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Predominantly is American owned, American administered and predominantly American populated.

Demographics:

USA - 54%

UK - 8%

Canada - 6%

Australia - 3%

Germany - 2,5%

Source: Alexa

pretty much this - Germany, Austria, Swiss, Lichtenstein, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia

This is a debate that has been going on for at least 20 years now. There are books on the subject like: Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting which is a very good read, at least in Norwegian.

Bark-side up makes the firewood stack in a more stable way and also the bark will shield the wood from moisture that usually comes downwards.

Bark-side down makes the moisture escape faster because moisture escapes easier upwards.

If you are stacking firewood outside you want the bark-side up to prevent more moisture. But if you are stacking indoors it doesn't really matter as long as you keep the stack off the floor and in a well ventilated place to prevent rot.

The said app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.midnightcode.bezholdingu :)

"There were times when all the Roma used to work. That camp in Léty, that those idiots in TV say it was a concentration camp, that's not true. It was a work camp. Who didn't work, bam, and he was there."

Give that app a try please :)

It's only for food products and is said to work less in the case of non-Czech companies.

On map on this page you can look for Babiš's companies in your country (all over the world, Europe especially of course):

https://www.investigace.cz/interaktivni-mapa-imperia-andreje-babise/

From food companies notably German Lieken and Hungarian Ceres, in Slovakia Hyza, Penam SK, Šarišské pekárne.

Common are also chemistry companies, notably making fertilizers.

I think you may be underestimating Reddit's popularity in the Netherlands.

• According to Alexa, Reddit is the 16th most popular website in the Netherlands, Fok is 131st.
• According to Dutch Wikipedia Fok had accumulated 456 000 registered accounts in 17 years. /r/theNetherlands has accumulated 124 000 in 2.5 years. And people can unsubscribe from /r\/tnl and still use other parts of Reddit so the number of Dutch accounts on Reddit is probably higher. I think Reddit will also have more users who don't register an account.

I use google translate for non-English languages when they occasionally pop up on /r/Europe.

If I come across an English word I don't know I'll look it up on dict.cc, which has never failed me so far.

Adjective order. I don't bring it up because it's difficult to learn, per se. Rather, it's surprising for natives that it needs to be learnt in the first place, as they handle it entirely subconsciously.

'The big red dog' rather than 'the red big dog', for example. The latter just sounds 'wrong' to natives, despite never being explicitly taught why. In English, adjectival order is as follows:

1. Quantity or number
2. Quality or opinion
3. Size
4. Age
5. Shape
6. Color
7. Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
8. Purpose or qualifier

See here for more examples

We use free ones. I've heard only a couple of times people buying paid VPN services, and that's to have access to American websites like Hulu, or Netflix before it was available in Turkey. I use Zenmate for blocked pages, Hola Unblocker for American websites. MoonVPN & Opera on mobile.

It isn't trending but more of an evergreen. A construction worker goes on a rant.

Translation courtesy of DeepL.

>See that? Crane site?! I'm supposed to put 60 tons on it! People just don't do their job, that's that problem, huh? People just don't do their job because they are, I don't know... too stupid or what... Crane sites MUST be compacted! Now I'm coming up here, now look at this shit. The people just don't feel like it here, do they? You have to ask me if they're .... I don't know ... should we go home or what? It's ridiculous, isn't it? You know what a crane weighs, don't you? Boy, I'm starting to get a little bit wild here, slowly. I'VE HAD ENOUGH! DO THEY NOT HAVE A MEASUREING TAPE THAT IS EIGHT METERS LONG!?!??? Boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy! Oh man, stop it! Bunch of incompetents, original incompetents. This is a building site for morons. Exactly the kind of morons these Norwegians are. UTTER IDIOTS. That's why they're not in the EU either, because they're running away from life... that band of crazies. No, pack it up, END! Can't even hold A MEASURING TAPE!

It's not really a thing.

People commit suicide in European countries, but it doesn't have the traditional tie to 'loss of face' or 'shame' that exists in some Asian countries.

The suicide thing is awful, but in the UK, bosses feeling some sense of shame would be a big improvement - I'm looking at you Philip Green

I am assuming you are talking about on mobile. Most languages have their own keyboard. For example german has extra keys with ö ä ü and ß and norwegian has ø æ å. For languages with many extra characters in addition to the standard latin alphabet (like latvian with ē ŗ ū ī ō ā š ģ ķ ļ ž č ņ), then it is usually a US keyboard layout and autocorrect automatically changes it to the correct letters. In dutch, we use a US international layout, but we also have words like "reëel" and "maïswafels" and loanwords like "gênant" and "überhaupt". Those get automatically corrected. Sometimes I have to hold down to get the accents for example to emphasise "één" because "een" is also valid word.

