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Maybe the Kosovo guy was brainwashed into believing pork was bad for him.  Could have been wound up to believe some harm would result.  Or perhaps it was too greasy or oily or even salty - that's happened to me before.

-@fluffy2560

I don't think he was brainwashed or something like that. Actually was very interested in local food, and wanted to try out many - actually did.

Similar happens regulary with Hungarians who come from rural areas where never tried out certain foods and they end up in a cheap Chinese Fast Food Restaurant. Many finds awful even the first try.

Or one of my earliest memories: France, first encounter with uht parmalat "milk":

Actually spit out and said: it is no milk.

Maybe the Kosovo guy was brainwashed into believing pork was bad for him. Could have been wound up to believe some harm would result. Or perhaps it was too greasy or oily or even salty - that's happened to me before.

-@fluffy2560

I don't think he was brainwashed or something like that. Actually was very interested in local food, and wanted to try out many - actually did.

Similar happens regulary with Hungarians who come from rural areas where never tried out certain foods and they end up in a cheap Chinese Fast Food Restaurant. Many finds awful even the first try.

Or one of my earliest memories: France, first encounter with uht parmalat "milk":
Actually spit out and said: it is no milk.
-@sjbabilon5

I remember that Parmalat UHT milk.  Modern equivalents are definitely better.   I was in Auchan recently and you can get so many types of "milk" - oat, almond etc.   I cannot say I like the oat or almond versions.  I just had a small glass of fresh milk.  Very refreshing.

A bad experience of international cuisine will scar you for life. I accidentally went in a North Korea restaurant in an Asian city.  It was absolutely dreadful.  But I was guessing at the menu.  I could have been ordering anything.   We didn't realise it was North Korean and I only noticed later on when I read an article about North Korean restaurants being used to obtain hard currrency.

My experience of Chinese and Indian restaurants evolved from experiences in the UK which has a long history of ethnic restaurants from its colonies.  Very tasty.   Further afield, I quite like Indonesian food as experienced as a rijsttafel (rice table), a Indonesian style banquet.  With sambal - hot sauce. Sateh.  Fantastic. 

I also think a persons DNA is a factor in what they can or can not digest.
I know northern people drink allot of raindeer milk while someone who roots are from another region might not be able to digest that much dairy.

-@Marilyn Tassy

Not that much directly DNA.
In many regard depends on blood type (offf course can be said that depends on DNA).

Also depends on how did the person grow up.
If someone did not consume milk as kid (milk - not some UHT factory preoduct) then probably cannot digest it, nor if did not consdumed real milk in like 20- 30 years.

Same goes for others.
Like I know a guy, who did grow up in Kosovo, he was no muslim, but people around him were. There was no pork at all, so later when he was circa 30 tried out pork dish, and was unable to digest, actually felt sick and vomited.
Simply because his body was not ready to deal with it.

Or as famous example:
https://www.newsweek.com/woman-tries-fi … ps-1710109
-@sjbabilon5

I didn't touch any red meat for over 30 plus years. After say 7 years I did eat chicken but not often and also added fish but not more then once a week.

Most of our protien came from beans and cheese and eggs.

Once I was visiting from Hawaii and my sister and I met with some Hungrain friends. They talked me into trying just a tiny bite of sausage. I felt ill for days afterwards.

I did 30 years no red meat and my husband who's idea it was to stop eating meat lasted only 7 years.

He started eating again because he started working again with Hungarians. They laughed at a grown man who didn't eat meat. Silly to listen to them. Guess it was a macho thing?

One day out of the blue I had the strongest craving for a fried piece of steak with garlic.I ignored the craving until i couldn't take it any longer.

Now looking back, I wonder if I did more self harm then good by not getting enough protien all those years.

I have O neg. blood and they say they should have more meat in their diets then other blood types.

My son is also O neg and he doesn't eat much meat at all. Of course he was raised without meat in the home.

The only meat he got was under the table when he visited his granny, sworn not to tell us what she gave him.

I nursed my baby for what in the west is a long time. 13 months. He didn't want to touch anything solid food for well over his first 6 months.

He loved milk and sometimes wouldn't eat anything but demand milk all day long.

At age 12 we discovered he had a rare bone condition which needed several surgeries.

I wonder if his early diet had anything to do with him getting a bone cyst?

They say it usually develps in children around age 3 but it takes years for the bones to turn into glass and break.

Thankfully that condistion was just in one area in his upper left arm.

At UCLA they x-rayed his entire body because some children have it all over . Shocking really.

I still sort of blame myself because he must of been missing something from his diet at an early age.

Hard to force feed a child though if they don't want to eat anything .  He had a few things he would eat, a hazlenut cereal from a health food store made for babies, sweet potatoes and peas. Apricots and peaches and sometimes papaya or bannanas.

Same goes for others.
Like I know a guy, who did grow up in Kosovo, he was no muslim, but people around him were. There was no pork at all, so later when he was circa 30 tried out pork dish, and was unable to digest, actually felt sick and vomited.
Simply because his body was not ready to deal with it.

Or as famous example:
https://www.newsweek.com/woman-tries-fi … ps-1710109
-@sjbabilon5

Maybe the Kosovo guy was brainwashed into believing pork was bad for him.  Could have been wound up to believe some harm would result.  Or perhaps it was too greasy or oily or even salty - that's happened to me before.

Hmmmm....crispy bacon sandwich with mushrooms (preferably with HP sauce) or a BLT. What's not to like?

Crisp woman had a block removed by hypnosis so it wasn't physical but mental. I am quite impressed the hypnosis worked very quickly - if it's not exaggerated in the article.
-@fluffy2560

Years ago when I was in my 20's I was sent to hypnosis for pain management after someone crashed into my car.

I can't say if I ever really went under but it was relaxing . The women did a tirual of lowering the lights while I was in a comfy chair and just speaking soft and having me visualize things.

She was nice but honestly, my neck was still sore.

