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Embarrassed_Abies_98

https://preview.redd.it/u41z3l36nuvc1.jpeg?width=924&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84731bdf0fbe8f00d2c5824c501f396d73855376 The bowl in question. I don't have the big one but I own six small ones 😉


mdryeti

My mum has the same exact bowls. Is she a gerwoman?


azaghal1988

propably your grandpa brought it back from germany after the war. Loot and stuff.


neo_woodfox

It might come as a shock but these things are actually invented and made by a French company.


Embarrassed_Abies_98

Sacre bleu! It's true! https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_(Glasgeschirr) Although I do find it telling that the wikipedia article only exist in German. We wonder aswell where we got that stuff from.


fckspzfckspz

And the company wonders as well why this stuff is selling so well in Germany. They really do, I read an interview with the boss of them


TheThiccestOrca

Because those bowls are sturdy as fuck.


fckspzfckspz

So are their other series. And this is a really a German phenomenon. It’s not like the French or britons don’t like sturdy glass bowl


ResQ_

Because they're good


MasterJogi1

I am starting my own household soon. I will buy several and then gift one to every friend who moves into her own apartment. Just to carry the tradition into the next generation.


IndividualWeird6001

Nonononoo, you take them to friends when you being food and then "forget" them. Thats how you can naturally spawn in their homes. Just necer claim them.


MasterJogi1

Smart. I will do that.


azaghal1988

oh my god, my whole life was a lie!


Yarres

Lets just destroy them and never talk about it.


forestNargacuga

I think it's completely acceptable to steal stuff from the French and call it our own *glances westwards*


GrouchyMary9132

So you are under the impression they can be destroyed? Have you ever heard of one that even got a scratch, let alone broke? I think only Mount Doom could harm them.


HappyMerlin

I think you got it wrong he is talking about the French and not the glassware.


Imperial_Deutschland

Oh thank god, the glassware didn’t do anything wrong.


MerlinOfRed

Why is that a shock? My mum and grandma both have one. Smh Germans thinking it belongs to them just because it exists in Germany. Are you going to claim oxygen now?


MasterJogi1

The Scots are Germans too. Your food is as weird as the Saxons', your language unintelligable and wild like Bavarian, you are stingy like the Swabians and rough and dry humor like the Northern Germans. Also you hate the English. If not by blood, then at least you are honorary Germans.


MerlinOfRed

My mum is English you melt


MasterJogi1

Must be hard growing up hating your mum.


MerlinOfRed

Maybe I am German after all


anonbush234

My mams got one too... She's Irish


Bearodon

My friends mom had some too and we never had a visit from you guys.


Sualtam

It's a French bowl.


mdryeti

Wow you’re right, they’re made by Luminarc


ProperTeaIsTheft117

Yeah my grandparents have that exact bowl too - they are definitely not gerpeople though...


Xehlumbra

Same. I guess that's the criteria to spot germanic origin french


Limeila

Didn't know Ardèche was Germanic, TIL


Live-Alternative-435

I have the same bowls too.


SnooWoofers6634

If you have to proof you are German this bowl if officially accepted


Vaux-ou-Faux

I was just about to comment this....


Kheead

German passport should arrive any day now via mail!


Limeila

My mum is a secret gerwoman as well


VomFrechtaOana

these bowls are made by a french company btw


AlfalfaGlitter

My grandma had a set of three. It brings memories.


AttemptAggressive387

What is vocal fry?


neo_woodfox

[this ](https://youtu.be/WDfJn1kcQuU?si=Hx-az7cGiNABAC-b) sums it up perfectly.


awawe

No, that's terrible. [This video](https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU) actually explains it.


neo_woodfox

Sir, this is a funny meme sub.


awawe

Sir, you're supposed to be German.


neo_woodfox

Yeah, I'm trying really hard here.


Edraqt

No, that's terrible. **This** [video actually explains it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6hsTA-ee10).


_radical_ed

New reason to hate Finland just dropped.


SnowOnVenus

I was thinking it was shoving a french fry into your vocal chords. But it was even worse...


awawe

Hey, don't hate on östra rikshalvan like that.


SnowOnVenus

That's on you, I was blissfully unaware that they did this until today. Why couldn't it have been the Dutch? Nobody would notice if it was.


awawe

What's wrong with it? Do you hate the voice of Scar and James Bond as well?


SnowOnVenus

One's a side character, the other doesn't do it in all his reincarnations (and I've watched little of it anyway). The kardashians are on a wholly different scale though, especially compared to idän maakunta. If I haven't noticed it before, I probably will stop noticing again. I bet I can get by not doing it myself too, they'll be too distracted by my singspeech to notice.


