Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1. Democracy: Proving for thousands of years that what's popular is usually not what's a good idea.
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  2. Church tax is a great idea -- just like taxing cigarettes, it helps disincentivise doing something harmful ... a 'sin tax', you might say ...
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  3. How the heck dirty is everyone in the comments of this vid that the sheets need to be washed weekly?
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  4. To clarify, I didn't mean to be snarky there: My point was that my understanding is that the word 'holocaust' predates WWII by ... at least centuries. Incidentally, ChatGPT says: 'The word "Holocaust" generally refers to the genocide of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. However, it is also used more broadly to describe the systematic persecution and murder of other groups by the Nazis, including Romani people, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, political dissidents, and others.'🤷‍♀
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  5. Wait what!? There are people who DON'T fold the toilet paper?!?!?!? MIND BLOWN.
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  6. You can say 'breakfasting' in English, as well, no?
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  7. Inbuilt closets are so stupid: They impose needless restrictions on how you can configure the room.
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  8. So, you addressed 'Is Cincinnati flat?' but not 'Why on Earth would anyone live in Ohio?'
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  9. This stuff feels like middle-class / normie Midwest things ... The US is weird ... but the Midwest is weirder.
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  10.  @AlexWinterborn  People don't generally study geography as part of a postgraduate degree ...
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  11. Slightly mind-blown: I've always understood the word 'Holocaust' -- in reference to WWII -- as referring to ALL victims of / people wronged by Naziism (whereas the word 'Shoah' specifically refers to the anti-Semitic aspects / murder and mistreatment of Jews) ... but it sounds like you're indicating that these words are equivalent?
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  12.  @arnodobler1096  Pretty sure that 'holocaust' is ultimately Greek 😜
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  13. Eating in cars is a truly-odd Americanism. I've even heard that there are tables that can be clipped to the steering wheel for this purpose!?
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  14.  @jeffhampton2767  My understanding is that it's more extensive than this: Eating snacks during so-called 'road trips', drive-in 'restaurants' and cinemas, and I've definitely seen people eating whilst driving alone ...
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  15.  @jeffhampton2767  It's just very strange. I eat at a table, and I don't consider meals to be wasting time. Take-away coffee also seems very strange to me -- I don't want to drink out of crap single-use cups. Also, it's 'doughnut'.
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  16.  @jeffhampton2767  Precisely my point: People in the US tend to have rather unusual priorities ... And, you can blame your poor technology, or you can take some responsibility and proofread🤷‍♀
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  17.  @jeffhampton2767  I'm happy to learn that you don't care; I'm pointing out that it strikes me as an odd and oddly-American quirk. And driving for 10 or 15 hours also strikes me as oddly-American: In the rest of the world, we have jets and trains.
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  18. Pretty sure this is b.s. In nice restaurants in the States, the cubicles are properly-separated rooms.
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  19. I enjoy being rich enough that I don't care about trivial deposits for bottles / cans.
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  20.  @vanillawow1403  Lolwut? If you expect people to fact-check themselves or do a 5-second web search before posting a stupid/ignorant question that they could have answered on their own, prepare to be repeatedly disappointed!
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  21. (Yes, Williamsburg is in Brooklyn.)
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  22. How does anyone have coins to pay to use the toilet any more? I haven't used cash in over 10 years.
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  23.  @FelifromGermany  Interesting ... (Within Europe,) I've lived in Malta, France, and Sweden ... and visited Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, the UK, and Ireland ... and always just paid with card. Cash seems ... impossibly dirty/gross and old-fashioned.
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  24.  @FelifromGermany  To clarify: What seems ultra-weird to me is that everything about finance/money/banking seems waaaay behind in the States.
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  25. Fun fact, even 'muricans are allowed to travel.
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  26. It's very odd that people in the Midwest would feel unsafe walking after dark ... when people in cities (NY, SF, Phoenix, etc.) do not ...
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  27. I lived in an old house in SF -- which had separate loo and bathroom -- and I had light switches outside both the w.c. and the bathroom. Pretty sure it's just more common in Germany because, on average, houses are older.
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  28. Also, I've lived in the States longer than you have ... and I've NEVER seen a push the whole doorknob and turn it thing ... ever.
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  29. Three bedrooms is an even better idea! One each for y'all to sleep in and one more shared one for ... well, you can work out what that's for ...
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  30. Scooping with forks seems terribly gauche.
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  31. I was watching an old vid; this explains why things were -- from my perspective -- confusingly blurred. Oof, just oof ... And, of course she's called Karen ...
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  32. I've never seen 'Dinner for One' before; it's absobloodylutely hilarious. The sketch dates to the 1930s (although the NDR recording is from the 1960s), but the humour -- especially the final joke -- hold up quite well.
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  33. In the U.S., I've never heard a distinction in the use of the word 'black' / 'Black' to refer specifically to descendants of enslaved people -- someone who just pitched up from Ghana or Nigeria or Senegal would also be so described.
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  34. In English, a 'shadow' is cast by a specific object that is blocking some light source; a darkened area that is a combination of amorphous shadows where any specific object(s) casting them cannot be identified is 'shade'.
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  35. Well, the U.S. tax brackets that you're talking about only applies to ordinary income. Lower rates apply for long-term cap gains, which could futher lower tax burden.
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  36. I have a number of African friends who are deeply offended when Americans refer to them as 'African American'.
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  37. All of life is staged.
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  38. I'd be curious to know how this is changing / will change as there are fewer (and eventually -- probably soon -- *no*) more living perpetrators / survivors ...
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  39. Hot take: The problem isn't race as a concept, per se; rather, it's collective identity / 'identity categories', full stop. Individuals are more than the sum of the arbitrary characteristics ... 'My people' are people who care about the same things that I do, not people who happen to have green skin or are reptiles.
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