The totally off-topic thread

[Denali]

The House that 100K (GBP) is an interesting watch - I wish I was that brave but had to laugh at the guy that picked up a old roll topped bathrub and its now in the middle of the caravan with wife, 2 kids and the dog and the baby now sleeps in it.

 

[love_the_life]

We're too small for this to be financially viable. But I have previously threatened that I will abandon the post if some of the owners didn't support me in getting things done. With fewer than 10 units sometimes threats are the only way to get anything done.

Apart from very basic stuff by the Asst Sec nobody could actually do any of the required functions.

Ah yes, economy of scale. We have a large complex - 70+ residential units plus commercial tenancies over three buildings so much too big for the committee to handle the day to day stuff. The strata managers provide the onsite building manager and also the cleaners for the common areas.

 

[VPS]

When I was on a Contiki tour many moons ago we went to Mathausen. The bus had never been so quiet as when we all filed back on. I'm glad I went but I will not go to another one.

 

[amaroo]

We have been to two. Dachau

We've been there, around 1992 IIRC. Lost my cool when I came across people taking photos with their heads in the ovens, laughing and posing for silly photos.

 

[Quickstatus]

It took me two or three days to get over the feeling of depression and anger that I felt after our visit. I will never visit another Concentration Camp.

Really, I am just cautioning anyone that visiting these places can have more of an effect that you expect.

I’ve haven’t been yet but it is definitely a must.
So important for everyone to visit in order that history does not repeat itself

 

[VPS]

I still find it amazing that there are so many people who deny the concentration camps ever existed

 

[Quickstatus]

Also the question remains.

The Allies knew about the concentration camps and mass extermination’s but did not bomb Auschwitz not the other camps nor the railway lines leading to them. Why?

And if this could not be resolved through the hindsight of history how could it have been resolved in war?

 

[TheRealTMA]

No refunds with the yellow bins.

What refunds?

 

[Denali]

My dad was born in Italy in 1930, so a kid during the war. I remember as a kid him waking me to watch Judgement at Nuremberg. He was a coughty husband and parent but he did raise us to be aware of the war, what happened and the damage.

My nephew was in Germany last year and went out of his way to visit a camp, because my dad (his grandfather) exposed him to what happened.

We I go, one day, Im going to suggest my husband do something else because of how it will affect him.

 

[drron]

When I lived in the Hunter valley Maitland was the largest Polish city outside Poland.So much so that when Lech Walesa visited Australia in 1988 he had a civic reception in Maitland.He made me an honorary Polish citizen-not legal as he had yet to become Poland's president.
The reason for all the poles was that the Greta army camp after WW2 became a refugee camp and most poles went there.I had many Polish patients and the stories they told of the treatment by the Germans were horrendous.There was one however that refused to talk until I introduced him to an Australian who had been a prisoner in Changi and the death railway.
He opened up after that.He was captured by the Germans in 1940 when aged 16 with a resistance unit and put into a labour unit.After the German's invaded Russia he was sent to Auschwitz and given a grim ultimatum.Die in the gas chambers or work in them.He obviously made the second choice.
He was a different man after getting all that off his chest and his family were very grateful.But what he went through should not be experienced by anyone.I have not been to Auschwitz but we did go to Buchenwald.Didn't stay long.

 

[Denali]

When I lived in the Hunter valley Maitland was the largest Polish city outside Poland.So much so that when Lech Walesa visited Australia in 1988 he had a civic reception in Maitland.He made me an honorary Polish citizen-not legal as he had yet to become Poland's president.
The reason for all the poles was that the Greta army camp after WW2 became a refugee camp and most poles went there.I had many Polish patients and the stories they told of the treatment by the Germans were horrendous.There was one however that refused to talk until I introduced him to an Australian who had been a prisoner in Changi and the death railway.
He opened up after that.He was captured by the Germans in 1940 when aged 16 with a resistance unit and put into a labour unit.After the German's invaded Russia he was sent to Auschwitz and given a grim ultimatum.Die in the gas chambers or work in them.He obviously made the second choice.
He was a different man after getting all that off his chest and his family were very grateful.But what he went through should not be experienced by anyone.I have not been to Auschwitz but we did go to Buchenwald.Didn't stay long.

