Yup. It’s always about a third of people. It never seems to vary. And often they gain power because the country’s electoral system sucks.

No power cuts here. The building has solar panels and when they don’t get enough sun we have the hydroelectric dam in the Rhine to fall back on.

Rice is not a “vegan” food, it’s just food food. If you only ate rice you’d be deficient in all sorts of things in no time.

All news media have stuff ready for when a famous person pops their clogs. Various versions, usually.

Michelle Obama says she does as well. I suppose a lot of people in the public eye do.

You’re confusing fiscally liberal with left wing liberal. They’re completely different beasts.

I used to work at Cats and enjoyed quite a lot of it. Oddly enough they didn’t record the best parts.

I have a friend who lives in a “bad neighbourhood”. Everyone looks out for one another. Harm anyone in that street and you’re in deep shit.

My aunt also lived in a close community. When she died, they had to hire security to guard houses because the entire neighbourhood was at her funeral. She and her husband had looked after them, they’d looked after her after my uncle died.

The human race will not survive without empathy and community.

I wouldn’t do it. Do you want to have an obligation like that? “I’m going out tonight.” “You can’t, I need you to iron my suit for tomorrow.”

Having no law that prevents adults from having sex with children (because a 17 year old is a child) is nothing to be proud of. And yes, I know your law allows adults have sex with 16 year olds. Although it beats the 14 years it used to be, I suppose…

Germany: it’s a day off and there are demonstrations in Berlin.

Wars of conquest were made illegal after Hitler invaded Poland.

cackles in Rheinmetall stocks

The thing is that people think (let’s face it, it’s not thought) that POC are somehow less intelligent.

There’s a former nunnery down the road. I suppose I’d try to join. Or maybe find a farmer who’s looking for someone to look after his kids because his third wife died in childbirth.

We had a blackbird in the back yard who was adopted by a flock of sparrows. Initially her mum died and her dad fed her, then dad disappeared and she started begging food from the sparrows. They obliged and she was part of their flock from then on, even when she got a husband.

Not covering your mouth when you yawn is rude, guys. Has your mother never told you that?

Email is a terrible example that people need to stop using.

I live in Germany. A court just fined a politician for criticising the conservative party (CDU) because it was working together with the fascist party (AfD). The CDU sued him and won. Not the first time a judge supported the right wing either.

That’s all you need to know, really.

My internal thermometer is broken. When I get hot, I get a fever. Early spring is the best. Winter isn’t really winter anymore, it’s dark and dismal.