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xix
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"'Many' is such a subjective word"
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May 10 22:27 UTC 2002 |
A Brooklyn, N.Y., housing judge ruled in March that a 71-year-old retired
Chinese immigrant had too much stuff in his federally subsidized
apartment and that if he didn't get rid of half of it quickly, he would
be evicted. Fei Xu, 71, had so many items crammed into his 500 square
feet that he had only a 14-inch-wide path by which to walk from one side
to the other. Said Xu, of his accumulation (computers, typewriters, 17
suitcases, 13 clocks, 15 folding chairs, seven fans, two each of most
appliances, etc.), "'Many' is such a subjective word. For me, many is not
too much. (I) thought this was a free country." [New York Times, 4-11-02]
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md
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response 1 of 18:
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May 11 01:14 UTC 2002 |
Nai-Nai alwys tell uncle Fei, you not have too many thing, you have too
small apartment! Uncle Fei not get it.
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bdh3
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response 2 of 18:
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May 11 05:55 UTC 2002 |
Biao! Ni-ni tell shu-shu Fei only listen half what say.
Say Bai lo sell hai. No just bai. Ai-ya!
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tsty
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response 3 of 18:
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May 11 06:13 UTC 2002 |
uhhhh, xix, i'd ned a cite on this... frankly, i don't believe the tale.
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bdh3
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response 4 of 18:
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May 11 06:36 UTC 2002 |
Obviously uncle Fei has a problem. And the problem isn't just
'rag picking' which is common among the 'chinese'. The problem
is the retention. Nai-ni would have a lot in common for example
with keasan in that a lot of bicycles, child toy furniture, clothing,
and odds and ends that usually are picked up weekly by the
chicagoland streets and sanitation (garbageman) flow through our
house. The key point is 'flow' (the choice pieces of course stay).
Stuff flows in. 'Value' is added in the form of labor - fix, clean,
paint, sewing, whatever. Then it flows out drawn by 'cash'.
It doesn't stay any longer than necessary. The key to the proper
behavior is 'flow'. The real problem is not the retention, but
that uncle Fei probably has no 'kin' to moderate this behaviour
and he is substituting possessions.
Sadder still is that it ended up in court with the draconian
judgement of a magistrate.
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oval
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response 5 of 18:
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May 11 08:38 UTC 2002 |
eh?
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happyboy
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response 6 of 18:
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May 11 14:34 UTC 2002 |
they should chop off his head.
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jmsaul
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response 7 of 18:
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May 11 15:13 UTC 2002 |
Re #3: Why not? Back when I was a building manager, we had a Section 8
tenant who packed her apartment full of stuff. I never went in
there, but my successor wound up having to evict the woman because
her stuff was creating a health and fire hazard and endangering
the other people in the building. I'm told the place was hellish.
I can easily see evicting this guy under the same circumstances.
Incidentally, there are psychological disorders that cause people
to retain stuff like that -- I think obsessive-compulsives do it.
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remmers
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response 8 of 18:
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May 11 17:25 UTC 2002 |
Anyway, xix *did* give a cite in #0.
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md
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response 9 of 18:
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May 12 14:06 UTC 2002 |
Did you know "xix" is pronounced "sheesh"? Either that, or "nineteen."
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utv
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response 10 of 18:
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May 12 15:03 UTC 2002 |
re #9: did you know that my second cousin once removed called me cheech?
and his wife ws a Delizia? Hot sheesh, it's Cheech. (and no Chong)
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jp2
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response 11 of 18:
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May 12 15:53 UTC 2002 |
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aruba
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response 12 of 18:
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May 12 16:07 UTC 2002 |
And channel 56 in Boston is WLVI.
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ea
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response 13 of 18:
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May 12 17:03 UTC 2002 |
#9 - XIX could also be pronounced Chi Iota Chi
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slynne
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response 14 of 18:
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May 12 17:58 UTC 2002 |
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utv
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response 15 of 18:
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May 12 20:25 UTC 2002 |
wasn't XIX a pinball game?
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bdh3
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response 16 of 18:
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May 13 04:38 UTC 2002 |
'xix' is not a mandarin (pinyin) word. There are 68 different
words 'xi', among then is what, laugh, cricket and an intestinal
worm. It is the name of a river in Hubei and the sirname of
an emperor.
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oval
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response 17 of 18:
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May 13 22:26 UTC 2002 |
maybe he laughs at his worm.
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tsty
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response 18 of 18:
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May 21 13:49 UTC 2002 |
... or the river his worm creates ....
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