i want to buy one of those giant silver tea urns, with the teapot on top..they look super dramatic, and i drink a lot of tea, so it would be kind of worth it
A Samowar?
I am not big on tea but i always wanted to try tea brewed in one of these. There's a russian tea house, appropriately named "Samowar", near my girlfriend's apartment and i have said we need to go there to drink tea for the better part of a decade by now and we still haven't went yet.
Bought that one today, had it before and i like it a lot.
Lidl also has some great own-brand ones, you know with the gorilla on the can.
I tried that one out once and hated it. It tastes like bad Red Bull and i already hate the smell and taste of Red Bull.
I say turkish because 99% of the time you pass by a pizza/kebab place it's run by third gen turkish immigrants.
I get lots of flyers in my mailbox from new pizza places in my area and while i am not sure if it is an actual law here it is customary that the owner is listed by name in the fine print on these flyers, 10 out of 10 times the name listed is "Mohammed Al-something"
To be fair to the muslims for once, some of the best pizza i ever ate was made by one of the pizzaiolos my father hired for one of his restaurants in the 90s, Samir from Afghanistan
Just got back from another hellish long haul flight, this was 13 hours but my worst was 16.
Who else has been to the sky tube hell dimension (iykyk, that 8-10hrs in when you're delirious)?
I only had one flight that took that long, my city to Tokyo with a quick stop in Moscow airport after three hours, convinced me to never take a flight this long again if i can't at least afford business class. Pure fucking hell. Second longest was my flight from my city to Muscat clocking in at around nine hours, i briefly considered taking business class back home, i would've had the money to do so but i have been poor for so many years of my life that i just couldn't justify dropping that much money on a simple plane ticket. I always liked flying, i think i was around five years old when i first boarded a plane, but long haul flights in the peasant class? Never again. I don't even think it would be physically possible anymore with how much shit my back is giving me.
and now I can order food at a restaurant face-to-face rather than having to go via an app or their self-check out system without feeling like I'm fainting.
Having been in these almost exact same shoes (i wasn't close to fainting, i simply couldn't do it when i was in my early 20s, just a complete mental block when it came to stuff like this) i consider this a big win. To this day i get triggered when i have to enter a restaurant or bar on my own, like when i am going to a birthday of a friend or something like that. When i am in a group i will never be the first person to enter a premise. I am hesistant to call it trauma because i feel that is not the right wordto describe it but memories and patterns of behaviour from the bad old times still sit deep.
