• FundMECFS
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    84 days ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 days ago

        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.

        • madjoOP
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          24 days ago

          I’m not American. Just using the saying as I’ve heard it used pretty much everywhere.

          • @[email protected]
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            24 days ago

            Aye, I saw the .nl in your user tag. It’s not a fault to use Americanisms or anything, it was an interesting tidbit about the phrase

  • @[email protected]
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    965 days ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
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        545 days ago

        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.

    • madjoOP
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      265 days ago

      1 cent?! We don’t even deal with those fiddly little coins in our shops anymore. 5 cents is the smallest change.

      • @[email protected]
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        185 days ago

        We just got this rule in Estonia too this year. Cash payment, round to nearest 5 cents, card payment, still exact number.

      • @[email protected]
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        125 days ago

        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.

        • madjoOP
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          95 days ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            65 days ago

            That would kill me. I realized that the computer rounds down when calculating our employee discount (we get 50% off, but if something ends in x.x5, we pay x.x2/x.x7, whereas other customers paying for half a loaf of bread would pay x.x3/x.x8) and I’ve been exploiting that since.

            I guess this comment section has been a learning experience because I realized that I am exactly the same as that customer.

            • madjoOP
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              55 days ago

              Who says memes can’t be educational? :D

  • @[email protected]
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    64 days ago

    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.

    • madjoOP
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      195 days ago

      Dat is geen pannenkoek, dat is een pizza. Pannenkoeken komen niet uit een oven.

  • Sixty
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    305 days ago

    How many half A presses is that when converted?

    • @[email protected]
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      125 days ago

      Hahaha I’m curious how many people know the word ‘Pannenkoek’ just from the Mario 64 youtuber

      • Sixty
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        45 days ago

        I didn’t know it was dutch until this post lol. But it’s obviously pancake looking at the word. Or so I thought! Looking it up it’s specifically a Dutch Pancake?

        Is there a different word for a western pancake?

        • @[email protected]
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          35 days ago

          Well, I’d consider Dutch culture to be western as well lol. Dutch pancakes are there own thing (not to be confused with a ‘Dutch Pancake’ in America, which is another different thing

          We call the thicker, smaller pancakes ‘american’ pancakes.

          Dutch pancakes (Pannenkoeken) are thinner and bigger in diameter. More like a crêpe. Though crêpes are thinner again.

          The american ‘Dutch Pancake’ is a very fluffy egg pancake baked in a pan. (Also called a German Pancake or Dutch Baby Pancake) (there’s not much Dutch about it, because it originated in the US from someone of German descent)

          • @[email protected]
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            145 days ago

            To illustrate it some more with images:

            American Pancakes:

            Pannenkoeken:

            Crêpes:

            ‘Dutch/German’ Pancake:

            • Sixty
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              35 days ago

              Thanks for the effort posts, now I’m hungry…

              • @[email protected]
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                45 days ago

                All of them are super easy recipes! Though if you’re in America I would advise against making the German Pancake at the moment, because you need a lot of eggs for that one.

                • Sixty
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                  35 days ago

                  I’m Canadian so that’s not our problem :)

          • @[email protected]
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            14 days ago

            Similarly, the people called ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ in the US do not have Dutch ancestry for the most part. They were German and referred to their homeland as Deutschland, locals anglicized it to Dutchland, hence ‘Dutch’.

            In our next class, we will discover the interesting history of the Jerusalem Artichoke…

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            A UK pancake is very much that same large like a crepe but more substantial as well. Enjoyed almost exclusively on pancake day with sugar and lemon (we did blood orange juice because fancy).

            • @[email protected]
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              25 days ago

              Came back from NL recently, and their pancakes seem the same as ours (UK). My mother quite enjoyed them as they were familiar.

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      About 1/1000th of a washing machine.

      (Ironically, this was my 1000th comment on this account on Lemmy)

        • @[email protected]
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          75 days ago

          For anyone else who’s learning something new today. That’s generally what I practice, though I tend to think of it as a form of chivalry. I’m a woman ish, but I like the idea of decoupling chivalry from gender roles and treating everyone with more care than is typical. Plus, sexist men hate nothing more than having a woman hold the door or offer to carry something heavy for them.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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            35 days ago

            It’s what I think of any time I hear the phrase “traditional values”. Caring about other people is the basis of any sane ethos.

          • madjoOP
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            55 days ago

            Anyone who can upset sexist men is a-okay in my book. I like you.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 days ago

      Yeah. We use it to settle a lot of things with friends etc. Going out for dinner or having a drink at someone’s place? Split the bill and send everyone a Tikkie. Sometimes there’s even multiple because someone paid for the beer and someone else for the pizza.

      For context: in the Netherlands we generally pay using debit card instead of physical money or credit card. Almost every bank has their own “Tikkie” service nowadays. There’s also Splitser, which allows you to keep track of who paid for what over a longer timeframe with more people. Like a holiday with friends.

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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        45 days ago

        Yeah but for €0.43? Here in the states people tend to think more like “it’ll even out” especially among friends.

        I wouldn’t ever ask my friends to pay me back $0.50 lol

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          Oh no definitely not. Unless it’s a meme haha. Among friends we regularly don’t send a tikkie even when getting beer or something, because you know it’s probably gonna be repaid sometime. As friends you definitely don’t always need to even the books

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        They said “No one, but Dutch people”, but this is very common in Germany.

  • @[email protected]
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    24 days ago

    Alternatively, the number of fistfights I’ve almost been in with Albanians who aggressively refuse to let me pay for anything is off the charts.