Enkrod
@Enkrod@feddit.org
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 2 days ago:
It’s even worse when you remember that Jaime is pronounced Haime (from whence Hamish)
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 3 days ago:
That is correct. Greek Iakóbos to Latin Iacobus to Jakobus to late latin Jacomus to early French Jammes to english James
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 3 days ago:
Tiago -> Iago -> Iakobus -> Jacob -> James
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 4 days ago:
Does a mechanical pencil count?
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 4 days ago:
Die Welt braucht mehr von dir 🤩
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Why do Danes all have a potato in their mouth?
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Note to self: For learning a scandinavian language - learn Swedish instead of Danish.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 weeks ago:
Being the child of a tourist is not the same as being raised somewhere.
Most european nations have special citizenship rights if you grew up in that nation or were born there after one of your parents has resided there at least some time.
Example Germany:
Children of non-German parents acquire German citizenship at birth if at least one parent has a permanent residence permit and resided in Germany for at least five years prior to the child’s birth.
Btw. after residing legally in Germany for 5 years the parent can themselves acquire german citizenship.
Example France:
Children born in France to foreign parents may acquire citizenship from age 13 subject to residence conditions. A child born in France to foreign parents becomes a French citizen automatically upon turning 18, provided that they reside in France on their 18th birthday and have had their primary residence in France for a total (but not necessarily continuous) period of at least 5 years since the age of 11. Children born in France to two stateless parents receive French nationality automatically at birth.
Also you can always go through the normal ways of acquiring citizenship. Upon turning 18 and having been raised in the country you usually fulfill all requirements for it.
- Comment on #Buy-Eurpean (or Canadian) 2 weeks ago:
Ugh… top shitpost
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 weeks ago:
People born in a country should have citizenship.
Why?
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
Yes, there is a strong case that voter suppression won him the race in 2016 and 2024
- Comment on In the jar you go 3 weeks ago:
Eh… I’ll come out as a Brony here, albeit not of the clopping variety, which allows me to speak more freely.
There are many SFW and even child friendly spaces in Bronydom. Many of us have children ourselves and just enjoy the neurotics and fresh silliness of the show and even sillier subculture. The fandom is just chock full of nerdy references which often got picked up by the show, because the creators are huge nerds as well and love to signal to the knowledgeable audience. Just like Sponge Bob has lots of adult jokes hidden in child friendly dialogue.
- Comment on That explains a lot 4 weeks ago:
A not-sparkling stellar mass
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
Meh, I’m like really heavy, dangerously so even, and my many health problems (which don’t help with the physical attractiveness) originate from that. So no, I’m ugly and fat and in many, many regards I’m a loser. But I have other things going for me.
GF wants into this discussion, this is her words:
I wouldn’t call him the fattest, ugliest, looser nerd, but he is definitely fat and doesn’t conform to any classic ideal of male beauty. Instead, he is very gentle, loving and tender and makes me feel like a goddess. He also does what he said he would do: he is interested in me, not just because he has to ask, he actually wants to know what I think and feel. And he is not afraid to tell me his feelings, honest and vulnerable, even if they are actually embarrassing and he may even be ashamed of them. He wants to connect with me emotionally, honest and with his whole heart.
So I guess I’m making up for it with inner beauty and that’s precisely why I commented here:
I had already given up on love, I was a 40 years old, depressed, fat nerd with a career going nowhere. Really not physically attractive at all. I’ve been where so many of these Anons are. But through my significant other and the ones before her, I learned that you really don’t need to be tall, fit and conventionally attractive to find love.
“Just” respect your partner, be open, be honest, be gentle, be caring and be interested, really interested in what she thinks and does and feels.
For me the hardest part was lowering my defenses and being vulnerable with her, telling her even the things that I thought she would find unmanly or disgusting, everything I was and am still ashamed of. And sometimes it’s really hard to actually listen, to not just hear but listen, to not let her voice be drowned out in the multitude of voices from inside and outside your own head and things and media and events happening around you every day. I’ve really had to learn (and am still learning) to come to a calm focus and practice active listening. It’s not easy, but I do it because I love her, and she’s given me the mental stability and something to look forward to that has helped me start not only my weight loss journey, but also continue to work at becoming a better person, better listener and the man I want to be for her.
I’m far from perfect, I still mess things up, my weight loss progresses painfully slow, my mental health still has pretty bad days and I’ve fucked up listening again this week, just like last week. But I’ll be damned if I give up again. And she’s so incredibly supportive and appreciative, that I’m still wondering sometimes what the hell she sees in me and how I deserve someone so wonderful.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
Yeah well Kevin did weigh 257 pounds… I’m north of 400
- Comment on Nope 5 weeks ago:
It werfs flammen!
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
In my experience: He’s emotionally available, interested in her and her experience, actually listening, gentle and honest.
I’m about the fattest, ugliest, loser nerd around and if I can be in a relationship with a succesful, beautiful, adventurous woman, so can anon.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 2 months ago:
Male or female, it’s always “mein” because “Name” is a male noun.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 2 months ago:
Me? I know who I am! I’m a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
(I’m born in 2006)
…
I’ll just sit here, aging quickly.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 2 months ago:
Inflation of the Dollar since 2014 added 33%, everything above that is not inflation.
- Comment on Can't sleep at night 2 months ago:
It’s both, that’s the double entendre in German. Only when the “gefragt” appears is the double meaning resolved in favour of “you have asked me”
- Comment on Schrödinger's Peripheral 2 months ago:
Ah, yes, the 4-dimensional properties of USB
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
- Comment on meow meow meow 3 months ago:
The cheetah and the puma/cougar are way more closely related to domestic cats than they are to the big cats of the panthera family (the roaring big cats).
They migt be tall cats, but they are no big cats.
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 3 months ago:
That’s how it’s phrased in many other languages, german for example.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 3 months ago:
Upset? No. More like a little uncomfortable. Partly because I’m an idealist who always hopes for the best and most moral and peaceful solutions. Partly because it makes me uncomfortable how little I am angered by this. Sure I absolutely do not want proles to go and kill the bourgeoisie… but I guess it’s not… I don’t feel the need to condemn this. Sometimes things are just… shrug
But it’s really just a little uncomfortable, like a sock not quite fitting my foot.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 3 months ago:
The few precious moments of shared class consciousness.
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 3 months ago:
Covered doctors and specialists… out of network… people on Reddit kept telling me my socialised universal multi-payer healthcare by statutory health insurance, would mean I could not see the doctor I wanted and would wait forever for services. And sure, for everything that’s not immediately necessary I do wait some time. But for all things acute I can go to any general practitioner who will either provide immediate help or forward me to a specialist for immediate help. No matter where in my country I am, no matter which hospital, GP or specialist I go to, everything important is covered. And I pay less per month for it than Americans do.
- Comment on You did it. You broken the conditioning. 4 months ago:
You saw them fall into the ravine, but did you see the body? HAS ANYONE SEEN THE BODY?