Source: I use google keyboard with "swiping" to type.

Bidets! I have this one and it is one of my best purchases of all time. Now I hate pooping anywhere but home.

There are other kinds too. When I was visiting Portugal they often had these bidets that were kind of a mix of a toilet and a sink, and I think you were supposed to run the water and wipe off with your hand... I never used it, but eventually the concept won me over.

Edit: amazon link if you're interested.

Spanish is probably the easiest language for English speakers to learn as the grammar is simpler than other European languages, it's also Indo-European like English, and you don't have to learn a different alphabet. You already have some idea of what it sounds like and some vocab, which means you won't be starting from scratch, and the listening exercises will be easier than in something you've barely heard before. You get way more opportunities to practice and hear and see it locally, which if you want to get better at it, is important. And countries nearby where it's the main language.

You would learn more Spanish in the same time than you would if you tried something like Finnish (non Indo European) or Russian (different alphabet).

But whether or not you go for Spanish, use Duolingo - there are a lot of different languages available on there for English speakers to learn - it is free, gamified and can make learning or relearning languages kind of addictive. There are also subreddits r/languagelearning, r/duolingo and individual subreddits for learning some langages (listed on the sidebar in languagelearning).

ENGINEER SS-02- it's a 'high end' solder sucker. Jammed itself within one hour of using it. The tip is metal and hot solder got stuck in it and cooled. Could not melt it again to get it out. Was so upset because everyone said it's the last solder sucker you'll ever buy.

Utter nonsense. Hamming it up? Sounds to me like you're one of these English that seem to take extreme offence at the Scots being anything other than English clones.

My kids are raised on Scots. Tintin, Asterix, The Gruffalo...tons of books are produced in Scots for kids to enjoy https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Adventurs-Tintin-Derk-Isle-Scots/dp/1906587388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525848160&sr=8-1&keywords=tintin+in+scots

As we've seen from the top replies in this thread, it's common in other languages as well.

>Also, a lot of the time there is nothing Scottish about the writing at all, there is a lot of Irish and Northern English stuff posted there too but I guess most readers do not know the difference.

This is just weird. Because Scots has loan words, there's nothing Scottish about it? Coming from someone writing in English? That's just mental.

Its just a typical legal text that is written so complicated that no one that hasn't studied law can understand it. The same thing as in English what you would call Legal English or "Legalese".

Like saying:

> In witness whereof the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned.

instead of just:

> Signed on (DATE)

The politician just reads the words but later admits that he has no idea what he just said. And he found that situation so absurd that he got the giggles.

Yes, I think you’re right, languages become more popular when their native country rises in status -- for example, Latin, French, English. Esperanto hasn’t had a country’s political, economic, or cultural force to promote it, so right now it’s just early adopters and hobbyists who speak it.

But Esperanto becomes more valuable when more people use it. Perhaps after a critical mass of people learn Esperanto, we will pass a tipping point and suddenly many people will want to learn it… at least that’s what network theory suggests 🤞. I think Esperanto is in a growth phase right now, especially with Esperanto Duolingo now available.

In Europe by Geert Mak (Amazon)

• ISBN-10: 0307280578
• ISBN-13: 978-0307280572

It is written as a trip trough Europe in which he tells the story of Europe through small personal stories of people he meets along the way.

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It is not exactly what you are looking for but it is still one of the best books on the history of Europe.

Because many times there's stuff lost in translation and because your language skills will fade if you don't use them. (My vocal English skills are level Hakkinen.)

Also yes reddit being US-American oriented is hella annoying. Here's stats http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com and an older one probably for marketing purposes http://www.snoosecret.com/statistics-about-reddit.html

The Prussian don't care to understand Austrians. The Bavarian would like to understand Austrians but can't. The Austrian understands the Prussian and the Bavarian but don't want to. To answer your question completely is nearly impossible. People wrote literally books about it.: Amazon: 1, 2

The fuck are you on about, mate? I never said anything about globalisation = free trade, lol.

Read Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. Globalisation is imminent, you can't stop it. If it's cheaper to produce in China and ship to wherever, businesses will do that. I mean... they're already doing that! It's like wanting to grow coffee plants on the arctic. Each county has its "speciality". For China it's manufacturing, but the Western economies are "knowledge-based economies".

It's pretty rude to call people "deplorables", no matter you perception of them. Especially considering "eery" is an acceptable, albeit uncommon, variant spelling according to several dictionaries like Merriam-Webster and Collins.

