Yes, they are!

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That’s the PUB team (aka the Pom-poms und Beer team), the support group for friends running marathons and half-marathons. Support is mainly shown by making a lot of noise, drinking beer, offering beer to other spectators or runners if they so desire, and chanting encouriging slogans (like “Go – go! Only 40 more to go!” at the 2km mark). Because it is pretty boring to stand around and watch runners for hours until the handful that you know come past, chants and waves are done for ALL runners that come past. We’ve been told that the encouragement was appreciated by total strangers, too.

And a reminder that in the 1990s there was something called Mad Cow Disease (or BSE). Even today people who lived in the UK during that time are not allowed to give blood in Germany because of this.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Crazy

A confined area

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My childhood was spent pretty much within the triangle of three different old medieval towers, called “Blauer Hut” (blue hat due to its original slate roof, now long gone), “Roter Turm” (red tower, so called because of the reddish sandstone used) and “Hexenturm” (witches’ tower … Continue reading A confined area

I SWEAR!

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When Robert Aramayo in this -“BITCH OF!” - a movie was cast
As a man with Tourette’s he was – “WANKER!” - aghast.
He had to show tics and – “SPUNK FOR MILK!” - to swear a lot.
But - “I SELL DRUGS!” – he gave it a shot.
Then he received the BAFTA, this year – “what a c**!” - unsurpassed.

If you haven’t heard about this movie, have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KWIt20bKf8 and here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/etFwLTck3Js

It’s a truly inspiring and also funny movie about the real John Davidson, a man with and an advocate for people with Tourette’s syndrome. Last night a very surprised Robert Aramayo received the BAFTA for leading actor ahead of Leonardo di Caprio and Ethan Hawke. The irony is that the real John Davidson was in the audience and shouted a few obscenities during the evening and also the n* word when two black actors were on stage. But while the audience had grinned and accepted his “f** the queen” in the movie (and presumably real life) as an expression of his neurological disorder they drew the line at the racial slur. Mr Davidson is mortified but many people are apparently not accepting his apology. What hypocritical standards!

Laughing along with a limerick: Cast

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The last and the first

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Christmas roses at the end of their cycle and the last flowers of last year’s season and snowdrops at the beginning of theirs and the beginning of the new flowering year. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: What is flowering where you are?