Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Feli from Germany"
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I took my wife to a clothing optional beach, of course having her agree first.
First day, she insisted on wearing her shorts, a bit of hesitation in removing her top, but seeing her own minority and well, the whole "nothing to see here" thing, that went away.
The next day, we arrived, she looked right, then left, didn't bother looking behind and everything came off and we had a good day, like the day before.
Some time later, we were again on leave and enjoying the beach and I was annoyed at crabs trying to nibble my toes, so I treaded water farther out. I can tread water for hours, purely out of entertainment and just enjoying the freedom of movement and quiet.
I noticed some boats not too far away, but figured they got daring, googling at the clothing optional beach, as is the local perv custom (along with guys in shorts with binoculars).
Then, I felt sandpaper slide between my legs - a sand shark. Hmm, might want to move before he confuses worms...
Turned around to look at the beach, it was a quarter mile away and moving laterally. I had consulted shipping charts at the Coast Guard station earlier, largely out of curiosity and noted my speed matched the offshore current at that distance. I'm sans attire and literally, per the current chart, headed in a few hours (no sweat, but concerning for other reasons) toward Battery Park.
Oh, the federal Life Guard was having conniptions to try to get my attention. I waved to acknowledge, yeah, I know I'm in the middle of shit creek, lemme paddle...
He calmed as I cut across the current toward shore.
Fight the current, die. Water's more powerful than you, Hulk, you'll drown and you ain't green.
Got out of the current and into wading depth, waded along, as I was in the "textile beach", aka clothed beach right next to the undivided clothing optional beach, back to our beach, then waded ashore and apologized to the lifeguard. "Lost situational awareness, my bad and apologies, won't happen again".
We've all had our intracranial flatulence outbursts, apologizing and not allowing that to occur is a biggie in a successful life.
No life is survivable, but that doesn't mean we need to make it unsustainable until the ticketbook of chances runs out.
Although, even then, I was dearth in taking chance tickets. ;)
Got another 20 years with her before she died, still one of both of our fondest memories.
And I miss her a year and change on like I'd miss air.
Lost her to another US metric of disgrace, a dental infection. 41 years, now gone. 6 hours after feeling poorly and right after helping me move $450 in groceries into home, she laid down and died.
Civilized nations have universal health care and dental care. Only third world nations don't, well, them and their peer, the US.
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Heh, I'm 62 and still walk to and back for my shopping, it's only a couple of miles or so. If I have something that I want from the larger supermarkets, I'll take a bus.
Got a nice riverside park right across the street from me, complete with a running trail.
One big difference, in the towns, the roads in Germany are much narrower. Makes sense, as many such streets and roads were originally made for horse and horse carts (we shared that in downtown Philly and a few other older cities in the US).
Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state (save in Philadelphia, where it's concealed carry with permit only). Few ever bothered. Louisiana was also open carry, the only time I did was when there was a cottonmouth moccasin in the yard - a highly aggressive venomous snake. Thankfully, never needed my gun, just being around 10 feet from the snake and not leaving convinced it to move off of the property. Found a molted skin from it in the garage, so I secured that a bit better afterward.
A pro tip, if you want a more balanced diet or at least your greens and well, more than chicken or burgers, go to a diner. If you see one with plenty of elderly folks there, the prices and good are typically good. Before my wife died, we used to go to a local diner that had a wonderful fruit and salad bar, I terrorized the poor staff at that, as I can graze a *lot*. ;)
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Born in 1961. It wasn't unusual for either mom or dad to shower with me as a small child. Today, that's eeeeeebbbbbiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllll!
As for the kids telling you that "your generation's shower habits were gay", I'd have calmly and quietly asked, in lower tones, "Are you trying to tell this US Army decorated war veteran that the entire US Army war veteran community is gay? Do you realize how inadvisable that is to tell someone who is perfectly capable of killing you in an instant that they're what they largely are not is?".
Never was a diplomat. Otherwise, we'd likely have far fewer wars.
What this is is an extension and recycling of the tepid bathwater of the lost satanic cult wars, when schools had buried children under them and were excavated to find precisely nothing, no missing kids on rolls, no missing children on birth records, no witnesses of missing children and certainly no parents missing children, but entire schools got excavated anyway, the amoral panic dispersed and recycled.