One thing you'll have a harder time finding in the dictionary is 'deplorable' as a noun, meaning there really are no "deplorables". So really you're the only one here using non-existent words.

There are all kinds of weather stations now. Just around Bergen, for example, there are 20 stations.

A simple thermometer like the one that OP posted will be affected by direct sunlight and heat radiating off the building it's attached to. Whereas even inexpensive weather stations (<150 EUR) will have some kind of basic radiator around the temperature sensor to allow the ambient air to pass through/around the sensor for more accurate readings.

Back in the days, [Les guignols](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Guignols_(%C3%A9mission_de_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision\)) did something similar with the song <em>We are the world</em>.
Their intention was similar to the parody you linked it seems as their parody is about US foreign policy (or rather, general disregard for the planet).

Rammed af with tourists in the summer.

You might want to give us better clues as to what you like, where from, or just head to a library or amazon and get a guide book for general info

http://wikitravel.org/en/Nice

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/native-speaker

native speaker

noun uk ​ /ˌneɪ.tɪv ˈspiː.kər/ us ​ /ˌneɪ.t̬ɪv ˈspiː.kɚ/

someone who has spoken a particular language since they were a baby, rather than having learned it as a child or adult

Not much was happening in Russian memesphere recently; memeists mostly follow the news agenda:

1. Two Russian football players, former national team members, beat up two people while drunk and now they're facing criminal charges. Memetic rumour has it, they've sacrificed themselves to distract public attention from GRU failures, but...
2. ...memes about Salisbury poisoning suspects are still going strong, thanks to the new details going public every week.
3. Random memes about Khabib vs Conor fight.
4. After National Guard PR guy issued a claim that their head, Viktor Zolotov (the one, who "challenged" Alexey Navalny to duel a month earlier) single-handedly talked down a suicide bomber outisde of Kremlin, which, most probably did not actually happen) Twitter became flooded with sarcastic tweets & memes about Zolotov doing all sorts of heroic stuff, Heracles- or Superman-style.

In London, jellied eels.

Eels produce a jelly when cooked; what they look like. Im vegetarian, so never tried them, but even some meat eaters struggle. There's a nice bloke on youtube who tries take aways in different places; he loves meat, but even he wretched trying to eat them, poor lad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAAy1lE7yRQ

We don't eat organs etc so much any more, but cow lungs and tongue used to be really popular til about the 1980s. For years I'd read in old books about people having a meal of tongue and other stuff, and assumed it was a prepared dish of some kind, and was probably pronounced ton-goo. I thought eating actual animal tongue was too weird.

You know how when you read something you'll sometimes read it in the voice of the characters that's known for saying it?
Well. There is this one French user.... o/
Otherwise, I recognize a few that I couldn't spell properly though. It's: the lady from Spain with 80 in her username. The Spanish with an "x" in the username, the guy from Catalonia with a username that rhymes with cock, the happy estonian, The French Jul..by? another French whose username looks like Koontz. An italian whose username starts with Qui... Quirite?
I'm aweful at remembering names (let alone username) except when they remind me of my favorite French show :)

It's cool. I should have stated that from the beginning.

Sometimes I forget that it's bedtime for you guys when I'm awake.

It's interesting that while Americans do use this site the most, according to a survey in 2014, its only 62%, the rest are not Americans. It would be kind of nice if Reddit actually got its head out of its ass and maybe did a better redesigned that help tap into that foreign market. I don't know exactly what that would be, anytime from any city of your choice to be in the upper hand corner of the site.? Maybe anytime a country's National Day happens, the Little mascot takes on the colors of that flag. Maybe having the option to add your countries flag Emoji next to your name without having to put it in your name. That way it's sitewide and not for specific Subs. I mean, won't it be nice to have an actual temperature and measurement converter right within the site instead of it having to be by some bot that's unreliable?

Wow, Andorra. We could fit District of Columbia into your territory!

I tried using it for Spanish before moving here, but it was neither Castilian, nor a recognizable Latin American usage, so I gave up on it, and have since used other resources for Spanish and any subsequent language. PArticularly, I like Anki

It's a while since I was at school but some of the ones I remember studying are:

Plays:

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Boys from the Blackstuff by Alan Bleasdale

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Novels:

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Poems:

Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns

To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough by Robert Burns

To A Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church by Robert Burns

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

>as you wouldnt know what the other person is exactly talking about.

Ukrainian is an example that they would. If you want more analytical language that is vague on articles take Esperanto (la is officially preferred, but if you don't use it is not as a fatal mistake like in EN or DE) or... Chinese (no articles whatsoever) - even more analytical language than English or German.

