Passing the assessment and training process to become a commercial airline pilot. Definitely my proudest accomplishment.

I’d say it looks more exciting than it tastes.

My next older (middle) sister made repeated efforts to show me that I can’t rely on her, despite her best mediocre efforts to assure me of the contrary. So after giving her sufficient chances I‘m done with her.

Sadly it complicates my relationship with her children which, while being messed up in their own way, shouldn’t suffer because of their mothers actions.

Going by your interpretation of „genocide“ the holocaust wouldn’t have been one either. Jewish population is much bigger today than before. What a relief!

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-of-the-world

My native English speaker partner always makes fun of how I pronounce squirrel!

The four cases. Nominative, Genitive, Dative, and Akkusative with their accompanying articles. It makes learning German as a second language a nightmare and even native speakers struggle with it a lot.

For me it’s the . In the browser on iOS. The spacebar shrinks and gives space to the . button that I then constantly hit by accident

The „unmute“ button on redgif when it then just takes me to redgif itself.

The value I provide is taking over the risks and responsibilities of owning the apartment. Not everybody is willing or able to take out a loan of that size. The tenant maintains their flexibility of moving wherever they want or need to at relatively short notice. If there’s problems with the apartment I must figure it out, not them. It’s not my job by the way. The rent my tenants pay covers the bills I get for owning the apartment. I‘m employed somewhere else. What is your idea of doing it differently? Must housing be just free for everyone? Or everybody must just buy? I’m generally curious!

Don’t forget the „Freiwillige Feuerwehr“ that carries the bulk of firefighting capacity in German towns.

Controller wanted 180 knots until 4 miles final. Sent him a resounding „unable“ back. Not my fault if he can’t manage his separations.

Seriously. I rent out two apartments and people act like I’m a slumlord.

The house I live in is paid off and it’s supposed to be our forever home, so market value doesn’t matter much. For my two apartments I rent out it is more relevant. On those I have a fixed interest for another 5+ years still ahead of me. After that I‘m hoping that I’ll still be able to afford the higher interest rates on the by then lower balance.

Oh god, I needed to read this comment to actually understand the joke of the post.

My bad, what you wrote and quoted made no sense to me as a response to my comment or the one I responded to.

I think you responded to the wrong guy

Haven’t you made it past primary school yet?

I wish it were that easy in German!

Probably joy/happiness

Happiness depends heavily on where in the world you are employed by which airline and what you make of it with your personal attitude. The spectrum of work/life balance is huge and payment can range from negative (pay us to allow you to fly for us) to big bucks (who has the time to spend this much?). Different labour rights in different countries like being fired and deported on a whim or strong unions and rights that protect you almost no matter what. How much free time do you have? Both at destination and at home, what is more important for whom? I had to retire due to a brain cancer diagnosis. So medical stuff is another slippery slope. Back pains? Migranes? You’re on your way out. I loved the job though. I was flexible enough to not be bothered by last minute changes to my flight roster or irregular sleep schedules. Not having kids and a stay-at-home wife helped with that as well. (If your partner works as well, the time you actually see each other can get scarce.) This also applies to friends. Wanna go out with me on a Friday? Should have told me two months ago so I could have requested off days… you get the idea.