Hell, most of their gays in the military, then transsexuals arguments are anti-segregation arguments being badly recycled.
It's a conservative control mechanism, controlled by the unimaginative, as they think nobody can figure out the magical man behind the curtain bit. It's also PsyOps 101. And only used educationally. Then, the next course illustrates its many, many, many failure modes.
Still, never interrupt an adversary when he's making a mistake.
~Attributed to Sun Tzu, historically, it's highly likely he wished he had that accumulated wisdom, a fair bit now outdated.
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@Rita Jo what an interesting perspective! So, when a woman accosted me to perform some service for her, despite my being a fellow customer in that business, what should I call her when she fulfills the stereotype, bitch from hell, insulting fine honorable female canines? That's actually happened to me, me being an irritable individual that day, when she demanded my manager, I gave her directions to the closest church, advising her that I'm the earthly representative of the Almighty's Wrath and more than willing to demonstrate that to her should she continue without reporting to the aforementioned church and demanding she speak to the pastor's boss.
Thankfully, she in true karen fashion, then accosted the business manager, who got a chuckle over my response and she directed the individual to depart the business property immediately or be trespassed.
It rather helped that I have a well honed US Army NCO glare and can project my voice well enough to address 1200 men of a battalion without the need of technology, as well as having many junior enlisted swear that my parents were never wed...
So, what do we call this distinctive creature? Harpy would only set the actual harpies upon us, nudge is a lot of weak tea, so what shall we identify that type of person?
Although, zero target would work for me, some might consider that excessively violent, but then I graduated from the George Patton school of diplomacy.
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A proper wave would've done well.
A thumb in both ears, fingers wave, while tongue cheers.
Or, if not feeling so energetic, thumb to nose and wave away...
We Americans hate when the monkeys mock us, it makes us self-conscious and being conscious is a novel experience for most.
Although, I did tend to wear the towel until inside the sauna, then drape it on my seat.
Rarely used one though, as where the most saunas were, they were the least necessary, as it was in Persian Gulf nations, which are saunas by nature.
Deployed on 1 August, when it was 100 degrees outside, boiling literally (OK, it was F, 37.8 or so C), 5 million percent humidity due to the shallow sea - I felt like Aquaman. OK, 100% humidity, work with the humor. It looked like it was raining at night, as the triple pane thermal windows had condensation running down.
One Arab complained about how sparse water was, while standing next to an air conditioner that was taking quite a brisk pee, which I pointed to. Thought for a minute that I'd have to explain to an Arab what distillation was, which would just be embarrassing, as an Arab invented it.
Then explained an anhydrous ammonia based system that uses a standard utility type cooling tower to condense water from humid air and generate electricity, as it's solar based.
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Much of the cultural bit behind alcohol forgets US history. Completely forgetting, the US was settled by religious extremists, extreme fundamentalists, who essentially rejected anything pleasurable as distracting from their religious practices.
That's retained in some current sects, such as Seventh Day Adventists, who still prefer unspiced foods and no ethanol. For those wanting to dispute, do look them up and the origin of corn flakes. I only put up with them because of Desmond Doss (I strongly encourage you to look him up!) and that is, of course, a joke.
The problem with prohibition is, it's been repeatedly proved utterly ineffective. Prohibition of sex out of marriage, yeah, totally doesn't happy, they're all virginal pregnancies and ignore the ancient US joke about shotgun marriages. Prohibition of alcohol, helped spawn organized crime. Prohibition of many drugs, see what happened with alcohol. Prohibition of fully automatic weapons, see the North Hollywood shootout - they obeyed the law on buying machine guns, they made their own by converting legal rifles. I'll not even go into ban evading that goes on just in firearms and designer drugs.
As a child, when my parents had wine or a drink, curiosity was satisfied and I participated in a bit of wine with the meal (usually, undiluted in small quantities in an cordial glass) or was offered a sip only of a mixed drink and I do mean sip, Mom or Dad held the glass.