To be completely honest, German is the hottest candidate for dropping the articles. You are very similar to Latin in many aspects, you have cases and word endings already. All you need to is to create some declension patterns / paradigms based on noun endings etc.

a dog, the dog, THE dog - this is not a problem without articles.

I will be using a/an as an example in the next paragraphs but it is also true for ein/eine/etc. in German.

If you think about it, the "a" in "a dog" is absolutely unnecessary, because you can't say just "dog" in a normal sentence in some meaningful text (not including direct speeches, references, etc.) without the "a" in the first place. It will always be: "There was a weird dog running in his garden." And never: "There was weird dog running in his garden."

So, just get rid of the "a/an" already and use the natural way of saying:

"There was weird dog running in his garden."

The oldest PIE words don't use articles, perhaps there was a reason to not use them.

And you know that a/an is superfluous. Just look at the dictionary or wikipedia index, headlines, book/movie/song titles, menus, etc. My prediction is that a/an will disappear in the future. That's why Zamenhof didn't include the indefinite article in Esperanto. It didn't bring any additional information at all. Read about it here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/13971381/Why-does-Esperanto-not-have-the-articles-a-an

because... to tell you the truth... we use the articles as well, but we call them demonstrative pronouns.

I looked for some articles about it, and I couldn't find any that support what you're saying here. For example, according to this one or this one Trump supports a race-blind college admission policy, and is against colleges using race as a factor in admissions (that is, judging prospective students by their skin color).

For anyone wondering, an "English Breakfast" looks like this.

Fun fact, when steam trains were used, the drivers and fire man (ie the guy who shovelled coal into the engine) used to bake breakfasts like this on a shovel, in the fire as the train went along. It's black (ie blood) sausage, bacon, fried eggs, fried bread, baked beans, tomatoes, fried mushrooms, and often regular sausages too. Ive never eaten one, I have a smoothie of water, fruit and nuts for breakfast most days, lol.

https://vk.com/abstract_memes

"Abstract memes for elites of all sorts"

It's all about philosophy, political divisions, underground subculture, obscure references

Running gag in the comments is "Nietzsche was a nihilist" (you'll be banned for it)

Wer's als Erster hat gerochen, dem ist es aus dem Arsch gekrochen

Says the translator. But I've never heard the expression before.

I can't think of one either. I actually don't think we have that as an expression here.

Generally speaking though I use this site to help me with such phrases and phrasal verbs: https://www.linguee.com/english-bulgarian/search?source=auto&amp;query=rule+of+thumb.

>Eiweiss

The white of an egg (Ei = egg, weiss = white).

I've run the ingredients through DeepL with absolutely satisfying results (I double-checked), click the link ;)

• 3 egg white
• 1 pinch of salt
• 250 g powdered sugar
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• 1 tbsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. cocoa powder, to taste
• 400 g ground almonds
• Powdered sugar (for cutting out), on a plate

As for the recipe, DeepL says:

>Beat egg whites and salt until firm. Add the powdered sugar in portions and stir into the beaten egg whites. Set aside 50 g of it. Stir in vanilla sugar, cinnamon, cocoa powder and enough almonds until the dough barely sticks.
>
>Place dough between 2 sheets of baking paper, flatten and refrigerate for 1 hour.
>
>Roll out between the baking paper to about 1 cm thick. Cut out stars. Press the cutter in powdered sugar in between so that the dough does not stick to it. Place stars on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Using a pastry brush, brush with the egg-white mixture set aside. Bake in the lower half of the oven preheated to 140°C for 20-25 minutes.
>
>Depending on the size of the eggs, you may need more or less almonds.

Happy baking :)

Anthem of Limburg, not widely known outside of the provinces (in Belgium and the Netherlands).

Lyrics in English

~~Terry Mancour - Spellmonger: The Spellmonger Series, Book 1~~

Terry Mancour - Warmage: The Spellmonger Series, Book 2

> I get that nudity isn't allowed on public television, but

I don't think anyone here is trying to say "omg Americans can't see naked people", just pointing out some ways in which the culture is different. Nudity is allowed on public television over here, and being naked at the beach etc isn't illegal.

A few of you are mentioning all the porn you have, like that shows how open you are about nudity. But when you look at some of the stats here some of the countries that come up as big consumers and producers of porn are places like Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, which are not exactly the most permissive.

I recently read that some US veterans will be sent back to Mexico because they were illegals. So, they enlisted while being illegals.

