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I wonder why such names were used? Anyway, we must re-certify on records retention every two years.
Whoever we consult with to prepare these online seminars is waaaaay ahead of the "Diversity Matters" curve...The only time a white guy named "Bill" or "Jim" pops up is as someone who screwed up and got the company sued, or in the "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" seminar, saying inappropriate things to all the gals named Juanita, Keisha and Rashida
I wonder why such names were used? Anyway, we must re-certify on records retention every two years.
My favorite over-dubbed American series broadcast in German was "Fackeln im Sturm" or "North and South" with Patrick Swayze, James Read and Kirstie Alley. My ex-wife and I were absolutely riveted to Books I and II of the series when episodes were translated and rebroadcast in Germany back in 1986 and 1987. One night, I missed an episode because of the field. She recorded it. Great stuff.
That new version was terrible. No names actors in front of a green screen while computers did all the work.
Think I've mentioned before that the only movie my Dad ever went to the theater to see was Patton. He loved it. Said Scott nailed Patton. And a number of scenes were as they actually happened because my Dad was there and witnessed it.
Was on a flight from LA to Atlanta. Was in first class and Denver was on the other side of the plane the row behind me. Wore sunglasses the whole flight with a hat...kind of hunched down in his seat. Guess he didn't want anybody to know it was him.Better than Bob Denver?
The original Midway is a classic, the newer one not so much.
Some other movies that centered around war that are really good: "The Pianist" and "Anthropoid". The Pianist is about a Jew living in the Warsaw ghetto during Nazi occupation, while Anthropoid Is about the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich.
In Harms Way with the Duke and Kirk is pretty good.
The Gallant Hours with Cagney as Halsey also.
The Gallant Hours with Cagney as Halsey also.
Never heard of Anthropoid....I don't think. I'll have to look that up.
I'd like seeing "The Pianist". May check it out.
Two German-made films providing a German perspective, and are really good, include "Stalingrad" and "The Captain" (Der Hauptmann). The Captain is based on a true story. Wife and I watched it last year with under-titles. Nice chance to brush up on my language skills.
There's a good movie about Rommel that is German made. Fairly new...maybe 5-8 years old.
Even though I hate trying to watch a movie with sub titles...that one I did.
Enemy At The Gates is pretty good too.
I might have to check those movies out, seeing as how I love WW2 movies. Thanks for recommending them.
My grandfather told me to hang out with people that are smarter than I am...........I found this to be very easy to accomplish......it's one of the reasons I am here in the D-League.....I have observed some very knowledgeable, intelligent people on here.......now for the reason for this post...........I have a Bose wireless speaker system......is there anyway to stream YouTube? Seems like there should be some way.........Bose uses my wireless system.......I stay away from their page and techs.......one of them changed the settings in my computer because of connectivity issues........it took a visit from a smart person to fix it......and $240........house calls are not cheap.......
My varmint problem has escalated the last several years.....the area I live in has blossomed with huge warehouses.......these mega buildings are running the wildlife to the nearby residential areas......I lived here for 35 years and never saw a rabbit, deer or most anything besides birds and squirrels.......in a 18 month period i trapped 23 ground hogs and lost track of the racoon and opossum.....I only set the traps inside my fence.....( 8" head traps).....I got two rabbits this morning.......just a few months ago a deer jumped my back fence and strolled up through the yard till the dogs woke up........coyotes ate three geese one night.....nothing else big enough to eat three nearly grown Talouse geese......only thing they left behind was a foot and a piece of a leg with a foot.......no feathers or anything......and a ground hog was back last fall......it was too late in the sesason to worry with him..........they will be back soon......they can't seem to resist sweet potato plants or bean vines.....they prefer pole beans......I got my traps set yesterday..........awf 23.....groundhog 0..........
Hollywood types only want our ticket dollars.......not our attention......
A major reason I retired last June from public service. It wasn't because I quit caring. I dealt with the truth and refused to negotiate my analysis or opinion without supportive evidence.
Yes, model numbers of Bose equipment?
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I enjoy sub-titles........it's good reading exercise........
#416776 that is the smallest one.....I have two of them and a 20 and a 30......I can get them but will have to get a ladder out.....
If the film content is a language I know (German) or basically familiar (Spanish, Turkish), then sub-titles are not a problem. Love 'em because I usually learn something new about the language itself. I run into issues with Cyrillic (Russian, Slavic) Arabic and Asian (Chinese, Japanese) sub-titles and find them super annoying.
Another good movie I had forgot about. Some other good movies:
Unbroken (based on true events)
Dunkirk (based on true events)
Hacksaw Ridge (based on true events)
Lone Survivor (based on true events)
The Grey Zone (based on true events)
1917
Full Metal Jacket
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Unbroken is about the captivity of Louie Zamperini during WW2. He died a few months before the premier of the movie at age 97
Just replenished my stock of German beer in my frig today. Only had 2 Binding's left and I got my favorite this time. Two 6 packs of Warsteiners. Jeztz meinen favorit habe ich. Zum Volle! Just in time for the softball games. Yep, they said they will have the fields ready tonight so...Play Ball!
