Post by Citroen on Mar 16, 2022 16:12:34 GMT 12
Unbelievable in today's age...
Kia Kaha Ukraine!!!
Post by snewt on Mar 16, 2022 17:41:45 GMT 12
You'd think so Citroën, but the human race never ceases to amaze and disappoint.
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 Post by RdM on Mar 16, 2022 22:20:31 GMT 12
Coincidentally, I met a Ukrainian woman in conversation this evening, waiting at a bus stop for 5 mins with a heavy pack from a supermarket.
We fell into conversation over when the next bus would arrive - she'd said it might be a long time, and indeed many were shown as cancelled, but I could see the next in 4-5 mins, and was right. Then we sat next to each other for another 10 mins or so bus trip, great conversations. She was very pragmatic, what will be will be, had been in NZ 20 years, had been in contact with relatives there. I hope we might meet again. I also too think it is worthwhile to look at alternate (to the MSM, not my acquaintance!) views, so here's one such take on the geopolitical. www.sott.net/article/465384-Russias-Existential-Reasons-For-Intervening-in-Ukraine thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/ There's a lot going on. One has to sort the wheat from the chaff. 
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 Post by Citroen on Mar 17, 2022 15:39:34 GMT 12
Chaff...
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Post by RdM on Mar 17, 2022 19:38:02 GMT 12OK, great! A response is good. I just threw it up in to the air, as it were. :-) I don't claim knowledge, I just relayed recent reading, found by accident :-) When I was young ... I remember Dad, who liked to roast peanuts in the oven, got us kids on the back steps with a fan to sift and lift into the breeze, blowing the skins away. After that, with possibly further cleansing after our attempts - introducing us to work too - he made peanut butter, through a bench clamp mincer. Just reports from the front, as it were, just terrible what is going on, but perhaps we can only observe, explore, critique observation points of view here. Cheers!!
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Post by michaelw on Mar 17, 2022 21:35:08 GMT 12
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Post by Citroen on Mar 17, 2022 22:21:33 GMT 12
Ah, yes. Remember it well.
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Post by michaelw on Mar 18, 2022 9:59:54 GMT 12
I thought you were reminiscing...
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Post by peter0c on Mar 18, 2022 12:21:29 GMT 12
I still have some of Tom Scott's dollar notes including the well known Maori watermark (he wouldn't get away with that now) made at the time of the decimal changeover. I inhabited B36 hostel and my immediate neighbour was Lockwood Smith. He was regarded as the hostel twit even then.
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Post by RdM on Mar 18, 2022 18:29:01 GMT 12Some satire on Ukraine replacing Covid in the headlines? 
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Post by Citroen on Apr 23, 2022 20:17:54 GMT 12
Amazingly my order from Ukraine arrived yesterday, which got to the Kyiv post office 23 Feb, the day before the invasion.
I'd written it off and figured the seller needed the US$200 much more than me. The seller has managed to relocate his family near the Romanian border which he says is relatively safe.
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