Murika.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/25/us/us-veteran-deported-to-mexico/index.html

"The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" ("Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige") by Selma Lagerlöf is of course a true classic about Sweden. It was originally written as a geography textbook for Swedish school children, mixing fiction and fairy tale with facts. So you will learn a lot about different places all around Sweden, as well as about Swedish culture, customs and folk tales from rhe earliest 20th century. Be warned though, that for a book intended for children it is often quite dark and violent by modern standards, although of course beautifully and poetically written - Lagerlöf was a Nobel Prize Winner in Literature after all!

If you like audiobooks, I would highly recommend this free version read by Lars Rolander for Librivox. A very calm and cosy reading of a well-made English translation read in a genuine Swedish accent and with correct pronunciations of all the Swedish names.

> I too was surprised to see Americans know their ancestry so well at first.

Our census records are largely intact, excluding the 1890 census records that were destroyed in a 1921 fire.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is heavily involved in digitizing them. They have a website that is absolutely incredible: https://www.familysearch.org/en/

A lot of European records were destroyed in WW2.

Lol. It's literally a sport. Here's a free version of Geoguessr (, if you're curious).

This guy is pretty good at it and has a couple of videos on youtube.

Extra virgin olive oil breaks down at higher temps though and becomes carcinogenic. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/cooking-oils-and-smoke-points-what-to-know-and-how-to-choose#what-is-an-oil-smoke-point

A pan, especially on a good gas burner, can locally become 240C when frying a steak for example. This would burn extra virgin olive oil

Not quite the same, but with the monopoly that Albert Heijn seems to have over the Amsterdam supermarket sector, Albert Heijn might as well be the real deal supermarket sponsor/brand of Amsterdam.

Also one British expat was so fed-up with the brand that he created this little diddy AH Song, apparently got a lot of angry backlash from the Dutchies over this, which I don't get it's an alright chain, but has no business having such a monopoly in its market share over the country's largest metropolis - we want more Jumbos and Vomars godverdomme!

Reddit, FB are pretty popular all over the world, but this can differ depending on country. You can check for yourself, Here is example for France

yeah but outside of south Germany you won't find it in your normal supermarket and of course amazon

I always like to recommend Fabian by Erich Kästner.

Here is a bit of a further explanation shamelessly stolen from the Amazon reviews.

>1. September 1999 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com Erich Kastner, a writer in the German Enlightenment tradition perhaps best known as a German poet and author of children's books, wrote a scathing satirical novel about decadence during the Wiemar Republic. Kastner's target is the political, economic, cultural, and spiritual climate of the years preceeding the rise of the Third Reich. He caricatured the times in an effort to awaken his contemporaries to the elements that contributed to the gathering storm. Jacob Fabian, after whom the book is named, is portrayed as a either a passive figure who waits for a return of decency or one for whom there was no place in such a deteriorating society. His life adventures served as Kastner's diagnosis of the diseased soul of Berlin. Fabian's escapades mirrored the interior world of a city seemingly oblivious to what it was doing to itself. He lost his job, sweetheart, and best friend in a series of events which eerily highlights what was truly at stake in such a culture. The suicide of Fabian's friend as a hapless reaction to what was later discovered to be a cruel joke is a metaphor for the heartlessness of the era. I was struck by the books apparant parallels to our own time and found the author's message to be nearly prescient. In his preface to the 1950 German edition he wrote of the moralist's task to defend "lost causes" and to "fight on notwithstanding." Kastner's quixotic writing deserves a fresh reading by Americans given our diseased culture at the end of the twentieth century. While his mood and some of his caricatures will raise the ire of some, the overall impact of the book is ample reward for the tolerant reader.

https://www.amazon.de/Fabian-Story-Moralist-Erich-Kastner/dp/1870352459

I've been using Private Internet Access for a few years now.

For about 40€ a year, you get a stable and fast service (never had a single issue or outage), is compatible with mobile as well - in case you absolutely positively want to watch porn on your company's wifi.

No, and if it is, then very-very rarely.

Afaik I only heard about one dude named Jesus, who went to walk his dog in a park during quarantine last year but got detained in the process. The police took him but left the dog alone on the street. The story even made it into the news.

I always have a look at these before going to places to be a bit politer but that Hungarian one, my jaw dropped when I first saw "18 grammatical cases", Jesus wept.

Good on you for trying though.

> but political

Of course it is, the whole issue of textbooks bias is political.

Well alright, if there is no bias, why do statements such as "Poles killed more Jews than they did Germans" (in Poland, during WWII) create such an outrage? Why is it accepted and comes not without popular support that, like in Turkey or Russia, people are being prosecuted for their speech in this matter?

Check cheap flights around Europe first then decide.

Most flights take less than two hours so you will be able to visit lots of interesting destinations without much hassle in two weeks.

