Continental Europe Puns

It may seem surreal, but it’s not at all, these are natural partnerships. Europe, Russia and China will be bound together by the new roads of silk, stretching over that vast landmass, by etatism, high culture, and all else. Conversely, ex British colonies bound together by the infamous „open sea“, shared history of „liberal“ „values“, vulgar „individualism”, „market fundamentalism“ etc. We would ultimately prevail even if Japan, SK and India all side with them.

Hi everyone,

I am looking for big card storage boxes available in continental europe. I used to get some in the UK (tesseractuk or customized gaming) but the added VAT is a pain.

Anything else to recommend ? I am looking for something that allows to store a lot of cards (2-5K), stackable and if it has somewhere to put stuff on top, such as manuals, tokens...this is a plus.

thanks !

I'm in Spain and I've had my eye on this game for a while, but I never seem to be able to find copies in European or even UK based stores (I'm making this distinction cause shipping from UK has become an ordeal since Brexit, not getting political). Has it even hit retail at any point? Any news on this front?

EDIT: wow, I’m delighted I raised my question in this sub, as I’ve honestly learned so much from your comments. Thanks! 🙏🏻🇺🇸

Less so, I mean.

Obviously the realities of this have changed dramatically since FoM has now ended for Brits. But if you could would you be open moving to another country in Europe (not including Ireland), and if so, where would you choose?

I've always liked Scandinavia and definitely would be open to moving there (any of the countries), low crime, low unemployment, good wages, good education system, although taxes are through the roof. Germany likewise. Being fluent in German means gives you access to countries totaling 100 million people (Swiss German is quite different though). I've not been as keen on southern Europe largely because most of the countries seem to be forever dogged with high unemployment (France was close to 10% even before the pandemic), wages are a bit lower.

When I was reading the manga Captain Tsubasa, the Japanese soccer youth teams was often surprising students all across Japan because they played association football all year long from when the ground is covered in snow under cloudy skies to during the hot summer at the beach and while its raining during April. They received mockery from other Japanese kids (which reflect the times when soccer was not a dominant sport in Japan) for committing all their time to soccer instead of dividing the time to sports based at the time of the year (like track and field is taken during summer, basketball is often a fall sport, etc)

In addition, Touch which is a baseball manga, has the suepr star Baseball student playing soccer off season at a team during the summer and another manga about basketball has the professional team taking time off and playing volleyball at the beach during the summer.............

Which reminds me of the American Tradition of the Big Sports Baseball, Basketball, and Football. For a long time the cliche was that the local jock would be playing football as the school year starts at fall, than switch to basketball as weather gets colder during Winter months, and then start swinging bats at thrown baseballs as Spring comes back with summer being either the time to practise your favorite sport or take a break and not do any activity just relaxing the whole summer or do conditioning like weightlifting or boxing and martial arts and some other hardcore training to prepare the body for the next school year. IN recent years, soccer is slowly but gradually becoming the traditional "4th" big sport and athletes are now using summer to play on the soccer team thus completing 4 complete season of competitive school sports esp at the college level.

Now I notice in the rest of the world tend to follow the "seasonal Big 3" (or 4 depending on your country's athletic trends). For example many African nations will play soccer during the summer and spring but change to track and field during the summer and maybe basketball during the winter depending if the country gets cold winters or very rainy weather during the November-February months.

Throughout Asia its same to Japan that people will change from soccer to basketball and whatever other sport is popular locally (which is the differentiation since most Asian countries don't play baseball or some sport similar to Gridiron like rugby or Canadian Football).

So I'd have to ask............. How come in Europe