Three months for 350 is pretty good, here it’s 500 a month.

For some people that “eating fewer calories” part might be only eating a few hundred calories a day because of insulin resistance (hello?), certain medications they’re taking (like beta blockers) or plain old stupid genes.

The NHS will prescribe both. Germany too because they have diabetes. If they don’t have diabetes the latter won’t, even though the medications have been approved by STILO for weight loss (that is, if you have a gesetzliche Versicherung, private insurance will prescribe them).

The Netherlands isn’t. They also punish freelancers.

In the 18th century, so the 1700s.

I like the expression “voluntold”.

It’s funny how “old” people literally invented the Internet and the word meme.

People crinkling paper bags on trains.

Iceland pretty much runs on thermal energy. You can also use hydroelectric dams, tidal energy and wind energy. And a lot of countries are using that instead of fossil fuel. Of course, there’s lunatics like Merz, who wants to literally replace renewables with nuclear, but the less said about that b-st-rd the better.

Germany has just ditched green energy.

Here in south western Germany they will literally interrogate you if you ask for a vegetarian dish. It’s insane. The dish is always Käsespätzle, by the way.

When restaurants were posting their Valentine’s menus online not a single one offered a vegetarian menu.

Quite a lot of the time. It’s pretty damn awful, actually.

There is no off ramp for other diets either. You stop, you gain weight.

Most of the risks are caused by rapid weight loss and not eating properly, not the medication itself.

Every night. It’s a feather pillow, I toss it in the air and let it fall on the bed a few times. I think I learned that from watching Downton Abbey.

Divide and conquer. There is irrefutable evidence that they’ve been interfering in elections etc for more than 12 years. I learned this at a national security conference in Germany.

“Before” had WW2 and WW1. Now it’s that but with nukes.

When I said I was a single mum I was told “Shoulda kept your legs shut, love.”

I’m a widow.

Save the best part for last when my brothers aren’t around to steal it. My family thought it was hilarious when they did that.

Shame Covid doesn’t work like that. You just get it 5 times a year because it’s a different strain, you didn’t become immune last time or you lost immunity after a couple of months. Minus 2 IQ points (on average) every time.

And even the “normal” viruses like flu can cause problems for years.