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Date: 13 Jan 2025 21:53:02 GMT
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:26:02 +0100, D wrote:

> 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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqgRC5sfCaQ

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.

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. 

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Georgia

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.