A britishism I've never come across—does anybody know what "sandwiches with paste" are?
My mum spent a couple of years in the UK and refers to peanut butter as peanut paste. Could be a term for ‘spread’.
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
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#42A buddy of mine has rice and beans nearly every dinner though he knows how to cook variations so it’s a surprisingly tasty diet. I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies but his diet has clearly worked for him. The strokes could just be genetics and/or old age catching up.
> but his diet has clearly worked for him. Is it clear, given the multiple strokes? We don't know with certainty whether the diet was a significant factor, but it's possible.
I know of people who do not eat veggies an have lived into their 70s before they have a stroke. The are also people who have strokes or other problems before 70 even if they eat their veggies. I fully expect that my high stress and sedentary life of a software developer will kill me long before 70. Such are the trade offs of a well paying profession.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
“ By not leaving my apartment for a year except for shopping” this is entirely foreign to me. Where do you live?!
Where do you live? I live in Portland, Oregon. I haven't left the home except to go on walks around the neighborhood and to pick up groceries from the store (I order them online and they bring them out to my car) since last March. I'm seriously dreading the end of the pandemic. I love never having plans to go anywhere.
You’re (likely) seriously overreacting. I’ve lived in Portland. Live in Midwest now. I would’ve been hiking non stop in pandemic times should I be in PDX area.
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#44Here's an interesting thought experiment – would you (and everyone else here) have the same reaction to this article if it was written by a North Korean farmer who was perfectly happy with life being in the exact same situation as this Welsh one? Would he still be "enlightened" and "content" or brainwashed, oppressed and a victim of propaganda?
Well, my reaction to this one is suspicion that it sounds a little too perfect and either the farmer is idealizing his life or the journalist has taken editorial liberties.. so, maybe?
Journalists love to craft articles around some narrative theme.
Edit: I’m talking about consistency within the article and a “focus on the subject” stance. If the author wants to present the farmers happiness, that’s what they’re going to frame the whole piece on.
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#45A britishism I've never come across—does anybody know what "sandwiches with paste" are?
Probably meat paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_(food)
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#46Can't think of anything that semi-reasonable would do that would make me less happy.
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#47How incredibly small-minded. I respect people who've tried something and decided it's not for them. But to never even try a different kind of food? I suspect it's less that he's found what he likes and more that he's scared he'd find out he actually liked something else better, and has wasted those 10 years.
The Welsh live a different way of life. This guy's attitude is far from unique. A bunch of people live in the same town, with the same job their great great great grandparents worked, that rarely travel more than 10 miles away.
Don't knock it, though, there's something to be said about this level of extreme stability. It simplifies a lot of life's worries.
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#48[Removed by myself to obey voting result of being a bad post. Please do not beat the post's corpse any further :) Thank you.]
“ By not leaving my apartment for a year except for shopping” this is entirely foreign to me. Where do you live?!
Anywhere in the world due to covid the related fear/concern.
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#49Here's an interesting thought experiment – would you (and everyone else here) have the same reaction to this article if it was written by a North Korean farmer who was perfectly happy with life being in the exact same situation as this Welsh one? Would he still be "enlightened" and "content" or brainwashed, oppressed and a victim of propaganda?
No because he can leave if he wanted to. He stresses that- if someone gave him $2 million he would stay.
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#50This is similar to Sven Yrvind's philosophy on eating at sea.
>I will eat twice a day, breakfast and lunch four hours later.
>...
>I say, “Cows only eat grass and wolfs only eat meat”
>Modern society is so boring and there is so much food that we have to be stimulated by spices and chefs and different foods to eat. At sea in a small boat its different. Life itself out there is so interesting that I do not need stimulants.
>My breakfast consists of one can of sardines, one slice of dense dark rye bread and muesli.
>...
>My lunch is the same as breakfast but no sardines.