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Once he got his sister free, he wanted some evidence against the man who was trying to take her, so he scratched him to get a piece of his skin.

"It's called DNA and I saw it on 'NCIS' on TV … with my father," he said.

She doesn't seem to be bothered by it. There have been a few eps - mostly ones where the case is about a child - that I don't let her watch. Thank goodness for NetFlix instant and the descriptions for each episode.

And! Watching "Bones" doesn't seem to lead to as much of a meltdown with her if we turn it off as she has when she's watching her shows.

Dude. THat kid has SO MUCH to hang over his sister's head.

"Hey Josie. You should totally give me your cake because I SAVED YOUR LIFE!"

"Hey Josie. You should totally give me your cake because I SAVED YOUR LIFE!"

"So? That was just that one time!"

"Gimme your cake."

"Mom! Nathan's trying to take my cake just because he saved my life that one time!"

She then proceeded to say that only weak foreigners who couldn't get used to Chinese food "resorted" to eating McDonalds.

My dad and stepmom have been to china, and are both adventurous eaters, and they will NOT eat most local food in china. It is NOTHING like what (at least) USians think of as Chinese food, and the sanitary conditions were most often questionable at best.

They ate at MacDonalds or other USian chains. They are not wimpy eaters.

I've never gotten sick when eating travelling abroad. And I've done some dodgy stuff (in my defence, we didn't know what we were downstream of and we were desperately thirsty). I get sick when I come back to the US or Canada. I have third world tummy.

My dad and stepmom have been to china, and are both adventurous eaters, and they will NOT eat most local food in china. It is NOTHING like what (at least) USians think of as Chinese food, and the sanitary conditions were most often questionable at best.

A world-traveling friend of mine says basically this about food in China and some other places too. What Americans think of as "ForeignPlace" food may bear little to no resemblance to what you'll actually find to eat there, and sanitation conditions may make you not particularly hungry. Like, China is a very big place! - they don't all eat the same "Chinese food" I can get at Jade Palace across the street. In the case of some of the dishes, none of them do.

I read an article about the food service people for the US Olympic team the year the Olympics were in Beijing. The usual procedure is for them to buy most food in whatever country the Olympics are in, and just bring whatever specialty items they need that aren't available there. For Beijing, though, they brought almost all the food from the US -- when they did their first visit, to see what was available in Beijing, they found a chicken breast at a grocery store that was 14 inches across. They bought it and ran some tests, and they realized that it had been injected with so many hormones that any athlete who ate it would test positive for steroids.