All Down The Line

**Aianawa** · 11th November 2019, 05:37

The present I love, is a lovely amazing place for me.

Worry not in the present, from experience.

**Gio** · 11th November 2019, 07:11

Vern, you live anywhere but the present ...

giggle

**Aianawa** · 11th November 2019, 07:57

I refuse to argue on the grounds that that is being not present but as I am reacting you are now correct, bugger lol.

**Gio** · 11th November 2019, 14:46

Last one from me ...
Watch it and weep ...

♪ So what becomes of you my love
When they have finally stripped you of
The handbags and the gladrags
That your Grandad had to sweat so you could buy
Baby ♪

Rod (the mod) Stewart

Luxury: Behind the mirror of high-end fashion (fashion documentary) | DW Documentary

This investigative documentary looks behind the shiny facade of luxury fashion. Shot with a hidden camera, it shows the brutal conditions in Chinese fur farms, and how migrants are exploited in Italian tanneries.

Fine handmade bags from Gucci, Prada and Max Mara in the displays of luxurious fashion boutiques are objects of passionate desire. Luxury labels generate over 70 percent of their turnover with leather products. But hardly anyone knows the reality of their production. The major fashion brands comply with a modern code of conduct that also applies to its direct suppliers. But who controls the subcontractors? The film looks behind the beautiful displays at where the raw material comes from: tanneries in Italy, where migrants produce the leather for luxury handbags under miserable and unsafe working conditions; and behind the scenes in China’s fur animal industry, where the animals are kept under catastrophic hygienic conditions and before being cruelly slaughtered.

Nov 9, 2019

42:25 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hzomuDEIk

**Dreamtimer** · 20th December 2019, 16:26

Gio posted Billie Eilish on Howard Stern's show. Here she is with James Corden.

They go to her family home, still where she lives, and her brother's room where they recorded her hit album.

Yeah folks, they recorded it in their family home.

We get to see her Mom who's very sweet.

Check out 12:50 where she relates an amazing conversation with her brother, Finneus.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh2qGWfmESk

**Emil El Zapato** · 20th December 2019, 16:30

Where is Gio?

**Aragorn** · 20th December 2019, 17:59

Originally posted by NotAPretender

Where is Gio?

Hopefully alive and well.

**Emil El Zapato** · 20th December 2019, 18:18

true that...I hope so...

**Gio** · 4th January 2020, 20:33

Originally posted by NotAPretender

Where is Gio?

On social media

Pet Shop Boys

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuNBJkLLnOs

**Emil El Zapato** · 4th January 2020, 23:09

you know, I'm thinking Gio is on social media...

**Aragorn** · 4th January 2020, 23:17

Originally posted by NotAPretender

you know, I'm thinking Gio is on social media...

I suspect you could be right.

**Gio** · 5th January 2020, 02:54

Millennials raised on tech are fine with it replacing them ...

And so am I.

**Dreamtimer** · 5th January 2020, 14:41

Lol. At least we can reboot tech. Rebooting people is a mighty challenge.

I know many millennials. The ones I know are smart, hard working, and definitely not snowflakes.

Mostly they don't want their parents' stuff, i.e. dishes, furniture, etc., even if it's quite fine.

I'm old school and I'll save stuff for my son. We'll see what he wants.

**Gio** · 10th January 2020, 11:18

Once a city within urban Hong Kong itself ...

The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City

"Anarchic, organic, surreal, this enclave was once among the most
densely populated places on Earth" ...
More here ...

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A glimpse into the city of darkness ...

A rare look inside the Kowloon Walled City in 1990

3:32 minutes