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Forums > Living in Kunming > Bombs on busses

I've no idea if this was a bomb or a tyre explosion. However if it was a tire explosion the fact that it created such as stir shouldn't come as a surprise. After events like this people are more alert and often very nervous so something small like a tyre explosion or engine malfunction causes panic and gets blown (pun not intended) out of proportion. At its worst this sometimes results in terrible tragedies like unarmed brazilians being shot on the London Underground.

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Forums > Food & Drink > No Smoking at Salvador's?

P.S. To qualify my previous post I used to smoke a lot, have given up but still smoke sometimes. I am absolutely not anti-smoking. But I do think its a bit nasty around food and even when I was smoking a pack a day I would have been happy to go outside for a smoke rather than breath it over someone's food.

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Forums > Food & Drink > No Smoking at Salvador's?

I wouldn't mind at all if you banned smoking but bring back the WIFI. I used to come to Salvadors regularly for lunch because I knew that I could have a great burrito, a decent cappuccino (I was not someone who ordered 1 coffee and sat for hours taking advantage of the free internet) and do some work using my laptop. That wired table on the ground floor is too much like an internet cafe to make it comfortable and doesnt really allow for room to have a full meal and use the computer during lunch time.

Banning something that is scientifically proven to kill and also can shorten the lives of those around is admirable. The fear about the dangers of WIFI on the other hand are hearsay and speculation.

It is rational to ban smoking, I feel it is irrational to ban WIFI.

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I've tried plenty of insects in Yunnan and while they are ok and I will happily eat if needed I don't think they are necessarily the answer to world hunger.

This TED talk by Allan Savory pretty much destroys much of the livestock/greenhouse gas theories. If it works, it would be a far better solution than grains or insects.

my wife posted the pic above of lots of people of dongfeng and it got deleted as inappropriate content - WTF? perhaps they thought it resembled a scene from later in same decade a bit further north-east?

Well perhaps Mr Sichuan People's Congress you'd consider investing in Kunming because the project is worthwhile and you'd get a suitable return on your investment and not because you'll be treated to "entertainment".

Police - don't arrest those pursuing the oldest profession in the world unless you have some way to get them into decent employment. Arrest the party members who think its acceptable to spend tax payers money on "entertainment"!

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