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Why do they take the whole kitchen away when they move out? I mean, considering each flat presumably have different size of kitchens, what do they do with the kitchen which they carry over?
Extreme individualism to compensate for forced collectivism. It's why these brutes, even if they've been married for 20 years, will buy beds with 2 separate mattresses and sheets/duvets. And like most things involving real estate here, it's just completely idiotic like having to repaint your apartment white when you move out. Also just another way to remind you that you're just a renting pleb who's worth nothing.
I find it strange that Germans will almost always snap at you when you complain about anything in Germany by claiming that "you don't know anything about Germany". And yet they somehow all seem to be complete experts on every other country on earth. Weird how that works.
they're all experts in Germany apparently. Even the must uneducated will tell you how its better than "America" and say with a scowl on his face "I would NEVER go there".....because they have never been or maybe went once to one city on a week long trip. (true story)
Holy shit! I just realized that the stereotypes about Germans are all true. I tried for years to rid my brain of them and to see Germans for individuals, but the bumbling, obsessive compulsive, neurotic German cliche is spot on. I really should have just trusted my gut instead of forcing myself to be "open minded". These people arr not good people at all. I don't blame their genes, but it seems to be a German problem only. Maybe post war mental derangement.
When I moved to this place I instantly realised something is off with these people. It's hard to describe they give off this weird, nervous, hyperactive, irritated vibe. I get freaking nervous around these fools they need to cut down the drugs man I don't feel safe around these people even though I'm not the type of guy to get scared or something. I get PTSD just chilling with them. I don't want to hang out with these freaks anymore damn, I need to move after lockdown.
I lost my job this year due to the virus. First I was on unemployment benefits then that expired. Now on government assistance for the time. But, I don’t think I’m going back to work.it would be better if I used that government money to buy time until I can find work in another country. I have PTSD from working with Germans. Every time I’m out something triggers a painful memory from my former job. Working with Germans will lead you into anger and depression.
stolen: 8 Ishtar Gate
Taken From Iraq And Displayed In Germany
tops-of-everything.com/2020/08/16/top-10-stolen-artifacts-displayed-in-museums/
why you shouldnt steal artefacts and pieces of places that have significance to gods and cultures, exhibit one
www.youtube.com/watch
3
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Or you know, dont steal things like the gates of babylon or satans actual throne (according to the bible), for example. and by the way hitler modelled his speech podium off the pergamon and he was a satanist.
Q: how do you invoke anger from germans?
A: exist
At least twice a week or three whenever I step out my apartment I have to say, “what’s your problem?” Or “what the fornicate are you looking at?” “Can I help with something?” “Are you ok?” And it’s always the same reply from all of them. Some dribble in German and they look away. They will talk, laugh and whisper behind your back in groups of two or larger. You confront them on that and they will not own up to it. If they think you don’t understand German than that’s when you really hear racist poop come out their mouths. They are such cowards that I want to just go on a binge and hit every one of them in their freaking mouths. Can’t wait until I leave this poop place.
though i do remember once getting on the train at lichtenberg when it was really full. I think there were various muslim-looking people on there and she started saying "diese Scheiß Ausländer" really loud. Then she made some sort of small talk with me as she wanted to get out and when she left i shouted after her "you racist c*nt".
guy above is correct. germans are garbage everywhere but lichtenberg feels like a drunken homeless encampment surrounded by weird nazis. west berlin does have some decent pockets where it's quiet and clean. i don't think east berlin has anything like that.
I second that. If you live in Lichtenberg or Marzahn - that’s the land of poor white East Germans. Why would you move there? To an area that is known for its poverty & lack of hope? What is not acceptable is to walk anywhere in Germany as a white women and be stared at by Middle Eastern idiots as if you were a curiosity. fornicate that. These people moved here deliberately, what were they expecting??
My sisters partner came to visit me in Berlin a few years back. When at a pub next to the Olympiastadion after watching Hertha BSC, he went out for a cigarette. He came back inside and said to me "what does Scheiß Außländer mean?". Turns out the whole day, the only phrase of German he had picked up was this. It really sums it up perfectly.
