Love those last 2 comments! I actually had never heard of this and it is a bit alarming. I'm not so worried about what they'd see as what else they could do....
Yes, I reckon you WILL pass (something) if you take that coffee enema. Oh help. I was sort of thinking, too, that I'd like fresh sawdust for my spa time, thanks... until I read the comments and laughed at about half of them! Coming along days later to finally comment does have its advantages! ;)
Yeah, your pancreas, especially, can only handle so much abuse! (As with a lot of the rest of your body, come to think of it)! For me, the hardest was leaving sugar out of my tea and coffee. I still have an occasional soft drink- like maybe once a month. But I don't miss it...except with a Mexican meal! :)
I can't really answer for all parts but the town I was in seemed to be quite poor. There were lots of empty/abandoned buildings and I saw mostly elderly people. The rail line from Berlin out to that town was dotted with abandoned factories and other buildings. I have heard that, in general, it's been a difficult transition for former East Germany. The parts East Germany I've seen all seemed to be quite poor...but I've really not done much travelling there.
Fear of diabetes is what finally helped me kick a major sugar habit...and I feel a lot better not consuming as many sugar calories. Diabetes is an awful disease.
Yes, very interesting! This past summer, I was the guest of an elderly lady living in a small town in what was East Germany. Her apartment was in a lovely old building and her kitchen windows opened up onto a common courtyard shared by everyone in her building. The 2 sides and back of the courtyard were formed by a communal summer kitchen, tool shed/garden area and laundry 'house' that must have operated much as you described. Things looked disused but nearly intact and it was easy to see the residents using it. This, however, was not a tenement but a nice apartment building...
The title of the linked article is Japan's Coffin Apartments Are Not for Claustrophobes...which pretty much sums up my comment. I couldn't actually get the link to open beyond the title, though, so am still wondering why they choose this kind of arrangement. Financial? Sounds desperate.
I don't know- Google's mad rush into no-privacy-at-all-land scares me more and more. I'm an Apple un-fan-- I hate the cult around Apple and all their hype and I hope to never own an Apple product. I've been a Google fan since the first but I'm starting to draw back from them. It seems to me that Google's customers' privacy means almost nothing to Google. :(
Here in Eastern Europe, that is a common practice as well. The baby, however is always well-wrapped and protected from the cold air. I'm not exactly sure of the benefits of the practice but people here are nearly religious about doing it. What's odd, though, is that these same babies grow up being wrapped to within an inch of their lives whenever they go outside, no matter the temperature, are kept well away from any and all drafts (never have 2 windows open if they're going to create a cross draft in a room, for instance) and in general, seem to be much more sickly than good old American babies (where I come from) who get to run around outside with no hat and barefoot as soon as it gets remotely warm. As far as risking having your baby kidnapped- I've seen many babies in enclosed backyards or being pushed in their stroller in the city.
I sort of shuddered for the poor birds in the video though! Ouch!
I actually had never heard of this and it is a bit alarming. I'm not so worried about what they'd see as what else they could do....
I was sort of thinking, too, that I'd like fresh sawdust for my spa time, thanks... until I read the comments and laughed at about half of them! Coming along days later to finally comment does have its advantages! ;)
For me, the hardest was leaving sugar out of my tea and coffee. I still have an occasional soft drink- like maybe once a month. But I don't miss it...except with a Mexican meal! :)
This past summer, I was the guest of an elderly lady living in a small town in what was East Germany. Her apartment was in a lovely old building and her kitchen windows opened up onto a common courtyard shared by everyone in her building. The 2 sides and back of the courtyard were formed by a communal summer kitchen, tool shed/garden area and laundry 'house' that must have operated much as you described. Things looked disused but nearly intact and it was easy to see the residents using it. This, however, was not a tenement but a nice apartment building...
As far as risking having your baby kidnapped- I've seen many babies in enclosed backyards or being pushed in their stroller in the city.