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Tiffany LiTalking to German friends:
“I hear Bavaria is like the Texas of Germany?”
“Oh no, not at all. Bavaria is not scary!”
“Do … do you guys think Texas is scary?”
“…….”
@tiffanycli We Bavarians know how we would behave if we had unrestricted access to firearms. That's why we are scared of Texas 
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Texas is about in the middle when it comes to gun deaths per capita by state, in between Michigan and Illinois. highest rates are Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana.
Texas is about in the middle when it comes to gun deaths per capita by state, in between Michigan and Illinois. highest rates are Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana.
Marc Etienne@n_to @tiffanycli
Bavarian: "Hauptsach' i hob mei ruah!"
Franconian: "I aa! … Abba mei Recht will i habn!"
Bavarian: "Hauptsach' i hob mei ruah!"
Franconian: "I aa! … Abba mei Recht will i habn!"
M Schommer@tiffanycli Yes. And not only Texas.
Markus Burchardi@tiffanycli I don’t. For me, this comparison is one of exceptionalism. Both Texas and Bavaria appear to have a need to be special, different, more “value bound”, more conservative. But then again, I have never been to Texas and rarely to Bavaria, so mine is an outsider perspective based on what I read and heard.
Dr. Samuel Wein@tiffanycli
Having someone speak Bavarian at you when you only have a middling grasp on proper German is scary.
Having someone speak Bavarian at you when you only have a middling grasp on proper German is scary.
Maggie Maybe@tiffanycli wait, you don’t think Texas is scary?
Knut Morå@tiffanycli
"Completely Texas" is a norwegian idiom for lively chaos
"Completely Texas" is a norwegian idiom for lively chaos
Black Chic with the Red Truck
Joanna Bryson, blathering@tiffanycli does bavaria always win miss Germany? (Does tx still do that? I haven’t thought about this in 40 years. I was mostly angry they took the supercollider thant should have been Illinois‘ / fermi lab. Only recently I found out they took the MONEY but never built it)
Florian Idelberger@tiffanycli for some ppl Bavaria is scary though
Spacewizard! (Ed H)
cliff1976@spacewizard @tiffanycli Heh.
It IS kinda like the Texas of Germany: separatists, conservatives (relatively speaking), southern border, strong economy, distinct cultural identity, accent.
Caveat: I've never been to Texas outside of an airport.
@cliff1976 @tiffanycli lol good to know
Jan v/d Broek@tiffanycli I never drank Texan beer, but I doubt if it can match Bavarian.