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Yes I’m in Australia
Yes, as it's mainly set in a pow camp in WW2
Again 😢, sorry for all the people effected
Yes have heard of this, apparently part of a number of experiments mainly in the 1960’s, as for is it true, ummm. Maybe 🤔
Gee, I always thought it was agreed that DSOTM was the most total group album of all the Floyd’s work, the one where everyone was excited by the project, ideas were going from everyone, and they all new even before it was ‘finished’ that it was something very special…….of course the war between Gilmore and Waters has been going on for a long, long time now, but I wish they could find a way to get along, let’s face it, sooner rather than latter one will pass away, and hey, maybe they don’t care, but once someone dies it’s too late.
It’s certainly interesting, so here in Australia, Prostitution is not illegal in most states, you can register a legitimate business and pay taxes etc, there are restrictions and regulations on where you can set up, Pornographic movies or here certification X non violent erotica, can only be sold over the counter in two territories, funny enough one of them being the ACT, which is the the Australian equivalent of Washington DC 😀, but you can buy such material via mail order and that’s also ok, as the transition takes place in the territory where it is legal.
The legal ummm position, no pun intended, on Prostitution has always been rather involved, still in many countries the actual ‘contract’ of two people entering into a agreement for a sexual service in return for money, is and has never been against the law, but living off ‘immoral’ earnings (being a Pimp, or madame of a brothel) is……‘soliciting’ ie the sex worker approaching someone and offering a ‘service’ is not legal, but someone approaching a sex work and asking isn’t, so it’s all rather confusing to say the least.
For a lot of Australia’s the Port Arthur Massacre still looms large in our consciousness, a mass shooting event in April of 1996, 36 dead, and an additional 23 others seriously injured, it was then the federal government introduced gun control laws, preventing the ownership of automatic and semi automatic firearms by members of the public, since then while we have had some shooting crimes, there has never been anything near the scale of the Port Arthur Massacre, and when a lot of people hear about yet another mass shooting event in the USA and the Gun lobbying saying gun control wouldn’t work to stop these horrible events, well maybe, just maybe it might be worth a try.
@ur4196727, it’s a bit of misnomer to blame the BBC for the lost episodes, yes they did destroy them, but remember in those days they had rights to show them once, a repeat showing within 12 months, and after than everything had to be renegotiated, so taking up huge amounts or space with materials they didn’t actually have the right to broadcast did seem at the time to be rather a waste, especially when they believed BBC enterprises help copies of everything for overseas sale etc, yes now it appears short sighted, stupid and even ‘cultural vandalism’ but at time, I wasn’t really seen as anything other than what needed to be done.
Have to say, over more than a few years, I have found, watch it yourself, if you like it then it is good, if you don’t, then it isn’t 😀
He was born in 1934, and is still alive in 2023.
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