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

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. I’m Gen X and as a teenager I had my TV tuned in to MTV a lot (when it wasn’t in use with the Commodore 64)

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 the “EU” with its more open borders also brings people to use more English.

Unfortunately I (unsuccessfully) was taught Latin in school as a third language , not French - so English is my only tool in Europe to communicate beyond my native language. It worked everywhere I visited. From Latin everything I remember is “Marcus hodie in colloseo est. Ubi est Cornelia?” (really. that was chapter 1 in my first latin book, and it’s all I remember)

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. Even in my Generation - I have a lot of friends whom I just share English as a common language with.

English had that role even before the internet. Do you really belive we became fluent in English only in the 90s?

This is not a reddit, Sir.

Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.

What’s the difference between the US and Germany?

In Germany the ICE will probably not show up at all to take you away.

Also reddit:

My gf didn’t close the tooth paste in the bathroom.

Reddit: Red flag, LEAVE HER

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”.

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.

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.

I’m early Gen X and phreaking was well before my time, too. John Draper was born in 1943 and he and friends discovered the 2600Hz signal and the whistle having that frequency around the time I was born.

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As a European - does anyone think we give any fucks when a recalcitrant Island exits the Union?

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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.

And my most important rule for life: Just don’t be an asshole.

I miss my poop knife copypasta.

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.

Weird memories.

I don’t have a lot of VR experience, but for me being “in” a scene does it for VR, while 3D Glasses are still meh.

Try non-stereoscooic VR by just closing one eye while using your headset - it’s still great. The difference is the one between stereoscopic tvs and normal ones.

Oh, and the 3d tvs are non-interactive. Move your head a bit, you still don’t see around things. But that’s what makes a lot of 3d effect for me.

I had a TV that was 3D capable along with a PS3. I think I played 30 minutes of 3D games on that TV before I got a headache from the flickering shutter glasses and then they staid in the drawer below them tv for a year ar or two. Next time I wanted to try the batteries were empty.

I also saw a number of 3D movies in the cinema but it’s more for block busters and after a while it just is “meh”.

It’s a wow cool effect in the beginning, but in the end it’s just a gimmick. IMO it’s not more immersive but rather distracting from the movie itself.

Why is everyone ignoring Wham? Whamageddon starts at Dec 1st.

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.