D_man

Town planner 🇨🇲 🇹🇬🇩🇪|| Fun, love, Drawing✍️ basketball 🏀 || Cofounder of Zonage Sarl 🌇

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

No one believed in Cape Verde. Quoted at 𝟏% to pass group stage at the World Cup. 530.000 population.

…and 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭. The celebration? 𝟏%! 𝟏%! 𝟏%! 😁🎶

History. 👏🏼🇨🇻

[Medo @YannAhmed_]

Donc tu sais faire ça ? 😭😭😭😭

[Trevoh Chalobah @TrevohChalobah]

Believe

[C H I E F, the NuriaStore Bookseller @bennetowuonda]

Did anyone else read dictionaries and encyclopedias for fun as a kid or am I just weird?

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

The real flex is having a lot of money and still choosing a simple life.

[Hermann ekwalla 〽️🇨🇲 @hermannekwlla]

Bjr,
C'est 100mille qui finit vite sinon tu peux faire 3 jours avec 2mille.

[Annie Payep @AnniePayep]

Entre temps.... nous on a glamourisé le bayam sellam 🤭

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Singapore has no minerals. Japan was bombed to rubble in 1945. Vietnam was at war for decades. All three built cities with parks, public squares, functional public transport, and green urban spaces that serve their people.

Walk through Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Douala, or Kinshasa and find somewhere to sit that is not a shop, a bar, or a church. You will not find it.

These cities sit inside some of the most fertile, green, tropical land on earth. And somehow every trace of it was designed out of the urban experience. No parks. No shade. No public squares. Nowhere a person can simply exist without spending money.

The geopolitics argument runs out when you look at who recovered from worse and built better. We are collectively and embarrassingly disorganized and we need to start saying that out loud.

Change does not start with governments. It starts with enough people refusing to accept this as normal. Share this if you agree. Talk about it. Demand better from your city.

[The Cameroonian 🇨🇲 @TheCameroonianZ]

Incroyable !

Ils ont pris la route. Littéralement.

Un troupeau d’éléphants à #Debundscha (Sud-Ouest #Cameroon) 🐘

Respect à nos géants 🇨🇲

[[email protected] @igorhansachat]

I love Germany. It is a great country. But there are still things that my mind cannot comprehend.

Like imagine a young couple with a kid. The kid is going to kindergarten. No relatives in a country. No money for private child care (granny).

This is my situation btw.

I am working. My spouse isn't. She wants to work.

Problem 1:
- The kindergarten is closing at 15:30. Meaning she/me must finish at 15:00 and run to the kindergarten.

Alright, maybe working part-time is an option? Maybe.

Problem 2:
- The kindergarten has vacations.

E.g. in my case, there was a winter vacation for 2 weeks and right now the summer vacation is upcoming for 2 more weeks.

Meaning there is no other option but someone have to take the vacation. On the same date as kindergarten is closed. On the same date when it is vacations in the school. It ends on the same day as in the school => half of German families is flying back to Germany.

Meaning you are mandatory to take your vacations EXACTLY ON THESE DAYS. Meaning that Kindergarten is dictating you on when you will take your vacation.

Freedom of choice, yeah.

Problem 3:
- Any morning you may wake up to the message: hey we are understuffed today, please keep your kid at home. In some kindergartens they just ask you. In some they really deny kids from entering the kindergarten that day.

Just no comments. Imagine you both working and then one day one of you must stay home.

Problem 4:
- If something happens in the kindergarten, e.g. kid vomit (and this happens!) - there is mandatory 2 days break because it could be an infection.

=> You have to take care of the kid at home => you have to take vacation days for it.

I love Germany yes but I do not understand why children daycare is dictating on how should we take our vacation days. You obviously may take it on other days. But then who will take care of kids on these days when the kindergarten is closed? Yes, you, but as unpaid vacation.

And btw I pay for the kindergarten, it is not free in my region.

P.S. Our kindergarten is great and people there are super lovely! My son absolutely loves going there!

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

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[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

Your entire nervous system relaxes when your finances are in order.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[The Bekks @hanbekks]

Das waren tolle 31° heute. Könnten wir jetzt bitte zum Herbst übergehen, merci.

[Sevilla FC @SevillaFC_ENG]

Happy #AfricaDay to all our Sevillistas across the continent!

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[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

how can I assist you? ☕

[_Lunnie.M.♊️💜 @LunnieDlamini]

Be humble. You’re not smarter than your manager who can’t use excel properly, they are your manager for a reason.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

When your favorite song comes on but there are too many people around.

[remx @biigrem]

Paid over £230 for a train ticket if the ticket inspector doesn't show up I'm going looking for him….

[German Simply 🇩🇪 @GermanSimply_]

The Power of "Machen" 🇩🇪

machen ➖ to do/to make

anmachen ➖ to switch on
ausmachen ➖ to switch off
aufmachen ➖ to open
zumachen ➖ to close
mitmachen ➖ to join/participate
nachmachen ➖ to copy/imitate
abmachen ➖ to agree upon/to detach
gutmachen ➖ to compensate/make amends
festmachen ➖ to fasten/to define
losmachen ➖ to untie/to loosen
vormachen ➖ to demonstrate/to fool someone
wegmachen ➖ to remove/to erase
klarmachen ➖ to clarify/to explain
saubermachen ➖ to clean
fertigmachen ➖ to finish/to prepare
kaputtmachen ➖ to break/to ruin
bekanntmachen ➖ to announce/to introduce
starkmachen ➖ to advocate for/to champion
wettmachen ➖ to make up for/to offset
ausfindig machen ➖ to track down/to locate

Why is "Machen" so versatile?:
The secret lies in Functional Shift. In many languages, you need a brand-new, unique verb for every action. In German, you can take an adjective (like sauber/clean) or a noun and simply "glue" it to machen.

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 🇩🇪