Not Auschwitz, but have visited Birkenau and can relate to the impressions described above. Very recently visited the exceptionally well preserved Breendonk camp in our country. We were actually planning to visit the Dossin Barracks the same day, but decided against it on our way out of the Breendonk camp. Neither of us was in the mood for more of that horror…

I don’t know a lot about this. We live in the suburbs since we just don’t like living in a busy city centre. We live near Ghent, where young people do live in such buildings a lot. But in a city like Ghent I suspect these kinds of houses/apartments are probably the most affordable, which is the deciding factor for young families. Not sure it has much to do with being isolated from the street noise here. We’re currently building a new house and are temporarily renting a place. We very nearly rented an apartment in such a courtyard block in Ghent. That was until the lady started telling us about the numerous great activities that were organised in the courtyard during the summer! Community BBQs! Concerts! Kubb championships! I’m pretty sure the noise in the streets is nothing compared to the courtyard noise in the summer, so she lost us there…

Weird.

@taiwan_girl said in Buying Votes: I think that the student loan removal is one the things that everybody on this forum board thinks is a bad idea. I've got two kids in college, I think it's an awesome idea and will instruct the American one to vote accordingly.

FFS. I once went to lunch with a coworker who ordered soup and sandwich combo, then made a fuss because he only got half a sandwich. I just wanted to crawl under the table and out the door so no one would see me with him.

@jon-nyc said in "Vehemently denies": Does he say PRO-cess too? Oh, yeah. And them there's the "out..."

I remember my Dad meeting a work colleague of mine who lived in Bridgeport CT. When he mentioned that, my Dad said “I spent VJ Day in Bridgeport” and described what it was like. I got a real feel for how old he was on that day.

Ah, it was last week...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unsuccessful with his request to discuss endorsing the Democratic nominee in exchange for a top administration job, according to two people briefed on the outreach. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/us/politics/rfk-jr-kamala-harris-cabinet-meeting.html

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Moved to Yorkshire

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[image: 1723733801083-25eaa5be-7f5a-46b0-82a8-0f39d901dc4d-image.png] So Jon votes for Trump. I knew it.

Multiple arrests - drug dealers and a doc. https://www.tmz.com/2024/08/15/matthew-perry-arrests-ketamine-death-investigation/

I’ve never been to the Holocaust museum there. But I’ve been to Yad Vishem and toured Auschwitz and Birkenau. The latter was particularly impactful. Unlike Auschwitz, it’s not really a museum with exhibits. It’s just an empty camp. When I saw it, it was late in the day after all the tourist buses had left. Virtually all visitors come via bus from Krakow. I was with my Polish girlfriend at the time and we drove there. It was just us, no one else, walking through that camp. It was silent and eerie, and unchanged. It could have been the summer of 1945.

Bollinger gave almost a years notice.

You’re right… Normally, you only fund that much stash in an ice cream truck.

The analogy to the pub crowd is not lost.