Later, well, I can consume legendary amounts of ethanol, think Marvel superhero levels, something weird in my physiology and exceptionally high liver enzyme performance. I also don't go howling at the winds and moon, for garnering attention gets entirely undesirable attention, so I limit consumption and intoxication by a lot. I can also walk through a raging fire - I've done that as well, doesn't mean that's my first or even second desired course of travel. I can drink that 1.75 liters of vodka and be fine the next morning, I hydrate, so I don't get hangovers, again, not my first or second desired course of travel.
And let's face it, nobody likes someone getting drunk and acting like a smacked ass.
All because I was taught balance and moderation, not total and unrealistic abstinence. You know, education. In matters of sex, my parents gave the basics in appropriate educational detail, the schools actually gave quality instruction back in the late 70's and early 80's, until the amoral majority hijacked things and turned the classes into their political pawns and teen pregnancies and STD's skyrocketed - then they fell from grace, courtesy of all of their own sexual scandals.
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Everything becomes contentious for two reasons, both intertwined.
Attorneys and money.
I'm aware of one case that was portrayed in the press of one business using their surname as the business name and the press reporting it as litigation to force another unrelated person with the same surname to change their surname and business name. Obviously, it was far more complex and simple than that, but that's what you get when only journalism majors cover a story, rather than seeking advice from professionals involved in the story - half-baked coverage.
Otherwise, the Johnson family would all lose their surname because of Howard Johnson's and obviously that never happened, as that was my wife's maiden name.
For that matter, we'd have to change terms in various card games, as Donald Trump owns a trademark on "Trump", again, were that true, chaos would ensue.
That's why descriptiveness is usually included in a trademark and "German girl living in America" is descriptive of literally hundreds of thousands of people, for just those with German citizenship, of which I doubt that the conceded trademark is.
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My parents and I was born in 1961, told me and every other child they met, regardless of color or "race", they need to learn all that they can and advance.
My first memory was of JFK being shot and killed and mom crying and dad badly distressed, in sequence. At an age when I "shouldn't have memories", given I was born in late 1961, literally a week before Czar Bomba was detonated.
Had teachers incessantly tell my stubborn, dyslexic ass that, ignored them.
Oddly, at the time, such artwork was considered worthy. Even in the south.
It became porn when their satanic cult battles were repeatedly proved vaporware, schools excavated looking for bodies that never existed on the rolls or underground or anywhere.
It's mutated repeatedly.
Being one trick ponies, they try renaming the trick and failing, while flailing for new "causes" to embrace and continue trying to acquire what they want - political and lawmaking power, Constitution be damned.
Which we see daily, when laws get passed, to be rejected out of hand by the courts, then they blame those suing for their rights for wasting tax dollars.
Because insisting upon rights is bad, so the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are evil or something.
No, they just want to hijack our life flight to Afghanistan, for Taliban rule.
They literally have the same playing field and mantras. Their only strife is some Jesus dude and likely, they'll fully abandon him before long, since he never supported them in the first place.
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Well, the viewed video starts off with anti-immigrant tropes that were dispelled nonsense nearly a decade ago, we know which political groups are pushing it. Especially when the second and third claims are also uber-right tropes that were similarly proved bullshit claims. the "unauthorized use of another person's body " being a very distinctive fingerprint, attacking "PC" and youtube policies "abrogating free speech" (meaning they really want to push the triggers, but aren't allowed to).
I'm going to bet that somewhere gunz will come in, since they already blew the rape dogwhistle and refugee dogwhistle (evil dark hordes nonsense). "You can't track people down", wow, just wow, that's anti-German and anti-American and basically Russian in origin, where you need to track the movement of every member of the population, needing essentially passports to move within your own frigging country! Maybe we'll get luck and Roma will also get mentioned...
Another tell is, combine a valid number with one that has been rectally procured and claim it to be a fact. I'm sure tell a lie, make it big and repeat it often enough will come into play, given how on a wrong roll he is.
Graffiti, the scourge of the Soviet empire! Obviously, slave labor should be employed to clean it up! Next come gulags... A hint for the wise, no major addressing of a claimed problem means there isn't a problem and the rare events being never shown examples of are, you guessed it, rare. Expression must be strictly regulated in far right views, just ask Joe Stalin! And again, communal punishment, the hallmark of commies and fascists, since rule and justice by law is bad for them.
