froh42
@froh42@lemmy.world
- Comment on No, really, I will! 5 days ago:
Is that you, JD?
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today? 1 week ago:
What did the inventor of the wheel say, after they turned it for the first time?
“Friends, that’s a revolution!”
- Comment on They is dissin our possy 2 weeks ago:
Forgotten? Or was it just the shittiest shitpost?
- Comment on Hose Clamp Security Gate Chain... 2 weeks ago:
But be careful, if the road ia slippery you might happen to fall onto the chain.
- Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that. 3 weeks ago:
Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you’d be happy about that.
Ok, ok, I’ll let myself out.
- Comment on Checkmate, atheists! You are going to vagina hell! 3 weeks ago:
What did the priest say to the - what is Ministrant in English - altar server boy?
“There is a good Christian inside you”.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but when you DO know the system ia totally fucked.
Calling customer service that have no cmie what they’re taking about either, pushing you through a script. One fun time my internet connection was broken and I called the provider. They walked me through all the windows settings to check if I had set up things correctly. I did run Linux, but hat set up Windows for other people so frequently that I knew how each dialog looked and how it’d respond to the failure, so I just lied. FINALLY in the end of the call that guy scheduled a reboot of my port on the provider’s DSLAM which made things work again…
(And no, not all customer service is like this. I also got amazing support of people who know what they are talking about, but they cost more for the companies than just outsourcing to the cheapest generic call center.)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Last Sunday I ate pasta with olives and got really sick afterwards. I fucking regret eating those olives.
And as this is a shitpost, YES i was shitting all night. And vomiting. But this is not a vomitpost.
Still I really regret eating those olives.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 4 weeks ago:
If they knew their vocabulary they’d knew that
- ICE is a fucking train
- ICE is always late
- ICE has broken air conditioning
- ICE arrives in the wrong order, today
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 4 weeks ago:
That’s hard to find out. When I was in school I was captivated by American movies and music, mostly all blockbuster movies came out of the us.
Before that - I’m from the southern part of Germany, so we had a lot of US influence after WW2, whereas other parts of Germany had French, British and Russian military here.
I suppose WW2 had a big impact in Europe, as English speaking troops came in and saved people from Nazi Germany. Interestingly that’s how it feels in some parts of Germany even (they saved us from the Nazis) - as absurd as it is, when you’re aware how much support the Nazis had in the population.
Nevertheless English was a big positive thing - and the answer probably is “both the UK and the US”. My dad was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager and fans want to understand the lyrics. All you need is love.
Also don’t forget Europe has so many languages - so when we talk to each other we use what the most of us know - English. I do believe that they “EU” with its more open borders also brings people to use more English.
Unfortunately I (unsuccessfully) was taught Latin in school, not French - so English is my only tool in Europe to communicate beyond my native language. It worked everywhere I visited.
In some countries there’s a age gap, with people below 40 or so are much more fluent in English, but AFAIK it’s mandatory as a second language across schools in a big part of Europe.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 4 weeks ago:
English had that role even before the internet. Do you really belive we became fluent in English only in the 90s?
- Comment on company-wide email 1 month ago:
This is not a reddit, Sir.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 month ago:
Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.
What’s the difference between the US and Germany?
In Germany the ICE wilm probably not show up at all to take you away.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 month ago:
Also reddit:
My gf didn’t close the tooth paste in the bathroom.
Reddit: Red flag, LEAVE HER
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 month ago:
I’m living with undiagnosed Adhd for all of my life. My son got a diagnosis when he was 6 or 7 - thus I know the symptoms, and frankly I know too much of the diagnosis method now to get myself an honest diagnosis. (I know how to answer to get the results I want). And I don’t need it anymore, I adjusted my life to play more into my strengths and less into my weaknesses. (And the last 10 years - in my 50s - I feel like symptoms are getting milder)
The complicated thing is: Every single symptom of adhd is being experienced by the majority of normal people. It’s just being “more” of that statistically.
It feels like setting the difficulty level on a video game, you’ll see the same things, you’ll see the same bosses. You play on hard while the guy how got to play life in story mode tells you how lazy you are because you didn’t fight all the bosses, yet.
A big part of dealing with adhd is accepting that my challenge is mine and is different from yours.
And that probably is why “being neurodivergent” is so “attractive”. It gives us the freedom of not being seen as lazy or stupid, and that’s something that I think should really apply to every single fucking human on this world.
We all have our challenges. You are OK as you are. You are worthy of love. And yes, life is hard, you’re not lazy.
If seeing people like this were the norm, “neurotypical” people wouldn’t need to see themselves as divergent. People just use “adhd” or “autism” to say “look, I have my challenges, too”.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 month ago:
Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.
He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.
I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.
Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.
It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.
Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.
Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.
- Comment on 2026 Goals 🥳 1 month ago:
I’m taking this as a promise, non-ironically.
- Comment on 2026 Goals 🥳 1 month ago:
Every fucking year someone gives me a new year with a lot of promises how good the new year will be. But the only sure thing is, I’m getting older.
I could have gotten a slightly used 1996, but nooo, I got a new 2026.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 months ago:
18/20 because waterbeds weren’t a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 months ago:
As a European - does anyone think we give any fucks when a recalcitrant Island exits the Union?
- Comment on Accidental rapture 2 months ago:
I’m atheist who went through an agnostic phase earlier.
So - as a thought experiment - let’s assume there is a god and heaven and a judgment day.
There are two persons in front of the ultimate judge.
One behaved “good” but just out of fear of ultimate judgement.
The other one just he didn’t want to be an asshole out of his own wishes.
Who’d pass?
So i think god is irrelevant. Belief is irrelevant.
Ultimately these ideas led me down the path of optimistic nihilism.
- Comment on 🎄. (Turn on sound.) 2 months ago:
I miss my poop knife copypasta.
- Comment on Teachers never forget 2 months ago:
When I was in 7th grade I had the same teacher in Latin that my dad had.
That teacher was really old. It was hard to cheat in a test, as he had extremely crossed eyes and I never was sure where he looked.
- Comment on Countdown is starting 2 months ago:
Why is everyone ignoring Wham?
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 3 months ago:
In every fucking commercial for a washing machine someone is in their garden and turns on the machine by wifi. How does the dirty laundry get in?
The only interesting thing might be a notification when it’s done.
- Comment on Betrayal 3 months ago:
“Evidence”? What a quaint concept.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 3 months ago:
As a Bavarian (South of Germany) I agree with the Ch at the start of the word being pronounced like a K (Chiemsee starts with the sound K), but with it depends on the region. I start “China” and “Chemie” with K, but a lot of people start it with “sch” (which sounds like sh in English). But that’s really weird for my ears.
And the father of my ex wife is from Cologne, his “ch” sound quite like “sh” as well. Kirche (church) sounds like Kirsche (cherry) when he says it. Funnily his last name has two “ch”.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 3 months ago:
German is my native language , so yes. It sounds a lot different from what you might think if you can’t speak “ch”. But if you’re American…
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 3 months ago:
Please read this German sentence aloud:
Ich suche den Koch.
(I’m looking for the chef.)
- Comment on How will YOU choose 4 months ago:
Anything else, sir?
