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RetiredWarrior 3 points ago +3 / -0

My daughter broke her arm in an accident and still has feeling in her fingers after surgery. More than half of the people with similar breaks are not as fortunate.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'd love to see a gigantic bolt of lightning strike that guy dead during Davos followed by a rainbow so the entire world knows who was responsible.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, right, like being a princess wasn't too stressful for her!

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RetiredWarrior 3 points ago +3 / -0

Thank you!!!

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not just any bottle of wine, a 45€ bottle of champagne.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

I invited the woman that is my wife today to my housewarming party and she showed up with a bottle of Moët & Chandon. She already had checkmarks in all the boxes that are important to me, but that one thing told me she was different than the women I'd been dating. 25 years later we're still very happy together.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm gonna guess that Shelby is one of the 4-6% we consider ‘hopeless' and forever brainwashed.

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RetiredWarrior 4 points ago +4 / -0

It took me too long to figure that out for myself.

Now that our kids are out of the house and my wife has taken on added responsibilities at work I've started solo backpacking through different countries in Europe.

I'd have had a much different life if I'd started doing that forty years ago instead of waiting until I retired.

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RetiredWarrior 3 points ago +3 / -0

I used to take my kids to World's of Fun before I could afford to take them to anything Disney owned, in fact, that's where my first wife and I went on our honeymoon.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, but my dog still loves me.

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RetiredWarrior 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm so happy I live in a country where mothers can breastfeed their babies without causing a ruckus.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

I saw the headline yesterday, but skipped reading the article. Thanks for pointing out that I needed to read it as well. #themoreyouknow

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

Germany is pretty well gone to the other side at this point. They call people like us, "Normal Thinkers" which I find hilarious since that should give them a clue that just maybe there's something wrong with their thinking.

A couple of recent observations:

I've lived here on and off for 40 years. I've never seen so many blue flashing lights as I see now. People seem to be having medical emergencies is huge numbers and even my wife has taken note of it and she's not a Normal Thinker in any way.

The neighbor came looking for clothes for four Ukrainian refugee families that showed up in a nearby town. I was told they didn't need men's clothes since they were all women. I know they won't let men leave, but what a change that is from when hordes of military age men invaded us back in 2015.

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RetiredWarrior 3 points ago +3 / -0

I've read every drop since January 2018, went back and read the ones I'd missed shortly after that and still reread them frequently.

In fact, post a Q drop, mention a Q drop, link to a Q drop and I'll follow it like a fish going after any shiny object. I can't help myself. Kek

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was going to join the military, but ...

I was going to become a cop, but ...

I was going to become a firefighter, but ...

Same story, different day.

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RetiredWarrior 5 points ago +5 / -0

What a waste of valuable oxygen!

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RetiredWarrior 17 points ago +17 / -0

In a previous lifetime I spent several years patrolling the East/West German border in a UH-1H and my experiences with the Russians were never anything like what I'd been told to expect.

Today I don't live very far from where that border was at and more than half of the people on my street are foreigners with a large number of them being Russians.

They're good, hard working people that are oftentimes friendlier than the Germans.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was shocked at how nice Russia cities are compared to the cities in the states because I grew up being fed propaganda on television.

If you haven't seen it already, do an online search for the subway in Moscow and compare that to the ones you see in the United States and Europe.

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RetiredWarrior 3 points ago +3 / -0

About half the houses in Germany use natural gas for heating and almost no one uses a gas stove. They're usually electric.

The natural gas price per m3 in Germany is currently around 70 cents, but that isn't a particularly useful number by itself.

The meter on the side of the house measures meters of consumption in cubic meters while the gas company bills you in kWh.

One m3 of natural gas is roughly 10 – 11 kWh.

A 100 square meter apartment will need somewhere around 12,000 kWh per year.

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RetiredWarrior 15 points ago +15 / -0

Welcome to European gas prices.

Here in Germany this morning it's the equivalent of $7.71 a gallon, but only because the dollar is stronger than it was the last time gas prices went up.

We pay 20 to 30 cents more per liter than we did a dozen years ago, but a euro costs $1.11 when it used to cost $1.40. Back in those days I paid $9.25 a gallon.

I think Finland has the highest prices right now and they're near $10.00. So is Turkey.

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RetiredWarrior 2 points ago +2 / -0

You're two for two on the only two comments of yours I've read this morning.

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