Oh, the evil of pay toilets! I remember having those in the 1970's, oddly that was never given to avoid the US! Oh, Russia, the lost opportunity...
Water Closet, a term formerly used in the US, from back when indoor plumbing was a novel thing. Unknown in Russia for the most part, due to Soviet era prefab projects, erm, I mean homes that came with that new fangled indoor plumbing. Retrofitting plumbing into old homes is a bit of a bitch...
A gripe about compound words in German, one of the root languages of English. Everything I've written, literally in every sentence are compound words when you look up the history of those words. So, complex languages that adapt by compounding words to form the concept are bad, simple languages that do without describing something are good, that's why Neanderthals are still running about at the top of society, right? No, the speaker is simply admitting to being an idiot. OK, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, English medical word for silicosis. The idiot had to use an acronym as a word, because we in the US have a word for ACLU, NAACP, FBI, ASPCA, etc. Totally words to idiots. Parents, don't let people poke baby in the fontanelle (yeah, that big word will defeat the far right flung idiot), it can lead to idiocy from the brain damage. Seriously FUBAR (oh! another acronym and not a frigging word)!
Taxes, another far right trope, they hate "entitlements". Want to know what American entitlements actually are? Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Literally and legally. But, far right hates any laws that aren't exclusively used to oppress, rather than support.
I was raised Roman Catholic, my wife was raised Protestant. The Roman Catholic church required her to convert to a faith I don't follow if we were to get married in their church. We went to a justice of the peace instead, lasted 40+ years until she died at the end of this past March. Church taxes, yeah, a real thing dating back to mandatory tithing that even was practiced in the US for well unto our Constitutional era.
Side note, when deployed to Germany in the US Army, if all of one's required documentation of a NATO deployment wasn't completed, one would end up paying US and German taxes. That'd eventually get sorted, but getting the paperwork taken care of up front was far easier, given unfucking something involving two central governments is always going to be a royal PIA.
Interestingly, in the US, the farther right leaning a state is, the more it suckles from the taxpayer's teat, while bitching about paying taxes to support their demanded programs.
Cultural difference in paying for daily things, EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See? I can do a far right abuse of punctuation. I also love to mangle my own language for entertainment purposes... ;)
German weather, bitching about weather in a place never warmed by the Gulf Stream, uh huh. Given the Russian tilt in the diatribe video, that's rather fascinating! I mean really, snow = Russia in the winter, fall and spring, which converts instantly to mud once the nearly summer thaw hits.
Sailors love their rum? Most sailors I've ever known in a near half-century of DoD work loved their beer more. Maybe the griper was really yearning for his wodka, da?
Springfield, Delaware County, PA has a golden mile of businesses, most were closed until the last decade on Sunday by law. Obviously, evil religious whatever, whatever, blather...
Oh, be loud when I'm trying to sleep, ever watch a Marvel Comics movie? Big green guy wanting peace and quiet? He's gentle. Given my looks, obviously I need my beauty sleep!
Quoting Nazi era books, link it to a 30 year old living at home without a job to suddenly have support removed from, yeah, classic far right blaming others for their own failures.
Here's a secret that the far right hate and actually do try to suppress in the land of free speech, the Republican party actively tried to import fascism into the US to "unify us", that failed when we entered into a World War against fascist nations, but they bring back tons of shit from the '40's, including anti-desegregation arguments being dusted off and used against women's rights, gay rights, civil rights, BLM, name it and they trot out the same shit with the thinnest retread job ever witnessed. It's almost as if it is originating from MINITRU, which was literally a warning against Soviet communism written by more devout communist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. A book that was required reading back during the Ice Age, when I was in school. Now, it's being used by far right as an instruction manual on governance.
Violent right wing extremists are a problem in Germany, but them attacking the US capitol is OK, gotya, Tovarich!
I do miss when Nazi anything was purely illegal in Germany, but the nation chose to not oppress their own people, while keeping hate speech unlawful. Oddly, hate speech was verboten in the US, but the far right keeps trying to promote, see MINITRU again?
Oh, circling back to the unaddressed Oktoberfest, come for the bier, realize to your horror, the harvest festival food filled you up too much to enjoy excess of the brew. Especially in Bavaria, where a lot of farmer's foods remains a big thing, dumplings, beets and spuds, baby!
