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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