From Paris: Lisbon, Madrid, Cagliari, Bologna, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Vilnius. All less than $30 for a return ticket (could be more as it depends on date).

Don't you have Russen as a pickled fish? Or is that just an Austrian thing?

That's hilarious, Ive never seen that! Where did you see those?

Honestly, i dont think ive tried anything too exotic. Though Im vegetarian, I really like some of the meat ones. Some of the BBQ flavours are really good, and there are some that look like bacon I really like lol Frazzles mmmm.

Salt and Vinegar twists or twirls are great too- pic so cripsy.

Idk if it helps you, but you can use Trainline to get the best offer for one trip, no matter how many European countries you cross and how many different railway companies you use. Just the bundle in one purchase (cheaper than seperate bookings)

I used Trainline in 2019 when I was traveling from Salzburg, Austria, to London. As I said you might want to go for what the German said above + check out trainline.

Have a nice time in Europe!

There has been earlier years when also the Baltic countries were ranked (2015?). Back then it looks like Estonia's score was "Very high" when Latvia and Lithuania were ranked "Moderate". Also Slovenia and Poland were ranked "Very high" that year. Source of that picture is this article.

I would recommend against Moscow if you don't have a lot of time and want to travel cheaply. Moscow isn't in the EU and it's pretty isolated. It's 1150 km (~715 mi, about the distance NYC - Chicago, IL) from Warsaw, Poland (and even farther away from the more touristy places of Poland). You will therefore need a separate visa to enter Russia and you will have to travel from Moscow to your desired destinations. This will probably be another plane if you only have 19 days. If you add the costs of the visa and the extra travel I doubt it's cheaper.

I think you can take a look at Kayak Explore (just select your departure airport) and Google Flights (select up to five airports on both departure and arrival) to find cheaper flights to multiple destinations.

You start looking a bit late and you're traveling in the high season, but if you're flexible I think there are still affordable flights out there. NYC-London is one of the most flown (international) routes in the world. Don't just look for direct flights. Iceland Air for example can have very affordable flights from North America to Europe, but always with a layover in Reykjavik.

> I really don't want to go too much farther East than Russia

I strongly advise against going to Alaska to travel to Europe.

I think that one third of total area is forests. Locally it depends how the area is hilly, so for example, north of Prague is mostly flat fields but south of Prague is more hilly and full of forests. You can clearly see it on the maps website here https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka (which is actually much nicer than google maps, at least for hiking).

I don't really know much about hunting, but definitely you can't hunt for free and you must be registered.

Your post gave me an idea, I checked if there is Major U.S. Cities (or similar) challenge on the GeoGuessr and I found this: Landmarks (US) . Now I am off to play at least few rounds.

Edit: don't bother this map is rubbish.

FWIW, I heard the same thing in this audio course. https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/americas-in-the-revolutionary-era.html

Irony being, French monarchy aids our revolution -> goes bankrupt -> tax hike to raise money -> your revolution.

(It’s not my subject. I defer to you.)

CGPGrey's video, where we was talking about awesome it was. I figured, damn, clearly he must be on to something. And he was right! Although I prefer to segment the casual, political stuff with my more serious university and computer science studies, and you can do that with Reddit really easily. You can even mostly avoid the trolls if you what subs to avoid.

By the way, if you really like these kinds of discussion like sites, I'd suggest tildes.net as another place that might, or might not, peak your interest. It's an invite only alpha at the moment, but if you like what you see, just let me know and I can set you up with an account.

"curry gravy" sounds gross, but it's probably the best description!

Chip shops make their own, but you can buy this and make it at home.

Well, I have NordVPN which has a option to instantly close an application (like BitTorrent) when you get disconnected. So that would work. Other VPN probably have this too. The other thing you would need to look out for is if your torrent program opens on startup. If it connects to the internet before you are protected by the VPN they can catch you. Even a few seconds is enough

In a hypothetical scenario where I would like to do something like that, I would:

1. Get a VPN subscription from a reputable service. NordVPN is one such choice that's good for Northern Europe.

2. Rent a small dedicated server in another country (like the Netherlands). Turn it into a seedbox, that is, run the actual torrent client there and download the files to there. This server should use the previously-acquired VPN any time the torrents are active.

3. Download files from that server to your own PC over SSH. Set up some basic SSH security first.

4. Optional extra-paranoid steps: also use a VPN (or even a different one) for connections between your PC and the dedicated server. Find a dedicated server provider that accepts Bitcoin payments.

You need to take more serious precautions if you're some kind of major, top-list seeder, but for regular people just a VPN is very good protection, and using a VPN + a separate torrent box is essentially full protection.