I didn't touch any red meat for over 30 plus years. After say 7 years I did eat chicken but not often and also added fish but not more then once a week.
Most of our protien came from beans and cheese and eggs.
Once I was visiting from Hawaii and my sister and I met with some Hungrain friends. They talked me into trying just a tiny bite of sausage. I felt ill for days afterwards.
I did 30 years no red meat and my husband who's idea it was to stop eating meat lasted only 7 years.
He started eating again because he started working again with Hungarians. They laughed at a grown man who didn't eat meat. Silly to listen to them. Guess it was a macho thing?
One day out of the blue I had the strongest craving for a fried piece of steak with garlic.I ignored the craving until i couldn't take it any longer.
Now looking back, I wonder if I did more self harm then good by not getting enough protien all those years.
I have O neg. blood and they say they should have more meat in their diets then other blood types.
My son is also O neg and he doesn't eat much meat at all. Of course he was raised without meat in the home.
The only meat he got was under the table when he visited his granny, sworn not to tell us what she gave him.
I nursed my baby for what in the west is a long time. 13 months. He didn't want to touch anything solid food for well over his first 6 months.
He loved milk and sometimes wouldn't eat anything but demand milk all day long.
At age 12 we discovered he had a rare bone condition which needed several surgeries.
I wonder if his early diet had anything to do with him getting a bone cyst?
They say it usually develps in children around age 3 but it takes years for the bones to turn into glass and break.
Thankfully that condistion was just in one area in his upper left arm.
At UCLA they x-rayed his entire body because some children have it all over . Shocking really.
I still sort of blame myself because he must of been missing something from his diet at an early age.
Hard to force feed a child though if they don't want to eat anything . He had a few things he would eat, a hazlenut cereal from a health food store made for babies, sweet potatoes and peas. Apricots and peaches and sometimes papaya or bannanas.
-@Marilyn Tassy

Needs a somehow balanced menu.

On average the only type of person who have some feedback on what she should eat: pregnant females with cravings towards certain foods.

Up to a point when they eat with sense: original and organic, no flavors, and not some common product from shops which are basically Ersatz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXTH3CYHSw

Kids especially needs a balanced menu.

That is a crime what they get in the false name of "healthy" food.

As for babies:

Actually in East Europe in the good old times was not recommended to give babies solid food under 1 year of age. Before 1990 they even upkept an expensive system countrywide: "mother milk stations" to collect brestmilk from the ones who have and deliver to the mothers who lack in sufficent quantity or don't have at all.

Basically a country - wide "wetnurse" program.

Years ago when I was in my 20's I was sent to hypnosis for pain management after someone crashed into my car.
I can't say if I ever really went under but it was relaxing . The women did a ritual of lowering the lights while I was in a comfy chair and just speaking soft and having me visualize things.
She was nice but honestly, my neck was still sore.
-@Marilyn Tassy

Sounds like my chiropractor.  She's very nice and does nice things to me.  But it doesn't last.  About 30 mins.

I need someone to permanently be on call to massage my neck and back.  It sounds like crinkly paper in there.

Mrs F is good at it but she has other things to do.

I didn't touch any red meat for over 30 plus years. After say 7 years I did eat chicken but not often and also added fish but not more then once a week.
Most of our protien came from beans and cheese and eggs.
Once I was visiting from Hawaii and my sister and I met with some Hungrain friends. They talked me into trying just a tiny bite of sausage. I felt ill for days afterwards.
I did 30 years no red meat and my husband who's idea it was to stop eating meat lasted only 7 years.
He started eating again because he started working again with Hungarians. They laughed at a grown man who didn't eat meat. Silly to listen to them. Guess it was a macho thing?
One day out of the blue I had the strongest craving for a fried piece of steak with garlic.I ignored the craving until i couldn't take it any longer.
Now looking back, I wonder if I did more self harm then good by not getting enough protien all those years.
I have O neg. blood and they say they should have more meat in their diets then other blood types.
My son is also O neg and he doesn't eat much meat at all. Of course he was raised without meat in the home.
The only meat he got was under the table when he visited his granny, sworn not to tell us what she gave him.
I nursed my baby for what in the west is a long time. 13 months. He didn't want to touch anything solid food for well over his first 6 months.
He loved milk and sometimes wouldn't eat anything but demand milk all day long.
At age 12 we discovered he had a rare bone condition which needed several surgeries.
I wonder if his early diet had anything to do with him getting a bone cyst?
They say it usually develps in children around age 3 but it takes years for the bones to turn into glass and break.
Thankfully that condistion was just in one area in his upper left arm.
At UCLA they x-rayed his entire body because some children have it all over . Shocking really.
I still sort of blame myself because he must of been missing something from his diet at an early age.
Hard to force feed a child though if they don't want to eat anything . He had a few things he would eat, a hazlenut cereal from a health food store made for babies, sweet potatoes and peas. Apricots and peaches and sometimes papaya or bannanas.
-@Marilyn Tassy


Needs a somehow balanced menu.
On average the only type of person who have some feedback on what she should eat: pregnant females with cravings towards certain foods.
Up to a point when they eat with sense: original and organic, no flavors, and not some common product from shops which are basically Ersatz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXTH3CYHSw

Kids especially needs a balanced menu.
That is a crime what they get in the false name of "healthy" food.

As for babies:
Actually in East Europe in the good old times was not recommended to give babies solid food under 1 year of age. Before 1990 they even upkept an expensive system countrywide: "mother milk stations" to collect brestmilk from the ones who have and deliver to the mothers who lack in sufficent quantity or don't have at all.
Basically a country - wide "wetnurse" program.
-@sjbabilon5

That's interesting.

My mother sadly had 6 children and didn't nurse any of us.

She was a stay at home mom too.

There was a huge brainwashing in the 1940's when my sisters were born in the USA.

The modern mother used formula and didn't breast feed.

No one wanted to be old fashioned. so insane how the media can warp the mind, I mean mothers have breastfeed since the beginning of time but all of a sudden in the 1940's they came up with a better way?? No way.

My mother was tricked to give her milk after she had her first baby and was still in the hospital. I guess women stayed in hspital for at least a week back then post birth.

Mom had no plans to breast feed my sister but the nursing staff took advantage of her ignorance and kind heart.

They told her that there was a very ill baby that needed breast milk and it's mother had issues with her mild supply.

They got my mther to use a pump and donate her good milk for this ill baby while my sister was getting the formula in a bottle.

Mom came home without getting any instructions on breast care. All that unused milk gave her an infection in her chest.

She was in allot of pain for no good reason. I think that experience scared her from even trying with the next 5 of us.

My husband born in Hungary was breast feed. His mother worked within weeks after he was born but she was able to get a short few breaks within the day to run home and feed him.

Years ago when I was in my 20's I was sent to hypnosis for pain management after someone crashed into my car.
I can't say if I ever really went under but it was relaxing . The women did a ritual of lowering the lights while I was in a comfy chair and just speaking soft and having me visualize things.
She was nice but honestly, my neck was still sore.
-@Marilyn Tassy

Sounds like my chiropractor. She's very nice and does nice things to me. But it doesn't last. About 30 mins.

