Illuminati-R-Us

I like the stiff-upper-lip way with which Wikipedia describes this abomination, "... resulting in a different nutritional and flavor profile". Different indeed. Did I mention I love Glasgow? I've been there three times only, in the 80s and the oughts, and only for a few days each, but I lo...

France 0 - 2 Germany

Only a friendly, so not for the count, but it's been a long time since it was fun to see Germany play.

Looking good for the last 10 min, some nice chances for the Krautländers, and hardly anything from the Frenchies,

Wow. Two-nil up at the 55th, and it's not looking half shabby. Dare we hope?

Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini died yesterday, at 82. Not a front-page event, but it gives me a little jab of pain - Pollini played three Mozart concertos with the Berlin Philharmonic when I first visited a proper concert, probably around 1980. It was an overwhelming experience, and it started my ...

I am sad to inform you that we lost one post when a double entry for 832 (the entries being postes only a minute apart) whnt unnotices. So to re-align the thread I feel compelled to tell you that a) in the year 892, the German city of Bonn, on the middle Rhine was sacked by Vikings attacking from up...

Fair shot!

That's a sad thing to say, but probably A320neo

A4 or Letter?

Leagues are at rest due to international games - Germany up against the French and the Dutch in friendlies, just to see who's boss (the Dutch and the French are). I guess the thinking is, if we are losing to Austria and Turkey by now, we might as well do it against proper football teams, that will m...

I'll take a bit of non-binary please.

Boeing or Airbus?

And you notice that now? Also, quite honestly, there wasn't much corrupting to do.

Bortholinis's glands

50 years ago today, the Bundestag lowered the age of maturity from 22 to 18 yearsfor West Germany. Hundresds of thousands of young people born between 1953-56 suddenly weren't minors anymore, to the chagrin of the conserrvative press who saw droves of hapless young people stumbling into marriages wi...

There is that, too, although "Ferkel" is not remotely as derogative as "Schwein" is in German - as most diminutives, it is usedf with fondness and affection. And it has to be said, if you realize now what I've been calling you all those years , you are very late to the party. Any...

There is that, let's call them down below's external field service.

Ferkel labias!

(Is that the correct usage? This is a new word for me.) Me too. Ferkel is a piglet. So maybe a bit less 'ferkel' here and more 'red herring'. ;) Actually, that's OK. In German, you call a kid (or grownup, as the case may be) a Ferkel when they behave in generally unclean, unhygienic or simply annoy...

Analogue.

Analogue or analog?

Fahk!

So, acts per week then? Since "getting lucky" got an "umm, maybe" from you, masturbation could be included.

Always the humanist Euro sissy: Prison

Trump or DeSantis?

My pleasure

British monarchist bards, Thin Lizzy II.

No problem, tribute band, yadda yadda...

Star Trek TNG-themed hard rock, Steppenworf