A Horse Named Stranger

Been there done that. Trust me capsaicin + eye contact was worse. Fortunately it was just one eye, but fucking hell. Reminder capsaicin is also used in pepper spray...

Hum, no. The greatest cooking tip ever is, clean your hands thoroughly after handling dried chilli peppers. If you fail to do so and touch your face in proximity to your eyes... Trust me, that's no fund at all.

Potato pancakes are fairly easy to make. Only thing you can mess up is being too stingy with the salt. Since the base variant is merely Potatoes, onions, eggs, some flour, salt and pepper it should be lactose free. Thai cuisine. If you are fine with using a (ready made) curry paste (whatever you do, just stay away from Green Curry Paste, Green Curry is just disgusting), then cooking a thai curry in some shape or form is not that difficult either. If you want to prepare the paste yourself (which is doable) then the workload (and nuisance) increases.

Wasn't the Golden Jet a reknown wife beater?

3) Merkel having bungled the switch to renewables big time. Thus Germany being so dependent/addicted to Russian gas.

Nitpicks first. It's BRD, not BDR. I think you might have gotten conflated it with GDR. But the FRG = BRD in German. (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Having that said. answer is probably a bit of both. You have to take age groups into consideration. Younger = stronger support for Ukraine. The older generation from the GDR (I use the English initials to avoid confusion) was brought with the SU (Russia) is our friend belief. If you assume that's ingrained in them. Younger generations have for left the Eastern states in the past decades, because there was little in terms of jobs and perspective there. The trend is at least in parts reversing a bit. As there are now a few more jobs (at least in the Eastern urban areas). Anyway, I think those two factors interact there. The older generation is less enthusiastic about supporting Ukraine, than the youngs. I think those two factors are interacting there.

hahaha, Erigaisi-Ding was fun. Ding didn't look like a happy camper there in the end. Abdusattorov is torturing Magnus, and Lev looks winning against Keymer.

I hear you. Neighbour's dog doesn't enjoy glimpses of Ukraine goes to Germany either. They atm have to bait him with treats; proper big dog so not like you can just put him a bag and carry him out. And yes, those moron kids are at it for the past two hours. Had me look at the freaking clock whether I feel asleep or something.

Ok, that makes sense.

Nah, not everything. Remember I am trying to get to 200 about the smalles and most unworthy state in the US - Florida (176).

Well, depending on the kinda of banana plant, but 1.5-2 m in height should be it. So that'd be still within room plant measurements (at least that's what google says). Curious, I somehow always assumed that bananas grow on giant trees.

Historical fact. Do you know the real reason why NASA launched its missions from Cape Caneveral? Location, location, location. How else do you get people willing to enter a rocket to get shot into a dark black void other than promise that it will take them as far away from Florida as humanly possible (178). This is how the Apollo mission recruitment actually went: Ok, we want to shoot you on that lifeless rock orbiting Earth. There's no oxygen or food there. We can't force you to go, you can also stay another six weeks in Florida. Your choice. Needless to say pretty much everybody wanted to be on that missions from then on.

I am one of those 60 million I am afraid.

Probably, but less swamps and no alligators. I am not sure, but how stupid does a Florida accent sound to other Americans? Those grifters... The current head of their house (Prince Friedrich of Prussia) is atm involved in a legal battle, in which he wants quite a bit of his families holdings back (real estate, pieces of art, that didn't get loaded onto the train when Emperor was kicked out of Germany), the defendants in those law suits Germany and the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. At the very centre of those trials lies the question how much where they involved with the (rise of) the Nazis (the real ones, not those Florida cosplayers (190)). If the answer is they contributed significantly, then their quest for compensation ends immediately (black letter law). As kiko said, I think the folks a hundred years ago should have taken a page from French or the Russians in terms of how to deal with their royal families instead of letting the Emperor literally take a train of goods with him into his exile in the Netherlands. Something to keep in mind for our British boarders. Grifters gonna grift, and their offsprings will continue that tradition and cause headaches a century later.

