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Cake day: December 10th, 2023

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  • Which parts of Europe is that?

    Is it Germany where you can only buy shnitzel, sausage and cabbage in various different forms?

    Or Italy, where they’re so proud of their food it’s basically illegal to serve anything that isn’t Italian?

    Or France where spice and chilli is outlawed, only garlic and herbs allowed?

    It’s true that a lot of traditional British food is bland, but there are way more Chinese, Indian, Thai, mexican, Italian restaurants in any town in England than you’ll find anywhere in Europe.






  • From my first hand experience when I visited last year, nearly everyone I spoke to had a hard time acknowledging there was anything wrong with what they saw as Russia reclaiming land that was rightfully theirs. There was often outright admiration for Putin for being brave enough to put the interest of his nation first and telling the West to go swivel.

    No coincidence that India has similar feelings towards several of its own neighbours and parts of Kashmir are not too dissimilar to Crimea.

    The reaction would be very different if China ever did the same in Taiwan though, because… reasons.