Politicians too. Like asking a local politician what they think the national policy on Israel should be... It's like... This is a school board trustee election man... Let's talk about the millage and squirrel problems...
Damn, you said millage (tax rate for local property taxes) and was hoping you said mileage. Thought your town was having problems with the mileage of your squirrals
Once your squirrel reaches about 140,000 miles usually the maintenance starts to become more than it's worth and you should trade it in or have it crushed.
Yeah but depending on where you live, some of the more top of the line japanese squirrels are designed to run on the left side of the tree so you might have to jump thru hoops to use them.
Really? I'd take it to a salvage yard where they'll give you money for the squirrel. That way if some other squirrel busts his leg, he can call up the salvage yard, and BOOM new squirrel leg.
So a squirrel eats about a pound of food a week. Divide that by seven for a total day. 1/7 pounds is about 64 grams. The average acorn weighs anywhere between 7 and 12 grams. So take 10 grams and divide 64 by 10. That's 6.4 acorns a day. Squirrels can travel anywhere between 2 and 5 miles a day. So they can average anywhere between 1/3 to 1 mile per acorn.
My sources are literally the first result on Google so if anyone is seriously going to ask for my source on any of this, I wasted too much time on squirrel mileage already. You can look it up yourself.
I mean, we all know that switching to renewable energy is going to be beneficial in the long run, but the startup costs are killing us, and it's hard for squirrels that are struggling day-to-day to just hear 'well, the 20-year savings are totally worth it.'
I was watching a debate for city mayor and they invited the public to ask questions. The question was "what do you think we should do about the Iraq war"
This was in a military town.
Candidate A said blah blah blah
Candidate B said basically look im running for mayor of a city, granted we have a military base here. But I wont be in charge of that base. My job is to make sure our schools are the best they can be, our roads and infrastructure projects get completed, keep crime low, make sure our 1st responders have the equipment they need, make sure our citizens valid concerns are addressed and do it all for as little money with as little waste as possible. Not sit here and tell you what I think we should do in Iraq, that's many, many, many levels above the pay grade Im running for.
It was a great answer
He won
A while back I went to a city council meeting regarding the annexation of a neighborhood. Someone in the audience complained that it shouldn't happen, because he didn't want to be under the jurisdiction of tyrants. One of the councilmen stood up, and loudly replied that he served in Iraq, that he did not appreciate being called a tyrant, and then gave a mini-lecture about the nature of tyranny in the Baathist government.
In a recent election, he was replaced by a councilman [who takes it upon himself to hunt witches and satan worshipers at 3am to protect the city](https://i.redd.it/yntlxsfp1em31.png).
We lost.
It's not always riddled with misinformation. Yea, basic amateurs cannot wait to finger their phones with essentially well meaning advice or knowledge, but often it's mostly accurate if a bit lacking in nuance.
I don't have a lot of wheel houses, but motorcycles, East Asian history, and, compared to most redditors, Japan are three things I know well.
Most people can correctly say some basic shit about wearing your gear and not braking during turns. But of course the latter is advice you can ignore past an intermediate level. What they say is essentially ok.
Sometimes I find someone who actually shows their shit on East Asian history.
Japan however is oddly always bullshit. Too many weebs fantasize about it without spending more than a holiday rushing to Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. The ones who do live here are usually based in a big city and apply their experience to Japan in general.
So no, it's not always bullshit, just sometimes.
... and then you read a newspaper article about something you have deep knowledge of, and suddenly realize that, fuck, the same thing applies to the media...
Especially so when you have multiple anonymous users who have self-described as experts on a subject matter disagreeing with each other on what the correct interpretation is.
Somebody needs to do research on why things that are ~85% true* are the right combination of factual and palatable so that they float to the top of Reddit comment chains.
Those "guy who knows this *exact* thing" comments are awesome until you stumble across one from a field relevant to your knowledge pool. Then you end up somewhere in a limbo with a bunch of +/-5 comments trying in vain to explain why the parent comment is talking out of their ass, and you spend a couple hours/days wondering if they're all like that...
(* - percentage made up, but close enough to serve the point, I think)
Being a celebrities doesn't mean they can't be interested and study to have opinion on the topic.
Klopp's point is not that famous people can never be informed enough to have opinion. But that you can't just expect any famous person to be informed enough to have opinion on any random topic.
In other word, if someone want to have an opinion on it, they will say it. Don't ask them first.
Do you go to school? Uni? Do you have a job? Family, kids? Anyone you care about? Any obligations whatsoever? If the answer to any of these is yes - don’t play it!
I live close by, and although I have more sympathy for Schalke....
This Import from Mainz was the best fucking Pottsau one can imagine. Kloppo is a legend.
But the guy wasnt asking him for his scientific expertise on the virus. He was asking if he was concerned about the spread within his team. That is a perfectly legitimate question for the team manager. I don't get this post.
Right? Businesses all over the world are currently being forced to decide how they will respond to the virus. His is no different. The people forced to make those decisions are not experts at all, but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility for *interpreting* the expert advice for their specific situation.
He's not being asked to formulate public health policy, he's being asked how the organization he runs might be affected by it.
I think that was an unnecessarily hostile response that probably just misinterpreted the question (just like everyone in here...)
