No.11412
>>11410>may end up working with GermansTry to not kill them.
No.11413 KONTRA
>>11408aren't there actual tree "bombs" dropped with planes?
>>11411at some point they switched to use palm oil. before it tasted a lot better.
No.11415
>>11408>not liking knoppersThere is something wrong with both of you. What do finns eat instead?
granted they like chocolate and wafers No.11416 KONTRA
>>11415>What do finns eat instead?All sorts of candy, chocolates, cookies, flavored nuts and potato chips. Nordics generally have the best grocery store selection of all of these in Europe, bar cookies perhaps. Pic1 is the normal candy/chocolate section of a larger store. There's a similarly sized section for potato chips. Small corner stores cut those sections to half from what they are in the pic. But still feature huge selections compared to Europe generally. The tendency to eat this shit and drink a whole lot of alcohol are the primary reasons why we're so fat.
>granted they like chocolate and wafersComplex or even flavorful (and non-artificial) wafers don't really exist. And thus they're not popular. They're generally a shit tier snack. Both in terms of taste and delivery. Turkish waffles like in the second pic are so far the best I've had, but even they're not great. Similar to their Central European counterparts, but with more flavor. Waffles in Finland are either super cheap bulk waffles imported from Central Europe (shit) or in small chocolate bar form with way more chocolate than waffle. Stroopwafels are great, but I don't think they belong to the same category as Knoppers and the likes.
Checked the selection in the store I order my food from:
Candy Bags - 328 products
Chocolates - 447 products
Potato Chips - 120 products
Waffles - 59 products
There's probably 5%-10% overlap in every category as some products are features in different packaging sizes. Some adjacent categories are missing, like nuts, popcorns, puffs(like cheese puffs) pastilles, and other misc items such as kinder eggs, licorice bars, salmiak boxes, etc. etc... And there's a lot. Also almost every store has a section of loose candy and you can pick and mix your own bags.
No.11417
I’m living absolute psychological hell
No.11418
Work continues to consume me.
Ice crystals on my car windshield this morning.
>>11416>They're generally a shit tier snackWafers are love. Wafers are life. Used to be some cheap brand we ate as kids. Can't recall, maybe this is it. Pure sugar but nothing better. Obviously, my favorite flavor was peanut butter.
No.11423
>>11416>candy, chocolates, cookies, flavored nuts and potato chips. Nordics generally have the best grocery store selection of all of these in Europe> nuts> best> nordicsI know nothing about Finland, but so nuts they sell in Sweden are salted and rancid.
No.11425
>>11421>Apparently they also have a Knoppers type snack but I never tried it.Quite great.
t. ester
Manner is great, indeed,
>>11416Germany does not have that many wafer products either I'd say. What struck me is the large licorice section. Maybe I overlook the licorice section here since I hardly eat licorice but the aisle looks pretty much as big as a German grocery store section of sweets (chocolates, candy, cookies and so on. Nuts, potato chips and the like are also sorted separately)
No.11426 KONTRA
>>11418>Pure sugar but nothing better.Yikes fam...
>>11423>[...] nuts they sell in Sweden are salted and rancid.In the section you quoted I specifically mentioned "flavored nuts". Anyways, perhaps you had surströmming nuts or something. I've never had rancid nuts anywhere in my life.
No.11427
>>11426> I've never had rancid nuts anywhere in my life.What about those on you? :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
No.11431 KONTRA
>>11429Elderly-hate is my brand on EC.
You will be hearing from my lawyer.
(But you are right on every single account.)
No.11432
So, it seems I get the (substantial) raise.
This was kinda expected tbh because they need me.
No.11437 KONTRA
>>11429> Am I the only whose romantic prospects come in waves? Celibacy followed by multiple choices, followed by celibacy followed by multiple choices. Absurd.same here.
No.11445 KONTRA
Friday against. Have a good one, Ernsts.
>>11432Congratulations my man! Well done.
>>11429That's how it goes. All them ladies that show up the minute you get a gf. They sense it somehow.
>There's a real issue with public transportation being empty at night here and they still charging full price.Insanity indeed.
No.11446
>>11445>Well done.Thanks, have a good weekend too.
