Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1.  @steveg8102  There are pumpkins in Germany. There are actually 5 different words for it in German, with I think kürbis being most common. However, you’re right that there was no German equivalent when the Penn Dutch moved to America. The gourd only became popular in Europe later.
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  2.  @steveg8102  So we must understand that the nursery rhyme in question is English in nature. It was first recorded in London in the late 1790’s. The translation in this video isn’t even close to the original rhyme, which speaks of a man locking away his wife (yes, it’s very dark.) That means the translation was actually closer to an interpretation, and as “pumpkin-eater” was a curse in Ole England, likely cat-eater was used as it was a similar curse in Germany - katzen fresser.
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  3. That’s a hell of a concept to a child.
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  4.  @erinh7450  A “cat-eater” is a common German derogatory term, very similar to the old English “pumpkin-eater”.
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  5. Correct! Hinkel is the word for a chicken or chick in Palatinate and Rhein-Main. It comes from the Middle High German word hünkel (chicken). It’s also a fairly common German surname.
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  6.  @Joe-gb3lu  In my opinion there really is no defense in her case here. The plaintiff had full legal rights to the trademark. Feli had none. Feli wanted to negotiate in good faith. The other side didn’t want to negotiate at all. If Feli was to press and fight, she could have gotten more favorable terms, but I doubt that Youtube pays her enough to do that and pay for life’s expenses. Plus, the outcome would have still been the same, but with far more stress and expenses. You should fight when you truly believe you can win (not should win). If not, just walk away. The fact that Felicia doesn’t want to discuss her financial state or specifics on here is understandable. I think she’s made it clear that she still wants to have a private life.
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  7.  @Joe-gb3lu  Not necessarily. There are financial considerations involved for Feli as well. Lawyers can drag procedures out and the costs for their services add up quickly at $500/hr.
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  8.  @GeckoHiker  Just because something originated somewhere doesn’t mean it’s not cultivated elsewhere. Soybeans are native to East Asia, but is one of the top crops grown in North America. Tomatoes are from North America, but are synonymous with Italy. Peppers are from Mexico, but are the top food of Hungary. Yams are native to the Americas, but are a top crop in China. You literally can’t find a country on this planet where potatoes aren’t grown. Pumpkins have been popular and cultivated in Europe for centuries.
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  9. That’s great, considering it was written when 99.999% of Dutch people were of one race and one ethnicity.
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  10.  @bheehive4497  He’s only shaming the other side for being inconsiderate, in a very specific circumstance. Nothing wrong with that. Being a responsible adult is a part of life, whether you like it or not.
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  11. Frisians and West Saxons created Old English by migrating to Anglia.
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  12. Basically, Servus is used everywhere the Hapsburgs were in charge.
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  13.  @urty24  I believe trademarks are far simpler. You either have one or you don’t. Their biggest issues are infringement or something being too similar like, “German girl in America” versus “A German girl in America”.
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  14. I think these are individual traits and not cultural ones. The fact is that legal things are tricky because they are very specific, yet conditional, contextual and often subjective at the same time. Because of this, lawyers will often remind their clients that the less they say the better, as to create less chances of doing something wrong. Since the German culture is less litigious than the English common law culture, perhaps Germans are less aware of these things, but personalities of people definitely play into this more.
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  15. Kris2510 Not nearly as big as it used to be. WhatsApp never took off because in the US, SMSs have been included into plans for over 20 years, but in Europe, they made data cheaper than SMSs.
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  16.  @WilliamCooper-l6f Unless you regularly land and take off on a carrier there is no point in that training. You have to keep up the practice to do it successfully because a lot of it is muscle memory and feeling.
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  17. In the United States, Credit Card agreements require lending banks (credit card bank) to forgive fraudulent transactions and return the money to the customer when a legitimate complaint is filed and investigated. They purchase insurance for such things and consider it a simple cost of doing business. They also have much stronger anti-theft protocols than you think, including algorithms that look into your purchasing history, amounts and locations. When it comes to debit cards/checks, there are a lot fewer protections from fraud. If someone hacks your debit card and you don't report it within a few days, you may very well lose whatever amount you were taken for. They will shut down further debits and issue you a new card, but the money that's lost may be lost. The same with checks. Unless they track down the thief and find definitive evidence of fraud, you likely won't see that money back. That is why Americans are more prone to using credit cards than debit cards/checks. At the same time, technology implementation is much more difficult in the United States due to so many states having different laws for commerce, federal laws for interstate commerce, a HUGE amount of independent businesses and the overall attitude of the government not getting involved in business until it absolutely has to. Mandating a form of payment is not an option, like it may be in smaller countries. You cannot make a small business owner invest in particular technology. Checks didn't need any technology. They are paper. That said, businesses are moving to more technological systems on their own and you will RARELY see checks used in places like grocery stores anymore.
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  18. Growing up, I remember Sunday afternoons being filled with Airwolf, Knight Rider and The A-Team, back to back to back.
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  19.  @jongordon7914  I’m not wrong because this is well-known and well-recorded HISTORICAL fact. Study history instead of watching YT, then come back and argue HISTORY and LANGUAGE. The term isn’t a “misnomer”. The word “Dutch” is in itself simply a mispronunciation of the word “Deutsche”. There is no other linguistic explanation for the word “Dutch”. There is no Dutchland. Never was one. The language is Nederlands. The word “Dutch” is English. Just like there are no “Naples” or “Moscow” or “Warsaw” or even “Germany.” The English language has a knack for mispronunciation of proper nouns. “German” is derived from the Latin “Germanus” or “Germani” which Roman Julius Caesar called tribes from Northeastern Gaul (modern France). The ironic thing is that those peoples were neither Latin nor Germanic as we know it. The point is: Absolutely those immigrants called themselves and their language “Deutsche” and as there was no Dutchland nor a language that called itself “Dutch”, we know for a FACT that the English simply invented “Dutch” from “Deutsch”. We know for a fact that despite being from a certain region (Hesse, Palatinate, etc.) the people living there did consider themselves Deutschen Volk and their language was called “Deutsche” by them themselves. Yes, a dialect, but still Deutsche.
