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I'd be surprised if anything like that was still happening in Western Europe

I saw something similar in Thailand though, an elephant park where the elephants were whipped to make them walk, and one had a hook in it's ear to make it pose. The worst bit was I never noticed this going on until after we had already paid money for the elephant ride and got on the elephant. Had I known before I wouldn't have given my money to the company, I felt so bad after.
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I hope so. Things are getting better, it just moves so slowly. Especially whenever animals are involved.

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It's a great website though telling you all about what they do, I highly recommend visiting if you're ever in the area. We're going again soon, it's been too long since we've been back!
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(June 19, 2015 at 11:20 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(June 19, 2015 at 2:24 am)Alex K Wrote: No, it just paid a visit to the chairdresser. But Rob, I so love the idea of getting married at an ape sanctuary. We had a Darwin+Dinosaur themed wedding celebration (it was 2009), but that would have been just great.

We had a "how cheap can we make this thing" themed wedding in 1995.

That was our theme as well. Smile

(June 19, 2015 at 11:47 am)whateverist Wrote: Did it work? Have you gotten 20 years of value out of it.

I won't speak for DBP, but next February, yep.
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Went to a real swordfighting display today.  Point was to teach kids more about the reality of the middle ages, and not so much the movies/video game versions.  It was pretty cool.

Here my daughter posed with the younger fighter after their show.

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Here is some of the replica armor they wore.  They have it specially hand made in the Urkrane for them, and is supposed to be a very accurate replica of 14th century German armor.

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It was a pretty cool show.  Educational, and a bit scary, lol.  I liked that they showed the difference between real fighting and movie fighting.

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Well, I thought it was interesting anyway, and so did my daughter.

Just got home....now I need to go make dinner!
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I love Medieval history Smile looks like a good event you went to
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable."
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Wow, that looks like a lot of fun Smile

That's a lovely picture of your daughter.
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Great photos, Aroura. Looks like your daughter really had fun.

Messing around with some more photo editing. This one, I borrowed from an early '40s Alan Ladd movie, "China". The character that Alan Ladd played in this movie, and the character that Charlton Heston played in the movie, "Secret of the Incas", served as the inspiration for Harrison Ford's, "Indiana Jones"....

The hat is a Stetson Nutria fedora that was converted from a vintage Western hat

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(June 20, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Aroura Wrote: Here my daughter posed with the younger fighter after their show.

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So wait, is that guy wearing real chainmail??
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(June 24, 2015 at 12:13 pm)LostLocke Wrote:
(June 20, 2015 at 7:54 pm)Aroura Wrote: Here my daughter posed with the younger fighter after their show.

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So wait, is that guy wearing real chainmail??

Yes he is! Only, as he explained to us, it's just called mail.  The word "chain" was a modern add-on that started in the 19th century. 

The swords were real too.  There was an overhead projector attached to the ceiling that one of them hit on an overhand swing (the area they had marked off to fight in was very confined, and the ceilings are low), and he scarred it about half an inch deep.  It survived though. Smile
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(June 24, 2015 at 3:36 am)A Theist Wrote: Great photos, Aroura. Looks like your daughter really had fun.

Messing around with some more photo editing. This one, I borrowed from an early '40s Alan Ladd movie, "China". The character that Alan Ladd played in this movie, and the character that Charlton Heston played in the movie, "Secret of the Incas", served as the inspiration for Harrison Ford's, "Indiana Jones"....

The hat is a Stetson Nutria fedora that was converted from a vintage Western hat

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I like the hat
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