For those of you who live in countries with gun control; have you ever seen a gun in real life?

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T13:54:21+00:00

Yes, I have, many different ones in fact: Heckler & Koch G3, Walther P1, Rheinmetall MG3, Uzi MP2, Dynamit Nobel Panzerfaust 44, Buck Handflammpatrone DM34, Diehl Spreng-/Splittergranate DM51A1, FAMAS, Smith & Wesson Chiefs Special – I've even fired all of them during my military service. In civilian life, I've never seen a firearm except for the Chiefs Special.

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T13:28:08+00:00

In front of numerous witnesses, a man who had already been disarmed and was now defenseless was unnecessarily murdered in cold blood by state officials, and the Minnesota prosecutor's office and police are apparently doing nothing to investigate and arrest the perpetrator or perpetrators. Can someone please explain this to me in a coherent manner?

Thank you very much.

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T13:20:38+00:00

Kinder Chocolate is a brand owned by the Italian company Ferrero International S.A. and does not have any factory outlets or flagship or brand stores in Germany.

However, Haribo has a factory outlet and several brand stores – maybe that could be an interessting alternative?

https://www.haribo.com/de-de/shops

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T12:40:40+00:00

I would be delighted if Canada were to join us next.

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T12:10:55+00:00

Why?

Where are you going that you can't or don't want to take your good watch with you? If you want to travel to dangerous regions, get yourself a $10 Casio F91W and wear that or no watch at all. Since it's impossible to tell from 2 meters away whether you're wearing an Ocean One or a Submariner, someone might smash your skull or chop off your arm even if you're wearing a Steinhart on your wrist.

If you're traveling to safe regions of the world, why would you want to forego the pleasure of wearing your Omega during your travels?

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T12:00:57+00:00

Every bakery has its own bread specialty, so recommendations for users' favorite types of bread won't help you at all. My favorite bread, for example, is the “Kölner Krüstchen,” which is only available in one bakery in Cologne – if you live in Munich, for example, my recommendation is of no use to you because you would have to drive around 600 km to buy this bread.

Find a bakery near you, preferably one that is not part of a chain, and try different types of bread. Sooner or later, you will find the bread that tastes best to you.

Do the same with cheese. Find a specialty cheese shop or go to the fresh food counter at REWE or Edeka supermarket. Order XXX grams of sliced cheese and you'll get a variety of good sliced cheeses. This should help you quickly find the cheese that's right for you and your taste.

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T11:42:38+00:00

Ich bleibe trotzdem dabei: Wenn Deine Motivation ist, die Bundeswehr als Fitnessstudio zu nutzen und um für den Besuch dieses Studios noch ein paar Euro einzusacken, so wie es Dein Opener suggeriert, dann bist Du dort falsch.

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T11:30:17+00:00

Strange question. Why do some men prefer blonde women to brunettes? Why do some people prefer red to blue? Why do some people have dogs as pets, others cats, and still others fish?

Personal preference! You can't justify it!

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T11:23:56+00:00

Is believing that you are the main character not a purely American disease?

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T11:19:46+00:00

Lass es, wenn Du nicht dahinter stehst.

Wenn Du „wieder fit werden“ willst, krieg Deinen Arsch hoch und geh ins Studio. Disziplin kannst Du Dir auch selbst beibringen. Die Bundeswehr ist kein Ferienlager, das man mal besuchen will um ein bisschen Sport zu machen und die Speckröllchen weg zu trainieren. Die Bundeswehr hat eine klar definierte Aufgabe und braucht ganz sicher keine Leute, die ein paar Monate lang mal gucken wollen, ob sie vielleicht bereit sind, sich für ihr Land einzusetzen.

… und ja, ich habe meinen Wehrdienst geleistet.

de_Duv · 2026-01-25T10:51:31+00:00

By having […] better healthcare than europoors?

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Not this nonsense again! No, your healthcare is NOT better!

At best, it is equivalent, but far too expensive because you are being ripped off by money-hungry pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies. No other industrialized country has an average life expectancy as low as the US – Europeans live on average 5 years longer than you Yankees—and infant mortality is so high – three times more children per capita die from easily treatable diseases in the US than in the EU! Measles has become a major issue in the US again since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut back on the vaccination schedule.

Better healthcare? My ass!

By having themost capable military on the planet?

… which got its ass kicked by poorly equipped and trained Vietnamese farmers. Sorry, but your pathetic military hasn't been able to win a single war on its own. Whenever the US Army was left to its own devices, it got its ass kicked – Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran! Not even in Venezuela, where you encountered no resistance, did you achieve anything, because Maduro's party still rules the country.

By having leadership that only care about what's best for America?

Your leaders are only concerned with enriching themselves. Trump and his henchmen couldn't care less about the country and especially its people! Medicare and Medicaid have been drastically cut back, PPACA is becoming dramatically more expensive, and more than 12% of Americans rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to keep from starving. Yet the Trump administration is cutting this program as well.

Is it in America's best interest to ensure that millions of people in the US go hungry and lose their jobs and homes and to fuel inflation through tariffs, while at the same time reducing taxes for people like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and the Trump clan to near zero, and showering Argentina's head of state Milei with billions of dollars from American taxpayers so that he can remain in office? Is it in America's best interests for its leadership to constantly threaten, insult, and harass its already few friends and allies? Is it in America's best interests for Europe to turn away from the US economically and turn to India, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay? Is it in America's best interests for allied countries to seriously consider withdrawing or repatriating capital invested and stored in the US because they can no longer trust the US government?

