Men just want this simplistic life with no amenities. No bed just a mattress, cheap canned food, cheapest tshirts bought in packs of 50 and so on. I’m sure there are people who genuinely like that, but a lot of the times I find it so sad when men think they can’t treat themselves. And often if they just tried finding out what is a good product for them they’d find that it solves a lot of their problems.

One example: my husband told me when we met that he didn’t like to go to the pool because he was very self-concious about his unclean skin and lots of akne. He was also using any cheap soap he saw at a shop. I did some research for him and we tried some medical shower gels and just a few month later his skin had cleaned up completely. He isn’t even someone who buys into this manliness-stuff, but I think society just never suggested to him that as a man he could care about what soap he buys and put any thought into it. For him it was just a fact of life that he had bad skin and he was sad that it kept him from going to the pool or sauna, but he kind of accepted it as his fate. Because somehow trying to feel good and care for your body is still coded female outside of some fitness/bodybuilder etc bubbles.

He has since also found out that investing some research and money into the right mattress and bed base helps against his back pain that he had before also kind of just accepted.

This is going to get some confused posts from pen&paper rpg nerds 😆. My first thought was it’s about rpgs.

Old German Christmas songs sung by the Berlin Soloist Choir feat. Christian Steyer

https://youtu.be/3tQb8pcj-aw

I’m German and I can tell you you will hardly make a living teaching English in Germany. I used to work as a languagr instructor. The language schools don’t pay you nearly enough to live and to teach at a regular school you need to have a univerity degree in education. Institutions that pay you enough always require a relevant university degree like ESL or education. If you want to come here, I’d highly suggest you look into different jobs.

I mean, neither of them are a good choice for the character. Veronique is a smart redhead who’s good with all sorts of creatures in the comics. She’s mostly the calm and diplomatic one who can talk her way out of a situation and is usually in a good mood. Casting her with a blond person that has a resting bitch face throughout the movie is the worst offence to the character. Valerian is always portrayed as a bit hotheaded and lazy but also very smart and experienced. In the movie they made him some type of hotheaded action hero when him being experienced, techsavvy and a good strategist is a big part of his character in the comics.

That being said, the sibling thing isn’t too far off. They are never portrayed as having a romantic relationship and (spoiler)

Don’t you know? Disabilities didn’t exist until 2008 or so.

The debate had actually been going on for a while between Fraktur and Antiqua. In the past Fraktur was used to write German, while Antiqua was used for Latin. The debate is known as the “Antiqua-Fraktur-Streit” and was going on in Germany since the 18th century. In the late 19th century it became very heated when several movements tried to make their preferred font the standard in the wake of standardizations for spelling. During the Weimar republic both were taught in schools, Antiqua for Latin and Fraktur for German.

Now you’d think someone like Hitler would love a classical German font, but Hitler found the usage of Fraktur “backward-looking” and the artsy, ornate style of Fraktur not fitting for the new age of technology and strong Aryans. They even prohibited the usage of Fraktur in some publications.

It’s actually pretty hilarious that Fraktur is associated with Nazis now when Hitler was pretty outspoken about hating it and tried very hard to abolish it.

Japan definitely chose it themselves. Before, the country was known as 倭国, with 倭 meaning something like harmonic but also submissive. Obviously one Tennō wasn’t too happy about that and began signing letters to the Chinese court as “from the ruler of the land where the sun rises (日本) to the ruler of the land where the sun sets.” So Japan became the “Land of the rising sun” (well literally it’s the “sun’s origin”).

In my experience as a bi-woman, no. There are equally as many emotionally manipulative men and women. For men it often takes the form of “If you don’t do this physical thing (kiss, sex etc), you don’t like me.” or “If you ask for this security measure (meeting at a public place, using condomes), you don’t really like me.”

So, ghosting is bad and evil. At least tell the man you aren’t interested! Men are suffering due to ghosting! But also, don’t put him down when rejecting him. Men have to suffer so much rejection, so their ego is easily hurt. Let him down gently!!

Oh, you did? Well let me mock you for being TOO nice and diplomatic about it 😂.

Damn I’m so happy I’m not dating anymore. Feels like no way to do it right.

I once saw a concept car for an EV at a trade fair and their selling point was that it had a sound system to realistically emulate engine noises. You could even pick among 50 or so cars it could emulate. As far as I remember the noises were only played inside.

So, I knew people who do all those things. Work long days, go to the gym, have their hobbies… What they also did is:

• have aspouse who does all their chores
• Never do anything with said spouse
• Wonder why their second marriage is failing

Although a lot of them also claimed to only need 5 hours of sleep.

There are usually rules which license is valid in another country or you can demand an international driving license. For example you can drive with an EU driving license in the US for up to a year.

I hardly ever go out other than drinking but going out is such a huge part of all society. I’ve always refused to go out with colleagues because I can’t expect a team of work colleagues to always go to the one restaurant I know is save. Have you got any ideas how many fights with superiors and HR that got me in because “that’s part of the work culture and team spirit” and I’m always “the complicated one”? Restaurants aren’t just a luxury. As I said, I hardly ever go out, but try having any career when you’re the only one who never joins for work lunches or after-work dinner. Or your friends birthday. Or the meeting of the friendgroup.

Going out to eat is deeply ingrained in our culture and it has serious effects on your social life if you refuse to do it.

Most cafés don’t, but I like to go to the smaller ones, not the big chains, and they can sometimes get very creative with almonds or hazelnut deco. It’s not the majority, but I don’t like to waste food so I always ask.

I don’t know, as someone with a nut allergy I don’t get why this is supposed to be funny. This is just my everyday life. Especially salad often has nuts like walnuts or almonds as decoration so it’s one of the foods where I have to be extra careful. Just like I always have to follow a coffee order with “no nuts, please”, because coffee is often decorated with almonds. The tweet makes it sound like asking for no nuts on a salad is as outlandish as thinking there might be a bee in the steak, but walnuts, cashews or almonds are pretty common decorations on salads.

I don’t know where you’ve been but most libraries I’ve seen in Germany have little carts where you put the book you don’t want to check out. Our university library even had signs asking to please put books on the carts and not reshelve them yourself.

That’s why you write it in white on a white background. A human can’t see it but the computer will.

I didn’t drive for many years because I always lived in cities with good public transport. When I drove again for the first time in 2021 I was shocked by how basically everyone went 10 over. I really feel this has gotten way worse in the last 20 years. Going 60 where the speedlimit is 50 seems to be the rule, not the exception nowadays.

Signatures were so silly but fun. I doubt you could do something similar today. Too many people are so cynical and would dismiss it as stupid. Back then you could be more silly on the internet without immediate backlash of people putting you down.