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Three Berries

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Do you guys remember these containers for film? If I remember right some of the best buds I ever had in my life when I was a young man in the late '80s early 90s came in those containers
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Now it's blood glucose test strip containers. :(

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Cuddles

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blimey, just where do you guys find all this mad stuff ? :D

The strangest and the scariest thing I found this week was when I checked my mail box today:
A letter from the tax office!
I though I had taken care of it all way back but now they want 3 more forms from me and I´ve been in a state of shock since. I don´t have an accountant because I can´t afford one, so I have to do it myself - and all without knowing bugger all abou this crap!

For the sake of this thread I did a search and this is one of the websites which came up - it´s about art, tattoos and other stuff, enjoy

 

chilliwilli

Waterboy
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I was always wondering if u can build a chillum out of these shells. Once found a small one in thailand with a hole on the side. U could suck trough it but it tasted lets say very marine even after a long rinse.
Maybe cook the shell with soda? The shape should give a good cooling effect but i'm not sure how fast it would get clogged with goo.
 

Three Berries

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They were asked to turn down the heat


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Haus-Targaryen

I am directly involved in the legal cleanup of this and can provide a little more detail as to what actually happened (Tyler, reach out to me you have my email if you'd like to verify my identity here).

The city of Berlin required the hotel reduce the ambient temperature of the hotel lobby to save on energy due to sanctions. Its been abnormally cold in Berlin the past few nights dipping down to -11°C last night and -12°C the night before that. The water is heated to a constant temperature above 30°C for many of the fish species that lived in the tank.

As the nights got colder and colder, the lower ambient temperature of the air surrounding the tank likely started causing deformations and hairline cracks in the bottom of the tank where the pressure is the greatest. Last night at -11° caused the ambient temperature to drop too low given the reduced heating in the lobby and is what it looks like caused the "sudden unintentional disassembly"/catastrophic failure of the tank.

Everyone is already lawyering up including the city, the HVAC manufacturer, tank manufacturer, HVAC installer, building engineer, hotel - the litigation is going to be fun to watch and work on.

What isn't covered in the news is damage. The tank in 2003 cost €13 million. Today its orders of magnitude more expensive to replace, some of the fish were quite exotic and are expensive losses in and of themselves. Then you have the damage to the hotel lobby and façade, electrical components of the building in the three-story basement are also effected and large amounts of water went into the parking garage where many vehicles are parked not only from the hotel and offices but from an attached apartment complex to the hotel.

Losses are tens of millions. All because the city made the hotel turn down the heat. I imagine someone will be blaming Putin before too long.
 

mexweed

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for starters humans tried to keep a relatively large body of aquatic life in a non-native and landlocked area, if some of those fish were actually able to adapt and survive naturally in Germany they would probably be considered an invasive species

castles made of sand

if it was a huge vat of beer lagering in the cold there wouldn't have been a problem

 
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Hasch

learning and laughing
I am directly involved in the legal cleanup of this and can provide a little more detail as to what actually happened (Tyler, reach out to me you have my email if you'd like to verify my identity here).

The city of Berlin required the hotel reduce the ambient temperature of the hotel lobby to save on energy due to sanctions. Its been abnormally cold in Berlin the past few nights dipping down to -11°C last night and -12°C the night before that. The water is heated to a constant temperature above 30°C for many of the fish species that lived in the tank.

As the nights got colder and colder, the lower ambient temperature of the air surrounding the tank likely started causing deformations and hairline cracks in the bottom of the tank where the pressure is the greatest. Last night at -11° caused the ambient temperature to drop too low given the reduced heating in the lobby and is what it looks like caused the "sudden unintentional disassembly"/catastrophic failure of the tank.

Everyone is already lawyering up including the city, the HVAC manufacturer, tank manufacturer, HVAC installer, building engineer, hotel - the litigation is going to be fun to watch and work on.
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Thanks for sharing the details
(y)
I visited that place once years ago with my daughter. Was prertty impressiv.
Losses are tens of millions. All because the city made the hotel turn down the heat. I imagine someone will be blaming Putin before too long
Hm, I'm no laywer, but would not some engineers overseeing the aquarium be at least partly responsible for not informing relevant parties about the danger of decreasing the ambient temperatur?
 

jump117

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They were asked to turn down the heat


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Haus-Targaryen

I am directly involved in the legal cleanup of this and can provide a little more detail as to what actually happened (Tyler, reach out to me you have my email if you'd like to verify my identity here).

The city of Berlin required the hotel reduce the ambient temperature of the hotel lobby to save on energy due to sanctions. Its been abnormally cold in Berlin the past few nights dipping down to -11°C last night and -12°C the night before that. The water is heated to a constant temperature above 30°C for many of the fish species that lived in the tank.

