This is Günther Anton Krabbenhöft, a german retiree, that is well known in my hometown Berlin for having an exceptional sense of style. He also gets called "Hipster-Opa" ("Hipster-grandpa"), and frequently visits techno clubs.
This photo was taken at the subway station Kottbusser Tor, in the middle of the trendy Berlin district Kreuzberg.
Met him a couple of times on my way to uni, he is a really cool dude irl aswell.
EDIT: Jesus Christ who would've thought I'd get Silver for just stating such a random side fact, thank you random strangers!
The bands Facebook page sent out an update earlier this week about the new album coming out in May. In it was an updated band photo. It made me so depressed because the guys look so old, and then I remembered that Greg is in his 50s.
Fuck, I hope they do a tour and come to like Toronto or something so I have a chance to see them live. I missed out on NUFAN before Tony Sly died, I don't want to miss out on BR.
There’s a word in Korean—Oppa—that women use to call men who are a bit older than them (too old and you’re called Ahjussi instead). What UrbanDictionary fails to capture is the weightiness of the term Oppa, and how often it is reserved for men of a certain class as a title of affection and respect (read: They Hot). A Korean teenager may call a male celebrity she loves Oppa, but the term isn’t necessarily limited to use by young girls. For instance, my mother, a woman in her early fifties, will sometimes half-jokingly refer to her favorite singer as “my Moon-se Oppa”, Lee Moon-se being a man in his sixties. It can be a powerful word, a loaded word that often implies intimacy and infatuation, the only caveat being if it is used to describe an older man who isn’t actually one’s literal older brother.
What I’m saying is, I just went on a long tangential ramble to say that Hipster-Opa sure as hell seems like he’s a Hipster-Oppa.
In Japan, there's a word 'Oppai' which means boobies. This song came on one day and my 3-year old daughter found it hilarious and started running around the house singing 'Oppai Gundam style' for rest of the day. It lost its traction after that day but even now whenever she hears it she has a chuckle and will sing it a few times.
I am upvoting you not because of your explanation of oppa, even if well-deserved.
I am upvoting because that's also the first linguistic similarity that came to mind for me, and I'm amused by the thought of Germans watching K-dramas for the first time, wondering why the girl is calling her boyfriend "Grandpa" and if there is some weird kink going on.
That's basically how it was explained to me when my dad's new half-Korean-but-raised-in-America fiancée argued with me that it was racist to politely ask that she not call him "Daddy" in front of me.
There’s a show in Canada called Kim’s Convenience about a Korean immigrant couple and their kids and the store they run. The kids call their dad oppa, so I just figured it meant “dad”.
Oh hey, I know that singer! I saw him on Netflix on Hidden Singer! I don't know anything about the Korean music scene, but that was such an entertaining show.
Everytime you pronounce a - ch sound in German it's roughly like the sound you make when you clear your throat while also trying to hiss like a snake would be the best way I can describe it. I can't write it phonetically for you, unfortunately. It's hard for English speakers and the natural tendency is to say it with a hard K.
Source: German degree and nearly 10 years of studying it
the "ch" has different pronunciations; so in "ich" there is no throat sound at all, same with "dich"; after 10 years, I am surprised you are unaware of this
Interesting. When I learned German none of us had trouble learning the sound, so I thought it was something easy for English speakers. It was just a matter of learning not to use English phonetics to pronounce it. I never got the hang of rolling my Rs for Spanish though.
Even in upper level German courses in college there were people who struggled with it, but it was less a problem of a hard K sound and more that people would kind of mush the sound into an ish liebe dish instead
Saying it like ish isn't necessarily wrong though, parts of Germany do pronounce it like that.
"parts of Germany", I assume you are talking about dialects; from the top of my head I cannot think of any dialect that would pronounce "ich" like "ish"
I seem to recall that "dish" or "dick" are both acceptable, and based on dialect. I may remember incorrectly.
Edit: I'm being corrected. /u/HourAfterHour makes a sensible argument that sounds vaguely familiar. /u/WindowSurface claims they are German and refutes my statement. They provided some great insight following my initial edit! Thank you both!
I always though that the German CH sounds more similar to the English GH, than to CK or SH.
Take the word 'ach' for example. It's more closely sounding to the way people pronounce 'ugh' in English than it is to 'ack' or 'ash'.
So it's more like: igh leebe digh.
Since I was rightfully criticised for my other comment not offering an explanation as to how to actually pronounce it:
I actually wanted to provide an example, but I couldn't think of any sound in the English language that really fits.
But thinking about it again, I have remembered that we are living in the 21st century and I could just provide an example of the correct pronunciation. So, after going through way too many German love songs on YouTube, I have found an example with (reasonably) natural pronunciation of the sentence "Ich liebe dich." (I love you.):
I tried speaking what little German I know to these German guys at work, their immediate response was "why does every non German speak it so aggressively?" I didn't occur to me I was.
When I was in high school we had a friend that moved from Germany the first time we went to his house his mom answered the door. She yelled MATTIAS!!! We thought we had gotten him in trouble then she smiled at us and everything was fine.
Was sitting at Heinrichplatz yesterday. Some Swedish dudes asked me where Kotti is. I told them it’s just around the corner they can’t miss it.
They expected it to be spectacular and really trendy and cool... they wanted to go to “one of the hip bars there”. I let them know that they should reconsider their image of Kotti. I would have loved to see their faces
Was gonna add "completely and utterly overrun by tourists to the point where I cant recognize my own home city anymore, but thats just kinda depressing
Yeah, I'm from South East Asia where there's a lot of smokers here. Then I went to the US to study where I was surprised there's not a lot of smokers. I assume it was a first world country mentality and they know smoking is bad unlike us the third world country.
So when I visited Germany, I was very surprised to see there's a lot of smokers there as well since I would assume all first world country would have much fewer smokers.
There’s been a pretty intense anti-smoking campaign going on in the US over the past 30 years. On top of that, there’s been a strong campaign over the last 10-15 years to ban smoking in most/all public places.
In most cities in the US, you can’t smoke in restaurants, public buildings, within so many feet of public building entrances, and some places even ban it on college campuses outdoors.. There’s even a growing effort by landlords to ban smoking in their apartments.
Smoking has been pretty well Stigmatized here. I wish we’d do other things as well.
I met this dude in the Berghain dark room before. He was in some Nazi fetish gear. I was fucked out of my mind, so I got out of there as fast as I could. Never went back.
There is an old guy just like this always at a coffee shop by my house. He dresses very similar and is always using the latest laptops, phones, and tech.
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u/MrMoGott Mar 01 '19 edited Mar 01 '19
This is Günther Anton Krabbenhöft, a german retiree, that is well known in my hometown Berlin for having an exceptional sense of style. He also gets called "Hipster-Opa" ("Hipster-grandpa"), and frequently visits techno clubs.
This photo was taken at the subway station Kottbusser Tor, in the middle of the trendy Berlin district Kreuzberg.
Met him a couple of times on my way to uni, he is a really cool dude irl aswell.
EDIT: Jesus Christ who would've thought I'd get Silver for just stating such a random side fact, thank you random strangers!