1. Just an odd Sunday evening on German TV...ARTE channel carried a 1937 Cary Grant movie...prime-time. I think if anyone ever starts a oldies network in Germany....with just stuff made prior to 1970s....it'd ramp up and take off with viewers.
2. I noticed off some German science page....there's been a study done to show that paper straws (remember, they mandated an end to plastic straws in Germany).....have more toxic crap in them....than plastic straws. Some kind of 'forever-chemicals' crap.
More or less, in the end....I think Germans will be told to cut out all straws and sip like Americans.
3. KaDeWe, the BIG shop in Berlin....is apparently bankrupt (likely to be finished off), unless the gov't comes in with cash.
If you've never been to Berlin....this is the giant-Macys-like shop. The wife and I spent two hours walking around the store on one visit.
4. The CDU Party (right-of-enter) has made a statement this weekend that once they win in 2025 federal election....they will be dumping 'Burgergeld' (the current citizen's money or welfare program).
If you go around working-class Germans....they generally believe way too many folks are lazy and not making an effort to find work.
I would counter this and simply say that the Burgergeld folks got side-tracked in their youth, and failed to get a occupational skillcraft achieved. So when they get unemployed around age 30....no one has real interest in hiring them. You could resolve fifty-percent of the negativity or problem....if you just forced people into a no-choice situation.
The odds that Burgergeld goes completely away? Zero.
5. Lot of Germans whining going on with RTL's (commercial TV) Jungle-Camp show. This year...RTL went out and bought broadcasting rights to NFL games. So in the prioritization business....NFL wins out over Jungle-Camp. Fair amount of video which would be aired....isn't.
I would imagine that Jungle-Camp for 2025 will be moved to some period after the Super Bowl.
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Hmm, yeah, remove burgergeld and then act surprised that crime increases. Has worked so well wherever it's attempted. Maybe if we weren't so desperate to offshore as much labor as possible for those who fall on the wrong side of the intellectual bell curve we could have avoided this. But conservatives are addicted to migration and cheap labourers who don't understand their rights. That's how you fall into that mess. Similar to the aged care and au pair style rorts that happen. Where you travel to another country to improve your language skills only to find that you're pretty much a 24/7 babysitter for rich pricks annoying kids when you're only 17-20.
When they broadcast old American/English movies are the dubbed or with subtitles?
When they run an 'oldie'...it's 99-percent to be dubbed into German. Oddly, they subtext off Laurel and Hardy movies. But you can write down a list over a 5-year period...when you see older movies (particularly from 1960s)....they repeat an awful lot.
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