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  1. missjo

    The tobacco speakeasy...

    We've got quite a few pubs in the Netherlands that refuse to abide by the law and are being tolerated by the government, so far. I'm not really a smoker myself, but all this anti smoking nonsense is almost making me want to become one.
  2. missjo

    The tobacco speakeasy...

    Yes but a real speakeasy would be a lot more fun.
  3. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    I turn the tables and laugh, giggle and shake my head at people who wear modern clothes.
  4. missjo

    are we becoming too self-centered?

    Yes I think we are. We are living in a society of consumers and individualism. In olden days we were told we should know our place, we were part of communities, families, neighbourhoods while today in big cities its a miracle if you even know your neighbours. In stead of teachers and parents...
  5. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Technically you can say that we have some issues, in one way or another we are trying to escape reality and shut out the real world... but then again so is anyone who watches tv, reads a book, plays computer games, etc, etc.
  7. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Sounds excellent. I like the idea of living like the Amish but am not at all keen on religion.
  8. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Nobody can prove it. The National Institute for War studies did a lot of very detailed research (especially after some American writer wrote a book claiming she knew who did it) and their conclusion is that we just don't know who betrayed them. As many of the SD archives were destroyed we will...
  9. missjo

    My dream; a 1930s Lunchroom

    Oliebollen? No, I'd need to fry those and there won't be much hot food in my lunchroom :) But we may get a few around the end of the year.
  10. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    There is really no way to say who betrayed them and how this traitor found out about them. Some sources claim that the message even told the Germans how many Jews there were, that is something a burglar would not have known. A burglar could have told the Germans about there being 'someone' in...
  11. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Nobody knows, they may not even have been betrayed (on purpose).
  13. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    It fits very well with other historical sources. Many Jews in 1930s Holland lived like everyone else and experience no or little discrimination, or at the worst they were as much discriminated against as any other side of society, communists hated socialists, catholics looked down on...
  14. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Well that only proofs that looking at the past is not just a historical thing but also a regional thing. Dating a black guy would have given me as a woman in 1930s Amsterdam less problems then dating a communist or protestant. Not saying there was no racism, but compared to the situation in...
  15. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Also, people generally don't change much but the social barriers that keep us from misbehaving get higher and lower in certain eras. All the bad things that happened then happen today as well. I've done research into incest, pedophilia, teen pregnancy, rape, it happened in the 1930s as well as...
  16. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    But some of the old diseases have been replaced by new ones. Old risks are now gone but we have different risks. Medical science moves forward but hospitals have gotten dirtier and the way you get treated in hospitals has gone downhill. As for getting arrested for dating certain women, not sure...
  17. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    Exactly. Another problem is that the 1930s have SUCH a bad image that saying anything even remotely positive makes people accuse you of looking at the subject with pink sunglasses. And yes, people don't like to hear that sometimes progress isn't as good as we would like to think, we don't like...
  19. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    As for the 1930s being a time of fear and terror... for an educated woman living in 1930s Amsterdam life could be pretty good as long as you knew how to look after yourself. The past was worse then many nostalgic people think but not as bad as many other people think.
  20. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    I see myself as a realist nostalgist, or in short; even though I know about all the bad things of the past, I still prefer it to the present and wouldn't mind living there, at least for a while. But yes, many people are nostalgic without being realistic, which is fine. As a researcher I know...
  21. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    The only thing is that it is different. It is almost like any other kind of movement that isn't familiar to the average public. Why are some people gothic or punk, why do some people who don't live in France like to have a 'French country kitchen' in their home, why do people have a religion...
  22. missjo

    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    I wonder why anybody would want to live 24/7 in the current time period. ;)
  23. missjo

    My dream; a 1930s Lunchroom

    That is horrendous.

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