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Post by Hunny on Aug 28, 2023 15:02:29 GMT
Hello Lin! I was about to ask what the Monty Python joke translated to, and found this:
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Post by Hunny on Sept 3, 2023 19:01:03 GMT
My mother was a teen in England while Germany bombed. They moved a lot to escape the destruction, but there was nowhere safe to go! She lost her friend, her dog, her house, her education.They slept in the underground train station when the air raid siren would sound. But it was damp, and they burned coal and oil. It gave her a chronic lung ailment which she ultimately died from. She talked of England of course. Apparently keeping one's humor was standard English stuff, and most important during war (if one acts down, all might, so no one would). The BBC program you linked was quite interesting! Though with my recent interest (and subsequent disillusionment) in a German Philosophy Professor, well... I'm struggling with NOT thinking ill of the way she thinks. I'm trying not to answer her with "Oh, how GERMAN of you!" ( *sigh* Yes, I know better!) Butt. She wrote a paper decrying Nazi techniques, then used one on me. And she didn't stop there. And the worse her character turns out to actually be, the more it seems to be about her being German. (Again, yes, I know! Look she just has nasty ideas about what's ok. I don't see her and I continuing. So, as I was saying -
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Post by Hunny on Sept 3, 2023 20:29:19 GMT
The discussion of propaganda broadcasting was interesting! When I was 13, I nailed a whole spool of telephone wire along the top of my bedroom walls (Dad was so pleased! ) And I attached this huge antenna I had made to my little AM radio. Voila! I was listening to the world! (from the U.S.) including the Soviet and American propaganda broadcasts in Europe (Radio Free Europe and Radio Moscow) ..and stations in Central America (Ecuador and Panama). And the BBC in England of course. Cool stuff at 13! So I listened to the Soviet and American propaganda broadcasts in the 70's. The Soviets would call us Americans "Capitalist dogs". (woof) America's retaliation -while attempting to seem more didactic than merely pejorative- was really about trashing everything they do and why just the same. And we do put out lies without restraint when we war. The first attack on Iraq, we said Saddam had raped a nonexistent 8 year-old Kuwaiti Princess. And this was "why" we had to attack. And THEN we pumped out "news" about how our Patriot missiles were "incredibly accurate!" (They were in actuality, a fail.) It disheartened me because this is when I learned that while America reports terrible things of other countries, we're just as terrible. And we lie! So I suppose it was 'an educational experience', but...the innocent childhood illusion of there being a wondrous world of diversity to discover, had begun its replacement by reality.
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