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  20.  @jesusdavis2941  I did say that you can be any race and still be hispanic, which is why “non-white hispanic” exists. Although “hispanic” or Latin American” isn’t really a race. It’s a place of birth so to speak.
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  21. The federal government has no power to regulate that. That’s why each state does its own thing.
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  22. Erik Jensen If the deposit was $.25 you’d see a big difference.
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  23. Dr. Lipschitz No, not true. Most recycling programs are municipal, not state.
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  24. Public housing that includes 3 meals a day? How’s prison life treating you?
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  25.  @thomaskalbfus2005  Don’t worry. There are a lot of people and technology that keeps tabs. And as a veteran, I can assure you that trolls like you are as common as any Al Qaeda, because you’re exactly the same: religious sociopathic extremists.
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  26. Rick Noppenberger The conversation is about merchants and Paypal charges sellers 2.9% + $.30 USD per transaction. That’s according to their website, as of May 2019.
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  27.  @thomasganszky8831  I have. Now your turn. READ, don’t yap.The Vienna Convention of 1961 provides specific status to foreign missions that do not permit the host country to even enter the premises.
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  28. MediumJohnSilver Soda machines are the reason. PepsiCola and Coca-Cola distributed soda concentrate machines all over the US soon after eliminating glass bottles. That made the drinks cheap. Europe never got them and still usually serve sodas from bottles/cans.
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  29. Yes, but dark ales are supposed to be drunk at room temperatures. They lose their flavo(u)r as they get colder and it's not like they're fizzy anyway.
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  30.  @juliebraden  They can lie. It’s not illegal to lie unless you’re under oath. We have to separate the legal stuff from the non-legal stuff in arguments. Just because you’re following the law doesn’t mean you’re being ethical. The reverse is true as well. Do I think Karen and Kevin are being ethical? No. Do I think they’re within their legal rights? Yes. I’m guessing Felicia’s lawyer told her the same thing. 🤷‍♂️ To be honest, Feli’s going to be better off with this not hanging over her head in the long run anyway. I just hope she registers her new brand.
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  31. Bavaria is to Germany what Texas us to the United States. Very proud, unique, county-ish, and independent-minded. You’re as likely to see the Bavarian flag flying as you are a German one (or more) and their dialect and culture may be closer to Austrian than the standard German. Bavaria was its own country until not so long ago.
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  32. German Girl in America Oh no... not on a private house. Germans are not inclined to do that, especially after WW2. Just brings up sensitive images. I mean on big buildings, hotels, etc. Bavaria being its own kingdom is it being its own country. There is a Bundesdeutches Hochdeutsch, but you’re right, it’s not all that standardized. I mean... to a foreigner’s ear... it’s not all that varied, but you definitely see differences between speech in Hamburg and München, for example. America is worse though.
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  33. I'd like to consider the actual way young people meet and begin dating today, in the internet/app generation versus what we see in the old movies. Few people have standard dates that you're describing. That's especially true of dating in large cities. Chivalry isn't as common as it used to be 20-30 years ago. Gender equality is a major consideration in dating nowadays. Many relationships move at their own pace in America as well. It also has to do with the fact that young Americans are traveling and living abroad at a record level. They're learning other ways of doing things. That said, a common complaint among many Northern European women is that they'd like to be treated like a woman for a change. Perhaps there's some nostalgia about the way things were back in the days and perhaps it's rooted in American television, but each person likes different things. Remember, Germany, for the most part, is still a fairly homogenous nation and influenced by Lutheran traditions. America was never homogenous. It is an absurd amalgam of everything.
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  34. T Dog Routing numbers are bank identifiers. They are for processing payments electronically, from your bank account. The number simply says what bank and region of the bank it’s for. For example, mine is for TD Bank in the NYC metro area. All TD accounts in this area have the same routing number. Credit cards don’t have them and cannot be used to pay off loans. That would only rotate the debt, not pay it.
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  35. Nothing about this is a legal issue of immigration status or nationality. She simply owns the brand name. She can own hundreds of them if she wants to.
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  36. Yes, we all know this from WW2.
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  37. Juliette Ceku You can’t receive paychecks illegally. Checks are traceable. People who get paid illegally, get paid in cash, not checks, and thus don’t need check cashing places.
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  38.  @jongordon7914  That’s false. The German language predates the unification of Germany as one nation by many centuries. Luther’s bible was in Deutsche and he preached the use of the language above Latin in 1522. While the Standard High German wasn’t standardized until 1901, the area of modern Germany spoke three major Early New High German dialects for about 400 years prior to that. They were basically the Northern, Central and Southern. They were all considered “Deutsche”. So while these immigrants didn’t consider themselves from Deutschland (as there wasn’t such a country yet), they did consider themselves “Deutsche” as a German people and they certainly spoke Deutsche. In fact, the word “Dutch” is a misnomer as the people from the Netherland speak Nederlands. “Dutch” is an English word for Nederlands because the British couldn’t figure out the difference between the various Germanic groups or their languages. They just called everyone “Dutch”, a butchered pronunciation of “Deutsch” (German). Calling Central European ethnic groups “Germanic” is still a thing in the English language, and predates Germany as a nation by thousands of years. Germanic tribes invaded ancient Rome.
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  39.  @amsel_in_defense  No, the point of the video is cultural differences. Did you not see the map shown in the video???? Stop Karening so hard! I’m circumcised and have never been “dry”, “chapped” or anything like that, not know anyone who has. There is no secretion there to lubricate! “A man who had his girth cut off”?! That says EVERYTHING about you.
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  40.  @vanillawow1403  That’s false. This custom is mostly in Muslim and Jewish countries. Russia, China… all outlaw religion, so certainly they’re not customs there. Jews and Muslims, no matter where they live, all practice the custom. It is not a political thing.
