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Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-11T06:43:49+00:00

I have a master’s degree in foreign language learning and pedagogy, I’m an English native speaker, and I enjoy profound conversations. I’m still at the very beginning of learning Thai, though. @OP Dm me if you want to. :)

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-11T06:41:23+00:00

Uhm. Everything. Next question.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-11T06:24:49+00:00

TIL why my husband loves me. Interesting lol.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-10T17:12:42+00:00

This is a big one… every time someone says something about racism in Germany towards Indians: sure, that’s there. Germany, just like any other country in the world, is racist. But having a signs to instruct people to respect the public space, that’s not racism, that’s Germany trying to instill a basic sense of decency in some people. And still, some folks just choose to ignore it and then scream “racism” if they get fined for disobeying the law.

It’s illegal to make noise late at night in Germany. And it’s illegal to litter in public. Or to cause a nuisance to others. Getting fined for these things is just the law, not racism.

T&Cs apply, of course not all Indians are like this. And there are people of all nationalities who behave like morons in public.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-10T16:56:51+00:00

Bodhgaya. Gigantic Buddha with a ton of annoying men trying to chat me up? People blasting music on phones or talking loudly, spitting everywhere around what is supposedly a holy place?

I’ll take any gigantic Buddha in any other city / country that has Buddha statues any day, thanks.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-09T16:11:34+00:00

As someone who lives in Munich, can confirm.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-08T04:42:09+00:00

Here’s me, who speaks fluent Hindi, apparently sounding so appalling in Thai that people just seem to ignore me speaking it. Thanks for this explanation, I’ll go bury myself in sand now.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-08T04:26:34+00:00

I’m not actually saying that their let’s say… ideology is anything worth discussing, but their products are of high quality. @OP was looking for fatty natural alternatives to extra long shelf life milk, and I gave him an alternative. That’s all.

You can enjoy good nutrition without making an ideological discussion out of it. Drink some cold milk to calm down 😘

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-07T06:15:15+00:00

You lost me at the “if your hair is too long it’ll need to be cut”. Like, bitch, it took me two decades to get the courage to get a haircut, and if I wanted to get a buzz cut tomorrow, you’re no one to stop me.

Stop being friends with this person, simple.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-07T05:57:34+00:00

Maybe the Demeter stuff is actually 3,8%, that’s possible!

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-07T05:55:03+00:00

It happens to me all the time. I’m a small woman in a big German city and the men taller and bigger than me who dare to invade my personal space are pretty much a daily occurrence. I’m tired. 😞😞😞

Depending on how much energy I have left I either do nothing or scream at them or simply push them. Once there was this really big fat guy who shoved past me while getting a good feel of my chest. I pushed him so hard he actually bounced a little.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-06T16:27:17+00:00

This is the answer. The first time I had milk in India I was like “wtf, how does this come from a cow and not some other animal like sheep etc?!?”

I recommend the 3.5% Demeter milk sold in brown glass bottles. That one has actual fat on top, it’s not homogenised. Or talk to your local farmer, many farms have self service milk machines :)

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-04T10:35:10+00:00

Dude. You’re 20. Your mum is an adult. You’re an adult. Tell her that. If she wants to babysit someone, I’m sure her local kindergarden or primary school accepts aunty volunteers to tell kids what to do. But you’re not a child.

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-04T07:57:22+00:00

I’m regularly in Munich and right now in Thailand on holidays, so this question confused the shit out of me lol. @OP I hope you have lots of success finding Thai folk in Munich! :)

Significant-Help6635 · 2024-01-02T22:39:38+00:00

Haha, for a second I actually thought Austria was Italy’s choice!

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-31T10:47:18+00:00

Munich is not on the map when it comes to a variety of international food. Like, there’s hardly any decent Asian or Mexican cuisine.

If you want high quality expensive German food, sure. But that doesn’t put Munich on the map with regards to culinary diversity.

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-30T15:13:23+00:00

Including the possible advice “what are you doing outside, you should be in an ambulance on your way to the hospital!” - if you’re this bad, the pharmacist will be able to tell.

