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Well that was a spectacular escalation of a family drama.

In a terrible way.

Sheesh.

Ok, we'll try an Apotheke, thank you people, hopefully if a siuation like Rob's is an option here, they'll be able to point us in the right direction.

'Tis a shame that there's not a bigger scheme, but understandable.

Kid#3 was given a whole month's supply of antibiotics which she has now been told not to take. We cannot return them to source. I am very irritated. Have googled and seen options for donating but for the US, not here. Anyone with better google-fu know of any way that unopened medicines can get re-di...

I don't think that rejecting technology is either an option or a better choice, but I suppose having understanding for people in difficulty is one thing we can do, not belittling their predicament and actively supporting them - which we do I guess through taxation here in Germany. We do indeed have ...

Technology replacing workers that are then left without work is an economic myth that died very long time ago. The 'myth' is that long term, there are fewer jobs available because the machines took them. That is, agreed, not true on a historical economic scale. Unfortunately, vast swathes of people...

However the time taken to scan and weigh all my items is the same regardless of where they are placed on the conveyor. Either the cashier weighs all my fruit and veg at the end, or they weigh my fruit and vet in between scanning other items. The bottleneck isn't the cashier's scanning speed; it's t...

Missed this last year. What fun!

Thank you, Ian

Yup, that was exactly it. He had a proper full shop on the conveyor belt and she wanted him to shift it all over to another one :lol: Bonkers. What a dude. We had a much less dramatic one where our Edeka had a great wine/beer offer on, so we loaded up with various kinds and went to the till where th...

I can't find any information online about attaching a Wise or Revolut account to a NSANDI account - my suspicion is that you can't, but if someone with better google-fu can find that out, it would be helpful and not only for mini-emkay :D @emkay - can your kid open an HSBC account like you did? That...

OK, I went with windows - tried to get decent German ones fitted - the fitter refused and said they were far too awesome for our crappy ex-council house so he fitted some average ones :lol: Put that bill into Elster and have come out with a lovely minus income certificate for the GKK so the plan was...

Many years ago in Tesco, in the first years of Clubcard, the amount of points you got for tomatoes one week exceeded the cost of them, so people were buying loads of tomatoes and then giving them away in the carpark for free....bonkers. Alberto, you'd have been making tomato sauce and putting it up ...

Yes, unfortunately they are just an expensive thing.

bethannbitt wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:45 pm Thx for this gem. I am studying for my German exam that takes place on Wednesday morning and needed some comic relief.

How did it go?

There was a story way back when on the old forum where some dude put stuff in his backpack as he was going around the shop, intending to get it out at the till, and was done for shoplifting before he got to that stage. I was proper shocked by the story because I had seen this behaviour in different ...

So glad you got straight back on with a great ride, Alberto, and I hope you've had a ball

Oh man, that's a real bummer. For what it's worth, it would seem like your decision was the wise one, and that's a brave choice even if you are left feeling sad. I don't now how many people on here are into cycling to the extent that you are, but I am sure plenty would read your account with interes...

We use a thing similar to what Franklan has posted - we had a lovely cast iron one, but the stick broke and now we have a modern one - they do a good job because they target a tight spot.

The spiral one is kinda cool.

Yup, said that straight away

Yes, second what Rob says - doing all of those brilliant beds you've got with pre-built shelters is going to cost a bomb, doing it yourself with reclaimed materials would be really satisfying. We've been building a flat base for a carport sized woodshed, collecting soil from someone up the road who ...

Thank you for that.

Gosh. Ours specifically said, get a job, it'll be cheaper for you because we'll only take Beiträge from the wage, which is what we then did for a year.