He ' s adapting to our style of play , so yes . <| sep |> Perfect . I do enjoy doing barrows but sometimes lava dragons can be fun . I have the elite diary done , what three items should I bring when going there ? I usually bring Trident of the swamp , occult , and barrows gloves along with some tan leather and a looting bag so I can make black d hide and save some inventory space . Are there any items you would recommend me to bring to speed up kills ? <| sep |> Under $ 20 ? Calphalon brand spatulas , slotted spoons and other cooking utensils . <| sep |> Lived in Germany for 2 years . In general , Germans are like everyone . Some are generous , some less so , some are super friendly , some less so , etc . The whole don ' t mention the war thing is rubbish , Germans are fine with talking about it , even some older ones . Just consider that it might not be seen as cool to bring up events which are a source of pretty much perpetual national shame in the first conversation you have with someone , especially if you are less than tactful about it . Germans fucking LOVE Krimis crime fiction . About half of any bookstore is just crime novels . I remember once being in a bookstore and these two old ladies were looking for a new book for one of them . One thinks she sees something interesting , reads out the blurb on the back , and the other says with actual disgust in her voice , aber das ist doch kein Krimi , oder ? Because why would you recommend me anything else ? Germans fucking HATE NeoNazis . By coincidence , I was twice in the vicinity of marches and couldn ' t even get close enough to see a banner through the enraged screaming crowds . Germans don ' t want to speak to foreigners in German , even when your German is totally functional . Incredibly frustrating when you ' re literally in the country , and want to practice the language , and everyone just wants to speak to you in English . At any one point in time , one third of the country is covered in scaffolding . I loved the contrast between Germans on a work day , a tide of straightfaced proper sharply dressed people , and on certain nationally accepted calendar days , where the same people are drunk out of their minds , screaming and chanting obscenities staggering down the street in some bizarre getup . I developed this image of people repressing all this energy , this entire aspect of their personality , in their everyday lives , and then releasing it in explosive brief outbursts . While I made friends in my time there , I made none that I would consider close ones , so I would agree that they ' re not easy to get close to . I loved the advice a dude once gave me about German girls hol dir keine deutsche Frau , die haben Ansprueche . Oh , specifically the German ones then ? Goth culturefashion and being a metalhead seemed to be FAR less frowned upon , at least amongst ones peers , than in NZ when I was growing up . Christmas markets are just so much fun . Crepes , Gluehwein , great big weiners , bright lights , ice skating , etc . The absurd levels of bureaucracy thing is spot on . I left the country because I was denied a work visa for my next job . The company was in one city , I lived in a different city , in the same state , only thirty minutes away , and filed the application there . The two Auslaenderaemter in the two cities a short drive from each other in the same state turned out to be completely separate entities and had different requirements for the application , and thus by following the instructions of my bosstobe , who had been hiring for decades , I didn ' t have something the Amt in my city deemed necessary and was denied . That ' s all that comes to mind right now .