As the nights got colder and colder, the lower ambient temperature of the air surrounding the tank likely started causing deformations and hairline cracks in the bottom of the tank where the pressure is the greatest. Last night at -11° caused the ambient temperature to drop too low given the reduced heating in the lobby and is what it looks like caused the "sudden unintentional disassembly"/catastrophic failure of the tank.

Everyone is already lawyering up including the city, the HVAC manufacturer, tank manufacturer, HVAC installer, building engineer, hotel - the litigation is going to be fun to watch and work on.

What isn't covered in the news is damage. The tank in 2003 cost €13 million. Today its orders of magnitude more expensive to replace, some of the fish were quite exotic and are expensive losses in and of themselves. Then you have the damage to the hotel lobby and façade, electrical components of the building in the three-story basement are also effected and large amounts of water went into the parking garage where many vehicles are parked not only from the hotel and offices but from an attached apartment complex to the hotel.

Losses are tens of millions. All because the city made the hotel turn down the heat. I imagine someone will be blaming Putin before too long.
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Moscow. The aquarium in the Aviapark shopping center on Khodynskoye Pole is really striking in its height - it is 23 meters. The capacity of the aquarium is 400 cubic meters. Thanks to these record-breaking parameters, the aquarium in Aviapark was listed in the Guinness Book.
 

grayeyes

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reminds me of an oldie but goodie
if you enjoyed that also check this if you havent seen it yet well deserved cult classic title from 1932

whenever I would criticize someone for being any kinda different...she said
interestingly the girl that turned me onto this used to say ... how boring would the world be if everyone was the same ? god rest her soul!
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Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story,[6] Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes[7]) is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, and Roscoe Ates.

Freaks, originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney,[7] is set amongst the backdrop of a travelling French circus and follows a conniving trapeze artist who joins a group of carnival sideshow performers with a plan to seduce and murder a dwarf in the troupe to gain his inheritance. However, her plot proves to have dangerous consequences. The film is based on elements from the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins, first published in Munsey's Magazine in February 1923, with the rights being purchased by the studio, responsible by MGM art department chief Cedric Gibbons.[6][clarification needed]

Filmed in Los Angeles in the fall of 1931, some employees at MGM were discomfited by the presence of the actors portraying the "freaks" on set, and, other than the so-called more normal looking "freaks", the Siamese twins and the Earles, the performers were not allowed to be on the studio lot, relegated instead to a specially-built tent.[7] The film had test screenings in January 1932, with many members of the audience reacting negatively, finding the film too grotesque. In response to this, MGM executive Irving Thalberg, without consent of director Browning, edited the original 90-minute feature, which was significantly cut, with additional alternate footage incorporated to help increase the running time. The final abridged cut of the film, released in February 1932, was 64 minutes; the original version no longer exists.

Despite the cuts made to the film, Freaks still garnered notice for the portrayal of its eponymous characters by people who worked as sideshow performers and had real disabilities. These cast members included dwarf siblings Harry and Daisy Earles; Johnny Eck, who had sacral agenenis; the conjoined twin sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton; and Schlitzie, a man with microcephaly. Because of its controversial content, the film was banned in the United Kingdom for over 30 years, and was labelled as "brutal and grotesque" in Canada.[8]

Though it received critical backlash and was a box-office failure upon initial release, Freaks was subject to public and critical reappraisal in the 1960s, as a long forgotten Hollywood classic, particularly in Europe, and was screened at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. In retrospect, numerous film critics have suggested that the film presents a starkly sympathetic portrait of its sideshow characters rather than an exploitative one, with Andrew Sarris declaring Freaks one of the "most compassionate" films ever made.[9] Nonetheless, critics have continued to take note of the film's horror elements; in 2009, Joe Morgenstern proclaimed that Freaks contains some of the most terrifying scenes in film history. Film scholars have interpreted the film as a metaphor for class conflict, reflecting the Great Depression, and it has been studied for its portrayal of people with disabilities, with theorists arguing that it presents an anti-eugenics message. The film has been highly influential: it is now considered a cult classic and one of the greatest movies of all time. In 1994, it was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry, which seeks to preserve films that are classified "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[10][11]
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The Doll Family[a] was an American quartet of sibling entertainers with dwarfism from Stolpen, Germany. They were popular performers in circuses and sideshows in the United States from the mid-1910s until their retirement in 1958. The family members—Gracie, Harry, Daisy and Tiny—also appeared briefly in films;
they were best known as members of The Munchkins in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz.

Harry and Daisy, billed as Harry Earles and Daisy Earles respectively, both starred in the cult classic film Freaks; Tiny also made a brief appearance in the film.
I understood that there was a ban on the film until all the performers had passed on. I saw in in the early '70s and was amazed. Actually for the time a pretty good film
 

Three Berries

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Thanks for sharing the details
(y)
I visited that place once years ago with my daughter. Was prertty impressiv.

