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Klaus Kinski, the most crazy psycopathic diva ever, lol. Famous for his tantrums.
There is a Comedian Max Giermann, who can imitate Kinski as if he was the real one. When I first saw him on TV I thought this was some old show, but then I wondered why the people in the audience were dressed in a modern way.  Had to google if Kinski was still alive, because Giermann's performance was so realistic. And all the insults he is throwing around in his role as Kinski are actually quotes from the original Kinski. Very funny.

[Dina]

I am not very savvy about Westerns (spaghetti or not) but I am not surprised about Klaus Kinski being in lots of them.

The protest today was on the Plaza de Mayo, the center of the Argentinian politics. There were stands and public classes but they were not so many people. Still, it was interesting. Luckily, the weather helped. It was sunny and, even when it was quite hot, it was not too terrible, mainly thanks to cool breeze.

[Dina]

It's Jim Butcher's birthday today!

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And today is Harry's birthday!

[Dina]

I came here today to say just that! 
Also, it is the day that the other wizard called Harry became an orphan, poor thing (while ending a war in the process).
And, it is Halloween, so if anyone here is celebrating, have fun!

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Happy Halloween. 🎃

Mini is out there with some friends. She is going as a cute bat.
Micro is dressed as some unknown Anime woman. It looks good, but she will stay at home because this year she wasn't invited to any party and we won't allow her to go out on her own. But we are watching movies together and later we will eat a blood red soup and some sausages disguised as cut off fingers.

Once I made green raspberry muffins with some silvery powder for Kindergarten, but the kids didn't eat them,  because they looked too disgusting, lol.
They looked like bleeding moldy zombie Muffins, mwahaha.

[Dina]

I hope the kids have fun and that you enjoy the movies too 
Here in my country there is no Halloween tradition, even when lately, with globalization, they are beginning to be costume parties, special edition candies and things like that. I just learned that at least in one town parents and children do trick or treatin but instead of going to houses they go to the stores.

You made me laugh about the green muffins. We have very ingrained our association with food and color. We know muffins should not look the way you made them and even when our rational head knows it is safe, our instinct says "nope". I remember once read about some researchers doing different experiences about that. For example, after explaining to a group of volunteers that they were investigating something about the idea of "food enters for the eyes" they made them eat food without seeing it (I do not remember if people were blindfolded or if they were not lights). Everyone said food has been very good. But when they saw what they had eaten, including blue burgers and things like that most people were revolted, a couple of them were truly sick.

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There is no real tradition of Halloween here. Just some kids trick or treating but not everywhere and those adults who like dressing up in horror costumes and having a reason to party. It came with the popularity of American movies and of course shops trying to make profit by selling Halloween stuff. And the Kindergarten used it as a more attractive festivity than all hallows day or harvest festival. So I am guessing it has gradually become some sort of new tradition among those families with children in the last 15 to 20 years.
And personally I like the horror theme more than our own tradition of Fasching in February. And one gets to do some art with all those pumpkins so one doesn't have to eat them all, lol. My grandmother always made pickled pumpkin, which we had to eat all winter. Yuck. Along with other pickled vegetables she grew in her garden.

I am grateful to be born in the age of global trade, so we don't have to make food durable for winter time any more. Now I just go to the supermarket, buy whatever relatively fresh stuff is there and if I like I can grow my own stuff, but am not dependent on the survival of my own crops.

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Sorry for the double post.

About the colours of food. I have learned of an experiment that if you for example put a blue light on, all food looks disgusting. But the same food under yellow light looks really delicious.
There are a lot of shops who use certain wavelengths of light to make their products look more attractive. Not only grocery stores but also for example clothing shops.

