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OP, I hate to break it to you, but you are totally going through a manic period right now. Not to be a downer, but I think you should be aware.

"He's wearing a wooden boiler suit" is a Dutch one I like.

Finished "a conventional boy" by Charles Stross. It was fine, but I wish he would just publish either novels or novella's, but not three stories in one book. Now reading "the sacred cut" by David Hewson. I read the first two book in this series years ago when they were published, and decided to follow up on it. Nice books if you're into detectives and also like the city of Rome.

Only if you're lucky!

I don't think I've ever had bad food in Germany. In England my limited experience is mixed, some good, some bad and some interesting lunch choices like salted peanuts.

The fish is not raw, it's gibbed and cured. It's also eaten a lot in Germany and Scandinavia.

Also, we have vla in the Netherlands, and mustard soup! And we frown at people calling kale a super food, because it is considered one of the most generic winter foods over here.

I got in an argument over this sentence yesterday, but I think it aplies here: Perfect is the enemy of good. Carrots are fine, lentils are fine, and there's always something better probably.

I have chickens, but no rats because I took precautions against rats, foxes, martens and whatever else roams outside. It's not even difficult to do this, just make sure there's no food laying around, and plan for the coop to be vermin proof.

I'm sorry I didn't spoon feed my comment for you, mister obtuse.

You're seeing a motivation behind my comment that isn't there, so you really shouldn't call me obtuse. Is Norway doing pretty good? Yes! Could they also do better? Yes! I'm not playing crab bucket, but I'm also not sticking my head in the sand here.

It certainly doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Nobody said we shouldn't. The point is, we shouldn't look away from the issues in a country just because they are doing better than others in some cases.

Don't be too hard on yourself, I'm not autistic and I also don't get the point he's trying to make. Probably something like "get a better job", "leave to somewhere where things are better", "go live with your friends/parents/whatever".