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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2023 17:03:13 GMT
A couple of years ago I learned that Johnny Rotten/John Lyndon has dreadful beliefs about politics, racism, & other issues. However, the more you read about him, the more you have to wonder if it's not a deliberate way to nudge people off kneejerk reactions -- even good ones -- to the issues, and that he is in fact not a bad person.
Roger Waters appears to be sincerely horrible.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2023 3:56:00 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2023 22:59:25 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 11, 2023 14:08:20 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 11, 2023 14:46:28 GMT
No apologies - - it's fascinating!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 11, 2023 14:53:52 GMT
HA - - Now I've gone down the rabbit hole. Naturally, I had to cruise his book shelves. The caption for one shelf states that he had many books on foreign cultures. The biggest book on that shelf is "Psychology of Women".
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Post by whatagain on Jun 11, 2023 16:23:57 GMT
Notvsurprised the biggest book is about psychology of women.
Reminds of joke about the guy who drives home half plastered and runs his dog over.. He is quite unerved and kicks at everything, inc a mushroom that goes poof and a geniis appears. The following conversation is here : - genius : you libetated me from my magical prison, tell me one wish and i will make it happen. - man : i killed my dog, can you bring it back to life ? - g : hey, i am a genius, not a god -m : ok. Then i would like to understand the psychology of my wife. - g : ok. Where is the dog actually ?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 11, 2023 18:18:53 GMT
Looking for a place to recycle glass, which is hard to do here anymore, I learned that Missoula has a “Rage Room and it’s called “Unhinged”. You can smash glass to your heart’s content for $25 to $75 dollars. Or book a private 2 hour rage party for 10 of your angriest friends. unhingedmissoula.com/I passed on taking my glass here because they DON’T recycle the smithreens. Instead, I donated $30 to give my accumulated bottles and jars to a nonprofit that crushes and hauls glass to Salt Lake City where it IS recycled. I had 6 boxes of glass, each about the size of a 5-gallon pail. Their suggested donation is $1 per gallon., but they take it even if you can’t afford the donation. (Many of the bottles are litter that I pick up while walking at the lake.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 11, 2023 18:32:02 GMT
It's incredible that you can't find a place to recycle glass. In Europe it is an absolute priority. About half of the countries still use returnable bottles (I wish France did), and the other countries have bottle bins everywhere. My building has a bin for glass that is collected once a week and sometimes it is overflowing. We also have a bin for paper, plastic and metal and of course the bin for general rubbish. Starting next year, we are supposed to separate organic waste and take it somewhere, too (no more room in my building; we can barely fit the current 3 bins between the stairs and the mailboxes).
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 11, 2023 21:00:28 GMT
Bjorn Borg was only 26 when he retired from tennis.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 11, 2023 22:49:52 GMT
Good one, Whatagain!
Didn't know that about Borg. Why did he retire & what did he do afterwards?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 12, 2023 2:46:59 GMT
It's incredible that you can't find a place to recycle glass. The problem is how far we Montanans are from a market for glass. The cost of transporting glass to someplace that CAN use our glass far exceeds the ambition of the recycling companies to do the right thing. Though they still pay for aluminum cans, our recycler no longer buys cardboard since all the paper mills anywhere near here have closed. We can still recycle cardboard, newspaper, office paper, magazines aluminum and tin cans and some plastics (all #1 PETE, and translucent #2 = milk jugs), but I have to visit two different recycling centers to get rid of all of it. So I rinse everything and gather all my recyclables for months before sorting and loading it into the car, so we can have our garage back for awhile.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 12, 2023 4:58:39 GMT
Recycling is a bit like electric cars. Good idea but you need the infrastructure.
