13601 pts · October 29, 2011
If you screenshot this and get it to the frontpage, I will do nothing.
Read my follow-up comment too, I already covered that.There is one dude in my neighbourhood who's flying the flag in his front yard. I probably don't have to tell you about his political views. He's really into football too, of course.And culture matters a lot more than you'd think. Even without the nazi period, most Germans would likely be less patriotic than citizens of other countries.
...and that's still including a period of 30ish years that no decent human being would want to be proud of, which is the reason why said decent human beings are reluctant to have strong national pride.We do like football though. To the point where world championships are the only time you will see any major displays of national pride, draping the flag over their car bonnets and whatnot. (2/2)
Germany is a bit different than other countries in this regard. Our sense of home and belonging lies in the region or city where we grew up, not the country as a whole. The area that comprises modern Germany used to be split into hundreds of little nations, sometimes as vassal states of a larger empire, sometimes not. There is no deeply ingrained cultural sense of national pride because our nation as it is has only existed for about 100 years (1/2)
Yeah I use both of those too. uMatrix is cumbersome on phones, but I don't use my phone enough to care.
Can't click on ads if you don't see any in the first place. #ublockEven if I didn't adblock, there is nothing that would ever make me click on ads.
It means coward. A scaredy-cat.
It means "coward", in reference to a very old cartoon character named Caspar Milquetoast. It does sound like it should mean "bland" but it doesn't.
My first thought after reading your comment was literally "ok boomer".This is basically just Youtube Poop with less word mixing.. It's actually very tame -- if it was actual YTP, there would be nazi jokes and n-words. Making people say scandalous things is part of the humour and the video editor didn't even do that. This could've been way more offensive.Apparently you didn't grow up with that, otherwise you would've found it funny. I'm a younger millennial and I did.
Yeah, even here in Europe where we have actual regulations, it's recommended you buy organic citrus fruit if you want to use the rinds for anything. Non-organic, don't even bother trying to wash that shit off, just throw the rinds out.
His reputation is so bad, it carries across the pond. I'm European and I still know how much of a cunt he is.
Ain't that the truth...
What about sodium chloride? Sodium explodes when it comes into contact with water and chlorine is highly toxic. Surely it's a bad idea to combine them!
Campinos?
Huh, interesting. Considering the rest of the lyrics, it seems like it should be "seed".Perhaps the lyrics sites copied from the official booklet lyrics and those were misspelled? That sort of thing happens all the time. I have multiple rock, punk, and metal albums with misspelled lyrics in the CD booklet, sometimes even completely wrong words.
Milky *seed*.
In Europe it's normal that you have to show your government ID or passport (neither of which are usually free) when voting to prevent people from voting more than once, so this appears like a good thing at first glance. Devil is in the details of course.
I play 8-ball with friends sometimes, but the only cue sport I watch is snooker. Somehow I keep being surprised at how tiny an 8-ball table is in comparison. Like a kid's toy version of the real thing.
Not that soccer is all that much better, but I don't really watch that either. Sports in general is something that I like to participate in, but I don't see the point in watching it.
Eh. As a European, I admit that American football has its moments. Unfortunately these moments are very sporadic, interspersed with long periods of absolutely nothing happening, and of course a fuckton of ads.
#44 I also quite like what is essentially the opposite of point 2: the suggestion that something which is typically considered uncountable and requires measurement units to give an accurate statement about the amount in question, is in fact countable and no measurement unit is given. For example, injecting one whole marijuana.
I mean, "schizo" has the same amount of letters as "skitzo"... but yeah, that's not a nice way to call out a tiny thing like that.
Before the first Hobbit movie released, a small cinema in my town hosted an event to watch all three LotR movies (extended ofc) in one day. It was exhausting but a cool experience. Only about 30 people were there. The cinema's owner was watching with us, and he suspended the rule that you can't take your own food into the cinema because he didn't expect people to buy overpriced snacks to get through a half day long event. The Chinese takeout spot across the street was making bank that day haha.
Only because people didn't have a camera in their pocket at all times, and there was no Internet to share information quickly. They didn't have to be afraid to show their face when there was next to no chance anybody would recognise them.
Depends on what you mean by "regular". I'm German and most people here prefer wooden doors inside the house. Most of them are just a flat slab of wood. They're not cheap but they last forever if they aren't exposed to humidity or big temperature changes. My grandma had 60 year old doors in her house and in that time she only had them refinished once because the varnish was worn after raising 3 kids and many dogs and cats. Wooden front doors typically have glass windows instead of panels.
16 is when you can buy beer or wine. This doesn't include mixed beverages, like those with syrups or juice which appeal more to kids. Pure beer and wine are acquired tastes and a lot of kids don't like them at first, which is why there isn't an alcoholism problem in that age group (to my knowledge at least).Meanwhile in the US, you can join the military, shoot at brown people, and die for your country at 18, yet be too young to drink because that's 21+ in your state. That's a little fucked up.
I'm trying to understand better if, as an American, you believe that your nation had to go through the process of killing millions of innocent people to get to where you are now. You’re all very proud of your society (nothing sketchy about that) and your society was built on the bones of 4 million Native Americans and 12 million Black slaves.So did the atrocities get you to where you are? Was it worth it? Tens of millions of lives snuffed out so you can be proud of… voting in Trump?
As a German... have you heard of the concept of dark humour? If we know our audience would be receptive to it, we absolutely will make jokes about Nazis, the Holocaust, and more. The difference is that our jokes are actually funny.
Correct. The word rape can also mean something like robbery, pillage, or plunder. Taking something by force. It's an older meaning of the word and not used often nowadays. The Rape of Nanjing for example does not refer to just the sexual crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers, but the entire act of "taking" the city and everything it entailed.
