Apparently you can now create EPUB's but you cannot even check if it's valid by reading your output.

So: My altitude is metric AND below sea level, you insensitive clod!

Also the confusion of "die See" and "das Meer" is brilliant:

In the languages I know:
English: sea - lake
French: mer - lac
German: Meer - See
Dutch: zee - meer

so a [lak] is always freshwater, but a [see] or a [meer] depends on where you are

Added Dutch

Wind - wind - wind
Wasser - water - water
Stein - stone - steen
Fisch - fish - vis
Rabe - Raven - raaf
Kraehe - Crow - kraai
Grass - grass - gras
Haus - house - huis
Stock - Stick - stok
Von - From - van
unter - under - onder
Wolf - wolf - wolf
Fuchs - fox - vos
Strom(as in river) - stream - stroom
die See (not der See, that is a lake) - sea - zee
Auge - eye - oog
Ohr - ear - oor
Arm - arm - arm
Herz - heart - hart
Damm - dam - dam

Almost everyone I know that has a smartphone (~80% of the people I know) uses WhatsApp for messaging one-to-one and for groups.

If it ain't broken, fix 'till it is. fix some more until it is no longer broken. repeat.

The best part of the alcohol thingies is that if you do decide to use the one in your car to check your ability to drive, you are then breaking the law, as you will be driving without a (unused) alcohol thingie in your car.

I vote Crushinator.

I second that, although IT just told me I may run linux on my 'old' (1yr old) laptop when my 'new' laptop arrives. The new one will probably only be used to gather dust and an occasional e-mail.

No, most phones have two. One for reasonable quality close-to-ear voice, and one loud-but-appaling-quality for handsfree, ringtones and making all music sound exactly the same

Does my cardboard box with a tiny hole punched in one side and a translucent foil on the opposite count? After all that's the original camera (obscura)

Its just that a normal Dutch or German socket is twice the size of a US one, in both diameter and depth.

Yes, in mainland Europe it is quite common to have only 230V 16A circuits. And each proper extension cord can handle 16A, so chaining them is not really a problem unless the total load is over 3,6KW Reminds me of when we had an American over at our company and he asked for an extension cord. He looked really shocked when we gave him one.