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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 307784" data-attributes="member: 13">ROFLMAO!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Shark World indeed... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh. As a matter of fact, I even live near a couple of sharks (not to mention a couple hundred - or thousand - other creatures of the sea).That is, I live near (=within a few hundred yards of) the so-called "Haus des Meeres" (literally, "house of the sea"), which is kind of the aquatic version of a zoo.Still, "house" is an inaccurate description of the building; it's actually a very, very tall, old bunker from World War II (one of four in Vienna, two of which are quite desolate on the inside; still, the outer walls of all four bunkers still stand: these things were built to survive bombs - and they mostly did, despite the allies' best efforts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) that's surrounded by a nice park (lots of children there - and people with dogs, too). Heh. Funny, really, to make an aquatic zoo (I'm sure there's an English word for that; I can't think of it at 2:45 in the morning, though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) and a park for children out of a military bunker... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(BTW, at least one of the other bunkers - one of the more severely damaged ones - is also at the center of a park - albeit a rather large park rather than the relavitely small one here and the bunker there is also empty.)</blockquote>

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