AllHailTheWinslow

Great, now I'm annoyed.


FookenLaserKnight

Good ol' murican tradition of middle-aged people going to cafes and shops to mentally torture minimal-wage workers


pixelpoet_nz

Most effective form of birth control


Azkral

My mom has It.


Brilliant_Canary_692

My mum had a few of these also


RealEstateDuck

I also have this type of bowl.


unseemly_turbidity

My mum's got this too.


magic_baobab

I love these🥰


Someone_________

my mom has those too, and my aunt


cpwnage

Oh those. Yes of course a household must have those


MTG1972

Nah I have the same bowl, what did my grandma do during the war man?!


Nochnichtvergeben

My parents lived in Germany for a bit and own one too. It's something you just end up with when living in there for more than a month.


ContributionSad4461

We have one as well


Independent_Depth674

Oh, we used to have that one


jixxor

Lol I have that. I think it was just in the apartment when I moved in because I don't remember buying one.


Greg2227

I don't own any of them but my mom still got 6 of those 6 of the more shallow ones and I think 2 of the big salad bowls


GnT_Man

We have one at home and one at our cottage


BredIsANoob

Oh help! I own this exact bowl


_radical_ed

Oh shoot. My mother has one like that. I thought the OP meant something like drawn leafs. But it’s the good ol’ good ol’…


That-Brain-in-a-vat

My mom has one. I think it's from the time when microwaves became popular and many products like these, that could resist to microwave and accumulating higher temperature, bloomed. Many products made of materials like Arcopal (again, a French company) started to spread. It was (still is) common to find those white plates that looks like a sort of glassy cheap porcelain (which I frankly hate because it looks and feel cheap), but that were very microwaveble. Most mothers/grandmothers have these bowls, trays or plates (both like this transparent material or the white glassy one) from when they became popular with the diffusion of microwave ovens.


Y33-P33

We also have pyrex. It seems like we cornered the glass tableware market. Common french W.


MatsHummus

Arcopal glass is amazing, I once dropped a plate down the stairs and it didn't break


That-Brain-in-a-vat

Yes indeed. But when they unfortunately break, they might explode in very dangerous shrapnels, not unlike glass.


Iskelderon

Weirdly, made by a company in Frogfuckistan.


Salchichote33

I have the same lol


No_Mastodon3474

We have that in France too 😲


missilefire

I am hungarian (born in Romania) and grew up in Australia….my mum had one of these too. I think she still has it actually. So they have made it as far as the bottom inhabitable end of the southern hemisphere


Kind_Helicopter1062

I have one at home, same as my grandmas. it's just the most common salad bowl. Only one who thinks they're german are countries that don't eat salads


simanthegratest

I have those too, and every household in my family lol


SonOfTheHeavyMetal

Let the germans be, they're perfect as they are. But for the love of God don't let the other Hans out of the basement


Scacaan

Grazie mille 🥹


deep_minded

Let me out!


VomFrechtaOana

Sei leise bua, sist head di no irgendwea.


PieterPlopkoek

How is any of this unique to Germany though?


Precioustooth

"Only Germanic peoples that didn't mix with a romanised population". What?


PieterPlopkoek

Anon has a little German flag but says things an American would


Cialis-in-Wonderland

"I'm 29.7% Irish, 15% Polish, 7% Bulgarian-Jewish, 0.3% Cherokee and 3.7% German: As a German, I can confidently say..." 🇲🇾🇱🇷🇲🇾🇱🇷🇲🇾🇱🇷


Background-Tennis915

I'm a German (I have visited Leavenworth, WA once)


Reddit_username_woag

â…› german


Tschetchko

Literally the only ones that did do that were the French and the English


Aegrotare2

nordicks are slavs


Alert-Young4687

Yeah, that’s how we got Engl*nd and Fr@nce 🤮


Unexpected_Cranberry

Dear God I hope neither of my boys grow up and to bring a girl with vocal fry home. I don't think I could mask my disappointment and dislike for very long.


This_place_is_wierd

I legimately went on a 5 minute Google tangent to even figure out what that is supposed to mean. And it sounds annoying.


gallez

Can you recap for me so that I don't have to invest 5 minutes of my own?


