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This place is so cliche . But it’s fun to laugh at
People in Berlin fail even at a fantasy.
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/k5wdgy/what_are_my_options_when_i_cannot_track_my_package/
Good luck when you do online shopping in this country. If you are not at home when delivery comes, you can say goodbye to your delivery. God knows, who took your package and provided fake name like above Reddit topic.
I have recently bought expensive monitor and keyboard set for my home office setup. They were delivered last weekend to me properly but the thing was no one ever asked for my name or ID while I was taking the delivery. They rang the bell and leave the package to me without saying anything. This country is so strange.
I Wanted to share a piece that I found particularly insightful:
"I was born and raised in Berlin (bin also ein waschechter Berliner). My mother is also a born-and-bred Berliner. Went to an international school in Berlin (am, of course, native fluent in German), but finished my last year of high school in the States (my father is American, and I am a US citizen). Got my BA in International Relations in the States. Subsequently, became a psychotherapist there. Have lots of family in Berlin and live here on-and-off.
Now to my observations.
Whenever I leave Berlin after a prolonged stay, I am content to leave for a while, in part due to the toxic behavior that defines many interactions among people here.
To be sure, depending on the evaluation criteria used, Berlin is--indeed--a wonderful city. It has a lot going for it (that's why I keep coming back). However, the people are not part of its bragging rights. Far from it. There is something the locals call the "Berliner Schnauze," which can be decidedly quick, terse and funny at times, but more often than not retortive, biting, hurtful and offensive. Yet, this is the least of what Berliners subject one another (and others) to. Far more problematic is the death-by-a-thousand-cuts behavior that can be observed in everyday life: the small and narrow-minded way of relating to others (especially in evidence among older people); the obliviousness to others' space; the constant need to correct and lecture (often driven by a tendency to see oneself as upholding rules (and order) while others are behaving like unconforming scoundrels, or idiots who should know better); the know-it-all attitude; the presumptuousness; the way in which many with some sort of official title or "gate-keeper" status like to belittle and rule it over others (in order to make themselves feel more meaningful and/or important); the customer unfriendliness that one often encounters (where somehow besting the customer seems more important than selling the goods); the perpetual scowl already mentioned, and; a certain mean-spiritedness (and passive-aggressiveness) that is rather pervasive. All of these and more are symptoms of a tendency among many to rather put people down, instead of build them up. If you are sufficiently fluent in the language, you'll understand the wise-ass answers many give (or comments they make), the unhelpfulness and the unfriendliness that characterizes far too many interactions between people. Aside from the folks walking around in Tokyo, I have never seen (whether in the subway or walking in the streets) such sour-puss, grumpy faces as are traipsing around in Berlin. Many look like they are completely exhausted with life, or as if they have just left a funeral. It's no wonder given how people treat one another here.
Generally, it would seem that many Berliners have yet to experience (or grasp) that being kind to your fellow man actually enriches your own life a hundred fold. Said differently, being scroogey and aggressive to others has never made for a happy life. Moreover, putting people down (and concomitantly, making them feel small)--instead of empowering them--will only leave you feeling bitter and alone in life. As has already been said: this place can drain you of your friendliness, especially if you are inclined to be kind and forthcoming in the unreceptive atmosphere that awaits you here. We could get into the historical and cultural antecedents that have given rise to this Prussian, protestant "Mauer" mentality (as well as the way in which the poisonous behavior here rubs off on successive generations), but that's another subject.
The reaction I frequently have to the behavior of many Berliners is one of pity. Try to imagine what it must have taken to twist people into the pretzels they have become. It's a tragedy that the environment and the system can make such unhappy people out of what started off as perfectly happy babies (unless they were cholic =)
My advise is: Try to make a few good friends because they will most likely become friends for life. Then you'll also see the sentimental and emotional side of Berliners. They are like crabs with a hard exterior, but a soft interior. If you go drinking with enough of them, you eventually get to see the melancholic side that characterizes many folks here. Somewhere in there is a person who cannot untangle the way in which his or her spirit has been confined by all the rules, societal taboos and everything that is "verboten" (which starts early and plays a role in why Germany is considered "kinderfeindlich")."
Source: www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/94177-why-are-you-leaving-berlin/
The Natives getting judgey about Britain approving the Vaccine first just sums up every reason I hate this country. Jens Spahn literally said "well we developed it" and "its not about being first" like a petulant little child. You know they are all not so secretly hoping for tons of Brits to die because of this. The mixture of schadenfreude and death would have the Kartoffels spunking their little cherman panties.
Pfizer(American pharma GIANT) Moderna(American) and BiOnTecH(German trash company) have developed vaccines including other vaccines from other countries which have a similar efficacy. Yes they invented it. What fucktards. Pfizer probably put in 99% of the effort while they stayed there and scratched their balls.
Just look up how much funding Pfizer fronted compared to Biontech's operating income and what they received from the German government. It's a joke at some point. And what about CureVac that the German press claimed was so close to a breakthrough, so much so that Donald Trump personally spoke to the CEO and demanded that the vaccine be made available only for the US.
