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As an Englishman, I’ve never quite managed to wrap my head around the logic of sipping a steaming cup of tea when it’s already 35 degrees outside

China is simultaneously one of the cradles of humanity and yet sits at the cutting edge of modern technology

The dealbreaker: He informed me he didn’t believe in women using washing machines as it was no problem to wash clothes by hand. Looking at his clothes, and worse, smelling them, convinced me he had never actually washed any clothes

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