TDC’s Best Communist Jokes
Dark humour is like food, Stalin once said, not everyone gets it. Well, he didn’t actually say it – it was just a meme. The real Stalin wasn’t a funny …
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A Bookseller of Wooloowin
When I was seven years old I dreamed of one day owning a bookshop. When I was seven years old I also thought that somebody in their mid-40s was very old; …
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Official apology to Adelaide
I would like to take the opportunity this somewhat public forum provides and sincerely apologise to Adelaide and to thewhole state of South Australia. I have made fun of you many …
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In praise of invisible things
The other week, as part of my real job, I finished helping a big micro-mobility company (that’s not a contradiction in terms) from America who now wants to expand into Australia. …
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On discovering a scandal in family history
One of my great regrets in life is not having interrogated my loved ones about their past and their family histories while they were still alive. Now the generation of …
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In praise of sprawl
I love sprawl. OK, I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either, like so many out there do. I respect it as people’s choice – the suburbs, highways …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 7: The Finale
It’s been a great journey discovering the wise, the weird and the wonderful folk sayings from all parts of the world. You can check the previous six posts at your …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 6
Distract yourself from COVID 24/7 and enjoy some wisdom of the ages from all corners of the world. Coincidentally, when proverbs and folk sayings were coming into being, life really …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 5
With Coronavirus 24/7 and the world turned upside down indefinitely, wherever you are in self-isolation, make yourself some tea, sit down and enjoy the wisdom of the ages from different …
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Make Architecture Great Again
Exciting news – if it will happen – from the White House about other future houses: While the country was riveted by the President’s impeachment trial, a Washington rumor was …
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Shout out to Krakow the number 1
A small survey, but it shows a consistent result: Members of leading British consumer association Which? have chosen Kraków as Europe’s best city break destination for the third year in …
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Why everyone should visit a mine
If I were a state education minister I would endeavour to make it a compulsory part of a high school curriculum for students to have at least one field excursion …
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Anzac Day Repost: Grandfather’s Bridge
Note: I have originally published this long post two and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. I have reposted …
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Fire in the City of Light
A few days before I visited Notre Dame in September 2016, the French police arrested a cell of three female would-be terrorists who were planning a bombing of the cathedral …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 4: The Euro Edition
It’s been a while since the last installment, so here’s more old wisdom for TDC readers; this time all from the Old World since there seems to be a quite …
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Hands off my books, Marie
Who is this monster and what does she want? Book lovers are not happy about the way organization guru Marie Kondo recommends handling books in her new Netflix series “Tidying …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 3
Dedicated to my uncle Stanislaw from Lodz, Poland, who is the biggest fan of the series so far. Nevertheless, I hope that all of you will find something insightful and …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 2
I won’t lie and say that “The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World” are back by popular demand. Unlike the still often remarked upon and secretly missed “Girls …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World
Oh Germany, really? As the Russians say, “proverbs are the coins of the people” – and they should know, as both Tsarism and communism ensured the people didn’t have too …
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This was my Poland
Make sure to check out this stunning collection of photographs: In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on …
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