I know some Classical Chinese poems by heart and can do one of the rousing speeches in ‘new shaolin temple’ by heart as jokes for Chinese colleagues and friends but the idea of actually reading Classical Chinese sight unseen for most western people is pretty much the province of academicsin Classical Chinese.
In other ancient wisdom, I was talking to a science boffin the other day who was getting very excited about a new experiment with fruit flies he was working on (some gene tracing/mutation such and such). I said, "HAH, shame you can't get the little greedy bastards to mutate themselves the fook away from my fruitbowl."
He beckoned me over and in a quiet voice said "the secret is apple cider vinegar young wang. a small cup full will lure them in with its sweet sour sickliness of odour. they they fall, BAM, into the liquid where the viscosity will trap them and the acid burn them a horrible death".
Sho'nuff, I now have a small cut crystal cherry glass full of smelly wet appley dead things. Probably make a good protein packed vinegrette
How often do you replace the vinegar ? Are the flies still lured by the vinegar even when there are all these dead bodies of their cousins floating around?
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No eastern wisdom fanz in then?
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I like Satay chicken. Does that count?
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Wade-Giles. How passé.
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I know some Classical Chinese poems by heart and can do one of the rousing speeches in ‘new shaolin temple’ by heart as jokes for Chinese colleagues and friends but the idea of actually reading Classical Chinese sight unseen for most western people is pretty much the province of academicsin Classical Chinese.
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No. Isn't that more Malay/Indonesian than Chinese?
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It’s a bloody sight further east than Norwich. Read the question.
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Malay / Indonesian would be more buddhist/Islam. Tzu is more Tao with a dash of dad's army: Attack them with the Yin behind you, p'ike
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In other ancient wisdom, I was talking to a science boffin the other day who was getting very excited about a new experiment with fruit flies he was working on (some gene tracing/mutation such and such). I said, "HAH, shame you can't get the little greedy bastards to mutate themselves the fook away from my fruitbowl."
He beckoned me over and in a quiet voice said "the secret is apple cider vinegar young wang. a small cup full will lure them in with its sweet sour sickliness of odour. they they fall, BAM, into the liquid where the viscosity will trap them and the acid burn them a horrible death".
Sho'nuff, I now have a small cut crystal cherry glass full of smelly wet appley dead things. Probably make a good protein packed vinegrette
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How often do you replace the vinegar ? Are the flies still lured by the vinegar even when there are all these dead bodies of their cousins floating around?
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A scientist chum of my dad spent literally his whole professional career in the study of fruit flies.
He was utterly unworldly - and looked like Stan Laurel.
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PP, mine has been out on the worktop for a day now and the mini bastards show no signs of noticing their half dissolved brothers
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Interesting absence of Risky on this thread. I wonder why that is?
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