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FiveSeventeen

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I travel a great deal, but mainly commute to work on the 05.17 from Bremen each week day.

I read heavy books, collect old photographs, and write long letters. My working clothes are kilts, but I do own one pair of jeans.

This is a small, occasional record of those travels by train and bus, of books read and letters written, and sometimes the events in between. Posts are automatically deleted after three months.

Don't expect any deep philosophical content here!

Born at 317.58 ppm

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jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day 05 03 Jun 2024 - Vilnius - Warszawa, onto night train

Crossing these borders:
Road border 🇱🇹 🇵🇱
Zebrzydowice 🇵🇱 - Bohumín 🇨🇿

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

FiveSeventeen,
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@jon

Justification for controls along the German border, which are meant to be temporary, are that the EM is about to take place, and this extra security is necessary to protect footballers and their fans - and everything else, of course.

I'm not so sure about the idea these checks are "illegal", as each country in the EU still has basic sovereignty. Questionable, most certainly.

FiveSeventeen,
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@jon

I am not denying your knowledge. I wasn't aware that Poland - and by extension I assume the other countries mention - had not received an exemption, it is not something that appears in the press all that often.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Good news from the German antifa and related organizations scene: copyright protection.

A small group based in Germany has begun buying the Trade Mark rights to certain words and phrases - mainly abbreviations of words associated with extreme right wing groups and movements often aligned with the ideals of the original Nazis - so have them removed from the marketplace.

Companies producing these slogans will now be forced to remove them from their catalogs, from the stores and from sale, or face legal fines.

Article in German: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/laut-gegen-nazis-enness-markenrechte-100.html

#life #Germany #antifa #Trademark #copyright

FiveSeventeen, to egypt
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This could be a mere human error, but I suspect more as I've seen it too often.

The German supermarket chain #Rewe promotes their continual offers of regional goods, especially fruit and vegetables. Small signs tell customers that certain items are from the local area, and people seem to trust them.

An occasional check, though, and it is clear this is not the case. These potatoes are from #Egypt which, no matter how you fold the globe, is not regional to #Bremen. A second container had potatoes from Israel, also not local by any stretch of the imagination.

In fact, none of the items marked as Regional goods on offer in Rewe Bremen yesterday were regional at all.

Time, perhaps, to give someone a geography lesson, or ask whether this is being done on purpose.

#life #shopping #RegionalGoods #Farming #Fail

The potatoes on the Rewe supermarket Regional stand, grown in and imported from Egypt.

FiveSeventeen,
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@Einzigartiger

Colour me surprised. It's a shame more people don't check their goods and call them out. And the standards in advertising ....

FiveSeventeen,
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@Einzigartiger

I was under the impression that goods must have a place of origin, not just a place of packing.

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day -01 27 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Malmö C - Stockholm, onto night ferry

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

FiveSeventeen,
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@Jonas_Bostrom

Amusement at myself: my first thought on reading your "driving from the other end" was that the driver was at the back of the train.

So, what is the "other end"?

@jon

dwasmkuk, to Rejoin
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World’s largest food awards move judging panel from UK to Ireland to avoid Brexit red tape

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/worlds-largest-food-awards-move-judging-panel-from-uk-to-ireland-to-avoid-brexit-red-tape?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

FiveSeventeen,
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@dwasmkuk

Especially in Spain, where the British immigrants suddenly discovered they not only had to learn the language - after twenty or so years living there - but couldn't stay longer than a few months at a time.

I really felt for therm then, I really feel for them now.

Not.

@Melinda @Wen @humanhorseshoes @alexproe @Roadwarrior29 @JackTheCat @TCMuffin

FiveSeventeen,
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@marcusjenkins

I am always massively disappointed by people who decide to live in a country, but separate themselves from that country's language and traditions. What was the attraction in the first place, if not just those things? And claiming to live according to the traditions and ideals of the country they have left. Why did they leave if that country is so important to them?

My work requires C2 German, not something a retiree is going to take on, but something that can be built up to over time, with little expenditure of energy.

@Lassielmr @dwasmkuk @Melinda @Wen @humanhorseshoes @alexproe @Roadwarrior29 @JackTheCat @TCMuffin

FiveSeventeen,
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@marcusjenkins

I suspect all of these cheap things will come to an end before anyone has really prepared themselves. I see a positive demise of British products on our shelves in Germany - although there is no shortage of whisky yet.

