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This isn't especially relevant or important, but fun trivia: in France the National Identity Card was put in place by the Vichy regime. (Along with a surprisin
by PoignardAzur 3y ago
This isn't especially relevant or important, but fun trivia: in France the National Identity Card was put in place by the Vichy regime.
(Along with a surprising amount of stuff we still have like National Police, Mother's day, being on the UTC+1 timezone, the alarm siren we get every first wednesday of the month, Licence IV for opening bars, etc)
- JetSpiegel 3y agoJust because the Nazis did it, doesn't mean it's automatically bad. "Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos."
- PoignardAzur 3y agoYes, this is what I meant by "fun trivia". (Although a lot of these measures were pretty police-state-ish.)
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago> the alarm siren we get every first wednesday of the month, Well that sounds as useless as it would be frustrating.
- PoignardAzur 3y agoNah, it's not too loud. I keep wondering what foreigners make of it the first time they're present on a first-wednesday-of-a-month, though. And yeah, the usefulness is dubious.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoSo it's just something you've learned to live with and can kind of tune out?
- PoignardAzur 3y agoI mean, it's just an alarm you hear for 30 seconds once per month. Compared to living next to a train line or an airport, that's nothing. (Though I've never lived closed to one of the sirens, maybe that's worse.)