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Workingman s Death
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I, the best worker from shaft no. 9, |
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do solemnly swear |
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I will have extracted |
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I, the best worker from shaft no. 9, |
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do solemnly swear |
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I will have extracted |
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5 Portraits of Work in the 21st Century |
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HEROES |
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The difference between |
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Do you see this chunk? |
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I'm going to put it to the test now. |
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You see, it's rock. |
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This rust-colored lump is coal, see? |
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Coal. |
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And then you've also got |
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they're dark brown and look like coal, |
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I check each shovelful for coal |
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no matter how small it is. |
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There's definitely coal here. |
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If you dig deeper into this hole, |
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there's definitely coal, back there, |
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great big chunks. |
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Now everything's frozen |
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This time of year I can fill one sack a day. |
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But in the summertime |
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Honest, 2 to 3 sacks. |
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Alexei Stakhanov |
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August 31, 1935 |
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A Historic Night |
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Donbass, Soviet Union |
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102 tons of coal in one shift. |
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Long live the Stakhanovite movement! |
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This land and age has grown great through work, |
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across the vast and open country... |
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the nation of Stakhanov heroes |
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and miners wage the fight for coal, |
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the nation of Stakhanov heroes |
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and miners wage the fight for coal. |
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In times of peace as well as war... |
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miners always love their country. |
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the nation of Stakhanov heroes |
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prepared to fight the enemy. |
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You can't compare us with Stakhanov, |
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We're not driven by enthusiasm. |
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We're not being pushed: |
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That was all just a show. |
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Yeah, just a show, |
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No, Stakhanovism wasn't a show, |
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it was a movement |
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No, Wolodja, |
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Sure, but we're motivated |
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Our enthusiasm comes from the |
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We work to survive. |
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If you don't work, |
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And that's that. |
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When Petrowitsch |
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"Hello, mine." |
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It's a kind of substitute prayer. |
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You come in and say, |
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go in further and say, |
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Or: "Tremble, mine! |
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"Here comes the drunken coal digger!" |
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We slaughtered the cow today. |
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This son of a bitch is driving me crazy. |
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Pickax? |
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Okay, buddy, here we go! |
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We used to work in government mines, |
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but they're all shut down now. |
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We had to find new jobs, |
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How we found this place? |
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The pits were already here. |
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We went in, |
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and that's how we started |
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It was as simple as that. |
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Not just sometimes, |
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It just has to cave in 10cm |
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There'd be no way |
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Is there still some in there? |
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Our grandfathers used to call |
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C'mon, slow down a little. |
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Just keep pushing and |
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My daughter told me her school |
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There's water |
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Everyone keeps their |
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Shit, all they do is take off their |
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Those fuckin' idiots. |
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The dumplings are good, |
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Ah, they were cooked in oil, |
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We should have |
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We should have worked faster. |
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Is your goat doing better? |
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Yes, she's better. |
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Tanja feeds her with a syringe. |
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One of mine died. |
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What, a kid? |
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What happened? |
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Borislawa fed and fed it, |
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We're doing it right. My wife says, |
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"I'm following the book. |
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"Let them be scrawny. |
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Who knows, |
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Don't get stuck. |
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Stop! Easy does it! |
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Wait till he's on his feet. |
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Here we go! |
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How our life together has been |
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It's been good, right? |
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Life itself is full of happiness. |
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Especially when we were |
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During vacations we'd drive all over, |
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Yes, we had a car |
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We always went some place. |
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Even now, we take outdoor trips with |
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And our celebrations are usually |
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But - we've lived together |
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and have never celebrated our anniversary. |
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In fact, we never really celebrated |
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I used to come here on my breaks, |
