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Thread Number: 83854
/ Tag: Small Appliances
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Post# 1082104 7/23/2020 at 13:32 (1,371 days old) by Ultramatic  (New York City) |
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Post# 1082112 , Reply# 1 7/23/2020 at 16:57 (1,371 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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I went to the Consumer Museum in Berlin about 20 years ago--it was absolutely fascinating. A look at how you do a controlled economy within media reach of a first-world market economy. Really eye opening. The last exhibit was really meaningful--it was someone's sparkasse bankbook (passbook) with the entries quarter by quarter, then the cut in half from Ostmark to DM. Well worth an afternoon if you're in Berlin.
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Post# 1082116 , Reply# 2 7/23/2020 at 18:44 (1,370 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Tale of the orange handmixer | ||
| Post# 1082142 , Reply# 5 7/23/2020 at 22:24 (1,370 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD) | ||
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I have a pair of early 1980s era driving lights made in the DDR and at a pawn shop,~1990,found a pair of small stereo speakers made in the DDR.:) | ||
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Post# 1082143 , Reply# 6 7/23/2020 at 22:30 (1,370 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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I was so craving this!!!!!!!! | ||
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Post# 1082144 , Reply# 7 7/23/2020 at 22:46 (1,370 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Spreken ze | ||
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Post# 1082163 , Reply# 8 7/24/2020 at 04:27 (1,370 days old) by SudsMaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Post# 1082180 , Reply# 9 7/24/2020 at 08:34 (1,370 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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Cool!! | ||
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Post# 1082185 , Reply# 10 7/24/2020 at 09:05 (1,370 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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So far I've only watched a few minutes. I have seen that orange mixer here in an opp shop only a few months ago. So they must have been exported to Australia. That "cocktail" being mixed in the RG28S combined red wine, beer, milk, sugar and spices. It sounds like a vile concoction designed to induce vomiting. What were they thinking? | ||
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Post# 1082186 , Reply# 11 7/24/2020 at 09:15 (1,370 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Basic food in the DDR/GDR were kept low by government subvention. Other goods were rather expensive, a lot of people couldn't afford expensive consumer goods. Through the years it became custom for people from the BRD to buy consumer goods for their relatives from a Konsum catalogue. That kept western currencies flowing to the DDR. People from the BRD also sent a lot of goods (especially coffee) to their relatives in the DDR. The western money kept the economy on the east side of the iron curtain going at least partly that way.
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| Post# 1082233 , Reply# 12 7/24/2020 at 14:11 (1,370 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Louis, Deutsch und Dutch are close. Deutschland is Germany. DB, or German railroad AG is Deutsche Bundesbahn. Qualitat is German, qualestei is Dutch. | ||
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Post# 1082236 , Reply# 13 7/24/2020 at 14:30 (1,370 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 1082270 , Reply# 14 7/24/2020 at 21:26 (1,369 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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Hey Louis, go easy on Mike. Please don't take offense anyone, just stirring the pot... This post was last edited 07/24/2020 at 22:12 | ||
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Post# 1082291 , Reply# 15 7/25/2020 at 03:57 (1,369 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 1082320 , Reply# 16 7/25/2020 at 09:07 (1,369 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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Dahlinks, I recollect someone here correcting my plural case in German a decade or so ago...in the Nominative, singular.
We're all grammar nazis in our hearts.
Louis, however is Dutch. Not Pennsylvania Dutch, not German like me. Not even chocolate cake Dutch. This means he grew up in a culture which expected perfection in at least three languages before leaving elementary school.
And tidiness. How the Dutch manage to put up with us untidy Germans is beyond me. | ||
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Post# 1082367 , Reply# 18 7/25/2020 at 14:22 (1,369 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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A laundry room survivor of reunification
They could call it Spree and give the mascot an outfit that doesn't look so, uh, pimpish for the USA. CLICK HERE TO GO TO joeekaitis's LINK | ||
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Post# 1082374 , Reply# 19 7/25/2020 at 15:00 (1,369 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Ah, I found a picture of that Märklin wagon. The text is in German and it says "Qualitätsei". In Dutch that would be "Kwaliteitsei". No idea though why they put the lettering on it mirrored.
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| Post# 1082480 , Reply# 20 7/26/2020 at 14:48 (1,368 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Louis, did old 35mm cameras reverse the image in the lens? Europe has so many trainspotter camera buffs. I can't thnk of another reason why the script is that way. Unless it was so riders could read it correctly from inside, in the round convex station platform mirrors as the train passed one departing and arriving. | ||
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Post# 1082486 , Reply# 21 7/26/2020 at 15:27 (1,368 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Interesting not knowing the language, it seems an odd fixation on an orange mixer - going into old ladies kitchens to fondle their mixers. I remember toys from the DDR made of plastic that was not near as strong or durable as our pre-Chinese made plastic toys. It was brittle. That beverage she made would make me HURL ! Gawd !
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Post# 1082575 , Reply# 22 7/27/2020 at 03:58 (1,367 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Mike | ||
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