Zwille posted:

Yeah we use 2800kwh per year too, two people

aphid_licker posted:

Wonder what'd grow there if you just left it alone. At some point it should arrive at Buchenmischwald or something but at first there should be some neat stuff popping up.

niethan posted:

mcbexx posted:

Had a nice run-in with german bureaucracy today.

My parents have a hornet's nest in the edge of their roof, directly above the path that leads around the house into the garden, three meters from the ground.

Since hornets are endangered, you're not allowed to do poo poo, except get a Fachmann check the nest and then ask the Umweltschutzbehörde for an exemption to either relocate the hive or, if that does not seem feasible, kill them (the hornets, not my parents).
If you tamper with it yourself, you can potentially be fined up to €50.000.

Turns out the requirements for the exemption are quite high.
Schädlingsbekämpfer will come by tomorrow and check it out, but he already alluded to the fact that he might not be able to help.

The nest is right next to my mother's kitchen window and maybe 4 meters from a balcony and a terrace door.

Oh, did I mention that my mother is highly allergic to bees and wasps?
Like "get an anaphylactic shock and die" allergic.
She hasn't tried hornets yet, and frankly, at 82 years old and with a pacemaker and defibrillator in her chest, I'd rather not have her give it a shot.

If we get told tomorrow that "Eh, you gotta wait until October when the hive has died out, then we can plug the cracks" and my mother is basically put under house arrest and stressed out because of those little fuckers until then, I might become a Querdenker.

Hopper posted:

Kaufland and Rewe, both have a red logo, checks out must be left. But where the hell is penny?

niethan posted:

In my youth we used to talk about drinking a 24 bottle kasten in 24 hours. I don't think we ever attempted it.