Things my family and friends have said about Germany after visiting:
1. Weird that the people on the planes don't follow standard deboarding rules that every other seems to understand. Anywhere else it would be unfathomable that grown adults push and shove to get off a plane 20 seconds earlier.
2. Why are people here so unfriendly all the time?
3. What's with all the guys pissing outside?
4. Why is everything here so overpriced for the quality you get?
5. They asked me how I can handle living here and I don't even have an answer for that one.
Today again - I was walking on the sidewalk. I mentioned a person on a bike approaching. As soon as I took a quick glance there was on old Turk or Arab on the bike, looking at me furiously. Now, what have I done to you, you loser? I am not responsible for your lack of economic success or the fact that you are probably married to a fat beast. I don't know you, would never talk to you and I am also not responsible for gentrification which forces you to live in a tiny flat together with 4 other people. fornicate off.
Germans worship government above all else. They all just blindly accept any asinine idea as long as the government officially supports it. And even though it's come back to haunt them time and time again, Germans never learn their lesson.
That is one of fears of staying here "post Pandemic". Whilst getting a hold of Covid is obviously going to require some limitations on freedom, the blind acceptance of everything they are told or dicated to do from Das Volk scares the poop out of me. I can't see the Regierung ever fully relenting these newly acquired powers and that sets a worrying precendent.
Ever notice how almost all German anger stems from jealousy?
Envy as well. They are jealous with their partners and envious with other people's success. Very sad culture. This is why I love capitalism, the Berliner socialist/communist mindset is totally screwed up. Yet they want to leech off the benefits of capitalism after their failed communist/socialist experiment, with them as the guinea pigs.
Being jealous is a capitalism thing, mate. Sorry to burst your bubble. You are jealous in an unequal society where some people have more than others, or in a dictatorship where „some people are more equal than others“. Communist thought is far from any form of jealousy and envy. These are German traits.
I have seen huge jealous behaviour from both West and East Germans. East German jealousy is more passive-aggressive I think and you get a sense that they might have given up on life altogether. West German jealousy in my experience is more open and hostile and resentful. And sometimes you have no clue what they are jealous of.
To the phallace face two posts earlier, if communist/socialists are not jealous of capitalism, why do so many of them break their necks to come to capitalist countries, I don't see too many people wanting to immigrate to communist/socialist countries. Why don't you go and live in China or Nth Korea, hypocrite.
Does anyone here speak German fluently? How did knowing the language affect your life in Berlin?
Learning the language was probably the biggest mistake I made since living here. Whilst it enables you to deal with some of the more complex facets of living here, it also makes you realise how pointless and inefficient so many of these things really are and makes you question why Germany has such great publicity in just about every other country. It also gives you the unfortunate pleasure of being able to understand the locals and again, the illusions that Germany is an intelligent society falls quickly. The only stereotype learning the language confirms is that the vast majority of them are downright rude, not only to foreigners but to one another as well.
Definitely not missing the sight of a man past the age of 35 wearing earrings.
Nose rings are the worst, I sat across someone with a big nose ring once, never again, it made me want to puke. Berlin is full of lost sheep, all bleating the same lefty bulllshit. "baaa baa ba baaa", "yes baaa baa ba baaa", that's right I agree "baaa baa ba baaa", "did you know baaa baa ba baaa". The most boring unoriginal people on earth.
I’m approaching my mid thirties. Everyone back home where I am from, my old friends, seem sad in one way. But when I look at my friends in Berlin my age, they are sad in another way. Reaching mid thirties you can look back on your life and see what works and what doesn’t. But in Berlin? People are in denial. I am not in Berlin anymore but to see it from a distance is even weirder. They are still acting as if in 20s, trying to chase their “cool kid” alternative fantasies. Don’t get me wrong, going out to a club is fun. But when your entire life at 35 is just about superficial things like trashion and pretending you are influencer with 500 followers there is something wrong. These people have no goals no life. The only reason I stay in contact is curiosity of what happens to Berlin party kids at 40.
