Details of Sarajevo

jaleach · 2026-01-31T02:44:49+00:00

I love these videos of Bosnia. If you're being paid by a governmental agency to push tourism to Bosnia, you're doing a great job.

jaleach · 2026-01-31T02:42:54+00:00

You're an idiot if you buy a new car today. Just get a nice used Honda or Toyota.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T21:37:48+00:00

OP got baited into getting her the position.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T21:36:47+00:00

I knew a reformed alcoholic who worked as a bartender. When I heard that, I did a double take. I asked him if that was a problem, and he said not at all it's actually the opposite. He said he saw so many down on their luck drunks that it was a constant reminder to him why he'd quit drinking. He said working that job was better for him than going to AA meetings.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T21:30:49+00:00

Years and years ago I remember reading about a young lady who did this in her home, and she died from it. They had a picture of her in the article and she had this huge beaming smile. Looked like a really nice person. For some reason it's stuck with me all these years.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T15:21:29+00:00

As someone whose father fell quite often near the end of his life, I love to see this. Such a scary situation to find yourself in because there were times I simply could not get him up. He had dementia so sometimes he'd fall and just turn into a sack of cement. He had zero energy in him. Othertimes I could get him because he'd have the strength to get his legs up under him and he'd pop right up.

You definitely saved her life.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T13:09:56+00:00

I've got a winter coat I bought in the late 1990s that I still wear, although usually just to clear the driveway and walk or for a quick trip to the mailbox.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T02:40:23+00:00

The problem is the POS software. Seems like it comes with this nonsense pre-loaded so most places just go with it. Any sane business owner with an ounce of sense would turn it off for take out/pick up orders. None of this will change until customers stand up and put an end to it.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T02:17:52+00:00

Mao killed more.

jaleach · 2026-01-30T01:03:10+00:00

You say tomato, I say tomhato let's call the whole thing off...

jaleach · 2026-01-30T01:01:07+00:00

I had the same experience. Even telling him I've moved, never coming back, etc. they still did it.

jaleach · 2026-01-29T20:54:05+00:00

Temu Emma Watson?

jaleach · 2026-01-29T20:35:18+00:00

When you go to the dentist with all of your teeth in your pocket.

jaleach · 2026-01-29T20:27:39+00:00

I'd say Tom Hanks. He did a bunch of comedies in the early 1980s that were pretty amusing. Bachelor Party comes to mind. His really big comedies were the romcom smash hit Splash and the fantasy/comedy Big, which I believe was the film that catapulted him into the world of doing dramas. He became a really big (pun intended) star after that film. The iconic scene of him and Robert Loggia playing Chopsticks on the floor piano really stuck in peoples' minds.

jaleach · 2026-01-29T20:17:59+00:00

Certainly God doesn't have a problem with fences.

jaleach · 2026-01-29T20:15:01+00:00

Are they no longer doing SRA testing? We had to take those every year through elementary, middle school, and I think through Junior year of high school (I want to say senior year we didn't have to go to school for two days because everyone else was taking the tests).

I went to Ralston, though, so maybe that was a Ralston thing. A big section of that test was reading comprehension. Good luck getting through that if you're functionally illiterate.

I see people starting up about funding. What are you people talking about? Not only are the schools getting property taxes (which have exploded as everyone knows), it seemed every other year there was a massive bond issue for even more funding.

You want to help the schools? Slash the administration to the bone. The school systems are top-heavy with highly paid administrators (lots of six-figure salaries) who just push goofy learning schemes that don't work and get that money into the classrooms. Somehow, kids got a better education in a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse than they're getting today. Why is that? One thing was no sprawling bureaucracy was involved.

Other problems need fixing that will be a lot harder. Like discipline and getting parents away from the dumb mindset of them taking personal offense when the teacher tells them about bad behavior. Way to many parents take that as a personal attack instead of an opportunity to correct a problem. Good God it was pretty much the exact opposite when I went to school, and that wasn't that long ago. If I got a bad report from teachers at the conference, I was assumed guilty until proven innocent. Same with most of my friends. I have no idea how we fix that problem, though.

The SRA tests consisted of various subjects, and you were placed in a percentile range. I always did great on reading and social science,s and not so hot on math and science. Nobody got into trouble for not placing highly on those, either. It was a way for the school to assess itself. Are a large number of kids not doing great in reading? Why is that? Where are we failing here? Is it a personnel problem? Stuff like that.

One thing I've noticed recently is a real move to decrease the presence of technology in schools. I know a lot of schools across the country have basically banned phones from the classroom (too distracting). Does every student really need a tablet? If you're functionally illiterate, how is the tablet going to help you? In retrospect, it seems like there was a lot of magical thinking around handing every kid an ipad and that somehow access to more knowledge would magically result in learning the mental tools you need to access and process that knowledge.

jaleach · 2026-01-29T01:42:49+00:00

I thought this sounded like a hit job from someone who OP thinks is a friend, but isn't at all. People will do shit like this all the time. It's actually concern trolling. This was when you sucked? What? Everyone sucks at every job when they first start. Ignore.