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  41. Sven Lm We (the US) got that from the UK and all our products are labelled in both measurements.
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  42.  @ChiKk116  Ethnicity isn’t race. Race is a much broader category. Since you are a light-skinned European you would select “white” or “caucasian.”
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  43.  @Lia-uf1ir  The term “race” isn’t connected to the Nazis. Why don’t you look it up? Also, no, not all outside of Africa have Neanderthal DNA. Denisovans weren’t Neanderthals. Many Asian and Pacific Island groups have zero Neanderthal genes.
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  44.  @lukecole5056  The category “non-white hispanic” exists because you can be white and from a Latin American country.
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  45. Erik Jensen In contrast, New York takes only a 5 cent deposit, so most people recycle or throw away their bottles/cans without going to the machines. Some states have no deposit or municipal recycling programs, so they throw everything away.
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  46. SiriusMined Ever wonder why? Most banks have free checking accounts.
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  47. NEVER the breed. ONLY the feed. The breed does determine the size and color of the egg shells though.
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  48.  @Dreaded88  You’re incredibly daft, sorry. Freedoms aren’t an all or nothing thing. Every place has limitations on speech. EVERY. SINGLE. PLACE. You even alluded to one of the limitations in the U.S. There are others. Verbal assault, slander, etc. are commonly enforced within civil and criminal courts. Germany may have limitations that aren’t in place in the US, but may be more relaxed with others. The point is that in Germany, you are free to speak, as long as it does not, OBJECTIVELY, denigrate others.
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  49.  @quintrankid8045  The decision is upon the courts. There are things that are objectively true or false, and can be proven. You choosing to deny or ignore that doesn’t change it. If a person is a psychopath (unable to distinguish right from wrong), it doesn’t mean they don’t objectively hurt others.
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  50. Grass/flowers has lots of carotenes, so orange pigmentation and grains have lots of xanophylls, which are yellow pigmentation. Corn has neither, so a pure corn meal diet will make colorless yolks. North America has more grain than pastures, so the feed is primarily oat/wheat, for most farm animals, including chickens. That’s why we’re used to yellow yolks. Europe has more grass plains and less grain, so their cows and chickens live off of grass/alfalfa.
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  51.  @thomasganszky8831  That’s false. Embassies, consulates and missions are LEGALLY considered to be territory of the nation they represent. This status is inferred by diplomatic agreements when they are set up and by diplomatic law, a section of international law.
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  52.  @peterking2651  RAF bases and US bases in Germany have different legal statuses. RAF are still installation hosts and while there are sections that require them to have permission to enter, MoD police generally have access to the facilities. They may need to be escorted, but they cannot be denied access. In Germany, US installations today are owned and operated by the US under NATO agreements and regulated by forces agreements. The German police have very limited access and jurisdiction on a US base in Germany - very little. They do not get access without permission.
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  53. German Girl in America I have AT&T as well. I’ve noticed it too. They conserve their bandwidth that way. Stupid.
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  54. This is, to a large degree, the culture of YOUR university. I went to State University of New York at Buffalo for my first degree and you could absolutely not call any professor by their first name. Went to City University of New York for my second degree and there, as well, you could not call any professor by the first name. In general, in America you call your professor "Professor 'last name'" Your school is an exception to the rule.
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  55.  @RansomGetty  No, they don’t. The cease and desist letter is a defense anyway.
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  56. The warm beer thing is NOT German. The people who are asking you are total idiots. The warm beer thing is British and it's sort of true. British Ales are often served at room temperature, traditionally. Lagers are served cold. Germany isn't a big Ale country, so it isn't a concept there. In fact, German bars are very specific about the temperature of the beer they're serving. I've been to Germany a few times (have family in Hamburg and Dortmund) and I've heard many comments about Americans, but nothing about Americans being "stupid". I think Germany is very regional when it comes to food, but Germans DEFINITELY eat as much sausage as Americans. Americans eat hot dogs. Germans eat currywursts. It's drunk food. Mmmmmm.
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  57. It’s funny how little mutual intelligibility there is between the modern standard German and the Penn Dutch. I do wonder if a German from the 1800s would fare better, especially from the regions where they came from or if Penn Dutch was just so affected by the English. Also, I believe the Amish sort of separate themselves (the Germans) from everyone else, calling them “the English” and if you were to speak to them in German if they would accept you more.
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  58. She owns the brand name as she registered it. It has nothing to do with where one is actually from.
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  59.  @connatser89  Actually, it 100% is. The Hebrew word is “bavel” and the German, English, and other languages slang for talking takes after this tower, which condemned people to speak many different languages, so they can no longer coordinate to build a tower that can reach god. It’s how we know the Bible is stupid.
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  60. @akmelot shli You’re confusing it with Babylon (ba-vil). They’re all terms for the same thing. In Mesopotamian it was Bab-ilu. The confusion in the Bible that led to tying the word with confusion is the Hebrew word “balal”, which means “confusion.”
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  61. Actually, light lagers are supposed to be consumed at around 35 to 38 degrees F.
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  62. New York has a 5 cent deposit and you can recycle at home or return at the store to get your deposit back.
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  63.  @susannschwermer-mbaye6400  You are correct. His father was German and mother was Austrian-Slovene. He has a dual German-Austrian citizenship. However, his father died when he was just 7 and his step-father, who was Austrian, raised him.
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  64. It’s incredible how ignorant farmers can be regarding farming stuff. Just mind-blowing! While egg yolks do lose some of their color brightness over time, the actual reason is simply the difference in the feed. Xanophylls vs carotenes. Xanophylls make things yellow. Carotenes make things bright orange (like carrots!). Grains are rich in Xanophylls, while grasses and flowers have more carotenes. Both have zero effect on the nutrition and both chemicals belong to the family of Caratenoids. BTW, if you feed chickens only corn meal, the yolks will be colorless. As far as raw, versus pasteurized milk, the only difference is bacteria, good and bad. You lose some of the pro-biotic benefits, but also the dangerous bacteria that can kill you or make you violently sick. Unpasteurized milk was responsible for a large percentage of early deaths in the world until Pasteur came around. Homogenized milk is literally the exact same product, but shaken up to keep the cream spread throughout instead of just at the top.
