fur krist sake, lurn yerself sum inglisk

Blue rare, the only way to eat a steak!

Nope, wrong unit of measure

I agree, but in general the population would refer to both as 'Ausweis', at least in occupied Holland they did. My point is that devices such as these can be very dangerous in the wrong hands. In the end you also needed a valid one to obtain food stamps, which was a real problem if you had gone underground. My Aunt, bless her Soul, developed into a master forger who supplied many an 'illegal', as the Germans called them, with picture perfect copies. Not that it really mattered in the end as there was precious little food to go around anyway.

Thank you, finally someone who knows what he/she is talking about.

I thought the Nazis were decried because of death camps, not requiring papers.

The 'Ausweis' was a great Enabler of all that though, without a valid Ausweis you could be, and often would be, deemed to be one of any 'inferior' origins. There was an enormous effort in the 'underground' movements throughout occupied Europe to come up with 'clean' Ausweis material to give people a safe identity.

However the process of pumping water out of the low lying areas in the Netherlands is referred to as 'malen', guess what? That is also used to refer to grinding, as in the other function mills used to have. A pumping station still is referred to as a ‘gemaal’. If a windmill is positioned close to water then you can bet your boots it was used as a pump, the ones found within towns and villages where used as corn mils etc.

OK, I dare you to name some.

I dare you to go to any foreign country and walk around without your passport.

I dare you to name one!

All flights from Oz to Europe are cancelled

North West Europe more than Central Europe I would say, that would include Scandinavia and the UK

...spiders, and much worse...

we managed to get rid of one of the biggest parasitic specimens of them all and dump him on to the unsuspecting population of the US: Rupert Murdoch

you naturalised him, you keep him!

Don't fully agree with that. The audience he wrote this for consisted of (young)children, who needed to be put at ease since Tolkien did not shield them from scary subjects. Even to the extend that one of the main characters dies in battle. To that effect he projects the fears of his audience on Bilbo, often in a very light-hearted manner. It is through the empathy for Bilbo that his young audience is guided through these very adult concepts. It shows how serious he takes children.

Not every Australian lives in Mexico...