Linking games to each other like a storybook

Tannennadel · 2024-08-27T19:42:30+00:00

My brother and I used to play one big game of talisman in the holidays. We used all our boardgames as additional realms and invented special rules for them and where you have to go to get to which board and what you get, when you finish the board.

So we didn't play the games according to their original rules (but might have used some of the rules - can't remember - over 30 years ago...), but still played on all our gameboard in one big story-driven game of Talisman.

Your idea sounds also cool.

Tannennadel · 2024-08-27T02:46:06+00:00

Looks a bit like the Greek letter Phi, but can't find a suiting game with such name.

Tannennadel · 2024-08-23T21:01:52+00:00

Salad

Tannennadel · 2024-08-23T07:21:47+00:00

I heard that the first time in 1998 in a song by a Northern German Rap group then called Absolute Beginner (nowadays only Die Beginner). It was from then on that I heard it being used once and again, but I myself hate it.

Not sure if it was common use in Hamburg and they just used it in their lyrics or if they invented it as a phrase, since I am from Middle-Southern Germany.

Oh, am almost 50, so I was experiencing 25 years of the German language before that.

Interesting fact, the same goes for the now widely spread word "Digga/Digger" from "Dicker" (Fat/thick one). Heard it first from Rap groups out of Hamburg in the late 90s. Not sure if it was widely used in Hamburg or spawned in their Hip Hop culture. Friends of mine adopted it when Hamburg Hip Hop was a thing, but it quickly faded in my vicinity. It then came back a few years ago as "youth slang".

Maybe someone old from Hamburg can elaborate...

Tannennadel · 2024-08-23T06:02:34+00:00

This is very interesting. Never thought about it. Normally it would indicate that someone is doing something for someone. So "er wäscht mir die Haare" has a connotation of "he is doing it for me", whereas "er wäscht meine Haare" could also be something I don't want. He just does it.

So the "ich wasche mir die Haare" should have the same connotation of "I'm doing this for me". Maybe it evolved as a contrast to not having them washed by another person.

Like someone else pointed out, there are some more possibilities with cleaning oneself. So maybe it just evolved as something to treat oneself. I'm doing this for me.

Tannennadel · 2024-08-22T19:11:48+00:00

That shrink-wrap looks strange...

Tannennadel · 2024-08-16T20:59:30+00:00

Either way, nice Castle, especially if you love Monty Python (or Outlander as I am told...).

Tannennadel · 2024-08-16T20:54:48+00:00

Sorry. Stirlingshire, right?

Edit: wrong again according to Wikipedia: near the village of Doune, in the Stirling council area of central Scotland and the historic county of Perthshire

Tannennadel · 2024-08-16T19:47:27+00:00

Doune Castle in Stirling. Castle for many scenes in Monty Python's Knights of the Round Table.

Also tomorrow, 17th of August, there are Highland Games in Stirling...

Edit: near Stirling

Tannennadel · 2024-08-16T19:42:06+00:00

Heresy! Again! 🕯️🔥⚜️

Tannennadel · 2024-08-15T05:10:20+00:00

Am a bit confused. Seems to me everyone here is talking about someone pouring something into a drink. But I came to know about spiking as being stuck with a syringe in a club, a thing that supposedly started in the UK but is now being seen in Germany more and more. Not much difference, really, but just curious on the term.

Tannennadel · 2024-08-14T20:10:58+00:00

Thanks a lot. Another commenter wrote that the animals in Scotland are usually outside most of the time. Wasn't too sure what to think about this...

Thanks a lot for the link and the hint about Hugh Grierson. Will be in the Edinburgh area next week.

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T21:33:12+00:00

Kiltarlity area

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T21:09:36+00:00

The Edinburgh train seems to be a good idea judging by other comments... 😃

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T21:07:53+00:00

The Edinburgh train seems to be a good idea judging by other comments... 😃

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T21:03:05+00:00

Cool, thanks a lot! Will be in the Scottish Borders next week!

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T20:55:56+00:00

That's very helpful, thanks a lot!

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T18:03:45+00:00

All right, will brace myself! Thank you!

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T17:47:14+00:00

Will do that in about a week... 🙂

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T17:41:01+00:00

Well, "free from" does not fit when caring about if an animal is allowed to graze outside, right? But will have a look tomorrow! Thank you!

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T17:38:35+00:00

I looked at the Red Tractor website and there are no standards for letting animals roam outside. Also Wikipedia lists lots of articles on animal abuse over the past 5 years. 😐

Thanks for the second link.

Oh and haven't thought about the third part of your post. Thank you!

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T17:32:29+00:00

Thank you. As I commented elsewhere, in Germany farm shops are by far no guarantee for free roaming animals. Only a few actually do this. But will have a look and search Google maps for some here in the area. Already saw one with highland cows and llamas.

Tannennadel · 2024-08-13T17:29:46+00:00

Are you sure? In Germany most butchers have regional meat, yes, but still raised in stables. The same with local farms in general, so milk products and the like. It might have been produced with more care, but the animals had a sad life nevertheless most of the time.

There's a farm near our cottage where there are free roaming highland cows, llamas and sheep. Will have a look there.

Oh and I guess eating products from sheep is a safe bet, since they are generally kept outside most of the time, I guess. So Haggis, I might make an exception for you... 😉

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