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Or heroin, the new, non addictive cough medicine!

And anything with radium, of course.

Fun fact: A good part of the relatively high casualty rate resulting from the raid on Dresden was caused by the utter lack of preparedness of Dresden’s administration. I think I vaguely recall some Nazi official preferring to use funds meant for building air raid shelters and other precautions to enhance his personal lifestyle, because his shining example of a Nazi model city surely wouldn’t be bombed, also who gives a fuck about the population anyway?

laughs himself to death

No laughing outside the cellar. Das ist verboten!

Bitterly sarcastic jokes like that, certainly, because irony and sarcasm play a big role in German humour. (What else do you expect from a culture that has a word for the concept of Schadenfreude?) But the word play that makes this particular joke funny, only works in English, so not too many Germans will understand it, because it needs some level of proficiency in English to get funny word play.

It was a part of Roman triumph, where the triumphant general was paraded around Rome dressed up as a god on an ornate chariot drawn by four horses at the head of his army. Behind the triumphator, there was a slave whose sole job was to remind him of his mortality by whispering into his ear that he was still a mere mortal.

Please don’t be such an arsehole towards the train driver.

Also, what /u/lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world said.

You’d also have to watch out carefully so he doesn’t eat the crayons.

Why even make a language, if there are plenty of existing languages to choose from?

Just pick the most widely understood one and you’re done.

The shortest twelve thousand years of German history.

Doctrine says this is to be used for shoot and scoot tactics exclusively.

Especially if it shows up behind their lines after being parachuted in.

Technically a technical.

Also comes with a catchy soundtrack and a stylish music video

I second, third, fourth, and fifth that motion.