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Forums > Living in Kunming > Please sign the petition.

The arrogance and condescension of the human species towards all other species really does need to be brought clearly to light - and not just for moral or ethical reasons, either - there are, and will continue to be, serious consequences, and not just for the bears and other life forms. It's not just about warm fuzzy feelings - kids can do that with teddy bears; many of us do that with mere media images.
I don't mean to dismiss the petition effort, but to support it.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Do we have a Vape Comminuty?

I've got nothing against people interested in vaping, but the idea of creating a "community" around it sounds like newspeak, and a corruption of language.
Confucius was a reactionary, to be sure, but his idea of the Rectification of Names is worth thinking about in the face of all the growth of political, marketing and computer babble that lets us imagine we still know what we are talking about. Often nothing but shallow indications of what once had meaning are left.
Not jumping on the poster, just commenting on what has been happening to language for all too long - plenty of words have gone to hell and have led to dangerous comic-strip thought about how things 'really' are (e.g., 'democracy', 'freedom', etc.)
OK, guess this isn't quite to the point of the thread. Happy vaping.

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@ redjon: OK, I agree.
@ForeignGuy: (1) I appreciate the problem, but it's possible to know a language and control its use in the classroom. (2) What about living in KM? Don't know your Chinese ability, but I'm not pretending everybody become fluent, which is the kind of irrational and impossible goal that has kept friends of mine from learning any Chinese at all - and that is a stupid mistake. On the other hand, if you can only buy things in the market in Chinese etc. you are shortchanging yourself, as well as those you attempt to communicate with and live among.

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Although I have studied at Keats and find it's the bet place to study Chinese in Kunming that I know of, the article sounds a bit like a plug for Keats.
As for studying Chinese, imagine how idiotic it would be to live in any country for more than about 6 months and not be abler to hold a conversation in that country's language.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.