@Doctor-Phibes said in How Germany is it?: @Klaus said in How Germany is it?: @Doctor-Phibes said in How Germany is it?: @Klaus said in How Germany is it?: @Horace said in How Germany is it?: you count how many world wars it's instigated. Whether we instigated WW1 is debatable. Moltke freaking planned it in 1905! https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26048324 Almost all of them pin some of the blame on Germany. I actually agree that it was complicated, and probably doesn’t really matter at this point. I agree that Germany certainly deserves a large part of the blame, but the whom-to-blame situation is not nearly as clear as in WW2. Several nations were eager to go to war at the time...

No wonder Santa kept so many of them. Very sweet.

And a big vegetable garden.

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I'm surprised it doesn't topple over after landing. Tall skinny object, wavy movement underneath.

@taiwan_girl said in Heading to the UK: @Horace Hopefully you have some free time or evenings to explore. But I know that those types of trips after a long day, you just want to go back to your room and relax. What, and miss the chance at having a warm, flat, beer?

Ugh. The story only gets worse as time goes by.

@Copper We get it. You tee up the golf ball a lot. You don't have to keep showing us!

They stink when you skin them out and they're greasy. Plus, ain't nothin' like walkin' by a dead cow carcass and watching the possums scatter out of the body cavity.

Tell them not to get too attached to it. If you read down into the article, today it's pets, then they shift to people.

@Klaus said in History is how you write it: Interesting. How many small versions of this incident go by unnoticed, I wonder? Bunches. Wiki is what it is, and I use it just like most folks, but don't take it as the gospel truth.

@NobodySock said in Bring Back The Draft: Finally, something I can agree with from you. You dimwitted ostrich. Been saying it for a very long time. Each and every 18 year old should serve minimum 2 years in the armed force of their choice. But there is no getting out of it. A law. An enforced law. I know it doesn't go well here in this forum full of college grads with daddy's spoon still stuck up their butt, but I believe our country would be so much better off by forcing high school grads to give back to this country and learn some respect and gratitude before daddy sends them off to become cynical smart people with no common sense. How was rehab?

If you look up "polymath" in the dictionary, there will be a picture of Steve Martin there. Actor Author Comedian Composer Banjo Player When (if) I grow up, I want to be Steve Martin.

Very nice. Should last a long time and be maintenance/trouble free. I've always had a fondness for Mazdas. They're just different enough from Toyotas and Hondas to make them interesting. ETA: Might wanna blur out the license plate, because I'm paranoid.

@George-K I did that and it failed. hmmm. Let me try that again. ... OK, I must have forgotten to actually click the button. [image: giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47fezwi9vcctlxcwvcotof126irgi5rtgddg37gcsj&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g]