Germany retains something we're quickly losing, the local butcher. We went with McMeat, cheap high production chop cuts of meat, requiring little skill to remove from a carcass, Germans love their local, trusted butcher. Idiots will then point at German raw meat sausages, I point to Italian raw meat cured sausages and to the inadvisability of insulting Italians so near Little Italy... ;)
Note my family name, 100% Sicilian-American, so I can get away with mafia jokes. ;)
Well, off to figure out breakfast. Might go with ham and pickled beets, since I have an excess of both, might just go with ham and some chicken broth boiled barley... Dinner's still in a pre-preplanning stage, either way a center being spinach sauteed with garlic, onion and chili pepper in olive oil, the main being mac&cheese with the aforementioned ham or linguini and olive oil based clam sauce. Yeah, I cook in multiple languages, including bastard American near-cuisine. :P
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One difference is, an elder would usually accompany and supervise the first excursion. Keep the kid out of trouble and able to control themselves, while still having a good time.
Did the same with my soldiers, if they were old enough to fight and die for their country, they're old enough to have a few brain grenades with their peers, regulations be damned, it's on me. My only requirement, if one gets into trouble, I expected to have to bail out the entire squad or the ones not getting caught were on the top of my shit list. Needless to say, never had to bail anyone out, although I did get a few calls to pick up an entire squad from time to time. Well, except when I was with them, kind of hard to call myself and I wrangled things under control or at least got everyone out the back door in time.
Those guys would also shovel shit with a rusty spoon for me, both because I took care of them and they knew I'd be using the rustiest spoon right next to them.
And if one got out of control, his entire squad let him know about it, correcting that behavior early on and reinforcing the lesson.
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I'm beyond astonished that there was no descriptiveness, I guess we now only allow one German girl at a time into the US, for at least two generations or so? I'm sure other immigrant groups would welcome that change to the Green Card lottery!
They used to be a lot more selective than allowing such a broad brush destroying innovation and competition. I think you see two avenues of attack I'd explore, were I in her shoes...
I would find it interesting had our host been a German ambassador's daughter, I think we know how that would turn out! That's some really ugly PR, although in reality, it's ugly PR any way in which you slice it.
If it were to have happened with me, the young lady from California would run smack into someone derived from original "Hessian" stock, with Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution part of my family line and a branch off of the Reynolds family to make her claim a more significant uphill battle, given first generation vs originating the nation stock. Keeping things tangled enough, for long enough, for them to finally offer some settlement where we'd both keep our brands or we'd keep low billable hours tanglefoot actions and PR disasters running for as long as amuses me and given my age, I can be trivially and easily amused for a very, very long time.
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@nomore6167 as a wise SCOTUS judge said, "I cannot properly describe pornography, but I know it when I see it", leaving the window wide open, when previously prurient interest was a key qualifier.
So, some literally consider anatomy books for physician students pornography and should be destroyed, so doctors can treat things that they literally are prohibited from knowing about. Saw that in other countries and suggested here.
And if the body is obscene, then God obviously fucked up, which declaring so by declaring a body obscene is heresy.
I tangle preachers in their socks always. Despite somewhat coarse language, I am an ordained minister.
One preaches to the audience in their language, not some foreign tongue.
And speaking in tongues was plainly, in all biblical versions, described as being understood by the listener as spoken in their language, not interpreted by their ventriloquist.
Yeah, the State Department has repeatedly declined my job applications, which is an utter mystery to me.
For those whose sarcasmometers burned out, I have a pallet of them, let me know and I'll shoot a replacement along.
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I'm reminded of this time of year in Grafenwoehr, aka, exploring the wonderful world of deep mud.
That's OK, didn't like the weather, wait 10 minutes, it'll change. But, the food more than made up for the misery!
Yeah, back in the early 1980's, education was excellent on WWII and the Holocaust. There were some things my uncle never would talk about from that war, which was something exceptional for him, so definitely it sounds like an experience best avoided by all.
I only advocate for total war against ignorance and disease, which are worthy of being eliminated and are far less expensive to wage.