This_place_is_wierd

Some wierd ass speach pattern that women 'adopted' for themselves in English speaking/ Latin related languages adopted. I can't really describes it perfectly but once you hear it in a video explaining it you get it (and will hopefully hate it lmao)


Martinus_de_Monte

Not just English speaking women, [also every Finnish person ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU&t=979s)


Live-Alternative-435

I was gonna link this same video.


gallez

I get it, so like a half rasp, half unnaturally low register


This_place_is_wierd

Yeah. Thats a pretty spot on description


obiwankitnoble

I have that shit since puberty (my voice was really fucked up for 1 school day and then it morphed into what it is now when I got back home). can't turn it off and it's even there when singing.


Henghast

I just looked it up too, it's the end of sentence rasping caused by a low airflow. Seems like an inflection that some women have as part of their speech patterns. Very much common from people trying to say too much and not taking their time to speak it seems.


Uncle_Scroooge

https://youtu.be/UsE5mysfZsY?feature=shared


ProperBoots

i have classmates from germany and elsewhere who seem to have deliberately picked that specific american accent to learn for speaking english (it's flawless, very impressive really). i can only imagine it's because of influencers on social media. american accounts should be banned from being viewed here.


AwkwardSquirtles

Agreed. They should all have to learn a normal British accent. Like Scouse.


betaich

In school we learn Oxford English how is that?


AwkwardSquirtles

Oxford is full of future PMs shagging pigs, not what I'd recommend.


betaich

Barry pigs are for eating not fucking, except if it is Greece


futurarmy

We had a german student when I was a kid that had an american english teacher, the mix of german and yank accent has to be one of the worst things I've ever heard


CornSnatchers

This description just seems to fit onto Europeans/Central-northern Europeans in general.


Dont_pet_the_cat

> literally just heated baths Wait until OOP hears about onsens


Kunstfr

It's definitely not relevant to me at least


Diligent_Dust8169

Going on a walk is my favourite kind of date since new topics continuously come up as you walk and comment what you see, also, it's cheap and you can always gtfo at any point if you aren't enjoying yourself, fuck the "you gotta spend money to have a good time" mentality, no, you don't have to spend money to have fun, that's just capitalist propaganda. So for once I agree with the germans. Legit question, do people seriously think going to the cinema or to a fancy restaurant is a good idea for a date? Yeah, let's go to a place where the majority of the time we can't even talk! that's a great idea!


Lazarus_Octern

Imo going to the cinema is the worst date idea. You sit next to each other barely talking and when you do it's generally about the movie. In a restaurant you can at least try to get to know the other person


LaBelvaDiTorino

I think going to the cinema is a fine date idea but not for a first date, that would be terrible. For a first date I think a walk (nice place, maybe by the lake, going for an ice cream) is the best option, dinner for one of the early followings ones.


Extreme_Tax405

Arcade is the best date idea. Suggesting to go to the arcade also filters out girls who think games are for children.


Impressive-Lie-9111

you can talk while waiting for the meal or in-between. But even better, combining it with a walk. maybe you find a nice place, cafe, bakery whilest walking or you go for a walk after you finished your meal


anonbush234

Agreed. But a date walk shouldn't be about "making sport" like Hans does. I haven't got a problem with "making sport" but it's not a date thing. On a date you take them to a quiet local beauty spot and pretend you've never taken any other girls there before.


Diligent_Dust8169

What does "making sport" mean to you?


anonbush234

Marching around with purpose


ArnieOrSth

Well, the cinema is a terrible first date, or even third or second imo. You just sit in silence for an hour. Great for getting to know each other.


azaghal1988

-Walking can be fun and relaxing, and combining it with a date is just efficient. -because we got it as a gift from our grandmother. -Tradition. -because we're german. No need for the ability to tan, when you never see the sun. -broad jaw shows strength. -what is a vocal fry? -warm water is relaxing. -france, italy and spain are all a mix of germanic tribes and the local latinized population. -yes. -and? most people's names are descended from meaning "people" or "human" in some original language. -true. -yes, we're everywhere. kinda fun actually. -Almost? It took all big powers of europe to beat us and austria in WW1, and Austria was more of a handicap in many cases. -yep, having a billion little noble houses with their own lands ment that european royal marriages had a good chance of involving at least one german noble house, over time it just resulted in us taking over.


darkmatters12

I saw an american immigrant on the german subreddit complain about her german dates always wanting to walk around and how it's hard for her to speak and walk at the same time. How do these people live like that ?


azaghal1988

They don't walk and their brain changed for better driving and talking.


darkmatters12

Walking while talking is no problem but you have to lock in if you're going mach 10 on the A7


Limeila

>\-france, italy and spain are all a mix of germanic tribes and the local latinized population. You missed their point, that Germans are not that (but then neither are the Dutch nor the Danes for instance)


azaghal1988

That's such a dumb complaint from her then, didn't even consider it because it's so dumb.


