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[mahoka]

RAPEfugees

[SahanGalbeed]

How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug

Germans have a difficult relationship with noise. They hate it and complain loudly, writes Sean Williams, who has traced Germany's relationship with sound and the invention of the first earplug.

The year 1907 was a pivotal one for German noise.

In Hanover, philosopher Theodore Lessing created the country's first Antilärmverein - anti-noise society - whose members met to debate how the noises of the modern world, from factories and cars to weapons of war, would impinge on the intellectual and cultural world.

"Silence is noble," Lessing frequently told his fellow club members.

the rest here
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35122755

[Fortuna]

^ lol


I wish Somalis understood "if you have thing valuable to say, say nothing "

[SahanGalbeed]

Thank you fortuna , I am gonna try to shut it for the rest of the day

[Lancer]

I wouldn't be silent if a bunch of foreigners were coming in my country raping and harassing the women.

[Fortuna]

No sweetie, I'm laughing at your article. Germans appreciate SILENCE. Somalis don't.

[Adali]

I love silence, intelligent debate and flirting. But I hate gossip, listening to moaning etc. I am so noble aren't I ?

[Fortuna]

What moaning have you been listening to