There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now

Re:There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now by raspasov on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:08PM (#28181744)

My experience exactly.

Growing up in the 90s in Bulgaria, my parents had to line up for hours or half a day to fill up gas in the car. This went on for weeks/months.

If I complain that people are complaining too much in the modern world, I would be complaining as well. So I won't, otherwise it will be an infinite loop.

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Re:There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now by akomtu on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:59PM (#28184667)

Someone from North Korea could tell you that USSR people had an easy life. We don't see those stories on HN because there's only one person in NK who has internet.

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Re:There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now by Radim on Saturday August 14, 2021 @07:27PM (#28184820)

True, there's always someone who has it worse.

Obligatory Monty Python sketch:

"I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock in the night, half an hour before I went to bed. … And when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!"

- Monty Python, Four Yorkshiremen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEIApUNVBKg

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Re:There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now by raspasov on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:56PM (#28185597)

Absolutely. The most horrific documented history in terms of human conditions I’ve encountered is Unit 731 in Imperial Japan.

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Re:There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now by akomtu on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:06PM (#28185644)

Those were Chinese villagers who could tell North Koreans that whining about lack of food is a privelege when you can go outside and see skies.

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