Right out of a children's storybook

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For feline observed spontaneous combustion or fear of German authors?

Diplomjodler

Don't make me call the taylor!

AGuyAcrossTheInternet

For feeling like you have to live in a German fairy tale. The cat one would be the Haustierbesitzerverbrennungsprozessbeobachtung, the other would be the Märchenschreiberangststörung. Silly, that's German 101!

Feyter

I was just thinking the other day... Someone should make a move from the Struwwelpeter Book. PEGI 18

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Fuck me - I'm still stuck on when to use "der," "die," or "das."

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As an American who wound up going to a German elementary-level school for a couple years decades ago, trust me - they know & few are proud of it.

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Ah yes, the girl that was burned alive for not using ze proper sewing technique, an all time German classic Gutenachtgeschichte.

shoulderoforion

oh, they're not proud of it, huh, well that's nice. fun to see memes about german "fairy tales" and people on fucking fire, wonder when someone will think it's a good idea to post taliban fairy tale memes, isis fairy tale memes, boko haram fairy tale memes

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Wtf are you going on about.

Traditional (that is, from WELL before WW2) German children’s tales are well known to be unusually brutal/scary.

Stop manufacturing outrage. You diminish actual, serious discussion of serious issues by trying to spread concern for said serious issues onto unrelated topics. This is an unrelated topic.

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This book didn’t traumatise me but I remember it was really dark and maybe too dark for kids.

Remembering the guy with the long legs cutting fingers off, this is horror movie material how I remember it… maybe traumatise it did

The Picard Maneuver

The picture in this meme is literally from a German story for kids about not playing with matches.

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Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio!

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Yeah, ist just a meme and nobody likes smart arses. But Struwelpeter isnt a FairyTale. It was kind of a teaching book for bad behaving kids. As far as I rember, the author was part of movement, to modernize education. From our perspective ist seems "a little" harsh for kids, but back then it was really progessive.

"Grimmschen Märchen" (Grimms Fairytales) on the other hand are the classic German Fairytales. But for most of the stories, many characters in this stories have a comparable or even more fucked up life. Like many other European Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anders, Russian Fairy Tales, I dunno).
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As long as you take the Original and not the Disney-Version.
For Example or spoiler: The little Mermaid isnt living happily ever after :<

psychOdelic

why? this has nothing to do with it.

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Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
etc

The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

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Learn your rules. You'd better learn your rules.

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Not sure if trolling or serious tbh

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There were times when kids were no snowflakes.

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Yes, but now you aren't a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.