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This is like saying all Americans love McDonalds :) (I'm German) If this was voted up for fun I'm on it, if it was voted up because someone thinks it is true
by chupa-chups 7y ago
This is like saying all Americans love McDonalds :)
(I'm German)
If this was voted up for fun I'm on it, if it was voted up because someone thinks it is true count me out :)
- rolltiide 7y agofrom the article > A lot of Germans don’t get naked in public, but nudists are ubiquitous enough that the practice has entered the national psyche.
- chupa-chups 7y agoNope, not true (south Germany) This is assumed to be true in previous east Germany. I cannot confirm or deny how real this assumption is ;-)
- Maledictus 7y agoOn sunny days there are naked folks in Englischer Garten, Munich.
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- Dude2029 7y agoSo based on your analogy you are saying that it's true for most of German population? Good to know!
- chupa-chups 7y agoyeah :)
- andrei_says_ 7y agoBeing naked is nice but there are also negative freedoms that are quite important, although seemingly not as newsworthy. Has to be said that Germans enjoy quite a few of those, like * the freedom to not get bankrupt if they have a medical issue, * not get murdered while at school, * not be unable to afford rent and groceries unless working three minimal wage jobs (possibly four to afford health insurance), * not being crippled by student debt if they choose to go to college and * not get shot by police or imprisoned and forced into labor for existing while not white.
- lucasmullens 7y agoThis is a reasonable opinion but a generic argument for liberalism doesn't really fit into the conversation
- meowface 7y agoI agree, but from spending a fair bit of time in both countries, America has a lot of advantages over Germany as well. For the poor, working, and lower-middle class, Germany is far better to live in without doubt, but for the well-off, it's a tougher comparison. I would rattle things off, but it's more like an aggregate of small things rather than big things like "free healthcare", and I don't want to seem petty and discount the critical importance of healthcare and education. But as one example, if you want to create a tech startup, there are many reasons why it's better to do it in America than in Germany. Other people's lives matter more than fulfilling one's "Uber for dogs" startup fantasy or something, to be sure, but people optimize for different things given their personal circumstances.
- pessimizer 7y agoSo for 90% of people it's better. For the 10% who are always comfortable, it is still comfortable, but not as comfortable as possible.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoUSA has many temporarily embarrassed millionaires (or billionaires these days).
- odiroot 7y agoI have a feeling this must be more common in ex-Protestant, now atheist regions and definitely not in the Catholic South and South-West.
- Krasnol 7y agoIt has less to do with religion than with the regional culture of East Germany (it's/was also as popular in catholic Poland). Being naked in the sauna is even more common not only in (East) Germany.
- odiroot 7y agoThe division between Protestant and Catholic parts in Germany is (as far as I can see) much more than about religion, similar to Ireland; these are just convenient names.
- Fnoord 7y agoI remember watching a video called Hippies From Hell in which a bunch of German lockpickers (from Sportsfreunde der Sperrtechnik) were picking locks.. at a lake, naked. It didn't strike me as German; it striked me as part of hacker culture. Was I wrong? [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsfreunde_der_Sperrtechnik https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsfreunde_der_Sperrtechnik
- pessimizer 7y agoVirtually all Americans love McDonalds.
- smacktoward 7y agoIf we Americans were a little less fond of McDonald's, we might be a little less unsettled by the idea of other people seeing us naked :D
- the_af 7y agoHey chupa-chups, this thing about nudity is of course a generalization. However, I'm told all Germans absolutely adore asparagus, are passionate about them, and it is always an appropriate topic of conversation, whether discussing their many variants or how to cook them. Can you confirm this?
- harperlee 7y agoFrom personal experience I can confirm a corporate event for a famous bank consisted on a field trip for asparagus-gathering, and that once the season starts, they pop everywhere in the schnitzel sauces of daily menus every week :)
- chupa-chups 7y agoYes
- Krasnol 7y agoYou did not have a passionate asparagus discussion if you didn't touch the urine smell issue.
- the_af 7y agoPlease elaborate!
- mrguyorama 7y agoIf you eat asparagus, your pee smells like asparagus (kinda). It's pretty fun actually
- Krasnol 7y agoAs the other commenter wrote. Pee stinks BUT there is a catch: only a certain amount of people have smelly pee and some people produce smelly pee but don't smell it. It's genetic. Some enzyme turns something in the asparagus in sulphur. It's pretty bad. I have it and my SO too. So a high end asparagus discussion contains the "are you a stinker" team finding competition ;)