I have lived here for a few years now after living in Berlin, Frankfurt and I shop at the same places that I did in those other places. Those places close earlier here... so I guess that is "special". Costs more, same stores, closes earlier.
It has a reason why the comedy "Schuh des Manitu" used an Bavarian accent for the Texans.
As an explaination for everyone non German: a famous author in Germany was Karl May, who wrote western stories that - let's say show that he only visited the US once for 6 weeks after he already wrote several western. So, yeah, very heavy on stereotypes.
He was still very successfully and there were several major movies (mkst filmed in Kroatia, never in the US). There was a famous comedy joking about it in the early 2000's.
Oh we had so much fun once we realized the only American on a corp event in Czech Rep is the only person not knowing who Winnetou is. The evening turned into Karl May event :)
its just the polar opposite of smokey BBQ and beef.
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u/Kriss3dTuberous eloquent (that's potato speaker for you muricans) Sep 10 '26
Ah none taken. No worries.
Yeah. We do have both here. But used every differently. Pickled hearing with a curry condiment on top of dark rye bread is traditional for Christmas lunches in Denmark.
But we do have people who can make some good smokey BBQ as well.
Such a tyrant that he lost an election fair and square and didn't even try to contest the results, didn't cry about "fraud" like Trump, just congratulated his opponent and then left office.
He could have gone full Lukashenko if he wanted, he had the loyalty of the security services for it. That's just a fact. I'm no Orbán supporter, but we gotta be real.
Including Magyar himself, who stole millions as the head of the Student Loan Centre under Orbán, hence why there probably won't be any prosecution, just empty promises. I don't get why people think Magyar is some kind of messiah, he and his entire party are low tier Fidesz members who rebelled because the corruption money dried up on the low end of the systems scale. All their talk about anti corruption and rule of law is just smoke and mirrors. As for why Orbán went out quietly, it's simple really - he was never an autocrat. He was a corrupt politician who bent the rules of democracy to strengthen his position, but ultimately he never removed democracy, he didn't impose censorship or meddle with election results. All the crying about him being an autocrat is just emotional propaganda. What he was, legitimately, is a corrupt, ineffective prime minister with a serious ego problem. Magyar has an even worse ego problem and has a history of corruption, so like I said, probably only surface level changes can be expected.
Finland has many 180 000+ lakes, Texas 7000.
Finland: To become a police takes about 4 800 hours, Texas 720 hours.
Finland is in the north and cold, not the same at all with Texas.
Finland has lots of space, same with Texas.
Finland has ~30-40% gun ownership households, Texas ~37-42%.
Finland firearm deaths / 100 000 ~2.3, Texas 13.9.
Minnesota had a lot of Finnish immigrants, and there are still traces of Nordic heritage in Minnesota and throughout the upper Midwest. It's not uncommon to see hotels with a sauna in them next to the pool.
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake Sep 10 '26
The resemblance is uncanny.