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

  1. "Freedom of Speech" Is often cited in America, as their right to tell you to STFU. Or shout over you, or otherwise deprive you of your dignity. Along with calling you a "Liberal" or whatever, but a lot of the so-called "Rights" they cite from the Bill of Rights are actually deprived of minorities, particularly black people. That includes: Freedom of Religion, Speech, the Press, Assembly, Peacible protest, and to Petition the Government, the Right to Bear Arms, protection from Unreasonable Search, and Seizure, Self Incrimination, life, liberty, property, due process, a public trial, common law, excessive bail, fines, cruel and unusual punishment, denying, and disparaging the rights granted to other people. That's all of them, except the 3rd, and 10th Amendment, which are basically never invoked by individuals against each other. (State's rights, and the Quartering act.) In other words, privileges. If it doesn't apply to ALL the people, it's not a protected Right.
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  2. "It's not real Mexican food." Bullshit. I live in Texas, I've lived in (Vera Cruz) Mexico, and on every state on the southern border. I've also gotten real, authentic AF chiles Rellenos in: Port Angeles Washington, Winnipeg Manitoba, North Plattsburg New York, and all places in between. On the Canada border. If you can't find "Real" Mexican food on this Continent, you're not looking hard enough.
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  3. I have to point out how not-stereotypical German (Romansh) you are. You will have a different experience from a blonde, and blue "German looking" German. (Please note, "Romansh" just means the Romans made it to Bavaria, and farther north in what they called "Gaul." or "Germania." They only speak it in Switzerland today, but most of Europe spoke Latin for literally thousands of years. Romansh was just German for "Latin.")
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  4. IDKY we haven't discovered northern European yogurt here, yet. For some reason, Greek Yogurt trended, but we haven't even heard of any of the Suisse, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch brands of Dairy in general. I agree, American butter is crap. It has a lot to do with how we industrialized Dairy farming in America after World War II, and I'm just not going into it, but the short answer is "American" cheese was originally government cave cheese. Meaning the government literally had to buy up all the dairy surplus, make "Cheese" food product, and store it in a cave to keep it from spoiling. Kraft, Velvita, Ez Melt, Macaroni and Cheese, and the all American cheeseburger cheese slice are all ultimately derived from Welfare Cheese. Landolakes, and "Greek" Yogurt like Greek Gods are all products of the same system.
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  5. The efzett is my favorite. I usually just use an fz. (The 2 letters it's derived from.) Apparently, ü is the most metal letter. At least according to the metalheads that add it ünNececCarilly to words. Then again, the Ünicode for the capital is [Alt+666] lmL
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  6. The BMW logo is literally cut out of the Bavarian flag. It's funny, because a lot of the car logos you don't realize are plane propellers like Mitsubishi are, but the BMW is pretty obviously stamped out of the Bavarian flag, if you've ever looked up the Bavarian flag. (And you know it stands for Bavarian Motor Werks) I also think it's funny that people use the Greek pronunciation of Mercedes, but it is a Greek name.
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  7. Or, you know, just stop? At least there aren't as many Oktoberfest drunks as "Kiss me I'm Irish" amateur drunks doing that accent, badly. Also, Rammstein single-handedly contributed more to that over-exaggerated accent, because people seemed to think that's how Germans spoke, conversationally. (Not that they've ever heard of OOMPH! Let alone Grausame Toechtor)
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  8. Also, can we just stop with the Nazis? I mean, I know, yes, Nazis were evil. We get it, but that's not all of German history, you know? This is for actors, actresses, and screenwriters, who may have to learn a convincing German accent. Germany is not just beer, and Nazis. It used to be beer, pretzels, and sausages. Now, it's pretty much just beer, and Nazis. Write a story with a German character who's not a Nazi now. It's been done to death, I'm pretty sure the Romanians are getting sick of Vampires, and Werewolves, too. The French have: Wine, Kissing, Bread, Cheese, Musketeers, Powdered Wigs... People stopped walking around with their hands in their vests pretending to be Napoleon decades ago.
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  9. Another neat word that refers to service is Knecht, but has evolved to so many other meanings. (None that are greetings, that I'm aware of.)
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  10. I just happened to have a Warsteiner, but as it's the end of Oktoberfest, and it's canceled this year as well, it's the best I could do. Gutes Jahr, veil Glück.
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  11. LOL, Americans worried about privacy issues. Okay, Americans complaining to a Bavarian about government surveillance through companies they don't trust. Because the Germans never had to worry about that, or anyone around Bavaria, since before this Hemisphere was discovered. Look, it's not a question of Technology, it's a question of MANPOWER. The Chinese don't have enough people to read all your text messages, so unless you embed links, like #HangMikePence, they will probably get around to your tweets, sometime after your grandkids die of old age. And yet, here you are, literally tweeting subversive links, embedded in your Texts, about the current government, while telling a Central European about privacy, and the right to free speech. Pick one: Privacy, or Free Speech. You can't have both at the same time.
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  12. Holland is right across the channel from England, so it's literally the closest German (Deutsche, or "Dutch") speaking country, to where we get English from. We even call Mennonites, and other Anabaptist colonies "Pennsylvania Dutch" here, even though they speak (A very old, and somewhat evolved) German. I'd say the second most common German accent is actually Suisse, (Einstein when they're trying to sound Erudite) or Austrian. A lot of Austro-German speakers have influence our culture, including Freud, Schwarzenegger, and some guy from the 30s, and 40s that was shouting on the radio a lot. Ruined the crumbduster moustache, he was Viennese as well. (Hedy Lamar, Wolfgang Puck...) It's mostly Ahnold that gets parodied as an Austrian accent, which bleeds over to the American-German Accent as well.
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  13. I say "Holland" instead of "The Netherlands" because there's other Dutch accents like Flemmish, which sounds like German with a Scottish accent. Point being, German is spoken all over Northern, and central Europe. So, there's a lot of non-German Germanic accents.
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  14. Why? Puritans. I'm sorry, "Pilgrims." Heretics, most of America was founded by people a little too weird for the Lutherans, and Church of England. (Also, a lot of slavery, and mass genocides we don't talk about around the Thanksgiving table.) So, they came here, and brought a lot of their weird religious ideals with them. Circumcision was routine, for over a century. Doctors just did it, for no medical reason, then mumbled something about "Urinary tract infections" when the parents asked questions. Not vets, who routinely spay, and neuter animals for population control. Deal with UTIs all the time, and yet didn't even have procedures for circumcising cats, and dogs. The real reason is because puritans think that a boy is less likely to play with it if they cut the foreskin off. That, and because Americans trust their doctors, apparently even with the genitals of their newborn sons.
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