Just plant the tree on the neighbours property ;)

Now guess how it feels to type German with predictive text. Most of our words can have more than a dozen different word endings depending on time and how the word is used. And that’s not taking into account that we use compound words, which word prediction pretty much cannot predict and often doesn’t even know. So spell check will mark a legal compound word as misspelled, because it doesn’t understand the concept of compound words and doesn’t know this specific word combination.

To show what I mean, the term “Danube steam boat captain’s hat” becomes “DonauDampfSchiffKapitänsMütze” (I added capital letters which shouldn’t be there to show where the next word in the compound word begins).

While this is an extreme example, it’s pretty common for compound words to consist of 4-5 words.

Finally designers are realizing it’s not 2013 anymore and nobody liked the Win8 designed-in-powerpoint style.

Third option: their phone is having a stroke.

Interessant, hätte gedacht das Wort ist generelles Deutsch. Scheint’s wohl nur im Österreichischen Deutsch vorhanden zu sein. Steht auf jeden Fall bei uns im Wörterbuch.

Gatsch ist gleichbedeutend zu Matsch.

Hier ist das Lied, von dem der Text stammt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz0koxHf_E0

Hupf in Gatsch

Und schlog’ a Wölln

Oba tua mi do net quö’ln

Hupf in Gatsch

Und gib a Ruh

Sonst schliess ich Dir die Augen zu

So an Oamutschgal wie Dir schenk’ ich an Schülling

Oda na I gib da zwa donn bist a Zwülling

Wö aner allan konn doch net so deppert sein

Hupf in Gatsch und grob di ein

Nive! Now how can we get Zuckerberg to do the same?

That’s yet another example of “stuff gets more expensive if you are poor”…

A very annoying concept.

It’s pretty much all foods. Cutting out the retailer avoids a markup of ~40%. Buying in bulk straight from the farmers drops the price even more.

Buying a whole pig from the farmer costs roughly €200 or roughly €2.80/kg.

In the super market you pay €10-30/kg (at least over here).

And there is the same kind of markup on everything.

No wonder processed food is so much cheaper.

No, I am kinda pissed because you called me weak-minded and because you kept attacking obese people.

I got a few obese people in my life that I care a lot about and I know how messed up they get because of the constant scrutiny and hatered they get from random people.

Again, I kept saying all throught this conversation that I think that addiction and obesity are not a weakness of character or something like that. Everyone has things that don’t work out and issues that they work on for decades that just don’t get better. And if we are honest, everyone is addicted to something. Some addictions are more visible than others, but that doesn’t make them worse.

You on the other hand have done nothing but bashing addicts and obese people.

Go and eat your ribs the way you like it. Why do you think I care?

You are the one who brought obesity up. I was talking about addictions from an empirical standpoint.

You then jumped in and called me obese and weak-minded.

I didn’t even mention obesity or being overweight at all in my first post.

There are also a lot of other conditions you can get by consuming too much sugar, even if you aren’t overweight. For example, you don’t need to be overweight to get diabetes from consuming too much sugar.

And contrary to you I know that addiction is not a character weakness and it has nothing to do with being weak-minded. Addiction is a psychological problem same as depression. Shaming people for their addiction is incredibly counter-productive, because it often is the result of people being very unhappy with their current state. Shaming someone makes this problem worse and usually results in more severe addiction.

I’ve have experience with addiction and I worked a lot with people who are affected by addiction. I do know how it works, and shaming someone (even yourself) makes the addiction much harder to get rid off.

Depends on the amount of sugar ;)

If you go into a sugar coma while driving, that could be very dangerous.

But sugar has a very wide range between the amount that it takes to have a nice effect and the amount it takes to have severe accute consequences.

Alcohol has a much narrower range.

That’s also what makes Nutmeg such a bad drug, because it doesn’t take much more of it for a lethal dose than the amount you need for a good high.

And not too long ago the whiskey would also have been considered ok.

In some jobs (e.g. sales) it’s considered essential to the job to be able to drink a lot.

At least where I am from, alcoholism is in many contexts still normalized.

Luckily, this is slowly changing.

For context, pinkdrunkenelephants said in a different comment, that they are “fat as a pile of pig shit” (direct quote) and consumes a lot of doughnuts and sugary drinks like coke.

That user is sugar addicted, and the reason why they are posting what they are is to justify their actions. Because if there is no sugar addiction, they cannot be an addict.

Add to it: they need to have the money too. Getting a cheap frozen Pizza is by far cheaper than to get all the components fresh and preparing everything yourself.

I recently tried making a few of the simple and cheap foods you can easily buy ready-made.

Do you know how much time and money goes into making a simple Döner Kebab if you don’t have industrial kitchen equipment?

Or sausages?

When sugar became a rare commodity in Jewish ghettos in Nazi-controlled territory, people would literally trade diamonds to get it.

To second your point with something that’s easier to grasp:

It’s quite common for people who are heavily addicted to nicotine to be able to enjoy a little bit of alcohol sometimes or completely go without. Or be able to go shopping without getting addicted to it.

Being addicted to one thing doesn’t mean you automatically get addicted to all other things that people can get addicted to.

You are projecting. I hate doughnuts. I do eat sugar but not excessively so. And I am not overweight. I also don’t care about petty beauty ideals like “getting ripped”. I am not 15 anymore.

Let me get this straight though: You say that you are “fat as a pile of pigshit”, say that you eat donuts and drink cokes all the time and that you “could stop at any time, you just don’t want to”. That’s 1:1 addiction speech.

You are addicted. Because being addicted means that you keep doing something even though you know it’s really bad for you. Being addicted means, that you are not in control.

Saying “I could quit at any time, I just don’t want to”, while your body is rotting away, means not only can you not quit even if you wanted to, but that you have so totally given up on trying, that it has become part of your identity.

That’s the exact same line you hear from old smokers with amputated legs and lung cancer.

Yes, you can find videos of people who have not been addicted.

Please go and read up just a little bit about what addiction is. Apparently, being completely unaware about the concept does not stop you from commenting.

I don’t understand either how you came up with the idea that I am addicted or overweight. I was just talking about the concept addiction and the difference between sugar addiction and other addictions.

You are making a fool of yourself.

Found the miracle healer!

You want to get out of addiction, just decide “I want to stop”.

Do you offer the same solution for other issues as well?

Depression: “Just don’t be sad”

Broken leg: “Just decide that it’s not broken any more”

If you can give something up just like that, you weren’t addicted to it. Please read my post again. There is a huge difference between “using a substance that can cause dependence” and “being addicted to said substance”.

For that very reason there are people who enjoy some wine, rarely, in specific settings, and at the same time there are alcoholics who actually are addicted.