The last sentence made me smile. Thanks.

"If you've never been shot at, you don't have any right to criticise the government"

That one was right out of Starship Troopers.

And also, I long for the times when we thought Bush junior was the worst possible POTUS.

And still....

Why does he think that Otters are useless?

Not what I expected from the title. Not in the least.

Banned where? I've never seen it in Germany but i can't imagine it being banned here, at least not for its innuendo. Maybe because of trademark infringement?

You're dead on. This was orignally used for self-cooling beer kegs and was developed by Peter Maier-Laxhuber at the Technical University München, Germany (where else? ;-) ) in 1983.

From German Wikipedia:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbstkühlendes_Bierfass

Brlliant idea to use the technology this way!

Respect for a very well rehearsed circus performance but the final "throw" and "disarm" of the spear wielder made me chuckle.

This might not be the place for a serious discussion, but have you seen "Surviving Edged Weapons"? Minimum reaction distance for a gun wielding (and well trained) Police officer? 21 feet!

It looks fake. The Guradsman does not wear a belt, has no weapon, has no chinstrap on the bearskin, etc. etc.
By the grouping of the buttons on his tunic, he should be of the Coldstream Guard, their full uniform looks like this:
https://changing-guard.com/images/foot-guards/coldstream-sentry.jpg

Although there are (hopefully) no statues to Hitler in Germany, to be honest, there is an ongoing debate about remebrance of the Wehrmacht and its generals by the Bundeswehr.
There are still some Bundeswehr bases named after Wehrmacht generals who fought in WW2. And there was a recent report about Wehrmacht paraphenalia (a small part of them clearly praising the Nazi ideology) in Bundeswehr bases.

But the main point in the debate about confederate memorials is that taking down statues or flags does not automatically state that every last Confederate soldier was personally fighting to uphold slavery. What those statues commemorate is what the confederate army as a whole were fighting for.

I wonder how many of the people who marched in Charlottesville and supposedly protested for a more diversifeid view of the confederacy (you see, I am not talking about the KKK, people here but the "Not all of those people were Neo-Nazis"-People) have the same thoughts about islam?
How many of them say "I think most muslims are not terrorists", how dare you take down statues of their generals and leaders?".

This is, in fact, rather common. If you take a look at fencing manuals (Talhofer and the like). Please remember that the blade was not razor-sharp because it was supposed to work against mail and plate.

Earlier today, I could not believe this had not yet been sifted. Now that I have the time to do it myself, you beat me to it. :-)

I hope this does not take long to get to the top of the New Videos by Vote queue.

So basically Thor is now Star Lord and Hulk is Groot?