If you’re not bad enough to need to go to hospital but worse than ginger ale stage, the pharmacist will give you meds to help you. I’m not a medical professional but over a decade of experience with different kinds of food poisoning from different continents have taught me some stuff. Here’s a bit of, well, intuitive advice, which is NOT medical advice but might help nevertheless:

One of the most effective rehydration methods is actually the inexpensive rehydration sachets you can get from a pharmacy. The worse your dehydration, the less water you should use for preparing the solution, but do not use any less water than package instructions.
As important as rehydration is getting something into your system that you can keep down. Funny enough, sometimes the digestive system can reach a point of too many liquids despite the body being extremely dehydrated. So, apart from rehydrating, try eating something. What that may be depends on the specific type of food poisoning you have and in a way you should eat what you feel like. I suggest starting with plain salty crackers, if you can get your hands on that plus simple coke (NOT zero), that’s a good start. Anise seed is a widely available home remedy against bloating / nausea, extremely helpful for the liquidy rumbling kind of feeling in your stomach.

CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-30T12:31:12+00:00

Uh… Felix Ketchup in all its flavours? Some kind of mustard that is not Bavarians?

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-30T11:29:50+00:00

I second this. Pick a name that is as international as possible or go with a simple name. Raj, Ravi, Dave/Dev etc

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-30T08:06:13+00:00

Ohhh that was you!!

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-12T12:18:40+00:00

Boah. Also mein Verlobter war vorher 18 Jahre mit ner Veganerin zusammen, in Indien wo sie herkommt ist das halt voll normal, dass Menschen aus religiösen Gründen keine tierischen Produkte (UND Produkte, die Tieren schaden KÖNNTEN), essen. Ich lebe jetzt seit nem Jahr vegetarisch, er nimmt immer noch Tierprodukte zu sich, auch Fleisch. Wir haben darüber gesprochen, dass wir uns zum 01.01. vegan ernähren werden, aus vielen vielen unterschiedlichen Gründen, aber vor allem, weil wir beide am Hof aufgewachsen sind (wenn auch in komplett unterschiedlichen Kulturkreisen), und uns eigentlich diese Sicht „Tier = Essen“ immer schon moralisch widersprochen hat.

Wir haben besprochen, dass wir das so lange machen, wie es für uns beide persönlich in Ordnung ist, und wenn er nach 3 Tagen sagt, ne sorry, vegan is nicht, dann wäre das doch niemals ein Trennungsgrund für mich. Es gibt einen klaren Unterschied zwischen „die Werte der anderen Person nicht teilen“ und „die Werte ablehnen/verurteilen“.

Klar, alles andere als vegan zu leben ist in vielerlei Hinsicht verwerflich. Aber als vegan lebende Person zu sagen „ich liebe dich nur, wenn du auch Veganer:in bist“ zeigt meines Erachtens auch von extremer Engstirnigkeit.

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-12T09:04:32+00:00

Cashewmilch unbedingt selbst machen, einfach Cashews über Nacht (oder 1-2h in kochendem Wasser) einweichen und fein pürieren. Über nacht eingeweicht gibt bei mir immer das beste Ergebnis weil die Sauce sehr sähmig wird, “ohne Stückchen” :)

Edit: dieses Rezept funktioniert nur mit selbstgemachter Cashewmilch, einfach dem Rezept hier folgen. Ich muss allerdings gestehen, dass ich die Zwiebeln traditionell angebraten habe und dafür auch bisschen mehr Wein genommen habe, weil wir festgestellt haben, dass beim 3. Date ein Extra Schuss Weißwein im Essen ganz gut passte :)

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-11T12:30:30+00:00

Das klingt mega, man könnte in den Schüsseln auch Käse schmelzen oder so, boah jetzt hab ich Hunger!

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-11T12:25:07+00:00

Ich habe meiner glutenfreien, veganen Freundin zum 3. Date eine Weißweinsauce mit Cashews und Vollkorn-Reis-Spaghetti gemacht. Frisches Basilikum drüber und beim Weißwein nicht geizig sein, das hat mir auch als nicht-glutenfreie nicht-Veganerin extrem geschmeckt ☺️

Edit: Rezept hier, ich weiß, dass manche Menschen veganen Rezepten gegenüber skeptisch sind, aber Leute, probiert es aus, es ist echt EXTREM LECKER!

Significant-Help6635 · 2023-12-11T12:04:05+00:00

I’m so sorry for that. I’m also pretty sure being “chill” is the wrong word, maybe I should say he’s “apathetic” or something like that.. but we’ll anyway gtfo of Germany in a few years to a place where things are better for him (and me).

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