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Anyone up? I went to bed at 5pm because I cannot handle the Sydney-London exhaustion.
November 24, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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Just remembered why I’m not really a cat person.
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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I’m in Sydney and every time ai want to swim in the pool here I have to speak to the owner. Who is apparently this guy:
November 19, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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Giving this a go with a weird blend of weariness and optimism. Hi!
November 19, 2024 at 9:22 AM