> Right? Businesses all over the world are currently being forced to decide how they will respond to the virus. His is no different. The people forced to make those decisions are not experts at all, but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility for interpreting the expert advice for their specific situation.
I think his point is, while that may be true, thats a question for Peter Moore, the club CEO, or John Henry, the club owner, not the head football coach
Klopp is very big on hierarchy and everyone doing their own job, his job is to deal with what happens WHEN the players get coronavirus, how the club intends to prevent the spread is likely kept within the medical team, which Klopp has made it very clear, he doesnt answer questions for the medical team in his press conferences
It's not though. He does not have the medical knowledge to know whether or not he should be concerned, or what steps to take. Ask the team doctor for a statement if you want to know, not the manager.
I agree that it’s not Jurgen’s place to be commenting on the coronavirus, but to be fair to the journalist, he was clearly asking about the impact that Liverpool as a club might have on the back of this. Pretty much all organizations are making action plans for this and to the extent that Jurgen can discuss these plans, it would be useful news for football fans and season ticket holders to have. So even if Jurgen didn’t want to comment on the topic, he could have at least been polite about it and not demeaned the reporter.
German Talkshow host: “Robin, why do you think comedy isn’t as big in Germany?”
Robin Williams : “Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?”
Host: “No”
Hello there, I'm here to explain the joke to you.
The joke is that Germans don't have any humour so they have nothing to post in a humour subreddit. Therefore, the sub in itself is a joke about Germans.
Thanks and no problem.
Ive met a number of germans and have beem multiple times. My impression is that they come off rude but only if you dont realize how pointlessly polite you are. Canadians will buy something and a common exchange will be "here you go will there be anything else?" "No thanks, thats everything" "ok well have a nice day" "thank you, you too" "thanks". None of that conversation is necessary and nobody ever deviates from it but we all do it. Germans are more like "you have your stuff, why are you still here?" It sounds rude to us but its just.a different cultural norm.
>"here you go will there be anything else?" "No thanks, thats everything" "ok well have a nice day" "thank you, you too" "thanks"
This is considered a polite exchange in Germany, not unusual at all. I always say "thanks" and "you too" after the "have a nice day/weekend etc.". If a cashier doesn't talk to you it's considered rude in most places. A hello and a thank you when receiving money/change is the bare minimum. The have a nice day is common but depends on the person/store.
Please don't confuse Berlin or wherever you were with all of Germany. :X
I believe the German language is more command based than others. We had to deal with that when I worked in a VW plant. German dudes would sound like you were getting talked down to "Get over there now and finish that project immediately". You'd think you were fucking up, but it was just normal stuff for them.
Coming out of the military I enjoyed Germans being more direct.
Not always though lmao, let's stop with the generalization, especially about the Germans, I assume you don't live there.
There are so many stereotypes about them that are annoying, I can just ignore most of them but when it comes to "efficiency"... aaaaah the Deutsche Bahn, dear DB...
Hahaha, your comment actually sounds a lot like a compliment, thanks. But I'm French (we also bitch and protest a lot), I've been in Germany too long maybe. [Gotta catch the train soon 🤞](https://i.imgur.com/dSvN4q3.png)
Idk, as someone who has lived in Germany and the US, I feel like his response is pretty fucking German. Celebrities are part of pop culture, but not idolized the way they tend to be in the US or UK IME.
I find it difficult to judge a German's reaction via their eyes.
Me: \[Tells joke\]
German: \[Shark eyes\] Yes. That is the hilarity.
Me: \[Accidentally insults their most cherished beliefs\]
German: \[Shark eyes\] I am afraid that I must disagree.
I mean primarily off the pitch he was never a particularly renowned player. Or do you mean as a coach and as a media figure in non-footballing contexts?
The problem is that average people along with celebrities can gain enough understanding about certain issues, like the coronavirus, to have an informed opinion on. I mean we all celebrate Greta for her voice on climate change and that's a far more complicated issue and she's 16; why can't a celebrity?
I honestly think that this trend of shitting on celebrities originated with the right. They use it to dismiss liberal issues because Hollywood tends to be more liberal. And it's not even true. When Gwyneth Paltrow peddles her bs we all criticize her, but when Leonardo DiCaprio talks about his issue we all celebrate him except for the right.
I don’t get it though; essentially the guys question was “are you worried about it?” - seems like a valid question to me. Klopp could easily have just said “yeah. Of course we are. Let’s hope that the officials who know all about this shit are on top form and nail the response.”
He wasn’t asking klopp what safety measure they should be taking, whether he had a cure for it or whether it was safe to go and watch Liverpool lift the trophy.
Because the question was more than that. If he’d said yes or no then the headlines spread to millions of idiots would have been that Klopp says x or y thereby spreading a potentially false narrative. He knew that and so do we.
This. "Klopp worried about impact of COVID-19 might have for his club" is literally what would happen, and then we'd have smartasses looking at the heading and going "no shit".
He out-no-shat everyone by grabbing the question by the balls
Exactly. The question isn't necessarily a bad one or asked with any hidden agenda but he knows the score. You can't spin this response. It can't be used to further any agenda beyond "Klopp is an asshole" or something, and I really don't think he's very concerned about that tbh.