I need someone to permanently be on call to massage my neck and back. It sounds like crinkly paper in there.

Mrs F is good at it but she has other things to do.
-@fluffy2560

I have inversion boots and in the states in storeage I have an inversion table.

Doesn't help much with the neck but helps with the back to stretch it out.

I haven't used my boots for several month however. My knee was hurting and I didn't want to chance being upside down and my knee being pulled too far.

I'm about ready to hang like a bat again very soon.

Laying backwards on a Swiss ball is easy, gentle and helps with back spazms.

My husband never gives me a message, he is afraid to. As they say, one thing leads to another...

Laying backwards on a Swiss ball is easy, gentle and helps with back spasms. My husband never gives me a message, he is afraid to. As they say, one thing leads to another...-@Marilyn Tassy

I've tried that big ball thing. We had one of those giant balls specifically for my back but the kids played on it quite a lot and punctured it. So now we have another one.

The backward stretch works for a bit but really needs to be almost full time to elongate everything and relieve the pressure.

One thing leading to another sounds good to me!

That's interesting.
My mother sadly had 6 children and didn't nurse any of us.
She was a stay at home mom too.
There was a huge brainwashing in the 1940's when my sisters were born in the USA.
The modern mother used formula and didn't breast feed.
No one wanted to be old fashioned. so insane how the media can warp the mind, I mean mothers have breastfeed since the beginning of time but all of a sudden in the 1940's they came up with a better way?? No way.
My mother was tricked to give her milk after she had her first baby and was still in the hospital. I guess women stayed in hspital for at least a week back then post birth.
Mom had no plans to breast feed my sister but the nursing staff took advantage of her ignorance and kind heart.
They told her that there was a very ill baby that needed breast milk and it's mother had issues with her mild supply.
They got my mther to use a pump and donate her good milk for this ill baby while my sister was getting the formula in a bottle.
Mom came home without getting any instructions on breast care. All that unused milk gave her an infection in her chest.
She was in allot of pain for no good reason. I think that experience scared her from even trying with the next 5 of us.
My husband born in Hungary was breast feed. His mother worked within weeks after he was born but she was able to get a short few breaks within the day to run home and feed him.
-@Marilyn Tassy

Sure modern woman use so much outside products/ services/ artificial goods for stupid reasons.

No wonder such words like "modern", "developed" are swears words for me.

Anyway the 1940's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwBfY13ozUI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

But off course to disregard/ supress breast feeding is good for big pharma: more sicly kids, more health problems as adult = more profit for the sick industry (officialy "Health" care).

Sure modern woman use so much outside products/ services/ artificial goods for stupid reasons.
No wonder such words like "modern", "developed" are swears words for me.

Anyway the 1940's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwBfY13ozUI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT


But off course to disregard/ supress breast feeding is good for big pharma: more sicly kids, more health problems as adult = more profit for the sick industry (officialy "Health" care).
-@sjbabilon5

You used to see adverts for Nestle powdered milk in Africa. All healthy smiling kids. They were being sold a lie.  "Breast is best" has always been true for thousands of years.  Ok, not every woman can produce enough milk but it's good for baby if they can. No-one is a failure if breast milk doesn't arrive sufficiently. I've got 4 kids and they had plenty of breast and formula milk products and they survived to be annoying teenagers and serious adults. But still those early days really are important.

It's a wonder my generation of Americans are still alive.

Jello- deserts, Tang drinks, Kool-Aid, processed tv dinners and drinking out of the garden hose. No helmets, being outdoors until dusk running here and there and God knows where.

Then again, we had allot of ourdoor exercise, and when mom's weren't popping tv dinners in the oven , they cooked fresh meals.

No tv until after dinner and early to bed. The only time we were allowed to sit around was if it was raining outdoors but even then we took walks in the rain.

I still remember my mother commenting on how lucky we were to have flouride in the drinking water!

Flouride, they put that is the gas chambers didn't they?

Our frugal step-father used to make his own mix of milk for us.

Half fresh milk and half powered milk. 3 glasses per day each.

He thought he could stretch out his money by using powered mix .

Can't blame him raising such a big family on one income.

I can hardly imgine many 28 year old men nowdays marrying someone 12 years older and taking on their 4 children to raise.

We still can't figure out if he was a saint or a lunatic.

Laying backwards on a Swiss ball is easy, gentle and helps with back spasms. My husband never gives me a message, he is afraid to. As they say, one thing leads to another...-@Marilyn Tassy

I've tried that big ball thing. We had one of those giant balls specifically for my back but the kids played on it quite a lot and punctured it. So now we have another one.

The backward stretch works for a bit but really needs to be almost full time to elongate everything and relieve the pressure.

One thing leading to another sounds good to me!
-@fluffy2560

Stress is a major issue with back pain.

A bit of different exercises helps but relaxing and deep breathing really helps.

I found allot of relief with doing yoga.

I no longer wish to do the ritual aspects of yoga but many of the streches help the entire body to relax joints .

You might be streching your feet and you neck will relax. It's strange but like they say, the shin bone is connected to the knee bone,etc.

I still remember my mother commenting on how lucky we were to have flouride in the drinking water!
Flouride, they put that is the gas chambers didn't they?
-@Marilyn Tassy

No, that was Zyklon-B which was a type of cyanide pesticide.  It might be the same gas they use to execute people in the gas chamber in some US states. 

Oddly, that's the 2nd time in 24h, Zyklon-B has come up in conversation. 

Your mother was very good to recognise the benefits of flouride in the drinking water. It prevents tooth decay.   

My eldest kids don't have any fillings and they are in their 30s.  My teeth on the other hand are mixture of metal screws, amalgam and ceramic bits and pieces.

Stress is a major issue with back pain.
A bit of different exercises helps but relaxing and deep breathing really helps.
I found allot of relief with doing yoga.
I no longer wish to do the ritual aspects of yoga but many of the streches help the entire body to relax joints .
You might be streching your feet and you neck will relax. It's strange but like they say, the shin bone is connected to the knee bone,etc.
-@Marilyn Tassy

I have thought about Yoga.  A friend of mine swears by it.  I think the problem is the discs in my neck and spine are narrowing.  Bending my head forward is helpful because it relieves the compression.  I don't think there's much that can be done to create more space between the vertebrae - it's just age related.  It's like I need someone to pull my head straight.  It really does sound like crunchy  paper in there.

