HEM

  Exactly!

If you think about it - there are many similarities between the UK's Brexit & Germany's "Energiewende".   Lots of promises, claims it will not cost (or at least not much), that everything will be OK & the respective country is racing towards the abyss with basically no plan..

  In the meantime that would be understandable.

Try consulting one of those who advertise here such as @Starshollow

...and how many of your contacts on receiving such a video would believe it!   Within my club we have a number of maillists with the member's mail addresses.  The SPAM protection is pretty good but if mail address spoofing takes place something might slip through.  Some years ago such a mail purporting to come from "Josef" (with his genuine mail address) with contents in English  "Have you seen this"  followed by a dubious URL.   Of course one clown has to click on that before I sent a mail to all members warning of the SPAM. When I asked "why did you click on that URL" he said (in German) "but Josef is a great guy & we trust him". The fact that Josef doesn't speak a word of English didn't set off any alarm bells!

Our Marktkauf has had the Cadbury 200g bars for some time & the local EDEKA (I am aware they are related) recently started as well.

Bridezilla - I like that description!   Ah well - in 2 day's time its the 31st anniversiary of our Anglo-German wedding.

Hmmmm.  When I was changing jobs in 1998 (thus had vacation to kill) I flew from Hamburg to Manchester with my son to spend a few days at my mother's house in Cheshire (not far from SpiderPig-Land).  Never thought about the possible need for OK from my wife but clearly should have had it.   Anyhow - on return trip I met an ex-DESY colleague whilst in the queue to board & my son (then aged 9) was allowed to sit on the jump seat on the flight deck both for take-off & landing (LH Cityline).

  Maybe this wasn't a typo!

  Log tables anyone?

We Brits used to be able to do that with pounds, shillings & pence - like dividing by 12 in yer head.

"Put out your problems with the cat" - Justin Hayward / Moody Blues (The Actor)

"A man hears what he wants to hear & disregards the rest" - Simon & Garfunkel (The Boxer)

I spent a year in Munich when I was 15 (together with parents & younger brother). No friends, foreign language - for me it was a waste of time.   20 years or so later I was back (near Hamburg) & have been for 37 years.