I think the Jewish museum opened in Sydney about 25+yrs ago. I remember going shortly after it opened and buying a book and shocked that the man that served me had a blue number tattooed on his arm.

We chatted, he said A LOT of people never spoke about it and the new museum gave them a chance to as well as recording their stories which I had watched during my visit. A lot of their children didnt know what they survived. At the time there was a display of childrens drawings while in camps, despite the crushing atmosphere, lots of drawings of families, trees, homes.

I also suggest reading IBM and the Holocaust.

 

[jkbaus]

Was in Krakow about 15 years ago but couldn't cope with going to a concentration camp.
My partner went and came back distressed.

A few years ago I was in Cambodia. I cried visiting the killing fields and Tuol Seng prison.

Tour guide said later that Pol Pot wasn't a bad person. The Vietnamese made him do bad things!
I lost it and argued.

I love so much of S E Asia but won't return to Cambodia.

 

[amaroo]

The war Museum in HCMC is also pretty confronting.... the kids certainly copped an eyeful.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Bed sheets? How much?

$199 for extra deep king size - fitted, flat and two pillow cases. I am happy

 

[Flying mermaid]

Was in Krakow about 15 years ago but couldn't cope with going to a concentration camp.
My partner went and came back distressed.

A few years ago I was in Cambodia. I cried visiting the killing fields and Tuol Seng prison.

Tour guide said later that Pol Pot wasn't a bad person. The Vietnamese made him do bad things!
I lost it and argued.

I love so much of S E Asia but won't return to Cambodia.

we went to the memorial/museum in Hiroshima in 1985. I actually couldn’t finish it as I found it too distressing. We will be in Kigali in September and I am still trying to decide whether to go to the Genocide museum or not, I understand the inhumanity, but I am not sure I need to see it. On the other hand maybe we owe to the victims? Not sure - still dithering...

 

[Quickstatus]

The burden of bearing witness is light for those who come after.
The debt is to humanity so humanity does not find itself in dark places like these again

 

[Pushka]

When I lived in the Hunter valley Maitland was the largest Polish city outside Poland.So much so that when Lech Walesa visited Australia in 1988 he had a civic reception in Maitland.He made me an honorary Polish citizen-not legal as he had yet to become Poland's president.
The reason for all the poles was that the Greta army camp after WW2 became a refugee camp and most poles went there.I had many Polish patients and the stories they told of the treatment by the Germans were horrendous.There was one however that refused to talk until I introduced him to an Australian who had been a prisoner in Changi and the death railway.
He opened up after that.He was captured by the Germans in 1940 when aged 16 with a resistance unit and put into a labour unit.After the German's invaded Russia he was sent to Auschwitz and given a grim ultimatum.Die in the gas chambers or work in them.He obviously made the second choice.
He was a different man after getting all that off his chest and his family were very grateful.But what he went through should not be experienced by anyone.I have not been to Auschwitz but we did go to Buchenwald.Didn't stay long.

I know if I visited any concentration camp I would be haunted forever.

 

[Denali]

The burden of bearing witness is light for those who come after.
The debt is to humanity so humanity does not find itself in dark places like these again

Which is why when Trump says naz_ flag waving people are "some very fine people" and wants muslims to register on some sort of database (for easy roundup?) and mexicans are animals is so disturbing. Its how it starts. Lets not forget the mindless chanting "lock her up" and convincing his mindless that the media are all liars.

 

[Quickstatus]

They are all liars and she is corrupt but that’s a different issue

 

[Blinky]

Hi guys.

I spent a bit of time on this forum some years ago when flying regular business flights, and I learnt valuable lessons. Back business flying and am now a proud Virgin WP. Will post more.