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I was in my third year and afterwards |
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He asked me, |
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We were celebrating New Year's |
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On January 2, he woke up |
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"You know what, we should get married. |
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I captured her. |
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Hi. |
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Who do we have here? |
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Why are you carrying her? |
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She's so little, our Knopochka! |
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Say: "How do you do?" |
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Is she doing alright now? |
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Yes, she's all better now. |
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Is there anything to eat? |
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Yes, I made pelmeni. |
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Yes, run me a bath. |
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Are you tired? |
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I'm exhausted. |
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Do you want to lie down? |
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I just want to sleep. |
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You've been lying on your back |
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I'm hungry. |
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Your dinner |
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Meanwhile you can run my bath. |
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In a second. |
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Of course our pit is illegal |
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But we see things differently. |
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The state doesn't give us |
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But we have to survive somehow. |
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Yes, and feed our families, |
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I'm not getting rich. |
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I'm doing this to survive, |
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At least you could work |
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I'm not complaining, |
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In any case I'm staying home tomorrow. |
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Do you like this job? |
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I think it's great. |
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To warm us up |
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Otherwise... |
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Sure we'd rather have |
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a job where we weren't |
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where we could wear clean clothes. |
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But we don't have that. |
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We should have gone to college. |
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And what good would |
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Knowledge is power. |
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No good. |
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and then none |
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Everything's closing, |
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That's the way it is. |
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As a girl, I wanted to become a dancer, |
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I loved to dance. |
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Now I dance with |
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That looks terrific. |
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You haul 1.5 to 2 tons a day and |
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What do you want to do tonight? |
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I can't wait to take a bath. |
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I don't know yet, I'm tired. |
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We could watch TV together. |
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It's too far for me, |
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On "The Word of Life" |
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"You commit a sin |
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"Stay home and pray |
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Yeah right, God will provide... |
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A loaf of bread will fall |
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Alexei Stakhanov |
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Now it's burning. |
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Okay, Slawa, |
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and may you enjoy |
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Let your things burn so you'll |
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Come, drink! |
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Here, Sergej, here. |
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Yes, congratulations and enjoy retired life! |
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GHOSTS |
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Kawah Ijen, INDONESIA |
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A friend of mine dreamt... |
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that a goat head |
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The goat head has to be taken up |
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If this sacrifice, which is to be made |
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an accident is sure to happen. |
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Once a woman fell into the volcano. |
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No one knows exactly how it happened. |
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What is certain is that |
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I can tell you exactly how it happened |
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He was working in Sari Enam. |
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While he was breaking off chunks of sulfur, |
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he suddenly slipped... |
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and fell into the boiling sulfur |
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What do you drink |
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It varies. Sometimes Johnnie Walker, |
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What's important is |
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and then you go into a bar |
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Sometimes your own body |
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Why do you have to get drunk first? |
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So that you are calm |
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I used to be able to take on 4 men. |
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Even 6 of them |
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I beat up the biggest one... |
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and the other ones ran away. |
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I do the same thing |
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I throw the one I beat up outside in the grass |
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Then I go home. |
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Is he dead then? |
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No, just unconscious - |
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Don't they come after you |
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Of course they come after you |
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Is that why you came here? |
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Yes, I fled straight here to |
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I heard there was sulfur work |
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I came here... |
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because it's better than getting |
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Are you one of Ijo's regular customers? |
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She's fantastic! She's so slender. |
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But what's the fat one's name? |
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Yes, Tagiri. |
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She's real fat. |
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I like the way she moves, though. |
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But moves aren't everything. |
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What counts is the satisfaction. |
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Oh yes, the satisfaction. |
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Yes exactly, |
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Yeah, instead of going to Tagiri, |
