ITALY: Pasta-Olive Oil
SPAIN: Tapas
PORTUGAL: Fruits
GERMANY: Meats, Seafood, Beer
SWITZERLAND: Chocolates
AUSTRIA: Pastries
FRANCE: Wine, Cheese
AMSTERDAM: Coffee Shops…..Hey,….it works for me!
A QUOTE I BELIEVE….. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been (William Golding)….so,….
WHY MEN ARE THREATENED BY SMART WOMEN…..And I know a lot of guys who are….a new study suggests that they threaten our masculinity…..and that might be a reason men do not want to date them…during this test when men finally met a female who was smarter than them….they distanced themselves more from her…tended to rate her less attractive and showed less desire to exchange contact information or plan a date with her…the results also said men do not value women’s intelligence or ambition when it exceeds their own….and in most cases it was her ambition which turned them off….due to feelings of diminished masculinity accounted for men’s decreased attraction toward women who outperformed them in live interaction…..the sad part is that this study didn’t look at what happens if a man was in a relationship with a woman more intelligent than he was…..as for me….I have no problem with an intelligent woman….because I married one.
VITAMIN VODKA PROMISES TO CURE YOUR HANGOVER…..Now that puts new twist on the “Hair of the dog.”….it’s called Vitamin Vodka…..Australia based Vitamin Alcohol Company calls it…the purest of pure spirits….it’s made from natural, organic ingredients, free from preservatives and impurities….AND..…infused with anti-hangover vitamins…..the organic Australian sugarcane and pure mountain waters of the Hunter Valley near Sydney..…gives it a smooth, crisp palate with subtle citrus notes..…and it’s hitting the European market and selling at….get this….$1,450 euro a bottle….don’t know about you…..but I’d rather wake up with the hangover….growl at Nicole in the morning while I try and figure out where the kitchen is….without bouncing off the walls and make some coffee.
SLAVERY WAS NEVER EXCLUSIVE TO AFRICAN AMERICANS….Ah DOH!….no kidding….the word “slave” derives from the term “esclave” which is French for “Slav”…the ethno-linguistic group comprised mainly of central and eastern Europeans…Russian history is embedded with the institution of slavery….Peter the Great had a household filled with slaves….more than one million people lived under slavery in Russia….and skin color didn’t matter….the slave trade in the Balkans, Baltic regions and Central Europe during the Middle Ages to pre-modern period expanded to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia….there was a specific desire for young blonde girls and boys that were cultural exotic luxuries to the Arabic slave masters….the Ottomans had their own slave trade…which was nearly exclusive to the oppression of white Europeans for four centuries….they raided the coastal towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England and the Netherland…over one million white Christians were enslaved during that period.
ENITRE NEIGHBOURHOOD SECRETLY LEARNS SIGN LANGUAGE TO SURPRISE DEAF NEIGHBOR…..Great idea….Muharrem is a deaf man living in Istanbul, Turkey….a team of people from Samsung and the Leo Burnett ad agency spent a month setting up cameras and teaching people throughout his neighborhood sign language….one day Ozlem went for a walk with her deaf brother….and he was stunned to meet so many signing people in a world where those who can communicate in sign are few and far between….this was designed to raise awareness about Samsung’s call center for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in Turkey.