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Best of Reddit: Travel and Alcohol
Cocktail recipes, travel tips, and indie game developer
Author: Olga Efimova
Which country is dangerous for tourists and why is Finland dangerous? What do Dutch air carriers do and what does the dog have to do with it? How is a cat connected with flying a quadcopter? Where did actor Simon Pegg get a photo of Tom Cruise's feet? What does an indie game developer do in his free time? How do girls feel about the hijab and niqab? All this and new recipes for alcoholic cocktails in a fresh selection of the best from Reddit for the week on TJournal.
Simon Pegg and Tom Cruise's knee
In honor of the world premiere of the film Hector's Journey to Find Happiness , Simon Pegg spoke with readers.
I'll be on Reddit doing an AMA in a sec. Get on over there and AMA. •footsteps receding*
— Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) September 22, 2014
The actor said that in his opinion, the funniest is comedian Nick Frost (they worked together on several films), with whom he corresponds daily. Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel was voted the best film in recent memory. Among computer games, Simon prefers Half Life 2, and is looking forward to Alien: Isolation (the game is scheduled for release on October 7 this year), but the actor does not shy away from playing My Little Pony with his daughter. In addition, Simon watches Game of Thrones: he likes Tyrion Lannister and, of course, Daenerys Targaryen.
One Redditor asked how Tom Cruise allowed Pegg to take a photo of his leg. It turned out they were sitting in a car together and Simon just said he wanted to take a photo of his knee and post it on Twitter. It was so funny that Tom couldn't stop him.
Exclusive behind the scenes shot of Tom Cruise on the set of Mission Impossible 5!!! pic.twitter.com/m9FAqhRkgn
— Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) September 22, 2014
Flight of a cat on a quadcopter
The Redditor brought to the attention of readers a video with a stuffed cat, which someone attached to a quadcopter.
The video turned out to be quite old (2012), but in the comments, redditors shared other similar videos - with an ostrich and with a shark. Whatever they come up with.
Muslim women about hijabs
Girls professing Islam were asked to talk about their attitude to the hijab, niqab or burqa. A girl wearing a hijab admitted that she had difficulties finding a job, but she likes wearing such a headdress: this way young people pay less attention to her. The latter was often mentioned by girls in the comments as a positive point. Another girl practicing as a lawyer also recognized the hijab as an important element for herself, but was almost the only one who confidently brought up a religious motive.
One of the commentators asked to note that hijab and niqab are different things.
Hijab
Niqab
A US resident from Saudi Arabia, who became an agnostic at the age of 20, said that she lives in the Jewish quarter. There, Orthodox women who profess Judaism wear long skirts and headscarves, but nevertheless, due to a number of factors, the attire of Muslim women is discussed more actively.
1. The population size is strikingly different;
2. Muslims are more integrated into society in contrast to Orthodox Jews;
3. The September 11 tragedy added a negative connotation to clothing.
Muslim women are required to adhere to a certain dress code, while Muslim men are not allowed to do so, and Orthodox Jews and Amish have dress restrictions, but these are the same for both sexes. For example, among Amish men of the old rite, it is customary to wear things made of homespun material or custom-made items as a mandatory restriction.
A find for a passenger
The Dutch airline Royal Aviation Company (KLM) decided to use a small dog in advertising to attract customers. A trained beagle uses its scent to find the owners of items left in the plane's cabin at the airport. The dog is dressed in a special vest and in the video, unaccompanied, copes with his duties.
Indie game developer
The AMA section was visited by an indie game developer. He recently released a free game called Maze Unlimited . This is the first work he has done in Unity3D, previously the developer used Corona SDK or Google Android SDK.
To develop your own applications, he suggested using the GameMaker designer and a number of others . Unity3D, in his opinion, is very well suited for developing 3D games. I advised those who like the Unity game engine to learn the C# programming language.
Due to a limited budget and lack of instrument skills, the indie game creator uses Freesound helps find alternatives to find musical accompaniment, and GameDev.net .
The guy himself prefers RPG or strategy. He got his first computer in 1991, and one of his early favorite games was Might&Magic 3 (not to be confused with “Heroes”). From more recent ones - SimCity and Civilization. At the moment, he occasionally plays Pocket Planes on his phone, and after he started playing Truck Simulator 2, his wife began to tell him that she would not allow him to buy a truck.
Adventures of the parcel
The author’s girlfriend received a package in the mail, but she strictly forbade her to open it until she returned home. The young man sent photographs of the delivered package every hour, proving that he was following the orders of his other half.
Overcast combinations
Redditors have put together unusual combinations for cocktails that, in their opinion, few people know. The most popular option turned out to be whiskey or tequila with ginger ale. A popular drink in Croatia turned out to be interesting - a mixture of cola and red wine.
One of the commentators mixed Dr. Pepper, Malibu, coconut syrup and rum called “PepperBu”. The creator warned: from the first sip you either fall in love with it or experience total rejection.
A more interesting version was obtained by an insider in an unknown establishment. The Ginger Rogered cocktail contains one shot of Jim Beam whiskey, one shot of ginger syrup, and half a shot of cucumber puree: he advised preparing it in a blender and then straining through cheesecloth. At the end you need to add soda to taste.
Around the world
For tourists, has been collected brief first-hand information about fraud in different countries and cities . The Frenchman reported about gypsy women operating in the area of the Eiffel Tower, who offer to sign a fictitious paper from the association of the deaf and gild the pen a little. The same offers may apply in Berlin, but if you are lucky, you will be offered exclusive postage stamps or a little dusting of the Berlin Wall. A local person also added about possible offers to try very real drugs in the area of Görlitzer Park, but recommended not to buy them there, since the area is controlled by the police.
A resident of Croatia spoke about cunning taxi drivers in Zagreb. One businessman left the central station and got into a taxi to get to the hotel located across the station. The driver suggested a tourist route, which was approved by the passenger. In the morning, an inexperienced tourist looked out the window from his room and saw the place where he sat down with a cunning taxi driver.
Finn told us about the Romanian gypsies, who act in the usual manner for us - they offer jewelry and quietly steal yours. A journalist familiar to the Finn tried to collect material about such gypsies, but when he approached them with questions, he only received threats against him.
Other travelers have said that sometimes you may be called to a “sauna”, but it turns out not to be a sauna, but a painfully hot room where you are whipped with birch brooms and forced to drink beer with naked people of the same sex. According to the expert opinion of a resident of a northern country, this becomes a habit, but sometimes it’s worth it.
Opening of the day (Today I Learned)
One of the common types of discussions on Reddit is the TIL format (“Today I Learned”), in which authors share interesting and sometimes unexpected facts. Below are some of the most popular discoveries from the past week.
1. If Mario were a real person, he would have to run and swim about 5 kilometers to complete Super Mario Bros.
2. Cadillac cars got their name in honor of the French explorer Antoine de la Mothe-Cadillac, who founded Detroit.
3. PayPal once accidentally credited a customer's account with $92 quadrillion. This is 1,300 times the world's total annual GDP.
4. Google made a detailed interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5. This was intended to test Google Chrome.
5. George Lucas owns the copyright to the word "Droid", which obliges Motorola to pay for the use of this word as the name of its smartphones.
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