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Post by bjd on Jun 12, 2023 6:16:07 GMT
Like Kerouac says, in France they are building more and more infrastructure for recycling. Even in our small town, they have added several places with big bins for recycling. Until last year, they didn't take plastic other than water bottles, but now yogurt pots, plastic film and other plastics are all taken. I'm not really convinced that everything is really recycled, but encouraging people to put nearly everything in bins, whether picked up at home like in cities or in bins in public areas like here, is the best way forward.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 12, 2023 12:26:17 GMT
Our city rubbish dump gives a lot of people a living. Until I heard how they sort out the trash and each person collects a particular item...some only glass, some plastic, etc., I used to recycle everything into separate bags. Then I used to have to take the stuff to each recycle bin myself. This meant finding the time to load it into my car and make the journey to more than one place. Then! I decided to let those who need to get money urgently by sorting garbage a chance to do just that. So from then on (20 yrs now) I throw everything (except plastic milk containers and cooldrink plastic bottles) into one trash can at home. They sort it out and collect the cash at the recycle plant. The plastic is taken to my place of business once the bag is full, to be picked up by the group that looks for trash in the city center. They collect cardboard and plastic. I'm happy and they're happy.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 12, 2023 12:58:39 GMT
I'm conflicted in a way because I've lived in either extreme. The same as young Tod whereby you separate nearly nothing (Egypt, Jordan, Philippines, Zambia, Bosnia) to the German model of having countless categories of rubbish - and within each category are rules and sub-sections. Some things can be be sold for money and I do prefer the developing country model of I dump it all together and when someone separates it, they get the money when they sell it on to a recycling company rather than me separating it and it going straight to the recycling company who then profit from my work directly. I'm all for the middle man doing the separating work and making money for themselves out of it.
In Egypt, in Cairo, were the Zabbaleen, the rubbish collectors and separators who mainly lived in one area. They were Christians and kept pigs to eat/remove the organic elements. "... the Zabbaleen recycle up to 80 percent of the waste that they collect via local Egyptian companies, whereas most Western garbage collecting companies can only recycle 20 to 25 percent of the waste that they collect." But, in 2009, the government killed all their swine because of fears of them catching and spreading bird flu. There were no cases of it, it was just done.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 15, 2023 7:07:00 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 25, 2023 11:58:56 GMT
There was a French law, only repealed in 2013, forbidding women from wearing trousers in Paris.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2023 12:10:17 GMT
Except during carnival season!
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Post by whatagain on Jun 26, 2023 17:17:14 GMT
I learned thaf a rum is being distilled in Charleroi...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 26, 2023 17:35:10 GMT
Probably using beets then.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 26, 2023 17:51:25 GMT
Will give new meaning to "Let's crack open a bottle of red."
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Post by whatagain on Jul 8, 2023 14:15:30 GMT
Learned that Pidaras in Russian means homosexual. Wondering if it comes from pederaste in French.
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 8, 2023 15:24:19 GMT
Learned that Pidaras in Russian means homosexual. The riot police (OMOH in the Cyrillic alphabet) uniform causes a certain amusement in the West, when seen in a mirror:
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Post by whatagain on Jul 8, 2023 15:41:06 GMT
Excellent
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2023 21:13:22 GMT
Wondering if it comes from pederaste in French. As you know, many English words are from French. Others have Latin roots, but I don't know which came from French or earlier from the Romans. I recently read a novel which took place in 16th century Scotland & which employed many Scots words. One word used often was "siccur", which I figured out from context, i.e., "We should be siccur here for now." or "He is siccur at home." Finally the penny dropped & I realized it was probably from the same root as Spanish seguro, Danish sikker, French sécurité, Italian sicuro, etc.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 13, 2023 21:35:06 GMT
Starting in 2026, school will be obligatory until age 18 in Luxembourg.
Anyone with a work contract (starting at age 16) can be exempted from this. They just don't want school dropouts sitting at home doing nothing or dealing drugs.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2023 22:10:18 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jul 18, 2023 20:18:03 GMT
After reading 100 times Tintin and the scepter of Ottokar i decided to check the motto of the Syldave country. Ei bennek, ei blevek. Inthoughtvit was Brusseleer (a kind of Flemish spoken in Bruxelles). So here it goes : Ei is pronounced eh, short for here. Bennek was easier : ben ik Blevek : blijf (blehv) ik. Here i am here i stay. Took me several decades though. I did get some other references like the town of Wadesda in Arabia (from another book) : wat is dat - what is this. The books are full of those : places and names mostly. And the name of the traitor in that book was Musstler - the book dating 1939 the name referers to Muss olini and hit ler. The fictious country being Albania.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 19, 2023 1:10:13 GMT
Ha! Wish I'd known that back in the '70s. A friend from Scotland kept my little boy well supplied with the Tintin books in English. Of course we adults read & enjoyed them as well.
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