In the long co-existence (Kevin MacDonald would call it competition) with us, they became very intelligent and learned to produce Kwaczek for us, and we too had to evolve and develope ultra-high IQ in order to maintain our middle class positions (doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers, etc.). I presume Kwaczek peasants were ethnic Austrians, Chech and Sudeten Dutch, who are quite intelligent (probably because they co-evolved with us Oberlander Jews). Now that the Jews are gone (they were seen last entering Auschwitz gas chambers) and the Sudeten Dutch and Ostreicher have moved back to their motherlands, the natives are left alone and without our stimulating competition. In a few generations they will retrograde to their original (brutish) state. We too shall lose our adaptation to Kwaczek. BTW, Kwaczek is being exported only to Poland, Austria and Israel, apparently because it is there where Kwaczek adapted people live. I presume Kwaczek vodka could be marketed also in New York.
While swimming and trying to watch under the water the woman in the next line (she noticed it and asked me what hour it was. Unfortunately I was not wearing a watch in the swimming pool.), I reflected about Kever Benjamin City's rich. I became friendly with the bored girls of the private banking section, and being as I am - sickly curious and over-sociable (i.e. a chattering inquisitive old fool), I use talk to them and with the clients waiting there. Yesterday I met one I befriended there, one whose printout I had furtively seen (he has ten million shekels invested in long term Israeli government bonds), where of all places? In the "shuk". Friday 2 PM is the paupers hour, when the sellers (all religious Iraqi and Persian Jews) are stressed and want to close and go home to wash for the Shabbath prayer. The unconspicuos Iraqi synagogue is behind the shuk (my son in law took me there). I was negotiating the purchase of five salmon heads when I met this rich man also bargaining for devalued merchandise. People believes that the rich can be found in the expensive bars and restaurants of Tel Aviv. They are wrong. In Kever Benjamin - very wrong.
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"I was negotiating the purchase of five salmon heads"-that's pure Babel right there.
How much can you Jew down a guy on five salmon heads, anyway?
Last Friday I got the fishmonger so desperate that he gave me the heads free.
This time he didnt want to talk to me but I insisted and agreed at 10 shekel a head. They are heavy big salmon heads. Then I discovered that he had more heads and pieces of surplus salmon meat in the corner of his cutting table, and asked for them too. I got in all five heads and some meat at 45 shekels.
The best meat is in the fish's cheeks (according to imaginary character Dr Hannibal Lecter) and I believe the optic nerve and the fish brain must be nutritive. I am so hungry that my boiled fish tasted like heavenly manna.
Clean fresh salmon meat is sold for about 60 - 70 shekel a kilo. I could afford it but believe me dear B, it would have tasted less good.
I assume that this post is tongue-in-cheek (fish cheek perhaps), but I'll still point out that group evolutionary selection as a competitive strategy in the way that KMD describes it is even more controversial / less substantiated than group evolutionary selection as described by evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson (DSW). DSW also has an advantage in that he doesn't wear ideological blinders when conducting his work.
Also, "Dutch" in English means from the Netherlands. I think you meant to say Sudeten Deutsch.
Yes, I meant Deutsch but by my life that they sound the same and they are more or less the same people. The sieberlander deutsch for example come from holland. English, Deutsch and Neederlander should be unified in one language. Their orthography makes them appear different, but they are not.
Oh yes they are.
Anon.
Of course, you can find differences between villages and even neighborhoods. As a child, we used to have bloody "wars" with the boys from the other street because we felt that our "cultural" differences were unbridgable. But from a distance the differences seem to soften and blur, and then, from my vantage point of Kever Benjamin city, Pennsylvania Dutch and the Pennsylvania Germans seem the same, and without my glasses, they seem even made from the same race. Tell me: Ludwig Van Beethoven was German or Hollander? Or Belgian? I think all of them.
The Pennsylvania "Dutch" are not Dutch at all - they are Deutsch and therefore synonymous with the Pennsylvania Germans. The early Americans heard "Deutsch" and thought "Dutch" in their ignorance.
Fish do indeed have cheek muscles - just a little nugget of flesh. Supposedly a delicacy but hardly worth bothering with in my opinion. But I eat it anyway when I cook a whole fish.
English and Dutch and German overlap somewhat in vocabulary but are not really mutually intelligible on the whole, which is the general test as to whether you can consider them to be one language.
K
By-and-large, there were few takers in either Holland or Britain for Hitler, and his message of Ein Volk.
Anon.
Salmon has sizeable cheek muscles. It must be a different kind of muscle because it is white and smooth, with a special texture and none of the salmony taste.
Are you sure you are talking about muscle at all? Usually in farm raised salmon, all the flesh is orange(pink when cooked) due to the dye that they are fed (otherwise the fish would be an unappetizing gray). Stuff that is white/gray is fat or connective tissue. The head contains a lot of gelatinous material which causes the broth to gel.
Kosher marshmallows are made with fish gelatin because there is no commercial producer of kosher meat gelatin (and anyway this would make the candy fleishig). There is no truly vegetarian gelatin available -there are seaweed gels but they have different characteristics than animal gelatins.
K
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