Category: 06 – Having Fun

Local News in German

Posted on by Webmaster

People asked why I don’t write in German – since I am a native German, currently living in Germany. “Karin’s New Adventures” are supposed to be entertaining for a global audience, so I picked a language that most people will have an understanding of – English. I’ll still be doing that here, but now you also have an option to read about local news from my immediate neighborhood. If you live in one of the few countries that will be granted access.

Nachrichten vom Aubach

Für meinen neuen Kanal mit lokalen “Nachrichten vom Aubach” wird das jetzt anders. Lokale Ereignisse, nicht zu persönlich und nicht zu politisch, mit stark begrenztem Leserkreis, ausschließlich auf Deutsch. Der Großteil der Welt wird hiervon via Geoblocking ausgesperrt. Nur IP-Adressen aus Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Belgien und den USA kommen zunächst mal durch die Firewall. Es sei denn sie sind Bots, Crawler, oder sonstiges halbseidenes Gesindel

Wer Lust hat, kann hier mal reinschnuppern.   Nachrichten vom Aubach

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Lost in Translation?

Posted on by Adventurer

“Free” social media feeds are the place were “cheap” ads will be placed in hopes of getting “rich quick” by selling some kind of useless junk to the uneducated masses. Like you and me.

It’s becoming harder and harder to read any real content on these pages because ads for fake products are taking up 90% of the useable screen space. The stuff that people want us to buy is mostly obvious junk, but sometimes you can find a real gem – hilarious entertainment for people who speak more than one language.

ad for laser gadgetSo, without further ado, let me introduce you to the wonderful laser weapon that you can use to get rid of “nicht-invasive Maulwürfe” (the cute animal) – which seems to have been literally translated from the English “non-invasive moles” (the skin anomaly).

mole on a hillI made the mistake of interacting with the post, asking (in German) if this would also help against the very invasive moles in my neighbors back yard.

Now my feed is full of ads for this product from dozens of different vendors. All talking about “Maulwürfe”. Maybe I need to do a few searches on how to eliminate moles in the back yard, just to change the subject for this stupid algorithm.

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Seniors only!

Posted on by Adventurer

Being able to swim is considered an essential life skill in Germany. Children learn how to swim in school and are encouraged to practice and earn badges to show off their level of achievement. There are about 6,000 public swimming pools in Germany, almost 2,800 of them indoors. In addition to that there are about 133,000 privately owned indoor pools open to the public. In recent years many smaller towns – my current hometown included – had to close their public pools for lack of funding, but there is hope for the future. The public indoor pool in Ebersberg, just a ten minutes drive from my home, reopened a few months ago after massive renovations that cost twelve million Euros.

I love swimming! Getting a workout without sweating, moving my stiff joints without carrying any weight, floating on my back without pain, I need that at least once a week. There were times in my life when it was simply not possible to find the time and location for that – but now I’m retired and get my fix in the water whenever I need it. One of the perks of being old (enough) is the “seniors only” hours that most public pools in Germany offer on their schedule. During those times only people 65 and older may enter. That’s usually about a dozen swimmers, mostly women, floating around at a leisurely pace. No jumping, no running, no screaming and yelling – just pure relaxing fun. a few people swimming in a public pool

Life is good!

Posted in 06 - Having Fun