No.11447 KONTRA
Yesterday I had the Chinese oral exam. Only feedback I got from the teacher was "差不多", then I left and came home. I was very tired but decided not to sleep after lunch. Didn't even drink a second coffee.
Afterwards I went to the last philosophy seminar. Professor was wearing a mask and I thought something was up. Apparently he wore it for "our safety" because he was running a fewer while teaching.
He held a very nice seminar for us on Chinese Buddhism and its effects on Neo-Confucianism. After class he looked a bit winded and I was afraid he was having problems, but he regained his composure after a few short minutes. We talked about my essay a bit and he said that just as I evaluated it myself, it "leaves much to be desired", but he said that what he expects from someone my caliber is completely different from what he expects from someone trying to complete his course. The essay is enough to complete the course with an A, but is unworthy of me. But he read my other work and has trust in me that I will expand this essay into a chapter in my thesis. (Which is true I think, because the topic is good.)
Once I left I was feeling very tired so I decided to not go to the Chinese book club event because I haven't read anything by Liu Zhenyun anyway and one of the people on the stage was that bitch who talked down to me during the national contest and I had no interest in looking at her face. God, I'm petty.
I went home. I crashed into bed, and slept for 14 hours straight. Woke up in the early morning. I had the remaining of a mini-Gugelhupf for breakfast with some tea. Had lunch, drank the remaining half-bottle of tonic, my herbal tea and a coffee and left for the library.
On the way I brought an energy drink and a chocolate bar. The former fucked up my stomach because it hurt when I got home a few hours later. Thankfully it passed but damn, it really felt painful. Though I remember going through much worse.
I was at the library until 8. I crammed passively and actively. Imagining Chinese characters in your head is more exhausting than I thought. But I still managed to review all the chapters passively and also the exam chapters actively and passively.
I got home and I decided to fry my brain by listening to House MD episodes in the background. Also baked a pizza for the leftover sauce so that I have something to put in my lunchbox tomorrow.
Family is going on some trip tomorrow. In the forest. It's almost freezing but "It's going to be great". I told them I'll be preparing for the exam. I don't want to walk in the cold more than I want to.
Funny how the sauce and the dough are never in balance. The sauce runs out, but I still have dough, I make more sauce, I still have sauce, I make more dough, because sauce it expensive to make and dough is cheap.
Tomorrow I'm thinking I'll look at the grammar plus read the texts more in detail. Though I was able to use the grammar during the oral exam too. The battle plan is that I make 20 points with the vocabulary, 20 with the translations into Hungarian, 20 something with the essay and then everything above that is the blessing of 天 for all I care.
I'm feeling pretty good all things considered. Very clear. Very lucid. Focused.
Next year is year of the dragon. Good things are going to happen.
No.11448
France is some kind of totalitarian dystopia. There’s giant posters in the stations saying that the state is watching over everyone in the station with cameras for antiterrorist action. Every public closed is guarded and you have to open your bag to come in, if you forget your bag in a train station, trafic will be stopped and your bag destroyed. Meanwhile the state is using public money to explain how much he tries to helps with black on white posters signed by the Gov’t. There’s not one thing that’s not profoundly absurd and anxiety inducing, France is a shithole.
No.11449
Germans were invented by Otto von Bismarck in 1871 to render internet discourse impossible.
No.11451 KONTRA
>>11448> France is some kind of totalitarian dystopia.Last time I was in france, bicycle tour, it really creeped me the fuck out. humans with machine guns standing around at a normal train station. I've only ever personally experienced heavily armed personal in africa before. really felt like being in a totalitarian dystopia. the more rural areas were fine, though.
No.11452 KONTRA
>>11451>heavily armed people in train stationsBeen there done that with the boys in the Swiss :DDDdD
No.11454
>>11449Germans have existed way longer than the German Empire, which you mean.
No.11455 KONTRA
>>11454No. They wouldn't eben have thought of themselves as German. Nationalism only became fashionable because people started imitating France. Germany is a 19th century invention.
No.11456
>>11455This is false on a lot of levels, there are multiple 16 and 17 century writings creating some kind of pre-nationalist German mythos. German as a nationality manifested politically mostly during the 19th century people’s spring but Germans existed before as a class in itself, just not for itself.
