Christmas, in fact, is nothing good.

It's not that there are more and more atheists, and that self-conscious young people are no longer interested in this religious holiday, but that the interval between Christmas and Thanksgiving is so small that people close their eyes and find themselves having another family reunion.

For example, on the Thursday of the fourth week of November this year, you rush home from your study or work according to the traditional education of America, enjoy a rare relaxation, share the most important meal of the year with your family, thank God for his protection, thank you for the hard-won good life, and when the time comes, you will go to the battlefield with great courage and ......

On December 24 this year, you returned home from abroad to spend the most important meal of the year with your family to commemorate the birth of Jesus, thank God for his gifts, and be grateful for the hard-won good life at present.

Meow Meow Meow ???

In just 30 days, there are two of the most important meals of the year?

It's like when you and your girlfriend celebrate the Chinese Valentine's Day, after sending a red envelope of 1314, your girlfriend excitedly drinks two more glasses with you, and then asks for seven times enthusiastically and actively in the evening.

But the next morning, the red lips kissed up, and after you and me, my girlfriend suddenly told you that it was very cool last night, and it will continue tonight......

Then your legs and stomach will tremble.

It's really unbearable!

In addition, Thanksgiving will be put on four days, and Christmas will be put on a day and a half, so many American people are actually too lazy to toss, they will agree with their families to choose one festival every year, and the rest of the time, that is naturally to use distance to produce beauty.

In this way, eating and drinking is actually the norm for everyone.

Set up two ovens in the yard to cook BBQ, and you can bake whatever you want - fat and thin pork ribs, chicken wings with wings, large sausages mixed with cheese, deboned fish fillets, prawns with urine, and meat with explosive heat are the most eye-catching; In addition, vegetables such as mushrooms, eggplants, sweet potatoes, onions, potatoes, and corn on the cob, which symbolize health, are also lined up.

To be honest, although he has been here for ten years and watched for ten years, whenever he eats, Roland still feels the lack of ingredients in America, what grilled chicken hearts, grilled large intestines, roasted duck liver...... These Americans eat very little.

And without these water materials, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is not interesting to eat!

Just as Roland's eyes were blurry, how chewy the roast duck liver was, a rough arm suddenly put on his shoulder, "Roland, do you have anything on your mind?" Why don't you eat it! ”

Hearing this, Roland instantly knew that the person who asked the question was Fa Xiao, who had just rushed home for the New Year.

Although he missed it for a long time, Roland would not be polite to this stinky brother, "I don't think these foods are distinctive." ”

"I'm used to eating, but I don't feel it."

Roland explained this just to miss the food that was far away from him.

But to James's ears, it's just a hair and a beep.

'The food on the table is not special? ’

'Can't get used to eating? ’

'Then how did you grow so big?' ’

While complaining frantically in his heart, James was not idle, swallowing Fa Xiao's roasted lamb chops in three or two, and then took the initiative to get up and cook a strange food for Fa Xiao that he had only eaten at school.

When a piece of black, red, black and red food appeared in front of Roland, a sweet and sour taste made him frown.

"What's this?" Roland asked, confused.

"Grilled watermelon!" James replied seriously, "I ate it a lot at school." ”

'Hold the grass! Dark cuisine! Roland's face turned white.

But just when he wanted to refuse, the red and black appearance still aroused his curiosity.

He once ate roasted watermelon, a special delicacy of the new province, and ate the roasted watermelon version of the cafeteria aunt, but he had never eaten the American version of roasted watermelon......

Roland took it.

Tasted it.

Then, there is no then.

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After Christmas, Roland hugged everyone except James goodbye, the Olsons took their four children to New York, and Roland flew to London with Kate, the purpose of which was naturally New Year's Eve.

The twentieth century is about to leave and the twenty-first century is coming, and all countries should celebrate as we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Like America, they held a millennium celebration in New York's Times Square;

Like South Korea, they did a millennial chorus in the capital Seoul;

Like France, twenty-four large iron wheels in Paris will rotate at the same time;

Like Egypt, they prepared to welcome the light under the pyramid of the pharaohs;

Kiribati, which straddles the equator and the eastern and western hemispheres, is in a war of words with Tonga, which is located at the International Date Line, because they both feel that they are the first country to bask in the sunshine of the new millennium.

The key core is to make a wave of tourism income through a once-in-a-millennium event.

In this case, the concept of New Year's Eve celebrations was in full swing, so much so that when Roland came to London, the banks of the Thames were piled up with makeshift tents, and all the British people were expecting the queen of their country to light the beacon of the century at 0:00 on January 1, 2000, and then sail down the river to unveil the mystery of the millennium.

