Yeah, it definitely seems to carry a strong ideology with it, an ideology which is not present in other countries. Germany has pretty unique attitudes towards privacy.
It actually sounds pretty humorous to me. Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!
> Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!
In my opinion German society is insanely polarized between many rather isolated groups which are often quite strongly opinionated.
In this sense, a slightly less exaggerated version of
> BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer
is actually not that far off from the formulations that committed bicyclists would actually use in their daily conversations (I know such people). I would say that the Calvin & Hobbes comic
is basically a pure description of such discussions.
Addendum: in the USA anti-cyclist slogans like "If you break any traffic rules while on a bike, you deserve to be horribly crippled or maybe even paralyzed." are sent in TV:
Exactly the same rhetoric in the opposite direction. Considering this, I'm rather surprised that in the USA cyclists are so indulgent.
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I have not yet heard anybody use a formulation such as "Toblerone [is] a sugar-scarecrow", but from the aspect of surprisal, I would say I'd say I would be hardly surprised to hear such a formulation (I'd rather actually aspect much more strongly worded formulations from anti-sugar health activists :-) ).
Yeah, it definitely seems to carry a strong ideology with it, an ideology which is not present in other countries. Germany has pretty unique attitudes towards privacy.
It actually sounds pretty humorous to me. Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!