[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 95 points 2 weeks ago

I did something like this once. I was meeting a friend at a bar and she was with another guy I never met. I had just moved back to the US from Germany, so she introduced me and said "he just moved here from Germany," not realizing that it wasn't clear I was American. So he starts asking me how I like it here etc, and I threw on a German accent and went with it (I speak some German too). I pretended that my English was a bit rough but could get by.

We hung out for like two hours and then when I got ready to leave I dropped the accent and said in my normal Midwestern American voice "Ok cool to hang with you bro imma head out," and left.

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

My brother in law has ADHD. He lives next door to me.

He has a car he parks on the street. In my city you're required to get a registration sticker for your car, it's like $100 or something, good for a year. Every day you don't have a valid sticker you can get a new ticket on your car. It takes two minutes to go online and order a new one.

For the last three years, hes been racking up tickets on his car for an expired sticker. One a week roughly, $60 per ticket I think. He usually lets them pile up until he gets final notices then pays them all online at double the cost.

Twice now he's has his car booted, then impounded, due to unpaid tickets. He even includes tickets on his car as part of budgeting. I've offered a couple times if he'd hand me his license to go online and order the sticker for him. I've stopped offering since that offer is met with intense anger.

It takes TWO MINUTES to go online and order a new one. Poor guy

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm an American who speaks decent German. I've gotten this flak traveling in non-German speaking Europe - Stupid American only speaking English attitude thrown my way. Mother fucker I'm in France, a German would also be using English here. To some people the only way to not be "that American" is to speak all the languages.

On the flip side, I've had a few Germans ask me why I bothered learning their language when I could just use English.

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Me, a heathen, explaining how my family does Easter to my Jewish wife:

"We dye eggs and hide them then eat a bunch of chocolate and jellybeans."

"Wtf? Why"

"I dunno"

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago
[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago

I do this too. It took a while for my wife to fully understand that if she wanted to try something on my plate, she better not wait til the last few bites

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

I prefer "Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Stumbles and Gets Confused in Speech Again" personally

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

Welp that's enough Internet for me today

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 25 points 8 months ago

I worked at an office once where the wifi legitimately got worse when it rained. It was because the buildings internet used an antenna instead of being wired, and the building was just barely in range of the source signal. When it rained, it was enough added distortion to make it noticeably worse.

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

I love how all this dark shit comes out of the happiest country in the world

[-] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I wanna know what the rules of the game were

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