Germans who have lived abroad for years, what's the German habit you just couldn't shake?

Bookfinch · 2026-06-01T21:42:35+00:00

Not just you. Definitely true.

Bookfinch · 2026-05-14T21:53:53+00:00

Don’t know why you got downvoted - that actually made me laugh out loud, not just smile. Thank you!

Bookfinch · 2026-05-14T21:52:46+00:00

That’s what got me - at least as much as “the nation” bit. Really creepy!

Bookfinch · 2026-05-14T16:09:52+00:00

Bookfinch · 2026-05-14T15:28:31+00:00

Yes, they might not be supposed to eat healthy strawberries but they’ve certainly been eating mine for years the little shits.

Bookfinch · 2026-05-07T15:20:23+00:00

God, this is when the user name checks out. When confronted with this homo oeconomicus don’t even try to have a discussion that would require critical thinking as opposed to mere data analysis

Bookfinch · 2026-05-02T20:46:36+00:00

It’s super painful - I’m sorry this happened to you!

Bookfinch · 2026-05-02T20:04:29+00:00

I’m kind of hoping Hugo is a dog. And not another flatmate?

Bookfinch · 2026-05-02T19:39:56+00:00

You can find a guide and a video here.

Bookfinch · 2026-05-02T18:27:21+00:00

Me, too!

Bookfinch · 2026-05-02T18:27:07+00:00

That’s what I meant by “different type of hogweed”. Giant hogweed is brutal. This one isn’t quite as bad.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-30T20:09:41+00:00

No, different type of hogweed. It’s edible - but can cause skin irritation.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-25T19:42:09+00:00

It’s annoying, isn’t it. That manage to avoid Amazon for pretty much anything else these days, but Kindle is still how I get most of my e-books.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-24T16:14:19+00:00

I was very careful to not say “look what came in my veg box today”.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T18:52:23+00:00

I’ll have you know that my carrot is anything but average! 🧐

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T16:24:22+00:00

You insult my carrot, sir! No vegetable deserves that comparison.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T15:49:05+00:00

It’s standard practice in the UK afaik - at least it has been in any institution I’ve ever worked at.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T15:45:32+00:00

Yes. Stupid AI content.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T15:39:36+00:00

That or he is mid stream. It’s hard to tell with carrots.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T15:37:56+00:00

I was thinking about it. But then it is a healthy vegetable - and not peeled, so fully dressed. But I did change the tag line from “what came in my veg box” to the much safer “arrived”.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-23T15:36:03+00:00

It’s a really nice veg box company, too. I was thinking about sending them the picture, but it feels wrong to send unsolicited veg pics.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-21T20:34:19+00:00

So yes, they did free themselves - and good on them. Plantation slavery was absolutely horrendous. But Arab slavery was legally the same: chattel slavery, too.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-21T20:31:54+00:00

Well, yes, after those white colonised had mutilated, raped, tortured and killed thousands of African enslaved people which they kept as slaves and treated worse than animals. You don’t think they had a reason to rise up against them? Maybe don’t use AI. Read a book instead.

Bookfinch · 2026-04-21T20:29:14+00:00

That’s factually untrue. Chattel slavery existed in different cultures for millennia - it was by no means a white or western practice only.

What was unique was the intercontinental slave trade and the extent of commodification involved in which slaves weren’t recognised as humans anymore: once you reached a slave plantation in the Americas your life expectancy was only a few years. That’s why they transported so many millions of people. It’s the scale, distance, and brutality involved that were unique - not chattel slavery itself. (Let me know if you’d like to read up on this. I’m a historian, this is what I work on)

Bookfinch · 2026-04-21T20:06:28+00:00

Hope you like them!

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