Has some other pretty good nuggets there; esp complaints about the cost of gas and gasp, shock horror the lack of big box stores and 2-day shipping.
Has some other pretty good nuggets there; esp complaints about the cost of gas and gasp, shock horror the lack of big box stores and 2-day shipping.
I've been to Germany. To be honest never felt more at home in a place. But i also look very German i guess as people where coming up to me and just asking me stuff in German.
I traveled around Northern Italy and everyone could tell I wasn't local but always seemed to think I was from about 30 miles away. Italian speakers thought I might be from Austria and the South Tyrolean German speakers would just open up speaking Italian to me thinking I was Venetian or something.
Somewhere out there under the Alps is a little village full of me's
That's been one of my dreams to travel Europe. I'm a blend of a whole bunch of stuff so despite being white no one ever really looks like me. But I have some secret hope that my people do exist somewhere
Everybody just automatically thinks I'm Irish, which is cool because everybody on Mainland Europe loves the Irish, but bad because then I open my mouth and they know I'm American.
But also, not actually Irish, so checkmate, you racists.
tbh I've loved every place I've lived more than I do America. Maybe it's a grass is greener thing but even Japan, where I lived for six years (long enough to experience some of the drawbacks of living there), I would trade living in America to go back there in an instant.
I had that happen to me but it was a camera crew doing interviews. It must've been funny to hear my dopey American accent come out instead of German.
My friend wanted me to take some photos of him flexing with the sun set in the back ground and some lady on a bench came up to me and told me, in German, if you two would like to get more romantic I'm fine with watching over here. At least that was the translation my German friend gave me. Lol.
Ah yes, crazy horny Germany. Simultaneously too repressed and yet, not repressed enough.
I've only been to Bavaria but even I liked it. Talked with a woman who grew up in East Germany who said she kinda misses it the welfare state and the society, but not the Stasi.
Imagine telling an American that you miss your even more robust welfare state than the pretty good one you have right now
Germans are pretty friendly. Sure they're more reserved than Americans and they have a sometimes biting sense of humor that some might find insulting but is honestly quite charming. (Germans actually understand sarcasm very well, it's just not as dry as the British version and a bit more absurdist)