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  65. All I can say is Trader Joe’s.
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  66. john dumas It’s not air. It’s nitrogen. It helps keep them fresh without preservatives.
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  67. Just got back from Austria, Czechia and Hungary. Recycling bins are sparse on the streets and everyone throws out all recyclables along with the garbage. I felt very uncomfortable doing it as we have a municipal recycling program in NYC.
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  68. Yup... in Russia too. You spend more money on your guests for your birthday in Russia than you ever get in presents (if you get any.) Makes no sense to me. My friends would never let me spend a dollar on anything on my birthday in the US. That’s the special treatment. I think that comes from the UK/Ireland traditions, though I’m not sure.
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  69. You do not.
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  70. PV1230 No... it isn’t and if you’re pronouncing “yoke” and “yolk” the same way, you’re doing it wrong.
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  71. stephen griswold You don’t have curbside recycling pick-up with your trash?
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  72. stephen griswold That’s terrible! I would complain at town hall meetings, hard!
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  73.  @proteus03  You are correct. The latter, all-beef version, came to the US with an immigrant from Frankfurt-Am-Main, who started selling them at a baseball stadium and they became very popular. Thus, all-beef hot dogs/sausages became known as “Frankfurters” or “Franks” in the US. The funny thing that most Americans don’t know is that before hot dog carts took over the streets in US cities in the middle 19th century, the most common street food in the US was Mexican tomales.
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  74. English came from ancient German.
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  75. Ideal serving temperature depends on the specific beer type and method of preparation. Thus, Ales are traditionally consumed at room temperature (they are brewed hot). Lagers are traditionally served just above freezing temperatures and are brewed cold. Other types of beers fall somewhere in the middle. Some of the issue is flavor and alcohol content, but much of it has to do with effervescence as well. As your beer gets warmer, it loses its natural gasses and that makes some beers less enjoyable. Ales are generally flat compared to lagers and Pilsners, Helles, Kolschs and wheat beers. Here are some examples of ideal storage/serving temperatures: 35–40°F (2–4°C): Mass market light lagers. 40–45°F (4–7°C): Czech and German Pilsners, Munich Helles, wheat beers, and Kölsch. 45–50°F (7–10°C): IPAs, American pale ales, porters, and most stouts. 50–55°F (10–13°C): Belgian ales, sour ales, Bocks, English bitters and milds, Scottish ales
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  76.  @EpochUnlocked  Exactly… the rich families paid off the clerks to choose their own name instead of having one given to them. They chose the prettier names. Blumenthal means flower valley, not blue valley. Blue is blau in German. Flower is blume. So a valley of flowers. Rosen are roses. So a mountain of roses. Greenspan is named after verdigris. None of those are after colors.
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  77. You got the green card because we knew we needed you during Covid. You’re staying. It’s settled.
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  78. T Dog Routing numbers have nothing to do with checks.
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  79. One thing to note in Europe… when getting fuel for a car, note that many cars use Diesel, so check what type you have. In the U.S. a Diesel fuel pump is green and gasoline is black. In Europe it’s the reverse: Diesel is black and Benzin (gasoline) is green.
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  80.  @christineperez7562  Exactly!
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  81.  @jongordon7914  Except you seem to lack basic IQ. Just because people before you are mispronouncing a word, doesn’t mean the followers of them are all of a sudden pronouncing it properly. Also, just because I watch YT videos doesn’t mean I get educated by them or reference them in collegiate discussions (I do not.) Your ad-hominem attacks when you run out of subject matter are noted, and sadly aren’t surprising. The English language word “Dutch” comes from a mispronunciation of the German word “Deutsche”. FULL STOP. PERIOD. The English dictionaries of the 1700s refer to “Dutch” as to “of the Netherlands”, after they became an independent state in 1648. It is only in the Americas that “Dutch” is used in references to Germans past that point, and even to today. You should look up this thing called “etymology.” It’s a real science, not a YT video. So to recap: Germans spoke Deutsche long before the unification of Germany and the English language word “Dutch” had already been used to refer to the Netherlands exclusively, except in the Americas, where people kept confusing “Deutsch” for “Dutch.” So while even in England “Dutch” stood for Netherlandish or German back up until the 1600s, after that it discerned between the Netherlands and German regions you “politely” call fiefdoms, even though the 1700s is FAR from feudalism. Those are historical FACTS, contrary to your opinion.
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  82. ThErANdoMSTRaNGeR you’re clearly into talking about things you don’t understand. Stop doing that. Xanthophylls and carotenes both belong to the same family of chemicals (caratenoids). Both give color to yolks from the diet. Xanthophylls create yellow while carotenes create orange. Both are present in plant life. Grasses and flowers have more carotenes, so the yolks are more orange. Xanophylls are are more concentrated in grains, which make yolks more yellow. Most chickens get a mixed diet. The ratio of one to the other is what dictates the final hue of the yolk. BTW, it has ZERO to do with the breed of the hen.
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  83.  @amsel_in_defense  Wow… that’s a lot of ignorance to unpack. Way too much for Youtube. I really do hope you take some biology classes though.
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  84.  @amsel_in_defense  This isn’t about your hate of all things American, is it? That’s pretty lame. The point is that none of what you’ve said is actually rooted in biology. If you have a personal preference for how men are (by the way, are men dictating theirs for female circumcision?), that’s fine, but to misstate facts is ridiculous.
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  85.  @amsel_in_defense  We can start with the US being the only country, which was your first statement. The “lubrication” statement is ridiculous as well. Also, sadly, female circumcision is still legal in some countries. Again, endless ignorance on your part. Please stop.
