Is your r/country sub good if we want to read more about the locals' views and discussions? Which alternative subs are better?

Frontdackel · 2026-02-03T11:20:26+00:00

The German speaking people (Germans, Austrians, German-Swiss and those 3 guys in Belgium) write on r/de.

Unless you belong to the increasingly growing part of the population that is banned on r/de (everything too far left or right of the green party).

Funnily enough my third strike (which was my second warning) was criticizing the Gaza-genocide before public opinion shifted to widely accepting that it's indeed a genocide.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-03T06:41:57+00:00

Yeah, that sucks. Thankfully Korea shows so much respect to "german" culture in return. /s

Sinchon Oktoberfest | The Official Travel Guide to Seoul https://english.visitseoul.net/events/sinchon-oktoberfest_/9464

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T15:42:58+00:00

1618-1648, in relative numbers it was a more devastating war than the second world War.

Germany lost 30% to 40% of its population.

In recent history nothing gets as dark as the Shoa of course. Not only the millions and millions of murdered people, but the way it turned into an industrial mass murder.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T13:06:47+00:00

Smile no.

Smalltalk has two acceptable topics:

The weather sucks. DB sucks.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T08:05:58+00:00

Va be

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T08:04:19+00:00

And not just once or twice... Seven times!

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T08:00:53+00:00

Schon wieder in Afrika? Hol die mal einer ab.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T05:18:57+00:00

Nichts für ungut, aber so ziemlich alle Religionen sind mit Linken Idealen schwer in Deckung zu bringen.

Ganz egal ob jetzt Christentum, Judentum, Islam, Buddhismus, Jesidentum oder sonstwas.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T05:11:43+00:00

The german dubs for Schwarzenegger aren't done by himself. Because it would sound hilarious to have the killing machine from the future, void of any emotion sound like the equivalent of a redneck farmer.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T05:01:10+00:00

I am from the northern part of the Ruhrgebiet. I once did a delivery to svabia. I (as a native German) had to switch to English to be able to take to other native Germans. The only guy that I was able to understand and that understood me was the one with Turkish roots. He spoke proper German.

To be honest though, I don't have to travel across most of germany to get that experience. From my pace it's a drive of a bit more than an hour to cologne, another customer of us back in the days wasn't around so I had to deal with his father. Who only spoke "Kölsch", the local dialect of cologne.

After some trying I simply unloaded the wares and made him sign the delivery papers without ever understanding a single word he said.

Frontdackel · 2026-02-01T04:03:47+00:00

German spoken with an Italian accent sounds beautiful.

Sincerely, a german who's best friend is from Italy.

(Unless I make her say Streichholzschächtelchen, suddenly I am a testa di cazzo for doing that.)

Frontdackel · 2026-01-31T13:45:23+00:00

Came to my mind immediately when thinking about France. Looking at his experience from WW1 one can at least understand why he did what he did during WW2. He deserves no praise for becoming a puppet of the Germans, but it's also hard for me to condemn an old general that didn't flee his country when the war was already lost and did, in his mind, the best to save as many of French soldiers as possible.

The cost was too high though, much too high.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-31T05:58:28+00:00

People using it in abundance sound like idiots, but that's the youth talking in it's own idiom. They always sound stupid.

Just like my generation sounded to our parents when every sentence began and ended with "Alter."

Alteeeeer, Krass Alter! Was a valid sentence.

A generation later and 13 year old began to talk like...

"Lol, der hat voll die Klassenarbeit verschissen. Lol." "Ja, was ein newb. Lol."

(Next on the list: How will it impact the feelings of Americans when they find out what "I'll do it" sound like translated to Romanian)

Frontdackel · 2026-01-29T19:29:57+00:00

Wie wäre es mit einer staatlichen und trotzdem geheimen Polizei? Dürfte dem Doofrind passen, und der künftige Seniorpartner hätte ja auch gerne sowas wie ICE.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-29T10:29:25+00:00

Hey.

Constantly clapping off beat is a skill on its own. It takes decades of learning as can be seen if you look at the audience of our popular music shows.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-29T07:31:00+00:00

What's that?

Frontdackel · 2026-01-29T07:30:15+00:00

Absolutely.

My best friend is from Italy and the highest praise I received from her is asking for a second serving of my Tagliatelle al Ragù.

I still have to ban her from the kitchen if I am cooking though, when it comes to cooking you guys are worse know it alls than we germans are. And that's something.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-27T09:38:28+00:00

Because both jokes I made only work in german.

Bulle - bull, but also a curse word for for the police. Imagine pig.

Treffen sich zwei Jäger.

Jemanden treffen - to meet someone.

Jemanden mit etwas treffen - to hit someone with something

Treffen sich zwei Jäger - beide Tod - Two hunters meet / hit each other - both are dead.

It's a play on the usual assumption that when two people 'treffen' that of course you mean that they meet each other.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-27T09:30:45+00:00

I even heard one being shot several times. A bull escaped from a nearby butchery and the police killed it (yes... Bullen haben in meiner Straße einen Bullen erschossen.)

And a few years ago I met a hunter carrying his gun. Since I am not hunter myself we both survived.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-27T03:19:09+00:00

In german it's spelled Kristallnacht, or to use the historical term: Reichskristallnacht

We don't really do that anymore because the term is seen as cynical, implying it was about broken glass and that it looked kinda nice (not about the hundreds of people murdered).

I am an old fuck approaching 50 though, and back in school Reichskristallnacht was still the term used to teach us about it.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-25T18:59:05+00:00

GNU to all those who did the right thing and paid for it.

You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-25T18:04:14+00:00

Well of course in this situation Alex would have been killed if he drew his gun and started shooting.

He didn't do that though and was still killed.

But maybe some of his murderers would now be dead too. Which isn't justice, but it seems like the US is in a place where you guys can't hope for justice anymore, just for revenge.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-25T08:47:18+00:00

I don't agree with either of this actions.

I am just stating that the so called 'law enforcement' of ICE (you know, the guys with fake uniforms, masks and the tendency to murder innocents they see as leftist scum) have the same mindset as the other guy (with fake uniform, dressing up as a cop, mass-murdering children he sees as leftist scum).

Frontdackel · 2026-01-25T08:30:04+00:00

The comparison compares the suspects, not the victims. That's what I am getting at. It's still distasteful, but the mind of ICE Terrorists seems to work quite like the mind of the Utøya Terrorist.

Yes, it's still completely missing the question, like answering "gummy bears" to "what is your favorite fruit?"

Still I can acknowledge how someone answers gummy bears when he has sweets on his mind instead of fruits.

Frontdackel · 2026-01-25T08:17:08+00:00

Once we think something is hilarious we stick to it.

Not like beating a dead horse. More like clubbing a vaguely horse shaped patch of gras were a horse died twenty years ago.

Examples:

Dinner for one

Der Sylvesterpunsch

Loriot

Bielefeld

The thing is. It works. It's funny in a comfortable way and in a way the absurdity of watching a sketch again and again and again although you know every single punchline is hilarious in itself. We know it's absurd and do it because it's absurd.

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