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I recently found out that the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the paramilitary organization for the SPD in the 1920s and early 1930s, still exists and has their own website, and just celebrated their 100th anniversary

Say you are or have a child with a disability what kind of help or lack there of can be expected for them in your country?

What’s a spicy food you love?

In Ireland, it would probably be the disappearance of Trevor Deely. He was last seen on CCTV, walking home from a Christmas party. He was about 10 minutes from his apartment but didn't make it back and has never been seen again. All possible suspects have been ruled out and no trace of him has ever been found.

For me it is Slovenia, there is no particular reason but no desire to visit the country again.

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How do people in your country look upon nose piercings? I have a septum and a ring on one of my nostrils as well.

Any legitimate reasons?

You pop out a newborn baby in your home country how are you granted citizenship?

I realise that it depends on the brand and probably the country, but maybe someone here can share how long they were told they need to wait for a car ordered to a given configuration?

Please include brand and country where ordered.

To my knowledge, if you're a US citizen, you're supposed to file your taxes even tho you moved to a different country and are paying tax there too.

How do you deal with that? How do you actually do it (like turbotax or any free alternaties)?

The current stuff with Greenland made me think of this question. Coming from the Netherlands, we ourselves also have overseas territories, 6 islands in the Caribbean to be exact. These are part of the Netherlands (in different ways), but they seem so different to me, climate-wise and assuming culturally as well, that it doesn't really feel Dutch. I've never been there myself, so this is all based on stories from others who have been, and assumptions from far away. It's mostly treated as a holiday island, not unlike the Canaries or Balearics.

What product from your country was discontinued?

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No wrong answers

From my small hometown (~12k residents) in southeastern Poland:

In short, news appeared the county wanted to relocate one of the two local high schools into a different building, occupied by the other high school, and rent the building to be used as a dormitory for the military. Needless to say, most teachers, students, and locals weren't chuffed. Some of my favourite comments included:

-"300 horny males in the town centre? You realise what'll be left of that building?"

-"I'm all for it, nothing but benefits. Ladies will benefit since they'll be able to find themselves a husband, the delivery ward will benefit since they'll have more childbirths, the parish will benefit since they'll have more baptisms, the local gastronomy will benefit cause I doubt they'll be eating Tusks bugs. Do you opponents can't see the positives?"

-"The previous county head has put so much effort and taxpayers' money into the renovations, accessibility upgrades, insulations of that building and now the new one wants to relocate it? Who even is that guy?" In the end, the county won't relocate it, partly due to backlash. I'm personally very fond of such local dramas, what are some examples from your country? Any you have witnessed?

Not to say such affairs aren't significant, since they affect the livelihoods of many people, but it is interesting to pay attention to them, especially in the current, often worrying, news cycle

Title says it all—I want to support more products made in EU countries, where I live.

Not being able to publicly criticise the government and needing permission to go abroad would send me into a deep depression - how did people cope?

Title says it all. I just came back from my first trip to Europe that included France/UK/Netherlands. France taught me just how good bread could be.

I was wondering what other European countries are known for amazing bread.

Like everybody know who he is?

What the title says. In my country, only Lidl posts a catalog of all prices online. Other shops don't have a catalog, but post individual prices. But there's a certain few that don't have prices at all, only periodical offers or straight up ads for their products. I find that to be at least immoral, and I was wondering whether there is a certain EU regulation that these corporations do not respect here.

Many thanks in advance.

What I mean is, for example, political parties who were, perhaps, the largest or second largest party or were just instrumental in shaping the country's political landscape, but now can't or can barely pass the threshold, or don't exist anymore.

Hey everyone!

Random query I've had on my mind for a while now, but it's mostly related to dialects.

So some countries (for example Germany) have different regional dialects (not to be confused with accents), which more often than not cannot be understood too well, if at all by other regions etc.

I know there are other countries within Europe too where this also the case, say for example somebody in the North are essentially speaking a different language than the people in the South. This could be as small as minor spelling of words, to entirely new words or phrases being used for example.

How does this work in say official Government legislation, or verbal debates/announcements etc?

Is there a "standard" version of the language which everybody to some extent would understand? Or would it be a case of everybody just using their own regional dialect, and hoping the audience/readers can understand it?

Say for example if something went to court and the paperwork was drafted up, would that use the regional dialect the court is located it, or the "official" standard language so it could be easily understood everywhere?

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Do they exist where you can go and get treated intensively for things like OCD/Anxiety etc.

Looking for places that I could possibly stay a few months and get some of these things under control...

Out of Pocket in the States is like minimum 25k, 50+K for very good places.

You know - make everything water under the bridge and just be chill since it's Europe.

In Brazil, there is an unwritten tradition that it doesn't matter if you are a particle physicist, a Nobel Prize nominee, a World Cup champion or the mayor of São Paulo: at family reunions, the cousin who will be flattered is, without a doubt, the one who studied or studies Medicine.

Although other careers also have great prestige, Medicine continues to be the darling of traditional Brazilian families: the "doctor" (in Brazil, officially, the term "doctor" is used only for people with a doctorate) gains status as a person who is more hard-working, intelligent and capable than their cousins ​​in the arts, finance, etc.

Is there any job that occupies the same space in the imagination of any European country?

American here, I have no idea where the hell I would even find the info on that. Do you guys have apps that are popular for organizing?

What’s a fond memory you have from when you were younger?