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jaws -> Richard Kiel

He played Jaws in some James Bond movies. Jaws vs Jaws and Jaws wins after falling into an aquarium with a shark.

 

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panama canal -> Kiel Canal

We were doing a bike tour at it 9 years ago with whole family- Not the longest, not the canal which saves the most miles by short cutting, not the best known canal. ... But it is the most frequented one, connecting the north sea with the baltic sea. And probably the most beautiful for a biketrip-

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Chris de Burgh -> love lock

When we were married for 10 years we put our initials on a lock and locked it at the Hohenzollern-Bridge in Cologne. De Burgh covers the german 7 bridges songs on his Footsteps II album. In the video you see the bridge with all the locks at several times, perhaps ours two... it was red and white.

 

 

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empathy -> iceberg

Fear me I have an doctor in philosophy because maths belonged to philosophy at my university for centuries. To defend my title I had to read into philosophy at least a bit.

Translating Freud and others into english there was no word for Einfühlungsvermögen. So they used the greek empathy which had another meaning than Einfühlungsvermögen.

Vermögen is ability, einfühlen to enter and know the feelings of another person. Mitfühlen would be to share feelings of others. An psycho analyst should be able to enter into the feelings of another but keeping distance and not sharing the feelings.

Freud compared the mind with an iceberg, most of it hidden.

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Schnauzer -> K9

In former times the small and cute Schnauzer were rat hunters. Their bigger brother -the Riesenschnauzer (giant schnauzer) - used to be guard for alpine farms and üarty shepherds. In our area they were running around post stagecoaches to guard them in forest roads. Their wire-hair protects from thorn bushes along the roads.

Few centuries later some Riesenschnauzerr are used as police or military dogs. This ninja-black, wouldn't it perfectly fit to squad teams ?

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violets -> Schizophrenia

A variant of the roses are red, violets are blue, ....

The roses are red, the violets are blue, I am schizophrenic and me too

 

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bixi -> Bibi Blocksberg

German audio drama series about a girl who is a witch... 4 daughters so we have 100+ episodes. Audio dramas have an advantage over videos because kids can listen while and after you brought them to bed.

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Cubes -> bicycle

We have some smaller embankment dams in our district. Bicyle roads are around them. Add traffic free forest roads and you know why many tri-athletd use the place for training. Many usebicycles from Cube.

 

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Nauru -> Drachenhöhle / dragon cage

Because of a shortage of fertilizer in WW1 due to sea blockades bat-guano was mined from caves. Some 30000 remains of cave bears, cave lions, cave wolves and even tools from stoneage people and their remains were found while digging for bat-guano in this cave.

The bats in the bunkers at work produce some guano too. It is 'harvested' - or better cbunker leaned from smell-once a year in a two hour action while the bats are out hunting. Yes one of the boni at our company isn't money but bags of :eek: ...

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spring time -> birds

Need no alarm clock , since songbirds of different species start to sing at different times in morning. Common redstart starts 80 minutes before the morning red, starling 15 minutes, ...

Do you know that many small songbirds reduce their brain in winter, they delete brain parts needed for singing and sex. Poor birds. But they build them up again in spring. Some of them grow more parts needed to remember feeding places. Brains of songbirds are interesting to perhaps cure dementia.

Myself I refuse to run but walk quickly with open senses. 30% of energy goes to the brain, so I prefer to burn calories with my brain and not with my monkey legs which are too short for my size after a viral disease in my main growing age.

Article how certain brain parts shrink or grow dependant on season.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jez.2650

Yesterday I started to hear an eurasian wryneck. nicknamed snake necks.

 

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1 hour ago, gogoblender said:

Lahn-Dill Kreis ->  St Sauveur

super spectacular downhill mountain 50 minutes away.. short mountain but tons of development hence la la nightlife

 

 

 

I only know Luz-Saint-Sauveur close to the Col du Tormalet. And it isn't known for downhill but one of the hardest uphill passages of the Tour de France.

 

St Sauveur -> Winterberg

 

Just across the state border, 25 minutes away: ski jumping, bobsleigh and skeleton tracks,... in summer bicycle downhill below the ski-lifts. Our second was really really good in it till an idiot opened a car door without looking and she crashed into it on the way back from school. 4 years with more or less skin and scar surgeries.

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Battle of Fredericksburg -> Lahn-Dill Kreis

Settlers from Braunfels founded New Braunfels in Texas. The founder of Fredericksburg lived in New Braunfels but was born in Dillenburg in Germany.

My birthtown was Wetzlar, my older sister was born in Braunfels, now I live near Dillenburg. All three towns belong to the distric Lahn-Dill. What to say, it is the most beautiful place in the world

Voted for second best canoo trip area in Germany, third best view from railroad, queen of the Autobahns, ...

