When I wore heels that tall, they were much wider and came with nice solid goth boots and more ankle support than a plaster cast. And it was still terrible.

I'm very impressed she made it past the front door in these.

Yeah, you can't exactly tell a country they gained the wrong kind of independence (ok, turns out you CAN if you're the USA, and they did), but maybe you could, at the very least, maybe not hold the refugees from said country in the leaking leftovers of a nazi concentration camp.

And if you do, and they hate it, and bloodlessly hijack a train, maaaaaybe don't indiscriminately open fire at the entire train. (Not even going to mention whether or not it was a "kill them all" order).

There are very few living people or direct children who are owed a bigger apology than these people.

How to beat the celts:

Fight them in a fight of hip high stinging nettles, holly or hogweed

In a couple of months, when the water turns brown, they'll take care of it.

if you hadn't done anything, they wouldn't have selfdestructed.

I wouldn't say that. Russia has blown up quite a few friendly units. Having shit coms will do that to you.

In a way, they're worse off then two hundred years ago, at least they had big flags back then

So, what normal countries do, because they exist to serve their nation, is call a drug manufacturer and say "hey buddy, would you like 83 million potential customers?" And the drug company goes "hell yeah we do", to which the country says "great, sell to us for 6 bucks". The company then goes "but we sell for 132 bucks in the USA, we need more money". A smart country would reply "we know it costs you 2 bucks to make and 50 cents to ship, but if you don't want the money, that's fine..."

But now drug companies have figured out that they can buy the US government for the price of basically a few rounds of golf, so they have. And now Germany is "under investigation" for not allowing themselves to be sufficiently exploited.

There's a very tired Dutch joke, that we nevertheless keep telling, about how the Germans arrived in 1940 riding German tanks and left in 1945 on stoken Dutch bicycles.

So, Ukraine, repeat after me: "... And give me back my grandpa's bike!"

No, they've been posting fake video of drones getting intercepted, and then going down in a cloud of black smoke and a big fireball like it's a hollywood version of a ww2 spitfire.

Russia is entirely capable of just ignoring everyone in Crimea though. Crimea isn't Moscow so it doesn't matter.

Alas. Wild ravens are very rare here. There's like 200 of them in the Netherlands, so my dream of befriending Ravens is a nonstarter.

I think the Spice Girls did it. Girlpower!

Holy crap, that's huge. That's 2 million people who are basically back to bikes and donkeys

I mean, it matters a whole lot to the people there and the Kremlin. The average muscovite doesn't give a shit

Plenty of people on Earth have voted for their kings and queens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy

It's that the sound of a whirlwind being reaped?

Remarkable how those sound alike

The US actually has quite a bit more high speed rail, if you go by the definition of "rail that can be used at 200kph". There are >1000km lines between DC and Boston and New York and Charlotte. There's a LOT of high speed rail in the US.

Now, if you go by the definition of "lines where they actually go 200kph", there's about 65km of it, and only for a small number of trains at certain hours. That 65km is on 735km line, which is where this number comes from.

Most of the high speed capable rail is in places where the stops are too close to get up to speed properly, so it never hits high speed. Very dense areas are actually not that suitable for high speed rail, because you spend most of the time accelerating and decelerating and standing still to board. You want high speed rail in between more distant cities, not as a commuter train.

China gets that, but the US doesn't. And if you look at the rail in Europe, the trains stop every 10 minutes because they've reached another city.

Where is this from? Thats the kind of humor I like

The best thing a shithead can do is to tell you how to keep him away

Also, it has to be the CIA, or MI6, because it couldn't possibly be that the former Soviet cliënt state Ukraine is kicking glorious Communist Russia's ass this hard without crippling levels of support from all of NATO