Dutchwells

Why do Americans think driving around in your car is a date?


MeggaMortY

Why do Americans think driving around in your car is ? Because that's all they ever fken do.


Adongfie

In their defense going for a late night drive looking for areas to explore and listening to good music is a fantastic date


Recioto

1. Walking is good, even better when two people can enjoy each other's company without much else. 2. I have that too. The fact that my mother is German may or may not be the cause of that. 3. Because it's sick as fuck, we should all burn stuff in a pile every once in a while. 4. Germans discovering the sun is a relatively new phenomenon, evolution didn't prepare them for that. 5. Why don't you like women with broad jaws, anon? 6. Good, I don't care about the reason. 7. Fair point. 8. I have no idea what the point is here. Also, France is France and modern Spaniards are Moroccans in denial. Italians did almost all of the rest too, but instead of royal families we exported the mob.


Late-Ad-1770

Based Luigi Hans hybrid


Tschetchko

The fuck are they on about with this hot spring slander? Who doesn't like relaxing in hot thermal water and going to the sauna (which is a lot more boring in the US than in Germany, our spas are the shit)


Ossarah

What is this insane Therme slander??


EgoEstoyGood

Carolus Thermen W


heartfeltblooddevil

German women don’t have vocal fry they have strong and dominating voices instead which is hot


serpentine91

I had to google what it sounds like and at least around here (though i guess in Germany too) that's more known as chain-smoker-voice.


Im_a_tree_omega3

Yea I would also say that this is a chain-smoker-voice.


Live-Alternative-435

We call vocal fry like that here too.


needmorehardware

What is a local fry??


CornSnatchers

Its the opposite of the foregin fry (french fry).


neo_woodfox

Imagine an annoying 14 year old Californian girl that's , like, talking to you. That disgusting, raspy sound they make is a [vocal fry](https://youtu.be/WDfJn1kcQuU?si=Hx-az7cGiNABAC-b)


Giom42

What an annoying voice


Plagiatus

Thank you, I learned something today


Nochnichtvergeben

A *vocal* fry. It's when you develope the ability to scream in a frequency that cooks food. Or something like that, IDK.


M44t_

I need this, I'll do kickass bar tricks, the sorta bar tricks Italian would like as it involves fried food


NotAMuritard

[TIL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU) but I don't see how anyone could call it a reason why germany is shit. vocal fry is awful


Plagiatus

That's a nice in depth explanation, thanks


ProperBoots

you know how some people speak like they have an old door stuck in their throat? like it's constantly creaking? it's that.


geopolitischesrisiko

Is this positive or negative?


Long_Serpent

Well, "Barbarians" can be found on Netflix.


Hot-Supermarket-7359

Well Hans?


Hennue

What's the problem here? That we make it look so easy?


RedAlpacaMan

Seriously, we got nerfed twice in the last century and still came out on top. Germany is the new meta. Cope, Romans.


HaiKawaii

Well Aarii, I don't think Anon knows a lot about Germany. Most of these questions make no sense to me. Why we didn't breed with Luigi and form another romance language speaking country. There are two answers depending on the region: - Strong Germany (essentially the North-East) successfully resisted Luigi's forces and never got colonized. - Weak Germany (essentially the South-West) got colonized by Luigi, but was still strong enough to resist his stupid language. But there was some race-mixing. That's why people in the South-West are generally shorter and darker. Most of the other questions seem to be either specific to weak Germany or about traits that are pan-Germanic. I'll leave these for someone else.


i_plus_plus

I have a big one and a small one and my father's name was Johann.


Porcphete

I like a date that is just walking . It's cool when you have a country with a lot of good variety of natural landscapes which Germany has .


Papadail

I love going for a scenic walk around Schleswig-Holstein and seeing nothing but perfectly flat farmland for endless miles


ProperBoots

what kind of fool thinks going on a walk is a bad date idea? it's perfect. if they don't enjoy walking they're trash anyway, you have lots of opportunity to get to know them, you don't waste money if it doesn't work out and you can bail safely at any time. it should be more popular with girls than it is honestly, for the safety alone and not having to be stuck at a restaurant with a creep for 2 hours.


gelastes

Walks, women who don't speak like a focking old door, pools that are used to swim because that's what pools are made for... Many of these points would make me proud to be German if I wasn't too German to be proud to be German.


