Die coolen Kids benutzen MS-DOS 1.0.

I kind of like “Closed for the week” “Go away and don’t bother me, I’m closed this week due to bleeding.” :D

A common one in German is Erdbeerwoche (strawberry week).

I hardly ever go out other than drinking but going out is such a huge part of all society. I’ve always refused to go out with colleagues because I can’t expect a team of work colleagues to always go to the one restaurant I know is save. Have you got any ideas how many fights with superiors and HR that got me in because “that’s part of the work culture and team spirit” and I’m always “the complicated one”? Restaurants aren’t just a luxury. As I said, I hardly ever go out, but try having any career when you’re the only one who never joins for work lunches or after-work dinner. Or your friends birthday. Or the meeting of the friendgroup.

Going out to eat is deeply ingrained in our culture and it has serious effects on your social life if you refuse to do it.

Most cafés don’t, but I like to go to the smaller ones, not the big chains, and they can sometimes get very creative with almonds or hazelnut deco. It’s not the majority, but I don’t like to waste food so I always ask.

I don’t know, as someone with a nut allergy I don’t get why this is supposed to be funny. This is just my everyday life. Especially salad often has nuts like walnuts or almonds as decoration so it’s one of the foods where I have to be extra careful. Just like I always have to follow a coffee order with “no nuts, please”, because coffee is often decorated with almonds. The tweet makes it sound like asking for no nuts on a salad is as outlandish as thinking there might be a bee in the steak, but walnuts, cashews or almonds are pretty common decorations on salads.

I would say basically if the person is working on/with your body or if they have some form of physical power over you which is the case if you are getting in their car (and they could in theory lock you in/drive you somewhere else).

It is e.g. totally fine if a black person would prefer another black person as a hair stylist because they feel they know more about black hair. Same goes for a white person prefering a white hair stylist. At a certain point you should probably ask yourself if you can still participate in society if your demands get too detailed. I would draw the line where the interaction is very unpersonal and takes place in a public setting. Everybody can have a one-minute exchange with any chashier. But as soon as the employee is going to work on your body or put you in a position where you can’t easily leave it’s fair to choose who works with you.

I know a lot of people who have a gender preference when it comes to doctors. Not just gynecologists, but any. I know people who’d only go to a male or female massage therapist. I know asians who’d only go to an asian hairdresser. These are all choices people make every day, we just don’t notice because we don’t filter it through an app.

As for bigotted people, I don’t think you’ll change their mind by forcing them to interact with you. If I was e.g. a hindu driver I might even feel safer knowing that people who hate my religion can choose not to be in my car. The safety concern goes both ways.

It is already no problem for you to choose a male tattoo artist, a male hairstylist and a male dogwalker. Whereever you choose a single employee to work closely with you and where you are in a somewhat vulnerable position you can already choose. If for some reason you feel more at ease with male doctors, tattoo artists or hairstylists or massagist, noone is stopping you from only booking with a man.

Whereever you can be in a vulnerable position with an employee it makes sense that you can choose who that person is.

I’ve been banned from several communities here for downvoting in one. At least that’s what the messages said. Got several bans for communities I didn’t even know existed 😂.