Indeed & this aches my heart.

Think we all get why they’re too cynical to kick off, but still.

Loved my one very short trip to Germany & really want to start making many more visits.

Great people, beautiful language & seems like you guys have a bit of everything. Banging.

Yeah, I’d say that French brusqueness was softer than Danish.

Faffing around overly seems rude to me - too much scope for misunderstanding when one have to hope the other person has read between the lines as one intended them.

Tbh the reputed rudeness was usually just brusqueness, only a mode amongst some of the population (with just as many or more being utterly charming), and had largely ceased to be a thing over 20 years ago.

Idyllic!

Be quite amusing if we could poison their well by persuading a great many people to send in samples from other life forms.

Probably easier, cheaper & faster to make their data unusable via other means though.

Lot of mine seem to have these, possibly even all that were purchased in the last few years.

No idea if this is due to regulations.

Oh no.

I’d imagine they feel as horrible as caffeine withdrawal headaches.

Thank you for the warning!

You know what to do here.

Embrace the palpitations & insomnia for the greater good. And for the decent taste.

Thought it was well known that engineers run on coffee?