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29 posts, 14:04 today
Fewer black kids are able to swim than white kids
56 posts, 14:03 today
Idioms - Post your favourite
75 posts, 14:00 today
Chat about Ireland and things Irish
Posted image IRFU up in arms over Hunky Dory's adsThe Irish Rugby Football Union has made contact, through its solicitors, with Largo Foods, the distributors of Hunky Dorys, and requested that they immediately withdraw the current advertising campaign, the strap line for which claims Hunky Dorys to be 'Proud Sponsors of Irish…
11 posts, 13:58 today
Match fixing in cricket is back and it's bad
20 posts, 13:52 today
Share your burger recipes
Don't add anything but salt and pepper. Grind your own meat. Don't touch it with your hands (the heat starts the fat molecules melting). I form mine with a large cookie cutter and chilled tongs (yes I am THAT anal retentive about it). Keep COLD and add salt only at last second before they hit the grill/iron skillet.…
20 posts, 13:28 today
David Hasselhoff to tour Germany
Yes really. He's really coming back. David Hasselhoff is back! The best known and most popular series actor in the world (Knight Rider, Baywatch), who celebrated with hits like "Looking for Freedom" and "Limbo Dance" his greatest success, has decided to enter again the show stage. With "Romantics"…
65 posts, 13:22 today
Germany : economic model
And there's the issue. We British, the Irish, the Americans don't want to be hard-working frugal savers, do we? We don't want stable economic foundations based on making stuff (oh no, media, finance,and the rest that's us, money for old rope, no getting our hands dirty). We absolutely most certainly don't…
64 posts, 12:42 today
Vodafone DSL All-Inclusive-Paket
22 posts, 12:38 today
New airport tax to be introduced in Germany
35 posts, 11:56 today
Elisabeth and Josef Fritzl jokes
Posted image Received today... An Austrian proverb - women are like a good wine, best left to mature in a cellar. I bought a book on eBay, "A diary of 42 year old Austrian". It wasn't very interesting... Monday- stayed in. Tuesday-stayed in. Wednesday-stayed in. Thursday- Dad popped round... Sound of Music II will be…
7 posts, 11:28 today
Where to buy a live animal trap
16 posts, 10:47 today
Import tax on goods sent from another EU country
17 posts, 10:31 today
Deutsche Bahn to test ICE in the Channel Tunnel
21 posts, 10:15 today
Inter-city daily transport options for students
Hardly selfish for a immigrant who lives (?) 5000 km from their home nation and their past life to ask their German spouse to live an hour from their family in order to progress some of their own practical life aspirations I'd have thought! There are presumbly compromises - live somewhere (in Hesse) along the…
37 posts, 09:27 today
Where to pick your own food for free in Germany
Posted image Next ones we found (and we found a lot) were Steinpilz There are quite a few different sorts of Steinpilz and to be honest I´m not sure exactly which ones they are. We found quite a few smallish ones, medium (like pic above) or a few mutha F-in big ones. Worms love these (as they are soooooooo yum) so often the bigger…
28 posts, 08:52 today
Expats for 2 year Bosch Assignment
The system works this way, everone wants to get into the Gymnasium, but they have only places for about approx 20 % so the gymnasiums take the best students, then of those left over, the rest of the normal average kids go to the realschule about 55 % and the bottom 25% go to a hauptschule. So if you want your kid to have…
22 posts, 02:03 today
English-language TV with Kabel Deutschland
19 posts, 23:47 yesterday
Gabriel signals Sarrazin should leave SPD over xenophobic…
85 posts, 23:01 yesterday
Blatant commercial exploitation of young children
Posted image @OP: Throw it away if the cap gives you sleepless nights and an ulcer. You've gotta be kidding? Dekra is a company (yeah right e.V. LOL) specializing in safety issues so I see no conflict of interest in them giving your kid a hat that might save it from being run over by a parent in a hurry to bring their kid to school.…
90 posts, 22:44 yesterday
Haftpflichtversicherung (liability insurance)
35 posts, 21:36 yesterday
Pension insurance obligations (Rentenversicherung)
88 posts, 21:17 yesterday
Customer service positives in Germany
That's because people in general tend to moan and whine when they consider themselves ill-treated but consider any good treatment as just what they deserve and don't go rejoicing in public. I have shocked a couple of McDonald's workers by asking them if the manager is around and then telling the manager, in…
82 posts, 21:10 yesterday
Open University in Germany
I started studying with the OU in 1995 when I was in Germany. I then continued in the UK and then returned here in 1999. I've done an environmental B.Sc. and a master's in English lit. The courses are now 2.5 to 3 times more expensive than they were a few years ago. What I paid for a master's level course…
75 posts, 20:42 yesterday
Kitchens and renting an unfurnished apartment
We're renting a furnished place, but it looks like we're going to be here a while so we're about to start looking for a place of our own. This business of having to buy and install an entire kitchen for a rented apartment has me a bit freaked out though. Does anyone know how or why this practise came about? Is it just…
34 posts, 20:24 yesterday
VDSL experience in Germany
62 posts, 20:21 yesterday
Office etiquette differences UK/Germany
10 posts, 17:39 yesterday
October trip recommendations
39 posts, 17:10 yesterday
Woman puts cat in wheelie-bin
Chocky: No, it's not "just an animal". This is a living creature with - believe it or not - feeliings, just like most other intelligent animals. And putting an animal into a rubbish bin like that was at best stupid and at worst cruel. And I make no apology for saying that I consider cruelty to animals to…
39 posts, 16:43 yesterday
Planning to get pregnant but no pregnancy coverage
BritshGal: as others have already told you, what you have signed up for is obviously an international health insurance from providers like BUPA, AXA PP, InterGlobal or what not - because only those have the 11-month requirement you mention. ALL German health insurances, private or public, will cover you immideately without…
90 posts, 15:55 yesterday
Who here is an Apple Mac user?