I did think it's could be posture related because I lean over the computer a lot - like hunched up.  The chiropractor told me to stand up and use the computer and not sit down.  Then my back would be straight.  It would mean having a stand up desk or an elevated one.  If I do that, my knees and hips would probably go too.

Chiropractor also said she sees a lot of it - called it computers and commuting syndrome.

I still remember my mother commenting on how lucky we were to have flouride in the drinking water!

Flouride, they put that is the gas chambers didn't they?

-@Marilyn Tassy

No, that was Zyklon-B which was a type of cyanide pesticide. It might be the same gas they use to execute people in the gas chamber in some US states.

-@fluffy2560

The condemned person is strapped into a chair within an airtight chamber, which is then sealed. The executioner activates a mechanism which drops potassium cyanide (or sodium cyanide)pellets into a bath of sulfuric acid beneath the chair; the ensuing chemical reaction generates lethal hydrogen cyanide gas.

The condemned person is strapped into a chair within an airtight chamber, which is then sealed. The executioner activates a mechanism which drops potassium cyanide (or sodium cyanide)pellets into a bath of sulfuric acid beneath the chair; the ensuing chemical reaction generates lethal hydrogen cyanide gas.
-@SimCityAT

Not sure if they do that any more. 

I remember a movie with Susan Hayward called I Want to Live! 

Her character was convicted of murder and gassed. It was quite an accurate depiction I believe for a 1950s movie. It sure made an impression on me when I was a kid.  I am not sure it moved public opinion much though when it was released.

But in any case,  it's a pretty cruel way to send someone to the grave.

@SimCityAT

I just buy whatever is available and cook that. If foods become overpriced I take them off my list until the price drops again.

I can make any dish with substitutions.

The condemned person is strapped into a chair within an airtight chamber, which is then sealed. The executioner activates a mechanism which drops potassium cyanide (or sodium cyanide)pellets into a bath of sulfuric acid beneath the chair; the ensuing chemical reaction generates lethal hydrogen cyanide gas.

-@SimCityAT

Not sure if they do that any more.

I remember a movie with Susan Hayward called I Want to Live!

Her character was convicted of murder and gassed. It was quite an accurate depiction I believe for a 1950s movie. It sure made an impression on me when I was a kid. I am not sure it moved public opinion much though when it was released.

But in any case, it's a pretty cruel way to send someone to the grave.
-@fluffy2560

There are 6 states that have as a backup plan if the injection doesn't work or if the prisoner requests the gas chamber.

As of 2020, the last person to be executed in the gas chamber was German national Walter LaGrand, sentenced to death before 1992, who was executed in Arizona on March 3, 1999. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had ruled that he could not be executed by gas chamber, but the decision was overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

I still remember my mother commenting on how lucky we were to have flouride in the drinking water!

Flouride, they put that is the gas chambers didn't they?

-@Marilyn Tassy

No, that was Zyklon-B which was a type of cyanide pesticide. It might be the same gas they use to execute people in the gas chamber in some US states.

Oddly, that's the 2nd time in 24h, Zyklon-B has come up in conversation.

Your mother was very good to recognise the benefits of flouride in the drinking water. It prevents tooth decay. 

My eldest kids don't have any fillings and they are in their 30s. My teeth on the other hand are mixture of metal screws, amalgam and ceramic bits and pieces.
-@fluffy2560

Flouride makes your dumb from what I've heard. I was buying flouride free toothpaste for years.

I got hit with an illness 18 months ago which forced me to take some strong meds.

I'm fine now but gave up on the flouride free thoothpaste,too late to reverse the brain damage.

My mom said during the depression years they usually brushed with either salt of baking soda, toothpaste was for rich people.I also had tooth powders back then, not sure what they were exactly.

My mother lost one tooth for every baby she had.That's crazy.

I notice one of my bottom teeth is slowly looking crooked, I had a back tooth pulled out about 10 years ago. Had wanted to get another crown on it but the dentist botched it up and told me he could only pull it out.

I was thinking of seeing about a brace but no, it's OK. I am the only one to notice really.

I did wear a retaner from age 9 to 12. Just a temp. brace to striaghten out a front tooth.

I broke it just before the treatments were finished and my mom just siad it looked good enough, she wasn't buying another one.

My sister wore those huge metal braces for 6 long years. She had 4 teeth pulled out to make room in her face.

We have large strong teeth and her face was too tiny for her teeth.

Hell for her in school with braces on but when they came off she became a model.  She could of even been a boxer, she got into so many fights after school for being bullied about her braces. Mostly with boys, she beat them up.She had something to prove I suppose.

My son didn't need braces really but we got them for him anyways. He inherited a small gap between his front teeth, it was cute but at them time we decided to make his teeth perfect looking and even.

My father, eldest sister and son all had the family gap in their front teeth.

Think he wore them less the 2 years.

Stress is a major issue with back pain.
A bit of different exercises helps but relaxing and deep breathing really helps.
I found allot of relief with doing yoga.
I no longer wish to do the ritual aspects of yoga but many of the streches help the entire body to relax joints .
You might be streching your feet and you neck will relax. It's strange but like they say, the shin bone is connected to the knee bone,etc.
-@Marilyn Tassy

I have thought about Yoga. A friend of mine swears by it. I think the problem is the discs in my neck and spine are narrowing. Bending my head forward is helpful because it relieves the compression. I don't think there's much that can be done to create more space between the vertebrae - it's just age related. It's like I need someone to pull my head straight. It really does sound like crunchy paper in there.

I did think it's could be posture related because I lean over the computer a lot - like hunched up. The chiropractor told me to stand up and use the computer and not sit down. Then my back would be straight. It would mean having a stand up desk or an elevated one. If I do that, my knees and hips would probably go too.

Chiropractor also said she sees a lot of it - called it computers and commuting syndrome.
-@fluffy2560

A very boring but effective PT neck excersise is simple to do.

Get a small rubber ball, stand near the wall and do head rolls against the force of the wall. Side to side motions, up and down, back and forth.

They sell neck pulling devices where you place your head in a sling and sit in a chair. Their is a cord which you can control to add resistance and pull the neck muscles.

I had one of those, broke it though. My eldest sister goes to the chiro allot and also uses that neck device.

Just look online for neck traction machines.

The condemned person is strapped into a chair within an airtight chamber, which is then sealed. The executioner activates a mechanism which drops potassium cyanide (or sodium cyanide)pellets into a bath of sulfuric acid beneath the chair; the ensuing chemical reaction generates lethal hydrogen cyanide gas.
-@SimCityAT
Not sure if they do that any more.