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  86. Meanwhile… my last time in Frankfurt am Main three years ago, I went to a famous traditional German restaurant just 10 minutes walk from the Hbf. I sat down and ordered an apple wine (as one should in Frankfurt) and decided to eat something light and healthy, as I had more travel ahead of me, but wanted something German. I ordered a “salad with beef”. Some greens would do me well. What came on a plate was a mix of strips of cured beed that looked like prosciutto and strips of beef that looked like döner meat, mixed with a few slices of pickled cucumbers, garnished with one cherry tomato split in half and three leaves of parsley. A side plate of three small boiled potatoes came too. That’s a German “salad with beef” folks! My wife almost died of laughter when she saw this put in front of me after I bragged about making a healthy decision in light of being in Germany.
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  87. States do not have banking regulatory regulations as banking is, by nature, an interstate commercial entity that uses the US federal currency. All banking regulations are federal. The restrictions you speak of are local commercial restrictions and not banking restrictions. They are also not “blue laws”.
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  88.  @DrewNorthup  One writer’s exploration doesn’t create facts. The one great thing about Germans is that they always documented everything, so we know, first hand, that what you and that psycho writer are factually wrong.
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  89.  @Lia-uf1ir  And we know thar Germans are always right??? Why don’t you look up the term “ignorance” while you’re at it. Categorization will always exist. “Germans” isn’t even a thing. It’s a political category, but you use it as an ethnicity.
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  90.  @DrewNorthup  Yes, you ARE done here. A neo-Nazi trying to excuse away Nazi actions is done before he even starts. Besides, that’s not at all what Wilkerson’s book (Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents) demonstrates. She simply makes parallels of multiple countries’ racial caste systems. It’s about how race has been used in India, America, Germany and indeed all around the world. It does NOT state that the Nazis were inspired by the US, although they did try to appeal to Americans in 1938-1940 via that route.
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  91. Can anyone explain why Munchen is called Munich in English? It's not any easier to pronounce or anything.
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  92. Vacuum cleaner is “пылесос” in Russian, which translates to… dustsucker!
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  93. Kansas???
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  94. The crême-de-la-crême of popcorn in the U.S. is actually cheese and caramel, mixed. Pools are common in warmer areas. As you’ve said, Cinci is pretty warm half the year. Cleveland has FAR fewer pools in comparison. They’re very expensive to install and maintain, so if you’re only using them 6 weeks a year, it becomes a huge luxury.
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  95. Irony: most US gun manufacturers are German in origin.
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  96. Todd Coolbaugh It’s not exceptionalism. The US is half a planet away from Europe and often had to develop its own standards at the sane time as Europe developed its own. You may not realize this, but communications took weeks between the two even 150 years ago.
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  97. Todd Coolbaugh today they are great, but the standards weren’t created today. They were created over 100 years ago. You’re trying to make a case for changing the standard now, and that’s a whole different issue. It would simply be too expensive and difficult to do that now. We’re too far in. In fact, switching to Celcius or the metric system would be easier than switching the paper sizes. Also, the US didn’t spearhead globalization.
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  98. What does conservatism or religion have to do with this? If anything, most conservatives hate jews and muslims.
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  99.  @scottkrametbauer90  You can argue all you want. You’ll get tickets for mowing your lawn on Sundays, until you get arrested and jailed for disregarding law. As far as ashes are concerned, they simply aren’t released to the family.
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  100.  @quintrankid8045  There are exceptions to everything, everywhere. That’s why legal justice systems exist.
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  101.  @quintrankid8045  There are 24 states currently which criminalize defamation.
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  102.  @kleckerklotz9620  And if you would argue that, you’d be laughed at since you don’t understand basic laws.
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  103.  @quintrankid8045  Actually, you’re not allowed to receive stolen or classified information, but the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution makes the publisher impossible to convict.
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  104.  @quintrankid8045  Only 13 states have criminal libel laws that are actually enforced: Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, Montana, New Hampshire, and North Dakota. Yes, they’re all rural, Republican states and that’s no coincidence. The ACLU is working hard to have these laws repealed. Look up “Frese v. MacDonald” (2018). The argument of the ACLU in New Hampshire is the vagueness of the statute, not its intent or enforcement. As a whole, the intent isn’t considered to be unconstitutional. However, many states have VERY specific statutes that would very rarely be used. For example, in Illinois someone can be prosecuted for publishing false and derogatory statements about a bank’s financial well-being. In Kentucky, their libel/slander statute protects only judges. Apparently 10-20 cases a year are prosecuted for criminal defamation around the country. The general concept is that the defamation must be contrary to facts known to the offender and malicious in nature in order to be prosecuted.
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  105.  @quintrankid8045  Generally, that’s true, except publishing classified material is still unlawful outside the context of prior restraint. They are also exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. This is for national security and counter-espionage purposes. Snowden is accused of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property. Chelsea (Brad previously) Manning was also convicted of same, and sentenced to 35 years. Assange is wanted by multiple governments for conspiracy charges in espionage as he enables it.
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  106.  @quintrankid8045  Actually, if you dig deeper, you’ll see that case wasn’t Mr Frese’s first offense under the statute, and he had a prior conviction from pleading guilty for same. The issue in New Hampshire, and they’re being sued by the ACLU, is that their statute isn’t specific enough. Nothing in the Constitution allows unfettered free speech. In fact, there are many types of restricted expression: fraud, obscenity, child pornography, incitement of lawless action, perjury, violation of intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial advertising. Defamation is also still a tort, which has to withstand the test of Constitutionality (and has). So the issue is not of it as a general legal matter, but rather of overly broad application through statute wording. That application and wording may be viewed as an overall encroachment onto protected free speech. In Gertz v Robert Welch, Inc. (1974) the Supreme Court has said that “there is no Constitutional value in false statements of fact.” The SCOTUS has established four specific areas where free speech is not protected: First, when false statements of fact are said with a “sufficiently culpable mental state”. This can be persecuted by civil or criminal means. Second, knowingly making a false statement can be punished (this is where defamation falls). Third, negligent false statements of fact may be torts. And lastly, some implicit statements of fact, with a false factual connotation, can also fall under the torts category.
