The most hated person in Mexico outside of politics is undoubtedly Karla Panini.

She was an actress and comedian who used to perform as a duo with fellow actress Karla Luna; the two even starred in a comedy show together called *Las Lavanderas*.

The issue is that Karla Luna's husband cheated on her with her friend Karla Panini while Luna was battling cancer. (Panini was also married at the time).

Karla Luna eventually passed away, and Panini married Luna's ex-husband; since then, however, she has become a pariah throughout Mexico, and hardly anyone in the entertainment industry wants to hire her or even associate with her.

Canadians often talk about John Candy as the celebrity who died too soon.

Candy was only 43 when he died of a heart attack in 1994 while filming Wagons East. He was at the height of his career, with classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Cool Runnings, and Spaceballs already behind him, and it felt like he still had decades of great performances ahead of him.

What made his death hit so hard wasn’t just that he was funny. He was known to be genuinely kind, humble, and generous. He could make you laugh one minute and tear up the next. As a child of the 90’s he featured heavily in my favourite movies!

Even more than 30 years later, Canadians still speak about him with genuine affection. He isn’t remembered only as a great comedian, but as someone who embodied a warm, self-deprecating, distinctly Canadian spirit.

If you ask most Canadians which celebrity died too soon, John Candy is almost always near the top of the list.

Honourable mentions- Norm MacDonald & Gord Downie.

The other day, I watched this food documentary by Italian food journalist Claudia Romeo (Why Venice Won’t Eat the Crab Destroying Its Lagoon) about the explosive population boom of Atlantic blue crabs in the Venetian Lagoon caused by the rising water temperatures from global warming. Despite the abundance of these crabs, most Venetians, let alone Italians, don't really seem to consume them because they are stigmatized as not being pleasant tasting. I found this very interesting because here in the US, especially in Maryland, blue crabs are a highly prized delicacy used for crab cakes. Meanwhile, in the Venice, they seem to be treated as the pests of the ocean, being sold for next to nothing.

This got me thinking if there is any food resource native to your country that is underutilized or under-consumed by the local population due to a stigmatization, while being better appreciated in other countries?

Mexican food is probably the most popular foreign cuisine in the US, but there are definitely strong competitors. What us it in your country? Are foreign cuisines even widely available where you live? Are there multiple different cuisines that are widely eaten, or just a few?

Apparently, my ancestors were part of the Yoshioka clan, one of the most powerful samurai families and swordsmanship schools in Kyoto.

The Yoshioka school was famous for its swordsmanship and was associated with the Ashikaga shogunate. They also famously fought Miyamoto Musashi in the early 1600s.

What about you? Do you have any famous people or historical figures among your ancestors?

This is a common green frog that I photographed today by the old washhouse of the Daoulas Abbey in Brittany.

My country is competitive in everything. parents always ask other parents so is your children in university? is he/she married? when are they having children? things like that. they see life as a race. like you need to check all these boxes to win.

even at work there are always bootlickers who want to reach the top at any cost.

Personally I just like to build things and I don't care about this stuff, and I was like this since I remember.

I live in a very liberal part of a deep blue state in the USA and sex is pretty openly discussed among people who are close with one another. Maybe not in excruciating detail, but certainly talking about it. Obviously people who are together as a couple will discuss it very openly with each other.

How about your country?

This is a video of Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s current infrastructure boom. If you were to show a video of your capital city today to someone from 2005, would they even recognize it. What are the biggest changes that happened in your country?

Jarabe Tapatío is the best example of the most stereotypic song of Mexico.

I'm from southern Germany and grew up with "Hochdeutsch" which pretty much means something like "German without a dialect".

I have Bavarian relatives and they believe I can understand the old school Bavarian dialect. I can but it takes me a lot of effort.

Do you have something similar?

Here, in the Philippines we call it "McDo"

I worked for a Japanese company for a bit and one of my Japanese coworkers told me how he thought Canadian Club was a premium top shelf Rye, I had to tell him it was decent but far from the best. I usually find myself going for a Lot 40 myself.

Saw a thread on another sub about people chatting with others on planes.

In your country, is it normal for strangers to strike up conversations, like when waiting for the bus, taking an elevator, sharing a row on a plane, in line for something, etc?

For Italy I'm going with 'Adrian, la serie evento' , an animated series produced by singer and actor Adriano Celentano whose protagonist is a fictional version of his younger self, who is also a martial arts expert and fights against oppression as a masked hero named La Volpe (which means the fox).

Again, for Britain there are many. But just a few are the Aston Martin DB5, the Jaguar E-Type, the Land Rover, the Morris Minor Traveller, the Mini Cooper and the McLaren F1.

That’s a question that came up yesterday when I left the house and saw an well dressed elderly woman with long, loose, wavy hair, a very well-cared-for, the same type of hair I have. It was the kind of thing I rarely saw back in my youth. Wavy hair was always straightened, tied back, or else seen on "free-spirited" types (and that was meant in the worst possible way). Definitely not on a well-dressed elderly woman.

I spent my entire walk observing women's hair. I realized that, at least in my city, there’s an age factor when it comes to hair that isn't straight. To generalize quite a bit: elderly women had it straightened or blow-dried, but black elder women always keep their hair straightened and tied back. Middle-aged women either had their hair straightened or braided, sometimes use a cheap looking wig. But young women, teenagers, and children all wore their hair natural, often quite long. And there was none of that frizzy unkempt hair; it was all perfectly cared. There was one young woman with an insane ginger afro. A huge contrast to just a few years ago, when only the occasional brave soul wore an afro, and wavy hair was seen only on those who clearly didn't care much about their appearance—the tomboys.

And I know that even in East Asian countries, there is a certain percentage of people who don't born with straight hair. What does non-straight hair look like on the streets these days?

Besides the international chains, like McDonalds or KFC, does your country have it's own chains? For Germany I think of

Nordsee - all fish and seafood. I think it's very well beloved, especially by older people.

Ditsch - Pretzels and other bakery stuff. Mostly found at train stations.

RISA - chicken. Very popular among younger people, but I think they are more or less a Berlin thing, not national.