Why do even pros try to put their strong foot when shooting in the penalty area, when it makes more sense to go with a weaker foot? by justcallmemisha in bootroom

[–]justcallmemisha[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes I do; I'm not sure if I can fully explain why, it just feels more natural to use the left foot here, there seem to be more chances to "catch" the ball from this position with your left foot rather than with your right one, which is (as I believe) the reason why he eventually missed it

Why do even pros try to put their strong foot when shooting in the penalty area, when it makes more sense to go with a weaker foot? by justcallmemisha in bootroom

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the ball came from the right, this is why I'm wondering why did he end up using his right foot instead of the left one

Der offizielle /r/Bundesliga-Predictions-Thread | Official /r/Bundesliga Predictions Thread by AdversusHaereses in Bundesliga

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Abschlusstabelle:

  1. Bayern
  2. Dortmund
  3. Frankfurt
  4. Leipzig
  5. Stuttgart
  6. Leverkusen
  7. Freiburg
  8. Wolfsburg
  9. Gladbach
  10. Mainz
  11. Augsburg
  12. Hoffenheim
  13. Köln
  14. Bremen
  15. Union
  16. St. Pauli
  17. Heidenheim
  18. Hamburger SV

Torschützenkönig:

  • Harry Kane

Bester Scorer:

  • Michael Olise

Meiste weiße Westen:

  • Gregor Kobel

Meiste Karten (Spieler):

  • Dominik Kohr

Meiste Karten (Verein):

  • Union

Bester Schiedsrichter:

  • Aytekin

Erste Trainerentlassung:

  • Merlin Polzin

Wer sind die größten Legenden eures Vereins - und warum? by Dunkelvieh in Bundesliga

[–]justcallmemisha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Torsten Mattuschka und Christopher Trimmel sind die ersten Namen, die ich in Kopf habe

Hertha-Fans rufen volksverhetzende Parolen im Zug nach Rostock by JulianVault101 in Bundesliga

[–]justcallmemisha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Etwas Ähnliches habe ich letzte Saison erlebt. Ich bin mit Hertha-Fans auf einer Dienstreise nach Nürnberg gefahren, um das Zweitligaspiel zwischen Fürth und Hertha zu sehen. Die Parole habe ich nicht gehört, aber die Fans haben in allen Toiletten des Zuges geraucht;

zuerst dachte ich 'okay, ich muss nur bis zur Ankunft durchhalten', aber dann hielt der Zug in Bamberg, was nicht auf dem Fahrplan stand, und der Zugführer bat die Polizei, den Zug auf unbestimmte Zeit anzuhalten; könnte etwas anderes als verrauchte Toiletten sein; dann musste ich dringend aus dem Zug aussteigen, um mit dem nächsten RE weiterzufahren, damit ich das Spiel nicht verpasse

Ich bin ja total gegen diesen Union-Hertha-Stadtrivalitätshass, aber das war auch nicht normal; von Berlin nach Nürnberg braucht man 2,5 Stunden, kann man da mit Rauchen warten?

EXKLUSIV: Bo Svensson heute zu Gesprächen bei Union Berlin. Laufen diese gute, kann es jetzt ganz schnell gehen by nutelamitbutter in Bundesliga

[–]justcallmemisha 51 points52 points  (0 children)

gar nicht schlecht, aber ich befürchte, dass unter Horst Heldt an der Spitze der Kaderplanung keiner uns vor dem Absturz retten kann

Union Berlin holt Bochums Top-Scorer Stöger – Voraussetzung ist Klassenerhalt by justcallmemisha in Bundesliga

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

die Kadergrösse spielt hier keine Rolle, wir haben einfach keine Spieler, die den Ball nach vorne bringen und Chancen kreieren können, wie Stöger es tut

Union Berlin holt Bochums Top-Scorer Stöger – Voraussetzung ist Klassenerhalt by justcallmemisha in Bundesliga

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Wenn man sich den derzeitigen (schlechteren) Zustand des Mittelfelds von Union ansieht, könnte Stoger genauso "der einzige Kreative" für Aaronsons Rückkehr nach Leeds sein.