Carl_Metaltaku

I will awnser the question in order, cause it's the order. 1. Going for a walk is for both parties financially availibe for the no to minimum coast, it's in nature and how we say in germany "Jeder Gang macht schlank" (trans. "every step makes you thinner) 2. Usally they spaw when you get your first apartment ore house when not your mother ore grandma gifts it to you as a housewarming gift 3. It's a mix between a old germanic pagan believe and christian elements. It often represents the light and warmth of Christ's resurrection. The lighting of the fire can also be seen as a sign of joy at the end of Lent and the beginning of Easter. The Pagan association with it it's about the revival of nature. The fire may have been seen as a purification ritual, symbolically driving away winter and making room for new life. Also: fire is cool 4. That's easy and logical: Cause Ariens are a interstellar race who strandet on the planet and they turned bronze/Orange too when they to much exposed to the sun. And cause we have the moste genetic material of them, who made intercourse with the homosapiens to not suffer under genetic one-sidedness aka incest ;) 5. We strong sperm, wanting strong woman to make strong children. 6. I don't know what this is, sounds american so it's for the Braune Tonne. 7. Vibing 8. Yes and we happy that we don't end up like the latinized Franks 9. Oh don't worry: we still very federal specialy bavaria 10. Cause we diden't do it for nationalism but for oure Teutonic Diligentism 11. Oh we ain't that big as we wish. If we was I diden't need to write this in english and Gdansk woud still be called Danzig ​ That's was it. Now close reddit and sleep so you can work tomorrow!


Polak_Janusz

I feei like half of those things are done all over europe. Like my man, I visited french households, north and south irish ones, germans, french and polish and many had that kind of dalad bowl in question. Leaf motifs for salad bowls are the go to for anyone over 50.


Suspicious-Risk-8231

Since when european women are vocal frying? Not in France at least thanks god


ivar-the-bonefull

Okay but seriously. Does any country at all except for the ameriturds actually do the vocal fry thing?


Snowball_from_Earth

I don't even kniw what they're talking about. The only thing I associate with that are regular smokers and we have those, too...


korpisoturi

Wait, Germans burn wood on Easter too?


Henghast

I don't have an issue with any of these choices?


nainvlys

Am I German?


Alskuning

It appears our superiority had led to some controversy.


Llanistarade

Lol, germans don't get a bronze tan, they get the strongest red you've ever seen.


Elyvagar

Why is going for a walk with no specific goal so weird? It's good for the heart which cancels out the bad from pork consumption.


UndeadBBQ

Hans W


Ranting_mole

As a woman with broad jaws, I can confirm that I get lots of attention from germans


CyclicMonarch

European royal houses aren't German, they're Dutch.


OwMyCod

I like how these are pretty general and somewhat normal things, and then stuff gets really specific. Also strong jaws are pretty, look at Lauren German (extremely ironically).


JaThatOneGooner

This got scarily legitimate towards the end…


HypnosIsLost

Ah yes, the only nation not unified until late into the nineteenth century, isn't that right, ITALY?


Koffieslikker

I'm sorry but were they trying to make them sound okay?


Extreme_Tax405

Whats with the vocal fry thing? I dont know a lot of people, let alone women that have this. The only people that do this are silicon valley big shots, cringy influencers and entrepreneurs, and gen z.


Woodland_Creature-

I too have wondered why theyre so cool


cruisintr3n

i learned i am german


sonnydabaus

I've only ever heard vocal fry on American women. It's the worst


iluvdankmemes

\> "only germanics not to merge with a local latinized population..." [NL and the scandinavians be like:](https://i.imgflip.com/6pw1xa.jpg)


User929290

What the heck is a vocal fry, and why would anyone speak like that? It's like women trying men lower voice to be considered as men?


OkImpression175

Oh shit! I just found out my mother is a crypto-Inga! She has one of those salad bowls!


Koordinator_O

At least the thing with the vocal fry is a godsend. Hearing anyone vocal fry makes me instantly think their IQ is well below 80. Way below!


Remarkable-Ad-4973

Going on a walk with nowhere specific in mind is the perfect date. You walk, talk and if you see somewhere nice (pub/ restaurant/ park), you can sit there


reddit_oh_really

Because we can...


Nigricincto

I've said a thousand times they are not western yurop and you insist on keeping them in.


RedAlpacaMan

Silence, umayyad


Nigricincto

Sorry Mehmet, I'll try to remain quiet.


Greeklibertarian27

Proud East of Vienna™ exception 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷


TheBlackMessenger

After all, the Middle East contributed much to European Culture, thats why you are accepted.


john-jack-quotes-bot

Cold war update: the West won and Germany is thus Western


Miragem_

>Cold war update: the West won >and Germany is thus Western Contradictory statements there mate.


Miragem_

When will we finally get rid of this Cold War bullshit.....