Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "DW News" channel.

  1. As long as you have something, you only realize the disadvantages. The advantages you realize when you lost it.
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  2.  @88mphDrBrown  but only 49%. It's plenty, but not enough
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  3. You can also take any other smaller unit, like the city of Manchester, and say "they voted differently". This is not how democracy works. All votes are equal. To analyse subgroups is pointless and meaningless.
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  4. @Slavic Melody The people were never lost. Just anybody in the world was trying to get in contact and gave a search request. Most often only the phone was broke .. so contact was lost. It's not so spectacular. The haven't found people under debrie. They found them sitting in their garden or sleeping at their friends place. It's just not everyone knows where everyone is.
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  5. Uniquly hard data protection and a deep fear of hardware attacks is preventing everything. It's not so much the missing professionals (I'm one of them), they are just not allowed to do anything. There are so many people who have to degree a decision, it's mindblowing. Federalism is really a handicap. It's like each city is going to develop it's own software. A huge waste of money to implement a solution 100 times, for having 100 incompatible systems in the end.
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  6.  @lenawagenfuehr53  Leaving appears sometimes as more attractive, cause you don't need to find a compromise. It's actually just consequent, to say "we want to stay in both".
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  7. There always have been bad years, once in a while
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  8. Nobody denies the problem. There is just a debate about the solutions. From building bridges to closing borders.
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  9. With 16 federal states, there is always one election somewhere. Of course international perception is not so high, but actually voters don't make a huge difference from state to nation.
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  10. You can learn the language, but for everything else there are no schools. You cannot invite yourself at a local family for christmas, to see what's going on there. This must be a mutual process. Also locals learn just by watching and it takes about 15 years (the entire childhood) to learn and to copy behaviour from others. You can't expect from others to be faster.
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  11. Absolutly not, so far payments have not been raised, the payoff has been reduced, and the length of payment (begin of pension) is in discussion.
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  12. Don't prohibit people to laugh. Could be just a matter of politeness and friendlyness, when talking with somebody.
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  13. Somebody born in 1970 , beeing 50+ is definitly not one from the baby boom. Showing solidarity and being forced to solidarity are also different pair of shoes. The gap is more from educated rational people, to more emotional people, this might correlate with age to some degree, but is not the dividing property.
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  14. But that's they way they want it themselves. They don't reproduce.
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  15. Depends on what you consider rare. Every 10 years maybe, and everytime an other area. Cause it's rare and a surprise, people are not prepared.
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  16. It's mainly data protection. One authority is literally forbidden, to share it's data with another authority. The citizen has to pass things manually, in order to have "full control" on who has access to your data.
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  17. It's just a cultural difference, to joke with friends, not with strangers. Somewhere else in the world you might start conversation with being funny.
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  18. And the bad thing for Germans: The word is the same as for "Excuse me". Now they don't know when to use sorry, and when Excuse me.
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  19.  @donuts564  'you're welcome' has more the meaning of "gern geschehen" and only in reply to "Danke". A dialog like "Bitte - Danke - Bitte" would be silly. The Bitte in front of Danke has more the meaning of "here you are" or "There you go".
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  20. it actually means, tearing down a tree.hitting is more anfahren.
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  21. You can suspect any bridge or tunnel to be a target. We cannot stop building anything, due to this fear.
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  22. If you go south towards Berlin, ferry to Rostock is still faster.
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  23. You got the idea of construction. But you miss the idea of skipping all the "of" and "for" and "the". But you do the same in English, just most often with two words only. like frontdoor, backstage, ghostwriter, stakeholder. That's quiet common actually.
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  24. Karre = Car, it's fully germanic. Automobile is Latin.
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  25. Most of them stay with friends and have just not registered where they are. Or they lost their cellphone. So somebody is searching.
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  26.  @tapashaviator  And if you live 3 miles away from the next settlement, they roll out a cable just for you, and you pay $50 for this ? I mean this cable might cost 10.000$. If you come up with 10 clients paying 50$ each, maybe somebody starts thinking about investing. Not before.
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  27. There is nothing like illegal registration. As soon as you register yourself somewhere, you cannot be illegal any more.
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  28. Maybe, but's it's rather regional, maybe also generation dependent.
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  29. But Titanic started in Southampton.
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  30. No, nobody is shooting, you can walk outside after the water has gone. You know when it's over.
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  31. Maybe a few houses are not rebuilt, but not entire villages. There is not enough space to relocate them. And nobody knows how likely it is to happen again, if it happens in 100 years again, you can build a house meanwhile.
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  32. It's asked too much, not to laugh any more. Might be unpolite to talk with others, while the president is speaking.
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  33. OMG, stop watching before you die.
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  34. This has nothing to do with energy politics. And there are more mines closing then opening.
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  35. A laser is hardly used as a lamp or for illumination. Trooper, Spotlight, Searchlight .. you never use a laser for that.
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  36. That's all totally serious !
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  37.  @prophetsspaceengineering2913  Dont look at the absolute measures, look at the trends, the gains and loss. Suddenly you will see more similiarities ;-)
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  38. That's already the case for a change of constitution I think. Probably nobody had thought the EU is as essential as the constitution. It actually is.
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  39. You need to be aware of a need of a transition plan. Probably they thought it's like quitting an insurance. You don't really need a transition plan.
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  40. it's a tool, and a flower, shaped like the tool ;-)
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  41. One is the french import, the other one the english import.
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  42.  @sectorgovernor  It is common, but people don't have a feeling of "Europe", a flood in Germany is a flood in Germany, and there is no difference if another flood is in Romania or Scotland or Australia or Missippi, it's abroad and far away. The feeling of "here" and "home" is not "Europe". There is no identity of the continent. Maybe it slowly changes.
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  43. Well water or Internet, it's there, or it's not there. It does not need constant upgrades, as the internet does. But by time , during 30 years, every street have been opened at some point and putting some cables in, should have been easy. It's still just, nobody wants to pay for it. Not the clients, Not the phone companies, not the communities.
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  44. Howabout Tom gave a TomTom to Tom.
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  45. That could come out sarcastic or cynic, if you tell this a German.
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  46.  @T-Bone99  In Austria it's OK. They are aware they don't speak german. But germans are not. For them, at least you have to say Hochdeutsch, to mean the same.
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