why commenting on one's beliefs, they're customers their business

A small child may get sick and the parents who else look after them,
why the fashion to comment on anything?

That wasn't a comment, it was a question. If I said "They are nuts" that would have been a comment. You seem to be looking to me to by my usual disrespectful offensive self but I'm afraid that's not going to happen today.

I am sure I managed to have a pint of guinness before the polls closed :), but yes, the stores have to cover their alkohol

tinyE was just eager to know more about Germans.

if i go to a hotel i wouldn't like anyone commenting or calling me crazy because of some meaningless gesture - it's not polite
(the invisible man got really pissed about that)

+1 for the invisible man reference HOWEVER I didn't call them crazy nor did I make any sort of comment on them. If you can find anywhere in this thread I did that please feel free to show it to me.

So you lied to me!!!

neah!
i may have exaggerated with all this privacy problems lately...
:)

Haha, nuuuts!

But what Piranjade wrote is a common fear and therefore likely:
There are horror stories about diarrhoeal diseases and parasites in warm holiday destinations, transmitted by contaminated water due to ice cubes. To pursue this theme further, I usually don't give a shit ;-)

Clearly nuts. Has nothing to do with being German.

I order my drinks here in germany also without ice cubes, because I want more from the stuff I ordered and not piped water. It's cheaper for restaurants and bars making the glasses and cups full of ice, doing this they save on the more expansive beverages.

When I used to live in South Carolina (over ten years ago), the bars had to serve alcohol in those little airplane bottles. That way the bars would serve the same volume of alcohol in ever drink. It was either a state law or a city regulation thing.
That's gotta be batshit crazy. All I drink is iced beverages, and I do not recall every having a stomachache due to a beverage I drank. A stomachache due to eating the questionable left overs in my fridge, guilty, but my iced tea or iced water, never.
Same with headaches. A headache from drinking a slurpee or eating ice cream to fast is possible, but drinking an iced beverage even very quickly is not possible.

Well... you can buy alcohol in bars, restaurants, pubs and so on - but not in the shop or vinmonopolet. So it depends how you take the statement "can not buy alcohol"...

edit - you can not buy anything stronger than normal beer in shops, everything higher than this (4.75%) you need to buy in Vinmonopolet... this is one of the things some parties are trying to change.

Now this makes sense! And this definitely is NOT a German thing. I don't care where you go, right now somewhere in Nome Alaska some poor schmuck is paying full price for a glass of Coke that is 90% ice cubes. They do the same thing around the globe with beer foam.

Be careful about that. The harder access to the strong alcohol is the only factor that keeps 90% of Polish folk from migrating to you :D