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Links of the Week (2008/14)

Italian smoker culture?

It’s nothing new that the rather strict Bavarian smoking ban in restaurants and pubs made many innkeepers declare their pubs “smoker clubs” to circumvent the ban.

Attributing smoking to the “Bavarian tavern culture”, as restaurant association & co. like to do it, is already somewhat stranger, less understandable.

But a “Ristorante & Pizzeria” running an ad with the following lines (my translation) in a local weekly newspaper is something I don’t really understand, content-wise.

For preservation of the Italian dining and smoker culture, entry to our restaurant is from now on restricted to members only.

Naturally all guests, including non-smokers, who wish to keep visiting us will receive a corresponding membership card for free in our restaurant.

We hereby ask for your understanding and are happy to welcome you as our guests again.

Now I’m wondering:

  • What does founding a smoker club have to do with Italian meal/dining culture?
  • Is there any Italian smoker culture at all?
  • Does the only Italian (according to the Yellow Pages) among four restaurants in Ilmmünster, a village of 2000 people in the county of Pfaffenhofen, really need such a campaign because too many smokers are staying away? Preservation of Italian meal culture in Ilmmünster because they’d have to close otherwise, despite being rated very good at pafnet, better than all Italians I know here in town? *

They certainly don’t get my understanding for this flimsy campaing; at any rate, I consider a smoking ban in restaurants(!) good.

 


* Might be a side effect due to the lack of possibilities of comparison there in Ilmmünster, though.

Links of the Week (2008/13)

  • Splatter archery game (Flash) – you’re supposed to hit the apple on the head, but things like these can happen too (unfortunately they didn’t give hits from above a proper own animation):
    apple-splatter-1 apple-splatter-2
    (via Nerdcore)
  • All Simpsons couch gags in nearly 5 minutes (in fast motion) (via TheCrazed)
  • A big drawing about “The road to success is full of obstacles” (via FreeTagger).

Klickeradoms!

When you’re already annoyed by the demolition work across the street – the old Amberger cinema, later “Ilmgau-Großmarkt” and part of the department store, part of the building group which I had shown before for the Projekt 52 topic “Contemporary witness” – (German newspaper article), you can at least try to make the best out of it: a few photos ;) (click for larger versions):

Poke here a little…

Klickeradoms 1.1

…push there a little…

Klickeradoms 1.2

…and away with this obstructive construction.

Klickeradoms 1.3

Now it’s time for the wooden ventilation shaft!

Klickeradoms 1.4

Oops, only the front part came loose…

Klickeradoms 1.5

But now!

Klickeradoms 1.6

Away with it…

Klickeradoms 1.7

…and…

Klickeradoms 1.8

…the next section falls!

Klickeradoms 1.9

And now the last section of the roof, shown in photos with a little over 1 second between (the camera made more, of course, but I don’t want to overdo it too much here…):

Klickeradoms 2.1 Klickeradoms 2.2 Klickeradoms 2.3 Klickeradoms 2.4 Klickeradoms 2.5 Klickeradoms 2.6 Klickeradoms 2.7 Klickeradoms 2.8 Klickeradoms 2.9

It kept hanging like this for a while until the “claws” tore at it once more…


PS: The post title “Klickeradoms!” is a German sound word invented by Dr. Erika Fuchs, the great German Disney translator, for objects falling down, hitting the ground and usually breaking into pieces. Isn’t that prettier than e.g. the usual “Thud!” in English? :mrgreen:

Projekt 52 week 13: Show me your feet

The topic of week 13 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

Show me your feet
I love feet photos, I think they are ingenious, showing the world from a completely different point of view. […] – examples.

Well, such feet photos that have been showing up on other blogs from time to time never did anything for me. But for the sake of completeness – not to skip a week of this project ;) – there you are:

13: Show me your feet

Week 13: Show me your feet

My feet in warm socks.