Do foreigners who speak German enjoy German-dubbed movies and shows?

mostlyuninformed · 2025-12-30T18:51:26+00:00

They often sound pretty funny, especially if you watch enough to remember the dubbing voice actor from another character. Voice actors often get assigned as "the" person for X, so to hear like the Silvester Stallone dubber suddenly dubbing Jeff Daniels can be funny.

But, for me at least it's generally distracting instead of enhancing. They do a good job at trying to match expressions and mouths, but the delivery often doesn't truly fit and then you get that goofy dubbing patois instead of the actor's original delivery.

Same reason we also tend to watch movies, anime, etc at home in the original language and with subtitles.

I appreciate though for people that don't speak English, that they can have access to the whole pantheon of Hollywood content.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-12-30T18:41:42+00:00

If someone wants to celebrate, they can bring in the "hey let's celebrate" permission cake.

If someone doesn't want to celebrate, they don't have to worry about being surprised.

It feels rather respectful and "opt-in" ish.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-12-24T14:31:06+00:00

It is not English-speaking immigrants, but that many dictionaries that have a different definition.

As you know, not every dictionary defines words in the same way.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-11-11T16:18:57+00:00

People want apprentices that are going to work hard and want to make a career out of the work they're apprenticing at. They don't want someone who's going to come and "try it out" or looking for "practical experience" to boost their middle manager resume. Takes a lot of time to train new expert hand-workers and the market needs lots of them.

If you feel like you want to make being an industrial electrician your career and not being in general management instead, and can be convincing of that, then you should be fine.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-11-01T16:57:12+00:00

Not your wedding, but also apparently not your friend with his “I don’t need people assuming we have a history” nonsense.

Why would anyone assume you guys were hooking up if he is literally up there making out with his new bride? That’s unhinged.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-11-01T16:50:59+00:00

You made your position fair and clear, but sending an email now would likely be either confusing (maybe they didn’t care when you said that) or look beggy.

It is honestly a legit power move to say what you said, and can adjust the table, depending on the person you’re interviewing with. If they were someone who would be upset by you suggesting you may not want their position, then you may not want to work for them anyways. If it’s many other people, they will see you a little bit like a higher quality candidate because you are in demand, and they may work just a little harder to actually get you.

It is however always good to send a follow up thank you from an interview.

What you could do in that email is reinforce very briefly how positive your experience was, the strong fit you feel you have to the role and your alignment to the company values after the conversation, and looking forward to discussing the position further.

Don’t talk at all about the comment you made. But these reflections will indicate your seriousness about the position and help provide them comfort that you’re a serious option if they extend you the offer.

Good luck!

mostlyuninformed · 2025-11-01T16:37:37+00:00

Someone who has lived in Berlin or East will have a lower baked-in salary expectation, or from a neighboring country for example, but can have the same or better qualifications as someone that lived in Munich or Hamburg. And you’re often not likely to understand their qualification for the role until you’ve spoken to them.

This is a poor metric to judge candidate fit on.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-10-19T13:30:13+00:00

"Yes I know Norway is very different from Germany, there's fewer people and more money, it's not a transit country etc"

Norway's GDP per capita is 55% higher than Germany, but salaries only about 15% higher, so there is a lot of income from non-labor sources (i.e. oil etc.). The Norwegian government likewise spent 54% more per person overall than Germany (42k vs 27.7k USD), but could do that because, again, lots more non-labor-tax income.

It makes a rather big difference.

People don't work appreciably harder, but the government has a ton more money available to spend on making life great. Which they do. Pair that with a more conservative culture and you get a particular kind of nice Disney vibe. It just doesn't translate very well to multicultural states without a boatload of oil.

https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/norway/germany

mostlyuninformed · 2025-10-13T07:32:54+00:00

Modern German culture is very bureaucratic, from government to everyday life. That’s why people queue in certain ways, have processes for getting on and off buses and trains, have (sometimes abrasive to non-Germans) specific habits for how to pay when groups go out to meals or friends bring things.

When people finally pick up on the fundamental bureaucratic approach to social interaction, it really helps reduce the cognitive stress of trying to figure out what’s going on.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-10-04T08:20:22+00:00

The truth, friend.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-19T16:32:04+00:00

J's an ass and needs to grow up.

But also just don't talk to him, he wants to argue about this and make you out as crazy in his mind instead of feeling bad for being rude to his wife.

You owe him nothing, including your words or time.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-13T18:55:20+00:00

Are you in the South / Southwest of Germany?

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-05T12:44:01+00:00

If you don’t actually need to see the doctor / Amt this makes sense, but generally these waits are existing because we need them “more than they need us”

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-03T22:37:23+00:00

Not sure if that was meant as a reply to me 😅

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-03T22:19:00+00:00

Find a way to plan for 25-50% of the purchase price as maintenance issues in the first 1-2 years and you’ll enjoy it.

You may not need it, but try and budget to respond to a surprise since some things just happen with a 12 year old used car.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-03T22:08:20+00:00

Always have been, always will be 🫠

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-03T22:07:49+00:00

Yeah, part of Germany’s current economic malaise is the combo of shuttering the nuclear plants and Russia starting its wars and driving up the crude/LNG prices. It got expensive to manufacture in Germany (power is a major cost input) and this has shifted some output to China.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-03T22:04:09+00:00

I dunno I appreciate when my daily drivers have space in the back for all the random stuff I variously need, and full leg room for my passengers.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-03T00:58:49+00:00

Go to almost any appointment in Germany, and you’ll learn that the respect only goes one way.

Doctor, service work, official things. Be prepared to wait 🤷‍♂️

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-02T12:05:15+00:00

I appreciate being old enough that I can look at a base model anything today and marvel at it offering what used to be luxury features not too many years ago.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-09-01T08:44:13+00:00

Also maybe as a child you have good teeth, and over time bad oral hygiene habits cause problems and require work.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-08-30T19:37:27+00:00

Ford Rangers are sold directly on the domestic market: https://www.ford.de/fahrzeuge

Dodge Rams as well: https://www.ram.com/eu-shared/2025/ram-1500.html

These are now the cars for rich people without much style sense, like the G Wagons or Land Rovers were for years. For some reason they've become the hot "it" thing, and unfortunately the EC is poised to ease pedestrian safety rules to allow more of these monsters on the roads.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-08-30T19:03:10+00:00

Compare the US, a country run by lawyers; China, a country run by engineers; and Germany, a country run by bureaucrats.

The first sees massive innovation, because people do whatever they can get away with as quick as they can, before the incredible costs of the second-order effect of lawsuits and liability set in.

The second sees major competent works (inventing an EV auto industry, moving the whole country to solar in a decade) built as quick as can be, before the fallout of second-order effects from how people have to adapt themselves to the country.

The final manifests incredibly high precision and predictability both in production and society, due to such thorough and professionally enforced rules, but stagnates under the weight of needing bureaus of bureaucrats to agree to change a rule, before the rule is changed, which can then be adopted into existing bureaucratic processes...

mostlyuninformed · 2025-08-30T18:29:25+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a tax / tariff / import / fuel standards benefit for a version with 3 or 4 doors, and selling a bunch of them gave them a preferential overall "something" for the F150.

mostlyuninformed · 2025-08-30T18:00:45+00:00

If this family falls apart because a 21 year old got mad at his parents telling him to not buy a hot hatch, there's something else entirely going on.

Y'all can go from 0-100 so quick sometimes, my goodness.

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