I remember a movie with Susan Hayward called I Want to Live!

Her character was convicted of murder and gassed. It was quite an accurate depiction I believe for a 1950s movie. It sure made an impression on me when I was a kid. I am not sure it moved public opinion much though when it was released.

But in any case, it's a pretty cruel way to send someone to the grave.
-@fluffy2560

There are 6 states that have as a backup plan if the injection doesn't work or if the prisoner requests the gas chamber.

As of 2020, the last person to be executed in the gas chamber was German national Walter LaGrand, sentenced to death before 1992, who was executed in Arizona on March 3, 1999. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had ruled that he could not be executed by gas chamber, but the decision was overturned by the United States Supreme Court.
-@SimCityAT

Execution...My husband was friends with 2 brothers here in Budapest when he was growing up.

They were twins.

In 1956 when so many people just walked away and left everything behind including their flats , many people just moved in and took over possesion of empty flats.

Somehow his friends father heard about an empty flat in the 5th district.

It was nice, faced a quiet st., had 2 patios and was large in a really nice building.

He moved in and a few days later some dude told him he had better turn it over to him or he'd rat him out to the gov. officials.

It had something to do with when this man was a young soldier in the HU Army during WW11.

He of course had no power as he was just a private not an officer calling the shots.

IDK the details but this man told him he'd report him for war crimes if he didn't hand over the flat to him.

Our friends father didn't think he did anything wrong in the war and didn't believe this man would make stuff up etc.

It was pretty chotic at the time with the revolution etc. happeneing.

No one really took charge , just a bunch of wild people making their own rules as they went.

Well this rat did go into the gov. and told them what little if anything he knew that was a fact, they never really checked the facts but arrested our friends father for war crimes.

He was hung by the neck until dead.

After the fall of the socialist gov. his wife went to the gov to try and make a claim that her husband was wrongly executed.

No records really could be found that told exactly what and why it happened so she lost her claim.

I can't even imagine growing up knowing the gov. murdered your father on a claim by some dude who wasn't even in the war with your father and didn't know anything about what really went on.

Last time we saw our friend his mother and brother had passed away, he never married or had children to pass that flat onto.

He moved in and a few days later some dude told him he had better turn it over to him or he'd rat him out to the gov. officials.
It had something to do with when this man was a young soldier in the HU Army during WW11.
He of course had no power as he was just a private not an officer calling the shots.
IDK the details but this man told him he'd report him for war crimes if he didn't hand over the flat to him.
Our friends father didn't think he did anything wrong in the war and didn't believe this man would make stuff up etc.
It was pretty chotic at the time with the revolution etc. happeneing.
No one really took charge , just a bunch of wild people making their own rules as they went.
Well this rat did go into the gov. and told them what little if anything he knew that was a fact, they never really checked the facts but arrested our friends father for war crimes.
He was hung by the neck until dead.
After the fall of the socialist gov. his wife went to the gov to try and make a claim that her husband was wrongly executed.
No records really could be found that told exactly what and why it happened so she lost her claim.
I can't even imagine growing up knowing the gov. murdered your father on a claim by some dude who wasn't even in the war with your father and didn't know anything about what really went on.
Last time we saw our friend his mother and brother had passed away, he never married or had children to pass that flat onto.
-@Marilyn Tassy

As it was wild time, the threatening war crimes reporting guy could have fallen out of a window or suffer from some lead poisoning. If it was all over the place with no proper government, the chances are he would have got away with it during the chaos. Just some dude found in the Duna with unexplained injuries and no smoking gun. 

I expect there's a huge amount of score settling going on Ukraine right now and if not now, soon afterwards.  Post the war, the place will be awash with weaponry.  There will need to be some serious effort to disarm everyone.

Post the Yugoslav break up/wars, I understand it was fairly easy to get an AK47 and some grenades on the black market even in Hungary. The border was porous and the HU authorities had no way to fully police it.

It wasn't just weaponry, I heard about fake vodka factories over the border. They were making their own vodka as normal over there and importing it in fake Absolut branded bottles with faked tax stickers.  Very inventive and very organised.

Yes, our friends father probably didn't take that threat seriously enough. He I suppose thought he had nothing to hide and told the guy to piss off and didn't think more bout it until someone came a knockin' at the door...

It is tragic though.His wife never remarried and his 2 twin sons never married because they both decided to dedicate their lives to caring for their mother.

All thier dreams about living in their new apt. turned to nothing.

I wonder how that dude was able to live with himself knowing he was a ,"dirty rat".

My husband told me years ago that Hungary was flooded with illegal weapons because of the war in former Yugoslavia.

Desperate people can come up with insane ways to make money.

I have metioned before how even the US FBI was investigating so many auto insurance claims made in the 70's and 80's by newbie Hungarians crashing every few months and spending months getting medical treatments.

They took out large policies and made huge claims.

One guy, a very crazy Romanian/Hungarian did that and it backfired on him.

He did his set up accident out in the desert with no witnesess around. Parked his sturdy car half on the desert highway and half off, turned his lights off with his seatbelt on and waitied for his payday.

Instead of another car hitting him, it was a semi-truck.

25,000 lbs of dog food to be exact!

Wheelchair for the rest of his life and after getting scammed himself and paying off all the medical, therapy and lawyers bills he was left with just over a million bucks. 1980's million but still not the largest payday for not being able to walk again.

A side not on this guy,man where to begin? We opened up the front page of the Sunday LA Times newspaper and who's face was center page... This guys. He was wearing a US flag T-shirt, sitting in his chair loking sad with the caption something like Refugee immigrant gets scammed.... He met 2 smart scammers who double crossed him. He invested about $750,000 in their double your money or nothing quick deal of some sort. They just took his money and ran. The paper made it seem like jhe was just a poor boy with bad luck, sorry to say but we laughed our butts off after reading how much he pulled the wool over this reporters eyes. This same guy had even been part of the Hawaiian cult with Father Yod, The Family Source. He was no innocent. Thats just one example of why we never beleive the media.

In the early 70's my husband was working hard in a machine shop. He lived in a decent apt. complex in Hollywod with swimming pool, club house, laundry etc.

There was also a group of HU guys hanging by the pool everyday as my husband was leaving for work. They all took turns being the ,"victim" of an auto accident. They never held a real job unless going into therapy is a job.

