Really TRUE odd factoids

[classic33]

Do you worry about your carbon footprint?
Do you stream your programs?
Do you ever wonder about the carbon footprint of streaming?

Worry no more, The Carbon Trust, with help from some of the companies involved, has come up with a figure for your activities. They calculated that streaming, per hour per device, produces 56g of Co2. For the average person, two hours tv streaming per day, equates to a yearly total of almost 41kg.

 

[Blue Hills]

The film Alfie was released in Germany as:

Der Verführer läßt schön grüßen

Google translate tells me that this translates back as:

"The seducer sends his regards"

maybe @Andy in Germany can confirm.

If really true am afraid it confirms my ideas about german shameless waste of letters and words.

I mean even the Hungarians, guardians of possibly europe's most impenetrable language, seem to have at least restrained themselves with:

Alfie - Szívtelen szívtipró

I trust Cilla didn't do a german version.

 

[classic33]

Do you wear? Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Something to think about the next time you put them on.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The film Alfie was released in Germany as:

Der Verführer läßt schön grüßen

Google translate tells me that this translates back as:

"The seducer sends his regards"

maybe @Andy in Germany can confirm.

If really true am afraid it confirms my ideas about german shameless waste of letters and words.

I'm afraid it is correct according to German Wikipedia.

This is quite common though, watching a British film with German subtitles can be interesting as much is communicated through hints and implication in English and has to be spelled out in German. Sometimes a simple phrase spoken in by the actors ends up being a novel in the subtitles.

 

[Punkawallah]

So it’s true when they say the German for comb is ‘short thing with teeth for moving the hair about’? :-)

 

[Andy in Germany]

So it’s true when they say the German for comb is ‘short thing with teeth for moving the hair about’? :-)

Sadly, no: it's Kamm; which shows the German influence on English.

 

[Chromatic]

I like German, I wish I could speak it.

 

[Oldhippy]

Never too late to learn something new.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I like German, I wish I could speak it.

Arguably you already do; a dialect of it anyway.

 

[Dave7]

Never too late to learn something new.

I had to visit Germany by car twice a year so took a VERY short course.
The basics I learned really helped me out when I was totally lost** in a big city. I understood......over the bridge, through the lights, 2nd turn on the right.
**satnav was a thing of the future back then.

 

[Punkawallah]

Sadly, no: it's Kamm; which shows the German influence on English.

Every day’s a school day :-)

I”m constantly surprised the English language is not the subject of some serious IP suits, the number of ‘loan’ words it has!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I had to visit Germany by car twice a year so took a VERY short course.
The basics I learned really helped me out when I was totally lost** in a big city. I understood......over the bridge, through the lights, 2nd turn on the right.
**satnav was a thing of the future back then.

Are German speaking Sat Navs cheaper? If so that language course fee may have been a winner

 

[classic33]

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone

 

[classic33]

There are more Lego mini-figures than there are people on Earth.

 

[Blue Hills]

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone

what if you have two and one should die? Do you have to notify the authorities/tell a coroner?