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Serial killers fascinate me too @vikingqueen! True crime is such a popular topic nowadays. I'd love to get inside their mind. Have you watched Mindhunter? Annoyingly it got cancelled before it was finished but that was a great look at Edmund Kemper and BTK.
I love how you said you haven't done anything unique @Amberpearl and then list really interesting things! How did you get into being a jockey?
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I just find virtually EVERYTHING fascinating?!! I'm still quite childlike in i just want to learn new things all the time, i just soak up knowledge like a sponge, i can't know enough stuff and it clutters my brain! Uniqueโฆ..not sure really, i used to love trains as a kid, and set a goal of visiting every train station in the UK, i'm currently halfway through roughly. Same with Football grounds, racecourses, cricket grounds, my Dad dragged me all over the place so i wanted to get to every single venue, like the trains, but it's seemingly an unobtainable goal!! I also have about 70 odd different beer bottles from different countriesโฆโฆ๐คค
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@Rachel_Scope โฆ re Bus Stops. After doing a lot of image searching, I like the ones that are straight lines and placed circles in them โฆ appeals to the designer in me. But there is one in Khyzastan (sp) where it looks like an old shipping container but got a huge statue of a soldier on a horse on top of it. The 2 worlds of opulence and derelict is โฆ wow 2. I think my fascination of Cuba being a country I'd loved to have visited is some of the architecture from the communist influence. Just stunning. Old world caribbean meets austere
re. the heat in the woods โฆ no fans, copious amounts of water and hydration tablets. Funny enough we only climbed trees to put cables in โฆ there's a saying, 12 inches of a tree at the base is worth 10 times the 12 foot at the top. Plus I was never a big fan of climbing โฆ not scared of heights โฆ it;s hitting the bottom that scared me ๐
@66Mustang โฆ I agree that certain jobs are looked at with snobbery, but without the people doing them the country would grind to a halt. My son left the teaching profession to become a barber โฆ more money, less stress. I know some people who have left the NHS and emergency services to work on the railway โฆ should a train cleaner be valued more than a Paramedic/ Nurse/ Policeman ? Morally no, but can you blame people wanting more money less stress if it's offered
Back onto Russia, I'll never forget a book I read in the 90's about life in The Gulags, but I can't remember the name ๐คฃ It was brutal. A bit like the Japanese POWs. You had to be a special type of person to survive that regime
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I think more women find Serial Killers interesting than men. My wife and her friends certainly do. Research I call all the programmes they watch
I could never be one โฆ I hate touching raw meat โฆ that and the fact I'm not quite that physcologically damaged ๐คจ
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I know exactly which bus stop you mean @WelshBlue! Did you notice the suspended treasure chest? Such a contrast to the surroundings.
I've never looked into Cuban architecture but I definitely will. I'm not sure I'd cope with reading about the Gulags. I think I'll stick to the architecture ๐ You might be interested in Dacha, which are Russian holiday homes.
I don't how you survived in that heat without a fan!
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@Rachel_Scope โฆ that's the one. Isn't that' beautiful against the skyline, and flat vista. I hadn't noticed the chest. That adds a bit more surreality to it. I've seen the Dachas before. I love anything quirky. So much beautiful architecture in all the former soviet states
As for the heat โฆ being self-employed, it was work or not get paid. It took 6000 calories a day to only lose a stone over 3 months โฆ stop at a roadside caravan for breakfast baps. Food box in work. Chippy on the way home and then an evening meal. Mad days, considering I survive on 2 slices of toast some days now ๐
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My granddaughter and I reckon we are good for a perfect murderโฆ but I realised I really don't like blood so it would have to be plan B โฆ.still working on that though
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I must admit I'm not a lover of blood. Never minded my own but that of other people and it's a bit icky โฆ I could make some suggestions but don't want to be up on a conspiracy charge ๐
Nice you get good quality bonding time with your Grand-Daughter ๐
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Her mother wouldn't agree its quality time, she says she is expecting the call to bail us out any day now ๐
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I think my Dad could relate, he left a 36 year career as a detective to become an odd-job man/handyman for the NHS. Basically, he got paid to potter, which is something he enjoys. He said he got more "thank you"s from colleagues after 2 years of sweeping floors and fixing toilets than 3 decades locking up bank robbers and child rapists
Was the book you mentioned called A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
r.e. female serial killers and finding them more interesting there's a podcast my dad listened to which was about female killers, I can't remember the name but will have to ask him. I think the motive was on how they were treated vs. how they may be treated now - not in an attempt to absolve them but more mental health/support may have come into play rather than prison (or worse)
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A freind asked me to go horse riding aged 12
I was hooked
I went every weekend helping out all. Hours
I qualified as a riding instructor aged 21
I bought my first horse a foal when I was 18 and took her to a local raving stables I worked there for my horses training
I ended up working in 3 raving yards a point to point yard a show jumping yard and I ran 3 riding schools
I. Raced my horse over jumps
Long time ago now
It's hard work and you need to. Be very fit
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@Amberpearl I've done a little bit of horseriding and I can imagine how fit you must need to be to be racing over jumps! What was your first horse called?
Should we be concerned @vikingqueen!? ๐
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I think your'e all safeโฆI'm getting too old now but maybe my granddaughter will "take over the family business" ๐๐
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A Gran who wants to help her Grand-Daughter to be
famousinfamous isn't for everyone ๐Very envious of all your work with horses @Amberpearl. Such majestical animals
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@66Mustang โฆ I can imagine your Dad saw so many changes over the years and not all for the better. So many 'thankless' jobs out there
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Gold swallow
She raced in 87 88
Then got ephor
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After the collapse of the USSR, Moscow stopped funding the "cultural excesses" of the Newly Independent States, and culture there died out naturally, or rather, returned to its natural state. Besides bus stops, there were theaters and film studios. Now, they are the ruins of their former luxury. For example, after 1991, films and series were made in Ukraine for distribution in Russia, as the standard of living and income of its population did not cover the costs. During the Soviet era, actors, screenwriters, and directors could work simultaneously in Russia, Georgia, and, in general, in a host of different film studios across the country.
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This is clearly a statue of St. George and the dragon. It looks like they ran out of money for a pedestal.
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Thanks for another topic I can get stuck into @egiste2r! I'm particularly interested in animation so I'll definitely have a look into that.
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Hi! Pay attention to "Treasure Island" and "Winnie the Pooh", and from the modern ones -
"The Adventures of Peter and Wolf"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11948798/0
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