Standing by the window of the hotel, looking at the world condescendingly, the night that should have been controlled by darkness is now as bright as day.

Looking at the dense crowd, Roland, who had changed his clothes, only felt a toothache, because he really hated this kind of large gathering.

It's not that it's troublesome, but it's a scene full of heads at a glance, which makes people hurt.

New Year's Eve?

How can you see the back of people's heads on New Year's Eve?

But when I turned my head, I found that my daughter-in-law was mending up lipstick in front of the makeup mirror, and the complaint in my heart was also suppressed.

"What kind of makeup do you wear on the big night? We just look at the sidelines, and we don't go to the front. ”

Roland leaned behind his daughter-in-law, and his hands naturally reached into the pockets of the other party's windbreaker, constantly rubbing on his lower abdomen.

The familiar action made Kate roll her eyes, her elbows back, and her voice was delicate, "Don't make trouble." ”

"Am I not worried about being photographed by reporters?"

"I used to be able to suppress the news, but now...... The queen is on the scene, and you can't press it if you want to. ”

The painless elbow made Roland stop with a smile, his head drooping, and the tip of his nose crossed Kate's neck.

After sniffing a few times, he complained: "That group of capital is really shameless, and they want to make money by changing the law." ”

"If it weren't for their vigorous propaganda on the New Year's Eve of the century, there wouldn't be so many people grabbing positions now."

The childish ghostly words amused Kate, and while putting down the lipstick, she also picked up the scarf next to the table and tied it around her neck, "Isn't making money the meaning of the existence of capital?" Not to mention stepping on various hot spots to make money, even if they know that they are stepping on the wrong hot spots, they will pretend not to know, and then continue to make money. ”

"Even if we know that tomorrow is not the twenty-first century, what can we do?"

"Aren't you celebrating with the crowd?"

"So, don't complain about the crowds, if this happens to us, we'll do the same."

Speaking of this, Kate patted Roland's hand and motioned for him to pull out one, and after Roland pulled out her right hand, she turned over again, and her right hand went down the pocket, naturally interlocking her fingers, and hugging her man's left arm.

After doing all this, she also put her foot on Roland's cheek and pecked lightly, and then took a happy step and pulled Roland out of the hotel room, "This kind of ridiculous thing, we will see more and more in the future!" ”

The question of when exactly the 21st century began to be counted has actually been a fierce collision since the 90s.

The faction that advocates that the 21st century originated in 2001 and the faction Zero, which advocates that the 21st century originated in 2000, are about to knock out each other's dog brains.

And the arguments of both sides are also very sufficient.

One school of thought thinks that from ancient times to the present, the year has been counted from the beginning, the beginning of the first century is the first year of the Common Era, and the first year of the beginning of the 20th century is 1901, so the beginning of the 21st century is 2001.

Moreover, Christianity agrees with this view, because the Common Era is counted from the year of Christ's birth, and the beginning of their year is the first year of the Common Era, and in the absence of the zero year, 2000 is the last year of the twentieth century.

The Zero faction thinks that starting from zero in the century is in line with the measurement habits, because in the theory of the origin of measurement, the origin of the general measurement length and weight is zero, so the time should also be zero.

Similarly, the theory of chronological unity says that if 2,000 years belong to the 90s of the 20th century, then the entire 90s of the 20th century will have 11 years, which is completely contrary to the traditional algorithm of only 10 years.

In this way, the scolding war was born.

Of course, Mr. Shuren once said that compromise and reconciliation are human instincts.

At a time when the two factions were fighting their brains, the peace mud party appeared, which advocated that three hundred and sixty-six days should be celebrated in two thousand years.

In order not to allow this absurd thing to continue, the heads of government demanded that the calendar body quickly put an end to the matter, and the Royal Greenwich Observatory of the United Kingdom, the US Naval Observatory, and the Paris Longitude Bureau all issued their own reports, indicating that the 21 st century is indeed counting from 2001.

For if we count from two thousand years, the first century A.D. would be only ninety-nine years.

According to normal habits, the calendar organs have all come out with real hammers, so naturally there will be no objections.

But the problem is that before they issued their report, the celebration teams of various countries and countless business capitals had already begun to publicize and prepare according to the principle that 2,000 years is the beginning of the 21st century, so ......

Nobody listened.

This situation made the calendar institutions of various countries very painful, but for the sake of rigor, they had to make this result public again and again, and then, the Royal Greenwich Observatory was revoked by the Queen in '98, and Zipper publicly denounced the Naval Observatory, the national legal time legislature, 'We don't need to care about this fact, because most people in the world choose to celebrate when the calendar turns from December 31 to 2000.' ’

Hot spots have always been about the new rather than the old.

