I did the same recently. I was desperate enough to switch from one job to the next with only a few remaining days of vacation in between. Now I have a new job and I'm still tired.
vivaldi is a breddy cool browser but this fukin board sucks on it
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Just ate some spicy Turkish food. 10/10 will eat again.
Türks make good food and the guys at this place seem to be recent immigrants, I thought they were Russians at first because they were nothing like the bydlo Gastarbeiters from rural Anatolia I'm used to.
I hope they succeed and offer much more tasty foods.
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Putting effort into gifts sucks. Yes it is a gift and they don't owe me anything just because I gifted them something. But it still makes me feel bad if they don't seem to appreciate it even a little.
So my grandfather turned 90. He talked about wanting to try Kobe Beef a few years ago. I was playing with the idea to get him some for a while but anything more than a tiny piece is a bit expensive as a simple birthday gift.
Since he was a very successful butcher with a shop inherited from his father it should be an appropriate gift and not be totally random.
Now for the 90th birthday I finally got him a 400g piece. While 180€ isn't ridiculously expensive it is still more than anything I have ever gifted.
Well the reaction was quite underwhelming because there was none. I asked about it a few days later and they just put it down in the freezer in the basement. I said something along the line of "I hope you will like it. It's supposed to be the best beef in the world" and got a "Ahhh, is that so?" back. They probably don't know how expensive it is. Knowing my grandparent they wouldn't have accepted it or offered to pay me back, I am sure.
The problem isn't that I want them to know how much I spend. It's more that it feels like they don't even entertain the idea that I got them anything that is worth something.
Thanks for reading my blog.
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If you really don't know what to give and get a shitty reaction back, there is only so much you can do. If you have a relationship with a person where you don't know what they like, then you can't be expected to do more than guess. Maybe they just don't want anything, that's also a possibility.
I'd say just give something consoomable, nice, but not too expensive or niche.
I usually give some nice chocolates from a chocolatier, not some generic Milka or something. Everyone can see it is something special, but it is still "normal" chocolate, something everyone can understand. A kobe beef is just some kind of beef if you don't know what it is. And beef is an unusual gift.
Another thing is good or better coffee or tea. I know my mom likes coffee, but just has the same beans from the supermarket all the time. Sometimes I go to the special coffee shop and get some exotic beans for her.
My grandparents are simple people with no special tastes, they just get a nice looking gift basket with chocolates, wine and stuff like that. No real effort put into it from our end because it is made by a delicatessen shop and we give no further specifications, but since they have no special tastes, it is always ok.
Am gestrigen Tag manifestiert sich in Freiburg wieder einmal die willkürliche Zerstörung von kulturellen und politischen Freiräumen. Ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken, wurden die zwei Häuser in der Gartenstraße 19 überraschend abgerissen.
Schon vor acht Uhr sperrte die Polizei die ganze Straße ab. Ein großer Polizeieinsatz inklusive BFE stellte sicher, dass die kapitalistischen Interessen des Eigentümers Haffner durchgesetzt werden konnten. Die nutzenden Menschen hatten nicht einmal die Chance ihre Wertgegenstände wie Musikinstrumente oder Solarpanels vor der Verschrottung zu retten. Wir sind fassungslos, wütend, erschüttert und zutiefst getroffen! Entgegen den Aussagen des Eigentümers und der BZ gab es weder eine „Beendigung der Duldung“, noch das „Verlassen des Hauses“ der Nutzer*innen. Hier wurde kein leeres Gebäude abgerissen, sondern ein noch bis gestern Abend genutzter Raum zerstört. Die G19 ist und war kein Störfaktor sondern eine Bereicherung für Freiburg. In den letzten 10 Jahren stellten die Räumlichkeiten einen wichtigen Knotenpunkt für viele kulturelle, politische und vor allem engagierte Menschen dar, denen jetzt buchstäblich das Dach wegfliegt. Während der Eigentümer das Haus nicht nutzte sondern verwahrlosen lies, kümmerten sich Menschen um dessen Erhalt und Nutzung. In den letzten Jahren wurde viel Energie in diese Räume gesteckt, um endlich einen Raum in Freiburg zu gestalten, der verschiedenen Bedürfnissen gerecht wird. Wieder einmal wird diesem Wunsch in Freiburg keinerlei Gehör geschenkt. Dieser Tag reiht sich ein in die Räumung und Zerstörung unkommerzieller Freiräume in Freiburg, wie zuletzt an der Schließung des Spätis deutlich wurde. Wir stellen nun noch lauter die Eigentumsfrage! Wir fordern Räume der Selbstverwaltung und bleiben!Zeigt euch solidarisch mit der G19 in Freiburg und anderswo!
