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Radical 90s Wizard posted:I'll find you, Egg Baron No you won’t
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Feb 2, 2020 04:07
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Feb 2, 2020 04:07
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Current event: I’m transiting through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to points in West Africa* and there are a bunch of people in the airport wearing masks. However, I’ve seen more than a few people wearing ones that don’t cover their noses, another guy wearing a painter’s mask, one guy wearing it around his neck, and a few minutes ago when I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, a guy wearing a mask came in, pissed at one of the urinals, then left without washing his hands. *yes, I do realize how stupid it is to fly to Ethiopia to cross the continent again.
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Feb 2, 2020 05:53
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pantslesswithwolves posted:a guy wearing a mask came in, pissed at one of the urinals, then left without washing his hands. I've run into more people doing that than I'd care to remember...
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Feb 2, 2020 06:02
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Cugel the Clever posted:Bonus points if he was tapping away on his phone the whole time. I just assume by default that I have interrupted them taking a photo of their honker and are trying to play it off when that happens.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:08
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Current event: I’m transiting through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to points in West Africa* and there are a bunch of people in the airport wearing masks. However, I’ve seen more than a few people wearing ones that don’t cover their noses, another guy wearing a painter’s mask, one guy wearing it around his neck, and a few minutes ago when I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, a guy wearing a mask came in, pissed at one of the urinals, then left without washing his hands. How is Ethiopia? It's on my bucket list of places to visit in Africa.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:23
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I’m just passing through right now, but I did spend about a week in Addis earlier last year. I enjoyed it- Ethiopia has a very distinct cultural heritage to it, and I enjoyed going to a few of the museums around Meskel Square (Addis doesn’t really have a “downtown” area so to speak; this is about as close to a central landmark as possible.) The National Museum is cool and has some neat exhibits, and they also throw some low-key shade at the Italians for getting their asses kicked the first time they tried to invade. The Red Terror Martyrs’ Museum was really crazy, especially since when I went, the power was out so I was looking at the exhibits with my pocket flashlight. Coming around a corner and shining a light on a display case full of skulls is a pretty  experience. I wish I had more of a chance to get out and explore, but what I saw was pretty cool. Addis is a safe city by anyone’s standards, and if you have even the bare minimum of street smarts and situational awareness you’ll be fine. One thing that I didn’t prepare for was the altitude- Addis is at 8,000 feet and I felt like I was low-key hungover for days. I’ve been to a dozen countries in Africa and I’ve found something I’ve really liked about almost every one, but I’d say my favorites in no particular order have been Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Guinea-Bissau.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:37
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Found an Ethiopian restaurant near by. If American food in general tasted like that being vegetarian would be super easy.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:41
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Current event: I’m transiting through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to points in West Africa* and there are a bunch of people in the airport wearing masks. However, I’ve seen more than a few people wearing ones that don’t cover their noses, another guy wearing a painter’s mask, one guy wearing it around his neck, and a few minutes ago when I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, a guy wearing a mask came in, pissed at one of the urinals, then left without washing his hands. Just flew seatac-lax, it was exactly the same. Most of those hospital masks, one dude wearing one of those white dust masks, and a few wearing those cloth smog masks or whatever they get marketed as.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:43
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bird food bathtub posted:Found an Ethiopian restaurant near by. If American food in general tasted like that being vegetarian would be super easy. Truth. Until I tried Indian and even Mediterranean food like hummus as a teen I never understood how non-crazy people could be vegetarian.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:49
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I wish I liked Indian food. Everyone in my family loves it. But I don't like curry, and can't stand the smell of it, so whenever we go out to Indian, I just eat something else later. And yes, I've tried other Indian food, but the fact every restaurant smells like curry kills it for me.
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Feb 2, 2020 07:02
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If you dont like tandoori chicken then you're irredeemable
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Feb 2, 2020 07:13
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bulletsponge13 posted:But I don't like curry, and can't stand the smell of it You should ask God for a refund on your taste buds and sense of smell, they're clearly broken.
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Feb 2, 2020 07:18
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Sadly i love Indian food but some of the recipes give me migraines because of a food allergy. No glorious taste is worth losing sight in an eye and throwing up for two days
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Feb 2, 2020 07:29
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You should ask God for a refund on your taste buds and sense of smell, they're clearly broken. I blame it on chow hall duty my third tour. I didn't like curry before, but 4 days of smelling nothing but curry for most of a day was pretty brutal. The TCNs made curry after every meal with whatever poo poo was left over that they wanted to use. It looked good- most Indian food does- but being unfond of the food to start with it just killed any desire to even try curry again. I mean I have- every so often I retry foods I don't like to see if my taste change- but I never want to.
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Feb 2, 2020 08:09
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If you don't like spicy poo poo, or maybe it's the spicies they use in regular curry that are making you have a bad reaction, try korma curry - it's not spicy, and it's kind of sweet. It's cream based. It's delicious.
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Feb 2, 2020 08:43
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Stravag posted:Sadly i love Indian food but some of the recipes give me migraines because of a food allergy. No glorious taste is worth losing sight in an eye and throwing up for two days I've had some pretty good curry....