When the whole world knew that the Queen of Great Britain would light the fire in the early hours of January 1, 2000......

The Royal Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom, what is it?

Compared with the Queen's credibility, does it really matter which year is the 21st century?

When the capital of America produced countless goods associated with the New Year's Eve of the Millennium......

What is the U.S. Naval Observatory in the eyes of the economy?

In the last year of my last term, if the economy does not soar, should I still leave this pie for the next term?

When a large amount of capital can benefit from something, then the truth of the matter is no longer important.

Whoever dares to stop him will die.

Because of this, the celebration of 2,000 years and the awakening of 2,000 years and 1 years have become the first choice of countries around the world.

Do you think those guys can't even count on their fingers?

People just think that selling falsehoods is more profitable than explaining the truth.

In this way, when Kate asked Roland not to care about the ridiculous, Roland just smiled.

Because there are more ridiculous things than this.

For example, the Berlin Film Festival could not resist the pressure to cancel the Silver Bear for Best Actor and Actress and set up a new Silver Bear for Best Leading Actor and Best Supporting Actor - is this compromise of not distinguishing acting awards according to gender really progress?

If the Silver Bear Award for Best Lead Actor in the future is won by an actor, wouldn't it be even more blatant sexism?

If, in order to avoid gender discrimination, more women are awarded in the selection, then the award is even less fair.

When a show that needs to be fair can't even be fair......

This show completely loses the meaning of existence.

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accompanied Kate to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks in London, because he was fully armed, the three floors around him and the outer three floors were all tourists disguised as bodyguards, so the two people who joined in the crowd were not recognized by the public.

And after entering the 2,000th year, all kinds of major events have also happened.

First, on January 10, AOL and Time Warner announced their merger.

When the merger with a market value of more than $350 billion, equivalent to the gross domestic product of Mexico and Pakistan, was shocked.

As the world's largest Internet service provider, AOL has 22 million subscribers, and Time Warner's TV network accounts for 20 percent of America's subscriber market.

The emergence of media giants has made all sides feel the crisis, and many experts have pointed out that the merger of AOL and Time Warner, which 'limits competition, reduces choice, and harms consumers', is a replica of the major capital-controlled railroads of the early twenties, and more importantly, it is about the control of the central nervous system of people's democratic system.

Not only that, but these experts also believe that once the two major mergers occur, other giants that want to become bigger will definitely follow, such as Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T.

When these judgments are made, the experts who rely on it for food are like eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing their own powers, and analyzing the goals of each company thoroughly, like what - Microsoft and Yahoo can try to ask NBC, and AT&T has the capital to swallow up all media companies except AOL-Time Warner.

But not long after these experts made their analysis, on January 13, Bill Gates suddenly announced to the world that he would step down as CEO of Microsoft, and his new successor would be his classmate Steve Ballmer.

And Steve Ballmer's first goal after taking office is to solve the antitrust investigation.

As soon as this news came out, experts who had previously been analyzing who Microsoft would acquire were in a stupor.

Three days before the analysis was made, you hit me in the face?

This, this, this......

Almost everyone believed Microsoft's rhetoric, believing that they had encountered a thorny problem in the antitrust investigation, and that it was a luxury to keep Microsoft up to speed with AOL and Time Warner.

No way, who is making them look forward to the emergence of the world's first trillion-dollar company?

And at present, the only one who is most likely to achieve this goal is Microsoft.

But while these experts regretted it, Yahoo also followed suit, announcing on the 14th that David Olsen, who holds less than 5% of the shares, will officially withdraw from the board of directors on February 1, along with two independent directors recommended by Sequoia Capital and two directors dispatched by investment institutions.

Due to the needs of operation, Yahoo decided to add two independent director seats after the board of directors was convened, and the company's board of directors will be composed of 13 directors, including five independent directors.

Experts are excited about this major reshuffle, as many believe that Yahoo is a direct response to AOL and Time Warner's mergers, but only those who have witnessed it know that Yahoo is close to the end of its life.

Among the newly recommended independent directors are Alan Webb, former chairman of the board of directors of Amerika Trust, Doug Bergson, head of VeriFone, Pete Kleiman, former head of TIAA-CREF, Dali Hansen, former CEO of Calpers Fund, and Frank Biondi, senior head of entertainment.

And these five people are all solid allies of Carl Icahn.

Of course, after the last cash-out transaction, these Microsoft and Yahoo things have nothing to do with Roland, when the world feels that the mountains and rains are about to come and the wind is full of buildings, Roland is also in London, seeing the people he wants to meet.