He told me sometimes it was hard to head off to his 9 to 5 on a beautiful sunny day when he could of been in therapy instead. Those guys always taunted him to join them and have a fun day by the pool instead of working.

It takes a certain sort of person to abuse the system and get away with it. Looks like we are ,"honest Abe" types but in realtiy those scammers scam with everything in their lives and there is no possible way they know any real peace of mind.

Once a cheater, always a cheater, once a lair always a lair.

I swear though with some people they broke the mold.

Anyone who is legit hurt in an accident of course should be cared for a should seek legal help if needed. These examples actually made accidents happen.

If they had used half their brain power to do good that would of been interesting. Instead they spent time thinking of ways to abuse the system and take advatange of it.

Happy 1848 Revolution Day!

Hope you are all out there waving flags and wearing rosettes.

A very boring but effective PT neck excersise is simple to do.
Get a small rubber ball, stand near the wall and do head rolls against the force of the wall. Side to side motions, up and down, back and forth.
They sell neck pulling devices where you place your head in a sling and sit in a chair. Their is a cord which you can control to add resistance and pull the neck muscles.
I had one of those, broke it though. My eldest sister goes to the chiro allot and also uses that neck device.
Just look online for neck traction machines.
-@Marilyn Tassy

I know about the rubber ball. I have done that using a tennis ball but it's so much more effective if Mrs F gets stuck into it as she can put her weight behind it.

I am not sure about neck pulling machines.  It kind of smacks of a hanging device that could break your neck.   That scares me to death.

Happy 1848 Revolution Day!
Hope you are all out there waving flags and wearing rosettes.
-@fluffy2560

As I always tell people when they ask why the celebration today.... They ALMOST won!

Uhm.... it was the Russians who crushed them, but evidently it's difficult to learn from history...

Happy 1848 Revolution Day!
Hope you are all out there waving flags and wearing rosettes.
-@fluffy2560

As I always tell people when they ask why the celebration today.... They ALMOST won!
Uhm.... it was the Russians who crushed them, but evidently it's difficult to learn from history...
-@Vicces1

No prizes for 2nd place.   And of course remember Mohacs. 

Russians will be back I suppose at OV's invitation in order to stabilise the country.

If the HU politicians say bet on red, bet on black.   And vice versa.

A very boring but effective PT neck excersise is simple to do.

Get a small rubber ball, stand near the wall and do head rolls against the force of the wall. Side to side motions, up and down, back and forth.

They sell neck pulling devices where you place your head in a sling and sit in a chair. Their is a cord which you can control to add resistance and pull the neck muscles.

I had one of those, broke it though. My eldest sister goes to the chiro allot and also uses that neck device.

Just look online for neck traction machines.

-@Marilyn Tassy

I know about the rubber ball. I have done that using a tennis ball but it's so much more effective if Mrs F gets stuck into it as she can put her weight behind it.

I am not sure about neck pulling machines. It kind of smacks of a hanging device that could break your neck.  That scares me to death.
-@fluffy2560

They have some traction machines where you can lay down, you adjust the pressure yourself.

My sister used to see the chiro to get weekly traction. Took about an hour of her just laying there having her head pulled.

After that she would go skiing or dancing , riding horses and hurt herself all over again.

Happy 1848 Revolution Day!
Hope you are all out there waving flags and wearing rosettes.
-@fluffy2560

As I always tell people when they ask why the celebration today.... They ALMOST won!
Uhm.... it was the Russians who crushed them, but evidently it's difficult to learn from history...
-@Vicces1

Rotten Russian mercenaries. Paid guns for hire in 1848.

It is a bit odd to me to have a celebration of a loss...

I know it's good to not forget history but then again, some things are best forgotten.

The strangest thing to me is my DIL from Japan never heard about the US detention camps for the Japanese/Americans during WW11.

How that wasn't news in Japan is beyond me.

Perhaps she was in a day dream during history class?

Only in America

Man suing Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain after claiming 'boneless wings' are actually just chicken nuggets

This is a bit of a worry........

Vienna police step up armed patrols as they warn of potential Islamist terror attack

Happy 1848 Revolution Day!
Hope you are all out there waving flags and wearing rosettes.
-@fluffy2560

As I always tell people when they ask why the celebration today.... They ALMOST won!
Uhm.... it was the Russians who crushed them, but evidently it's difficult to learn from history...
-@Vicces1
Rotten Russian mercenaries. Paid guns for hire in 1848.
It is a bit odd to me to have a celebration of a loss...
I know it's good to not forget history but then again, some things are best forgotten.
The strangest thing to me is my DIL from Japan never heard about the US detention camps for the Japanese/Americans during WW11.
How that wasn't news in Japan is beyond me.
Perhaps she was in a day dream during history class?
-@Marilyn Tassy

Oh tell me about it. 

Mrs F and it seems her peers know nothing about the Russians and Germans and the WW2 Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact to carve up Eastern Europe between them.  Obviously Mrs F was brought up in communism and that wasn't mentioned.  She also told me that Lenin was portrayed as a kindly figure, good with children, like everyone's version of an idealised grandfather. Stalin I am not so sure how he was taught in school.

There's a bit of a weird resurgence going on here.  One of Mrs F's cousins (who is lost down a right wing rabbit hole) apparently made sure his kids could speak Russian on the grounds that "they were coming back". This was prompted by OV's assertions that the future of HU laid with Russia.   I am wondering if he knew something about it before hand.  In any case, it won't do them any good knowing Russian as there's going to be another Iron Curtain across those particular borders. 

Only in America


Man suing Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain after claiming 'boneless wings' are actually just chicken nuggets
-@SimCityAT

First world problems...

Good luck with the law suit!!

He probably, sadly will win while those people who lived near the Santa Susana Field test lab in 1959 never saw a penny to help treat the many cancers and related deaths due to the nuke accident..

I am sometimes very embassared to be an American...

Happy 1848 Revolution Day!
Hope you are all out there waving flags and wearing rosettes.
-@fluffy2560

As I always tell people when they ask why the celebration today.... They ALMOST won!
Uhm.... it was the Russians who crushed them, but evidently it's difficult to learn from history...
-@Vicces1
Rotten Russian mercenaries. Paid guns for hire in 1848.
It is a bit odd to me to have a celebration of a loss...
I know it's good to not forget history but then again, some things are best forgotten.
The strangest thing to me is my DIL from Japan never heard about the US detention camps for the Japanese/Americans during WW11.
How that wasn't news in Japan is beyond me.
Perhaps she was in a day dream during history class?
-@Marilyn Tassy



Oh tell me about it.