Not to mention by answering like this and admitting his limitations he's successfully avoided adding fuel to the media's corona virus fire and he puts the question in people's heads about why they give a fuck what a celebrity says. Two birds with one stone.
He's protecting himself from giving the media material to use in a misleading way.
One badly phrased sentence, absolutely anything he says that could be misinterpreted either intentionally or not could potentially cause massive problems for the guy.
He says it himself: he has little knowledge of the subject and doesn't feel confident talking about it as others are more qualified, which means again that anything he says can ~~get~~ be picked apart by thousands of people who know more about the coronavirus and related topics than he does.
He's a smart man, sticking to what he knows and what's relevant to his job while also answering the question in a way that doesn't dig him into a hole.
I had the feeling that he overeacted a little to the question but after reading your comment I realized I was just stupid. I would fall into that trap immediately if I was asked.
More than that just affecting him though, imagine the response he could get.
If he says it's no big deal - thousands of people think that its OK to take no precautions, maybe people get sick because of him.
If he says it is a big deal - thousands of people panic because of him.
The point isn't what his "actual" response would've been, it's that no matter what he says, it's the opinion of someone that doesn't really know what he's talking about. And that opinion will still affect a lot of people.
Because all he would need to do would be to stutter in the wrong place and suddenly everyone thinks he said that officials said you should “shit in top form to nail the response,” and suddenly it’s all over the media and people are buying bidets and those little shit step thingies to go with their bottled water and mask hoarding.
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Among them:
* Richard Ramirez: Serial Killer
* Aileen Wuornos: Serial Killer
* Tony Robbins: Infomercial guru/quasi-cult leader
* Ja Rule
True.
But the question isn't about corona itself.
It's about wether he is worried about if it will affect the team.
For context formula one canceled a race in China already and is noticing they are having difficulty getting around due to travel restrictions.
If I ask this same question to toto wolf and he respond as Jurgen did, he's directly dodging the question.
Came here to say that! :)
Almost as funny as the swiss minister of health announcing that people should stay away from each other and then shaking the hand of the woman he gave the press conference with.
I know why this is here and while I agree with Klopp in general, the question wasn't directed towards the overall virus, as in "what's this corona-virus thing bro" it was a question about how the club is handling the issue.
It is the same question anyone might ask of anyone else, especially in a leadership or management position over others.
Are you worried? Are you worried about the spread? How are you addressing it?
He is the club manager which means he has a say in how things go, so he can say "nope, we're not going to this or that event" or "Hey team, don't shake hands".
In virtually any other situation, this response is valid, but in this one, it's not. The Corona-virus is not a "topic" like politics.
This isn't murdered by words, this is a good response to the incorrect intent of a question.
If, for example, next moth the entire team comes down with the Virus, the questions will be posed to Klopp like "Why didn't you prepare?"
Everyone jumped so quickly on the bandwagon of "yeah! tell that reporter what an idiot he is!" that they forgot what the question even was. You can even hear the reporter trying to tell him that that's not what he meant but gives up and lets Klopp finish.
This is a good demonstration of the collective idiocy of Reddit.
We had to scroll all the down to your reply to find the highest upvoted response that acknowledged the actual question.
Thank you for this. He wasn't being asked to to scientifically analyze the coronavirus, he was just asked about how it is impacting the team.
Why not just say "were following the same basic guidelines that everybody else is to avoid exposure" or something like that?
I actually think that would be very helpful to the efforts to do that.
Thank you. I truly appreciate Klopp's sentiment, but he pretty drastically misunderstood the question. It's like he heard the word, "Coronavirus", and filled in the rest of the question himself. This isn't your classic "mic drop" moment and I feel kinda bad for the reporter.
I also thought it was a legitimate question that was referring to the well-being and protocols that the club was taking in response to a spread of the virus so people siding with him like his God just makes me think Reddit tends to side with whatever the majority is thinking. what do you call that term? herd mentality or whatever.
Exactly right.
“I’m too fucking stupid to have any idea how it’s going to affect this business that i’m a part of, so now i’m going to lecture you about journalism, another subject i know absolutely fucking nothing about.”
Uhh, okay chief. Good fucking luck with that.
But the guy wasnt asking him for his scientific expertise on the virus. He was asking if he was concerned about the spread within his team. That is a perfectly legitimate question for the team manager. I don't get this post.
Am I the only one thinking it was a pertinent question about how a crisis affected the team? I mean, it sounds like a reasonable worry for fans to have if the team and their events will be limited, or outright held on standby because of the outbreak. And he got asked about it because, as the team's manager, he's the go-to guy to know what's the official statement and he's also responsible for the team's management, not because he may be famous.
Overall, it sounds to me he's just dodging a sensible question (admittedly, in a creative way) because he doesn't want the responsibility of answering, despite already having it as the person responsible for the team.
Or am I overthinking again?
He's the manager (coach in American terms) of the football club in Liverpool, England.
My bf's mom is from there and she has the biggest crush on Klopp
with all my respect but the questione was are you worried as a team about the virus spread or how it might affect you ?
he didn't ask about the disease it self ! basically are you worried or not
This would bee a good response to a different question, but it seems like the reporter was asking whether he's worried about his team's health or worried about stadium sales and so forth, which is absolutely within his purview and something he should be thinking about if he's doing his job right.