Even as an American I don't GAF who developed the vaccine and I pray that it's safe when we're all forced to get it. I honestly don't understand Germans screeching all the time about how great they are for such little things. The German patriotic euphoria reminds me of the US right after 9/11 minus the actual solidarity (you know, the voluntary kind and not the "Solidaritaetszuschlag" flavor you get here).
Does anyone have any psycho German manager's stories?
A few:
- One manager was neurotic and faked back problems so she could say home about 30% of the time. I ended up having to do half her work with no pay increase. I couldn't oust her for her job because I'm not German enough.
- Current manager is just a massive gaslighter. Company is sort of being restructured, and his direction was to "just work faster". Also makes promises and changes his mind completely the next day.
I refused to even acknowledge that a idiot less educated, less experienced can actually tell me what do to.
Merit, not because German > Foreigner.
Needless to say, it irked the poop out of him, but we got along.
They get docile and scared when you prove them you can prove how stupid they are.
I have a serious question to be honest. You know, Germans can't do smalltalk because they don't like to talk with strangers. Okay, fine but how do they meet with new people? They don't talk to strangers anywhere then how do they socialise? This join a Verein suggestion is so funny, what changes If I join a Verein?
Germans are only friends with people they have known since first grade before they were socially conditioned to fear strangers. When they join a Verein they just go there once or twice a week, play whatever sport with the others, and then go home. Maybe once or twice a year they'll sit around outside with the others and drink a beer. Other than that, Germans don't mingle with each other.
yes know exactly what you are talking about. I still dont get it. I think maybe Germans only start warming up to you after about 3-4 years at all. For them 1 year is like a month and means nothing. Tbh i wouldnt even waste any time at all hoping to integrate, just make friends with foreigners. There is nothing worthwhile to find behind their masks it is just fear.
and it is the weirdest thing that they spend so much time with people and know nothing about them. Its almost the same with colleagues as it is with other people in teams except maybe one or two but then you are lucky. And then it is so awkward when you have that once a year party which isnt even a real party. I have stopped going now.
Or your German “friends” abandon you when you have emotional problems because they get so uncomfortable and think there is something wrong with you and not them. And they will make sure to tell you that, and coldly stare at you as if “this thing is not amusing me anymore” and just ditch you. The biggest joke is some of these Germans just make “friends” with new foreigners over the years who all leave, then they are left basically alone. But they still think something is wrong with the other people. I think deep down they know they are losers
someone needs to explain to germans how to dress appropriately for each situation. you are not going on a camping trip or mountain hike. you are in an urban centre. you are not going to burning man. you are not wearing shoes. etc.
And somebody needs to explain to them that they don't need to stare at people who are dressed better than them as if the latter are some kind of curiosity. If somebody needs to be stared at like a circus attraction it should be the Jack Wolfskin/Humana slaves for bothering everybody's eyeballs.
have you ever been to a wg-casting where these punks act like some kind of ceo ?
This society structure is built on degrading and psychologically damaging people starting at a young age. you can tell by the broken up school system, robbing kids of their motivation and drive at such a young age already. you can't put kids under such high stress levels and tell them when they are 6-7 years old to perform HIGHLY NOW and tell them their life is phucked if they don't come on a gymnasium etc. and if the kid only gets real or haupt they feel the disappointment the parents have. I don't need to tell you about German teachers, you can imagine already... Lots of pedos and racist cunts in every school in Germany. Don't get me started about this Ausbildungs crap robbing people of their money, check the ''Ausbildungsgehalt'' these people get for 3 years if you start a Ausbildung here and live alone and then go to the phucking Amt to get financial help you end up earning less then a person that gets Hartz4 for doing absolutely nothing and you work full time ? How is that possible?
Ofcourse the Germans have no idea of real creativity because they get robbed of that in a young age. The only thing they learn in school here is to be drones and do and believe exactly as told. There is no independent thinking here, the people have no ambition and got robbed of the energy starting like I said at a young age.
These people are so dumb really. You can't teach them anything because they lack independent thinking. They all think the same and only see black and white. They can't even read facial expressions and gestures. They are deeply phucked up. If you do something nice to them, they feel personally attacked and start to distrust you why is that?
I hate this incredubly nerdy way these losers speak.
Example:
"Dass die Konsole aufgrund des äußeren Erscheinungsbild nicht mit der normalen zu vergleichen ist ind durchaus für viele einen Höheren Wert hat gilt es trotzdem zu beachten."
0% chance the fuy who wrote that isn't autistic.
Too many Arabs who trash the streets up and have no self-respect or respect for their neighborhoods
Berlin COVID suicide statistics are where ?
Even the so-called Covid deaths are hidden because there aren't any, all those people who died had other ailment complications. 99% were over 65 and most were in their 70's to 100's. In other words, the average dying age.
But don't mention this to the sheeple because in unison they'll bleat out their mantra "You're a conspiracy theorist".
train your minds to think you are leaving in a week, makes it bearable here in this shithole.