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Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by Krasnol » Wed, Sep 04, 2019, 9:49 AM UTC

the_af wrote: post #48

chupa-chups wrote: post #3

This is like saying all Americans love McDonalds :) (I'm German) If this was voted up for fun I'm on it, if it was voted up because someone thinks it is true count me out :)

Hey chupa-chups, this thing about nudity is of course a generalization. However, I'm told all Germans absolutely adore asparagus, are passionate about them, and it is always an appropriate topic of conversation, whether discussing their many variants or how to cook them. Can you confirm this?

You did not have a passionate asparagus discussion if you didn't touch the urine smell issue.

Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by dasKrokodil » Wed, Sep 04, 2019, 1:07 PM UTC

postit wrote: post #4

You only break into the culture if you get into FKK and our nonsense passion for David Hasselhoff.

He is apparently on tour again this year, is anyone going?

http://davidhasselhoffonline.com

Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by the_af » Wed, Sep 04, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

Krasnol wrote: post #91

the_af wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey chupa-chups, this thing about nudity is of course a generalization. However, I'm told all Germans absolutely adore asparagus, are passionate about them, and it is always an appropriate topic of conversation, whether discussing their many variants or how to cook them. Can you confirm this?

You did not have a passionate asparagus discussion if you didn't touch the urine smell issue.

Please elaborate!

Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by mrguyorama » Wed, Sep 04, 2019, 4:14 PM UTC

the_af wrote: post #93

Krasnol wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You did not have a passionate asparagus discussion if you didn't touch the urine smell issue.

Please elaborate!

If you eat asparagus, your pee smells like asparagus (kinda).

It's pretty fun actually

Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by Krasnol » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 7:07 AM UTC

the_af wrote: post #93

Krasnol wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You did not have a passionate asparagus discussion if you didn't touch the urine smell issue.

Please elaborate!

As the other commenter wrote.

Pee stinks BUT there is a catch: only a certain amount of people have smelly pee and some people produce smelly pee but don't smell it.

It's genetic. Some enzyme turns something in the asparagus in sulphur. It's pretty bad. I have it and my SO too.

So a high end asparagus discussion contains the "are you a stinker" team finding competition ;)

Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by cat199 » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 12:38 AM UTC

Railsify wrote: post #81

cat199 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> simply because the rest of the planet was beat down. Or, also, because your currency was established by treaty to be the de-facto means of exchange to stabilize the postwar economy and then later became the defacto means of procuring energy security so that all countries would be enticed to trade with you in order to obtain some of it. Plus NATO cold war defense against commies. .. but that might poke a hole in the…

One did. In your opinion, how should their foreign economic policy of the next 100 years proceed in order to help facilitate and spur continued growth?

no idea.

but things don't happen in a vacuum but are often presented as if they did.

Re: A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

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Post by beatgammit » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

belorn wrote: post #53

pizza234 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why is this only a German thing. I'd say that German is the sense of comfort towards nudity. > There're nude beaches everywhere. Well, islamic countries are very unlikely to have them. When it comes to European countries, there are, however, some religions (ie. catholicism) are generally more conservative, and in countries with such beliefs, nudism/nudity is considered sort of "hippy", or strange in general. Someth…

Hygiene is a common excuse to enforce clothing culture. It is very similar to ban against burqa, and when France banned full-body swimwear it also cited hygienic reasons. Here in Sweden you actually have a easier time finding a work place that accept burqa compared to a work place that accept people being barefoot. I find that to be a bit odd but then clothing is 99% cultural and has very little to do with logic.

How is a full body swimsuit less hygienic than any other piece of swimwear?

When looking it up, it looks like the actual claim is a mix of hygiene (not specified) and "upholding secular values", so it's absolutely an attack on displaying religious affiliation in public. Does that mean they also ban crosses, kippahs, and Dastars, or will they continue to target a specific religious group?

They seem to somehow relate terrorism with everyone who follows Islam, but that's like banning crosses because some predominantly Christian group commits an act of terrorism (white nationalists are often Christian).