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  1. 1 hour ago, Texzilla588 said:

    So if you want a barely related movie on postwar Germany that is actually very funny watch One Two Three with James Cagney as a CocaCola exec in 50’s Berlin with his family.

    During wwII Coke had engineers imbedded with combat troops.  They had some sort of sweetheart deal to set up bottling plants as the army advanced.  After all you need good sources of clean water.   The French dubbed it Coca-colonization.  It lead to some of De Gaulle's pushback against American cultural spread after the war and France's resistance to all things English & American.

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    Coca-Cola in World War II
    During World War II, Coca-Cola ran a series of ads which expressed Coca-Cola as a patriotic brand which greeted Americans wherever they went, ‘reminding them of home’.

    In 1941, America entered World War II and thousands of US citizens were sent overseas. To show support for those brave men and women, Coca-Cola President Robert Woodruff ordered that “every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola for five cents, wherever he is and whatever it costs the company.”

    When U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower saw the early success of bottling plants, he sent a pressing telegram addressed to Coca-Cola’s headquarters in Atlanta. Dated June 29, 1943, his request included 10 portable factories, 6 million filled bottles of Coke a month, and the materials and resources to provide American GIs with refreshingly cool Cokes.

    Vital equipment, gear, and food for survival packed the cargo decks and rooms aboard supply ships. Anything that wasn’t used for survival was viewed as nonessential, and that included crates of Coke. When Eisenhower’s plea was received by high-level executives from Coca-Cola, they started devising a plan to bring distribution of Cokes to combat areas.

    Six months following the message, a Coca-Cola representative flew to the capital of Algeria to implement the paper plans into actionable construction of the first bottling plant. Eisenhower anticipated only 10 would be sufficient but, to his surprise, 64 bottling lines were by the war’s end.

    Soon, 148 representatives from Coke filled the ranks with an official title of “Technical Observers,” or TOs. The TOs were given army fatigues, treated like commissioned officers, and had one responsibility: to serve Coke to every American GI, no matter where they were located. Americans welcomed the TOs without prejudice. Their inclusion into these units earned them the nickname “Coca-Cola Colonels,” and they worked tireless days, two returning home in flag-draped caskets.

    The “Have A Coke” promotions featured ads with unique art accompanied by underlying meanings of the expression. All featuring people smiling with bottles of Coke, the ads used a message to appease civilians and armies alike. By the end of World War II, over 5 billion bottles were distributed to those in uniform, and Coca-Cola transformed the experimental war-time plants into fully operational facilities.

     

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  2. On 3/13/2024 at 10:40 PM, Parliament said:

    Zeihan says Russia has 25 years worth of dumb bombs to strap guidance fins onto.  That's a stretch, but still.  Not encouraging.

     

    Good thing he's a joke and prone making outlandish prognostications and presenting erroneous information like it's the gospel.  If you take this guy seriously, you need to look for better analysis. 

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  3. 15 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

    On the other hand - I'm getting very tired of the "oh well, we lost another Starship" casualness.  You are eventually going to run out of taxpayer money (funneled through Elon).

     

    I agree with your sentiment.  It's helpful to consider that other Aerospace Cos just lose that money without launching a thing. 

    They just burn that money in the waterfall design process.  Starliner?  When will it fly in production?  

    I think that Space X has shown that they can deliver, and perhaps more importantly can capture the public's attention and therefore government cash.   Maybe think of these flights as 75% development 25% marketing

    Disclosure:  Fuck Space Elmo

  4. 12 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    There's one store way down I-65 that reliably carries it. I build my itinerary around it.

    Glass bottles?

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  5. 11 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Dat hairstyle doe.

    Agreed. Standing up for Blackthorne took guts, and the gift exchange was quite touching. 

    She's not scared of death...  she's hoping for it.  It's been 30yrs since I read the book, but IIRC it was some Japanese 5d chess.  Women ran the home and she was within her right to ask him to leave.  So he had leave or risk losing face.

    If she died protecting the guns, she has served Toranaga, protected her family honor, done her duty to the Gaijin, and gotten a quick death.  

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  6. On 3/11/2024 at 6:05 PM, MissingInAction said:

    90% subtitles is just too much to keep straight for my booze addled brain.

    I can do a show in Spanish because I speak the language..sort of. Enough to at least not have to stare at the subtitles the entire viewing.

    Well on Hulu you can go into episodes and choose the english dub version.  I normally hate dubs, but it's been pretty good so far (there are still some sub titles though)

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  7. 32 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Yeah, they did that for me with England and Ireland. It may be accurate, it may have to do with how many people there took the test. In my case, there's a good 1/4 of the family with Highland Scottish names who barely leave a blip. For some of them we know which town or island they came from, but no dice.

    On the other hand, pretty strong showings in the west of Ireland and round about Manchester, Liverpool, and nearby industrial areas. I don't doubt that many of them came from there too, it matches other names. So where are the Scottish Highlanders? Well, most of them don't live in the Highlands anymore, thanks to the clearances and normal backwoods emptying-out. So where might distant cousins from there live now? Possibly all over. Sitting in Manchester taking 23nMe tests?

    But in the meantime I just claim the Pogues and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

    Same-ish   Lots of Scottish surnames in my family and family lore of being predominantly Scots.  Ancestry returned majority English ~65% Scotish~17% Irish~13% and Germany/Norway making up the rest.

    Here's the rub... there is also a decent bit of French in my family...  I know this because I have genealogical records of ancestors coming directly from France.   This is why...


    Illegal DNA test in France
    It is considered illegal to take a DNA test outside of legal proceedings in France. According to the law, it is forbidden to carry out a genetic analysis in a private setting, for example on the internet or abroad. Therefore, as an individual, you do not have the right to use tests considered recreational through private laboratories.

     

    Bottom line these tests are only as accurate as the data they are compared against.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/22/578293890/my-grandmother-was-italian-why-arent-my-genes-italian

  8. 7 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

    Watched it yesterday and definitely weird. Has Emma Stone ever done nudity before because she was hella nude in this.

    You're Frankenstein description is spot on. They wanna fuck control her, not kill her.

    What happens to her former husband at the end still has me chuckling.

    That wrinkle was nicely set up.

  9. Poor Things...  it was good, but I have found that I'm thinking about the movie more and more. and not like that you pervs!

    Best line of the film.  

    Spoiler

    I am my own means of production

    A lot to unpack

  10. 1 hour ago, honolulu horn said:

    Worked at the FEC through undergrad. Loved working there, from being an usher to working security to being in the front office. The whole place was a blast and the people were cool to work with. Best times were when big shows would roll in -- you could meet the performers if you knew where to be when. I was never obnoxious about it, but I wasn't going to miss a chance to meet people. The best memories are shaking Stevie Ray's hand and working security outside of Van Halen's dressing room. Met all of them, they were all super cool, and Eddie warmed up for the show right in front of me. Thanks FEC for letting me meet and hang with my two guitar heroes. 

    man! I worked security @UF.   I only got to see Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, and Garth Brooks!  ^This is some bullshit!

     

    csb I was one of a few guys working security for a small indie band I'd never heard of.  It did not go well, toughest gig I ever worked.  It was Indigo Girls and the crowd was not really thrilled with the phallocracy.  Just 4 guys trying to tell 1000+ women what they could and could not do.  Not scary but very very hostile.

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