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  107.  @thomaskalbfus2005  Actually, yes. It’s possible. Will they look into your records and keep a close eye on you? More likely than you think. Then any bad decision on your part can have that consequence, yes. You think you can live life without accountability? Go ahead, find out.
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  108. Cans warm up when outside. Nothing you can do about that. Lagers would never be served that way in a bar though.
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  109. Rick Noppenberger Nothing is free with Paypal.
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  110. Bryan Ohlsson Ok, so how is that different from Europe?
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  111. Bryan Ohlsson Right, so your explanation doesn’t explain the difference.
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  112.  @Nghilifa  In fact, by international law they are.
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  113. Feli… the only advice I can offer to you is to make sure you trademark the new name and just forget it happened.
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  114. There isn't one university, to my knowledge, that allows firearms on campus (except the police, of course).
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  115. Sean Lewis feed. Grain produces yellow. Grass produces orange.
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  116.  @pleegjepleegje  The Dutch ARE an ethnicity. 🤦‍♂️
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  117.  @ZipplyZane  It’s not at all in the US Constitution. You’ve very obviously never read it.
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  118.  @ZipplyZane  Again, it is NOT in the Constitution and courts’ interpretations in US Supreme Court rulings extend certain very specific protections that they believe may apply, but as the overturning of the Roe v Wade decision has proved, those rulings don’t actually provide any concrete protections. The Fourteenth Amendment abolished slavery and grants equal protection under the law, but it does not require laws to be written to give equal rights. This is how, for example, despite the 14th Amendment having been ratified in 1868, women could not vote until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, legal race segregation existed until 1968, and marriage wasn’t available to gay people until 2015. In fact, MOST civil rights protections that exist in the US today came into existence since 1968, and by codification, not the Constitution. That’s literally over 100 years after the 14th. Amendment was passed. Stop yapping. You have NO clue of what you’re talking about. You didn’t learn ANYTHING in high school.
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  119.  @ZipplyZane  ALL laws are still statutory. In common law nations, unlike in Napoleonic law nations, legal precedent guides to how those laws are applied. For example, you cannot be charged with a crime that is. not codified into law by a legislature, but the way you are charged may be dictated by the fact that other courts determined that what you did in fact breaks a specific statute. While courts do decide on applications of laws and interpret constitutions, those laws and constitutional do need to exist first. Courts are not empowered to write laws.
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  120.  @renedekker9806  Courts do create law, in a way. They apply existing statutes or constitutional clauses to situations which aren’t expressly covered by existing statutes, in effect creating new law (or expanding existing law if you prefer).
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  121.  @renedekker9806  The legislatures in the US do that constantly. I don’t know why you say it’s broken.
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  122.  @frankteunissen6118  It’s funny that you think that the few immigrants you have makes you “diverse”. It only underlines how monoethnic European countries are compared to North America.
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  123. Richard Steiner No... they’re very different.
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  124.  @glynnetolar4423  It’s their right to do that and it’s not “trolling”. I honestly don’t think you know what the word means. When you register your trademark, others aren’t allowed to do business under it. It’s pretty simple. It’s not scummy. It’s literally protection of your brand and it’s recognized the world over.
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  125.  @glynnetolar4423  No bull. Get an education before commenting.
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  126. Steven Nelson Yup! It’s proof that the US keeps feeding farm animals grain instead of grass, which is worse for the animals and humans. Grass/alfalfa produces orange yolks. Grain feed - yellow ones.
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  127. Ron Clark Thanks for the corny info. Just not sure why we’re getting that lesson. 🤷‍♂️
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  128. Ron Clark great, but it has nothing to do with the conversation.
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  129. Steven Nelson What are you talking about? No one is even talking to/about you? Is your name Ron Clark?
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  130. Ron Clark Dude... Are you high on the spectrum or something? This is about chicken eggs, not your stupid corn. What’s wrong with you?
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  131. While you are correct about the food storage traditions, things have changed in Germany in the last 20 years. They use the same brand and type of refrigerators as we do and they're set the same as well. People who live in cities don't have Kalt Kellers (cold cellars). The tradition of drinking ice cold beers in the United States is due to the tradition of brewing light lagers and pilsners in the United States. Americans simply preferred those light beers, which explains all of the major US brands of beer being light lagers. Light lagers and pilsners are brewed cold and served near freezing temperatures of up to 40F degrees, but no higher. Great Britain has a different tradition and that is of dark Ales. That tradition was the rule in the United States from before its inception to about the 18th century, when German immigrants came and established large breweries. Before that, most Americans brewed Ales, not lagers and they did it at home or at a pub. Those ales were consumed at room temperature or from a cold cellar, depending on the season.
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  132. Texasdeutsch - a language in the US. Deutschtexas - Bavaria
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  133.  @alukuhito  It’s an ancient Hebrew word (Semitic), not an Indo-European one.
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  134. Hitler didn’t ruin German’s reputation. Wilhelm II ruined it. Hitler just solidified the new reputation.
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  135. Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, which is a borough of NYC. Aside from it now being well-known as the hip part of Brooklyn, it also has a very large ultra-orthodox jewish population, mostly of Romanian origin.
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  136. False. In the 50’s and 60’s recommendations were 1500 mile changes. That changed in the 70’s when they went up to 3,000 miles, then 1990s when they went up to 5,000. In 2010s, full synthetic oils went up to 10,000 miles on many engines and some high performance engines now recommend them at 20,000 miles (they have higher oil capacities and filters).
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  137. @UCm8uDr0umDlF9JN7p9m31WA A Tesla has no engine oil, you moron. Oil only needs to warm up if it’s thick at low temps. If it’s a thin, light weight oil, it doesn’t need to be warmed up unless you’re in extreme cold temps (below 0°F). It’s light enough to flow freely as is. My Toyota recommends 0W-16. It doesn’t get much thinner than that.
