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Dec 21, 2004 12:55

why is america so weird?after having frequented this country for many years, and after recently even establishing myself here, i continue to be amazed by the intrinsic weirdness of this land ( Read more... )

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cinemanemic December 21 2004, 11:59:41 UTC
haha and those fake shutters that don't even close. even if they did close they wouldn't be big enough to block the whole window !??? (like in the third picture you posted)

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sens de l'observation fresch December 22 2004, 06:20:43 UTC
indeed! i hadn't even noticed this. it's grotesque isn't it...

al-x

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motion_runner December 21 2004, 12:22:52 UTC
mir scheint, in deinem journal lerne ich wirklich etwas dazu.

wenn ich mir die letzte photo anschaue, dann, dein gutes recht, wird die präferenz für die fenster der guten alten welt allzu offensichtlich. oder täusche ich mich? ;)

ich habe so ein mischding von fenster: ein monster, das einen vertikalen drehflügel in der mitte hat. modell DAF: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft.

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fresch December 22 2004, 06:31:50 UTC
danke danke ( ... )

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motion_runner December 22 2004, 09:04:13 UTC
wusste ich doch, dass ich die mädels irgendwo schon mal gesehen hatte. ohne zu googeln, glaube ich, die haben mal am european song contest teilgenommen.

fragil ist das fenster wohl im geöffneten zustand und bei starkem wind, weil eine große scheibe + rahmen (ungefähr 2,0 m x 1,5 m), das sich in der mitte dreht. ein ostdeutscher wie ich kannte so ein ding überhaupt nicht als ich hier in den westen kam, nur die kleinen velux-dachfenster, die so ähnlich funktionieren. wenn’s richtig bläst, traue ich der arretierung nicht. halleluja! lebensgefährlich für alle passanten und unter umständen auch für die bewohner ;)

obwohl ich noch nie in amerika war, habe ich auch schon diese fenster gesehen und bedient. aber wo? ich kann mich nicht genau erinnern.

bitte mehr landeskunde, oder getreu der netten buchreihe: culture shock!

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fresch December 23 2004, 19:56:53 UTC
in welchem teil deutschlands lebst du jetzt?

einige leute hier haben suggeriert, dass man diese schiebefenster auch in england vorfindet. ich aber kann mich nicht daran erinnern sie dort jemals bemerkt zu haben. doch mein gedaechtnis scheint in dieser sache sehr schlecht zu sein, denn erst nun erinnere ich mich noch weiter: ich glaube, dass ich ein solches fenster, wie du es beschreibst in meinem zimmer im studentenheim in paris hatte. und sogar auch in meiner alten schule in zuerich.

ich habe das gefuehl dass ich in meinem leben bislang den fenstern nich genuegend aufmerksamkeit geschenkt habe. vielleicht sollte ich sie mehr photographieren.

al-x

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monbakery1 December 21 2004, 12:23:34 UTC
yeah your pretty much right about american windows. but you left out a certain form of american windowery (did i just maked a new word?) that i find to be tres amusant! it's this weird kind of window that i have in my bathroom and it has this crank thing to open it with. it's this little turny thing (usually placed somewhere around the window thats very unconventional and hard to turn/get to) and you turn it one direction to open it and then the opposite direction to close it. and it only opens to a ceratin angle. almost every american household i know of has at least one of these windows. does anyone know what their called?

i find them a little bit funny and odd. i have no idea what their purpose could be! (maybe for protection cause if the crank thing brakes then it's impossible to open the damn window!)

but as for european windows, i find a window that opens all the way a bit scary. i mean, it's like... the window is gone! and a terrorist could get it! lol!

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fresch December 22 2004, 06:42:20 UTC
first and foremost i must say that i am a little disappointed that you didn't call my post orgasmic. i put up this picture of tatu (or t.a.t.u.) especially for the sexual-fun part of this post and you completely ignored it. (at least that probably means that you are not a lesbian. you male fanbase can indulge in a sigh of relief.)

i think i have seen the kind of window you have in your bathroom already. but bathroom windows have a tendency to be weird everwhere and might become the subject of a totally new post, sometime in the future.

concerning european windows, you are right about the implications with terrorists. but consider this: if a terrorist attacks through the door, you can flee through an european window. (if you're not too fat.) it would be harder with an american one.

al-x

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sahn December 22 2004, 08:13:55 UTC
Speaking of getting in through the window, there are lots of cities in America where it's very common to have steel bars around the windows so theives don't get in. I don't think steel bars would work very well with European windows.

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fresch December 22 2004, 08:46:52 UTC
hardcore. talk about living in a prison.

that gives me urge to make a post about american doors too. i have never seen so flimsy door locks as in america. and here also there seems to be an overwhelming majority of the same kind. for people concerned about safety it seems astonishing.


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sahn December 21 2004, 12:32:43 UTC
I have a possible explanation. One thing that virtually all American windows have are bug screens and I conjecture that virtually all European windows don't have bug screens. I think bug screens work better with the American style windows. Interestingly, there are those European style windows in my (very old) church and in former (relatively new) college dorm room. Neither of those had bug screens.

Now why would American windows have bug screens and not European ones? I don't know. Maybe Europe has fewer flying insects.

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jmhudson December 21 2004, 14:00:36 UTC
this is a good explanation. i have european windows in one room of my house in california. they don't have screens, so we never open them. actually, sometimes we open them, but expressly for that purpose, we bought some screens that are removable. you open the window and then pop in the screen. you have to take it out in order to close it, though, otherwise the window won't close.

europeans are just dirty. they don;t care about bugs.

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livarot December 21 2004, 19:42:04 UTC
european bugs are just more intelligent. they don't fly in.

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piddyx December 24 2004, 01:26:05 UTC
No they aren't. They just sound that way because they speak with british accents.

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damienh December 21 2004, 13:28:02 UTC
bravo.
je n'ai malheureusement aucune ebauche d'explicaton a te fournir, j'avoue que je n'avais meme jamais prete attention a cette difference de fenetres.

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fresch December 22 2004, 06:34:38 UTC
je te remercie pour ta contribution damienh.

al-x

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