Ah, those Reichsbürger wingnuts. For those who are into etymology and stuff. Reichsbürger (as with most longer German words) is a compound. Reich = Empire, and Bürger = citizen(s). Why do I take that small detour? Well, ideologically, they are roughly equivalent to those sovereign citizen numbnuts in the US. Alas, they are not sovereigns, but citizens of the Reich. There are some regional variants, but at its very core they're quite similar. Also quite similar tactics in everyday life. Frivolous law suits and complaints against goverment departments and the people who work there. They don't recognize the existence of the German post-war state (also favorite talking point, there's no peace treaty between Germany and the US). Some declare themselves king/emperor of something. Others want the Hohenzollern back. Don't ask me, they are proper crackers. I feel like I am missing out on a Florida joke here.

Not sure whether this news bit fits here or in the RIP thread, but Mateschitz has kicked the proverbial bucket and I need to clean my grave dancing (horse) shoes. RIH Didi. Fuckin' wnker.

Not surprising he is suing. No way he can claim damages of 100m. That would easily exceed what he could realistically hope to earn from his chess career by factor of 8 (I guess). Carlsen is worth 100m+, but that has a lot to do with him being WCC and being the top dog for well over a decade, and that he was able to monetize on it heavily with his Play Magnus Group, which he sold off recently. Niemann would never earn that money. On a related note, Niemann's mentor Max Dlugy was also not happy to be thrown into this discussion, and is also seeking legal advice.

Mixed bag from Lower-Saxony. Good: increase of the Green votes, SPD managed to stay above the CDU as biggest party in the next parliament. Bye-bye FDP*. Loss of votes in a conservative state for the CDU Bad: Vote increase for the AfD, bye-bye FDP*. On a political level, I firmly believe the less the FDP is represented in parliamets, the better. The problem is, that those knuckleheads are now even more prone to try to impose their shitty policies on the federal level. I find their disproportionate influence on policy making hard to stop as it is. Losses for the SPD, but the incumbent bonus pretty much carried Weil over the finish line despite the Scholz-O-Mat. Kinda surprised over the increased Green votes, basically not the best time for an election for them. The doa Gasumlage was one piece of poor legislation. *not official that the FDP missed out on re-entering the parliament in Lower-Saxony. The 5% threshold is in place, and they are right now on 4.9%. So, there's some ground for optimism that'll stay below the magical 5%.

Age 18-19 is still not an outrageous age to improve. I reserve judgement on Niemann for the moment at least.

The fundamentals haven't really changed with regards to the game in question at the Sinquefield Cup. There's still no evidence, that Niemann cheated against Magnus in that game. The news are damaging for Niemann's overall credibility, and he will certainly be observed more closely, but still no real evidence to back up Carlsen's claim. What?! Like What?! Please tell me which player in the age group of 12-14 is 2.700 rated? There are none. Anyway, his late blooming could also be attributed to corona. With not much to do or to go, he might have just invested that extra time working on his chess. Not saying, that's what he did, and how he improved in recent years, but it's a possibility.

So is the series gonna be as good as M. Night Shyamalan's movie? As for LoK...I never really enjoyed the show as much as ATLA. It felt disjointed on many levels. The setting/technology jump, I feel like this added to this rather hectic pacing, while Last Airbender had a rather more pleasent leisurely pace, with flying around on Appa. I mean, the cars and stuff also made her polar bear (forgot the name) kinda redundant. Then there was the age. Korra and her gang were a good bit older than Aang, which I think also took away a bit of the charm/innocence and occasional goofyness of the predecessor.

Scholz. Prince Valium's family name is Scholz. With an O. As in, Oh God, why have you inflicted that moron upon us. Also no T in his name.

She can't have died before she was born. AC (after Aegon's Conquest). So if the calculation assumes she died in or after 140 AC, that could also just be her earliest year of birth. Conversely if you give the year of 167 AC as a possible birth year, then claiming she died as early as 140 also doesn't make sense.

@Ran Something's a bit wonky on Lynara Stark's page. I think somebody might have mixed up her year of birth and year of death. Going by those dates she would've been -27-x years old at the time of her death.

P.K. calls it quits. Kinda surprising. I mean Chara and Yandle were sorta predictable retirements, but Subban, I didn't see coming. Always felt P.K. was a bit overrated, because of his good offensive game, but the defensive side of his game was always kinda suspect.