No, you’re a hot mess!

It’s already too late for them so they forgot to smell it all up hence the odor. One afternoon in a nursing home per week can do wonders for people who haven’t Alzheimer’s already!

It’s a money kind of thing.

I spend my elementary school holidays working on my father’s farm. When I moved to my mother I started to work for her instead. Doing chores and taking care of yourself was simply expected. No actual choice, since grown ups were out working, sleeping or taking care of the things you’re not old enough to do.

There is a point where people simply can’t afford it to not parentify their children. And the people you perceived as “poor” simply didn’t reach that point.

I don’t want to say my parents weren’t at fault but in that exact moment in their life they had no other choice, at least my mother, who also leaned way more on us.

parents asking their teenage children for for rent

German here. I enjoy bashing US Americans as much as the next one, but paying rent to your parents is something I had to do after finishing school with 19 (did a social year first and then went to uni and had to share my Bafög). And a lot of people I knew back then, had the same situation at home. At least for families with low income this seemed to be not out of the ordinary.

Bad women’s anatomy would have a field day with that poor thing :(

I always point at my older sisters 4 kids and remind nosy people that there’s already enough of “us”

Am I seeing an organ donation card on the desk? If so: nice!

Agree, being in an environment that is tense, angry or violent makes me unbelievably uneasy. No matter if I’m involved or not.

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Tbh it is. It’s still disgusting but less disturbing. Thank you!

This is so not safe for life…

I mean, yes, but the last points kind of belong together ¯_(ツ)_/¯

And https://adultswim.fan/c/koth

Through the power of the Internet I can include you <3

Reminds me a bit of the basalt columns at giant’s causeway. What are these columns made of?

I hope you missed that part too

I want to use these as a sort of “guide” to navigate life.

Frankfurt, and whaddayaknow, perfectly understand everything around me

Until someone starts a lengthy talk about Ebbelwoi

I looked it up again:
It’s derived from the Yiddish word “Schofel” which itself is already an insult and closer to the German word “Lump” and the English “rascal”(?).

If you want a literal translation for Schofseckl I’d go for “sack full of useless rags”.

And Seckl < Säckle < Sack would be perfect for scrotum too

No, the meaning of “Sack” alone, without context is that of a soft, loosely shaped container. If “Sack” is used as a short version for “Hodensack” then yes, it can be used as an insult but that’s not the case here.
“Seckl” is more similar to the Bavarian/Austrian “Sackl” or “Packl” it’s just a bag.

That’s fair, I learned to speak a more understandable version as I grew older. One of my half brothers and his father have a very heavy dialect. To the amusement of my sisters and me.

Their dialect is so strong that when the car broke down while on their way to family in Hessen, my step father couldn’t properly communicate with the mechanic. We still quote parts of the conversation. It was glorious.

Other than that I love Swabian life lessons like " ‘s läbe isch koin Schlotzer" or small odes to their treckers like "Isch d’ Berg au no so schteil, mein Fendt der schafft des alleweil!".

But I also prefer the way you people in the North talk. At least listening :D

The “Schof” is not drived from the German “Schaf” but from Yiddish. The older generations used it to describe someone who’s a useless idiot. E.g. when. someone fucks up something easy and obvious