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Can confirm, it's a huge tradition to watch it on NYE in Germany. It's almost as popular as watching Tatort on public viewing events in bars on Sundays. I'm a

Can confirm, it's a huge tradition to watch it on NYE in Germany. It's almost as popular as watching Tatort on public viewing events in bars on Sundays. I'm also legally obligated to like it, it comes with the citizenship :D

Semaphor 4y ago
> It's almost as popular as watching Tatort on public viewing events in bars on Sundays. I have never even heard of anyone doing that, I’d say dinner for one is vastly more popular.
- 411111111111111 4y ago
  Isn't more of a boomer tradition? Few people really go to bars nowadays, do they? It's maybe clubs for tweens and even that's declining to my knowledge
  - Semaphor 4y ago
    > It's maybe clubs for tweens I’m guessing I’m not the only one who thought that "tweens" meant people in their 20s. As a tip: Don’t say you are into tweens. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2
    - 411111111111111 4y ago
      Oh, i thought it was people between teen and early twenties, as it looks like a combination of these words. I misused the word, thanks for pointing that out. Really confusing when you stumble upon such a total misconception about the meaning of a word in your own vocabulary.
      - Semaphor 4y ago
        As I said, I made exactly the same mistake ;) Teen comes from ten, it only makes sense that tweens comes from twenty. IMO we are right and everyone else is wrong ;)
    - noodles_nomore 4y ago
      An earlier version of wiktionary had that definition. Apparently it was deleted for lack of citation other than Tolkien which might be an in-universe term. > 1. A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old. Possibly including 30-32. > 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien > At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
      - Semaphor 4y ago
        That's amazing, thank you. I just hit my wife over the head with it, and she's not amused. But I feel vindicated that Tolkien, 41*, and I all are ahead of everyone else ;)

Semaphor 4y ago

> It's almost as popular as watching Tatort on public viewing events in bars on Sundays. I have never even heard of anyone doing that, I’d say dinner for one is vastly more popular.

411111111111111 4y ago
Isn't more of a boomer tradition? Few people really go to bars nowadays, do they? It's maybe clubs for tweens and even that's declining to my knowledge
- Semaphor 4y ago
  > It's maybe clubs for tweens I’m guessing I’m not the only one who thought that "tweens" meant people in their 20s. As a tip: Don’t say you are into tweens. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2
  - 411111111111111 4y ago
    Oh, i thought it was people between teen and early twenties, as it looks like a combination of these words. I misused the word, thanks for pointing that out. Really confusing when you stumble upon such a total misconception about the meaning of a word in your own vocabulary.
    - Semaphor 4y ago
      As I said, I made exactly the same mistake ;) Teen comes from ten, it only makes sense that tweens comes from twenty. IMO we are right and everyone else is wrong ;)
  - noodles_nomore 4y ago
    An earlier version of wiktionary had that definition. Apparently it was deleted for lack of citation other than Tolkien which might be an in-universe term. > 1. A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old. Possibly including 30-32. > 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien > At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
    - Semaphor 4y ago
      That's amazing, thank you. I just hit my wife over the head with it, and she's not amused. But I feel vindicated that Tolkien, 41*, and I all are ahead of everyone else ;)