idiomaddict @ idiomaddict @lemmy.world

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I just started teaching German, which is so freeing because I finally feel like my bizarro grammar obsession is not only useful, but also welcome. The other aspects of my audhd are not as great while teaching, but you can’t win them all.

That’s actually fair. I had effective coping skills for my shit which the pandemic removed, and which I have as yet been unable to replace with equally societally accepted alternatives, is a better way to put it. Damn, I wasn’t expecting to develop empathy for myself and others through a post on c/memes, but there it is

I had my shit together for almost a full year, but then the pandemic hit. I used to think nobody had their shit together, so I didn’t feel as bad about it

That is JFK.

Holesome?

Beans and rice. I fry onions, bell peppers, garlic, and chili in a pot (sometimes carrots, celery, or leeks), add tomato paste and rice, and after a few minutes of toasting the rice, I add vegetable broth and cook until the rice is done. Then I add cooked beans (I use black beans, pinto beans, or black eyed peas at about a 2:3 ratio of beans to rice), spices, and sometimes tomatoes or nutritional yeast, depending on my mood and grocery stock. I serve it with lime, vegan cheese, or fried onions.

You might want to look into lentil-oat mixes for even cheaper mince substitutes. You can make it yourself and season it with no beef bouillon and it’s a high protein, high fiber, cheap and tasty option. It’s more time intensive, but it’s mostly passive cooking time.

Eh

I work at a bakery and teach German classes (in Germany). One of my students came in the other day and I made her a sandwich to order, which I felt 100% normal about, but my bakery manager felt awkward about. The student seemed to feel a little weird too, but she ordered it, lol.

Then she missed my class later that afternoon -_-

To fish is angeln, Anglo Saxon is angelsachsen, and German memes get passed through the translation process a little too much

Yeah, that’s exactly the spirit in which I use chivalry!

For anyone else who’s learning something new today. That’s generally what I practice, though I tend to think of it as a form of chivalry. I’m a woman ish, but I like the idea of decoupling chivalry from gender roles and treating everyone with more care than is typical. Plus, sexist men hate nothing more than having a woman hold the door or offer to carry something heavy for them.

As an immigrant with all the love in my heart: yes.

That would kill me. I realized that the computer rounds down when calculating our employee discount (we get 50% off, but if something ends in x.x5, we pay x.x2/x.x7, whereas other customers paying for half a loaf of bread would pay x.x3/x.x8) and I’ve been exploiting that since.

I guess this comment section has been a learning experience because I realized that I am exactly the same as that customer.

If it helps, it was a price ending in a different digit. It ended in six, he gave me seven cents, and wouldn’t accept my offer of his two cents back and I’d be happy to pay the difference personally. He wanted to pay exactly what he owed, which is his prerogative.

The price of our plain Brötchen is indivisible by five, which means I get to impress the shit out of people with very basic mental math, but we do have to mess with the fiddly coins. Normally people are a little embarrassed and grimace while waiting for a tiny amount of change, but this guy was chilling. Honestly, more power to him.

I work at a bakery in Germany that’s open on sundays (most things are closed). Yesterday was absolutely flooded because of Mother’s Day and we kept running out of coins.

I had a man wait over five minutes before I was able to give him his change of one cent. I wish I were so in charge of my finances.

Side note: the translation you chose for bill was not one of the two I was thinking of (Schein as in currency and Rechnung), which reminded me of when my student asked why there were two words for receipt and I listed off five and just had to apologize

Ah fuck

I mean, Zangendeutsch really takes it to another level with the absolute commitment though