Lately on Quora I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter on the topic of something called the “Paleo Diet“. The gist of it appears to me that gluten is (very) bad, and most carbohydrates fall on a scale from not-good to akin-to-poison. That this seems a little dramatic may be a consequence of the… colorful [...]
Entries from September 2010
Stanley and Nutrition
September 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment
laowai (老外) vs waiguoren (外国人)
September 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
I’m just collecting some quotes I’ve read recently on the differences between the two. from portrait of an LBX Speaking of laowai, that’s the other word that gets our goat. Laowai — along with dialectical equivalents: lowei, waigolo, gueilo, etc. — means “foreigner,” but it is the slang way of saying it compared with the [...]
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