[Dina]

There is no real tradition of Halloween here. Just some kids trick or treating but not everywhere and those adults who like dressing up in horror costumes and having a reason to party. It came with the popularity of American movies and of course shops trying to make profit by selling Halloween stuff. And the Kindergarten used it as a more attractive festivity than all hallows day or harvest festival. So I am guessing it has gradually become some sort of new tradition among those families with children in the last 15 to 20 years.
And personally I like the horror theme more than our own tradition of Fasching in February. And one gets to do some art with all those pumpkins so one doesn't have to eat them all, lol. My grandmother always made pickled pumpkin, which we had to eat all winter. Yuck. Along with other pickled vegetables she grew in her garden.

I am grateful to be born in the age of global trade, so we don't have to make food durable for winter time any more. Now I just go to the supermarket, buy whatever relatively fresh stuff is there and if I like I can grow my own stuff, but am not dependent on the survival of my own crops.

Yes, the situation is more or less the same here. Those who have small children now are "celebrating" Halloween, while elder people did not. Also we do not usually eat the classical pumpking (except in some of the northern provinces) they are simply not so common. We ate similar things but with other shapes and different flavors too like the small
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or the orange
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Here you have a chart with the common names
via facebook

And yes, I am so grateful not to have to produce my own food (and especially not having to kill the animals myself).

Sorry for the double post.

About the colours of food. I have learned of an experiment that if you for example put a blue light on, all food looks disgusting. But the same food under yellow light looks really delicious.
There are a lot of shops who use certain wavelengths of light to make their products look more attractive. Not only grocery stores but also for example clothing shops.

Yes, that is so interesting about the colors. It is quite common in the stores that sell meat to made some changes in the light, so the red meat looks redder.

[Dina]

Hello Weird! I hope everyone is doing well.
Random post: I have been playing this game (and some of its relatives too) and I thought I would comment it in case someone is interested. I was surprised to discover I had not idea where today's capital was located 

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Hello Weird! I hope everyone is doing well.
Random post: I have been playing this game (and some of its relatives too) and I thought I would comment it in case someone is interested. I was surprised to discover I had not idea where today's capital was located 

Very cool. I knew yesterday's country and everything except things like how big the country is and how many inhabitants. I never know this.
Today's country I didn't recognise, though once I knew I had the neighbours correct at first try, lol. And I even guessed the city sizes correctly.

It is very difficult to know the country, if all you see is the shape and not how big it is. I mean you could show me the shape of for example Sierra Leone and Poland with the same size and I definitely wouldn't recognise Sierra Leone.


Soooo, 80% progress 12months. I must admit, my excitement died down a bit. But I know it will come back once we have a release date.
I am still reading Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. Currently at book #5.
There are 12 books, so I still have some to enjoy. Probably there still won't be the next DF book when I'm done with them.

[Dina]

Hello!
The game sometimes is frustrating, because it shows very small Caribbean or South Pacific islands that I could never identify. But I am getting better with Africa and Asia.
You are absolutely right about the size. I remember once it took me three guesses to know Uruguay, my closest neighbourg.
It is because for some reason I imagined the country shown in the game was much bigger. I was not sure about today's country at first but I knew the wide region where it was, so I began guessing and I succeeded. And yes, size, population, cities and sometimes money are just lucky guesses in my case. I have a lot of fun with that though.
I have been quite busy these days, so no reading because I was tired. But I am about to finish the episodes of The Orville. Only 3 or 4 to go. I really liked the show but each episode is so long...

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Maen weird!

What's up? ***waves hello***

Nothing new. Still reading Sandman Slim, being tired, waiting for the next opportunity to fall asleep.

Learning Norwegian on Duolingo. It's fun so far.

At work it is still not clear how it will go on. Our guess is, that sooner or later they'll put us together with my old department (the one I left). If so, I'll play nice as long as they don't piss me off.
I am just a bit annoyed that nobody tells us anything, even when we are asking. So let's wait and see. I would like to stay in this department, because I really like it there. I am safe from job loss, but they can make me go where I don't want to. For example the children's hospital. It is not that I can't do the work. I can manage the work just fine, it is more about having to see the dying children and getting to know them. Children with cancer and other deadly illnesses. It is enough to work with their blood and know their histories. But having to see them and their parents, knowing they are not going to make it.