 NB>> Ah, the seductive power of words...  ;)  At least it was edible.  :)
 ML> Edible and good, actually. Just hard rather than crispy.

Not quite as advertised, but worth getting anyway... :)
 
 NB>>> Apparently Chiang Rai didn't feel the need so
 NB>>> much to make the tourists feel at home... :)
 ML>> It's a working town, and they do what they do, and we
 ML>> tourists can take it or leave it. It reminded me
 ML>> powerfully of Jogjakarta but much cooler temperaturewise.
 NB>> Did you enjoy it more than Chiang Mai...? 
 ML> Yes and no. Chiang Rai's Le Meridien was one of the most
 ML> beautiful settings I ever encountered, obviously architected
 ML> by the same people who did the Sheraton in Yogyakarta (aka
 ML> Jogjakarta), but both those hotels were outside of primitive,
 ML> dusty towns. Chiang Mai's Le Meridien, though rather lovely
 ML> inside, looks like a Soviet apartment complex (although
 ML> greenish rather than grayish); on the other hand it's set in
 ML> a vibrant commercial center where you can get anything you want.
 
Ah.  The benefits are of different sorts...

 NB>> I imagine they each have their own goodnesses...  :)
 ML> Yep. Chiang Rai has rural goodnesses; Chiang Mai has
 ML> urban and less innocent ones. You can get hurt in Chiang
 ML> Mai if all you are out for is booze and broads. Since I
 ML> am more interested in beer and beef, I feel pretty safe.
 
Sounds like I'd be pretty safe either place, too, then... Most urban
traps hold no interest for me...  :)

 ML>> - anyhow, the ones we can't go through together. I usually
 ML>> but not invariably lose, but when it's because I get some
 ML>> kind of secondary, she laughs at me afterward. Of course, I
 ML>> return the favor on the rare occasions when I can.
 NB>> But of course.  ;)  A little good-natured rivalry never hurt anyone...
 NB>> as long as it stays good-natured...  ;)  
 ML> It's pretty good natured. We both realize that we both kind of
 ML> need each other.

True.  :)
 
 ML>> some old guy who had just happened to fight there in the 1950s
 ML>> - that struck me as arbitrary and pointless.
 NB>> Quite.  Like it was his personal intention to fight... instead of just
 NB>> being sent there with so many others...
 ML> The North Koreans claimed that they had evidence that he,
 ML> personally, committed war crimes. That from a country that
 ML> has no moral or political legitimacy. The UN should get its
 ML> act together and do another police action there - this time
 ML> likely more successful, as the Chinese can get forced to
 ML> participate instead of being the adversary.

(This is starting to get close to moderator-territory.. but...)  I did
recently hear on the news that the UN has accused the government of NK
of crimes against society... in their handling of prisoners, political
and otherwise... dunno if there will be any follow-up action on the part
of the UN... but, as you say, the situation does seem to justify such. 
Not that I'm at all keen to be at yet another war...

ttyl       neb

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