I'm from Europe. And spreading negativity helps nobody but the fascists.
Read my follow-up comment too, I already covered that.
There is one dude in my neighbourhood who's flying the flag in his front yard. I probably don't have to tell you about his political views. He's really into football too, of course.
And culture matters a lot more than you'd think. Even without the nazi period, most Germans would likely be less patriotic than citizens of other countries.
...and that's still including a period of 30ish years that no decent human being would want to be proud of, which is the reason why said decent human beings are reluctant to have strong national pride.
We do like football though. To the point where world championships are the only time you will see any major displays of national pride, draping the flag over their car bonnets and whatnot. (2/2)
Germany is a bit different than other countries in this regard. Our sense of home and belonging lies in the region or city where we grew up, not the country as a whole. The area that comprises modern Germany used to be split into hundreds of little nations, sometimes as vassal states of a larger empire, sometimes not. There is no deeply ingrained cultural sense of national pride because our nation as it is has only existed for about 100 years (1/2)
Yeah I use both of those too. uMatrix is cumbersome on phones, but I don't use my phone enough to care.
Can't click on ads if you don't see any in the first place. #ublock
Even if I didn't adblock, there is nothing that would ever make me click on ads.
It means coward. A scaredy-cat.
It means "coward", in reference to a very old cartoon character named Caspar Milquetoast. It does sound like it should mean "bland" but it doesn't.
My first thought after reading your comment was literally "ok boomer".
This is basically just Youtube Poop with less word mixing.. It's actually very tame -- if it was actual YTP, there would be nazi jokes and n-words. Making people say scandalous things is part of the humour and the video editor didn't even do that. This could've been way more offensive.
Apparently you didn't grow up with that, otherwise you would've found it funny. I'm a younger millennial and I did.
Yeah, even here in Europe where we have actual regulations, it's recommended you buy organic citrus fruit if you want to use the rinds for anything. Non-organic, don't even bother trying to wash that shit off, just throw the rinds out.
His reputation is so bad, it carries across the pond. I'm European and I still know how much of a cunt he is.
Ain't that the truth...
What about sodium chloride? Sodium explodes when it comes into contact with water and chlorine is highly toxic. Surely it's a bad idea to combine them!
Campinos?
Huh, interesting. Considering the rest of the lyrics, it seems like it should be "seed".
Perhaps the lyrics sites copied from the official booklet lyrics and those were misspelled? That sort of thing happens all the time. I have multiple rock, punk, and metal albums with misspelled lyrics in the CD booklet, sometimes even completely wrong words.
Milky *seed*.
In Europe it's normal that you have to show your government ID or passport (neither of which are usually free) when voting to prevent people from voting more than once, so this appears like a good thing at first glance. Devil is in the details of course.
I play 8-ball with friends sometimes, but the only cue sport I watch is snooker. Somehow I keep being surprised at how tiny an 8-ball table is in comparison. Like a kid's toy version of the real thing.
Not that soccer is all that much better, but I don't really watch that either. Sports in general is something that I like to participate in, but I don't see the point in watching it.
Eh. As a European, I admit that American football has its moments. Unfortunately these moments are very sporadic, interspersed with long periods of absolutely nothing happening, and of course a fuckton of ads.
#44
I also quite like what is essentially the opposite of point 2: the suggestion that something which is typically considered uncountable and requires measurement units to give an accurate statement about the amount in question, is in fact countable and no measurement unit is given. For example, injecting one whole marijuana.
I mean, "schizo" has the same amount of letters as "skitzo"... but yeah, that's not a nice way to call out a tiny thing like that.
Before the first Hobbit movie released, a small cinema in my town hosted an event to watch all three LotR movies (extended ofc) in one day. It was exhausting but a cool experience. Only about 30 people were there. The cinema's owner was watching with us, and he suspended the rule that you can't take your own food into the cinema because he didn't expect people to buy overpriced snacks to get through a half day long event. The Chinese takeout spot across the street was making bank that day haha.
Only because people didn't have a camera in their pocket at all times, and there was no Internet to share information quickly. They didn't have to be afraid to show their face when there was next to no chance anybody would recognise them.
Depends on what you mean by "regular". I'm German and most people here prefer wooden doors inside the house. Most of them are just a flat slab of wood. They're not cheap but they last forever if they aren't exposed to humidity or big temperature changes. My grandma had 60 year old doors in her house and in that time she only had them refinished once because the varnish was worn after raising 3 kids and many dogs and cats. Wooden front doors typically have glass windows instead of panels.
16 is when you can buy beer or wine. This doesn't include mixed beverages, like those with syrups or juice which appeal more to kids. Pure beer and wine are acquired tastes and a lot of kids don't like them at first, which is why there isn't an alcoholism problem in that age group (to my knowledge at least).
Meanwhile in the US, you can join the military, shoot at brown people, and die for your country at 18, yet be too young to drink because that's 21+ in your state. That's a little fucked up.
I'm trying to understand better if, as an American, you believe that your nation had to go through the process of killing millions of innocent people to get to where you are now. You’re all very proud of your society (nothing sketchy about that) and your society was built on the bones of 4 million Native Americans and 12 million Black slaves.
So did the atrocities get you to where you are?
Was it worth it? Tens of millions of lives snuffed out so you can be proud of… voting in Trump?
As a German... have you heard of the concept of dark humour? If we know our audience would be receptive to it, we absolutely will make jokes about Nazis, the Holocaust, and more. The difference is that our jokes are actually funny.
Correct. The word rape can also mean something like robbery, pillage, or plunder. Taking something by force. It's an older meaning of the word and not used often nowadays. The Rape of Nanjing for example does not refer to just the sexual crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers, but the entire act of "taking" the city and everything it entailed.
I'm from Europe. And spreading negativity helps nobody but the fascists.