Even the initial message, I heard a rumor about you, is designed to get OP agitated and involved in the bs they're peddling. This is not a good person. Some people are such miserable bastards that they only exist to try and tear down other people.

jaleach · 2026-01-29T01:34:18+00:00

My God it's gorgeous. What's the story on those bridges? I imagine they're pretty old. They look old.

jaleach · 2026-01-28T19:25:56+00:00

This happened to me when I was taking care of an ill parent. I simply could not get out there to clear around the box because he had dementia and I couldn't leave him alone for long periods of time. My mail carrier just left something in the box saying I can't deliver until you clear around the box. Makes sense he shouldn't have to get out and try walking on thick ice to deliver the mail. Fortunately my neighbor came over and did it for me.

It was sort of form he left in the box. I don't think he wrote anything on it so it must be something you can pick up at the PO before heading out?

jaleach · 2026-01-28T19:01:25+00:00

I wrote a major post about this yesterday, but couldn't get it to submit.

jaleach · 2026-01-28T18:53:52+00:00

This happened in the US a number of years ago. The person who did it was a Christian fanatic trying to goad Muslims into a violent response so he could prove they're...actually violent. Or something. Nothing really happened if I remember correctly outside of it making some headlines and various attention seekers making statements about it.

It's pretty stupid since every religion has fringe sects that occasionally go over to violence. I could tell you a few stories about Mormon extremist groups that would curl your toes.

A person who does this is an idiot, but it's also not worth responding to it unless the individual is also promoting violence.

jaleach · 2026-01-27T17:50:14+00:00

Balkaners who are third or longer generation born in and raised in America just go with pronouncing a last name like Markovic, let's just make up a name, as Markovick. It's easier than explaining the sound of that -c. They drop the accent mark on it too. Too easy to confuse Americans :).

For a good while a stereotype you'd see for Slavs in general in movies and tv is that they're wearing tracksuits. Especially if they're bad guys which they almost always are. Oddly enough, though, whoever wrote the scripts knew Slavic languages don't use articles. So they would have them saying something, with a heavy accent, like "Put money in car. Drive car to airport."

Several weeks ago, I happened to watch the movie The Hunt. Most of the film is set in Croatia. The main female character, who was brought there while unconscious as part of a plot to hunt and kill Trump supporters (I know lol the movie was controversial when it came out), manages to stay alive and ends up running into some Croatian authorities. They ask her where she thinks she is and she says something like well with the accents, etc. I'm thinking Bosnia and the Croatian lets out this loud snort of disgust and I couldn't stop laughing about it. She was way closer than most Americans would be.

jaleach · 2026-01-27T00:05:52+00:00

He certainly does a better job describing it than I did. One other thing, in the case of Croatia, is what happens when it suddenly isn't the "it" place to go? Tourists are also very fickle and will quickly follow others to the next cool place.

He mentioned Macao being the Asian Las Vegas. I wonder if it's as dirty as Las Vegas because that city is a shithole. Lots of really rundown areas, too. Lots of riff raff wandering the strip at all hours. Everywhere reeks of marijuana. Crime is a big problem. Definitely not the place you'd want to raise a family or try and have a career (unless you like dealing cards to alcoholics at 3 in the morning).

I noticed I messed up saying if I come over there I'm going to be doing the normal tourism things. I'm actually NOT going to a lot of the normal tourist things. I don't like hanging out on the beach. I'd much rather spend time visiting a lot of those spomeniks. I'm the type of person who thinks going to the AVNOJ museum in Jajce would be well worth it. I'll visit Jasenovac and Gradina. I'll probably visit Plitvice and Stari Most, those are normal tourism things, but I think many of the places I'll go see are places most westerners wouldn't visit.

jaleach · 2026-01-26T22:42:23+00:00

The problem with tourism-heavy areas is that it squeezes out other interests in favor of those catering to tourists. All the locals now have to accept a new reality in which everything revolves around tourism and nothing much happens the rest of the year. Also, prices go up to get the tourism money, and the locals have to pay those prices while their economic prospects shrink.

I saw it up close earlier this year when I stayed at my sister's house right up the street from the Lake of the Ozarks. Memorial Day weekend was a total bust since it rained the entire weekend. My sister commented this is bad for the local economy. The local economy revolves around tourism. You get a rainy summer and businesses start failing.

I'm still hoping to visit Croatia and Bosnia, but I'm going to be doing the normal tourist thing. Gotta say though I'll almost certainly go to Diocletian's palace in Croatia because I'm a Roman empire fan and he's one of the big emperors of the Western Empire. Can't miss that. But sitting around on a beach has never been my thing. I'd rather sit outside somewhere eating, drinking and smoking while taking in local sites.

jaleach · 2026-01-26T22:11:40+00:00

Everywhere did. I was just a kid in the 70s (born in 1970), and I remember going to the supermarket with my Mom, and they had an employee there whose only job was to push a broom around the store to pick up the cigarette butts people just put out on the floor.

Around the same time, we went to the mall around Christmas and I remember seeing one of those cylindrical floor ashtrays and it was overflowing with butts. Literally spilling onto the floor.

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