Hm, I'm no laywer, but would not some engineers overseeing the aquarium be at least partly responsible for not informing relevant parties about the danger of decreasing the ambient temperatur?
It's a good thing no one was around, they would have been swept away in the tsunami.

My guess is the engineers were never consulted when the new decrees were issued. No sense getting them involved if you can just say 'Make it So'
 

grayeyes

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They were asked to turn down the heat


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Haus-Targaryen

I am directly involved in the legal cleanup of this and can provide a little more detail as to what actually happened (Tyler, reach out to me you have my email if you'd like to verify my identity here).

The city of Berlin required the hotel reduce the ambient temperature of the hotel lobby to save on energy due to sanctions. Its been abnormally cold in Berlin the past few nights dipping down to -11°C last night and -12°C the night before that. The water is heated to a constant temperature above 30°C for many of the fish species that lived in the tank.

As the nights got colder and colder, the lower ambient temperature of the air surrounding the tank likely started causing deformations and hairline cracks in the bottom of the tank where the pressure is the greatest. Last night at -11° caused the ambient temperature to drop too low given the reduced heating in the lobby and is what it looks like caused the "sudden unintentional disassembly"/catastrophic failure of the tank.

Everyone is already lawyering up including the city, the HVAC manufacturer, tank manufacturer, HVAC installer, building engineer, hotel - the litigation is going to be fun to watch and work on.

What isn't covered in the news is damage. The tank in 2003 cost €13 million. Today its orders of magnitude more expensive to replace, some of the fish were quite exotic and are expensive losses in and of themselves. Then you have the damage to the hotel lobby and façade, electrical components of the building in the three-story basement are also effected and large amounts of water went into the parking garage where many vehicles are parked not only from the hotel and offices but from an attached apartment complex to the hotel.

Losses are tens of millions. All because the city made the hotel turn down the heat. I imagine someone will be blaming Putin before too long.
That makes as much sense as Newsome here in California encouraging electric vehicles but cautioning not to plug them in. Another bad idea.
 

mexweed

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so Germany does have some northern coast been a minute since I looked at a map, I was thinking the Netherlands and Poland closed it off, might as well be landlocked as far as those "exotic" fish are concerned
 

Three Berries

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A shock wave barreled toward Earth last night that cracked its magnetosphere, the region that shields our planet from harmful radiation.

The origin of the shockwave is unknown, but astronomers believe it came from an ejection of energetic and highly magnetized, superheated gas released from the sun - also known as a coronal mass ejection (CME).

The ejection may have been released from sunspot AR3165, which launched at least eight solar flares into space on December 14 that caused blackouts over the Atlantic Ocean, according to Space Weather.

While scientists are not sounding the alarm just yet, a crack can stay open for hours and let solar winds flow through.

The sunspot was observed crackling on December 14 and then released an M6-class explosion that hit Earth.
 

St. Phatty

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Nothing is Stranger than 9-11.

US Senator Al Franken states clearly in his Autobiography: he and New York Mayor Ed Koch had certain foreknowledge of 9-11. Former NYC Mayor Koch warned Senator Franken not to go to work at his office at the World Trade Center.

"One of the widely disseminated stories was that no SWEJ died in the collapse of the Trade Towers because they had received calls telling them not to go to work that day.

To tell you the truth, I got the SWEJ call. I had an office in the Trade Center where I used to do most of my writing. The call came from former New York mayor Ed Koch. "Al," he told me, "don't go to work on the twenty-third day of Elul."

About the SWEJ Calendar: 23 Elul 5761 = September 11, 2001.

Looks like they didn't try too hard to warn the 2900+ Gentile Americans that were Murdered on 9-11.

In the week after 9-11, the San Francisco Chronicle published a news article stating that California Politician Willie Brown ALSO received a phone call warning him not to fly on 9-11.

So much for the Official US Government Conspiracy Theory re 9-11.
They said they didn't know ... THEY KNEW.

The Short Version: Israel did 9-11, with help from Saudi Arabia & Israel Supporters in the United States Government.



The photo showing Molten Steel leaking out of the bottom of the World Trade Center building was taken from street level by a local New York City TV camera-man, at 9:54 AM on 9-11.

If you think talking about 9-11 is Disrepectful to the 9-11 families, talk to Kristen Breitweiser, Founder and Co-Chairperson, September 11th Advocates, and Member, 9/11 Family Steering Committee.
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References.
1. "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil"
by LAPD Detective, Michael Ruppert.
2. "Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed The World"
by Author & Historian, Christopher Bollyn.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
5. GREAT WEBCASTS with Historian & Journalist Chris Bollyn.


6. GREAT WEBCAST with Professor Alan Sabrosky -
 

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