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My gf studied Dutch for years, came over to NL, spoke to my parents in Dutch, all good.

Then we ordered things in a café. She kept speaking Dutch, the waitress understood, but kept replying in English with a heavy accent. Then switched to Dutch when speaking to me.

I’ve always heard those stories and couldn’t imagine anyone being so rude but yeah.

I tried to buy cigarettes. “Winston, s’il vous plait,” while pointing at them. Lady started screaming for her colleague, “anglais!” Then I had to ask for them in English.

No need to bother with French.

Staring at teacher’s boring Powerpoint presentations and reading through a chapter an hour before a test only to forget it after doesn’t magically make you a smart person. In fact, I felt more like it numbs the brain.

They screwed with it when they decided you can’t see NSFW posts anymore, and they decided anything (comics, humor, opendirectories) can be NSFW

The amount of sites claiming there’s suspicious traffic coming from my IP is getting ridiculous

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Never been to the US but I’ve worked with software where tax had to be set up per country. The US was something else. It’s different per state, area, city. Weird taxes like “we’re gonna build a new stadium tax”. I really wonder how people work with that in real life. Do you go to the register, have it scanned and then decide if the price is worth it?

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It’s been the short name since 1992 but the English speaking world didn’t really pick it up until the government started pushing for English speakers to finally use it in official documents

If you hear, let’s say, Somalia, normally people would know it’s roughly somewhere east in Africa, Uruguay somewhere in South America etc.

I’ve traveled a lot and only from Americans I’ve heard them say about countries they’ve “never heard of it”. When I say I’m in Czechia, they just call it Chechnya, when I say I’m Dutch they love to mix that up with Denmark for some reason, etc.

Their excuse is always the same too: their school sucks. Dude, we didn’t learn this stuff in school neither. It’s common interest about the world around you, watching the news, etc. Half the countries you “don’t know” were bombed by you.

Yeah we don’t really do school cafeterias. You bring your own food. My middle school did sell some greasy snacks like sausage in a bun but you won’t see a decent lunch being sold

I thought it was EU law but apparently it depends on the country. It’s 3000 in Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and other countries have other limits. But it’s not surprising this is not a thing in Germany, they really try to push for cash

There’s not a lot of places accepting those currencies. Either take a European currency or US$.

But better to not take cash at all, especially that much. You have to declare it etc. Just pay by card and use ATMs if you really need cash.

A while back I tried DC++ and it’s still alive. I just couldn’t get the whole port forwarding to work

It’s illegal to buy anything in cash over 3000 euros

They’re very uncommon. I once got paid cash for fruit picking in France. It was the first and only time I carried 200 euro notes. No shop accepts them. ATMs give out 50 euro notes max.

I’m getting this since a few days and just refreshing the page always works

I hadn’t heard of Here We Go and so far it’s the only Maps alternative that actually gives correct routes for public transport. I wonder why its rating on Play is so low (2.9).

As for Gmail alternatives, I wouldn’t consider it a real alternative if you have to pay for it.

No, you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead. Doesn’t mean you have to make shit up. I didn’t say a word at my father’s funeral.

Not sure but old habits die hard.

The only times something got pasted with middle click was accidental and then it doesn’t even take what’s in the clipboard, which is also annoying if you’re in the habit of selecting text randomly when you read.