I know this seems unlikely and sounds outlandish, but I actually managed to jump to another employer in 2020 who wasn’t shitty and paid more. Don’t lose hope, everyone. They may be few and far between, but they exist.

When I was a little kid, one of those flying cunts stung my brother. So I vowed bitter revenge.

Over the years of my childhood, I caught dozens, if not hundreds of them with my net. Having caught one, I used to hold the net in front of a cross spider’s web, so that the wasp, triumphantly but mistakenly believing it had regained its freedom, had to fly straight into the web.

And then I watched the little asshole get destroyed. I’m pretty sure that to this day, I’m worshipped as a god by the local cross spider population.

Not an Ossi, you Flitzpiepe.

As a German I can confirm all stereotypes about us are completely true. We hate each other and ourselves, we only eat bratwurst and drink beer and we have no sense of humour whatsoever. My desktop wallpaper is a portrait of David Hasselhoff. I’m always punctual and I don’t know how to party, which makes sense because I work all day anyway.

Hope this helps.

Well, ideally you start new projects writing 100% Kotlin while only adding Kotlin code to older codebases you can’t get rid of. Personally, I don’t like mixing languages anyway and I would stay with Java in Java projects. One reason is the bloat argument you pointed out quite correctly.

True… but Kotlin makes Lombok quite unnecessary by having its concepts built in. It’s also worth to point out that null safety is opt-in in Java and opt-out in Kotlin.

Yes, there are things about Kotlin I don’t love either. But I still like how it was clearly developed having developer quality-of-life in mind.

Kotlin isn’t perfect and it gives the devs quite a lot of freedom. I would argue that if your Kotlin code is messy, that’s on you - but it will still be significantly less prone to failures like NPEs. Unless you opt out of null safety by using the dreaded ?-Operator.

NPEs are the reason why my team moved to Kotlin. Well, that and all the other myriad advantages Kotlin brings to the table.

This man in Monty Python’s Life of Brian is none other than British comedy legend Spike Milligan, who, together with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, starred in the 1950s radio comedy show “The Goon Show”, which all members of the Pythons cited as their most important influence.

By coincidence Milligan was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made. The Pythons were alerted to this and he was included in the scene being filmed that morning.

Still sounds really great.

I’m German, and whenever someone here claims the British have bad food I mention all the fantastic chutneys and pickles you guys have over there. Particularly fond of a thing called “Glorious Garlic Pickle” by The Bay Tree. I wish I had the recipe because they don’t ship to mainland Europe.

The onions still do the heavy lifting, I guess, and “a few bottles of malt vinegar” sounds a little excessive.

I personally prefer pure caramelized onions without any other ingredients except a bit of salt, to be honest. Won’t keep as long in the fridge but is the most versatile.

Onion chutney. And it IS divine. Add it to burgers or steak and you will regret having wasted so many years without it.

I would prefer a Monty Python style foot. Complete with the raspberry sound effect. More entertainment value.

My wife and I have decided that we don’t want any kids. So if someone wants them, we can drop them off tomorrow.

Interesting. I never knew what they actually used. I had never encountered that smell in West Berlin at the time. And certainly not since the wall came down. Thanks for solving this mystery. 🙂

Edit: Ah, f*** it.

1. It’s a rather lame joke. The premise has been used a thousand times already.
2. It’s at the expense of someone’s disability. Ask yourself how often Peter Dinklage has seen this joke in his life.

You can joke about everything, but at least make a fucking effort.

You can make jokes about absolutely everything. But if you do it at the expense of others, and the touchier and more sensitive the subject, the funnier the joke has to be - so you better make sure it’s fucking hilarious and original.

People tend to miss that part. Especially the one about short people is always the same old punch line - the one along the lines of this post.

I’m not offended that OP made a joke about Peter Dinklage. I’m offended that it was a lame joke that I’ve seen a thousand times before.

Make jokes at the expense of the disabled, races, transgenders, gays or religious people, and you will be rightly criticized and shamed for it.

Make jokes at the expense of people who are ugly, fat or short in stature, somehow that’s still okay with way too many people…