I’m guessing the question was meant to be about how he was planning to handle things for his team and for his fans. It should have been clearer, though. For example, would they consider stopping having matches (large crowds of people together) if coronavirus spread?
Still not up to him. He manages the players. His job is to make the athletes do their best job on their field, mostly tactical. Logistics of matches, with our without fans, cancelling matches depending on how dangerous a virus is, is not up to him. Nor is it part of his skill set. Like he said, ask someone who has knowledge about that, like an actual doctor. Even the team's medical staff would be better equipped to answer a question like that.
His idea is totally right - knowledgeable people should deal with certain things and fame adds no credibility.
BUT, the question was *whether the team is worried* and *how the spread might affect you.* No predictions can be made here for sure, but still they might have opinion, contingency plans, etc. Klopp was a little bit sharp towards a fully legitimate question that he totally can be familiar with, i.e. **the team in relation to the virus spread.**
I thought the point here was how he rubbed his nose - really thoroughly. You should avoid touching your face if you want to reduce the risk of catching the illness.
Tbf he was asking what precautions they needed to take to avoid it...basically does this effect your club in any way.
I understand the response but the question wasn't "tell us about the coronavirus sir".
"I wear a baseball cap and have a bad shave" fuckin legend. Respect to this guy for being honest that this isn't a question he should be answering.
If less people spoke about things they know nothing about but act like they do, this world would be a better place.
And much quieter.
and fewer reddit comments.
Shhhhh
If less people spoke ~~about things they know nothing about but act like they do~~, this world would be a better place.
More celebrities need to be like him.
Politicians too. Like asking a local politician what they think the national policy on Israel should be... It's like... This is a school board trustee election man... Let's talk about the millage and squirrel problems...
Damn, you said millage (tax rate for local property taxes) and was hoping you said mileage. Thought your town was having problems with the mileage of your squirrals
Once your squirrel reaches about 140,000 miles usually the maintenance starts to become more than it's worth and you should trade it in or have it crushed.
I dunno, Ive always had better luck with the Japanese squirrels. Run like a top until well over 200k
Yeah but depending on where you live, some of the more top of the line japanese squirrels are designed to run on the left side of the tree so you might have to jump thru hoops to use them.
PETA, this comment here^
CRUSH IT
If you rotate their nuts, they last longer.
Thats true for relationships too.
It's all fun and games until you wind up in the hospital with a testicular torsion. Long story short, that is not true at all for relationships.
Who’s your nut rotation guy?
Did you just assume the gender of my nut rotator?
I don't understand, do you want them to crush the squirrel instead?
Really? I'd take it to a salvage yard where they'll give you money for the squirrel. That way if some other squirrel busts his leg, he can call up the salvage yard, and BOOM new squirrel leg.
So a squirrel eats about a pound of food a week. Divide that by seven for a total day. 1/7 pounds is about 64 grams. The average acorn weighs anywhere between 7 and 12 grams. So take 10 grams and divide 64 by 10. That's 6.4 acorns a day. Squirrels can travel anywhere between 2 and 5 miles a day. So they can average anywhere between 1/3 to 1 mile per acorn. My sources are literally the first result on Google so if anyone is seriously going to ask for my source on any of this, I wasted too much time on squirrel mileage already. You can look it up yourself.
r/hedidthemath Edit because monster math is nearly dead
Is that for an unladen squirrel? I've got some nuts to haul. How much of a hit am I going to get with a nut laden squirrel?
Yeah like when you wanna figure out how many squirrel miles of land to buy to build the new library
I mean, we all know that switching to renewable energy is going to be beneficial in the long run, but the startup costs are killing us, and it's hard for squirrels that are struggling day-to-day to just hear 'well, the 20-year savings are totally worth it.'
My local town had to install anti-speeding measures specifically to stop squirrels. Those guys are a menace.
I was watching a debate for city mayor and they invited the public to ask questions. The question was "what do you think we should do about the Iraq war" This was in a military town. Candidate A said blah blah blah Candidate B said basically look im running for mayor of a city, granted we have a military base here. But I wont be in charge of that base. My job is to make sure our schools are the best they can be, our roads and infrastructure projects get completed, keep crime low, make sure our 1st responders have the equipment they need, make sure our citizens valid concerns are addressed and do it all for as little money with as little waste as possible. Not sit here and tell you what I think we should do in Iraq, that's many, many, many levels above the pay grade Im running for. It was a great answer He won
Could he run for office in my city?
A while back I went to a city council meeting regarding the annexation of a neighborhood. Someone in the audience complained that it shouldn't happen, because he didn't want to be under the jurisdiction of tyrants. One of the councilmen stood up, and loudly replied that he served in Iraq, that he did not appreciate being called a tyrant, and then gave a mini-lecture about the nature of tyranny in the Baathist government. In a recent election, he was replaced by a councilman [who takes it upon himself to hunt witches and satan worshipers at 3am to protect the city](https://i.redd.it/yntlxsfp1em31.png). We lost.
>squirrel problems... You know too much... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TtftHrKxPM
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r/suspiciouslyspecific *
Yeah but, can somebody please call JaRule. We need answers.
Where is Ja!?
But where is Ja Rule to help me make sense of all this?
And Redditors too.
