My boyfriend and I were once snapped at during a family gathering because we dared to eat corn on the cob at a barbecue. The argument was something like, "A barbecue is only for meat, everything else is just greens, and the Greens (a german political party) want to ban our schnitzel!!!!1!1!" There's simply nothing else occupying these people's minds anymore—every topic, no matter how unrelated, somehow always gets dragged back to ThE gReEnS, CoViD vAcCiNaTiOnS, or whatever else.

Not my story but from my boyfriend. In English class they were supposed to write a review about a movie. He wrote a negative one about The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan. First she argued that "iceberg" is not an english word (this took place in Germany) and that he should instead use "icy mountain" they had to look it up in a dictionary to convince her otherwise and then she took points away because "why would you write a review about something and not recommend it".

I'd argue that they got divorced because they were shit people and then they couldn't cope and became more shitty or their initial shitness was projected more outward

Ich glaube das soll eine Anspielung sein an diesen Skandal wo irgendein KI-Geschäftsführer durch eine Küss-Kamera beim Fremdgehen erwischt wird.

I'm german I can only offer you Eisberg

The protests in Berlin are not the only ones. According to rather conservative police estimates since beginning of this year around 870.000 people throughout Germany protested against the right shift/Afd and that would be around 1% of the whole population of the country.

Volksverpetzer is a german online medium that deals with fact checks and criticism of disinformation, especially from right wing circles.

motherlode

I have a boring Wifi name and everyone around too, but this reminds me that I was once sitting on the train and was watching a video with bluetooth headphones in and texting with my friends and some jerk constantly tried to connect to my phone via bluetooth. A pop up window constantly asked me if I wanted to connect to this other guy's phone and since I was texting I came close to misclicking on 'yes' more than once. Then I renamed my phone to FuckOff and he got the message, since then all my phones are called FuckOff.

I recently saw a video of a girl being able to spell words backwards really fast and the way it was described is that she just saw the text of the word in her mind and just read the letters backwards. That is so fascinating to me because that is just so so far from how my brain works, I don't see shit.

Not that obscure, but most orange cats are male since the orange gene is tied to the x-chromosom, so male cats only need one copy to appear orange. Female cats have to have the orange gene on both x-chromosom to be fully orange.

And usually only female cats can be calico/tortoise since the orange gene is co-dominant, so if they only have one copy of the orange gene both the orange and black will be visible.

A seemingly male calico/tortoise cat is usually intersex and sterile.

I hate it when people put a space before periods and commas , yet it’s something I often notice with older people .

As a kid I used to lucid dream a lot. I would purposely imagine myself in a world or scenario that I wanted to dream of and when I fell asleep while having those thoughts I would lucid dream. It was fairly easy for me, but for some reason I can't anymore. I rarely even remember my normal dreams.

depends on the breed of chicken it can range from 80 to up to 300 eggs per year

This one

Holy shit I misread that too and was sooo confused

I'm here since the API stuff on Reddit, haven't posted a lot there, haven't posted a lot here but at least I'm not supporting Reddit through my daily use anymore. Though when I really need some information that I can only find on Reddit I'm not gonna not use it.

A really good friend got me a Le Creuset dutch oven for christmas and I got another used one for relatively cheap and I really love them. I would never buy them new, but they are really well made and I've managed to bake some nice sourdough bread with them.

Everything that came before the Gameboy and most consoles. My parents had an weird arbitrary rule about my sister and me not being allowed to have consoles but Gameboy or later Nintendo DS were fine. And as a kid I wasn't really aware of the existence of PS Vita or PSP so those I'm also not really nostalgic for.

Tbh vanilla from a very specific small ice cream shop in Germany. I don't like vanilla from pretty much anywhere else, there are good flavours in other shops but when I'm visiting my parents I have to go there and get the vanilla. Maybe it's nostalgia but it's my favourite and I don't know what to do if they ever have to close.

Für Leute mit Pollenallergie soll das auch gut sein, besonders wenn der Imker wirklich nah im Umkreis vom eigenen Wohnort ist.