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babelcarp

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Accepting bitterness is the leap of faith in the religion of tea.
#tea

I try to follow people who are either friends of mine or people I learn things from. (Delightfully, there is overlap between the two categories!) If I get the impression that you’re here mainly to display your moral or aesthetic superiority, I will try to ignore you.

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futurebird , to random
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I can't believe they call the bird a "Nuthatch" like it's just a living mail slot for snacks and seeds.

Or did the bird choose this name... aspirationally?

babelcarp ,
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@futurebird Are gulls naïve or are they swindlers?🤔

kolev , to tea group
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Dug around in the cupboard. Found Bigelow Constant Comment. Much better than Harney & Sons Hot Cinnamon Sunset.
@tea

babelcarp ,
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@kolev The tea of my youth!

@tea

kolev , to tea group
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How does Diānhóng differ from Bai Lin? @tea

babelcarp ,
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@kolev The short answer is that Bai Lin Gongfu and Dian Hong are made from different cultivars: different subspecies, actually, since DH is made from assamica. Beyond that, by now, 85 years since its creation, DH covers a wide range of teas.

@tea

baptnz , to tea group
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Sunday afternoon maocha
2024 Spring Nan Nua Shan from Essence of Tea

@tea

dry leaves in clay pot
liquor in glass pitcher and cups

babelcarp ,
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@baptnz I think you mean Nan Nuo Shan: https://babelcarp.org/babelcarp/babelcarp.cgi?phrase=Nannuoshan&define=1

@tea

babelcarp ,
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@baptnz No need to apologize!

@tea

babelcarp , to tea group
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Fifth steep, Thunder Dragon Green from Bhutan. Only now willing to soak the leaves thirty seconds. Not done yet for sure.

@tea

babelcarp OP ,
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@nomadbynature Nice full body. The aromatics are different from any Chinese, let alone Japanese, green I know—hard to describe.

@tea

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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There is something very special about the way that the brain processes faces. And why wouldn't there be? Being able to tell people apart is an important human social skill. Without this extra sensitivity everyone might look kind of the same.

There is also something really interesting that happens to the way people react to photos of insects they might be indifferent to, or dislike if you can get a good photo of the insect's eyes and face.

I think there is a nugget of a study here.

babelcarp ,
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@futurebird Maybe you already know this, but there’s wide variation in humans' ability to recognize faces.

People near the bottom of this ability range have what’s called facial agnosia. Among them was your late lamented fellow Bronxite Oliver Sacks.

babelcarp ,
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@futurebird He sure did. See the “Notable people” section of this Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

da_beda , to tea group
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TIL: it is possible to integrate and use the awesome dictionary within the Pleco Dictionary app. It is available as free add-on in Pleco’s add-on manager.

http://babelcarp.org/babelcarp/BabelPleco.html

@babelcarp @tea

#茶

babelcarp ,
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@da_beda Changes to the Babelcarp database don’t flow automatically to Pleco; I have to run a conversion program to get it into Pleco’s format and then submit that to Michael Love, the owner of Pleco.

I don’t like to impose on him by doing this really often.

/cc @elkmovie
@tea

babelcarp ,
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@elkmovie Please don’t apologize! Honestly, I don’t know how you manage to do it all.

Is there documentation of 4.0 user dictionaries that you can point me to, please?

@da_beda @tea

tfb , to tea group French
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@tea

Old comrade 9968 tea box

babelcarp ,
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@tfb Oh, I didn’t know they made bricks!

@tea

da_beda , to tea group
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Spring 2022 Ba Da Ye

#tea #茶 #dailytea #puerhtea #shengpuerh #rawpuerh #farmerleaf #farmerleaftea @tea

Dry tea leaves in gaiwan
Gongfu tea set
Tea leaves in gaiwan after second infusion

babelcarp ,
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@da_beda Are you feeling the chaqi they advertise?

https://www.farmer-leaf.com/products/spring-2022-ba-da-ye

@tea

tfb , to tea group French
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I really like treating first-flush Darjeeling tea like any other oolong

@tea

babelcarp ,
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@tfb Yeah, but it can also be spectacular big-pot style, especially in the summer when you’re thirstier.

@tea

babelcarp ,
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@tfb Today’s t-shirt

@tea

da_beda , to tea group
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2022 Chawangshu Xiashu 茶王树小树

#Tea #茶 #dailytea #puerhtea #shengpuerh #rawpuerh #teaencounter @tea

Gongfu tea set

babelcarp ,
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@da_beda Xiashu->xiaoshu

@tea

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