Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:26:02 +0100, D wrote:
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The company should have offered language classes for everyones safety!
This sounds like swedish/danish cooperative ventures, where each group
insist that the other can understand them, since the language are so
close. This never works.

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Some of the extra material on the Bron/Broen DVDs mentioned that :) One of
the Swedish actresses mentioned being on a bus in Copenhagen, hearing a
girl say 'skumfidus', and thinking it must be something dirty.

Haha, yes. Skumfidus sure sounds vaguely dirty. On the other hand, swedes should be careful about "bolla" which works in the other direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqgRC5sfCaQ
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That may work for Swedes and Danes too. Our PBS shows are often British
but late on Saturday nights they can be more diverse. They're subtitled
but the one last Saturday was strange. It wasn't German but it sounded
like something I should understand, if that makes any sense, unlike French
or Italian shows.
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The molding plant I referred to had moved from Connecticut to rural
Georgia, attracted by cheap labor. They had not taken into account the
difference in work ethic. As the week progressed the work force thinned
out. By Friday there weren't many people besides our crew and the foreman
who had relocated from Connecticut. I think he was in his 40's but had a
heart attack, possibly brought on by dealing with the frustration.
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The town was dry so we had to go to Athens, about 30 miles away, for R&R.
The university was there so it was a little more civilized. Madison billed
itself as the only town Sherman didn't burn on his way to the sea.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Georgia
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This was the early '70s and southern rock was just starting to take off. I
had long hair and a beard and after staring at me for a while the busboy
at the local restaurant finally worked up the courage to come over and ask
'Are y'all one of them rock musicians?" About 10 years later Athens would
spawn R.E.M as rural Georgia caught up with the US.

You must have been very popular with the women at that time? I imagine very strict, conservative southern beauties, and there you are, quiet the hippie, long hair and stuff. Crazy times!