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Not so much a relic as it was West County actor Robert Newton putting on an exaggerated accent in his depections of Long John Silver and Blackbeard in several films of the 1950s. His depictions were extremely influential on later pirates in film.


Shame that it only seems to be available in physical form and only from the US. The price is already quite high and with postage to the UK it adds up to be quite expensive.


My friend from the UK bought it and it got sent from somewhere locakly. I am in NZ and mine was sent from AU. So I think you should be covered.


The "locakly" typo is perfectly placed in the comment thread of this article!


Not just for Germany but apparently for the entire continent of Europe!


Have you tried taking off your sunglasses?


Sunglasses help you when you are driving and it's sunny out.

Has the manufacturer considered designing and testing for that use case?


But that's just it,you're not going to reduce sizes. You're deluding yourself.



Those have always looked so unwieldy to me. What an excellent way to lose a limb.


Nah, 98SE was a clear improvement over the base 98.


While I in no way endorse whatever batshit insane things Trump is doing, I don't think the US has issued a declaration of war since WW2. Declarations of war have been quite rare internationally in general since the end of WW2 outside of a few examples.


Try in The World


Do you seriously believe that the German spelling reforms were done to "drive the Germanic people away from each other"? If so that's quite the insane conspiracy theory you got yourself there. And lmao at "Anglican German".


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