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I go down to Banyuwangi |
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There you pay 150 thousand, |
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A room costs |
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you have a little fun, |
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climb the mountain, go back down and |
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What else have they given you? |
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Cookies? Is that all, never a kiss? |
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What? |
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Yes, sure, once. |
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It happened to me once before too. |
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Three months ago I saw a woman |
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"You come from?" |
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And I asked her: |
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"What is name?" |
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What language is that? |
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Can you speak English? |
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Enough for a short conversation. |
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After we shook hands, |
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"I want to kiss you." |
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"Please." Then I kissed her |
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My nose was still dirty |
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But I was allowed to kiss her. |
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Show him a ten. |
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Ten? Do we want to buy it? |
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Yeah, for 10 it's OK. |
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Do you see the vapors |
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How many kilos are you carrying? |
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Really? That's a lot. |
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Yes, of course. |
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If we let our emotions get the better of us... |
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and let the teasing |
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we will quit our jobs |
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How much can you carry? |
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70kg, and you? |
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Me too. |
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But we manage those 70kg pretty well. |
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One shouldn't overdo things. |
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Forget what the others say about us. |
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And who knows, |
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We're climbing up the mountain, |
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climbing up, up, up, |
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Do you like to listen to |
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No. |
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Me either, |
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What's that? |
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Bon Jovi, Scorpions, |
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What kind of name is Bon Jovi? |
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That's the name of the band. |
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He's the singer, |
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And do you understand them? |
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Yes, I understand them. But I can't afford |
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The band is made up of four people: |
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Nicolas, Brian, |
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Adam, and Bon Jovi. |
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That many? |
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Yeah, like dangdut. |
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That means the group is called Bon Jovi? |
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Yes, they made the name of the |
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LIONS |
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Innards! Skin! Head! |
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Skin! Innards! |
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Innards! Skin! Head! |
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Mallam! |
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Hey, boy! |
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Mallam! |
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Be right there. |
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I come. |
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You got it lying down already? |
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You got it lying down? |
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Watch your foot! |
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That will be 40 naira. |
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Who does this one belong to? |
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I have the money. |
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You have to pay immediately. |
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Don't ask me, I can pay you. |
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Don't ask me, I can pay you. |
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I've always paid. |
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Sometimes you make problems. |
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My workday begins between |
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Usually I get up at 5 |
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Killing goats |
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Before I slaughter a goat, |
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Normally we slaughter |
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Sometimes it's only 300. |
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Other days it's only 150. |
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But there are times when |
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and then we might have |
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And sometimes we even have |
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Now. You roast skin and I roast |
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This one he roasts heads. |
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He roasts skin too. |
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You roast skin? |
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And you? What do you roast? |
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I roast everything. |
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Everything? Humans too? |
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Any animal, I can roast it. |
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See, look. I roasted this. |
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Let me see. |
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Soak it and it'll turn white... |
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Nobody wants that. |
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Where are the customers? C'mon! |
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I don't tire, I don't tire, |
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We pray to God |
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governors and heads |
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to keep our borders open... |
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so that we can continue |
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This is the only way we |
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We kill it and roast it. |
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Roasting is very important. |
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The butcher's trade would be no good |
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Not everybody likes |
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Roasted meat is much more delicious |
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Listen up! |
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What do you want to say? |
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I'm roasting a goat for Mr. Chinedu. |
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He don't want to pay |
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And the government? |
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The government? I am the government! |
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Yeah. The government belongs to me! |
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How do you like this job? |
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This job wears me out. |
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It makes me happy, |
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And it's much more honorable |
