Sinjut / is on Nostr

Australian living in Germany. Chalkie. Unionist. Vegetarian. Linux user. He/him.

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2024-10-16 09:05:02

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I didn’t think of that because the police and speed cameras are everywhere here, but you must be right.
And the speed cameras don't look like someone left an overhead projecter by the side of the road, unlike another country I could mention!

2024-10-16 08:27:49

All the vehicles that don't have this sticker are permitted to drive as fast as they like.
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/316/148/090/887/458/original/376ad052d45ab717.jpg

2024-10-02 12:50:49

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That's very cool! I would even say there's a market for that!
Speaking of words people say in the north. My poor mother did an old people's German course in Aus and they started with greetings and the teacher explained there were many regional greetings in Germany; Grüß Gott, Servus etc. My mum put up her hand and offered "Moin" and the teacher said " No, I haven't heard of that, that's not true." She didn't put up her hand again but I keep bringing her Moin Kitsch in case she ever re-enrols.

2024-10-02 09:07:22

Just heard a preschooler on the tram exclaim "Digger! Älter!" and clearly it's over for Germany.

2024-09-19 18:57:43

Think I'll pop into my local library tomorrow in the hope of happening across a previously unknown Mozart score.
I will settle for a Beethoven, Brahms or Handel if I must.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/19/previously-unknown-mozart-music-discovered-in-german-library

2024-09-11 03:58:40

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Trump wouldn't let the truth get in the way of a good ludicrous rant.

2024-09-11 02:47:56

Maybe I'm the only person awake in Germany to respond to Trump's claim that we have gone back to building conventional power plants: No we haven't.

2024-08-28 13:12:26

I've been a Greens member and activist but can someone tell Bandt that coming to the aid of the corrupt CFMEU leadership ain't it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-28/greens-leader-defends-mp-cfmeu-rally-attendance/104281238
#auspol

2024-08-28 13:04:37

Only in northern Europe would I be asked by a person on the bus on a hot day to close a window "because she's sick". I informed my new friend that that's why the window should be open.
Old beliefs about draughts making you sick persist here despite what was learnt during the pandemic.

2024-05-28 09:46:37

News Corp, owned by a foreign billionaire is the media equivalent of a an "AUSTRALIA IF YOU DON'T LOVE IT LEAVE" bumper sticker.
Guardian: In an editorial the Australian newspaper also accused Tingle of demonstrating “loathing for the country the ABC is funded to serve” and called on the ABC chair, Kim Williams, to act.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/28/abc-denies-holding-emergency-talks-after-laura-tingles-racist-country-comments-criticised-in-murdoch-press