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Simberto
Germany11837 Posts
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farvacola
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GreenHorizons
United States23955 Posts
On July 24 2017 18:41 farvacola wrote: In Munich, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, and Ciaran Hinds each played Jewish characters and are not irl afaik. I guess Daniel Craig has done it several times, and I can't believe I forgot about Ian McKellan in X-Men. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
if you look at biopics of Jewish people where Judaism isn't an important part of the character you can probably find a lot. oh you said popular movies. easiest way is probably just look up jewish characters in film and see if anything jumps out at you | ||
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Sent.
Poland9299 Posts
On July 24 2017 15:16 GreenHorizons wrote: Any reasonably popular movies where a main (not necessarily the lead) character was Jewish, but the actor playing them wasn't? Do movies about Jesus count? | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
Yeah most any Bible movie or Bible-ish movie ("10 Commandments," "Prince of Egypt," "Ben Hur" etc.) is gonna count here. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
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Ryndika
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I just want to casually talk with someone sometimes. | ||
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On August 02 2017 03:06 Ryndika wrote: What are good places for chatting with strangers? Preferably kind of anonymously. I've used omegle and I've never found anything as good but I really get irritated with omegle because it's filled with "ASL?" > dc people and bots. I just want to casually talk with someone sometimes. Doesn't any bar in the world count as that as well? Or really, any place where social gatherings occur? Clubs Game Stores Concerts Coffee Shops Just head over and talk to a stranger. | ||
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Yurie
12087 Posts
On August 02 2017 11:51 Thieving Magpie wrote: Doesn't any bar in the world count as that as well? Or really, any place where social gatherings occur? Clubs Game Stores Concerts Coffee Shops Just head over and talk to a stranger. Train rides Plane rides Taxi drivers All those are examples where I have had random fun conversations as well. Was one train ride on the way to a gaming event where I met others going there and met up at the event later as well since we hit it off. Don't know if chat roulette is still a thing or not. | ||
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
On August 02 2017 15:27 Yurie wrote: Train rides Plane rides Taxi drivers All those are examples where I have had random fun conversations as well. Was one train ride on the way to a gaming event where I met others going there and met up at the event later as well since we hit it off. Don't know if chat roulette is still a thing or not. Train rides Plane rides Not trying to discourage, but it must be done right. Not everyone likes it, and there isn't really a way to politely say to shut up. So most of the time it happens to me or some people I know, we just sit and wait for the other to finish talking and asking question, but it does bother us. Particularly -it may sound obvious, but it actually isn't for everyone- don't talk to people trying to sleep and/or with headphones, and if they're doing something like reading and you start a conversation, if they go back to it every small break, not a good sign either. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23955 Posts
Oh Gaming tables (poker particularly) I've had some amazing convo's there. I met an 80 yo asian woman that taught me things I can't post here... No but you could always try the outside place. I hear people walk all over there and it's not even just the ones on meth talking to themselves that will talk to you. | ||
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On August 02 2017 18:41 AbouSV wrote: I will be moving to Munich soon. Anyone lives/have lived there and could give me inside info for the preparation? Getting an apartment is a total pain in the ass. Most places have dozens of applicants and the renter gets to chose. If you don't have a place yet, get ready for a fight, you'll need paperwork that you have a job, maybe someone to vouch for you etc ... I have some friends there so if you have trouble, I can get you in touch with them. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11837 Posts
On August 02 2017 18:47 opisska wrote: Getting an apartment is a total pain in the ass. Most places have dozens of applicants and the renter gets to chose. If you don't have a place yet, get ready for a fight, you'll need paperwork that you have a job, maybe someone to vouch for you etc ... I have some friends there so if you have trouble, I can get you in touch with them. I live in Munich (well, near Munich now), and can verify that. The only way to find an apartment in or around Munich is to know someone that wants to move out of it. Also, apartments are expensive. Furthermore, if you want to be mobile using a car, it is basically impossible to find a place to park your car at in large parts of the city, for the same reason. But the public transport is pretty good, despite people (including me) constantly complaining about it. If you are lucky and find an apartment near where you need to go to work/study, you can also go by bike pretty well, i did that for years. Other than that, what kind of information are you looking for? If you have a place to live and a place to work/study, you don't need a lot of additional information. I don't know about the paperwork when coming from the EU, or how medical insurance and thigns like that works in those cases, but you will definitively need to register at the Bürgeramt once you are a resident here. If you study and need a way to make extra money, you might be able to do that by teaching french to school children, if you are a native speaker and relatively competent in teaching, you should be able to make about 20-25€ per 60 minutes of teaching, but people will expect for you to come to their houses. Ebay Kleinanzeigen (local ads) usually works well for finding jobs like that (I finance my university degree by teaching maths & physics) Other random stuff: If you are into Pen and Paper roleplaying games, i can recommend the "Münchner Rollenspieltreffen" for meeting other players. Munich is a really nice city, with lots of stuff going on but expect it to be pretty warm in summer and cold in winter. I don't know how good your german is, but you can basically speak to any random person in english and have a 90% chance that they speak it pretty well. There are some people who speak so bavarian that you don't understand a word they are saying, but there are not a lot of them. In late september, expect everything to be full of drunk people in leather shorts. The university mensa is a cheap way to get warm food. Quality is acceptable, but not amazing. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On August 02 2017 18:44 opisska wrote: I have spent more then 40 days netto in the air, most of it in total silence, even though I'd love to have a chat. I am not someone who would talk to strangers uninvited and apparently my appearance discourages others from doing so. It'd be great if we could agree on an universal sign showing whether we are interested in a random chat or not. Well, we do... All cultures start with a greeting, a "Hello" of some sort. This tells the other person that you have interest in them to some degree. It is then up to them to inform you, verbally or non-verbally, how much of their attention they are able to provide. Upon this initial exchange, the onus is then on you to set the parameters of the discourse. "I'm looking for," "Do you know," "Have you ever," etc... Their response provides for you the context of their experience, and will reveal the amount of commitment they are interested in having. Then it is up to you to guide the conversation until they take active interest in gaining the conversational momentum from you. This is usually done in places where social conduct is culturally expected--but can be done at random as well. At a game store: "Do you play?" At a book/comic store: "Have you read?" At a bar/coffee shop: "Is anyone sitting here?" etc... At more random places its a bit more difficult--but doable. At a street: "Do you know how to get to..." At a bus stop: "Do you know when the next one is?" In a bus/train/plane: "I'm headed ____ for ____, how about yourself?" etc... I think the issue is not "It'd be great if we could agree on an universal sign" because we already have that. I think the issue is that people have a fear of rejection, of failing, and would rather wallow in self pity and shame than risk being an active part of their external life. | ||
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