No.11457
>>11455Are you trolling or just fucking retarded?
No.11460
>>11456>>11457If you had asked a 'German' in the 18th century 'were are you from', he would have told you the name of his village. Certainly not Germany. The German language was only invented by Luther, before that, they're was no German, just local dialects that had as much in common with German as Dutch or Suisse-German.
Maybe go to a school and learn something, or read a book, than you wouldn't have to be Nazis.
No.11461
>>11456>writingsThe fact that they were writing means they were literate, which means they were either aristocrats or members of the clergy.
And the reason they were writing about it is because they were trying to invent it.
People always mix up cause and effect when it comes to history.
Or rather, they reify spooks and then argue back from the premise.
Kazakhs on the other hand, have a direct cultural lineage and an identity tracing back to the Scythians, true story.
No.11462 KONTRA
>>11460>The German language was only invented by Luther, before that, they're was no German, just local dialects that had as much in common with German as Dutch or Suisse-German.It's *german* dialects spoken by people in different *german* states. Just like today.
And for that it doesn't matter whether those states are their own duchies or kingdoms or condensed under one big federal republic.
Ironic how you're telling others to learn something when you are clearly just uneducated scum.
No.11463
>>11462It's very telling how you emphasize 'German'. Sorry darling Nazis do not get to call other people scum.
You would not be able to comprehend these German dialects, same as you are unable to comprehend dutch or Suisse. No one today speaks any dialect except for the most retarded farmers who suffer from some congenital diseases caused by inbreeding.
No.11464 KONTRA
>>11463>same as you are unable to comprehend dutch or SuisseSpeak for yourself.
Then again, I now know you're trolling, so troll yourself.
No.11465
Yes, Germans were invented. But it is a great invention. It brought together people from different counties and duchies into a big community, standardized their language, made them easier understand each other.
Nationalism is good when it serves uniting people. And bad when it serves dividing people (Catalan nationalism, Cantonese, Ukrainian, etc)
No.11466 KONTRA
>>11461Yea, I meant identity in actual PEOPLE (book readers). The rest just can continue to play in their doodoo feces.
More seriously, I Mede reference to a Marxist concept in the sentence just after. Germans existed as farmers existed without class consciousness or in that case ethnic/national consciousness. Germany always had the potential to exist, because people had this traits in common. The means of communication or propaganda were just not developed enough before the Industrial Revolution for this type of state.
No.11467
>>11465Without German nationalism, no fascism and no nazi-junta in Ukraine.
No.11468
>>11467This time it's Americans anyway. And they are as well filthy British separatists.
No.11469
>>11466>The means of communication or propaganda were just not developed enough before the Industrial Revolution for this type of state.Only in Germany. Not in France or Britain or Poland or Sweden.
No.11470 KONTRA
>>11469The power holders in Germany were scattered. Which made the aristocracy effectively ununified unlike your other exemple. Which were maybe more of a bourgeois and aristocratic nation state than what we now mean by one. Britain stand out as an odd exception I think…
No.11471
>>11465>Nationalism is good when it serves uniting people. And bad when it serves dividing people (Catalan nationalism, Cantonese, Ukrainian, etc)These are the two parts of the same coin called nationalism and they always exist in parallel. Nationalism is a bad differentiation. It's a low-fidelity concept for idiots.
21st century Schopenhauer
>>11449A wise man with predictive might.
No.11472
>>11470Stop making excuses, just admit that Germany is made-up bullshit from the 19th century that shouldn't even exist.
No.11473
>>11460>If you had asked a 'German' in the 18th century 'were are you from', he would have told you the name of his villageAnd yet others would say he's a German. Feeling very sorry for your fake nations, though.
t. 100% real nation from ~14th century
No.11474 KONTRA
>>11472I feel like I’m being trolled :(
No.11485
>>11476That map is a lie. The Holy Roman Empire had internal borders. It wasn't 'of the German nation', either, it was multi-ethnic. Go and read a book, maybe you'll learn something, for example you might learn not being a Nazi.
Deutschland ist scheiße, ihr seid die Beweise!
Deutschland von der Karte streichen, Polen muss bus Frankreich richer!
No.11492
>>11485I'm not sure who is trolling who at this point.