11 posts, 15:45 yesterday
Internet Access with USB stick
54 posts, 15:16 yesterday
Waldorf schooling for children
26 posts, 15:13 yesterday
Steuerberater fees more than my tax refund
Hi Guys, I feel i need to vent my frustration and see if any of you have had similar experiences or any advice. I contacted a Steuerberater recommended through a friend of a friend. We arranged a meeting (which we agreed, upfront, would cost €180- fine). The very first thing i said to him (after the pleasantries of…
6 posts, 15:04 yesterday
Tony Blair's memoirs released
9 posts, 14:58 yesterday
Doctor's note to start school
28 posts, 13:52 yesterday
DKB refused to open an account
6 posts, 13:05 yesterday
Differences between types of job agencies
31 posts, 12:59 yesterday
What ever happened to the 9/11 theorists?
I see the coincidentalist theorists are alive and well. I thought I'd walk a mile in the coincidentalists' shoes, and lay out the argument for coincidence. Happy coincidenting! That intelligence agencies, politicians and terrorists have conducted criminal business together is well established, but BCCI and…
33 posts, 12:34 yesterday
Sarrazin: Muslims not compatible with Germany
23 posts, 12:10 yesterday
Movie: Four Lions (2010)
67 posts, 11:56 yesterday
Sarrazin's Jewish 'gene' comments spark outrage
45 posts, 11:34 yesterday
Starting a U.S. food import business
There are entire threads on that subject already. I doubt very much that anyone would get such a booming business out of selling Kraft Mac 'n Cheese/Dinners to North American ex-pats that he would need an entire cargo ship to get it over to Europe. Presumably mass shipment of bulk items would be more ecologically responsible…
4 posts, 10:25 yesterday
Travel to Burma - Visa requirements
Posted image I went there on a business trip a few years back, I had to get a visa from the Myanmar consulate back then. Apparently you can now get a "Visa on Arrival".... http://www.botschaft-myanmar.de/4.html I took my mobile phone back then, the customs guy moaned a bit then said I could keep it (there was no coverage…
33 posts, 10:13 yesterday
Most embarrassing moments in Germany...
In my ten years in Bavaria I did every stupid and embarrassing thing possible, from entering a shop and saying "Auf Wiederseh'n" instead of "Gruess Gott" to speeding through the same traffic control twice in the space of an hour and collecting two tickets, and innumerable other gaffes. But most recently…
29 posts, 10:11 yesterday
Is it legal to ask for nationality and birthplace?
Yes, it is perfectly legal for the landlord to ask about your nationality, birthplace, religion, criminal record, plans to have children and your taste in music and furniture. HOWEVER, you are under no obligation to answer any of those questions truthfully. If you claim to be German and your landlord finds out you aren't…
7 posts, 10:01 yesterday
FC Salzburg v Manchester City - Anyone going?
33 posts, 09:55 yesterday
Favorite iPhone apps for Germany - What are yours?
4 posts, 08:41 yesterday
VAT forms with Deutsche Bahn - Do they work?
23 posts, 08:35 yesterday
Owning a house in France - the Peter Mayle thing
Yes, indeed ol chap, I too succumbed to the gentle touch of the french maid a few times over the course of the summer. It was exhausting to say the least, not to mention dirty and numbing. But John Mellencamp said it best in his memoirs titled "Hurt so good" Hip hip oreo, carry on..…
23 posts, 08:35 yesterday
Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins has died
86 posts, 01.Sep.2010
How to cancel a BahnCard
31 posts, 01.Sep.2010
Finding the owner of car from given a numberplate
42 posts, 01.Sep.2010
How much do lawyers in Germany cost?
Sarabyrd: to be honest, I don´t think it´s a good idea having your legal insurance in the same package as household and liability insurance. What would happen if you had a dispute with the insurer about, say, your houshold contents insurance, and wanted to use your legal insurance? Conflict…
30 posts, 01.Sep.2010
German Playstation 3 - questions
39 posts, 01.Sep.2010
Landlord selling my apartment
Because Akira is a foreigner perhaps and doesn't want to settle here? Because his work contract is only for a year or two? Because he's planning on moving within Germany? Because he has a fatal illness? Who knows? Who cares? There are a multitude of reasons. It's not relevant in this…
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