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Your Most Disturbing Realizations

philosophygirl78

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Natasha...
Somehow you managed to enter your reply inside my quote ...nice trick ! :p

oopsie! :oops:
 

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In former GDR, where the support of the people with more food were a priority by the gouvernment, it was named, like it is:
"Industrial animal-production".

"KOMBINAT INDUSTRIELLE MAST" ("KIM")

When that came up in Yugoslavia (Emona), Hungary and Western Germany (for "Wienerwald"), too, GDR decided to jump on the running train and did it in gigantic sizes. People named it for example "chicken-concentration camp" and so on.

KIM did raise the "Broiler" in 56 days.

Now, on turbo-capitalism, our hated "Wiesenhof" does it in 32 days!

But, today, we Germans are mainly against this absolutely backward-looking madness and often revolting against such enterprises! So, such plants are moving more and more out of Germany, to Netherland or Poland and so on.
Consumption of meat is sinking permanently in Germany.

Its a protest I would hope, by the people. Thats awesome!
 

Stearmen

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I just had an interesting realization! 72 years ago this January, my Dad was on his way to England on the Queen Mary, there were probably three times more people on the ship then in the small town he grew up in!
 
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I love the old ocean-liners so much!
It was so heartblooding, to see the scrapping-pictures of the S.S. France/Norway, from the beach of Alang. :( Better, I had not watched it.
 

Inkstainedwretch

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Stearman's dad was on the QM when it was a troopship. This was a unique time of maritime history. Those ships crossed the Atlantic unescorted. Their speed was their protection from U-boats. That was the theory, anyway.
 

Bird Lives

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When I was a kid, there were so many milestone birthdays, 6, 12, 13,15, 18, and of course 21! Then they start getting fewer, 30 and 50 I guise. Now, there are only two left that I can think of, 65, which I will most likely make with ease and 100, which I most likely wont make!
What about 70, 75, 80, 85, & 90? Those sound like important milestones....I mean if 12 and 15 made it, I think 80, 85, and 90 should definitely be in he running....lol!
 
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I was never big on birthdays, oddly, even as a kid. Then, I met my girlfriend 18 years ago and she enjoys them so much that it became a bit infectious and I find myself liking them too. My humble advice toward birthday's is don't over think them, enjoy them for the few days they matter each year and move on. That's my take and now I love my birthday, I love my family's birthdays and I don't think much about them other than when they happen. Who knows, I could die tomorrow or my 82 year old mother might outlive me (I ain't kidding, she could outlive all of us - her grandfather made it to +/- 106 - and she mimics him physically in every way [I don't]) - we don't know, so, again just my humble opinion, enjoyed them for the few days each year they are a focus and move on.
 
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Oops, in 4 years, "Alien" will be 40 years old. That sounds, as if it's a movie "fallen out of time" and already mentioned in (cinema)history-books, then. o_O;)

"The Godfather" will be 47 years old, then. :eek:

"Le Samourai" (with Alain Delon) will be 52 years old!! Woohoo!:eek::eek:
 

Lean'n'mean

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Oops, in 4 years, "Alien" will be 40 years old. That sounds, as if it's a movie "fallen out of time" and already mentioned in (cinema)history-books, then. o_O;)

"The Godfather" will be 47 years old, then. :eek:

"Le Samourai" (with Alain Delon) will be 52 years old!! Woohoo!:eek::eek:

And 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' by Georges Méliés is 113 years old this year. :rolleyes:
 

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