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Instant Karma

Avokineok says...

From my (non-American) point of view, this is extremely American.

Most people who think this is 'instant justice' are missing something I find way more imporant: This incident could have been 'de-escalated' with normal talk. Instead, people seem to hópe this guy will act crazy so they have a reason to jump on top of him.

I understand this guy was acting stupidly and there might not even have been a way of getting any sense into this person, but for me the best solution would be that nothing at all would have happened. Just some dumb homophobic idiot whom nobody should be paying attention to.

But that's just my point of view.

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What Languages Sound Like #2

Avokineok says...

I have heard for some years that a sarcasm emoticon should be created.
:@ I think was the latest idea I think.

I should have added that to the last sentence.

oritteropo said:

...unless you're trying to rent a property or get a job in the Netherlands. Then it would be quite helpful.

What Languages Sound Like #2

Avokineok says...

Even I think Dutch is an insanely hard language. And I am Dutch!
So many rules and exceptions to rules.

Example: Let's say you want to wright down 'pancakes' in Dutch. A decade ago that word just changed in all dictionaries, because it used to be 'pannekoeken' (pancakes) and now we need to write 'pannenkoeken' (panscakes!?). All because you can bake pancakes in multiple pans. I'm not making this up.

One more actual commonly needed rule:
If you combine a word consisting of two parts of which one is an animal and the other an animal, you need to write plural for the first word.. (I'm not kidding, this an actual rule)
So, for example 'paard' (horse) and 'bloem' (flower) in English becomes 'horseflower'.. We need to make it plural, so in English it would be horsesflower (paardenbloem in Dutch)

Just don't even try to learn the language, we all speak decent English and most also speak French and German, so we'll just adapt to you, that's better for all of us.

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Avokineok says...

>> ^radx:

Those guys knew they were driving too fast, they talk about it just before the cop comes up to the window. And if this happened at home, the driver would have lost his license for a month.


No he would not have lost his license, you are not from Germany I can tell.. When he drives at least 50km/h to fast, you will loose your driving license.

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Avokineok says...

this was just a commercial. at least on other shows, they try to act as if they (in case of a book) read the book and loved some parts of it and try to a conversation. which i usually also hate, because i don't like looking at commercials. this is just stupid.



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