Thank you Reg!
congrats silky, but why are you the one making breakfast then?
ps: nice toes
Because other people were inconsiderate and forgot to turn off their weekend alarms. and slept through the alarms.
Since I was awake anyeay I figured I should do some morning chores and made breakfast.
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Happy anniversary! Mine was last Monday.
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Happy anniversary to you both.
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aww i see⌠just an ordinary day eh? 
did you at least get some silk from anyone for your silk wedding? lol
congrats
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Happy belated anniversary!
We didnât get each other gifts thisnyear, but impluse bought a few things:
He bought a special beer with a stein glass and a cigar (ick) that he enjoys.
At least he smoked it outside/by the garage.
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3x gold for bol!
Thatâs like the minor leagues. The white track & field championships. Even look at the names. âBlankers-Koenâ. Can you get any whiter? lol.
lol yes thats pretty white but our flying housewife was no minor league, she won 5 medals at the olympics in 1948!
Itâs sunday morning and as usual I donât fall asleep after feeding my pets at 06:45 am but watch tv and surf the net. Stumbled over some Quora article of some american comedian living in Germany and his comments made me laugh.
Answer to What are the biggest culture shocks people face when coming to Germany? by John Doyle https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-culture-shocks-people-face-when-coming-to-Germany/answer/John-Doyle-67?ch=15&oid=87457508&share=c4e1e03b&srid=h0SMtf&target_type=answer
I donât know how you tolerate multiple pets, Gunda.
Yeah, I read them. According to some of these statements, Americans are probably often misunderstood, but then, Americans donât care if Germans make assumptions.
1. âHow are youâ culture shock: When Germans ask you how youâre doing they really mean it. They really want an answer. This isnât America where people ask âhowâs it going?â and donât give a damn. If Germans ask you a question itâs to get an answer. Not to be nice to you. Or to make a new friend. But to get information. If they werenât interested in the answer they wouldnât have asked the question in the first place.
I thought this first statement was particularly funny because if youâre not trying to âmake friendsâ or youâre not really trying to â be nice to usâ why are you asking us anything about our personal selves? The question for Americans now becomes, âI know this jackass is not trying to make a friend or be nice so why the flock are they âinterestedâ in knowing how I am?
2. The telling it like it is culture shock: I once asked a German friend: âDo you think Iâm fat?â His answer: âNot for an American.â I of course was insulted. Hurt. Upset. But the thing is thisâŚ.donât go fishing for compliments in Germany. If youâre fat and you want someone in Germany to tell you that you arenât, forget it. That person doesnât exist.
How presumptuous of Germans.
Fat Americans ask their Hubby/significant other/friend if they are fat in an outfit because if there are buldges anywhere that makes us look frumpy, we would like to go change into something else because we want to look as good as we can for our partners , ourselves and for those who are forced to look at us in public. It would be inappropriate to offend the eyes of an innocent bystander.
I donât think thatâs always true. I personally know a German who got offended when he asked if I thought he was fat and I said âyes, veryâ. I also answer people totally honestly if they ask me.
I remember recently buying a pair of pants on Amazon. Black jeans for cycling. I wonât wear spandex and I want leg protection in case I fall. I loved those jeans. Comfy, strong, durable, thick but not confining, loose but not to the point where they were falling down. I asked Isa how I looked in them. She said âyou look like a homeless personâ. I took a look in the mirror and saw that she was right. I am so grateful that I have a woman who answers me honestly instead of trying to spare my feelings and let me walk around looking like a homeless person. The idea that it is somehow more polite or kind to lie is absurd to me.
Okay if you ask a stupid question but Iâm just saying if I ask about how I look, itâs usually to make sure I look okay in what Iâm wearing as to not embarrass anyone. Only a blind fat idiot would ask someone if they were fat when they already know they are.
The problem with society is that people are so uncaring about other peoples feelings. I mean, if a person asks someone else if they are fat, maybe they are trying to open a conversation about weight issues but often people are so narrow, an insult is the only allegedly appropriate response. The point is, we never know what someone elseâs motives are but we are all free to assume the worse about them because society teaches this as the appropriate approach to misunderstood statements.
Dusty is the same way because he knows I want to know the truth. He also always matches my shoes to my outfits for me when we go out somewhere important lol.
i think that american comedian living abroad probably doesnt realise he is actually in the netherlands and not in germany! those are definitely dutch traits
3. Small food portion culture shock: I was invited to a restaurant once as part of a welcome dinner to Germany and promptly ordered my dinner. When it arrived I told the waitress, âExcuse me, there must be a mistake because I didnât order the kids menu.â It wasnât the kids menu. It was the normal adult menu. And upon hearing this I said, âthen Iâll take 2 please.â
This is not true, really. Most people pay for two to three servings of food and take the other servings home but unlike people in Europe, all the food we eat makes us fat. Then I saw a TikTok about how Europeans eat bread but donât gain weight so I recently bought flour from Italy. We will see if that makes a difference. And also, the size of our products are getting smaller but the price is rising, simultaneously. Bread will probably be a days (minimum?)wages by summer but ignore this part because itâs biblical.
Lastly, it wouldnât bother me if restaurants sold us the same normal portions Europeans pay for and they may, but at this point, the price wonât go down with the quantity.
Michele, I donât know why you think itâs not true. Iâve eaten in the US many, many times and your portions are at least 50% larger than in most of the rest of the world. Itâs also usually high-calorie food, often fried.
Here it seems like youâre admitting it is true. Anyway, Europeans pay much more for restaurant food.