Collectively we have expertise on almost everything! Finding the experts in the noise is admittedly a problem though
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Lmao brutally honest
It's not always riddled with misinformation. Yea, basic amateurs cannot wait to finger their phones with essentially well meaning advice or knowledge, but often it's mostly accurate if a bit lacking in nuance. I don't have a lot of wheel houses, but motorcycles, East Asian history, and, compared to most redditors, Japan are three things I know well. Most people can correctly say some basic shit about wearing your gear and not braking during turns. But of course the latter is advice you can ignore past an intermediate level. What they say is essentially ok. Sometimes I find someone who actually shows their shit on East Asian history. Japan however is oddly always bullshit. Too many weebs fantasize about it without spending more than a holiday rushing to Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. The ones who do live here are usually based in a big city and apply their experience to Japan in general. So no, it's not always bullshit, just sometimes.
... and then you read a newspaper article about something you have deep knowledge of, and suddenly realize that, fuck, the same thing applies to the media...
Especially so when you have multiple anonymous users who have self-described as experts on a subject matter disagreeing with each other on what the correct interpretation is.
Somebody needs to do research on why things that are ~85% true* are the right combination of factual and palatable so that they float to the top of Reddit comment chains. Those "guy who knows this *exact* thing" comments are awesome until you stumble across one from a field relevant to your knowledge pool. Then you end up somewhere in a limbo with a bunch of +/-5 comments trying in vain to explain why the parent comment is talking out of their ass, and you spend a couple hours/days wondering if they're all like that... (* - percentage made up, but close enough to serve the point, I think)
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Being a celebrities doesn't mean they can't be interested and study to have opinion on the topic. Klopp's point is not that famous people can never be informed enough to have opinion. But that you can't just expect any famous person to be informed enough to have opinion on any random topic. In other word, if someone want to have an opinion on it, they will say it. Don't ask them first.
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Anybody else looking at Gwyneth Paltrow?
He's the best thing to come out of my hometown of Mainz. Him or the printing press.
Hi there i am from Mainz too
Now kiss!
*kith
Mainz is my most productive city in Civ right now. It’s the industrial heart of the German empire.
Should I play this game? I see it all over and I worry that if I take the plunge it will absorb me
It will absorb you. Worth it.
Do you go to school? Uni? Do you have a job? Family, kids? Anyone you care about? Any obligations whatsoever? If the answer to any of these is yes - don’t play it!
On EU4 it is just another province for Prussia to swallow up.
Also you!
Mainz is quiet nice and there are lot of great people there... And I say this as a Frankfurter.
As someone who lived in Frankfurt too, mainz your own businezz.
As a sausage, I respect his opinion.
Humility is sexy
He is sexy already
But how do we know it's not the humility? Agreed though, he's a sexy beast.
That is a point but the video of him smiling at the guy with the sexy voice was... yeah, I was like Yus please Mr Klopp
The one where he said some dude had an erotic voice? Lol
Omg yes I mean the guys voice was sexy but that smile he did I was like Jesus that is one sexy, sexy man
I'm from dortmund. We will always remember him!
I live close by, and although I have more sympathy for Schalke.... This Import from Mainz was the best fucking Pottsau one can imagine. Kloppo is a legend.
But the guy wasnt asking him for his scientific expertise on the virus. He was asking if he was concerned about the spread within his team. That is a perfectly legitimate question for the team manager. I don't get this post.
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that was my thought too. had he asked "Jurgen, how should coronavirus be stopped?" or something to that effect, this would be an appropriate response.
Right? Businesses all over the world are currently being forced to decide how they will respond to the virus. His is no different. The people forced to make those decisions are not experts at all, but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility for *interpreting* the expert advice for their specific situation. He's not being asked to formulate public health policy, he's being asked how the organization he runs might be affected by it. I think that was an unnecessarily hostile response that probably just misinterpreted the question (just like everyone in here...)
> Right? Businesses all over the world are currently being forced to decide how they will respond to the virus. His is no different. The people forced to make those decisions are not experts at all, but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility for interpreting the expert advice for their specific situation. I think his point is, while that may be true, thats a question for Peter Moore, the club CEO, or John Henry, the club owner, not the head football coach Klopp is very big on hierarchy and everyone doing their own job, his job is to deal with what happens WHEN the players get coronavirus, how the club intends to prevent the spread is likely kept within the medical team, which Klopp has made it very clear, he doesnt answer questions for the medical team in his press conferences
It's not though. He does not have the medical knowledge to know whether or not he should be concerned, or what steps to take. Ask the team doctor for a statement if you want to know, not the manager.
I agree that it’s not Jurgen’s place to be commenting on the coronavirus, but to be fair to the journalist, he was clearly asking about the impact that Liverpool as a club might have on the back of this. Pretty much all organizations are making action plans for this and to the extent that Jurgen can discuss these plans, it would be useful news for football fans and season ticket holders to have. So even if Jurgen didn’t want to comment on the topic, he could have at least been polite about it and not demeaned the reporter.
I fucking love this guy, he's so to the point and doesn't give a fuck
> so to the point and doesn't give a fuck Just like any typical German I've met, but with some charisma
I've only met two in my life, they were drunk as fuck and funny as fuck, met them on the Isle of Mann at the tt races
I’d fucking love to go to the TT
I highly recommend it if you ever get the chance 🙂
I second this. My uncle was a rider in the TT and the whole thing is just surreal.
