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the DM did not stand a chance.

Damn you, Euro. You may have been a rational choice, but we will never love you in the clingy and slightly disturbing way like we loved our Mark.

I used to be responsible for health and safety in a safe injection room. We stopped staffing people for the room who were former users because it turned out it wasn't a healthy setting for them. One of them started to use again after a couple of weeks in the room, after around 8 years of abstinence, going back to school as an adult and getting a uni degree as a social worker.

I have the utmost respect for anyone who succeeds in being abstinent for any span of time and most people I know who succeeded long term had to remove themselves from their old turfs. How do you stay sane and healthy? Do you have any safeguards for yourself, or do you have anything that gives you the assurance that you won't be dragged back in?

Caution contains residue of failed journalism

I miss the word Groschen. Groschenroman. Bei dir fällt der Groschen pfennigweise. Groschengrab.

And the backside of the 50 pf coin will always be my favourite backside of anything. ... Well, anything non-living.

If I were a journalist, I would feel Fremdschämen every time I were at a press conference with one of those goons.