This is an interesting question! I can't remember lots but...

Pays: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare,

Novels: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens,

Poems: Half Caste by John Agard, Vultures by Chinua Achebe, Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy,

Those I can remember:

german class: * José Saramago - Blindness * Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl * Goethe - Faust * Goethe - Götz von Berlichingen * Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther Ulrich Plenzdorf - Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Max Frisch - Homo Faber Theodor Storm - Der Schimmelreiter Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan der Weise Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks Bertold Brecht - Mother Courage and Her Children Tschingis Aitmatow - Dshamilja Heinrich Böll - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Alfred Andersch - Sansibar oder der letzte Grund Schiller - Die Räuber Georg Büchner - Woyzeck Dürrenmatt - der Richter und sein Henker Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis Patrick Süskind - Das Parfum Schiller - Wilhelm Tell

in English class: Joseph Heller - Catch 22 J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Todd Strasser - The Wave Herman Melvelle - Moby-Dick

in French Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince

Latin class: Caesar - de bello Gallico

There were more but I can't remeber. So few women writers. :(

If you're using an Android phone, I can recommend an app called "Öffi" (colloquial for public transport in German) - it supports many major cities and regions across Europe and has the best interface for among all the apps I've tried.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.oeffi

It looks very neat considering when it came out, its style has a lot of charm.

• Edit: I just found out that an updated edition is available on Steam for free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/474030/The_Abbey_of_Crime_Extensum/?l=spanish
  

I'm gonna give it a go.

No.

Only about 1/3 of all flights are commercial. I would be for imposing a carbon tax on private flights, air taxi flights, cargo flights etc. to make them equivalent in net greenhouse emissions compared to trains or the most climate effective mode of transport.

We can look to Norway who pushes to electrify all domestic flights by 2040.

https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/03/09/norway-pushes-to-electrify-all-domestic-flights-by-2040/

I don't know if the structure of Finnish language is particularly suitable for palindromes but this Finnish text is claimed to be the world's longest palindrome.

Some of my favourites are:

• "En jaksa, pillu, kulli, paska, jne." - "I can't be arsed, pussy, dick, shit, etc."
• "Tissit, tosi isot tissit" - "Boobs really big boobs"

Dracula is on Project Gutenberg : https://www.gutenberg.org/

Dracula

Great website if you want to read classics that are now in the public domain. Best if you have a reader such as kindle or other, but you can as well have the pure text version. You can copy-paste it in Word (or any other software of the kind), change the layout and font how you like so it it pleasant to read, and convert it in pdf if you want, and why not print it yourself.

Cwel - someone who was someone's bitch while in prison. Also used to call someone a faggot.

Frajer - a sucker or a fool. This word if used incorrectly can get you killed.

Konfident - a snitch, a police informant.

Kręcenie loda (literal translation is basically "turning the ice" or something of the sort) - basically used to describe an action taken by the government that is shady or corrupt as fuck.

Robienie loda - slang for a blowjob because that's what eating ice cream on a stick sometimes looks like

Jaja - literally balls. As in "he's got some balls on him to do that"

Hajs - cold hard cash or money in general.

In 819 a Lower Pannonia duke by the name of Ljudevit Posavski, led a rebellion against the Franks. He was joined by Carantanian and Carniolan Slavs (ancestors of modern Slovenes) in his rebellion. Long story short he was ultimately defeated, despite the fact that he successfully resisted for a fairly long time. Because the Carniolan and Carinthian Slavs decided to join the rebellion Franks decided to depose their Slavic dukes and give the lands to Frankish dukes. In this way the Slavic population basically lost their own nobility and never again regained it. There were some more events after that, which further more ensure Frankish grasp on this lands, but I would say this one was the most important one.

Partially because of result of this rebellion Slovene lands ended up being under Germanic influence for approximately 1000 years. If someone would like to read a bit more about the subject, this are this are in English about it.

Not sure if there's a clear winner here, but I'd nominate the Siege of Nándorfehérvár/Belgrade.

> The siege escalated into a major battle, during which Hunyadi led a sudden counterattack that overran the Ottoman camp, ultimately compelling the wounded Mehmed II to lift the siege and retreat. The battle had significant consequences, as it stabilized the southern frontiers of the Kingdom of Hungary for more than half a century and thus considerably delayed the Ottoman advance in Europe.

It's definitely one of our biggest and most impactful victories.

The old Neo-Nazi dilemma.

EDIT:

> 8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Maybe visit cologne? http://wikitravel.org/en/Cologne

It's more or less on the way, they've got this awesome chathedral, at this time of year the christmas market at the foot of the cathedral might already be open. Cologne is also great to go out and party.