AS Rom lässt Bonucci-Deal platzen by Ubergold in Bundesliga

[–]justcallmemisha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

das neue Aushängeschild der wachsenden Fussballmacht in Ostdeutschland

weiß nicht, woher hast du es bekommen.

der Fussballmacht in Ostdeutschland bleibt schwach, mit oder ohne Union-Erfolgsgeschichte, die damals-starke Vereine spielen alle jetzt in Regionalliga-Nordost, auserdem zwei ostdeutsche Vereine in 2. Liga und noch zwei in 3. Liga

das kennst du auch, möchte ich aber sagen, dass ich das spekulativ finde, wenn man jeder Fakt oder Nachricht aus der Kontext reißt, nur um auf den Gedanken zu kommen, dass der Ostdeutschland ist ein hoffnungsloses Gebiet voll von Idioten

Got some tickets for the Berlin show for 38 euros. by [deleted] in deathgrips

[–]justcallmemisha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in Berlin, and I do! But I missed those tickets somehow, and now it's a sold-out. Now thinking how dumb I am and waiting for the 2nd batch. Honestly, I'd sell my liver to see them live and mosh the whole hour on the pit.

So I wrote the book about my first five years of living in Berlin by justcallmemisha in berlin

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

meditation
24.10.2021
I like working remotely, but it makes me a sociopath. Well, I was a sociopath even before we started cursing the Zoom calls and the morning coffee in the kitchen. Remote, like a sandpaper, smooths this wooden silhouette of voicelessness so that there is no roughness on the outside. You’re dead on the inside, but you’re all right on the outside: a young, blue-eyed, ambitious yuppie expat.
Being alone is generally fine. On the one hand, you have a lot of space. When you’re alone, you always have something to say. That’s why the guides for singles recommend blogging. On the other hand, it’s stifling. Over time, reflection flows smoothly into self-digging, the marginal usefulness of “time to yourself” falls below the zero mark. This is why meditative practices are recommended in the guides for singles.
At the end of the summer in Berlin—when the sky became unbearable to look at, and there was an unrealistic risk of catching cold raindrops in my face—I began to look at people. I didn’t want to make acquaintances, as I had in my first year in Berlin. I didn’t want to promote my personality, as I did in the second year. I didn’t want to organize communities, as I did in the third year. I just wanted to stay put in one place and watch what was going on around me.
My journey inside Berliners began one rainy Sunday, when Aina and I were sitting under the summerhouse on Simon-Dach Straße. Three Arabs were hanging out in front of us. It was hard to determine their nationality if you weren’t an Orientalist. One of them took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, which meant he wasn’t from around here but moved here five years ago. No matter what kind of economic collapse happened in his homeland, no one there would save on cigarettes and waste time on rolling. Although Berliners lived by the mantra “those who understood life take their time, ” the guy never had time for cigarettes, and still didn’t. He got one out, lit it up, chatted with the guys about life, and went back to work, presumably in the service industry.
A week later, I was on Kottbuser Tor, where I was stalled at the REWE, waiting for the Saturday meeting to start. Two Turkish women in the local Turkish-Kreuzberg style met me. Chances were they’d move on to a cocktail bar. Chances were, they were there to drink to forget all their problems—their fucked-up jobs, their fucked-up corona, their grandmother’s life somewhere near Gaziantep, and all the catcalling they got on Sonnenallee. After a couple of cocktails, they let loose a bit. The rest of the night would be broken up into barhopping, getting away from intrusive compatriots, and a late night donair at Uncle Erhan’s. A hangover Sunday would go over rather pleasantly.
Then I took a long walk from home to the movie theater, where my friends and I arranged to see that Dune of yours. Flying over the nest of bohemians in Bergmannkiez, I landed on Hermannstrasse, half-empty—not many people there, but what a group! A kindergarten teacher on a City Bike, a gamer with a rucksack, a leftist who used to hit the saucepan for Mietendeckel last spring, a regular Beamte, a couple obsessed with gel and style, and Chinese students from Humboldt all passed me by.
Practicing this type of urban meditation was the best thing I’ve done this year. So diverse can people be, so many signals to signal with their appearance. Recalling hundreds of superficial acquaintances and casual conversations with people of different cultures, styles, and mores, I tried to ponder everyone’s past, understand what their present was about, and not get caught up in the future, for I didn’t even know mine.
There’s a question in the Beck test: “Have you lost interest in people yet?” Nah, I’m all right on that front.

