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For a long time I was a group leader at our scouts troop, at that time for the age group of 13 to 16 years (myself being like 28 at that time). This happened on our summer camp. We had small rituals for morning and evening, just something to get the group together and starting/ending the day with everyone. As I have enough creativity to write decent short stories and the overall theme of the camp being knights and castles, I wrote a short story about the knight Kunibert, who accounts to the reader about how he slayed a dragon and rescued a maiden from it. So, what does a dragon have? Big teeth, fire breath, sharp claws,... and of course a horned tail. So I also wrote about the horned tail. But in german the word for tail is also slang for penis. While writing I really wasn't aware how it sounded. Until I read the story to the kids.

That was a bit weird, but also fun. Next day we let the kids write the next episode of the story. They included Kunibert putting his "big horny tail" on the table at the castle, trying to brag with its size, despite it starting to stink horribly, since he didn't clean it before.

And on the splash zone

You are getting old, when you start specifying a whole century when talking about past experiences XD

Hey, can you provide a source for that? I just tried to find something on wikipedia about it. While the organizational form positions DW significantly nearer to the government than the rest of german public broadcasting, it is not like the government does the journalistic work or has a direct say in it. So while a critique on DW being too close to the federal government seems fitting, calling it propaganda and the literal governments news outlet seems far fetched.

People also trust other exchanges enough, despite big problems/scandals/crisies. In that Russia doesn't seem so different from the USA, especially now, that both are getting close and mor similar again

And its not like there even is a same place. Position is relative, but to what in this case? Doesn't even make sense

Don't see the first point. The vast majority of protests are happening near the places where the people live. All the protests I have been too were not at the place of our government. It was our city and the next one. No long travel time and it still works.

The rest is true though. Germany is on the best way to revive the original nazi agenda for example. Probably an AfD coalition on next vote and then the power seize. Fml

The bee die-offs, that one typically hears about, has nothing to do with honey bees. Honey bees don't show any signs of going extinct. Its may of the other bee species, which are dying off. And that is bad because of the species liking different specific plants, which often rely on this bee species to be pollinated.

Surely, this is a this-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things situation. Fuck Putin

Ooohhhh, now I see that it is Ellen. I first thought it was Bernd Höcke, a current polititian for the nazi party AfD in germany XD

Yeah, I vaguely remember some sentences mentioning how incompetent some wizards and witches can be.

What do you mean by mercenaries? The magical government has its aurors, which is kind of a police force working against the dark arts. And they caught many deatheaters, though were beaten from within the ministry.

I don't think he meant that kind of cursed.

Probably more important is why Dumbledoor wasn't able to get even ONE fitting DADA teacher, meaning without something making him unfit for the job, seemingly or inreality, after Quirrel (and we don't know if Quirrel was a good teacher before he got Voldy in his brain).

Lockhard was an obvious fraud, Lupin was a great teacher but unfortunatly a werewolf, Mad Eye was mad/a disguised deatheater and Snape was a bad teacher all along. (Umbridge was bot chosen by Dumbledor, so she doesn't count).

Hell, what is he even doing all day? Couldn't he just do the DADA classes himself, if he didn't find anyone fitting for the job?!

She does! She could have emptied multiple supermarkets, but nah, who needs food if you have books to read. Everytime I really doubt, that Hermione wouldn't think of stocking food in her bag. So much conflict, so easily preventible...

Point taken - it really doesn't seem thought through by Dumby. But I think its funny, that Harry is basically ruining Dumbledoors plan of protecting the stone, because he cannot stop being a hero. Yeah, thanks Harry for "saving" the stone from Voldemort -.-

I always cringe with the 7th book, where the trio is hiding and searching for horkruxes, and for some weird reason they don't have enough food and are constantly hungry. From the reading perspective I understand, that the hunger is a device to generate conflict and make their time hard to endure, but it always baffles me.

• It is mentioned, that Hermione pulled out all her muggle savings, so why didn't she think about going to a supermarket and buying all the conserved food (cans and such) she can before they got on the run? She even mentions, that food can be multiplicated, just not created out of nothing.
• When they are hiding they sometimes get to a store or supermarket. But that only brings food for like a few days max. Why not more?
• And when there where too many dementors in an area to get more food, why not going really far away. We know Hermione was at least one time in France with her parents. Why not going there? Probably the war-like situation was not spread over the complete world that seriously. At least we are not hearing any of that in the books (JKR probably didn't even thing much about international things when writing this)

I always thought of the polyjuice to be a restricted substance, that you can't easily buy. And making it yourself is not easy and takes like 2 months. That would severily limit the cases. I mean, like how often do school kids in our world put drugs in food or drinks of their classmates? I'm sure there are some cases, but probably nothing wide spread

To be fair: With Dumbledoors measures with the mirror of erised they had kind of a trap. The philosophers stone obviously hidden behind some challenges, that are not really that strong, so an attacker would think the last one would also be easy. But there you only got the stonen if you didn't want to use itn ruling out people with nefarious intentions (Dumbledoor didn't know about Voldy in Quirrel at that time). To bad some first graders thought they needed to safe the stone. Quirrel would have been still thereuwhen Dumbledoor arrived, but Harry gave him and Voldy the opportunity to get the stone from him instead from the mirror. A bit of captain hindsight here. He maybe should have thought of that. Or maybe it is understandable that he didn't foresee Harry fucking Potter

Surely not relevant in this case, but in the german novel "The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear" (by Walter Moers) a Bollock is a giant, very dumb creature (as in multiple km high), who at some point in his life takes his head of, puts it on the ground and spends the next centuries searching for his head. I think that is funny.

It did improve my experience though. And after a good chuckle I will move back the the other side of the moon, where I apparently live