Lmao. When I lived in Austria I remember I chilled with a friend and he let me take a couple sips from his Beer.
The next day he asked me to wire him 0.3 euro for half the beer 😭.
I just told him next beer is on me.
I swear Dutch reads and sounds like an English speaker making fun of German people.
“Ja I joost drooped mein pannenkaken entoo de poopengarten.” This is what Dutch sounds like to me, you have a practical rainbow of Germanic languages and then there’s Dutch which sounds and reads like a shit post.
Have you seen Afrikaans?
I saw a post of an old Afrikaans newspaper that read “Hitler dood, wat nau?”
Here’s it is without the pointless first half.
It’s so weird how Americans turned this phrase around. I looked up why a while back and apparently it was just to make it sound fancier initially and then it caught on. Either way, each to their own.
I’m not American. Just using the saying as I’ve heard it used pretty much everywhere.
I work at a bakery in Germany that’s open on sundays (most things are closed). Yesterday was absolutely flooded because of Mother’s Day and we kept running out of coins.
I had a man wait over five minutes before I was able to give him his change of one cent. I wish I were so in charge of my finances.
If it helps, it was a price ending in a different digit. It ended in six, he gave me seven cents, and wouldn’t accept my offer of his two cents back and I’d be happy to pay the difference personally. He wanted to pay exactly what he owed, which is his prerogative.
1 cent?! We don’t even deal with those fiddly little coins in our shops anymore. 5 cents is the smallest change.
The price of our plain Brötchen is indivisible by five, which means I get to impress the shit out of people with very basic mental math, but we do have to mess with the fiddly coins. Normally people are a little embarrassed and grimace while waiting for a tiny amount of change, but this guy was chilling. Honestly, more power to him.
No, I mean in stores we still get prices like 2,99, and if you pay with card you pay 2,99 but if you pay with cash you pay 3 euro. You don’t get 1 cent return.
On the flipside: if your total is something like 2,96 then you pay 2,96 if you pay with card, however in cash you pay 2,95.
So in the end it all kind of evens out.