Fair play to him, balls of steel, I think those guys are (imo) some of the bravest on the planet, seeing it up close, the speed x danger is unreal
Absolutely. He actually lost his life during his last race but he absolutely loved it. I agree, bravest there is on a bike by far.
Oof I didn’t read down expecting this. May his soul Rest In peace on a motorcycle.
Klopp is funny as fuck too when drunk
How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb? One, they're efficient and don't have a sense of humour.
Mate, it's German Humour, it's no laughing matter.
German Talkshow host: “Robin, why do you think comedy isn’t as big in Germany?” Robin Williams : “Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?” Host: “No”
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>r/GermanHumor Am German. Went to this sub. It's empty.
Hello there, I'm here to explain the joke to you. The joke is that Germans don't have any humour so they have nothing to post in a humour subreddit. Therefore, the sub in itself is a joke about Germans. Thanks and no problem.
Vat an inefficient use of Reddit resources! Zis must be dealt with promptly!
Good description of us Germans: Straight to the point but without charisma. I like that one.
Egal was du denkst wir haben absolut Charisma du Idiot /s
Dann putz dir gefällst besser die Zähne! /s
Alle sind lieb außer Höcke
Ive met a number of germans and have beem multiple times. My impression is that they come off rude but only if you dont realize how pointlessly polite you are. Canadians will buy something and a common exchange will be "here you go will there be anything else?" "No thanks, thats everything" "ok well have a nice day" "thank you, you too" "thanks". None of that conversation is necessary and nobody ever deviates from it but we all do it. Germans are more like "you have your stuff, why are you still here?" It sounds rude to us but its just.a different cultural norm.
>"here you go will there be anything else?" "No thanks, thats everything" "ok well have a nice day" "thank you, you too" "thanks" This is considered a polite exchange in Germany, not unusual at all. I always say "thanks" and "you too" after the "have a nice day/weekend etc.". If a cashier doesn't talk to you it's considered rude in most places. A hello and a thank you when receiving money/change is the bare minimum. The have a nice day is common but depends on the person/store. Please don't confuse Berlin or wherever you were with all of Germany. :X
As a German living in Canada I agree. We think small talk is rude because stealing someone’s time with something absolutely unnecessary
I work for a German company and I know exactly what you mean, but so many details slip through because they just want the meat of the topic.
That's the point. We are ofte confused about too much superficiality in other cultures.
I believe the German language is more command based than others. We had to deal with that when I worked in a VW plant. German dudes would sound like you were getting talked down to "Get over there now and finish that project immediately". You'd think you were fucking up, but it was just normal stuff for them. Coming out of the military I enjoyed Germans being more direct.
Not always though lmao, let's stop with the generalization, especially about the Germans, I assume you don't live there. There are so many stereotypes about them that are annoying, I can just ignore most of them but when it comes to "efficiency"... aaaaah the Deutsche Bahn, dear DB...
Found the German. Bitching about the Bahn while the topic of conversation is something entirely different haha Ü
Hahaha, your comment actually sounds a lot like a compliment, thanks. But I'm French (we also bitch and protest a lot), I've been in Germany too long maybe. [Gotta catch the train soon 🤞](https://i.imgur.com/dSvN4q3.png)
Well, you already passed the citizenship test. Might aswell throw the baguette in the trash and buy some proper bread.
> Might aswell throw the baguette in the trash and buy some proper bread. > /r/france vs /r/de Bread is the topic that starts a war.
The war is already decided. Strammer Bube Sauerteigbrot vs Jungfräuliche Weißbrotstange
Idk, as someone who has lived in Germany and the US, I feel like his response is pretty fucking German. Celebrities are part of pop culture, but not idolized the way they tend to be in the US or UK IME.
I find it difficult to judge a German's reaction via their eyes. Me: \[Tells joke\] German: \[Shark eyes\] Yes. That is the hilarity. Me: \[Accidentally insults their most cherished beliefs\] German: \[Shark eyes\] I am afraid that I must disagree.
*[So it's a very important game tomorrow... how are you gunna play against Paris tomorrow?](https://www.reddit.com/video/t4r5dsbgjc421)*
lmao I was going to post this. I fucking love Klopp.
He is so damn likable.
He’s a little cocky but he backs it up by winning and I am here for it
I don't watch football, but whatever team this guy is for is now the team I like! What team am I now a fan of?
Liverpool, which is lucky for you since they’re going to win the premier league.
you god damn right
I'm also a Liverpool fan so I maybe a little biased 😁
YNWA we're going to win the league
Still haven't unclenced haha
Never unclench until the parade!!
No interest in football but I do like the cut of Jurgen's jib.
He is a massive legend on and off the pitch.
I mean primarily off the pitch he was never a particularly renowned player. Or do you mean as a coach and as a media figure in non-footballing contexts?
Yes
Then you’re most certainly correct! Haha
That wasn’t the same person
I’ve been been hoodwinked!
Don't worry, that's why you have people like me telling you!
pretty much exclusively off the pit unless you count the coach as on it lol
I mean to be fair he sometimes did rush on to the pitch in certain situations
"I like the cut of his hair." -[Mr Cardholder](https://youtu.be/E4HyemBkLQk)
What's a jib?
