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    ever heard of very many tall people that live over 80?

    A highly anecdotal observation. It's true people tend to lose height as they age, and also the very tall, who are self-evidently a minority at younger ages, may be less in evidence among any random selection of the minority of those who end their days in care homes. If your hypothesis is that...
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    Sad to be alone in my appreciation of another era

    I had gathered that might be so - the OP just seemed to me a slight case of ... no I won't say it, I've already been accused of trolling so I'll leave this to the navel-gazers.
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    Sad to be alone in my appreciation of another era

    My point entirely. There are some people who wake up with far worse things to worry about than whether they are living in the wrong era. Sorry if my posting came over like a slap in the face with a cold fish though.
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    Sad to be alone in my appreciation of another era

    If I may say so, your troubles do not sound so bad.
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    Enemy Aliens During WW2

    The internment of aliens may seem an outrageous and extreme over-reaction by contemporary standards, but was entirely understandable given the experience in occupied Europe where fifth-columnists, collaborators and Quislings were a reality, and often an extension of subversive ethnic-nationalist...
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    Riders Room (Hamburg) Break In

    Discriminating villains.
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    Dinner guest?

    Evelyn Waugh. Perhaps with fellow author Anthony Powell.
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    'Everyone lied to me': Hitler's rant in bunker

    In fact that would have been his only chance of achieving anything at all, and it wasn't ever likely to happen. Hitler's monumental errors of strategy have been well catalogued by various historians. The more I read about the war, the more whimsical his big game of bluff seems. Hitler was a...
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    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    I don't think it's over yet, certainly not in Europe. Greece, Spain and Portugal are in a grave situation and there is the potential to draw in Italy, possibly even France and Germany. So far there is no sign of a coherent economic strategy emerging.
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    That wasn't quite what I had in mind when I mentioned 'vintage things' (I only started my CD collection about 10 years ago) but its interesting how fast things age now.
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    Pro and Cons of Mortgage Strategic Defaults.

    My grandparents posted back the keys to their house, through the office door of the building society that had arranged their mortgage, in 1936 - my grandpa had over-estimated his earning capacity, during the depth of the 1930s slump. I think doing that caused a lot of anguish for them...
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    I agree with you about the soup kitchens of course Kiwi and I had not realised they still existed in some form in the States. The point I was trying to make was really about unemployment and destitution - while these still haven't gone away in some places, conditions now are quite far removed...
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    Kiwi, you're trying to shoot me down in flames but it won't work. Life expectancy in the USA was 59 in 1930, and 78 in 2010, which suggests some improvement in living standards. Ebola? Only one case anywhere in the world in 2011. You don't have to be an incurable optimist, but it helps.:cool:
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    Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

    Thank you.
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    German magazine scans 1930s

    But not such an easy look to carry off, say, on the London Underground, or at work. Their practical advantages have largely fallen by the wayside.
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    Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

    Overlooking the interesting discussion of prejudice and segregation, which happens in my country also, I'm afraid I was more interested in your mention of 19th C functioning stables. Do these belong to individual houses (i.e. coach houses as we have) or are they communal in some way? In what way...
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    You had warm heating??
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    Most of these look as if they are just empty, for whatever reason. There are some places in the UK like that (the bottom right picture looks a bit like a street in Liverpool I visited when I was looking for student accommodation), but the true slums of the 30s-60s were different. Not all...
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    There is an argument for it, but personally I am against it. I was whacked once or twice at school and I'm certainly not saying it did me any harm, quite the reverse as no doubt I deserved it, but I just don't like it. I was careful to say these things had not completely gone away, but by...
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    Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime

    Just to start with, what about... polio TB cars that rust and break down bad food slum dwellings killer smogs soup kitchens corporal punishment at school outdoor privies atomic bomb paranoia what else? (I know, they haven't all completely disappeared, but nearly.)

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