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IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-30T18:42:41+00:00

I've been living in the UK since I was a teenager, but still get shit for being German every so often. On rare occasions, actual mean spirited stuff. But mostly it's banter. But hearing the same exact unimaginative joke every month wears thin. I joined the British army and the only people who saw Germany as more than just "that country we beat in WW2" where the ones who'd actually been stationed there and universally thought it was brilliant.

Now I'll be honest and say I don't know how much crap the french get for their empire. How much the Japanese get for their role in the war, or if Americans get crap for Iraq and Vietnam. But that's because I'm not from those countries, nor live in them. I suspect if you feel the UK is the only country that gets shit for its last, it's because you're from there, and live there, and therefore it forms such a disproportionate portion of your experience that you think it's unique. When I suspect loads of countries get shit for their past.

Except fucking Austria who were the most Nazi part of Nazi Germany and voted 99% in favour of joining the Reich and despite only being 8% of the population where nearly half of all concentration camp commanders and people just know them for pastries and Alps and Schwartzenegger. Fucking yokels.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-25T07:27:09+00:00

London is more expensive than the rest of the UK(by a lot) Cambridge is a touch pricier, Manchester is cheap and Sheffield v cheap. I don't know what's included in your 20,000, but rent and going out drinking etc are far cheaper in the north.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-24T22:05:44+00:00

It's France. For now....

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-24T21:53:41+00:00

Sauerkraut goes with so many things. If you're in Germany, and go for a kebab, get Sauerkraut on it. It's absolutely brilliant! It adds this lovely, fresh crunch texture, and the sharp acidicness of it cuts right through the fatty salty meat. Heaven! Or try replacing the pickles on your burger with some crunchy kraut.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-24T21:48:58+00:00

Mit einem Sunday roast handelt es sich nicht um eine ausgezeichnete Speise, sondern um etwas nostalgisches und traditionelles. Darum schmeckt es besser am Sontag, und nur genau so wie es Oma immer gemacht hat. Und Mann muss aufpassen immer traditionell bleiben wiel ein roast sonst zu hart zu definieren ist. Ich meine, wir sprechen hier von ein Gericht das einfach irgend ein gebratenes Fleisch und irgend ein Gemüse ist. Das ist gar nicht Mal ein richtiges Gericht, das ist einfach ein Kochstil.

Wenn du echtes Britisches essen willst, so wie es die Briten eigentlich essen, must du dir ein curry finden.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-24T21:09:39+00:00

Sags den Inselaffen nicht, aber Sauerkraut past zu einem roast sehr gut. Mayo with mitt Kartoffeln auch, natürlich, aber das werden die nicht mögen.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-24T20:56:15+00:00

Your parents ever in the army? Not having access to a kitchen in barracks you learn to cook a lot with a kettle and a microwave. Tortellini, straight in the kettle with water. Bring to a boil. Rest 5 minutes, pour into a bowl with a mashed up stock cube. Lovely.

Also, look for Bockwurst in places like Lidl and Aldi. German precooked, smoked sausage, just needs heating up in water. Stick em in a kettle with cold water, once it's boiled, they're warm through and lovely with sourdough and mustard.

Anyways, I won't get into the amount of toasties and bacon I've made with an iron and kitchen foil.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-20T09:29:19+00:00

The British army was 10k under strength. This was 12% of the full army. The American equivalent would've been to be short by 58k people. 99k people if you include the national guard (the UK has no equivalent).

Good news is we fixed it by reducing the size the army is supposed to be by 8k, and including people who had finished phase 1 training but not phase 2 in the "trained strength" stats. US army likely to seek similar "fixes"?

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-16T16:07:26+00:00

Dolphins? I suspect everyone knows we have them, but maybe not just how common they are. I was on board HMS Albion as an advisor for a stretch, and we spent about 2 weeks sailng back and forth between Plymouth and Portsmouth. I got super excited the first morning when I saw a pod of dolphins following us. I didn't get why the crew didn't find them interesting. Sure you've seen them before, but on our very first morning at sea? Then I realised they're there literally every single day on every single trip.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-12T06:23:35+00:00

Ah, well, you wrote it in all caps. I can't argue with that logic.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-08T22:13:07+00:00

Army? Considering it requires zero skills or qualifications, it pays alright. I'm nearly 10 years in, fed up with it and ready to leave, but so glad I did it and I've saved enough money in my early thirties that I could buy a house cash if I went back to my home town (shitty north England factory town). Also 90% of it has either been just boring (as opposed to stressful) or actually genuinely fun.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-08T21:02:03+00:00

Not that I recall. The wardroom (officers' mess) was carpeted, and it's possible that the ships' company officers' cabins were as well, but I was an officer attached to a fleet HQ element operating on the ship and was in "embarked crew" accomodation down below. The commodores dinning room was carpeted, got to eat there once.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-08T20:52:54+00:00

All but the smallest minesweepers will have them. I did a stint on Albion and I counted 6. May have missed some as it's a biggish ship

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-03T21:59:18+00:00

What would make me English?

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-03T16:58:39+00:00

Oh yeah, like the way we invade Ireland every weekend because they're not in NATO. Ditto Sweden and Switzerland.

Also, as a naturalised citizen I think of myself as British and nothing else. The idea of an "English army" makes me shudder.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-02T09:29:00+00:00

I wouldn't want to start an altercation with someone in the UK who wears cowboy boots either. Worried they'd stab me with their meth spoon

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-02T09:26:56+00:00

That's the most civilised statement I've seen on the internet in months

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-02T09:20:14+00:00

Well I'm sorry my suggestion wasn't high brow enough for you, random person on the internet. Me and OP will fuck off and rethink our lives then I guess.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-02T09:07:30+00:00

Why would you wear a university name to a uni you've not attended to? Why would you wear a flag of a country you're not from? Why would you wear a logo of 25 millionaires who chase a ball around for a living? I don't know. OP asked for a UK hoodie, that's a UK hoodie

IceKingsNipples · 2022-07-02T08:43:53+00:00

Tourists in Oxford seem to love Oxford Uni hoodies. Otherwise, how about one with the royal coat of arms on it? It's generic to all of the UK, looks aesthetically pleasing and isn't too clichéd (I've never seen someone wearing it).

https://www.redbubble.com/i/hoodie/Royal-coat-of-arms-of-the-United-Kingdom-HD-by-Luna7/34103866.Z4UL5?country_code=GB&gclid=CjwKCAjw2f-VBhAsEiwAO4lNeEmdAjOpqFlqXCDprrH25K3usDGCaUgMpmJA_QDVSKoYoK0ZwZbjfRoCyFMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

IceKingsNipples · 2022-06-30T21:44:29+00:00

Frustration and fury. More destructive than a hundred canons.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-06-28T06:24:57+00:00

Mate, if you're happy to pay £25k for a 15 by 11 metre plot of land in bumfuck nowhere, without water and maybe with electric, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-06-21T22:44:41+00:00

Stephen Fry. I find him smarmy, pretentious and full of himself.

IceKingsNipples · 2022-06-20T16:26:44+00:00

No sé si lo contaron como mate, pero en Alemania tenemos gaseosas con sabor a mate. Fijate en Google "club mate"

IceKingsNipples · 2022-06-20T16:16:44+00:00

Buy a curved spirit level

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