I feel like most copypastas (at least the ones that I can think of) were initially received poorly. The 300 confirmed kills one and the vaporeon one are unfortunately the only ones I can remember off hand, but they definitely were

lol, that’s very possible

They should make cases with the adapter built in, the way they used to (still do?) for external battery packs.

We are slowly moving to under-screen cameras now though.

Nothing better than a selfie from a low angle, right?

Not just to slap her while pregnant, but specifically because she didn’t fit into the dress her MIL wanted her to wear.

You know how pregnant people tend to stay the same size throughout their pregnancy

Though to be fair, they’re not exactly known for their creativity. Perhaps they haven’t ever had an idea they didn’t read about first.

Yes about the Schlager, lol

Yeah, having birthright citizenship makes a huge difference, imo. I’m from the US, which is obviously not currently immigrant friendly, but at least had the veneer of such when I was growing up (at least from my childhood perspective), and it’s hard to tell whether birthright citizenship or the idea of an “immigrant nation” played a bigger role in the difference between the two.

Germany and England do have specific and individual cultures that are worth protecting, but cultural exchange doesn’t inherently destroy extant cultures and if you follow the roots of any tradition far back enough, you’ll find influences from outside cultures.

I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but I got a feeling similar to what I imagine compersion to feel like (I’m not poly) when I saw a group of women wearing full hijabs integrated into their Karneval costumes bringing their costumed kids to a Faschingsparade. It was such a clear image of cultural blending that I got a little sappy about it.

It’s an incredibly sensitive topic for both ethnic Germans and descendants of Gastarbeiter (as well as for people who are both, obviously), and I’m an autistic foreigner, so I’m trying to be delicate, but I might be missing the mark.

It seems to me that it created a group of people treated as second-class who weren’t given the tools to do well in the German education system, and systemic discrimination solidified that. I hear complaints from (some, racist) Germans that immigrants haven’t integrated, but how could they (obviously there are individuals who integrate under those circumstances, but that’s not going to work with a wave of immigrants from the same country- they’ll just form cultural enclaves, because they won’t get community support otherwise)?

For more recent immigrants, like my coworker from Syria, who’s been in Germany for nine years as a refugee, the choice is between staying a refugee (the German government could at any time say that Syria is safe again and send him back with a few days’ notice) and applying for residency outside of his claim for asylum, thereby giving up his right to asylum (so if they say no, he’d also have to go back with a few days’ notice). His wife and their daughter are in the same position. How on earth can anyone expect him not to teach his daughter Arabic? She might at any point have to move to Syria.

That was the original plan, which caused a lot of the trouble the Germany currently has. There weren’t big programs for immigrants to learn German until decades after the original Gastarbeiter had arrived. There was no effort at all of integrating them or their children until basically an entire generation had already come, settled, and retired. Even aside from cultural aspects, a lot of the descendants of Gastarbeitern don’t have German citizenship. It’s fucking wild to me that someone could be the third generation of their family born in a country and still not be given citizenship.

I’m an immigrant and a German teacher, so I’m probably biased, but that’s not the way to go about things.

Those came after WWII, from the Gastarbeitern who helped rebuild Germany

Going off of the shape and what I know of Germany today, beer bottles.

I always want to point out that I’m a normie, then I start thinking of criteria and shut my mouth.

I’m not British, but I’ve been a bartender (in a queueing place) and I’m almost certain they’re glad about the queues. I currently work at a bakery that tends to queue, but when it falls apart, people get unnecessarily pissy with me, as though I should remember who got to the twenty person clump first. I have to imagine it’s worse when everyone is drinking. The reaction to people jumping the queue certainly is.

There are no nerves in the cervix?? I don’t know, I’m not a doctor. Maybe it’s just nerves everywhere around the cervix which funnily enough, makes no difference

People really just got annoyed about you missing the context of a comment (science fiction and cultural depictions of the future) and asking clarifying questions until you got it.

We’ve been sacrificing schoolchildren to preserve gun owner rights this whole century

Preventing pregnancy is the most replicable effect of condoms. I’d be much more worried about gonorrhea, HIV, even syphilis.

You’ve heard of the double down, but what about the duodecuple down?

I can’t imagine feeling comfortable saying something like this, especially on fucking tv