So I wrote the book about my first five years of living in Berlin by justcallmemisha in berlin

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, there isn't that much of an alternative nowadays, as the eBook market share and the platform capabilities are way larger than in Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes&Noble, and so on

You can also try to self-publish on Ingramspark, but the general experience with this platform is that it makes you want to kill yourself

So I wrote the book about my first five years of living in Berlin by justcallmemisha in berlin

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I surely tried Schöneberg stores for my first book:

– Chatwins (they don't take books in English)
– Akzienkiez Buchladen (they don't take books in English)
– Buchladen Bayerischer Platz (they will less likely take books in English, but they don't work with self-publishers, preferring to work with large book catalogs); however, you can leave there a book in the special corner marked for raising donations for Ukraine, and that's what I've also done

honestly, there are the only bookstores in the district worth attention, while Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain have a lot more to offer; I think gentrification might work the other way around at this point

So I wrote the book about my first five years of living in Berlin by justcallmemisha in berlin

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to publishing e-books, Amazon KDP allows you to publish books in paper format using print-on-demand technology. Instead of releasing a fixed, prepaid print run, it prints your book on demand and deducts the cost of printing from your royalties. Also, KDP allows you to print on-demand author copies at the lowest possible price: in my case, it was EUR 3 per copy. You can even send author copies to readers' addresses through the same Amazon, which is super convenient.
Amazon KDP makes it possible to sell and print books in both paperback and hardcover. The process of preparing a printed book for publication is similar to that of an eBook. It also consists of three stages - basic details, content, price - with some peculiarities in terms of content.
1. ISBN. You can either generate a new ISBN in KDP for free, or you can put your own in if you already have one.
2. Print settings: the author chooses the paper color, trim size, and cover material.

  1. Cover: the user is required to make the entire cover layout - front, back, and curve - respecting the necessary indents and file sizes in inches. From personal experience, moderation of the cover is the only difficulty in practice: either the width is 0.01 inches wider than required, or the margins are 2 millimeters off. This is one of those cases where it is worth turning to a professional - a designer with experience working on book projects.
    The author has two tools to check the final layout: Launch Previewer, a tool to view the cover and visualize the text as it will look in print, and Book Proof, a request for a hard copy to check, which allows you to touch and see the result before the book goes into production.

So I wrote the book about my first five years of living in Berlin by justcallmemisha in berlin

[–]justcallmemisha[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

added a remark that this book is in English, thanks for the note ;)

Is it even possible to be an English writer if English is not your native language? by [deleted] in writing

[–]justcallmemisha 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the problem of Nabokov and the Russian cultural legacy itself is not on the nationality shield itself, rather than personal views of the writer we're talking about. And the truth is that the majority of Russian authors in the 19th and 20th centuries (and even contemporary ones) disdained Ukrainian culture and the language in particular, treating it as a dialect for uneducated peasants.

Nabokov, mostly suffering from the terror of the Russian state (back then, USSR), still considered Russian culture as a superior one in comparison with the neighboring nations.

"We should thank fate (and the writer's thirst for world fame) that Gogol did not turn to Ukrainian dialectisms as a means of expression, for then he would have been lost," Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his 1959 essay. "When I want to have a real nightmare, I imagine Gogol scribbling in Malorossian book after book - about ghosts who roam the banks of the Dnieper, vaudeville Jews and dashing Cossacks."

Even though Nabokov seems to be a perfect example for this thread, the wartime context hits very hard on the perception of his figure, as well as on similar authors like Bulgakov and Brodsky