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Post by kerouac2 on May 7, 2019 6:57:03 GMT
Even in Saudi Arabia, they just draw heavy drapes in the tourist places. They have the added advantage of importing massive numbers of Christian Filipinos to work in the food industry.
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Post by questa on May 7, 2019 9:09:23 GMT
I think I'd feel self-conscious eating, drinking, or smoking in front of people who were fasting. In Lombok, Indonesia, the local Muslims consider it very rude or inconsiderate if you eat, drink or smoke in front of someone who is fasting. I had a group of 10 to 14 year old lads who would sit on my veranda and tell me about their culture. As I had told them that Ozzies had sport as their religion they said "If a marathon runner is running his race to his plan and strength and a bystander ran onto the track and bumped the runners, upsetting their race, would the runners be angry? If we are angry, that is extra sin in Ramadan."
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Post by bjd on May 7, 2019 11:43:58 GMT
I'm not sure that Indonesian analogy is very apt. Going and bumping a runner is hardly the same as leading your own life if you are of a different religion. Especially in a country that wants tourism.
In fact, at the only meal I remember in a non-tourist place, we sat up against a back wall beside a Dutch guy being discreet, while the Moroccans were at all the front tables, just sitting around.
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Post by questa on May 7, 2019 13:48:14 GMT
BJD,You did the right thing...you were "discreet" which is all that is hoped for. I ran foul in the village when I chose to not sit on my veranda in full view of the road to have a coffee and cigarette. At the back of my house was a high wall so I sat close to it.An old man came to my door and told me my cigarette smoke was drifting over the wall to where the older men were working in the communal vegetable garden. This was late afternoon and they must have been really hanging out for their smoke. I butted out and said sorry. I had not known about the high-walled garden so was given a tour of the place...and invited to share the evening feast with each family.
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Post by Kimby on May 10, 2019 11:41:07 GMT
150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the US. A golden spike was driven in Promontory Utah, connecting track that had been laid from each direction.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 4, 2019 4:15:59 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 1, 2019 18:50:44 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2019 20:14:18 GMT
I hope that she at least knows that it is her birthday.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 1, 2019 23:06:09 GMT
Stereotyping. Why shouldn't she? We have to stop assuming that everyone gets dementia.
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Post by mossie on Jul 14, 2019 5:31:57 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2019 13:46:19 GMT
It’s the Kimby’s 35th anniversary! (Plus 8 years pre-marriage.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2019 13:52:35 GMT
Yay! (except for the 8 years of sin )
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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2019 15:04:53 GMT
(Could have been the best part, K2!)
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Post by mich64 on Aug 4, 2019 15:34:05 GMT
Congratulations to you both on your 35th Wedding Anniversary!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2019 16:03:33 GMT
Bad girl makes good! Happy anniversary, Kimby, and best wishes for many more.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2019 20:37:42 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2019 20:38:29 GMT
Sorry if they need re-sizing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2019 20:50:55 GMT
No, it's fine. The clothes fit you beautifully. Very sweet pictures!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2019 3:39:04 GMT
You haven't changed a bit.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2019 14:42:08 GMT
74 years since "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 6, 2019 14:58:34 GMT
At the time, my parents were on a honeymoon canoe trip in Canada’s Quetico wilderness, and were told about the event by a ranger who’d just returned from a resupply trip to civilization. It was especially momentous news to my Dad because he had been a glassblower/chemist for the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 6, 2019 15:22:01 GMT
Yes, that must have affected him, Kimby!
My father was a ferry pilot in WWII. He told me that when his unit first heard about the special new bomb and Hiroshima, they really did not know what it meant.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 6, 2019 15:51:28 GMT
And my stepfather was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. While he always mentioned it because he knew it was very important, he never said it emphatically, so it sounded just like "I was in the NYC blackout of 1977" or me saying "I was in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake in Los Angeles" (64 dead) and yet we all know that the Pearl Harbor attack was one of the most history making events of the 20th century (2403 deaths for anybody wondering). Along with Hiroshima, of course (135,000 casualties).
I actually saw the Christian movie Little Boy. I didn't know that it was a Christian movie at the time, but I don't regret seeing it.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 6, 2019 22:31:15 GMT
I think of "Christian" films (in the US sense)of being more Evangelical, but that one seems to be more Catholic.
What is the connection made between the actual (human) little boy, and Little Boy the bomb that killed so many other children?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2019 5:01:47 GMT
Short version: the little boy's father is declared MIA and then dead. The body is even returned to the town and buried. But since the father had promised to come back, the little boy keeps praying anyway. Bomb drops, war ends, and the little boy's father returns alive (boots and dogtags had been stolen, thief died -- father injured and temporarily amnesic in the Philippines), so prayers can accomplish miracles. What I liked about the movie was the infinitely good priest who ordered the little boy to make friends with the dirty Jap living in isolation at the edge of town, even though all Japanese are evil. One must never question the authority of a priest.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 8, 2019 13:47:22 GMT
Forty-five years ago today Richard Nixon announced his resignation to take place the following day. I remember rejoicing with many of my 100+ conservation camp students in the tiny lounge peering at a small B&W TV.
Can we hope for a repeat of this event with Trump? Soon!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2019 14:29:38 GMT
In a foot locker in my closet, I have a copy of the International Herald Tribune announcing his resignation. Nixon, not Trump.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2019 5:11:47 GMT
Construction of the Berlin Wall began on August 13, 1961. For those of us growing up then, it seemed like it would be there forever but it only lasted 29 years.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 13, 2019 11:52:16 GMT
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2019 17:09:51 GMT
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