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  • Herding Llamas@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPreference
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    2 months ago

    Advil is the main brand name for this. I always buy a bottle and other pills when I’m in the US. It is way more than I need but what I like is all the US pills look different. I always have a little mixed bottle of Advil, Pepto Bismol (fixes everything stomach related), anti-histamine pills… with me for when I need them. You can mix them all together and still tell the difference between them. That’s what I don’t like about the European blister packs of unidentifable white pills. That and I hate blister packs. It is also cheaper to buy a bottle. But to be clear, I get like a bottle of 50 or 100. Advil is also enteric coated so it is better for your stomach and tastes better (it’s slightly sweet).



  • I’ve had it a number of times both in the states and in SE Asia. It’s different but it is really good. Like yeah it is a different coffee and if you judge it to the same criteria as a coffee style that it isn’t, of course it will fail. If a “good coffee” needs to be aggressively acidic with strong notes of papaya, pineapple, Maracuja…this is not that. It is very smooth and subtle and that is what makes it nice and different.




  • Antibabypille - contraception

    Stinktier (stinky animal) - skunk

    Stinkfrucht (smelly fruit) - durian

    Krankenhaus (sick house) - hospital

    Krankenwagen (sick wagon) - ambulance

    Krankenschwester (sick sister) - nurse

    Handschuhe (hand shoe) - glove

    Durchfall (through fall) - diarrhoea

    Regenschirm (rain shield) - Umbrella

    Stachelschwein (‘spikey pig’)= Porcupine

    ‘Pustblume’ (blow flower) = dandelion seed head

    Sauerstoff (sour stuff) - oxygen

    Wasserstoff (water stuff) - hydrogen

    Totenkopf (dead head)💀 - scull



  • This is today’s version of "Eskimos (Inuit, I know, but that’s not how the memes went) have __40 __65 250( insert your number, it won’t be wrong) words for snow. This is for the same reason and is now largely known as wrong.

    The problem is even German people (I live in Germany) also believe that they have a larger more expressive language than (for example) English… When it isn’t true. German has either 5.3 million++ words or 135,000 depending on how you count them. In reality you can endlessly combine words in German together, but it very rarely makes it a “new word”.


  • Dear Germans, When someone had a grandfather who was Turkish that doesn’t make their german born descendants Turkish… They are german.

    Dear brits, The Indian guy who’s grand parents were born in Britain… he’s not “the Indian guy”, he’s brittish.

    Dear French, French is not a skin color. It’s a nationality. A black guy can be French too.

    With contempt

    Immigrant descendents in Europe.

    The thing about people’s roots is it’s complicated, messy, and not only an American problem. More compassion and understanding goes a long ways.


  • It is easy to find many other sources with the same statistics. These as I understand them are people who speak 2 languages and not people who have simply learned some of a second language. There are a lot of American people speaking Spanish in the US, of course there are also for example, 1.5 million who speak vietnamese.

    This is broadly true with white Americans when their immigrant background is there already for generations… but a huge part of america does not even speak English at home. America is a melting pot of people from everywhere in the world and they naturally bring their languages, food, and culture with them. It is easy to forget, especially when only looking at specific demographics of a diverse country.