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B12 is prevalent in the diet, but not everybody has the so-called “intrinsic factor” that permits the body to actually process it. If you lack it it’s very difficult to get enough B12 no matter what you eat. (Ask me how I know…)

Oh wow. The sheer amount of tradition surrounding this, with a myriad of local variation, is impossible to keep up with. Then they make up “traditions” on the fly as well. It’s so much fun!

Have your B12 levels checked. (Don’t assume you have a B-vitamin shortage, GET IT TESTED.)

You’d call it Chinese New Year.

There’s a whole lot of food involved. SO MUCH FOOD! 😱

I’m in the beginning stages of Spring Festival. I’ve had three feasts in five days, plus the immediate family feast (which we could better control the contents of).

I think I’ve gained about 15kg. But in the good way!

I’m still here too.

I use water and soap. For everything. Including my hair. Unscented soap with no industrial chemicals to make it “smell good”.

I horrify my coworkers when I tell them this. They’re convinced my hair is going to fall out, and that my skin will dry out and slough off despite literally years of me not showing any of this.

I’m pretty sure the makeup industry is purely a scam.

I caught the 2009 total eclipse here and it was awe-inspiring. It was also the longest solar eclipse expected for the 21st century at 6 minutes, 39 seconds, so it made a deep impression on everybody standing on the roof of the apartment block to watch it.

I don’t wish to see a second, though, because the next one will be in the year 2200 and that would mean I’d still be alive in 200 years. Not something I want.

I’ve seen the Aurora Borealis hundreds of times. (Living in the high arctic does that to you.) But I have heard them only once.

I’d like to hear them again.

Looks like I hang out with the wrong (right?) people then.

I have literally never seen that “tradition” followed except on television or movies. No wedding ceremony I’ve ever attended had any of that going on.

Maybe I hang out with the wrong crowd.

I did the moving to China bit almost 24 years ago. I still post in English comms. Weird, that.

Weird. Weird how I post about Chinese leadership quite often on Weibo and haven’t been canned.

Here’s a thought: maybe it’s how you go about it that counts?

Criticism of Mao in particular is perfectly cromulent here. The Party itself criticizes Mao, especially for the Cultural Revolution, with some fairly harsh language.

But if you don’t know how to do it or when, then … ah … yeah, you’re going to get people pissed off at you.

It’s a joking expression. It says “hah hah, keep looking” basically.

There is, indirectly.

“That’s what she said,” is a descendant of a line that began with “said the actress to the bishop”. And that is, according to folklore, a real event in which a named actress (I forget her name) asked a real bishop (again, don’t know the name anymore) about his “prick” to which the bishop responded that it was “throbbing”. (And according to that same folklore the butler, having overheard that upon entering the room, dropped his tray.)

The backstory being that the bishop had been gardening and injured his thumb on a rose. She was asking about the injury.

But that is supposedly the beginning of the expression “said the actress to the bishop” which is the phrase used in writing for “that’s what she said” as far back as the old Charteris “The Saint” novels at least.

“Simply not understand” what? You don’t actually make a point outside of “people should all die because I’m Chaotic Neutral”. Which is both a non sequitur and, as I said at first, very unhealthy.

Again, you probably want to take this up with a counselor or something. “Chaotic Neutral” isn’t a term that has any meaning outside of a specific style of game. You are now reaching for game terminology to talk about killing all human beings with engineered diseases.

While you’re at it, put your analyst on danger money.

Music. Specifically woodwinds. Because I like them.

The answer might be—and I’m being serious here, not flippant—consulting with a psychologist or psychiatrist. You’ve gone from thinking all humans should be killed to thinking all life should be killed at the drop of a hat. This is not healthy.

Very casual, this is.