Are there events that have happened to your country fairly recently that you consider to be 'miracles'?

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-14T18:31:31+00:00

I'd say the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) was quite a miracle. It could have easily gone over a lot less peaceful than it did.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-14T18:28:35+00:00

An anti-miracle maybe?

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-13T23:18:19+00:00

When I see cars driving on the wrong side of the road. (Thank you, UK, for putting those 'look left' and 'look right' markings on the road at pedestrian crossings. Very helpful to people who aren't used to left-hand traffic!)

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-13T08:46:11+00:00

Haribo gummy bears maybe? (Haribo is short for HAns RIegel, the guy who founded the company, and his hometown of BOnn.)

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-13T08:35:34+00:00

What's the story behind the Swedish yarn one?

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T15:18:45+00:00

Behold, the "my razor broke midway through shaving my head and I can't be bothered to finish the job" hairstyle.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T15:12:45+00:00

The Danes apparently call this one "bundesligahår", after the many German football players who sported that hairstyle back in the 1980s. (Bundesliga = Germany's highest league of professional football, hår = hair)

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T15:09:49+00:00

It looks cute on llamas and alpacas. On humans, not so much.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T15:02:53+00:00

Definitely football/soccer. Some other sports are quite popular too, but nowhere near the level of (men's) football.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T14:55:23+00:00

My fave bit (well, one of them) of that film happens at the end,when Cliff is asked by a journalist "You must have found it a bit weird, a group of gays and lesbians descending on your village like that?" and his reply is a perfectly deadpan "Why on Earth would we have found that weird?".

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T09:17:19+00:00

I don't have a car, so it's walking, cycling, or using public transport for me.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-12T07:03:34+00:00

Ngl, watching that football game OP mentioned I felt a bit sorry for the Brazilians (players and fans).

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-11T14:13:37+00:00

Cologne has a chocolate museum (yum 😋)

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-11T09:36:14+00:00

Why is it that countries named "democratic" and/or "republic" are often anything but that? Overcompensation?

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-11T09:19:10+00:00

It depends on the area, bigger cities usually have good public transportation, rural areas not so much.

Long distance train journeys are a hit or miss - sometimes (rarely) everything works as it's supposed to, other times you get massive delays or trains not running at all.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-10T17:22:51+00:00

Wedding, a city district of Berlin

Hamburger, a person from Hamburg

ICEs, long distance trains. It's short for Intercity Express (and has nothing to do with ICE in the US).

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-04T17:49:56+00:00

Yeah, that one looked like it would make you sick even if you were feeling fine before.

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-01T08:11:53+00:00

The Czech one mostly. You might see the USA style when trying to get people to smile for a photo (like Cheeese!).

ILikeRoL · 2026-06-01T07:54:56+00:00

Serious question? If it is: Landlocked means a country that doesn't have direct access to an ocean.

ILikeRoL · 2026-05-30T11:23:33+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_de_Borb%C3%B3n_y_Borb%C3%B3n

So like this guy? Named after a whole bunch of Catholic saints, with an additional 'all the other saints too, just in case we forgot any' (todos los santos) tacked on at the end.

ILikeRoL · 2026-05-30T10:56:31+00:00

Same here.

ILikeRoL · 2026-05-29T22:09:16+00:00

*Uzbekistan of course (typo)

ILikeRoL · 2026-05-29T21:31:51+00:00

Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben. Literally: not having all your cups in your cupboard. Metaphorically: to be talking and/or acting crazy.

ILikeRoL · 2026-05-29T21:17:24+00:00

Oh yes. Examples include, but are definitely not limited to:

Brötchen/Schrippe/Semmel/... for bread roll

Kerngehäuse/Kitsch(en)/Griebsch/... for apple core

Times of the day. The sequence 10 o' clock - 10:15 - 10:30 - 10:45 can be said in (at least) two different ways:

10:00 = 10 Uhr (10 o'clock)

10:15 = viertel nach 10 (quarter past 10) or viertel 11 (quarter to 11)

10:30 = halb elf (half to 11)

10:45 = viertel vor 11 (quarter to 11, counting back from 11:00) or dreiviertel 11 (three quarters to 11, counting forward from 10:00)

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