Germans are still going on about how they’re not “like America” even though they’ve well past the one million mark of coronavirus cases which was the same mark months ago when everyone said things were blowing up in the USA. These people have no ability to reflect and think in a linear fashion. They just think about the now.
Why are the African drug dealers so aggressive to women? I’ve been followed home multiple times by men who would not leave when I said to leave, standing right up next to me. This isn’t racist , just wondering how to handle it. Worry I’ll be raped. Is it just because African men don’t see women out in the street alone at night in their culture ? Only happens at night. They don’t seem to get it, I don’t want to talk to them
I left just after Merkel opened the doors. I lived near Gorlitzer park and I thought I was in down town Mogadishu. I got heckled daily and one day I just thought F this, I'm not spending 50% of my income on tax for this treatment.
The one positive effect Berlin had on me is to not suffer fools gladly. Why should Germany be responsible for looking after the 3rd world? answer, they shouldn't. "But but but reperations!!!" kiss my ass, we all enslaved one another in the past.
I now actively vote against any party which supports immigration from the 3rd world, especially from Muslim countries. I don't care if 20% of them are nice, they've been tarnished by my personal experiences.
Before all the virtual signallers come along and say I'm racist, I couldn't care less. I love a tranquil life and don't want to be disturbed by a culture that hates me. If you want to live amongst animals that hate gay people and women be my guest. My $ will go elsewhere.
I studied with a really nice young woman who was constantly approached by black dudes that would follow her around. She was too nice to ignore them and so it kept happening. To the best of my knowledge nothing bad ever happened, though. We all tried to convince her to avoid them though.
Same constantly happened to a German friend of mine. On telling her she should not accept being catcalled and harassed in Görli Park she really really said "but these guys have a hard life and are treated unfairly by so many people". I swear she said it. Totally delusional. I told her that no man should ever harass a woman no matter his background but she just didn't get it and even reacted in an aggressive way to ME!!! They are totally lost.
I agree with whoever said there is no excuse for being an asshole. It is not.
And it has nothing to do with their skin colour or heritage. That’s also wrong. We should be above that...
An jerk is an jerk and that behaviour should not be excused.
I dislike it massively when people justify bad or inappropriate behaviour and play the racist/less fortunate card.
Actually, I find it coming also from a stupid place of superiority to say that.
Germans or anyone else is no better than Africans, Turks, Eastern EU or whoever people here want to be penises to and put down.
What makes a human being is its quality as a human being.
Full stop.
i used to get followed and chatted up when i first came to berlin. That was because i smiled at strangers and didnt realise it was so unusual. Thinking back it is disgusting.as i was basically a child
Berlin, the place where
- beautiful women are hated
- the only persons allowed to wear heels are LGBTQ*
- successful women in politics look like Angela Merkel or Annerget Kramp Karrenbauer
- successful people are despised
- men in their 50s ride KAPUTT bikes at 100 mph on crowded roads and feel cool and edgy
- People feel a salary of 2500 net is good and a 100 year old flat without a kitchen let alone any other items means comfort
- ..... could go on for hours
Haha OP here. I am actually a woman who would love to wear heels but cannot stand the stares and catcalls any more ... also in many circles heels are totally unwelcome and even women will tell you Bs* like "oh you are the only woman I know wearing heels" (add German stare). Whereas my lgbtq friends are praised for it.
I agree that in a polite society we don't insult world leaders based on their looks, weight, etc. But we haven't been in a polite society for several years now. Any doubt I had of that fact was erased 3 or 4 days after the US election when my clock radio woke me up with Germany's state mandated 3-minute news broadcast of which they devoted 1 minute to playing Anderson Cooper's (the guy who's so deep he glows in the dark) unedited "obese turtle on his back" monolog.
I don’t care about a Lockdown. I avoided People and overcrowded Shops long before Corona.