Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1.  @amanda34639  Chinese slavery?
    69
  2. I don't know if these vids are addictive or I'm just procrastinating from doing actual work.
    11
  3. Uh, White Claw and imitators are pretty big right now, essentially the same thing...maybe even worse. Zima IIRC had a pretty refreshing grapefruit taste. BTW it means winter in Russian and Croatian and can be used to say 'I'm cold' in Croatian.
    8
  4. Channeling Mike Meyer's 'sprockets' character from 90s SNL.
    5
  5. Try getting sick on the weekend in the UK. You will not get to see a health professional until Tuesday.
    4
  6. My theory on the poop shelves was that the much greater stink factor encouraged people to get in and get out promptly, no reading the Sunday paper in there.
    4
  7.  @harrydehnhardt5092  That's the way it used to be in California. One day of voting ...you would go to the precinct which was very local, there would be a list of registered voters. You'd say your name (no ID required) and address and they would cross you off the list and give you a ballot. Those out of the state could request an absentee ballot... in fact anyone could...but it wasn't automatic you'd be given one. It was a good system. Now we have like six weeks of 'early voting', drop boxes which are not secured, and everyone gets an absentee ballot even if they didn't request one. Not coincidentally it takes a month to count all our votes.
    3
  8. Not for my family, not for the main meal. Maybe for sandwiches later.
    3
  9. That is we the US system is better. It is more intuitive.
    3
  10.  @PaulG.x  Robert G Fovell, professor of meteorology at UCLA, explains quite clearly why he uses Fahrenheit in discussing weather. 0 is really cold, 100 is really hot...for a day or a human with a fever. It's a human dimension scale. Now as a published scientist he must be an SI user. His statement is available in his Great Courses lectures on meteorology. Shall I send you my address for payment?
    2
  11.  @PissBreakSupervisorOleHopkins  If they were 'slaves' they were enslaved by other Chinese. Read up on coolie labor.
    2
  12. When did the Greens become so enthusiastic about war?
    2
  13. @patrickdematosribeiro1845 Yup. I think they were at 6 am, when even the Germans aren't fully up and at 'em. They were simultaneous. The cops were all armored up like they were going to take on Al Capone's gang. IIRC the cops were wearing masks.
    1
  14. And because Russia is a leading producer of fertilizer.
    1
  15. mannliche Beschneidung ....German is so literal sometimes, or more like almost always.
    1
  16. The original anti-federalists were against a strong central government...indeed against the Constitution as it was adopted in 1987. Those that favored a really weak federal government eventually became 'Confederates'.
    1
  17. Wish they would market beyond the Northeast.
    1
  18. There are Irish words galore in English.
    1
  19. She has a video about this.
    1
  20. And the 'new Federalism' actually means devolving powers back to the states. Although the 'new Federalism' is about 40 years old now.
    1
  21. I didn't even know about it other than the movie. Don't know if the movie is based on the alleged tradition or vice versa.
    1
  22. So isn't Obatzda basically the same idea as beer cheese? This is what I don't get about a lot of Europeans. and even Asians. We have things in the US that are clearly derived from something European or Asian. For example, lasagna. Well, of course a typical American lasagna isn't the same as one from Napoli or Calabria. But it is clearly the same idea. Flat noodles, tomato sauce, cheeses, maybe meat. In layers. It's not like it's something unrecognizable. And yet Italains will be 'oh, that's not real lasagna'. Well, same with beer cheese. I don't know if beer cheese originated among German immigrants (Kentucky borders the German-heavy Ohio) or 'we' came up with it independently. But Germans, specifically Muncheners, do have a cheese spread that includes beer to make the cheese spreadable, and it's called Obatzda (which I think is Bavarian for 'mixed up' but I could be wrong). So it's not like the whole concept of cheese mixed with a bit of beer and other stuff to make a spread is totally foreign to Bavarians. Granted it's usually a dip for radishes rather than pretzels or bread sticks, but still...
    1
  23.  @guyl9456  You obviously haven't been thru the American education system.
    1
  24.  @h4l414  They raised a whole SS division.
    1
  25. The noun is SURvay, the verb is surVAY.
    1
  26. Very derivative of the Hyundai 'pack the cash' ad from a few years back, but not nearly as funny and indeed a bit mean spirited. The Hyundai commercial celebrated to the Boston working class accent, this just made fun of a dude.
    1
  27. Russia and Ukraine are leading producers of seed oils, particularly Sunflower oil which is preferred in northern European countries.
    1
  28. Blowback from the EU/NATO Drang nach Osten.
    1
  29. Well thanks for following the law. I kinda think we have more than enough citizens and adding more dilutes our democracy. I also think Germany had it right before the new law. Living abroad myself for several years I knew many many people who were technically American citizens but had no meaningful ties to the US left. But they still voted, making the votes of Americans in America less meaningful.
    1
  30.  @jrooksable  The only 'indentured servitude' Chinese immigrants experienced was from the coolie bosses...also Chinese...that brought them across. Something similar still happens. The anti Chinese laws were good immigration policy for American workers, not slavery for Chinese
    1
  31. Definitely too much focus on the events in Europe 1933-1945 in American education and society. It skews our understanding of everything. It is interesting that many of Germany's allies in Eastern Europe seem to be rehabilitating their Nazi collaborators.
    1
  32. @walterwhite415 I believe there have been prosecutions for simply stating facts like immigrants from Muslim countries have a higher crime rate than native/ethnic Germans. I know there was prosecution of a minister that preached that homosexual activity is sinful (a position official held by the Catholic church btw). So yeah, you have free speech but cannot challenge any of the really sacred cows of Germany or the EU.
    1
  33. Yiddish is mostly German, just written in Hebrew.
    1
  34. In British English 'lemonade' means exactly what it means in German. Sprite or some such.
    1
  35. Foe some of us Rammstein is a giant US air base.
    1
  36. @Alacrity-reserved It's Germany. They literally invented the modern bureaucratic state in theory and praxis. There is no crisis.
    1
  37. In the Russian Federation discrediting the armed forces is considered unprotected, indeed criminal speech. Because historically the Russian military has protected the Russian nation from the Poles, the Swedes, the French and...well, you know. I guess that's cool then.
    1