A Mars is a Milkyway, A Milkyway is a 3 Musketeers, but a Snickers is a Snickers

Yep I’m talking candybars. For some reason here they just aren’t the same as I remember them. Some time ago my wife and I were in an argument about Milkyway candybars. I swore up and down that they had caramel in them and not just nougat. My wife said no no they only have nougat. So we went to a store and she bought me one and sure enough there was no caramel. So basically here in Germany a Milkyway is nothing more than a miniaturized 3 Musketeers bar.

So later in my I’m about to eat Mars bar. Mostly because we had them and needed to get rid of them, because I’m not overly fond of almonds in my candybar. What I come to find is that Mars bars don’t have almonds here. However, they do have caramel so basically a Mars bar is a Milkyway.

I am very thankful that my favorite candybar is the same here as it is back where I grew up. That is the Snickers bar. Still has peanuts, still has caramel, still has nougat all covered in milk chocolate. I wonder why they didn’t change it?

The Right Tool for the Job? Using firearms to remove tires.

Well it seems that Europeans get another view of how dumb some Americans can be with their firearms. This article found on the BBC website proves just what you shouldn’t do to remove the lugs from your car tire.

The summary, a 66 year old man trying to remove a tire from his Lincoln Continental became so frustrated that he decided to use his 12-Gauge shot gun and blast the nut from his wheel. Needless to say this didn’t work and he ended up in the Hospital with shotgun pellets in his feet, abdomen, and chin.

So if you want to remove that stubborn lug nut get an impact wrench and air compressor. Shotguns won’t remove the nut unless the nut is referring to yourself.

Interior Decoration From the 70’s gone MAD!

 My wife and I are planning on eventually buying a house, once we get enough money for such an undertaking. We were looking last night at a website that posts property for sale here in Germany. There were some nice houses and some that weren’t as nice but this one stood out and had us almost in tears when we saw the interior decoration.

The outside of the house doesn’t look too bad, sadly the housing agent didn’t use this as the first picture instead they used this one.

This is where we started laughing. We have referred to this as the Red Room and is a place where you could film 70’s style porn. The red satin wall paper really does it for me as well as the 70’s era television on a stick sitting in the corner. Now if you think that this is all and that the rest of the house is better you should just keep reading.

This next picture is the reverse of the last. I’m not quite sure what the lady on the left hand side standing in the window thinks she is doing. Escaping most likely. The arch really is something though I’m not quite sure why the rest of the wall is black. At least it isn’t as red as the rest of the room.

The Red Room also has an annoying little corner that leads to … even more hideous red satin wall paper.

Now if you think that is funny let us take a look at the rest of this color coordinated house. Following the Red Room we come across the Blue Room or Maybe it should be Sapphire I’m not sure but it is definitely blue.

Follow the blue room with the Green Room. And what a disgusting shade of green too. I’m pretty sure that the previous owners were either 1. Very proud of how uniquely decorated their house was, 2. Extremely old, or 3. Blind

The bathroom left me completely speechless. My wife giggling over my shoulder and I couldn’t say anything my mind was lost in the thought that someone would mix sand brown with black in such a terrible way. It kind of put me in the mind of a Hundertwasser house.

This is probably the least eye injuring room in the house. The thing is I’m not sure what it was suppose to be used for.

Here is an example of the entry way. The mixture of red brick and green was again really hard on my eyes. It kind of looks like a waiting room in some old doctors office or worse.

The saving grace for this house (cough) is that it comes with its own little swimming pool.

I’m not sure what to make of this house other than I would not spend 218,000 Euros on it. EEEK