I wonder what happens when they use the name Nikita as the woman who was harassed. Oh well, it is a name that can be used for both sexes I guess.
"Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world.
You can roll around the globe
and never find a warmer soul to know.
Stalag 17 for pure entertainment value. " Are ve gut little Nazi's? Ja ve are gut little Nazi's"
In my younger days, I played for a team sponsored by a bar. The first few drinks were free after a win. We went undefeated that year. Nothing like a little motivation!
Read 59 this morning, we are even!
The Director gave me a pair of left handed scissors for my birthday........first time I have ever used a pair of them........they work so smoothly.....I am free........
Afternoon D, lazy day, Mrs. M on vacation and just a rainy old day. We did go to that farm to look at it, got a guided tour of it, it has been in his family since 1860!
Do The Tuskegee Airmen count in yawls list? Asking for a friend!
Yawl have a great rest of the day and Prayers!
Do The Tuskegee Airmen count in yawls list? Asking for a friend!
Yawl have a great rest of the day and Prayers!
Now the rest of the story.
So yesterday after the tire exploded and dumb came out and told dumber (wig man) yea it's flat, dumb came out and worked around the truck for about 45 minutes, then dumber (wig man) comes out, minus the wig and after about 2 hours they have the flat fix. Then another car drives up another crackhead lady gets out and just starts ranting and raving at both of them. after a few minutes of listen to her scream and holler, the guy goes back in and puts that stupid wig back on and stands there listening to her some more. Then they get in the truck and drives away. What a comedy!!!!!
So yesterday after the tire exploded and dumb came out and told dumber (wig man) yea it's flat, dumb came out and worked around the truck for about 45 minutes, then dumber (wig man) comes out, minus the wig and after about 2 hours they have the flat fix. Then another car drives up another crackhead lady gets out and just starts ranting and raving at both of them. after a few minutes of listen to her scream and holler, the guy goes back in and puts that stupid wig back on and stands there listening to her some more. Then they get in the truck and drives away. What a comedy!!!!!
In 12 years he might know good bit. Still learnin myself
Is this a Bose SoundTouch, if so version II or III? Smartphone, tablet or computer controlled? Wi-Fi or auxiliary input?
Which list? Of course Tuskegee Airmen should count on everyone's honor list(s).
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I don't know how it might help with rabbits or cutworms, but we use powdered lime dusted onto our plants to battle bugs. Japanese beetles, worms, flies. Seems to work on the latter but is deadly for the beetles.
Never heard of anything that eats tomato plants whole though. That's pretty weird. Cicadas eat those?
Babyface... CM doesn't look like he trusts a word that cones out of RPs mouthRick Pitino's introductory press conference 32 years ago yesterday. Has it been that long?
My 1st thought "voles" Small short-tailed rodents very shy about eating in public for fear of being eaten. Cut at ground level then scurry back to hole with entire plant. Like plant thickets and often causing undetected plant damage forging on roots out of sight below ground.
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Favorite war movies... so many I have enjoyed and will watch if on, and they never seem to be on when/if I'm watching these days.
Midway (76) will always be a favorite
Platoon (though I've only watched it a couple times and won't likely watch it again)
Guns of Navarone (sp)
Great Escape
I don't know if that's the right order, but a lot of that has to do with my age at the time I first saw them.
I loved Rat Patrol back in the day, Hogans Heroes, MASH back then but wouldn't watch 15min of it now. I like historic based stuff if there's any semblance of consistency to it and they leave the soap opera stuff out of it.
I don't get to watch war stuff as entertainment much anymore. My wife gets annoyed because I will go back to my books for the next days or weeks afterward to read about what I just watched a dramatization of on tv. She watches them with me. In fact she's watched several things with me a number of times.
One thing she got me to watch, wouldn't at first because of the "love blah blah blah" and stuff, is TURN. TV series. Was entertaining if not basted in some modern rewrites of characters because every show has to have modern propaganda in it.
Midway (76) will always be a favorite
Platoon (though I've only watched it a couple times and won't likely watch it again)
Guns of Navarone (sp)
Great Escape
I don't know if that's the right order, but a lot of that has to do with my age at the time I first saw them.
I loved Rat Patrol back in the day, Hogans Heroes, MASH back then but wouldn't watch 15min of it now. I like historic based stuff if there's any semblance of consistency to it and they leave the soap opera stuff out of it.
I don't get to watch war stuff as entertainment much anymore. My wife gets annoyed because I will go back to my books for the next days or weeks afterward to read about what I just watched a dramatization of on tv. She watches them with me. In fact she's watched several things with me a number of times.
One thing she got me to watch, wouldn't at first because of the "love blah blah blah" and stuff, is TURN. TV series. Was entertaining if not basted in some modern rewrites of characters because every show has to have modern propaganda in it.
They hail from TN? Cause that sounds like a vol
I've got Rat Patrol on now. On Pluto....on their Classic TV Drama channel.
Never liked MASH at all and never watched. Never saw the attraction even though it was a hit.
Liked Hogan back in the day....on at nights on ME-TV but I never watch.
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