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Well that was fun! The other day Schweinsteiger was complaining (not incorrectly) that the England vs Ghana game was boring, but at least they held it to a 0:0 draw...whereas here it was a really dynamic game that made the Ecuador fans whoop with joy at the result...

Very boring game indeed. Kudos to Ghana for holding one of the favoured teams to a nil nil draw.

4:2 fine by me. Harry Kane is a force of nature!

And a list of bars/spätis where you can watch every game with a home crowd....

https://www.heistberlin.com/berlin-worl ... koff-bars/

FWIW here are the Public Viewing locations in Berlin

https://www.berlin.de/kultur-und-ticket ... ng-berlin/

Check out https://www.meetup.com

There seem to be quite a few knitting events in and around Berlin.

https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=k ... rce=EVENTS

Upgrade from DSL to Glasfaser ordered from Telekom mid April, connection date should have been today (window of 10.00-14.00), however email arrived at 12.47 announcing a cancellation. No apology, just this flannel... :( Um den Glasfaser-Ausbau in Ihrer Region abzuschließen, arbeiten wir mit einem ne...

In March 2025, I made voluntary back payments to UK National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in order to fill gaps in my UK pension record. The total amount was just under £3K and was paid before the deadline to HMRC. The payment covered multiple years retrospectively, from 2006 to 2024, and was sole...

Summary here https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/50-prozent-weniger-fluge-von-und-nach-berlin-ryanair-zieht-sich-wegen-hoher-kosten-vom-ber-zuruck-15518636.html Probably because of Lufthansa's de facto monopoly? Some on social media are describing this as a "catastrophe" :shock: but this ma...

Last weekend I went on a countryside walk with a friend. I took the liberty to move this topic to "Berlin", as the tipping etiquette in Germany is not the same everywhere. Berlin is special, it ain't the Germany standard... FWIW "countryside walk" could easily mean Brandenburg, ...

Fair enough — scepticism about politicians promising ‘clean government’ is entirely justified. That’s a constant, not a Hungarian speciality. But that cuts both ways. If you don’t believe Magyar when he talks about reducing corruption, it’s a bit odd to treat the setup under Orbán as some kind of kn...

That’s actually a more interesting take than most of what you’ve been saying — but it cuts a different way than you think. If Magyar can attract Orbán voters without changing core positions, that suggests the issue isn’t some grand ideological battle being ‘won’, but that Orbán’s system has become t...

Yeah yeah, nice try, but that’s not the argument. The point isn’t ‘buy Russian gas via someone else’ — it’s diversify away from Russia altogether. LNG ≠ Russian by default. The whole strategy since 2022 has been to replace Russian pipeline gas with global supply (US, Qatar, Norway, etc.) routed thro...

Orban is just looking out for the interests of Hungary, which is exactly what he should be doing. Well, it looks like a very large percentage of Hungarians didn't share your analysis. Unfortunately, Hungary has no access to LNG ports, but who cares? Strange how ‘we have no LNG ports’ keeps appearin...

What the official pages don’t quite say explicitly—but what you’ve already sensed—is that the real constraint isn’t the rules, it’s the physics of Berlin rush hour. You can take a bike on both S-Bahn and U-Bahn with a ticket, but only in the designated areas and only if there’s space. There’s no gua...

This debate flares up every few years often driven by concerns about fairness or labour incentives, but actual change tends to be incremental, slow, or blocked altogether. Whilst certain figures in the SPD — notably Lars Klingbeil — have suggested ending the current system “in its present form” for ...

Eric is normally on the money with most subjects! ***hero***

On this we can whole-heartedly agree.

Learn from Eric!

Orbán is bravely defending Hungary by keeping it hooked on Russian energy, blocking help for a country Russia invaded, and repeating the line that everyone else should absorb the strategic cost instead. Very sovereign. Very patriotic. Very conveniently aligned with the Kremlin. Of course leaders sho...

(I apparently support VVP, KJU & the chancer Farage! :D ) but you can't always expect your debating partner to stick to reality. Snidey is as snidey does! The point I was making was that these are the logical consequence of following your "strong patriotic leader" line. I sincerely ho...