@Lassielmr @dwasmkuk @Melinda @Wen @humanhorseshoes @alexproe @Roadwarrior29 @JackTheCat @TCMuffin

RickiTarr, to random
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What if you were allowed to put any picture/text on any book cover. What is your book choice and what picture/text would you choose?

Ridiculous Example:

FiveSeventeen,
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@Kierkegaanks

Personally I'd have picked "Confederacy of Dunces" for this cover....

@RickiTarr

Wen, to music
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Toyah in concert 1979

On my route to digitising my old negatives. An untouched (you can tell from the dust) photo of Toyah in concert. Taken when I was supplementing my meagre student grant (remember those?) by taking photos for a number of music papers (remember them?).

Ilford HP5 pushed hard

#Toyah #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Music

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen

Hard to believe, for all of us who were there back then, but she'll be celebrating her 66th birthday on 18 May.

Also hard to believe, especially in this industry, she's still married - since 1986 - to the same person!

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen

Is she still in? I thought she'd managed to get over that and was concentrating on her music again: Glastonbury and all that.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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"I was afraid to ask."

So the medic preparing me for my MRT today, where no metal is allowed in the room at all. Me being traditionally attired in my kilt.

I was given a towel to wrap around myself.

#life #tradition #ScottishProblems

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen yes, but no. He did see it, but the main problem for him was that I needed to take off the kilt, with its metal, and walk bare-arsed to the machine.

Surprisingly few people see the sgian dubh unless I'm sitting.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you wash and dry a load of laundry, you also have to be prepared to fold it, and put it away. It's not really helping otherwise.

FiveSeventeen,
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@RickiTarr

I just did exactly that (washing and putting them away)

@realtegan @Kierkegaanks

BylinesScotland, to random
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The Borders Railway holds the ticket to discovering one of Scotland’s most interesting and beautiful regions | James Jobson

https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/borders-railway-gateway-to-discovery/?feed_id=1202&_unique_id=6640e8eabf249
https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/borders-railway-gateway-to-discovery/?feed_id=1202&_unique_id=6640e8eabf249

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen @BylinesScotland

clearly there is a hardly visible model railway somewhere in the tall grass, and an equally invisible man who bought the set for his child....

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Breakfast ordered. I'm disinclined to go for the cheese Omelette, just glancing at the menu photo is off-putting, so it's croissants with jam and a milky coffee.

#life #travel #food

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 some of the ICE choices are, indeed, worthy of the name, and fresh.

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 perhaps it's the special export model.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Travelling with a book, of course, to cover about five and a half hours in a metal tube. Volker Reinhardt's "Der nach den Sternen griff" on the life of Giordano Bruno.

#life #books #bücher #AmReading #biography

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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All these stories about certain racist, hate-filled people crossing the floor and defecting to the Labour party, and no one has picked up the real story yet.

The Labour party has defected to the Tory party. They are now one.

#life #UKPolitics #Labour #Tory

EU_Commission, (edited ) to random
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Today, President von der Leyen is celebrating Europe Day in Vilnius.

Lithuania’s commitment to our Union’s security and defence and our shared European values is indispensable.

You’re making Europe so much stronger.

FiveSeventeen,
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@EU_Commission

EDIT: changed and alt text included within five minutes. Excellent: thank you.

Is it not a big thing in the EU that we should include all our citizens?

This post excludes the blind and partially sighted by not having Alt Text on the images.

You want to make Europe stronger? Live up to the principles and ideals of inclusion, even for the blind and partially sighted.

Use Alt Text.

#alttext

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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This morning, on the German news service, there was a report that April was the hottest month since records began, and that temperatures have risen by over 1.5°C since pre-industrial times.

Then we went over to the announcer of the next piece of music, who greeted us with a "and it's another wonderful day out there".

There's the problem, right there.

#life #ClimateChange

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Looking back at the actions of the MSN in the USA as the Vietnam war was dragging on bitterly - to inevitable failure - and the playing up of good stories, the positive and not the reality of the war, I see many similarities in the handling of Trump and his consorts by the press today.

An abject failure to report the truth in an unbiased and honest manner to those who need to know.

A pandering to bias, to misinformation, to abuse.

When all is said and done, the MSN will claim they did their best, and sweep the whole matter under a carpet for fifty years. But the damage, today, is being done, and cannot be undone.

Journalists are complicit.

#life #journalism #gop #misinformation #uspolitics

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