ValiantDust @ ValiantDust @feddit.org

Posts

0

Comments

148

Joined

1 yr. ago

I'm not USian and to me it sounds absolutely unreasonable. As in who would even think of gifting someone they at most barely know more than the flowers and chocolate for their birthday. As an average college student you wouldn't even be expected to gift 100$ (or € in my case, but they're close enough) at a wedding where I live.

But I guess the culture about gift giving is very different here, so I guess I should leave it to people from the US.

Yeah, they were probably just really irritated or even scared.

Also it seems very dangerous unless it's some sort of breakaway thing. And even then really unnecessary.

Fetch it, pull it, stash it, pop it, add it, branch it, merge-commit it

Push it, clone it, move it, diff it, log it, stage it, hard-reset it

Technolo-git

It's a relief to read that, I was having a severe culture shock there for a moment.

Does this egg-washing thing Americans do mean you have to keep them refrigerated even if they are hard-boiled? Because where I live you can keep hard-boiled eggs for days or even weeks even at room temperature. I never heard of anyone just throwing away the eggs they hide for kids. You hide them, the kids find them, you put them in the fridge, you eat them.

Edit: I don't know if you added the part about refrigeration later or I just missed it before. That answers my question. I guess it makes sense because the shell will be porous. Wow, I never considered this affects easter customs.

Wait, do people just throw away the eggs?

For what it's worth, while there certainly are public bathrooms with stalls from floor to ceiling, the most common design does have gaps between the floor and the stall (at least here in Germany). Just not as big as the gaps in the US. You'd have to get uncomfortably close to the floor of a public bathroom to see anything. And no gaps between the door and the walls.

Others here have already made a lot of good points, so I just want to add one I haven't seen addressed yet.

Having only one friend or one group of friends can be "dangerous", because what happens when you lose them? I know, this is not something we like to think about, but people have accidents or get sick or die suddenly or you have a huge argument or... And then you have no one to turn to to help you to deal with the situation.

If you have several "independent" friends or friend groups, you have a much stronger support network. You have someone else to turn to, even if it's just for venting about problems with your other friends. For me personally this kind of social security – knowing I won't ever have to deal with things on my own – is very important and reduces a lot of my anxiety about the future.

On a side note this reasoning also applies to maintaining friendships during a relationship.

I also have very good color vision.

For me it heavily depends on the context. For example I have spent some time working out a color palette for my wardrobe, so now the colors I use there are heavily associated for me.

Without any context, it's similar to your grouping, except for the second group: oranges go nearly all to the reds, yellows go to the greens, browns go to black and greys.

That's neat. Makes me wonder, if we had another word for Nein in German as well at some point. If so, I'm sad we dropped it.

It's always nice to learn the ways English and German diverged at some point, like English dropping the -st ending for verbs for the second person singular. I. e. "thou hast" ("du hast"), "thou thinkest" ("du denkst").

"Doch" is used to negate a negative question. So basically you are saying "Yes, I am afraid.", but in one word. (Or is the correct negation "No, I am afraid."? It's really very confusing in English.)

I think it does make a difference. When the parties are voted for before forming the coalition, you know exactly how many people supported them and their policies. Then the coalition is negotiated based on that. If you form the coalition first, then only the majorities inside the coalition matter for who has the most say, you have no way of knowing what's important to the voters.

I know this is just a joke, but he very much meant to cut us all off. He changed his number his stage name, because he didn't want to be a famous artist.

Me: hits return.

Word: "Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE."

Me: "That's nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before." Hits delete.

Word: "Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before."

Me: "No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele..."

Word: "Why of course!"

Me: "Shit, it's gone. Undo! Hmm... Move the thingy here on top?"

Word: "Move all the lines you say? No problem!"

Me: "Nvm, I'll just indent everything by hand with spaces."

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a satire of Gothic novels in general, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe in particular. Several others are referenced by name in the story and for many of them it's probably the only reason they are even remembered today.

Are other people allowed to hear our song when we play it? If so, I choose Macarena and then sell my attendance at parties and weddings and so on.

Just livin the goth life.

Let me phrase it this way: If someone I was dating said this to me, I would run as fast as I can. And my first concern wouldn't be that they might commit a war crime somewhere.

No. Just Istanbul, not Constantinople.

No, I need more empty jars! What else should I put in all those neat empty boxes I collected?