Mrs F and it seems her peers know nothing about the Russians and Germans and the WW2 Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact to carve up Eastern Europe between them. Obviously Mrs F was brought up in communism and that wasn't mentioned. She also told me that Lenin was portrayed as a kindly figure, good with children, like everyone's version of an idealised grandfather. Stalin I am not so sure how he was taught in school.

There's a bit of a weird resurgence going on here. One of Mrs F's cousins (who is lost down a right wing rabbit hole) apparently made sure his kids could speak Russian on the grounds that "they were coming back". This was prompted by OV's assertions that the future of HU laid with Russia.  I am wondering if he knew something about it before hand. In any case, it won't do them any good knowing Russian as there's going to be another Iron Curtain across those particular borders.
-@fluffy2560

IDK my husband seems to have known allot but then again his uncles and family had talks about what was happeneing before the war.

His step-father and uncle were sometimes mortal enemies. His uncle was such a card carrying Red that he gave back his memebership card because the party was too liberal. His step-father was angry because he lost many years in Siberia working half to death in a forced labot camp.

On the bright side, he became fluent in Russian.

My father never wanted us to learn Russian, Slavik languages, he said we were wasting our time as we would never need them or ever visit eastern Europe.

He had childhood romantic memories of his homeland.

Times do change.

Sadly not always for the better.

IDK perhpas in a generation or so there will only be a need for a very few languages wrold wide.NWO stuff.

I'd guess English would be tops then Chinese .

No matter thankfully I'll be long gone by then.

The Strangest Lawsuits of All Time

Subway Sandwich Lawsuit

A man found a 7 inch serrated plastic knife baked into his subway sandwich and decided to sue the company for damages. He filed a $1 million lawsuit, he also said he contracted food poisoning from the sandwich, leading to severe stomach aches. The personal injury claim was settled.

The Weatherman Was Wrong

This case demonstrates there are no limits when it comes to personal injury claims. An Israeli woman sued the weatherman from an Israeli television channel because he didn’t predict the weather correctly. He had reported good weather, but it rained.

According to the plaintiff, as a result of the weather report, she didn’t dress correctly and suffered the flu. She sued for $1,000 compensation for missing a week of work and the money she spent on medication. She won the case against the TV station and got her damages paid for. 

The Wrong Idea about Killer Whales

A man’s dream was to swim beside a killer whale… and it went so wrong. He managed to remain behind after Sea World closed for the day by hiding from the security guards. When all was quiet, he entered the tank of the Orca’s but was killed by the whale.

His parents sued SeaWorld for not publicly warning people that killer whales can kill people. They also accused Sea World of presenting killer whales as friendly creatures by selling stuffed whales in the gift shop.

Underwear Injuries

A visit to a Los Angeles branch of Victoria Secret turned into a nightmare for one customer. The incident happened in 2008 when a woman was trying on a pair of panties. A metal piece holding a rhinestone heart in place flew off and struck her in the eye. The woman, a traffic officer by vocation, suffered a cut cornea treated with topical steroid. Her attorney filed a liability lawsuit seeking undetermined damages for the sudden shocking, and painful incident that left her with severe injury.

A Frightening Experience

After a visit to the Haunted House of Horrors at Universal Studios in Florida, a woman sued them for psychological trauma. She claims she was chased with a chainsaw, albeit de-fanged, by one of the actors dressed like a werewolf and fell. She sued not only the actor but everyone that was involved at the venue. She had no injuries from her fall, and subsequently, the court dismissed her injury claim. Psychological trauma, the court ruled, can be expected when visiting the Haunted House of Horrors.

Explosive Bathroom Moments

Using the Flushmate III toilet proved explosive for many of its users, and the reason had nothing to do with what they had eaten. A manufacturing error was the cause of these explosions, and many people were injured. Legal teams managed to get $5 million for the injured parties.

Lost Pants Cause Mental Suffering

When a client took his pants to a Washington DC dry cleaner, he never imagined he would never see them again. He sued them for $54 million when they lost his pants because the company did not meet their “Satisfaction Guaranteed” promise displayed in their store. He also claimed the lost pants caused him mental suffering. Unfortunately for him, he lost the case.

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Wherever Allen Heckard went, he was mistaken for the famous basketball star, Michael Jordan. The confusion caused him emotional issues, and he filed a personal injury claim against Michael Jordan and Nike. There was no resemblance with the sports star and the claim was dropped.

Hunter is Hunted

A lion mauled during a big game hunting safari in Africa decided to sue the ammunition manufacturer, Federal Cartridge Co. The plaintiff was seriously injured when the bullet he fired at the charging lion failed to stop the animal after hitting it in its shoulder. The angry lion attacked and mauled the hunter. A federal court dismissed the case.

Sheep Make Good Companions

A couple in Massachusetts wanted compensation because they suffered emotional distress and loss of companionship after losing seven sheep to the neighbors’ violent dogs. The damages sought by the plaintiffs amounted to $140,000, but the court ruled for the monetary value of the sheep to be stated. The couple did not cooperate and eventually were rewarded $1 because they couldn’t produce evidence of their value.

Man Wants to Legally Change His Age

A 69 year old Dutchman wanted to legally change his age in order to avoid ageism. Emile Ratelband claimed he felt discriminated against because his real age was affecting his job prospects as well as his chances of success on Tinder, a popular dating app. The judge explained that many rights and obligations are age based, and that changing the legal age could cause many legal implications. The plaintiff ended up losing the case.

Woman Shocked Jelly Beans Contain Sugar

Sugar has 61 different names, so it stands to reason some people may not recognize the ingredient when reading a nutrition label. This happened to a California woman, who sued jelly bean maker “Jelly Bean” for using the term “evaporated cane juice” instead of the word “sugar” in its food label. Jessica Gomez of San Bernardino County alleged fraud, claiming the company was misleading consumers about how much sugar the snack actually contained, even though the total grams of sugar per serving was clearly displayed. The case was dismissed.

Man Sues Date for Being on Her Phone

Many people have a story about a date gone wrong, but most would forget about the whole ordeal as soon as it’s over and move on. However, a 37 year old from Austin Texas, could not let go of his bad date. He was so offended that the date spent the time they were at the movies watching “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2” texting on her phone. He claimed her behavior was breaking theater rules and affected his movie watching experience. She agreed to pay him $17.31 for her cinema ticket if he left her alone. Soon he withdrew the lawsuit.