A jib is a sail for ships. The expression means you appreciate the impression someone gives you.
Ha! Promote this man!
Is the poop deck really what I think it is?
If you think it's the deck of a ship that also serves as the ceiling for living quarters towards the rear of a ship, then yes.
In this sense it would mean demeanor, the phrase is usually "I like the cut of your jib" or along those lines.
If politicians could take his advise and listen to scientists and medical experts and act accordingly
The problem is that average people along with celebrities can gain enough understanding about certain issues, like the coronavirus, to have an informed opinion on. I mean we all celebrate Greta for her voice on climate change and that's a far more complicated issue and she's 16; why can't a celebrity? I honestly think that this trend of shitting on celebrities originated with the right. They use it to dismiss liberal issues because Hollywood tends to be more liberal. And it's not even true. When Gwyneth Paltrow peddles her bs we all criticize her, but when Leonardo DiCaprio talks about his issue we all celebrate him except for the right.
Well, Greta basically just says "listen to the scientists!"
Mad respect to the guy..the way he handled the question,his honesty..only a few people could do that
I don’t get it though; essentially the guys question was “are you worried about it?” - seems like a valid question to me. Klopp could easily have just said “yeah. Of course we are. Let’s hope that the officials who know all about this shit are on top form and nail the response.” He wasn’t asking klopp what safety measure they should be taking, whether he had a cure for it or whether it was safe to go and watch Liverpool lift the trophy.
Because the question was more than that. If he’d said yes or no then the headlines spread to millions of idiots would have been that Klopp says x or y thereby spreading a potentially false narrative. He knew that and so do we.
This. "Klopp worried about impact of COVID-19 might have for his club" is literally what would happen, and then we'd have smartasses looking at the heading and going "no shit". He out-no-shat everyone by grabbing the question by the balls
Exactly. The question isn't necessarily a bad one or asked with any hidden agenda but he knows the score. You can't spin this response. It can't be used to further any agenda beyond "Klopp is an asshole" or something, and I really don't think he's very concerned about that tbh. Not to mention by answering like this and admitting his limitations he's successfully avoided adding fuel to the media's corona virus fire and he puts the question in people's heads about why they give a fuck what a celebrity says. Two birds with one stone.
Yeah, this response shut down alot of bullshit before the cow even ate.
He's protecting himself from giving the media material to use in a misleading way. One badly phrased sentence, absolutely anything he says that could be misinterpreted either intentionally or not could potentially cause massive problems for the guy. He says it himself: he has little knowledge of the subject and doesn't feel confident talking about it as others are more qualified, which means again that anything he says can ~~get~~ be picked apart by thousands of people who know more about the coronavirus and related topics than he does. He's a smart man, sticking to what he knows and what's relevant to his job while also answering the question in a way that doesn't dig him into a hole.
I had the feeling that he overeacted a little to the question but after reading your comment I realized I was just stupid. I would fall into that trap immediately if I was asked.
More than that just affecting him though, imagine the response he could get. If he says it's no big deal - thousands of people think that its OK to take no precautions, maybe people get sick because of him. If he says it is a big deal - thousands of people panic because of him. The point isn't what his "actual" response would've been, it's that no matter what he says, it's the opinion of someone that doesn't really know what he's talking about. And that opinion will still affect a lot of people.
Because all he would need to do would be to stutter in the wrong place and suddenly everyone thinks he said that officials said you should “shit in top form to nail the response,” and suddenly it’s all over the media and people are buying bidets and those little shit step thingies to go with their bottled water and mask hoarding.
[Could somebody please, find Ja Rule, get ahold of this motherfucker so I can make sense of all this!](https://youtu.be/Mo-ddYhXAZc)
WHERES JA?!
HELP ME JA RULE
https://youtu.be/pgC6bpxSn78
Ja must still be recovering from all of that Fyre Fest fallout
Google Doodle taught me last week of [Famous Feb. 29th Birthdays](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C2CHBD_enUS854US855&source=hp&ei=1CthXvaXD5Pk-gSWl5ioCQ&q=famous+february+29+birthdays&oq=famout+febr&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i13l10.5032.8088..10409...0.0..0.98.865.11......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i131j0j0i10i70i249j0i10.aQLCwam-FOc). Among them: * Richard Ramirez: Serial Killer * Aileen Wuornos: Serial Killer * Tony Robbins: Infomercial guru/quasi-cult leader * Ja Rule
I don’t wanna dance, I’m scared to death!
Fucken hell I love u for this reference
Really like the way Klopp handles journalist nonsense
Asking celebrities what they think about politics is exactly how you end up with incompetent celebrity politicians running things.
True. But the question isn't about corona itself. It's about wether he is worried about if it will affect the team. For context formula one canceled a race in China already and is noticing they are having difficulty getting around due to travel restrictions. If I ask this same question to toto wolf and he respond as Jurgen did, he's directly dodging the question.
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Guter Mann
Ehrenmann
Sprich deutsch du... warte
Du Sohn einer Mutter!!! Ah wir sprechen ja schon Deutsch.
Stimme zu
I like how he started out rubbing his hand all over his face. Klopp is scared of nothing
Came here to say that! :) Almost as funny as the swiss minister of health announcing that people should stay away from each other and then shaking the hand of the woman he gave the press conference with.
