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This was half the reason I noted the Netherlands as being a particular edge case, with the other half - and the reason I didn't also include the Swiss - being linguistic: while Dutch is relatively close to Plattdeutsch, standard German is much more derived from Hochdeutsch as far as I am aware.

This is very much true. Dutch not being considered a dialect of German is a historical accident, just like Plattdeutsch being considered a dialect of German and not a dialect of Dutch.

Could be broken. Lots of folks break toes without even noticing - besides the pain, of course.

I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.

This was part of a reply to some German publisher's request that he prove his Aryan descent. Source.

When I read "With tank and accessories", I was thinking something along the lines of you getting two geckos with a Main Battle Tank kind of tank. Brain, why?

Because Leopard?

Somebody needs to shop this: A couple Leopard geckos riding a Leopard tank, not giving a fuck.

As for Russia winning the ground war in Ukraine... It is not February 2014 when Russia could take whole Ukraine within weeks. Now we have a real army and while one on one war will be lost (mostly because our air-defence and air force are noticeably inferior to Russian. ), Russia will need to ruin its own economy (even with no Western sanctions) to win and have a lot of fun with resistance afterwards.

So Poroshenko's government actually is noticeably less corrupt than all the Ukrainian governments before it? Neat!

By the way, how are the other internal reforms coming?

Russia could use it as an excuse to launch full-scale ground operations in both Syria and Ukraine. Without direct NATO involvement against them, they would win.

The second is not clear at all, and thus the first isn't either. Occupying a country the size of Ukraine is no piece of cake - especially when you're gonna have a very motivated nationalist resistance movement with plenty of support from the West -, and it hasn't been so long since a proper superpower had its back broken in the same area.

Our racism's different though. With the exceptions of Jews and gypsies our racism usually goes against folks who have an actual country of their own, unlike American racism against blacks.

Considering what people consider modern and performance art these days, you might get a few rounds of applauses before someone actualy arrests you :v

Could we not go there? I'd hate to rant about 95% of you being ignorant buffoons again.