I am from Germany and what brand of car your are driving is often seen as a statement, often associated with a certain social group.
Although I have observed that this has been constantly diminishing over the years.
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Just vague enough to not directly violate Rule 6 of this sub ;-)
Following what I have learned during my Catholic upbringing:
Spearfighting.
One of the neighbouring churches we went to was named after St. Michael and has this totally kick-ass statue on the side altar showing St. Michael stabbing the evil devil/dragon thing with his spear.
Apart from that, almost all Christians where I live don't believe in Satan as an actual entity, but more as a helpful symbol to illustrate the abstract concept of evil.
Church in my region generally revolves more around the positive compassionate concept of "Be nice to each other" than relying on a supernatural bogeyman that tries to lay you traps.
They were still in there?
Well, speaks for itself that they now officially left and before that already didn't cooperate.
Ich siniere fast jedes mal wenn draussen unterwegs bin, welche riesigen Flächen in meiner Wohnsiedlung auf Dächern in optimaler Ausrichtung für Solar verfügbar wären, aber komplett leer sind.
Und jedesmal gibt es mir einen kleinen traurigen Stich in der Magengrube, weil ich weiß, dass sich daran nichts ändern wird.
Große Eigentümergemeinschaften sind halt unglaublich träge. Keine Chance, dafür alle an Bord zu holen und in Eigenregie die Dächer mit Solaranlagen zu bestücken.
Wünschte, an meinem Wohnort würde es auch so ein Angebot geben, senkt die potentielle Einstiegsschwelle gewaltig!
TIL that while Eicher in Germany is long dead and gone, its Indian partner company still produces tractors.
Other than that, this post sounds like an advertisement and probably also doesn't belong in this sub...
I am actually somewhat jealous that you just tried that and succeeded.
VW charged me ~100€ for selling me a new one and teaching it in.
So you can actually just crack it open and just exchange a standard battery...? Ok, where is my butter knife?
Instruktionen unklar. Habe mir selbst ins Bein gebissen. Aua.
The fondest memory I naturally have for the first RPG that I ever played.
And, well, it probably is the very definition of "niche".
I present you HASCS, the Hack And Slay Construction Set, a German project on Atari ST back in the 80s to provide an easy to use environment for the development of an early kind of RPGs.
Games looked like that:
My very first RPG was "HASCS - Allein in Eritra", distributed via Shareware-3.5''-disk.
I still fondly remember being killed by my first encounter with a random snake during the first 20s dozens of times in a row until I finally figured out what to do :-)
Guys, that is a reeaaaallly slippery slope. Don't. Just don't.
-A concerned German-
Interesting connection I just made:
I was wondering about the Hamburg reference and if there was a connection to the Beatles (from Liverpool) mania of the 60s that started in Hamburg...
Turns out I have been right, the linked page basically says that the pic was part of a Beatles photo report of the Stern (famous German magazine from Hamburg) depicting the English youth culture of that time.
The other pics in the series are also worth a look!
Also I have the impression that lifetime of products has increased again over the past decade or so.
Still rocking my Sony ebook reader from 2011 and a Samsung Galaxy S5 as backup and Whatsapp handy. Both are using Micro USB, so I have a small cable with me anyways.