Footlong Sandwich is Not A Foot Long

It started in 2013, when a teenager measured his Subway footlong sandwich. It turned out to be only 11 inches, an inch too short. Fast forward three years, and the company was settling a class action lawsuit in court, promising to make its rolls 12 inches. The only people to benefit from the lawsuit were the attorneys, who were about to receive 520,000 in fees. The judge agreed with activist and legal writer Theodore Frank that this was not fair and dismissed the settlement and the entire case.

Empty Space in Junior Mints Box

Biola Daniel and Abel Duran of New York and Trekeela Perkins from Mississippi believe Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. tricked people by underfilling Junior Mints boxes. They sued the company because more than a third of the mints box was empty. The judge who dismissed the case wrote a 44 page decision that a reasonable customer can expect some empty space.

Red Bull Doesn’t Give You Wings

Red Bull’s famous slogan “Red Bull gives you wings: got the company in some trouble. A class action accused the company of having misleading ads and making false claims. Plaintiffs said the energy drink did not give people wings figuratively speaking, that is, they didn’t feel energized. They said the company lacks evidence to claim the beverage could improve one’s focus. Red Bull settled out of court and agreed to pay $640,000.

Is a Firefighters Fear of Fire a Disability?

Shayn Proler from the Houston Fire Department is afraid of fire. He was reassigned to an office position so he would not have to come in direct contact with what scared him, but he wanted to remain in his former job in the fire suppression unit. He claimed his fear was a disability and that he was discriminated against because of said disability. His case made it to the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled there was no evidence Proler was discriminated against on account of a disability.

Kidnapper Sues Hostages For Escaping

Jesse Dimmick, a fugitive facing a murder charge, kidnapped a Kansas couple in September 2009. At some point he fell asleep and they escaped. Theysued Dimmick for over $75,000 in damages; his response was to countersue for breach of contract. He claimed the couple had a legally binding oral agreement for them to hide him from the police. His case was dismissed.

Husband Sues Wife Over Ugly Baby

Boy meets a pretty girl, the boy marries this girl, they end up having a kid together. However this tale does not have such a happy ending. Jian Feng from China saw his newborn daughter and asked why she was “incredibly ugly” and did not look like either parent. He accused his wife of cheating on him. At that point, she admitted she had several plastic surgeries before they had met. He sued her on the grounds of false pretenses, claiming she misled him by hiding her cosmetic surgery history. He won the case, and his wife was made to pay him more than $120,000.

Sleeping Student Sues School

The parents of Danbury High School student Vinicios Robacher said their son suffered hearing loss after one of his teachers slammed her hand on his desk to wake him up during math class. The family sued the school and the school board as well as the city. But apparently the case fell on deaf ears and was dismissed.

Uber Ruins Marriages?

A French businessman sued Uber for $48 million, claiming that a flaw in the ride sharing company’s app played a role in the dissolution of his marriage. The businessman said he borrowed his wife’s phone and used it to log into the Uber App. He claimed a glitch in the app caused it to continue sending notifications of his whereabouts to his wife’s phone even after he logged off, and apparently some of his movements caused a problem with his wife and their marriage ended in a divorce. The result of the suit is unknown.

First world problems...
Good luck with the law suit!!
He probably, sadly will win while those people who lived near the Santa Susana Field test lab in 1959 never saw a penny to help treat the many cancers and related deaths due to the nuke accident..
I am sometimes very embarrassed to be an American...
-@Marilyn Tassy

Following on from our discussions on death penalty methods, I decided to read up again on Susan Hayward - the actress - and rediscovered she died early at age 57 of brain cancer.   

Some think it might have been linked to the filming of the Ghengis Khan movie also starring a utterly miscast John Wayne playing Ghengis like it was a cowboy movie complete with drawl.   

The number of people dying from cancer who were involved in that movie has entered folklore as significant.   

And where was it filmed?  Place downwind of nuclear testing sites in a valley which is highly contaminated.

There have been rare chaotic scenes in the French parliament as President Emmanuel Macron used special powers to push through an unpopular pensions bill which aims to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

There have been rare chaotic scenes in the French parliament as President Emmanuel Macron used special powers to push through an unpopular pensions bill which aims to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
-@SimCityAT

I suppose it was the equivalent of the Parliament Act in the UK.

I don't know what they are complaining about, the UK pension gets further away in time regularly.

They keep increasing the age step by step. By the time I reach 65 (about 2.5 years), it'll be at 67, then 69 and then 71 and onwards.

I suspect eventually no-one will be able to retire.

My bro has just reached 65. He's runs his own business. He's got no interest in retiring just now.

On the other hand, I'd like to do something else after 30+ years of doing the same thing each day.

IDK my husband seems to have known allot but then again his uncles and family had talks about what was happeneing before the war.
His step-father and uncle were sometimes mortal enemies. His uncle was such a card carrying Red that he gave back his memebership card because the party was too liberal. His step-father was angry because he lost many years in Siberia working half to death in a forced labot camp.
On the bright side, he became fluent in Russian.
My father never wanted us to learn Russian, Slavik languages, he said we were wasting our time as we would never need them or ever visit eastern Europe.
He had childhood romantic memories of his homeland.

Times do change.
Sadly not always for the better.
IDK perhpas in a generation or so there will only be a need for a very few languages wrold wide.NWO stuff.
I'd guess English would be tops then Chinese .
No matter thankfully I'll be long gone by then.
-@Marilyn Tassy

Being fluent in Russian might be useful if one wants to be involved there when Putin has been deposed.

I cannot see Russian surviving as a language in Ukraine as they will want to distance the country once the invaders have gone.  Nationalism will be very strong.   Speaking Russian on the street over there will probably be a total no-no, except amongst some select groups privately.  Anyone holding a Russian passport will be rounded up and dumped across the border I imagine or they'll be forced to choose a Ukrainian passport or be out.

Maybe they will speak English amongst themselves, even if everyone knows Russian.  I know from living in places like Amsterdam, the locals always spoke Dutch at home but were quite happy to speak English at work.   Dutch was the language of culture and English was the language of business.

It's difficult to learn a language when you're older obviously. It's a shame parents didn't feel the need transfer that knowledge and thinking the situation would never change is quite short sighted.   I've read people speaking multiple languages live longer and suffer from dementia less. Old school thinking is that it's too much for kids brains - even my Mum used to say that to me about my kids.  I had to put her right on that.  Kids are such sponges.  They just absorb everything.  It could never be a waste of time, they'd just learn anyway.