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@freemo Lol nice. I can see a vague relation anyway, since Chinese do say fake wishes as a trollish sarcasm among friends. The last bit "among friends" is important, which makes it not actually chinese curses in the way it's defined.

@freemo For example (happened very often when I worked for a call centre in HK), during shift changes if we feel like an asshole, we say to the next shift things like "may you have many good business" which just means "may you have many difficult incident calls".

@freemo This is my first time heard of Chinese Curses, at least in English. In actual Chinese speaking culture we sarcastically say seemingly good things to each other to jinx it, because we believe that as long as it gets brought up, even if the words are good, it's jinxed.

@Sphinx Love the quote you used!

@freemo As a joke, we came up with a story that you happen to have your phone with offline Wikipedia in it, and solar charger when you get thrown back in time.

@freemo I'm designing a game with a mate, where you as a modern day person get thrown back in time to the dark ages. You have to try using your modern day knowledge to help a village with various medieval problems like water, sickness etc, without being accused as a witch and get executed.

@johnlitt That is a valid perspective. I'm glad you got out of your groundhog day! @design_RG

@shibaprasad Yeah Glasgow, I'm just here on a working holiday.

Happy birthday @esperera_98! I hope I'm not too late. Sending you best wishes from Scotland.

@design_RG @johnlitt Traits like self assessment and self development from the movie are certainly commendable.

But before we praise this movie for these traits I want to point out something.

The main character knew he was stuck in an infinite magical time loop, which means he suddenly has all the time in the world to do anything. He became completely free from the biggest time constrain that is life itself (heck he couldn't even die if he wanted), a luxury that many of us don't share in reality.

Basically, if we were all given infinite replay in life like him, then of course we get to do what he achieved. Unfortunately we don't have that and we have the added pressure of what to do with our finite weeks, confusing priorities that makes it harder to decide just what the heck we really want in life without risking our one life to find out.

I repeat that it's very commendable to regularly develop yourself but don't forget the extra dimensions that we get to worry about outside of being stuck in a groundhog day.

@Sphinx Grats! You did it!

@freemo Happy #mensday! I wish my dad was still around. He'd have loved to see that men are being cherished just as much as women.

@freemo I'll have to share Glasgow's once ours are up.