Germany? And the answer is "by getting their politicians to be corrupt in other countries". Life hacks by M3rk31
More like 25%, if I remember right the allied occupation zones. But a quarter soviet means the other 75% could be commies too! They are just playing along until we get distracted! At any moment they could start being *agh!* Socialist!
Meanwhile, in further Police incompetence news, foxes apparently have learned to use scissors, hammers, break necks, break the latches of hutches clean off and then cave in the skulls of rabbits without eating any part of them, use knives, leave bodies at owners doorsteps, and generally act very much like a human psychopath but obviously not cos, well, a fox, totally a fox, please don't make us actually do work in the suburbs there's not many Pret a Mangers out there.
As a german: Hahaha You should read the german discussion about minimum wage and other stuff and you will see Merkel and her party are only for their own people. No, not their voters. Their friends and other politicians are their people. We germans get abused as any other citizen of other countries but we are not able to go on the streets in force as we are devided to much in our opinions. We will rather vote in silence for someone who will follow in the steps of the little austrian with his well known little mustache.
Should have posted this on the day, but had another great incident during the storm. I was driving back from the shops and, while the rain had stopped, the wind was still blowing at 70mph + There was a section of road with a slight dip so rainwater had formed a couple of large pools on either side of the road. The middle was wet, but certainly not deep. In my lane, in front of me, was a taxi, and heading towards it was a 4x4. The Taxi had the driver-side window rolled about halfway down, possibly because he was smoking. Or vaping if he's one of the cool cats. The 4x4 ploughed into the water on its side of the road, splashing it up into the air. At that exact moment a strong gust of wind hit and slammed the water sideways in a perfect 90o shift - right into the Taxi's window. The taxi pulled to the side of the road. As I passed, the driver looked like he'd just been hit by a fire hose.
It's The Met, they probably found a dozen bodies during the investigation and blamed them on foxes too. Hell, it could be their new strategy. Drug dealers? Just foxes. Bank robbery? Foxes did it. Explosion on the tube? Damn those foxes!
This was a conversation that just happened with my brother Brother: "I can never tell if this salad dressings gone bad or not" (looks at bottle) "hey guess how long its been expired" Me: " How many months?" Brother: "choose a different unit of measure" turns out it was two years, if it hasn't killed anyone yet i guess its not bad yet..
And Jamie Oliver, blob-faced TV chef who hates the idea of fun, is doing his best to destroy them both in British food. God's sake, you wobbling sack of human refuse , we've been eating things like seaweed, fish head pies, boiled cakes, fish soups, jellied eels, and various leftover cabbage horrors like rumbledethumps or bubble & squeak for centuries, and you think what we need is food that lasts shorter and tastes WORSE?!
I find the rule of thumb is as long as it hasn't been there long enough that there's not a primitive society capable of erecting henges living on it, it's probably still good... I hate jamie oliver as much as the next brit, but I am pro-anything that tries to make the average school dinner edible, as pretty much all my problems with food that is good for me stem from good old fashioned school dinners, where everything is cooked at very high temperatures and for sufficient duration for all the colour, texture, smell, flavour and nutritional value to have been thoroughly boiled out of it.
I have trouble dealing with the entire concept of school lunches/dinners that you don't "brown bag" into school with you. Certainly none of the schools I ever attended had that sort of program. Colleges and universities did have cafeterias where you could purchase lunch or snacks or whatever, but nothing as lowly an education edifice as a high shool (unless one was an inmate boarder or student at some of the more "exclusive" schools, anyway.)
All through my school life i've had some form of canteen, (Starting 25+ years ago... man i feel old now...) with pre-jamie oliver school dinners of chips and pizza based meals. Although for the most part I had packed lunch (in a proper british tupperware box thank you! - no brown bag here), which was mostly bread based too... well I say bread... they were made with probably the closest approximation to dwarf bread my mum could make...
Here (Poland), in elementary schools, children have an option to eat normal dinners at school (2 courses) - paid monthly by their parents or financed by social service (for the poor ones). I never heard of such system in high school. I tried it once or twice (when my friends weren't at school I took their dinner so it didn't go to waste), but I still preferred eating at home.