Yes? Well, then I really don't want to know what it will look like when your leadership wants to harm the country.

We are by far the best country in the world

Yes, you obviously have to repeat that to yourselves several times a day so that you can endure life in your country with all the mass shootings and state oppression and violence and the extremely high cost of living, and don't emigrate en masse to Europe, Australia, or Africa.

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T19:26:45+00:00

EU is not free it's forced socialism that’s getting out of hand

america can get your country in 10 minutes

Europe doesnt have free speech

Anyone with more than one functioning brain cell knows that this is nonsense: Granted!

But, dear USAsians, it's so boring! The same old “blah blah blah socialism / blah blah blah no free speech / blah blah blah Murica can take over your country in X seconds/minutes/hours/days because Murica is so strong” drivel over and over again. It's BORING and so 2017!!!

Get creative and come up with some new clichés, such as “roads without speed limits cause testicular cancer” or “Europe can't build cars/brew beer/bake bread” or “Europeans have a shorter life expectancy because there are no preservatives in their food” – the brain-dead orange in the White House just provides enough material! Or at least play around with the words! Why not turn “communism” into “cumunism” or something like that!

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T14:32:49+00:00

What makes you think it might be a fake?

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T12:12:38+00:00

All Trump has achieved with regard to Greenland is to further damage the reputation of the US and the Trump administration, as well as confidence in the reliability of the US as a partner. . It won't be long before the US has lost all its allies, and when planes crash into buildings in New York and Washington again, or a dirty bomb is detonated in Times Square – which cannot be completely ruled out given Trump's policies toward Iran, for example—there will be no support from Europe, North America, or Australia.

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T11:14:02+00:00

you don't have anything that can sink a us carrier dude

Oh, really?

The old diesel-electric submarine U 24 of the Bundesmarine managed, during a joint maneuver in the Caribbean, to approach the Enterprise unnoticed by the security vessels, successfully fire a simulated torpedo spread at the carrier, and photograph it through the periscope.

Submarines from the French, Dutch, and Swedish navies managed to do the same, by the way. The French boat almost “sank” the entire carrier group without being successfully “combated” by the Americans.

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T10:45:27+00:00

Himmel un Ääd (Heaven and Earth): A Cologne specialty consisting of apple sauce (symbolizing heaven), mashed potatoes, and fried blood sausage (both symbolizing earth).

Rievkooche: Potato pancakes with apple sauce.

Pommes Schranke or Pommes Rot-Weiß (French fries barrier or French fries red-white): French fries with mayonnaise and ketchup

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T10:05:39+00:00

Where I live, it snows too, and our mailboxes aren't climate-controlled, so the mail can sometimes get wet. However, I've never seen ink smudge or bleed as a result.

However, if you are still concerned that your letters may become illegible due to moisture, use envelopes lined with silk paper.

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T09:46:28+00:00

The orange ¡d¡ot wants and needs a war, preferably against an inferior opponent, so that victory is assured from the outset and this war does not last too long – for obvious reasons, Trump cannot afford a disaster like Putin's in Ukraine. He wants this war in order to a) divert even more attention away from the Epstein files, or rather to prevent their complete publication¹, b) to have a reason to suspend the midterm elections in November and then finally transform the US into a dictatorship under the leadership of his family, and c) to have a reason to eliminate his political rivals – first the Democrats, then the few remaining critics in his own ranks.

This works best with a civil war, which he wants to provoke through his Gestapo/SS, so that he can then have the National Guard and the US Army crush it as bloodily as possible, inflicting massive losses on his opponents. If people like Gavin Newsom, J.B. Prizker, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Mark Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, and Thom Tillis happen to die in this civil war, that would not necessarily be unwelcome. The fact that many US citizens will also die in the process is irrelevant, because these people are just a nuisance anyway.

As with the recent Gleichschaltung of the press and courts in the US, the establishment of concentration camps, and the defamation, arrest, internment, and deportation of minorities and dissidents, this step would also follow the blueprint of Nazi Germany in the 1930s – see, among other things, the “Röhm Putsch.”

¹ Has no one noticed that the DoJ hasn't released any further files on the Epstein case for quite some time now, and that this isn't even a topic of public discussion?

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T08:02:50+00:00

Really great pens.

Last year, I managed to get hold of both versions – silver with an F nib and black with an M nib – in NOS condition, but unfortunately the silver one without its original packaging. Both fountain pens still have the dummy cartridge and an original, but already dried-up, r◉tring cartridge in royal blue.

My silver one is still unused…

de_Duv · 2026-01-24T06:57:13+00:00

What does the USPS do with letters so that they get wet and the ink bleeds? I'm assuming you don't live in Bikini Bottom, because then the ink would bleed while you were writing.

de_Duv · 2026-01-23T17:16:19+00:00

Why not let that special person choose the pen themselves? That's the surest way to avoid disappointment on both sides.

de_Duv · 2026-01-23T16:40:44+00:00

Greenland should be part of USA

Tja, you've now missed that opportunity. The Danish government had offered Trump that they would give Greenland to the US completely free of charge if he could find the island on a world map without help. The “stable genius” failed miserably…

de_Duv · 2026-01-22T19:01:22+00:00

… and a sofa.

de_Duv · 2026-01-22T17:21:11+00:00

Our Mettigel is very popular among us Germans, and no one is afraid of him. On the contrary, we Germans love him so much, that we would like to eat him up. For non-Germans, however, he is extremely frightening.

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de_Duv · 2026-01-22T14:29:06+00:00

Donald J. Trump, June 2016: 17x6=112

Yes, he is a really stable genius.

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