Back to the food, the Bavarian table is about as dangerous as the Lebanese table, for there is a very real risk that one will arise twice the person that arrived! ;)
Well, off to create my own dangerous table. Made up a gallon of pasta sauce yesterday, so it's time to use some of that sauce and I think I'll try that lentil pasta someone gave me. I'll save my left over gallon of chicken and barley stew for lunch.
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Many words from German are part of English originally, given the, erm, amount of "cultural interchange" between the UK and Europe over the ages. American English further incorporated words from "Hessians", some from Hess, others from other regions, Swiss, etc and still more from Yiddish, from mostly Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated in several waves as has historically happened (most of our immigration has arrived in waves over the years, typically generating a wave of xenophobic resistance to that which is the primary nature of our population growth throughout US history, from colonial times to the present).
Many Hollywood films reflect that the immigration wave phenomena with specific jobs as a stereotype, with various occupations increasing around the time of arrival of a wave, such as the Irish cop, Italian bricklayers, Chinese laundries, etc. A niche occupation had its inception around the time of a wave, the new immigrants took those poor paying jobs as a matter of course and mutual assimilation occurred. As you can tell, the Blarney stone obviously kissed me! ;)
We incorporated rather common foods in the same way, such as my breakfast favorite, scrapple, aka Pannhaas in PA Dutch, derived from panhas or the Dutch versoin, balkenbrij and even sauerkraut, which the use of the latter originating in the US before the civil war.
Suffice it to say, loanwords and culinary history run apace in the US, although English in general is the child of many fathers.
As for the "beer stein", that seems to have been an imported concept and a version becoming the beer mug in the US shortly after WWII, likely imported by returning soldiers from the war, occupation and later, from our mutually agreed upon bases in Germany.
I can still remember my first Oktoberfest, where to my horror, I found myself with little room for bier, due to the culinary delights the harvest festival produced! OK, maybe not horror. ;)
I'm still hard pressed to find a preference for regional specialties, although I do lean toward northern Austrian and Bavarian in preferences, most of which tend to be derived from farmer's derived dishes, hence would incorporate offal and heavier on the carbs (even if, when my wife was still alive, I was the only one in the house to enjoy beets - more for me!).
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I grew up in a predominatently Jewish neighborhood in SW Philly, so I had a fair exposure to Yiddish. In some real ways, it's comforting on Sabbath day walking past the synagogue next door, because I'll still hear it spoken.
Of course, having a wide diversity of friends, preparing foods can be a bit of a challenge. Besides religious requirements, there are just some people one should not risk exposing to fava beans, for one example. That impacts my falafel recipe...
For those confused, fava beans can be lethal to certain populations from around the Levant (mostly), due to an enzyme deficiency that will destroy their red blood cells. I don't have G6PD deficiency, but being a good host, I do have to take that into account.
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@alexj9603 as I mentioned previously, in some cities, such as Dresden and Hamburg, what was available initially was only the rubble of other buildings.
So, they collected the bricks, cleaned them off and reused them.
@fermis paradox1, the Marshall plan came a bit after rebuilding had already begun out of sheer necessity. First, it took a while getting the plan together and approved, then funded, staged and initiated. Then, came the larger projects.
But, initially, governments and citizens both needed a roof over their heads, as the weather respects no human.
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@amandalewis3898 UK uses an odd admixture of measurements, with a fair amount of metric, some UK Imperial and for heaven's sake, still using the English Imperial Stone measure for weight?! ;)
At least, the last time I was there, that was the custom and granted, it's a bit over a decade since.
I'd hear my friends discuss their weight in stone, distance markers to cities in miles or kilometers, pick up a kilogram of luncheon meat (yeah, I enjoy sandwiches and meat in my omelettes) and I've still no idea what is being said in Wales or Liverpool.
Oddly, explaining the US governmental and legal systems became substantially easier after a few hours in the pub. I suspect that's due to the fact that's precisely where both were originally designed.
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Ironically, there are two nations that lead the world in pain management research.
The US isn’t one. Germany and Japan are the world leaders in pain management research.
I’ve immense respect for opiates and opioids, I’m personally intolerant of the damned things as well.
We still have morphine in battlefield medicine, a bit more restrained in usage, but necessary at times to prevent phantom pain.
