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My father is really keen on bitter melon. He can eat that kind of vegetable almost everyday and he tells us that bitter melon is so good for our health. There are some benefits such as interacting with gut microbiome, controlling glucose release, suppressing feeling of hunger and even countering chronic inflammation. However, my mom doesn’t like bitter melon as it is too bitter to her and it becomes her undesirable trait. She couldn’t resist when she feels the bitterness on the tip of her tastebuds. From my point of view, bitter food is really mainstream and we are exposed to it way more than we can envisage such as chocolate, coffee, etc
Actually, I like dogs. To be honest, BBC app is better than social media BBC. By the way , I have to go to work now.Anyway, I love exactly country dogs.
Yesterday, torrential rain wreaked havoc on the people's homes. Resulting in displacing the accommodation for house-losen residents from the government's command.
No people, this is not 'climate change'. This region already had a flood of this level in 1941. The problem now was negligence on the part of the mayor and governor with the broken and unmaintained dewatering system and dams. Lula spent all the money on plane trips around the world, along with hundreds of sycophants staying in luxury hotels. And he gave literally billions to artists who campaigned for him. Now he says he doesn't have the money to help the population. They are helping themselves.
Thank you, it was really interesting to follow this conversation, because I had to learn all this when I was working in South Africa in an English speaking workplace: with my Italian super direct way of addressing people, I was perceived as rude, a few times I noticed people literally flinching when I talked to them! After a while I learnt to not say, or write in the emails, what I really needed to say, but dance around it with some niceties and everybody loved me 😂
I suppose that it is actually mandatory to keep calm and be polite at your workplace in every country. At least, in Italy, we are used to asking people to do something politely the first or the second time we talk with them. I don't think it is a prerogative of Anglo-Saxon culture
