That’s how they get you

Because it’s worked out great all the other times the US has done that

I mean, to be fair, it’s not German literature, I’m teaching German as a second language. I’m a big proponent of dual native/nonnative language teaching, because native speakers (almost) always know what’s right and nonnative speakers (almost) always know why. I think of it like having a math teacher who’s a prodigy vs one who struggled with math- both are useful to have for different reasons.

My German’s not perfect, but it’s very good (C2) and it’s good enough to teach new speakers, I just let them know that I also make mistakes.

I’m an American immigrant in Germany. It’s infuriating how many Germans complain to me about immigrants, then when hearing that I’m an immigrant, wave their hand and say I’m not like the others. I’m now a German teacher and married to a German, so they’ve always got plausible deniability that it’s about language or integration, but I wasn’t always good at German and I only met my husband after a few years here. It used to be much more fun to push back on why.

It’s so weird to me. I recently “gave up” and started wearing comfy clothes like flannels, oversized sweaters, and mom jeans, then my 19 year old coworker told me I looked so cool and I legitimately thought she was joking at first.

It’s like nicknames. First it’s Joseph, then Joe, then Napoleon Jonaparte.

Damn. Maybe it’s unrealistic to have all your hair replaced with snakes.

Yeah, tbh I hope she’s deaf, for her sake.

I think medusas deaf. The cilia in your ear would be less effective if replaced by tiny snakes.

I had a man point at me and angrily go “that’s her!” to his companion while passing me.

I work at a bakery and give this motherfucker a free roll and a decaf every day because he’s already on the street when I get there at 4 and he needs to eat. We didn’t have decaf that morning, so I just gave him a roll, because I don’t know why he drinks decaf and I’m not trying to give him a heart attack. He thought it was aggressive of me.

Getting paid to hang out with fascists doesn’t actually absolve you of responsibility for hanging out with fascists.

Every generation worries about the new one, but they haven’t actually had cause in the past.

In the US at least, you might not convince people. I think every parent thinking about it imagines their child calling them during a school shooting to say I love you one last time.

That’s more worthy of respect than someone who doesn’t admit that capitalism affects our education system

I wouldn’t assume anything about the number of his children from that, tbh. And that’s fair, multiple children are relatively common.

The time that something similar actually comes up for me is with doctors. I tend to assume that people are talking about their single gp when they say “my dr.,” and this is often wrong with people who have a lot of health issues (it’s not a problematic assumption, because I don’t do anything with it, I’m just picturing a GP for whatever their story is).

I suspect the disconnect is between traditional headline values (first shortness, then understandability) and the ones that would actually make sense in the modern age (font size is adjustable at the point of receipt, and nobody reads articles, so clarity should win over length).

I’m my father’s daughter. I have two sisters who are also my father’s daughters. I am also one of my father’s daughters, but that doesn’t make my first sentence incorrect.

Judge Hofer, presiding, an experienced mountaineer who is active as a mountain and air rescuer (although he emphasised that had “no bearing on the case”) ruled that the defendant had been negligent in failing to recognise that Kerstin G would be unable to complete the climb well before the couple ran into difficulty.

That’s… incredibly convenient

What if I have lead pipes?

Yeah. I think throwing his brother under the bus would probably earn the king a whole lot of goodwill with the public, whereas pardoning him would outrage people.

Though not much came of Jimmy Saville, but Andrew’s not dead

I mean…

I have to assume thr relatively precarious position the royals have is stopping him