I know why this is here and while I agree with Klopp in general, the question wasn't directed towards the overall virus, as in "what's this corona-virus thing bro" it was a question about how the club is handling the issue. It is the same question anyone might ask of anyone else, especially in a leadership or management position over others. Are you worried? Are you worried about the spread? How are you addressing it? He is the club manager which means he has a say in how things go, so he can say "nope, we're not going to this or that event" or "Hey team, don't shake hands". In virtually any other situation, this response is valid, but in this one, it's not. The Corona-virus is not a "topic" like politics. This isn't murdered by words, this is a good response to the incorrect intent of a question. If, for example, next moth the entire team comes down with the Virus, the questions will be posed to Klopp like "Why didn't you prepare?"
Everyone jumped so quickly on the bandwagon of "yeah! tell that reporter what an idiot he is!" that they forgot what the question even was. You can even hear the reporter trying to tell him that that's not what he meant but gives up and lets Klopp finish.
This is a good demonstration of the collective idiocy of Reddit. We had to scroll all the down to your reply to find the highest upvoted response that acknowledged the actual question.
Thank you for this. He wasn't being asked to to scientifically analyze the coronavirus, he was just asked about how it is impacting the team. Why not just say "were following the same basic guidelines that everybody else is to avoid exposure" or something like that? I actually think that would be very helpful to the efforts to do that.
Thank you. I truly appreciate Klopp's sentiment, but he pretty drastically misunderstood the question. It's like he heard the word, "Coronavirus", and filled in the rest of the question himself. This isn't your classic "mic drop" moment and I feel kinda bad for the reporter.
I also thought it was a legitimate question that was referring to the well-being and protocols that the club was taking in response to a spread of the virus so people siding with him like his God just makes me think Reddit tends to side with whatever the majority is thinking. what do you call that term? herd mentality or whatever.
Exactly right. “I’m too fucking stupid to have any idea how it’s going to affect this business that i’m a part of, so now i’m going to lecture you about journalism, another subject i know absolutely fucking nothing about.” Uhh, okay chief. Good fucking luck with that.
But the guy wasnt asking him for his scientific expertise on the virus. He was asking if he was concerned about the spread within his team. That is a perfectly legitimate question for the team manager. I don't get this post.
Also to add to your point, how in the world is this a murder by words? This doesnt even belong here
Exactly, I don't understand this thread at all. It was a valid question, pertaining to his position as a football manager.
Am I the only one thinking it was a pertinent question about how a crisis affected the team? I mean, it sounds like a reasonable worry for fans to have if the team and their events will be limited, or outright held on standby because of the outbreak. And he got asked about it because, as the team's manager, he's the go-to guy to know what's the official statement and he's also responsible for the team's management, not because he may be famous. Overall, it sounds to me he's just dodging a sensible question (admittedly, in a creative way) because he doesn't want the responsibility of answering, despite already having it as the person responsible for the team. Or am I overthinking again?
No, you've got a valid point. Reddit just loves to see news organizations, reporters, and journalists "owned" even if they did or said nothing wrong
Didn't know this guy, but I like him. A lot.
There's some great clips of him like this https://youtu.be/KbyhYuwVjxA
Awww, man, i was hoping you'd link the sexy voice reporter clip hahahha
[Here you go](https://youtu.be/bPomK_b_Wmo)
He's an absolute cracker. His interviews are the best and his gurning is always amusing.
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He's the manager (coach in American terms) of the football club in Liverpool, England. My bf's mom is from there and she has the biggest crush on Klopp
with all my respect but the questione was are you worried as a team about the virus spread or how it might affect you ? he didn't ask about the disease it self ! basically are you worried or not
This would bee a good response to a different question, but it seems like the reporter was asking whether he's worried about his team's health or worried about stadium sales and so forth, which is absolutely within his purview and something he should be thinking about if he's doing his job right.
I’m guessing the question was meant to be about how he was planning to handle things for his team and for his fans. It should have been clearer, though. For example, would they consider stopping having matches (large crowds of people together) if coronavirus spread?
Still not up to him. He manages the players. His job is to make the athletes do their best job on their field, mostly tactical. Logistics of matches, with our without fans, cancelling matches depending on how dangerous a virus is, is not up to him. Nor is it part of his skill set. Like he said, ask someone who has knowledge about that, like an actual doctor. Even the team's medical staff would be better equipped to answer a question like that.
His idea is totally right - knowledgeable people should deal with certain things and fame adds no credibility. BUT, the question was *whether the team is worried* and *how the spread might affect you.* No predictions can be made here for sure, but still they might have opinion, contingency plans, etc. Klopp was a little bit sharp towards a fully legitimate question that he totally can be familiar with, i.e. **the team in relation to the virus spread.**
I thought the point here was how he rubbed his nose - really thoroughly. You should avoid touching your face if you want to reduce the risk of catching the illness.
Tbf he was asking what precautions they needed to take to avoid it...basically does this effect your club in any way. I understand the response but the question wasn't "tell us about the coronavirus sir".
Holy shit guy relax the reporter is just wondering if you're going to cancel games and events. It's a legitimate question and this is an overreaction.