I did not go and see War Dogs

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The ticket would have been 10 euros, but I used this money (or less actually) to buy a book of the history of my town at one flea market. It discusses many matters already from the late 1400s. My town has its 200-year industrial history, but very interesting was how some parts of the town have got their names. Basically many names are based on real last names of families who lived in those areas already in the beginning of the 1500s. It is a great book.

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A movie in the United States cost the same, but popcorn and a drink for 1 person can also cost more than the ticket. Is it the same there?

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I have not gone to movies in many years … I do not know.

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I stay home now too

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I might see it again tomorrow :wink:

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I have told in the past how I visit one graveyard every summer. In this graveyard there are buried people who died during the construction of one main canal of the town. I always thought that they died when they built an old canal, but now I learned it was during the construction of the new canal. They are buried in mass graves. It was interesting to find out what the living conditions were back then, this was in the 1860s. I learn more and more about my home town.

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Interestingly this was around at the time of the Civil war in America … fascinating … here is this Confederate song again :smile:

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That’s awful, mass graves? Maybe they froze to death because building a canal in Finland in the 1800s sounds brutal

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Actually there was the great famine, people did not have food to eat, it was cold and lakes were frozen until the end of May … know the history to avoid it in the future …

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People who came from many places of Finland to build this new canal in the 1860s got food as their payment, some had brought their family who lived in terrible living conditions, but they built this new canal and the future generations can be proud of their sacrifices …

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@mjseu Happy Bithday! :birthday:

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Thanks …

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Happy birthday from me too

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Thanks …

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Yesterday I went to a reunion antique show here that displayed old steam engines! It was really interesting and you would have loved it.

These things formed a parade around the grounds and an elderly gentleman on a electric scooter cut this thing off, his scooter was run over but he luckily was fine. The steam engine parade stopped dead while emergency workers freed him and his electric scooter . This steam tractor is from the 1900s

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Happy birthday @mjseu!

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crikey thats pricey xx i usually go to tesco in uk, get popcorn and a can coke then get my ticket from cinema with EE because on wednesday its about 3/4 price xx only at Vue cinema though xxxx

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When I was in America I went to 1-dollar movies … so the price was one dollar.

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we had one of those in the town I use to live in, but really it was three dollars a person instead of a dollar. popcorn was 2 dollars. I never bought a soda so I don’t know how much that would cost.