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  1. posting some of this here, copied from the Italy thread, bc suddenly i'm hitting both (along with Germany) and i have no idea what i'm doing 😄 we're going mid-May.

    family trip, Germany first. we're doing some WWII sites, renting a car and heading to Normandy. my French exchange student lives in Brest, she's going to meet us somewhere, i think we're just going to tour some of the countryside around there, i still need to do research on what to see (other than WWII sites which my dad is planning). at least 2 days in Paris (we actually love cities)... then we were going to just drive back to Frankfurt and fly home... but then my mate said something about 'too bad we're not going to visit Italy' and I was like...pause... actually, we can do whatever we want to do lol.

    so now dad and sis will take car and head back to Germany/home and we're gonna add another 4-5 days and probably fly home from Rome. i'm already on top of booking the train Paris>Rome.

    i mean i figure we will likely never be back there again so there are some musts in Paris and Rome. Florence seems to be the other stop folks recommend the most. 

    anyways...we've been talking about this trip for a few years, but not actually doing anything for it. then my dad had shoulder surgery, then fell and broke his leg last summer or we might have done it in the fall. bottom line... i purchased one-way tickets Denver>Frankfurt last weekend, so this is happening one way or another 😆😮 

    i'll be perusing both threads from the beginning in the coming weeks...i really want to keep this pretty relaxed without a hard itinerary, but i know train tickets and some sites will need prior purchase. downloaded the Trainline app, felt super fancy 😋

    j'ai etudie' le francais pour sept ans, en l'ecole secondaire et a l'universite'. je sais assez pour dire 's'il vous plait, parlez lentement?' 😄 je vais essayer...meme si c'est terrible 😆 

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  2. oh yeah? well i am also going to Italy, in late May. and it's totally impromptu...family trip,  Germany first. my dad lived in Kitzigen and i was born there. we're doing some WWII sites, renting a car and heading to Normandy. my French exchange student lives in Brest, she's going to meet us somewhere, i think we're just going to tour some of the countryside around there, i still need to do research on what to see (other than WWII sites which my dad is planning). at least 2 days in Paris (we actually love cities)... then we were going to just drive back to Frankfurt and fly home... but then my mate said something about 'too bad we're not going to visit Italy' and I was like...pause... actually, we can do whatever we want to do lol.

    so now dad and sis will take car and head back to Germany/home and we're gonna add another 4-5 days and probably fly home from Rome. i'm already on top of booking the train Paris>Rome.

    i have no idea what i'm doing, never visited anywhere overseas 😜... but i figure we will likely never be back there again so there are some musts in Paris and Rome. 

    anyways...we've been talking about this trip for a few years, but not actually doing anything for it. then my dad had shoulder surgery, then fell and broke his leg last summer or we might have done it in the fall. bottom line... i purchased one-way tickets Denver>Frankfurt last weekend, so this is happening one way or another 😆😮 

     

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  3. American Animals... as i continue with my new Barry Keoghan obsession lol. this one also had Evan Peters who is on quite an impressive little run.

    good little movie, interesting story. neat approach of interspersing the real life guys throughout.  enjoyed the Oceans 11-type imagining of the caper...not quite how it turned out haha. i do hope they were/are all able to establish productive and happy lives post-prison, i def got a sense of real remorse and regret from all of them, these were dumb boys not natural criminals. 

  4. Denzel is on that list. I don't think that's accurate. he's very Christian (like, a real one, with extensive philanthropy and such) and he's very critical of MSM...but rumors of him leaving the democratic party were debunked years ago. that list is pretty suspect.

  5. 1 hour ago, Chewbacca said:

    He's not going to give any more info on the tax bill thing.  He knows he's either full of shit, or withholding pertinent information.

    well at least he's not paying 60%!

  6. 44 minutes ago, pacman said:

     

     

    part of me sees this and just wants to laugh and say 'cute, fatty still likes to play war like we did with sticks back in the old days, bless his heart i hope he has fun' but then i think how many are actually into this play-acting to the point they lose the concept of reality and someone gets hurt/killed. Rittenhouse, Perry, etc., and it's really just all pathetic and terrifying. 

     

  7. 49 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Don’t fucking #bothsides me motherfucker. Joe is in the seat. He gets the current credit for enabling genocide. If Trump or anyone else was, they would get it too. Only difference is some of you would be able to actually find your voice in that situation. Just how it rolls when you clear the deck for arms shipments, cause the real emergency is the shortage of bombs in the region. LNG. Oh no problem putting up administrative hurdles. It’s a crisis after all. Running out of bombs for Gaza. Let’s figure out how to expedite.  

     

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  8. On 1/5/2024 at 12:24 PM, crash_davis said:

    A body found in a San Diego freezer last month may have been that of a woman who has been missing or dead for up to nine years, police said Thursday.

    "Out-of-town" family members who were visiting a residence called local authorities when they discovered the body in the freezer, police said in December.

    The family members are related to someone who currently lives in the home and are not related to the woman found in the freezer, according to police. Police added the freezer was running when the body was found.

    Police identified the body Thursday as that of Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones, 81, a white woman.

    "Based on the investigation to this point, detectives believe it is possible that Haxby-Jones may have been missing or dead for up to nine years," police said.

    Police said no missing person's report was ever filed for Haxby-Jones.

    She is believed to have lived at the address on Zion Avenue "at some point prior to the discovery of her body," police said.

    Police said that the cause of death has yet to be determined and that the medical examiner's office is investigating, adding that "no obvious traumatic injury to the body was noted."

    As they continue to investigate the case "as a suspicious death," detectives are asking anyone who may have known Haxby-Jones or has any information about her to come forward. 

     

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