Edeka, a german budget supermarket brand, did something and now, expats based in switzerland who likely never shop there are talking about and discussing it, despite being miles away from Edeka, and miles away from each other.


If it was a publicity stunt, it was a good one.

Lol.

Edeka's powerful statement, in fact, was just a globalisation manifesto.

How ordinary and uncool.

It would so not fly a few years back. "Look, we buy nothing home".

Edeka's publicity stunt has clearly pointed out just how unstable Germany is in regards to food security. They need to diversify!


Wait a minute - in order to buy or sell from others, we need to live together? Maybe i'll offer the spare room to that cute teller girl at the gas station:roll eyes:
Wife won't mind - she's just happy we're able to buy petrol.

Youre making a giant leap of faith, assuming the cute teller girl would accept.


If what you say is true, she'd have numerous offers and yours would not be the most tempting.

Since when is a trio out of fashion? So diverse

Maybe if you call it ménage à trois it starts looking more tempting.....especially after drinking that tres magnifique French wine we have on our shelves.

I think you have to get that special wine at Edeka to take you to those globalized filthy realms

Some historians believe that country's used to trade goods and foodstuffs without importing massive amounts of immigrants.

Well there are the well known locally grown German teas, coffee, bananas... well you get the idea

Especially Loz's german green coffee....

I had a tea made of green coffee beans once, so gross. To hell with globalization, no matter how Edeka sells it.

Source? Which historians?

Anyway who said "massive"?

Well historically we were recently discussing the American slave industry using many imported black immigrants, then you have countries like Australia and New Zealand that did require massive amounts of immigrants or even look at Switzerland where a quarter of the population is foreign.

I think none of those would insist on trios.

Or where there customs the newcomers insisted on, "ok, we will come to your lands but you must adopt our ways?"

Did Merkel know she will have to stop wearing a bikini on a beach to not offend some lunatics? Well, it is a bit nippy up north at the Baltic sea.

Im pretty sure Frau Merkel has no inclination to wear a bikini and go paddling in the North Sea...

Probably one of the better arguments for unfettered immigration to be fair.

The other convincing argument being how amusing it is to annoy you and your ilk.

"How tiny is it" Well there are over 20 million Muslims in Europe and there were three deadly terrorist incidents in 2016.
Source
So tiny is less than one in a million!

This is quite similar to the chance of being hit by a meteorite!
The odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime is between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 12,000 depending on which analysis you believe, the odds of this killing you is 10%!

LOL!, so you never read EF!!

• where can I buy brown sugar
• the police do not speak English
• the girls are unfriendly
• I do not like it here
• smoking on train platforms
• import taxes
• high prices

I guess that is a diva behavior (high earning royalty). How dare you compare that to those suffering mass immigrants that have been shipped to Aus, US, etc.

Complaining does not mean they cannot adapt, btw.

I also know complainers tend to think about stuff more and at the end also improving the new, host system. That's what diva status secures, maybe, the right to have your new environment adjust to you, if your suggestions merit. One has to be an achiever for that, first, though. Not just a complainer. Victim culture tends to discourage achievements since they discredit its theory.

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People voted for May in the UK, despite her abysmall performance (and Cameron's before her), why would Germans not vote for Merkel at a time when most of them are fairly satisfied with their lives?
It is short-sighted, yes, but this is how people vote.

I am not saying I agree with them, I am saying that it is very expected and you shouldn't be amazed.