Both my kids favorite veggie was broccoli when they were small. I’d prepare it the way you’d get it in an Italian restaurant - small parts of it just bleached for a short time, so it stays firm, served with nice olive oil and salt. (And a bit of lemon, if I have it on hand)

Broccoli (like so many veggies) tastes awful when overcooked into a soft and mushy consistency (and then it also changes its taste in a bad way).

Here in Germany grandmas typically are amazing cooks, with the sole exception when they cooked veggies. That generation loved their vegs really soft and overcooked.

When I was 13 I was the one who knew the most of dirty jokes in ny class. I had learned them from my dad.

Any idiot in a car can kill me at any time, because he’s getting road rage. I’m living in Europe, grew up in the 80s where nuclear war was a very real danger that could break out any moment, vaporizing all the cities. Even though we were allies of the US, highways were prepared to be outfitted with nuclear mines so the Russians couldn’t roll all over Western Europe. We have a war right now next to our countries which could turn into WW3 at any time. A close friend of mine is Bosnian, she has seen the fighting in the Balkans few years agom

People kill each other all the time, because they consider each other bad persons. I just refuse to live in fear.

And the longer I live, the more I believe in violence as a legitimate defense. If someone shot Putin tomorrow, I would be happy. If someone had shot Hitler in the 30s the would would probably have been a better place.

So where is the line that divides killing someone is a good thing vs a bad thing? I used to believe it is always evil, but I can’t anymore.

40042.5 * 2

Dicht und Ergreifend (Guys rapping in Bavarian dialect) did crowd-surf in a porta-potty at the show I saw last year in Munich.

What a horrible day to be able to read.

Oh, so you think things are less insane here in EU? Ha!

What, are you telling me the posts in this community are fake news?

Staplerfahrer Klaus, a real classic. I even have it on DVD somewhere.

Super Size Me.

I’m disappointed you didn’t reset the trip counter 69 miles ago.

I had this happen a lot, then I was zapping around the TV aimlessly for hours.

It turned out I was out of energy. Mental battery empty.

One of the biggest changes was - I trained myself to have rest days where I do “nothing” every week (that is “nothing which taxes me. mentally”, so also no meeting with friends or so). As long as I have enough energy left, I can compensate for a lot of stuff - so I make sure I have enough energy. (Playing on the console is fine, watching TV is fine, cooking is relaxing me, even doing a limited number of chores)

Those undestimulated days are rare now, compared to 4 years ago.

Time to make a punk leather jacket with the sylt logo on the back.

Death by SnuSnu

Am unteren Ende der Klowand, dort wo sie zum Durchwischen aufgeständert ist:

Vorsicht vor dem Limbotänzer!

Wie Adolf Hitler throne ich hier, die braune Masse unter mir.

Tbh, it’s not a fairy tale but an illustrated children’s book written in 1845 by Heinrich Hoffman for his three year old kid. It was one of the first illustrated books, so it is considered to be one of the first comic books. Each story has a morale but is way over the top.

Interestingly a lot of the descibed behavior is known to be with ADHD or anorexia, today.

Growing up in Germany I always find Struwelpeter a quite horrible book (yes, I too had it a kid).

Ich habe Dinge gesehen, die ihr Menschen niemals glauben würdet. Gigantische Schiffe, die brannten, draußen vor der Schulter des Orion. Und ein rosa fliegendes Schwein, genannt Pupsi, im Kino, nahe meiner 6-jährigern Tochter.

RFC 1925 (3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.

Therefore they are soup.