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To me it seems he’s saddened by knowing the beauty that they’ve missed out on for such trivial reasons of impatience and rushing through their lives.
I mean, everybody ever is gonna miss out on the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of beauty this world has to offer. Even if you were immortal and could teleport you'd miss out on most of the beauty.
> even on Christmas Day: two pieces of fish, one big onion, an egg, baked beans and a few biscuits at the end > I've had several strokes
I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like any of that meal in moderation could predispose someone to a stroke?
At 72(?), though, he's still doing better than plenty of others. Full of flaws and imperfections like everyone else but he's doing his thing and apparently enjoying it, so good for him.
And now we are fascinated by a man living in the same place all his life. It's funny how the concept of norm changes in 100 years.
There is value in finding your place in life and being content with it. Yes, you might be able to change it, perhaps to conform to more traditional standards of 'success', but why bother if you're happy as you are? If we humans optimize by happiness, then we should have nothing but envy for a life like Wilf Davies leads.
A britishism I've never come across—does anybody know what "sandwiches with paste" are?
Here (in the UK at least) you can buy little jars of paste, often made from some kind of meat or seafood. It seems the intended use case is to spread it on bread. I personally have never tried it nor plan to but see for yourself via James May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVdodVA3qTk
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1 onion 2-3 carrots 2 potatoes 2-3 celery sticks 1 fennel heart 1 red pepper 1-2 tomatoes (optional) Canillini beans 2 bayleaves salt and pepper suit to taste. 2qt water cook/simmer for 1-2hr I muck around with it sometimes... thrown siracha, hot peppers, sausage in it to varying degrees of tastiness. I generally sauté the onions, celery and fennel together then add the rest. It can all be done in one pot for conveni…
You could easily tweak this to be similar to something I grew up with, from Slovenia: https://www.tasteatlas.com/manestra Maybe cook longer and blend some of it to thicken it up. Ours typically had pork and Polish sausage added, plus this type of pasta: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ditalini&safe=off&source=lnm... It's similar to what Italians would know of as Pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) but obviously varies…
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Onions are quite nice to eat raw like an apple. The perfect combination of spicy and sweet.
If this is HN's opinion on onions, I now know how React got so undeservedly popular.
Does it strike anyone else as oddly ironic that he is so sad that people don't go to the effort to hear the cuckoos, and yet he basically doesn't want to experience... well, pretty much everything. It's great he's happy with the life he has chosen. But I personally find people who are even slightly like that (i.e. closed off to new experiences) depressing to be around. My parents are kind of like that, and have been…
People are different.