Best option, always ask (in host language) if English is understood…while it’s nice to try converse in the mother tongue of your host country, some accept with affection, some treat it as a slight insult…or probably an annoyance of accent😂
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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Be careful
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That’s what I meant.
For example:
In Portugal often people are starting to speak English with me first, knowing I am a stranger.
But when responding them in Portuguese
they are more than delighted and we are having much fun.
I mostly answer them .: “In Portugal, normally Portuguese is spoken, isn’t it?”
(Em Portugal, normalmente fala-se Portuguese, ou nao?)
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I would really like to hear you speaking Bavarian! 
When speaking English I am often told I have an American accent.
I know where it comes from.
Being a child I was often together with american kids.
I even went to an american kindergarten.
Later I often visited an american youth club and when playing in a band we
often played in US institutions here.
In school this was not so pleasing, because most of the teachers had an Oxford accent.
So they did like mine.
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Nice finding today,
While in the US is the memorial day I found a “canteen” water bottle from the Wehrmacht
dated 1941.
Good condition.
Meanwhile those things are getting rare, though the true collectors die out.
The colour of the coating is not a normal one.
Normally its grey.
So I will have to do some further research.
I’m in the last few classes of an immunology course and today was looking at the intestinal lymph nodes.
Seems when your canteen was being used the drinking water was less clean but as the men had grown up with it they had a prevalence of IgA antibodies in their guts so could handle it.
Modern people would struggle.
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I am sure you know, not only from the course, that people from the country side growing up with mud and dirt are much more immune against allergies than those “clean” townsfolk.
The reason is also that those modern people eat “modern food” full of chemicals and other poison.
There was an article in a magazine here.
Such a Green weirdo called his shop “Vegane Metzgerei” (Vegan butcher’s shop)
How crazy these are.
Btw I never tasted such a “vegan sausage”.
We often eat vegan or vegetarian food, but not by conviction.
And we eat less meat, may be caused by the age.
The elder the less is the meat consumption
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Well in gut bacteria there’s multiple modern lifestyle created issues.
The biggest issue is use of oral antibiotics which kill bacteria in the gut. We’re “born” with “good” bacteria (a normal birth they go from mother to baby) and if you kill them you run a risk that a “bad” bacteria has “empty house” to occupy.
The next issue is that as you get pathogens in the gut the immune response leaves behind a residual memory and particular memory B cells which produce IgG antibodies. When you first encounter a pathogen the first response is IgM, IgD then IgG so it takes longer to produce antibodies for gut infections than say a skin cut. After such an infection you’re “ready” to encounter the same.
So a modern lifestyle person is more vulnerable.
Also note that the adaptive immune system weakens - gets slower - once over age of 50 meaning we’re beginning to get people born in the era of liberal use of antibiotics who are not ready to encounter new infections, while those older such as in their 70s+ encountered the less-clean food and water and already grew their defences when younger.
I’m not sure many realise this but those who have been “keeping clean” are building up problems for themselves later in life.
And don’t get me started on hand sanitiser… one of the most dangerous things you could be doing. Our outer layer of skin is dead cells, so cannot be infected by viruses, and we have covered “good” bacteria, which if you wash off too well leaves you open to “bad” bacteria to take over.
So keep yourself dirty from childhood, you’re the stronger for it for the rest of your life.
Add urbanisation, population increase, mass produced food, I see modern lifestyle building future failures.
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There is another thing I have to mentions.
The bacteria in our guts are not explored absolutely .
After birth we start with a some first then there is huge biodiversityafter and after.
This is different from on to the other, country to country ect.
I Think the guts are the most interesting organ in our body.
But science don’t care much about,
Regarding quality of food
I got "new patatoes from my neibour Manuel in Portugal.
Such a taste and quality.
We never will get such ones here in any market.
That makes a difference regarding peaoples’s health.
Science does care about it.
How do you think I know so much?
The issue is that:
And I observed so many who’s scientific knowledge was so weak they were believing lies in the last pandemic. When I tried to explain why people were incorrect I’d lose them in geek speak.
Science isn’t ignoring the topic, it’s just people ignoring science with access to a computer to reveal their ignorance to the world. The Internet and advertising makes it worse - why tell a boring complex truth when you can tell a simpler interesting lie for clicks.
Science cares about pills an medicaments.
Thats Money!
When visiting a physician :
A very short and shallow medical examination.
A fews words an a at least a recipe.
That’s the science and treatment of today!
Doctors vs Science.
A doctor gets a broad training at medical school, but then their new added knowledge comes near exclusively from pharmacutical companies, so yes money drives ignorance.
Not me. That last time I was under medical care I looked up all the things they were injecting and pills and I told them to stop two of them. I left hospital faster than those who took everything. However, to maintain a broad high level of knowledge is time-consuming so I can understand why there’s high confidence in low quality opinions.
90% of modern illnesses are curable for free, and yet there’s an expensive pill / injection offered instead.
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You behaviour is not the “normality”
My daughter is a pharmacist now.
She knows how those “physicians” are acting
The even know nothing about the alternating current between medicaments which they
prescribe on the SAME recipe.
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Hope you enjoyed the near summer solstice full moon rising almost exactly due south
The Alpacas don’t care.
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The full moon this weekend was great! I was lucky to be upstate where the sky was nice and dark and clear it was beautiful! Hope everyone had an amazing weekend. The weather here in NY is starting to get really nice so I’ve been spending more and more time enjoying the weather outside
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Business as usual.
flea markets.
Walking, talking, dealing.
The really great thing is:
After ca 45 years in this “business” there are still things to leern and discover.
Seems endless.
Who thought that such simple lanterns can be of high value!
But of course only a special manufacturer and used in the time of WWII.
Haven’t found one yet , but who knows!
Too bad it can not be charged by an ANKER power bank! 
Been a crazy past few days. The sky was orange due to smoke from fires in Canada. Hope all who are in that area are ok. Everyone has been trying to stay inside even though the weather looks nice due to the crazy smoke in the air. Today things finally seem to be returning close to normal although still advised not to go outside
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I was reading about that.
Be careful!
When it first started there happened to be a fire at a building close to my job so everyone assumed that’s what it was. The next day at work it looked orange outside and you could barely see anything. My job sent us home early in fear of trains and things shutting down. It’s gotten better the next couple days. It’s been crazy. Weirdly pretty at times though to look at the sky that way but yes staying safe is most important
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