People, entirely unrelated to each other by everything except the geographical location of their home and their ability to afford international vacations every year, have a tendancy to visit the same locations. One year, everyone goes on African safaries. The next year, everyone goes to China and takes tours of the mountains, Shanghai and the Great Wall. The following year, everyone goes to Italy and the year after that everyone goes to Japan.
It makes it a bummer for those of us in the photo processing industry, as we get to see many many many pictures of exactly the same thing over the course of the summer, interspersed rarely by the few people who do not follow the herd. I never thought that China could get boring.
Also, the Greek Oracles were all women. Their prophecies were then interpreted by men. Oracles did not see the future, they merely were conduits for their patron god(dess), giving the god(dess)'s message to their interpreter. Many prophecies were misinterpreted over the years -- not by the men who worked with the Oracles themselves, but by those who came to the temples for advice. Of course, nothing important was ever decided without having asked the advice of the Oracle.
And, there are a few ways to say "ass" in Japanese. One way, when translated exactly into English, litterally means "shit drip".
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Date: 2006-11-02 09:51 pm (UTC)It makes it a bummer for those of us in the photo processing industry, as we get to see many many many pictures of exactly the same thing over the course of the summer, interspersed rarely by the few people who do not follow the herd. I never thought that China could get boring.
Also, the Greek Oracles were all women. Their prophecies were then interpreted by men. Oracles did not see the future, they merely were conduits for their patron god(dess), giving the god(dess)'s message to their interpreter. Many prophecies were misinterpreted over the years -- not by the men who worked with the Oracles themselves, but by those who came to the temples for advice. Of course, nothing important was ever decided without having asked the advice of the Oracle.
And, there are a few ways to say "ass" in Japanese. One way, when translated exactly into English, litterally means "shit drip".