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Forums > Living in Kunming > Need an osteopath urgently

Friend of mine just had osteopathic? surgery on his knee (that's osteopathic, innit?) at Kunming No. 2 Hospital - he's quite satisfied with the results. One or all of the doctors he consulted and/or were involved in the surgery spoke fair English, and at least one of them had done medical studies overseas.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Where's David?

@ Dazzer: By 'this guy' I meant David Sneddon - he was a local bigwig? How was that? Or am I still confused?

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Forums > Study > kunming college story-inevitable result

I get the point, but there's also the problem that people don't always flush public toilets at all, and then leave the spigot open after they wash their hands.
Social consciousness and social conscience could be better - devil's often in the details.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Where's David?

Yes, plausible, Dazzer. But I didn't understand all of your post - did you actually see this guy at a couple of dinners? Did anyone meet him when he was in Yunnan?

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Then there were French racist 'scientists' who thought that Algerians' head shapes showed they were likely to become criminals - this after decades of French colonization, discriminatory laws, lack of political rights, etc. When the Algerians made revolution, which rarely is carried out without breaking laws, this was interpreted as proof. See Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.

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@Magnifico: Nonsense - crime is simply that which is against the law, and laws are socially created, not genetically defined. You can't be hard-wired to break laws - your genes can't possibly know what the law is.

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@laotou: I agree, though it's also important to pay attention to what else comes aboard when you have an anti-corruption drive, and also to the situation which causes corruption to keep popping up - e.g., the ideal is not to have a society in which everybody who breaks the law is in jail, but one that does not produce crime. Probably impossible, but moving in that direction will get you closer to that goal than not doing so.

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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.