A drug I loved to hate. But then, I’m intolerant to the entire class, massive histamine response that’s it’s shy off allergy.
And don’t get me started on Nixon… One of my other true allergies - to traitors.
I do have two addictions. Caffeine and nicotine.
And a bit of dependence of Bavarian foods…. ;) Hey, you can’t beat farmer foods! In moderation.
But, for chronic pain, if the patient is terminal, go with the opioids, as addiction isn’t a real issue. Non-terminal, I’ll go with German and Japanese research.
Because, “pain builds character” bullshit from the US only leads to my cane earning yet another dent, as I grant the speaker additional character.
My personal go-to for back pain, think near agony, is a hot bath (around 104 degrees or so) and ibuprofen (second generation versions are less effective with me, dammitalltohell).
Oh, additional irony with the US, heroin is “uncontrollable” in the US, but UK hospitals manage to use it routinely.
Thanks, but no thanks here, but for those in need, well, I didn’t go to medical school or residency. Gotta go with the subject matter expert, just as they have to go with my expertise in my fields.
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I grew up in the US and attended middle school through high school in SE Pennsylvania. Common then, back during the last ice age, was gym class and mandatory common showers, segregated by sex. If you're unclear, boys had their own locker room and showers, girls did as well. Gym classes eventually got shared, locker rooms weren't unless you really wanted to get suspended and possibly expelled and enjoying the last reform schools.
I joined the US Army, did 28 years and change. Shared showers were far from uncommon, in the field, well, shared field shower or sponge off au naturale in the middle of the camp. I've done both.
Did clothing optional beaches, one laughably was half clothed, half clothing optional and a prominent sign warned "You may encounter nude bathers beyond this point", which Helen Keller could've easily ascertained on any warm part of the year. People enjoying the clothing optional ranged from couples with small children through people in their 80's or more.
Like the school shower, the beach had a similar thing. If you don't want to look at the train wreck, stop frigging looking, idiot.
Of course, I'm a pure, distilled Adonis. Just go to the closest cemetery, you'll not find anyone to disagree. OK, if you run into me, I'll disagree. Mom always said, I had brown eyes for a reason.
As for doctors in the US, yeah, I've shocked more than a few, when before they could escape the room I had disrobed for examination. Although, I've yet to have a skin examination, being of rather olive skinned stock. That said, our eldest inherited her grandparents genes from the paler nations and already had melanoma treated.
But, I did get a mammogram. Long story about hyperthyroidism induced adipose growth and a painful boobie. How girls can endure that growth without continuous complaints is beyond me!
I've traveled the globe over the decades, saw more women breast feeding than I could shake an abacus at. To the point where, it's highly probable that even here, I've entirely failed to notice. Although, here, I might offer to eat my meal in the bathroom, with a droll expression and wink, which would likely send the poor mother into absolute fits of mirth. Anyone harassing her would likely get a very sincere reading from the biblical Book of Threats that I've actually read to Al Qaeda members.
As far as television and boobs, I'm still trying to figure that disconnect myself, despite being born and raised in the US. We see boobs all the time when our leaders speak! And occasionally, an ass. With some, Samson could've defeated three Philistine armies with one of their jawbones.
But, profanity is heavily fined if used on public airwaves. And one can get up to two years in prison.
Media may, such as in states like Pennsylvania, be considered indecent (as well as clothing) if aureola or nipple are visible. Yeah, Queen Victoria is still alive and ruling in the US.
Little known history. The Puritans rewrote the bible, there was another bible with more books and chapters before in English, but they outlawed it and under King James, was authorized under duress.
Regardless of where one goes, people are people, the same emotions and sensations are present and guide overall behavior. Public behavior tends to be socially guided according to cultural norms, but notice I said overall behavior.
People are people and people fuck. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people.
That eventually means babies and babies need to be fed and a lot of the world can't afford formula and bottles, so go with what God/nature provided, boobies to feed from.
And I very well may slap the silly out of the next village idiot that I hear tell me that babies are damaged by seeing boobs. Well, at least slap the lead paint chips out of that idiot's brainless skull.
Naw, shit splatters.
Given, kids running naked at beaches was normal in the 1960's. Breastfeeding is natural. An ass is only something to be concerned about if it speaks and there is an open flame nearby.
