The Off Topic Topic

[grumbler]

If you change it around a bit.  Canada is the Trill, having trouble managing multiple personalities.  EU is the Federation.

Then Germany can be the Klingons.  Former warmongers who now reside peacefully but not without friction within the EU.  France can then be the Andorians.

If the French are the Andorians, then the Andorrans must be the tribble.

[crazy canuck]

 

[Josquius]

Does anyone else have this mental block that say 5 years before you were born is the distant unreachable past whilst 20+ years ago is not thaaat long ago?

[celedhring]

Does anyone else have this mental block that say 5 years before you were born is the distant unreachable past whilst 20+ years ago is not thaaat long ago?

Yeah, I'd say that's pretty common. Any period you've lived through will always feel closer.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't know, I've seen enough movies that the 30s -70s seem familiar to me.

[Tamas]

I don't know, I've seen enough movies that the 30s -70s seem familiar to me.

Yeah but there's an easy block of not being able to actually remember them.

One thing that really messes with my mind is learning that a movie I thought recent is like 10+ years old.

[Syt]

Does anyone else have this mental block that say 5 years before you were born is the distant unreachable past whilst 20+ years ago is not thaaat long ago?

2000 was 10 years ago, wasn't it?

[garbon]

Everything before March 2020 feels ancient to me.

[Syt]

Today in 1948 the last German POWs leave the UK:

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1415982039594057731?s=20

[Tonitrus]

I don't know, I've seen enough movies that the 30s -70s seem familiar to me.

Yeah but there's an easy block of not being able to actually remember them.

One thing that really messes with my mind is learning that a movie I thought recent is like 10+ years old.

I definitely get that..."oh yeah, that movie/tv series came out just a couple years ago".  Reality = 15 years ago.

[Sheilbh]

Today in 1948 the last German POWs leave the UK:

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1415982039594057731?s=20

The English of the first German PoW they interview is pretty incredible.

Where I lived in Scotland had been the site of a few prisoner of war camps and a kid I knew's grandfather had been a German PoW who I think was probably one of the "hundreds in hiding" because he'd fallen in love with a local girl etc.

Sad to think that a number of those filmed were probably being sent straight back in to the Soviet sector

[Sheilbh]

Meanwhile Australian politics continues to be as Australian as you could want

Gizmodo
@Gizmodo
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison would like the world to know that he didn't shit his pants at McDonald's after attending a rugby match in 1997.
https://gizmodo.com/australian-prime-minister-says-he-didnt-shit-his-pants-1847296767?utm_campaign=Gizmodo&utm_content=&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3EM651NffUbi7pjSTnZhO9pWjY5oIEhnVHTNu-gvx6yeJiuUkuQI_wAjc

This is up there with the guy telling the PM and Australian press corps to get off his lawn because he's just re-seeded it

[Syt]

Sad to think that a number of those filmed were probably being sent straight back in to the Soviet sector

Not only that. I'd imagine there's a few among them who couldn't go back to their hometowns because they were now part of Poland or the USSR (the third guy sounded like he might have an East Prussian accent).

But there's of course also the story of Bert Trautmann who stayed in England as a football goalie and then went on to become a manager of clubs and international teams.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Trautmann

[Sheilbh]

Not only that. I'd imagine there's a few among them who couldn't go back to their hometowns because they were now part of Poland or the USSR (the third guy sounded like he might have an East Prussian accent).

Of course! Yeah it must have been an incredible shock to go back to an utterly different and ruined country.

But there's of course also the story of Bert Trautmann who stayed in England as a football goalie and then went on to become a manager of clubs and international teams.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Trautmann

Yeah - still a Man City hero, especially for playing (and winning) an FA Cup final with a broken back

[Syt]

I love the story of his capture:

In 1945, he was one of the few survivors of the Allied bombing of Kleve,[11] and decided to head home to Bremen.[12] By this point, German soldiers without valid leave papers were being shot as deserters, so Trautmann sought to avoid troops from either side. However, a few days later, he was captured in a barn by two Allied soldiers. Deciding that Trautmann had no useful intelligence to give them, the soldiers marched him out of the barn with his hands raised.[13] Fearing he was about to be executed, Trautmann fled. After evading his captors, he jumped over a fence, only to land at the feet of a British soldier, who greeted him with the words "Hello Fritz, fancy a cup of tea?"