Re: Boiled Green Peanuts

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:

You are delightfully out of step with your surroundings, in a very confident manner.

 Oh definitely! Since my company is small, I cannot run where the big
guys are running. So by looking where no one else is looking I secure
nice margins and happy customers. =)

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You are a true fisher of men.

Fishing can teach us a lot about life, and I find that the lessons I've
learned are very much applicable to business life.

Possibly, but it would depend on with what area of the US you compare.
I've been to areas in the US where I had to run over highways and it was
impossible to walk anywhere or to impossible to find a bus.
 I've lived in Chicago which was pretty good and very similar to european
standards.
 And cities somewhere in between.

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True enough, but we need to have some hope of improvement and your nation could have been it as a model.

I think if you took sweden in the 1920s to 1950s it would be a pretty
good template. I'd say it was the golden age of the country.

Oh well, back to the ruthlessly efficient Swiss...

Now there we have a template if any! I was very impressed with the
country when I lived there for a year, and I think there are many things
about it that really should be considered in most other countries.

They seemed suspiciously positive! Can such positive people be trusted?
;)

 Yes, and you can also trust this even more cheerful couple:
 https://youtu.be/Ax2NxgUXFW4

 This will be tomorrow evenings show. Now the wife is hooked on train
videos and can talk of nothing else. Her challenge now is to find which
line or lines to choose.

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Aw, that's very sweet. I am glad any of these are useful to you.

Very useful, thank you very much!

A bit off topic, but have you ever watched this adventurous off-roading gal?
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https://www.youtube.com/@evazubeck

Never seen.

My thinking being that perhaps you two might want to rent an RV or camper.
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Plenty of opportunities for that, albeit you lose some backroad mobility.

Campers are not her cup of tea, but we'll see. Our neighbours in spain
really recommended us to go to Jackson hole for a nice nature trip, so
maybe a vehicle upgrade might be necessary there?

Again the comparison. Compared with airline and airport food it looks
absolutely awesome!
 The only time I had better food on airlines is when I fly business, but
I only do that when I need to fly longer than 4-5 hours which is, very
thankfully, only when the wife drags me on some vacation trip to remote
and distant lands.

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As a plus you will also not gain weight on anything they serve...

Very much true!

But for real luxury there is Canada's Rocky Mountaineer - now that is world class, for whatever that means.
 Or even their standard Via:
 https://youtu.be/G9Xh95FO0i4?t=734

 Impressive! I'm almost tempted to believe that if there is one thing
socialism actually does manage, its decent trains. ;)

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I am with you on that only because reality has made it so.
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Choices...lose a large military expenditure and it can trickle down elsewhere...

True!