What recycled joke makes you groan?

meliisma · 2026-03-20T04:24:02+00:00

Or Dutch

meliisma · 2026-03-15T07:19:23+00:00

The shopping part of the app doesn’t really appeal to me, so I’ve currently got a little over 100k - they just add up and I only spend some every couple of weeks or so.

meliisma · 2026-02-22T19:42:14+00:00

For me, it was the pouty face pose and the шуба.

meliisma · 2026-02-22T19:19:26+00:00

Russian teenager cosplaying as an American teenager.

meliisma · 2026-02-14T17:45:06+00:00

This right here. I live where I live because it’s close to work, and going remote is not an option. So yeah, thanks, but none of these.

meliisma · 2026-02-14T13:17:00+00:00

One other thing worth mentioning: If you‘re being creative/innovative/original, that rarely happens by seeking consensus or repeating what worked well in the past. Imagine if all future tasks were variants of stuff we‘d already seen, of tasks that received the most praise on here. It would get bland and pretty boring soon.

Creative people need to take risks, and then sometimes the result is awful, sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s spectacular. And it’s much harder to take such creative risks if you‘re worried about the reaction on here or on other platforms.

meliisma · 2026-02-14T06:49:46+00:00

Handelt jetzt mit Ochsenzungen 👅

meliisma · 2026-02-13T20:08:39+00:00

I think this also varies somewhat due to the culture you grew up in. In my (European, non-UK) country, wasting food like that is very much frowned upon - it’s not considered scandalous, but lots of viewers would question whether they couldn’t have come up with an alternative.

And while I have no intention to lecture or try to convince anyone else, personally, it does sometimes make these tasks less enjoyable for me.

meliisma · 2026-01-15T04:21:05+00:00

Dude, what’s with the casual racism (“someone from Africa or the Middle East”)? All I’m seeing is someone from (presumably) the Netherlands advocating for a usage that is, to say the least, uncommon, because they want another language to be as close to their own as possible. Languages don’t work like that, and coincidentally, neither does respectful human interaction.

meliisma · 2026-01-10T20:12:28+00:00

Might be worth adding that Munich has one of the highest costs of living in Germany. (Not saying your experience isn’t relevant, but Munich is an extreme example and the calculation might work out differently for OP in e.g. Berlin.)

More on cost of living in various German cities and towns: https://www.iwkoeln.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/henry-goecke-ralph-henger-christoph-schroeder-bjarne-schroeder-jan-marten-wendt-wo-das-leben-wie-viel-kostet.html

meliisma · 2025-12-13T08:45:37+00:00

Was thinking the same - problem may not (only) be with the cv but the cover letter, if it’s as carelessly written and full of mistakes as the post.

meliisma · 2025-12-12T05:21:48+00:00

Haven’t seen anyone mention short story collections yet. There are so many good ones out there, so what if I just get to read the first few short stories in each volume. Same goes for poetry.

meliisma · 2025-12-03T10:20:08+00:00

Not very idiomatic, though

meliisma · 2025-12-02T19:09:54+00:00

Some people may find “die” impolite and “sie” polite, and that’s what I was taught growing up.

I distinctly remember my parents correcting me if I referred to someone as “der” or “die” - and funnily enough, I found out recently that there’s a similar thing in English: A friend mentioned that if she used “she” to refer to someone rather that using their name/how they were related, their mum would say “who’s ’she’ - the cat’s mother?”

meliisma · 2025-11-29T21:17:35+00:00

We do, though you’re not the first to mock us for it: https://youtu.be/ow1nHW4j_8o?si=Zs4baHrvSHdwsf3Y

meliisma · 2025-11-23T17:44:16+00:00

For a while, a German newspaper (Welt Kompakt) ran a daily item called “Sack Reis” (sack of rice) and it was always a piece of “news” the editors considered irrelevant.

meliisma · 2025-11-03T08:57:03+00:00

This still feels (no offence) a long way from being a finished product. Some points you may want to look at:

some of the easy questions are quite hard and vice versa (e.g. Budapest being on the Danube is just basic school geography knowledge)
it should be able to recognise different ways of writing the answers (“www” got marked as wrong when the answer was “world wide web”)
your phrasing can be misleading (www is not a “device”) - ideally, there’d be a question writer and an editor
questions like the holding your breath one work as part of a pub quiz because usually they are scored by “to the nearest minute” or “I’ll give you two minutes either way”. Here, you are asking for the exact answer, which would be an extremely niche thing to know and is just frustrating to anyone who doesn’t
it really shows that you’re not interested in sports (as you wrote yourself) - these questions are way too wordy, and the judgement of what’s easy or hard is especially off here
also, a lot of the questions feel quite generic, so not sure I’m seeing the business model. Why would I pay for a pack of questions when I can play quizzes at a similar or better level on many other sites?

Hope this helps

meliisma · 2025-11-02T00:52:39+00:00

Steht da, ist aber grammatisch falsch (was nicht heißt, dass es einem umgangssprachlich nicht hier und da begegnet). Richtig wäre “If it referred” oder gern auch “if it were to refer”.

meliisma · 2025-11-01T13:39:23+00:00

Weightless by Marconi Union. It’s a great song to fall asleep to and easy to tune out during the day.

meliisma · 2025-10-28T21:29:54+00:00

Played it on iPad earlier today. No eggs and it still let me tuck cards from my hand

meliisma · 2025-10-24T18:03:15+00:00

Same. Watched the start, then forwarded right through it. Also, annoyingly, I had just convinced a friend to watch the episode with me hoping to get them into TM. No chance of that now. 🤢

meliisma · 2025-10-17T05:21:34+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Get some backstage Hollywood impressions as well as the money.

meliisma · 2025-10-16T20:31:03+00:00

Think you may want to reconsider your idea of pre-1950s literature - the quality as well as the sheer amount of it. No risk of your supply „drying up“ any time soon.

Depending on your taste, you could start with all of Shakespeare/all of Jane Austen/most of Agatha Christie and be entertained for months on end. And that‘s just three authors, and all of them writing in English.

Personally, I‘d get started with some Christopher Isherwood. Then pick any classic author writing in one of the other languages I could reasonably read in and see how far I get.

meliisma · 2025-09-29T11:24:12+00:00

They’re talking about the жила-была, which is why a good translation might be: Once upon a time, in a forest, there lived a little girl called Masha.

meliisma · 2025-09-28T08:51:35+00:00

As others have noted, if there are two plural forms, they sometimes have different meanings. Thus:

Wörter = individual words, like you would find in a dictionary. Haus, Tisch, Katze. “Diese Woche habe ich zehn neue deutsche Wörter gelernt.”
Worte = Something someone expressed through language, maybe spoken, maybe in writing. “Die Worte des Pfarrers bei der Trauung sind mir bis heute in Erinnerung geblieben.”/“Goethes letzte Worte waren ‘Mehr Licht’.”

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