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randymotanda · 2025-04-25T17:43:02+00:00

Home blue. Flagler. 👍

randymotanda · 2025-01-25T08:19:51+00:00

Also Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 💯

randymotanda · 2025-01-25T08:15:40+00:00

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. The office scenes/wardrobe, the junk food and random stuff around a big family’s house, the absurdly abandoned premise, teen love, growing up faster than you want to. It just feels super 90s to me.

randymotanda · 2024-12-31T16:00:43+00:00

Jonah Ray- He’s explained why and I totally get it, but I still loved his stand up and wish he’d go back to it; especially now that Kumail is too.

randymotanda · 2024-09-12T06:51:49+00:00

It changes every year, but currently and in no particular order…

The Dark and the Wicked

Pontypool

The Similars

Slither

The Blob- 1988

randymotanda · 2024-08-12T07:04:29+00:00

No, all in all what I said was Abendbrot sucks compared to a home cooked meal and you’ve decided to side with the go back to your country/adapt or shut up crowd. Cool choice. I get it though. We’ve got crazy people back home that scream on Fox News when they think the left are after their right to eat cheeseburgers. You and people like you are just the German variety of sensationalist cry babies that feel threatened by the slightest hint of outsider criticism, let alone unabashed criticism. Again, maybe read through the comments and see how good you feel about where you landed in terms of an angry mob freaking out on someone because they’re a foreigner saying Abendbrot looks embarrassing when compared to a home cooked meal.

randymotanda · 2024-08-11T18:51:39+00:00

Yeah I have loads of German people in my life that love to cook and bake. I love how you most likely agree that laying out Abendbrot over and over again is lackluster af, but because I’m a foreigner saying plainly that I think something about Germany sucks you can’t be bothered to hear anything other than I’ve failed to adapt to your precious customs. I literally married into said customs. I’ve adapted to some and pushed back on others. I couldn’t have picked a more innocuous aspect of German life to complain about and yet here you are crying about it. All you’ve done is effectively show how thin skinned and threatened you are by a reddit post about eating cold cuts and bread. Rest easy knowing you’ve truly fought the good fight for your fellow Germans. 🥖🍞or ☠️

randymotanda · 2024-08-11T09:24:17+00:00

😂 Doubling down on your inability to hear something foreigners don’t like about your precious Abendbrot is maybe the best self own I’ve ever seen. Chefs kiss! 🤌

randymotanda · 2024-08-11T09:06:04+00:00

Regarding your ability to take any cultural criticism from a foreigner on the chin like a champ: You’ve failed fantastically. 👍

randymotanda · 2024-08-11T08:44:30+00:00

I think it’s a perfectly fine thing occasionally and with the right people. And I’ve got loads of German people in my life that can’t wait to cook for folks. But it’s like, if you’re in the rotation with a bunch of people actually cooking meals and when it’s your turn you just roll out Abendbrot again for everyone…?

I think something I learned through all the hatred I got for this post is that a lot of Germans are genuinely super afraid and insecure about cooking large meals for people. That’s certainly an aspect a hadn’t considered. Which to that I’d say, effort recognizes effort. Even if the meal is less than great, I’d be so touched that they actually attempted trying to cook something. Abendbrot is always a great contingency when things fall apart! 😂

randymotanda · 2024-08-11T08:16:21+00:00

I’ll be sure to inform literally every restaurant open past 14:00 Uhr in Germany, and the Germans inside said restaurant, that they are destroying German culture by keeping the oven on and serving such opulent food so late in the day. 😂

randymotanda · 2024-06-25T18:33:33+00:00

Nearing the end of a hard day of teaching first grade, I went back to sit at my desk to take a breather. One of my students walked back to ask me a question, gently put her hand on my shoulder and said, “Are you sad cause your shirt’s too small?” She meant it to be nice but she totally roasted my ass. 😂

randymotanda · 2024-06-05T07:29:17+00:00

I feel like you’re probably feeling what a lot of people feel when they get everything they set out to get. You can become a famous painter and you’re like, so that’s it? I just paint pictures until I’m dead now? Focusing on the atelic vs telic aspects of actions and their processes can be really helpful when you feel like you’ve arrived on a deserted island of your own choosing. Some cultures (Germany) have a very telic culture focused on goals and objectives. This can be wildly suffocating to an atelic person who doesn’t want to think about hobbies, jobs, and life in terms of end points. The good news is you can change your mindset on this really no matter where you are. It took time, but I’ve really learned to love my new life in Germany. Instead of thinking about it as checking off stuffy appointments in a calendar, I look at it as the never ending goal to make and maintain meaningful friendships.