Switzerland is south of Paris. You could go there, but it's definitely a detour.

Europe is a very diverse continent and you cannot make a statement "car is necessary in Europe" or "car is not necessary in Europe." The real question is where exactly in Europe.

For example, if you live here, you don't need a car, and if you live here you definitely need a car.

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I kind of agree- it not as large or exciting as you expect it to be. I love ancient history, and its obviously a huge and fascinating achievement, but all the same I wouldn't recommend someone pays to see it. You can only walk around the outskirts, not go right up to the stones, so you might as well just drive past it, or stand in the car park.

Avebury Stone Circle's near by, and that you can walk right around. Pics plus there's a cool 1970s spooky tv series set around it, Children of The Stones.

Rushka SquareVatnik represents modern Russian imperialism.

Peter the Piglet represents the ongoing wave of emigration.

Mother Homeland as a personification of the country hasn't really been used since WWII.

Meduza is the biggest one by far, in fact it’s also the most cited media outlet on Russian social networks, not just of anti-Putin ones but of all news websites. I’ve written for them a few times but only on a freelance basis and it’s not my primary partner.

According to the rules the majority of your post is covered by that:

> 4) Travel related questions MUST be specific. Google exists! Do your research before you ask.

Here some guides:

http://wikitravel.org/en/Munich

http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with_data

My advice to you is to use Google Flights: https://www.google.com/flights/

Despite what Americans seem to think, you do NOT have to book flights months in advance to get the best rates. The only time you're really guaranteed to pay more is if you're within a few weeks of departing (and I've found that applies in Europe as well).

One thing that might be different: I live in a city with an international airport and it has travel agencies on-site. Travelers looking for good deals can go to the agencies in the morning and be on a cheap flight to Greece later that day.

steak on a stake, turkey legs, and mead, lots and lots of mead =)

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipORkprw947uVZcemCEFM4gXehwmapEJLt3hoKPq https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOxeHw5a9T7juZ-8MiSQ4u2TUtkiiRAfhf-fMn6

Photos from the one i visited in maryland (yes that sign says crab, crab is everywhere over there). The ones here are not like 100% authentic just uh theme park type fun day.

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Wallflower, actually, has a [translation](http://www.wordreference.com/enit/wallflower) but it's an uncommon term, so that probably why they change it.

The absolute apotheosis of psychological movies might be a British film - Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley. Please, please don't read anything about it. Just download it and watch it tonight in the dark. It will stay with you.

I recommend checking out Wheatley's other films, too. And on a related note, if you haven't seen Blue Ruin (a US film), do yourself a favour and download that, too.

https://vk.com/albums-29017 [it must be availiable without registration\logging in]; expand the section with "albums", and scroll it there, sorted in albums, a lot of amazing views, just incredible things. There were also northern lights in August 2015.

It's north-west Siberia, a tiny village and the vicinity.

I agree that the stuff on the cinemas has been quite generic and bland for some time. But after digging around a bit there seems to be quite a lot of interesting movies being made in the last decade. I used tastedive.com, but I'm sure there are other similar sites.

You just got a bit of a Spanish grammar. Spanish has four types of "stress" on words and excelente is ~~aguda~~ grave meaning it has a stress on the penultimate (second-to-last) syllable.

Other ones. This can get confusing when you're learning Spanish because some words can be given up to three different meanings by stressing different syllables.

I was going to say that's never an option but it's not entirely true actually, 0AD has a 85% complete Greek localisation. So really, like with operating systems, I always use the English locale.

But since most people will be concerned with AAA titles and not opensource games, there as far as I know, only a handful are ever translated in Greek. I think my siblings at some point had a Greek version of a FIFA game on the PlayStation. When I was a child, there were no localised games, that's why we were motivated to learn English.

It was a long time ago, but I guess I spent a few hours a week on it. I used Lernu! (before it was rebuilt, but the new course looks good too) and a course for French speakers, and then I chatted with people online.

That looks interesting indeed, the poll feels strange but interesting. NVA/VB and the recent economic crisis + the world record of no government might have contributed to it. Though Belgium flourished during that period because there was no big change in policies given the political impasse.

... on another note, I felt minorly offended when I saw 'hollandais' instead of 'néerlandais' there. Why does this always happen :(

Additionally, maybe I previously should have had taken people that don't speak Dutch (natively) into account and provided a translation link, like there is now.

Funny van Dannen once made a song about Uruguay (well... kind of ;) )

English lyrics

At least between German and English, DeepL seems to be a lot better than Google Translate. But it doesn't know so many languages yet, so there's no Hungarian or Romanian support.