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Well, it is an older nursery rhyme. It's likely to have fallen out of favor in Europe over time.
I was surprised to remember that much, it's been many decades since I've heard it in any German dialect and the last time I used German was back in the mid to late '80's.
And now, I've got a craving for pumpkin soup... ;)
Oh, it's crib, as in produce crib for storing produce on a farm. So, Peter kept his wife in the pumpkin crib.
His was the original Mother Goose version translated to German, suffering in the translation a bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_Peter,_Pumpkin_Eater
You'd have even more fun with Yiddish, which has German, Russian, some other Slavic influences and some Hebrew. Many years ago, I was fluent, as I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Philly. But then, we're talking '60's and early '70's. Can't keep the eggs in a basket forever, they'll eventually spoil. :/
I also grew up enjoying (and still enjoy scrapple (originally, a loaf of pork face meat, heart, liver, possibly other offal, corn meal and spices baked into a loaf. One would then slice it and fry it, typically for breakfast). Farmers never wasted any part of the animal they slaughtered, the only waste was its complaint.
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@jimmypad5501 well, English is an actual bastard tongue. No singular or plural source tongue, there are at least 350 languages that contributed to the language.
Hence, why every rule of the language has its exceptions and contradictions. A humorous write-up on the language even suggested that English isn't really a language, but a psychological weapon, designed to cause madness in the learner. ;)
Native English speakers tend to have a harder time learning other languages, as most other languages actually make sense and are consistent and those are concepts that they're utterly unacquainted with. So, obviously, the humorous thesis is in error, one must start off mad, then one is entirely fit to learn English.
Then, add in American vs UK English, well, that's all the UK's fault. They never even bothered documenting the language until after 1776, when some tiff developed that halted shipping of said documentation for sales within her former colonies...
A joke I've shared from the Occasionally United Kingdom, from the Rarely United States. Well, that and "Civilization, brought to us by those who brought us tea, English and blood pudding".
Brings the house down.
No, not random capitalization, part of another joke we've shared.
I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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You've entirely not actually listened to her viewpoint.
We were married for 41 years and basically, were marriage counselors for many. Listening, actually listening was key in a relationship.
One can quite literally be modest while naked. My wife actually illustrated that to me continually, while naked on nude beaches.
If you don't understand provocative behavior and not, we're really done. You simply refuse to accept other viewpoints and only conflict can resolve things.
But, the reality of it is, the actual number of pedophiles in America is far under 1%, per FBI statistics. That you claim to know far more than tens of thousands of federal employees dedicated to convicting such criminals is astonishing!
What you flailed for is a term the SCOTUS used, prurient interest.
Google it.
Both mom and dad showered me, I'm as attracted to dad's balls as mom's balls and by definition, she didn't have any.
The artwork, David had a small set, positively geriatric. Venus, no thanks, not my type.
Oh, restrict knowledge? OK, let's start with restricting knowledge of how to eliminate the heretical knowledge of an inertial confinement device, aka a thermonuclear warhead.
Want to discuss that in detail and why to restrict that knowledge above all others? I can do that in spades, with detailed information to restrict.
Or maybe that information should be free, only what boobies and balls look like should be restricted, for doctor's better ignorance.
You've revealed a brain, use it outside of your context for a change!
It's what God gave it to you for.
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Back when I was living in Louisiana, I sought some pain treatment from our local hospital clinic.
I suggested ibuprofen. Doctor had a major heart attack or something, going on about how harmful to the kidneys and what not,
“Fine, I’ll take an opioid:.
Got my Motrin.
Taking them American style, more is better idiocy, yeah, it’ll shred my kidneys. Real life, I loathe taking medications of any sort and am hugely annoyed to take the now seen tablets I have to take to survive. So, kidney load isn’t a problem with me.
And yes, idiots, I do need to take my beta blocker, thyroid blocker, proton pump inhibitor. I don’t want my aorta to explode, my stomach to digest its input or well, do that dying thing.
Or currently, enjoy wisdom tooth agony while awaiting an upcoming surgery.
Considered sending my mouth out for the surgery, but alas, I cannot enjoy my tilapia dinner without it.
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