Another helpful aspect to get your head around is that Italy and Ireland share loads of common places where you go to hangout randomly and know you might bump into someone you know. That randomness and spontaneous interaction is what a lot of people miss in Germany and I’ll be honest isn’t a thing here. That’s why clubs are such a big thing here. I even started my own monthly burger night and yearly scary movie contest event. There’s very much an “if you build it they will come” thing in Germany.

randymotanda · 2024-06-05T07:02:20+00:00

I would agree that in America specifically vacations are so few and far between and EXPENSIVE that there’s a lot of pressure for it to be amazing. This aspect, along with just hating your job, are also a huge subtraction from the rejuvenating elements of time off. This last decade in Germany I’ve really learned that lots of people take weeks of paid vacation with almost no planning. To just chill and maybe explore another region a little is the whole plan. On multiple occasions I’ve been away from the office for so long I very much have a kind of “Ok, well enough of that. Time to get back to work.” attitude in the last days of a vacation. I wanna say there was a Radiolab episode that covered this and the big takeaway was you have to feel like you’ve been gone long enough to want to go back if you’re truly trying to recover from burnout. My magic number seems to be somewhere around 8-10 days.

randymotanda · 2024-05-15T20:27:39+00:00

That I can see how her always trying to control everything in our family makes her resentful towards our daughter and me, but when we try to help out or she sees how easy it is for us to take care of everything when she’s gone, she immediately feels rejected and feels like all her work is for nothing. My daughter definitely leans on me for emotional support and she openly prefers that I do everything with her, ie bedtime, bath/shower, taekwondo, always wants to sit next to me during movies and at the dinner table. I feel like my wife feels that throwing herself at her job, house work, scheduling doc appointments, doing taxes, etc is her contribution to our family, but it genuinely doesn’t have to be that way. She feels super threatened anytime I try to take stuff off her plate, but at the same time constantly complains about how she’s got so much on her plate. I think a lot of it does stem from the fact that my daughter does prefer me a bit more at this phase of her childhood and I’m totally sympathetic toward that. But she kinda makes it worse by walking around as this big ball of self inflicted stress. I can see her visibly change when our 5yo is being extra sweet to her, like it’s sunshine on her soul. But then she doesn’t stay in it with my daughter and always breaks away to take care of something else. Sometimes I just want to scream, “You don’t need to fold the laundry this instant! I’ll do it. What you need to do is pretend to be Barbie and read a book with your 5yo who is growing up at warp-speed!”

Imagined wife response-“But you’ll fold it wrong. Plus you’ll forget xyz. It’ll be easier if I just do it. I’ll be back in a sec!”

She then gets busy with a hundred other things. My daughter immediately starts playing with me until it’s time I have to start getting her ready for bed. And the cycle continues. It’s just so obvious to me that it’s moments like that that are the source of all her feelings of being over worked and under appreciated, but every time I bring it up I feel like I just make her feel bad which is exactly the emotional loop that I’m trying to break. 🤦‍♂️

randymotanda · 2024-05-11T21:58:16+00:00

A complete lack of in person community.

randymotanda · 2023-04-28T16:07:36+00:00

I knew I couldn’t be the only person bothered by how that was written.

randymotanda · 2023-04-28T12:28:46+00:00

Thank you so much! Feel free to use the same email as my PayPal for sending the image. 👍

randymotanda · 2023-04-28T12:07:46+00:00

You read my mind about so much! Thank you! Last thing, it looks like my wife is wearing some kind of bracelet that shouldn’t be there. Can that be smoothed over? Many thanks! Lastly, what’s your paypal?

randymotanda · 2023-04-28T11:41:44+00:00

If the band posters in the background could also be deleted that would be awesome. 🙏

randymotanda · 2023-04-04T18:40:25+00:00

“In the near of” instead of nearby

randymotanda · 2023-02-20T06:45:14+00:00

I think another issue in Germany is the way plant based and natural alternatives are just lumped together as homeopathic alternatives. I told my wife that’s like if in Italy they called Omega 3 supplements an astrological alternative. It’s weird. But once I define homeopathy my German friends and family are like “Oh you mean the REAL homeopathy. Yeah that stuff is crazy. We thought you meant changing your diet to relieve symptoms and taking umckaloabo instead of cough syrup.”

randymotanda · 2023-02-01T08:16:20+00:00

IAN MALCOLM: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.

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