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Stealing is a disgrace. |
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Yes, that's exactly right. |
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they cut off your head. |
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They slit your throat, |
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Clean water for sale! |
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I don't worry about tomorrow, |
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A-Boy is my name... |
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Where is the head butcher in this |
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I, the son of a lion, come to |
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May God protect you, |
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Of all the famous slaughterers |
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You are blessed with rich customers. |
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The poor |
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The government pays tribute to |
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Everyone in the River State |
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May almighty Allah bless you. |
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Of all the famous slaughterers |
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God bless all of you! |
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Of all slaughterers |
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You are the rich man whose abundance |
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Skin! Innards! Head! |
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Skin! Innards! Head! |
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Skin! Innards! Head! |
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Isn't 4,500 enough for you?! |
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Skin is expensive at the moment. |
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The neck skin is good, |
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That's ridiculous. |
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I'm telling you the neck is good, |
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Ask Mallam, |
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Okay, I'll give you another 100 naira, |
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100 naira, what do you say? |
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Tell him I'll pay 4,600. |
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Come here, feel the skin. |
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Skin! Innards! Head! |
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Make way! |
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Usually we work |
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Depending on the workload |
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I don't know if I'm the best |
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but I thank God for my skills. |
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Other people have other skills, |
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I believe this job makes me special. |
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You know why we mark the |
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We do this so |
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Lots of cow heads |
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Here you can see clearly. |
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The other head says the same thing: |
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Everyone here has his own marking. |
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If you use someone else's mark, |
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you're stigmatized as a thief and bring all |
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God will punish you! |
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In the name of God, the Beneficent, |
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Praise be to God, |
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Praise be to God, |
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Thee alone we worship; |
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Show us the straight path. |
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When the cow heads |
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we cut the horns. |
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we throw them on the fire. |
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When the hair is all singed, |
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we bring them down off the fire |
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Then we roast them a second time. |
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Now you have to check the heads, |
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when this side's done, |
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When the second side's done, |
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When that side is all done, |
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Then you wash 'em up good. |
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Then after they wash 'em, |
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Where they take 'em - |
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Then the owners come back |
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They pay us 100 naira |
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Depending on the workday... |
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each of us earns |
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And after work I earn some money |
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That's how it is. |
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5, 6, 7, 8, 9, |
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11, 12, 13 dollars... |
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Don't have it. |
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Don't tell me! Give me, give me! |
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Alhaja, come! |
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You know |
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I'll tell you! |
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Go back and get your own! |
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No, these are the last two. |
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Hey man, sit down |
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This is mine! Let go! |
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Why are you pulling? |
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Go get a new piece! |
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Make way! Make way! |
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Make way! |
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Make way! |
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He who was born |
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will pass through |
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Especially if he began |
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that has yet to learn |
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We are born into suffering... |
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because in this country |
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So everyone here |
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And if God in His infinite mercy should... |
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bestow us with success, |
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so be it. |
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Skin! Innards! Head! |
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BROTHERS |
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My village is a beautiful garden |
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but being separated from you |
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As my wayfaring friend |
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he turned his face |
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so he could take leave of life |
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Many travelers have come, |
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but you were never |
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O my beloved, |
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in this place full of scrap metal |
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I yearn for you so dearly. |
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I beseeched the |
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to stop sending ships |
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I come from far away, |
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A garden without flowers |
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Here I am a stateless person, |
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with empty hands. |
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You have hurt me, |
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Most of the workers here |
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The Pashtuns are a poor people. |
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That's why they are here. |