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  138. Kaput must be common in German regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio because I’ve NEVER heard anyone use it in the US who’s older than the WW2 generation. I do know Russians use it quite a lot. I’m pretty sure everyone knows these are German words though. Stool and Stuhl are, in fact, related words. “Stool” comes from Old English, which is a Germanic language from the Anglo-Saxon family. It likely came from the Dutch “stoel” and German “stuhl.” The word used to mean a throne (royal seat), until the French-rooted “chair” relegated it and “stool” became reserved for basic, backless seats. It also now means a bowel movement (n.) because… you sit on a stool basically.
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  139. British Isles = Dark Ales. Warm fermentation without hops = a sweet, smooth taste with little gas. Continental Europe = Lagers, light ales, Pilsners, Wheat Beers, etc....all need to be served cold or even near freezing.
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  140. Odd78baLL Well... it does, actually. Apple and Android have very different approaches to apps, their development, marketing and strategic rollout.
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  141. Odd78baLL I’m 41 years old and live in NYC and while most people know of WhatsApp and others, most don’t regularly use them as their SMSs are free and data isn’t. In Europe, neither are free and data is cheaper than SMS, which is why they choose to use data-based communications.
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  142. Odd78baLL It’s the same here. The issue is that Europe didn’t see flat rate contracts until only a couple if years ago, because each country had its own set of rates and regulations, while in the US, SMSs have been unlimited for about 20 years now, while data is still limited for most US residents.
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  143. Well… all the German car company names are mispronounced, except maybe Audi, though that used to be mispronounced until about 15-20 years ago. There are also DHL, ThyssenKrupp, STIHL, and Wacker Chemical.
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  144. Eugene Street Nope. Just the type of diet. Breeds do affect sizes of eggs and colors of egg shells though. A grain diet will yield yellow yolks. A diet heavy in grasses and flowers will produce more orange yolks. It’s just a presence of pigmentation chemicals in the feed. If you raise a chicken on corn, the yolk will be pretty much colorless.
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  145.  @14eilonwy  Thanks for the unrelated lesson, Rain Woman? I am well aware of what pumpkins are and where they’re from.
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  146.  @loisavci3382  Sort of… more of a tease. Pumpkins weren’t glamorous food.
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  147. Andrea AM No... only the US and the UK.
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  148. “Sympathetic” in English has two meanings… Champagne refers to the French Champagne in every language. Ignorant people may not know that, but that’s ignorance, not a linguistic preference.
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  149. Considering that much of Germany was still in ruins back in 1966 and the average German couldn't afford much, it makes sense. Few people had refrigerators.
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  150. Rich Sawoszczyk I think they’re trying to say she speaks American English.
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  151. I’m a meat eater, but my favorite Austrian restaurant in Brooklyn serves an incredibly delicious celery root schnitzel and it’s so good and so unusual that I order it all the time instead of a regular Wiener or jägerschnitzel.
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  152. The trouble is that the Deutsche part of this language dies out every day by people not learning German vocabulary and instead using English words for it, so it is now on a vocabulary level of a 5 y.o. child. Without formal structure or education it will die out.
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  153. “I am Danish” and “I am a danish” are great examples of this type of confusion. Except English isn’t conjugated the same way as German is.
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  154. You were dealing with a Karen and a Kevin and that should have been your first hint.
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  155. Not impossible, but very difficult.
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  156. @Bernd Anders I think you mean “Danish”, not “Copenhageners.” They are Wiener brød.
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  157.  @juliebraden  First off, I really don’t understand half of what you wrote because of random punctuation marks and letters that have no meanings. Second, you’re failing to make a point, either because you’re not writing properly or because you don’t have one. The original posted claimed this was a cultural issue and I claimed it wasn’t. Do you have something to add to either of those points or are you just experiencing uncontrolled written regurgitation?
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  158.  @juliebraden  You don’t use periods, commas, don’t capitalize or spell out words. It’s pretty much gibberish. As per that being my problem… no, it’s your problem when people have no clue of what you’re trying to say and it will be a major burden on you your whole life, unless you fix it.
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  159.  @juliebraden  I honestly still don’t know what your point is, and in three posts you still haven’t made it. Time’s up!
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  160. Liisa Paakkanen You need to read what I wrote carefully. It’s not about today. It’s about the plans that were around for the last 20 years that made SMSs less popular. I know very well what’s available in Europe today. However, do you remember how it was before EU mandated same tariffs for all member nations? Do you remember data plans 10 years ago? 5 years ago?
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  161. Liisa Paakkanen Did you pay that for SMS to other European countries? When messaging countries outside of your zone, data is much cheaper. Believe me... I’ve been traveling Europe for a loooong time and buying mobile plans every time. Group messages and photos are just as easy using SMS.
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  162. Lischu No... I mean other European countries.
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  163. Lischu That’s what I mean. People used Whatsapp to communicate outside their country because it used local data instead of international text rates. That’s big deal in Europe.
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  164. Actually, the biggest impact on home ownership is urbanization. All across the world, the more dense the city and country, the fewer people own homes. This is mostly due to the limited supply of land for individual homes. This is why more rural areas in the US and Germany (and everywhere else) have lots of private houses, and big cities do not. Germany is much more urbanized than Spain or Italy, for example. In fact, check the list and you’ll see that it’s arranged by population density of livable areas.
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  165.  @Bunny99s  They’re not on the air in my market - NYC, and haven’t been for years. I think Peacock has them on streaming though.
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  166. @Jeffrey Dick To be fair, all immigrants back then settled in the industrial sections, and then spread out.
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  167.  @Menachbenach  I think you’re the one who needs to do some historical research. Yiddish indeed did originate from High German in the 12th century as “loshn-Ashknaz” or “taytsh”. There are influences in it from Aramaic, Hebrew, Romance, Slavic (especially in the Eastern dialect), Turkic and even Greek, but by and large, the bulk of it was from High German. The oldest written example is of a machzor by Worms from 1272 and it says, “גוּט טַק אִים בְּטַגְֿא שְ וַיר דִּיש מַחֲזוֹר אִין בֵּיתֿ הַכְּנֶסֶתֿ טְרַגְֿא‎” or “gut tak im betage se vaer dis makhazor in beis hakneses trage”.