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Feb 2, 2020 08:44
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Slim Pickens posted:Just flew seatac-lax, it was exactly the same. Most of those hospital masks, one dude wearing one of those white dust masks, and a few wearing those cloth smog masks or whatever they get marketed as. I had a terrible cough while flying last week and I wore a mask over my mouth only because I figured I couldnt spray particles out my nose. Oh well, I got the drat cough from flying earlier in the week.
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Feb 2, 2020 09:09
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What is that spice in Indian food that they use in chickens and byriani rice that looks a bit like a seed pod or fennel but is very aromatic? It’s always so drat good but I have no idea what it is.
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Feb 2, 2020 09:18
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Saffron and cardamom are the usual.
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Feb 2, 2020 09:26
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Bare minimum mask would be a surgical mask and you gotta make sure it covers your dang nose and you punch the wire on top to make it somewhat snug on your face. Lotsa poo poo flies out of your nose when you aren't paying attention!!
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Feb 2, 2020 09:32
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Hekk posted:How is Ethiopia? It's on my bucket list of places to visit in Africa. Addis Ababba is a gorgeous city, and the countryside is really neat too. Go see the stone-hewn churches. Honestly not a big fan of the food though. Something about injera 
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Feb 2, 2020 09:38
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:If you dont like tandoori chicken then you're irredeemable Also fellow kiwi next time you're in Thames, of all places, try Royal Kitchen. Just about the last place you would expect to find good Indian but...
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Feb 2, 2020 09:57
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Blind Rasputin posted:What is that spice in Indian food that they use in chickens and byriani rice that looks a bit like a seed pod or fennel but is very aromatic? It’s always so drat good but I have no idea what it is. Sounds like cardamom.
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Patware posted:Sounds like cardamom. Yup
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Eej posted:Lotsa poo poo flies out of your nose when you aren't paying attention!! poo poo only flies out of my butt, and generally only when I'm actively willing it to. You might want to see a doctor.
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Feb 2, 2020 16:08
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poo poo flew out of my butt in a very fluid manner for about 8 years, and my doctor visits regarding that condition are in the high two-digits, so I would like to second that recommendation to see a physician
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Feb 2, 2020 16:51
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Hekk posted:How is Ethiopia? It's on my bucket list of places to visit in Africa. I've only been through the Addis airport but I've heard good things from the people who were there long term. But you need to put Rwanda on your list. It was absolutely beautiful.
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Feb 2, 2020 16:53
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Mask chat: I work at a supply room for a big research university chemistry department. We carry 3m dust masks like you might pop on at your construction site while you're ripping lumber or halving bricks for an hour or two. Usually, our customers will buy them onesie twosie for whatever is going on in their lab. The other day while we were chatting about coronavirus, my boss told me that the Chinese researchers and grad students had been buying them by 20's and 30's and he thinks there's a relationship. I laughed because, well, it's the wrong kind of mask, but yeah, sure, maybe they're mailing them home. He doesn't feel comfortable bringing it up to anyone cause it seems kind of racist? I agreed, but more importantly, frankly who cares what they spend their research funding on, they aren't stealing out of our warehouse -- no harm no foul. Literally as we were talking about it a Chinese guy came through and checked out a stack of 20 of them. I looked at the transaction record and sure enough, most customers had bought 2 or 3 at a time, but last week there were about 8 transactions where a mr or ms Wang or Tong or Zhang had bought 20 or 30 lmao
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Feb 2, 2020 16:54
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Feb 2, 2020 17:09
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Any factory that makes masks must be running 24/7. Too bad they’re probably located in China. Related to the mask stockpiling, when I worked at a Seattle area Costco we’d sometimes have Chinese tour buses come to shop, and they’d buy massive amounts of vitamins and supplements. Which was fine as they were nice and it wasn’t like we were running out. I think it was to ship home as there are issues with purity of vitamins made in China.
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Feb 2, 2020 17:12
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 My Wife is a veterinarian and mostly does surgeries and spay/neuters. Anyhow, she said they found out that they are super back ordered on face masks as of last week.
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Feb 2, 2020 17:12
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:Mask chat: my wife was in a ups store yesterday mailing something and a chinese couple came in trying to send a box of 30 (non-surgical) masks to china, and they were in complete disbelief over the $180 shipping cost, so yeah, i would believe it
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David Muir said that there's shortages all across China, and that pharmacies were limiting purchases to 2 masks per person, and that lines were long as gently caress.
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Remember that report about China planning to speed-build a couple of hospitals to deal with the current outbreak? There's a post about the results, and the one from the famous construction site pic is supposedly operational already. https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-51280586 Social media is eating this poo poo up, and I'm sure the facility is going to provide some amazing throughput numbers specifically for the current situation, but calling a rapidly-built modular structure a fully-functional hospital is a bit of a stretch. The logistics behind this are legit intriguing to me and I really, really want to read more about it, but my bullshit-flag flew hard at the picture of the MRI
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:How do plague doctor masks rate? I saw one being worn at school depends on what you stuff the beak with
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Doc Hawkins posted:depends on what you stuff the beak with I get the reference but man that's a euphemism
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:How do plague doctor masks rate? I saw one being worn at school
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