https://www.reddit.com/r/CupboardDetective/comments/1c5n0ar/meta_why_is_this_sub_primarily_german/
created by Sons-Father on 16/04/2024 at 18:10 UTC
53 upvotes, 6 top-level comments (showing 6)
This sub is effectively German, why?
As a German myself I find this really funny. Do we all share an obsession for looking at pantries and cupboards?
Comment by Traveler7538 at 16/04/2024 at 21:33 UTC
15 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I live in Germany. This post got recommended to me as "popular in your country". I get your point
Comment by Ambitious_Row3006 at 16/04/2024 at 21:15 UTC
11 upvotes, 4 direct replies
For the same reason German toilets have “shelves” to inspect poo. They are very introspective people.
And if you think I’m being glib, this has actually been analyzed by famous philosophers:
"In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [.] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [.../ The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology."
Comment by Reasonable-Cry1265 at 17/04/2024 at 18:50 UTC
3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I'm not sure why it started but it's definitely going to stay a German sub because of the recommendation algorithm. The sub is popular in Germany and therefore posts get recommended to Germans.
Source: I'm German, have zero interest in the sub but posts from this sub continously end up in my feed.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/04/2024 at 18:34 UTC
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Comment by SpinachSpinosaurus at 17/04/2024 at 22:04 UTC
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r/FridgeDetective is he same xD
Comment by ForsaketheVoid at 19/04/2024 at 19:59 UTC
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it might just be the algorithm! i only found this sub when i had my vpn settings set to germany xD