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  168.  @waelfaraj6705  No one here is an expert on visas, right along Canadian or Australian. There are people on Youtube who are. Ask there.
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  169. One thing Germans never ask each other: “Can you spell that?”
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  170. Wow…. an engineer who uses only guesses to make decisions! No, dumbass, that’s not how any of it works. The number one reason for oil pollution and loss of cooling/viscosity is high temperature use. That has NOTHING to do with how long the car exists. It has to do with the time the engine is on while idling and the distance it’s driven. The main reason that Germans do fewer oil changes is because their primary manufacturers: Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW use high performance engines and high performance oils that are very expensive, but are less affected by high temperatures. Volkswagens, Opels, French and Italian cars, as well as all imports have exactly the same oil change intervals as they do everywhere else.
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  171.  @kaitan4160  That article is actually incorrect. SAE standards in the US don’t allow for partial synthetic oils to be labeled as “fully synthetic” or “synthetic.” The best they can do is “synthetic blend.”
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  172.  @ahorsewithnoname643  Depends on the car and the oil. My Rav4 hybrid uses 0W-16 oil (extremely thin, synthetic) and recommends 10,000 mile/16,000km oil/filter changes.
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  173.  @BuffyLinux  Sadly, both brands’ cars are some of the least reliable in the world.
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  174.  @klesmer  So you believe that modern gasoline burns at a much higher temperature than gasoline 20-30 years ago? Are you sure you’re not mixing up temperature with compression? Oil sludge is primarily caused by extreme temperatures (over 100°C) and that’s mostly the cause of poor crankcase ventilation, water present in the oil system, or if an engine is driven mostly for short distances (not enough to reach optimal heat). While changing oil more often can remedy oil sludge build-up, it does not prevent oil sludge formation and not changing it often enough does not cause the oil to sludge. It does cause engine wear due to oil pollution and due to loss of viscosity - overheating of metal parts.
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  175.  @tstening  While oil is more expensive in Europe than the US, it is the exact same oil. Your Diesel and Benzin are also much more expensive and they’re the same. It’s all petroleum product taxation. 😉 That said, oil changes at US BMW dealers cost about $230 as well. After the warranty runs out, you can do the same change for $70 anywhere else.
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  176.  @kaitan4160  The API tests as to the standards of the oil itself, while SAE (which is a US-based organization) tests as to the application in motors. They’re both important criteria. The point is that partially synthetic oil may not be sold as “synthetic” in the United States.
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  177.  @kaitan4160  The SAE standardizes the viscosity ratings AND other properties. NIST sets standards as to how they are written. The FPLA is one of the guiding laws on packaging and labeling. API establishes service categories. The point still is, semi-synthetic oil cannot be sold, legally, as “synthetic.”
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  178. Erik Jensen This!!! I’ve had an unlimited SMS plan in the US since... around 2000. About 20 years. I know that in Europe that didn’t come around until much more recently. Data plans in the EU are cheaper, especially between countries, than SMSs. In the US, they’re FREE. No reason to use a third party app!
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  179. Jews in Europe used patronymic names until the Hapsburg empire required everyone to take on a proper family (last) name. Those who were rich were able to bribe officials and get fancy names. The rest were given names based on appearance, job/trade or city/town of origin. This, Einstein was actually given to the family as “a stone”.
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  180.  @xsc1000  Tell that to the residents of Innviertel. Bavaria was also a part of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806, until Emperor Francis II of the Hapsburgs dissolved it. So yes, it was, until 1806.
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  181.  @xsc1000  That’s correct. Parts of German states were closer to Austria and the heart of the HRE than others. Germany wasn’t even a single country back then. Remember that. It was a bunch of distinct tribes that later formed their own nations. It’s no surprise that Prussia and Bavaria were at odds most of the time. Servus is used around southern Germany. The fact that it came from Latin and spread only around the Hapsburg areas is well-established. The fact that Northern Europe never warmed up to it or the HRE/Hapsburgs is as well. The Netherlands were under the Hapsburg rule, but they don’t use it. I’m not even sure what you’re arguing, if anything.
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  182. There are very few native German speakers in the US nowadays, and to have a speaking role on US tv or in film you do need to be in the SAG - a film/television union, making it even more difficult to cast. You may find this really odd, but I’m a native Russian speaker and about 90% of the “Russian” in US movies is pure gibberish, and it’s like that for most other languages too.
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  183. It's not an issue of countries, it's an issue of the type of beer. Most Americans didn't even understand that all beer wasn't the same until about 15 years ago. Ales are served relatively warm, the darker, the closer to room temperature. They have little effervescence, so the warmth won't kill it and they taste sweeter that way. The closer you get to a light lager, the colder it should be served. Light lagers should be at just above freezing. When they get warm, the get bitter and flat. Much of that is a hops vs malt thing.
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  184. daveogarf Your conclusions are a bit false. First off, the US bank industry is NOT less safe. Second, the chip system gained little traction in the US a few years back because tests were conducted and the chips were found to be easily hacked remotely, from a few feet away. It wasn’t until years later that the system was updated to create a unique single use transaction number that it was accepted for use by banks in the US. That system is what drives touch payment now. Europe’s system is much more debit card-driven. Europeans are still relatively credit card-free. That means their card transactions had to be processed differently and there was a very big need for electronic payments. In the US, people use bank payments much less often, and much through online banking portals. Retail transactions are mostly credit cards, which have far more fraud protections for the user. The United States are also a much bigger target for money laundering than Europe. A bigger system with a stable currency and a single set of regulations is conducive to that. A lot of rules in the US banking system are created to protect against that.
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  185. 100% false. Egg shell color and size is determined by the breed of chickens. Yolk color is determined by the feed (grass vs grain).
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