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As for me, |
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but only because |
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I wouldn't be able to find |
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I came here when I was 16. |
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I worked for two years and |
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Then I went home. |
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I came back in 1991... |
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and now it's already 2004. |
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In all these years |
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everything is exactly |
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The pay has never |
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Neither back then, |
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Work, work, work. |
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For my entire adult life |
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We're like brothers to each other. |
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And we have to trust each other. |
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After all, we're all we've got. |
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If one of our fellow workers |
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we all get together |
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and whether we can |
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There is never |
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Fighting would only sap our energy, |
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which is something we can't afford. |
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Of course this is a shitty job, |
| 00:24:19 |
but even so, |
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God gave us this task, |
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we're glad |
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This job is death itself. |
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One false step |
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Or a hunk of steel falls |
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Or the residual oil |
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Death is always with us. |
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We have to defeat our fear or we |
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But what choice does one have? |
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We stay here a whole year. |
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Then maybe we get to go home |
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Then we have to come back. |
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The time spent at home |
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We tell our families |
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That we enjoy |
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But you only get work here |
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Have the workers |
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Jalabe! Jalabe, you too! |
| 00:29:26 |
Do you want tea? |
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No, thanks. |
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This cap |
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Let me see, |
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Friend. |
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It says: |
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So how are we going to cut |
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Straight, |
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It doesn't matter. |
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Why don't you cut a bigger hole? |
| 00:30:39 |
You barely fit through. |
| 00:30:46 |
Greetings, my friends. |
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How much for a photo? |
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Isn't that expensive? |
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That's the normal price. |
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We pay in advance, |
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Of course. |
| 00:31:02 |
and 10 tomorrow |
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Take off your cap. |
| 00:31:29 |
Excellent. |
| 00:32:42 |
What is good and what is bad... |
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is for Allah to know. |
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We do our work |
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If we are injured, |
| 00:32:55 |
or we don't mind, |
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We fear neither injuries |
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We are born to die. |
| 00:33:19 |
Hurry up! |
| 00:33:22 |
You've been down there |
| 00:40:22 |
Here live the foreman Nani Mrachman |
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No trespassing without their |
| 00:40:32 |
"When I think of you, |
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"You're far away from me. |
| 00:40:37 |
"You are a traveler, like myself. |
| 00:40:42 |
"Now our paths go separate ways, |
| 00:40:45 |
"but my heart is with you." |
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Omar Khan says: |
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FUTURE |
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Hard work is like a load |
| 00:44:47 |
challenging us to shoulder it. |
| 00:44:49 |
Some loads are light, |
| 00:44:59 |
If a man wants to succeed |
| 00:45:01 |
that is, to achieve |
| 00:45:04 |
he must bring his ideas... |
| 00:45:06 |
into correspondence with the laws of... |
| 00:45:08 |
the objective external world. |
| 00:45:11 |
Otherwise he will fail |
| 00:45:24 |
The masses have |
| 00:45:28 |
They can organize themselves |
| 00:45:32 |
where they can give full play |
| 00:45:35 |
They can concentrate on production |
| 00:45:40 |
more and more undertakings for |
| 00:45:50 |
The world is yours, |
| 00:45:53 |
but in the last analysis, |
| 00:45:56 |
You young people, |
| 00:45:58 |
are in the bloom of life, |
| 00:46:01 |
at eight or nine |
| 00:46:04 |
Our hope is placed on you. |
| 00:46:07 |
The world belongs to you. |
| 00:46:09 |
China's future belongs to you. |
| 00:46:13 |
Mao Tse-tung |
| 00:47:30 |
You can't compare |
| 00:47:32 |
Technology has |
| 00:47:35 |
Today you don't need |
| 00:47:40 |
Today, strength alone |
| 00:47:42 |
you need know-how, too. |
| 00:47:44 |
I don't believe we should just |
| 00:47:56 |
Yes, but one still |
| 00:47:58 |
Of course we still have to work. |
| 00:48:00 |
But intelligently and |
| 00:48:02 |
and at the same time |
| 00:48:05 |
The work must be done |
| 00:48:09 |
Yes, no way around that. |
| 00:48:17 |
Today we are confronted with |
| 00:48:21 |
because these days technology counts more |
| 00:48:27 |
and we are always modernizing |
| 00:48:32 |
I still hope |
| 00:48:34 |
will be preserved as |
| 00:48:36 |
After all, they represent |
| 00:48:39 |
The first row of blast furnaces was |
| 00:48:46 |
Half a century |
| 00:48:50 |
They bear |
| 00:48:52 |
This makes it possible |
| 00:48:56 |
whether or not it |
| 00:49:12 |
China has shifted from a |
| 00:49:21 |
and the present situation |
| 00:49:27 |
We are the older generation of |
| 00:49:30 |
and of course we want |
| 00:49:32 |
to follow in our footsteps. |
| 00:49:34 |
We are willing to sacrifice ourselves |
| 00:49:39 |
in the name of the steel industry. |
| 00:49:43 |
But times have changed |
| 00:49:46 |
We cannot decide |
| 00:49:51 |
We can't force... |
| 00:49:54 |
our children to take up |
| 00:50:47 |
Furnaces no. 2 and 3 are |
| 00:50:50 |
Progress is continuing steadily. |
| 00:50:53 |
We are competitive in the |
| 00:50:55 |
Looking back over the past few years, |
| 00:51:00 |
one can say that the |
| 00:51:13 |
All around us, the area |
| 00:51:18 |
just this place here... |
| 00:51:20 |
still looks the same. |
| 00:51:23 |
Here one can still feel the past... |
| 00:51:26 |
and one's own childhood. |
| 00:51:28 |
Sometimes my classmates and I come |
| 00:51:31 |
We imitate the figures... |
| 00:51:34 |
and pose like the soldiers |
| 00:51:39 |
We think these poses look really |
| 00:51:44 |
EPILOGUE |
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Duisburg-Nord Country Park, Germany |
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once the Duisburg-Meiderich Steelworks |
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Here molten iron flowed, |
| 00:54:23 |
here thousands of fires burned |
| 00:54:26 |
At the Duisburg-Meiderich smelting works the |
| 00:54:31 |
365 days a year. |
| 00:54:34 |
Here iron ore surrendered |
| 00:54:36 |
without which modern life |
| 00:54:41 |
37 million tons in more than 80 years. |
| 00:54:45 |
From 1903 till 1985. |
| 00:54:48 |
Then came the last shift. |
| 00:54:51 |
But not the end; |
| 00:54:53 |
The smelting plant was transformed |
| 00:55:00 |
When night falls in Duisburg, |
| 00:55:04 |
In neon green |
| 00:55:06 |
ARTificial light |
| 00:55:09 |
The British light artist Jonathan Park... |
| 00:55:11 |
guides Duisburgians home |
| 00:55:16 |
Experience the glowing furnaces |
| 00:55:20 |
on weekends and holidays. |
| 00:55:23 |
And let yourself be guided through the |
| 00:55:29 |
Have we left anyone sitting |
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Translation: Kimi Lum |