Grilled salmon from the Lune river served with roasted potatoes, honey glazed parsnips and grilled green beans.

They should be more interested in their public transport.

PS Fuck Merz.

Germany and the UK: yes. Where I live in Germany I had to choose a green energy provider (it was in the contract), which wasn’t hard because we run on renewables in our neck of the wood.

I hate these made up headlines.

We were sort of in the middle? Wedding dress was a prom dress from Debenham’s (70 quid), Edinburgh registry office, a few friends, 1 brother and the parentals. Afternoon tea at the Balmoral. Not cheap but not 5 figures either.

The landlord will read the meter (often together with you when you get the keys), then you pick an energy provider and give them that meter reading so they can bill you for the energy you’ve used.

I happened to be there during the Ommegang and got tickets. It was awesome. That square is the only bit I enjoyed about Brussels, though. And the fries, naturally.

I don’t get Paris either. It’s a big city, what do you expect? I love it. I’m currently in Prague and I reaaaalllly prefer Paris.

The big “birthdays” of cities, universities, etc. are always 250, 500, 750 etc.

Mozart’s Requiem (especially the Miserere part).

Nuclear is expensive and produces a shit ton of waste. Green energy is cheap and produces way less waste.

And don’t start on “but green energy can’t produce enough energy” when people who have solar panels are being fucking punished for producing “too much” energy while the local fossil fuel run power station can produce however much it likes.

Absolutely.

I live in Germany and have been trying to adopt a cat for the past few years. Every single Tierheim insists on Freigang.

I have an indoor cat now, purely because the cat distribution system got me. Not because a Tierheim thought “hey, maybe it’s better for an animal to live in an apartment than in a fucking Tierheim!”

I used to have serialised dreams. They were set in a large city that was built in a gorge. It had industry and mines lower down, with a huge amount of pollution, but higher up where the air was cleaner, there were forests and swamps with terrifying (magical) creatures, so the only people living up there were poor. The rich people lived in the polluted zone with expensive air purifying systems.

Yeah…

OP is in Germany. You can’t even adopt a cat if it’s not allowed to go outside.

Why didn’t your neighbour vaccinate their cat?

No.

What 1900s? Oh, you mean the 20th Century?

Anyway, there was all sorts of bad stuff going on, but at least there was optimism and when they discovered things like, say, the hole in the ozone layer, they did something about it instead of pretending it wasn’t happening.

It’s also a Muslim and a Jewish thing. Their Sabbath is on Saturday.

I don’t understand why people are arguing about a terrible picture. The colours are blown out. So you could misinterpret them as badly lit white and gold.