When doing a canoo trip from Wetzlar to Weilburg we can look up to the place I married, monastry of Altenberg

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charge -> light cavalry

At the crimean war 1854 600 of the light brigade charged the whole russian army because of unclear orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade

One of my ancestors and his brothers were in the Kings German Legion. One fought in the Battle of Garcia Hernandez. A very similiar attack, but with luck on the side of the attackers. A dead horse was falling into a carree, opening room in the line of bayonets.

Napoleon faile heavily in attacking carrees at Waterloo.

 

[Overall DM Destroyer damage]

Think yes. But enemies may still have physical damage modification.

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I think you can't go below 0. I hoped for boosted damage at negative armour values but never noticed them. The damage to armour formula is quite interisting from neegative numbers to 0,

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9 hours ago, gogoblender said:

can you believe this...heard a crack and ran outside

Yes

This is why we mount a crane with a platform on the bigger Unimog in autumn.  We chop all branches which are fragile and may fall at ice-rain or wet and heavy snow. 1200 metres to control on the road to our house. Not to mention that the above ground power-line follows the road. Heavy disadvantage on private owned road and powerline: you can't call town to control or repair it.

Luckily, since we look for possible dangerous trees at every walk with the dogs, it aren't much if done regulary.

[Overall DM Destroyer damage]

Depends on armour of the target. If there is nearly no armour number of destroyers is better. If the target has high armour it is better to get less but harder hits.

And to complicate it even more there is the Maelstrom CA. And to make it even more complicated: CM patch added fire(?) damage to the former pure physical.

 

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Kodachrome -> Ilford

Most of my photos were with the Leica M5 I got from grandpa and Ilford monochrome film.

There was an exhibition at Leica in my birthtown Wetzlar. Guess what, pictures Lenny Kravitz took with his Leica were monochrome too.

There is something special to monochrome. Devoloping in cour own(?) darkroom is way easier and cheaper than colour. 36 shots (12 with a 6*6cm two-eyed Rolleiflex) make you think before shooting. Modern digital cameras shoot 12 pictures a second. When you come back from a celebration you have often 1000 photos you have to look through. So in the end 36 shots developed in a darkrom may be even faster.

 

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important -> weighting

Mathematical weighting, mom used it without knowing at her last surgery. Some different types of surgeries have different probabilities for certain outcomes like; death, crippled, total recovery, remaining status quo.

My mom feard being crippled and bound to bed more than dying on the surgery. The surgeon however wanted to keep the number of deaths as small as possible because of reputation and insurances. The two had totally different weighting on surgery outcomes.

 

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artists -> senior residence

people in the nearby senior home have much spare time. Some of it is used to make eastereggs for decoration and sell them to sponsor concerts at their place. Lots and lots of different easteregg traditions. Okay sometimes their hands are not that good anymore, but people buy anyway.

 

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pysanki -> forest ants

From my father's side I am used to collect onion scales and boil the eastereggs with them. Natural colours and: if in contact with ant acid they loos or change colour. Laying them in a foerst-ant hill results in nice random patterns on them. My wife wraps flowers and leaves with linnen around the eggs and gets nice eggs.

 

 

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sticker album -> Ostereieraufkleber = easter egg sleeves ?

Without access to forest anthills, nettles or young blossoms- they are another way to secorate easter eggs.

 

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friendship -> Poesiealbum

When aged 8-12 all girls in the class had one. Is it a friendship booklet, a poetry album? When asked by the owner of it you could write a little poem on the right side and some decoration on the left. my wife still takes hers from time to time to remember the people from school and home village.

[Food glorious food - What are you eating]

Fried bread dough balls...

what can look similiar

indian puri - only few times at an indian restaurant

italian zeppole / zeppolini - one grandgrandma was from northern italy and it is still in the family recipe book, but heavily adapted to local taste. Using beef lard, bear garlic,...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fried_dough_foods

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my restaurant owning classmate, former cook on a maritime research ship, does zeppolini with anchovy and algae in the dough, served with frutti di mare.

 

My guess would be puri with caraway. Caraway fights the heavy fat contains a bit.

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Nice town-garden. Village gardens are more open so animals like lizards and hedgehogs can enter and leave. They also have a corner with nettles and other plants for maggots and butterflies.

For our weather:

A tornado stopped just 500 metres before my mom's former house where my brother is living now. The Biergarten where we meet in summer and the cayak and canoo rent for canoo trips on the Lahn are heavy damaged however. Video stops when the roof with the camera was blown across the river.