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You can call me TC Posted Nov 25, 2015
When entering East Germany at the border controls, I mean.
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Recumbentman Posted Nov 25, 2015
What did the East German government have against Mickey Mouse?
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 25, 2015
Weird... I'm using Brunel, yet when I just clicked on the "next list" to continue from post 20 to this page, it switched me to Pliny. That's a new one. 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 25, 2015
Glad you've arrived safely in China, and can give us a first-hand h2g2 report on the Chinese internet. 
East German Commies probably hated Mickey 
for many of the same reasons I do. 
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 25, 2015
I probably have different reasons. Mine mostly have to do with how Disney has ruined copyright, and especially how they have co-opted works formerly in the public domain (Bros Grimm, H.C. Andersen, &c).
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 25, 2015
And destroyed other peoples' cultural artifacts through appropriation...
When five-year-olds tell me that Disney's version, and not Grimms', is the 'true story', I feel that those responsible should be first against the wall - BEFORE Sirius Cybernetics.
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Superfrenchie Posted Nov 25, 2015
"Sirius Cybernetics" is actually an anagram of "Disney Entertainment". 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 26, 2015
Spent the late morning and the afternoon in Ciqikou (Tsee-chee-koh-oo) which is an ancient town. It was destroyed in the War but has been rebuilt in the same style. It's a riot of people selling fried things on sticks, cheap souvenirs, expensive souvenirs, chillis and tea. We saw a Buddhist temple and had deep-fried cabbage pies similar to a Greek spinakopitta.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 26, 2015
Fried things on sticks...if one of those people is called CMOT Dibbler, don't eat them...
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 26, 2015
From some of the things I've seen in travel shows (like An Idiot Abroad), I think I'd prefer Dibbler's fare.
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Wand'rin star Posted Nov 26, 2015
Everywhere I have travelled I have assumed that if something comes out of boiling water or boiling oil in front of my eyes it was safe to eat.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 11, 2015
So, we're back from China, and we ate quite a variety of boiled and deep-fried food. At least, I did. Mrs G is a vegetarian so she couldn't eat a lot of the food which is very meat-based.
An interesting trip in all - I think I might write a Post article about it.
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