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I decided to take shower recently and when I opened the water, the water literally was smelling like sewage. I did let the water run for couple minutes the the smell was gone. It was freaking disgusting
Does anyone know why nothing is available to watch on Netflix Germany?? What's the point of paying for it here!?
Feel like I am wasting my money
Does anyone know why nothing is available to watch on Netflix Germany?? What's the point of paying for it here!?
Feel like I am wasting my money
Berlin reminds me of a series of tests and levels that you are required to pass. And then once you pass those levels you are rewarded with very little. By that point you are already broke and trapped in Berlin. You look at your life before Berlin and realize it wasn’t so bad. Yet you still have to deal with the testing everyday. The testing never stops, you are always questioned. That’s when you realize you will never win. You can’t win, because there is no point to anything there. It’s not progressive, it’s the same thing over and over again.
What a coincidence, the number one Arab/Muslim area in Berlin and guess what www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/neukoelln/neukoellns-gesundheitsstadtrat-liecke-corona-sind-im-absoluten-krisenmodus
Do you guys have any recommendations for a good water filter that is strong enough to deal with the german piss coming from the taps?
Went to IKEA yesterday. Full of obnoxious Arabs screaming across the store, chasing their kids, making a big scene out of going shopping. They even scream when you try to pass them and there is very little space. Will never go to this IKEA again. Bizarrely, I hardly saw any of them at the checkout. Guess they only go there for family entertainment and to get all attention from civilised people.
I wonder if anyone found love on berlinhater
I went to Berlin for electronic music but the biggest joke of it all is there are so many events and no money to go out. How pointless
I’m so happy to be out of Berlin. What a relief . It took a long time to save money and I was trapped for awhile, but don’t worry you will get there eventually
At what point did you realize “wait a second, this place is really that bad”.
For me it was this site, when I was able to confirm everything I felt inside .
I let them gaslight me for years. Somehow Germans have this deep feeling that they're better than everyone else and they have some obscure "fact" (usually it's just a general feeling, nothing that can be quantified) they will pull out against any country. If you're British they'll complain about the NHS and racism (look up "In views of diversity, many Europeans are less positive than Americans" and you'll see how Germany has no leg to stand on regarding the latter point). If you're Italian then everyone is poor and in fear of the mafia (look up EU countries and median wage and compare pretty much anyplace to Germany). If you're American everyone is poorly educated and living in poverty (look up OECD's tertiary education rates and national poverty levels for a laugh). They all say this kind of stuff with such conviction I just assumed it was true.
Then by some fluke I ended up studying economics here and I actually started looking at the data. It wasn't really part of my coursework and, to be honest, my professors were mostly your typical German lefty types. As an example, our textbook at the beginning came with slides for most of the chapters. My professor always just used them without changing anything because he was pretty active in academia and was probably busy writing articles for publication or something. Anyway, one day I noticed that a single slide in a presentation was in a different stylesheet. So later I compared it to the official slides I found online. That weirdo created his own table with figures only to "prove" that Germans volunteer more than Americans. It wasn't even relevant to anything in the book really, it was just some random tangent about how many social benefits are not reflected in GDP. It feels like Germans are always trying to massage the public discourse like this.
I never really fit in here or liked it here. But almost everyone I knew, even the other foreigners, seemed to think it was pretty good here. Eventually I realized that's because most of them were from even worse countries (in terms of economics I suppose, culturally I think Germany is hands down the bottom of the barrel). But I did know one girl from my studies who complained about how rude Germans are and how almost every single day she had to see some guy peeing in public when she walked home from the station. The Germans all pretended none of it was true. More gaslighting.
In the end, what really shattered the way I view this place was also finding this website. Until then I thought I was alone here. Over the past few years it seems like public opinion of Germany has shot through the roof. I don't understand why. I think most people from my crappy little hometown would be appalled at the reality of day-to-day life here. Germans really do ruin Germany.
Every once and a while I'll encounter little pieces of truth. A few weeks ago I saw some graffiti at Alexanderplatz that said "Adolf Hitler had more humanity than the whole of Berlin" written in perfect German.
I had one fun summer in Berlin when I was out drinking almost every night. I stayed away from drugs luckily. When I grew out of it and started thinking about important things like achieving a decent standard of living with decent neighbors and considered raising a child here I quickly realized that Berlin is complete trash.
They don’t use streetlights and it’s dark in the winter. Not to mention, the city is full of sketchy butt people and drug addicts. If someone jumped me nobody would come to my help. The only reason why they don’t use street lamps beside their bullshitt “bio” environment garbage is because THEY ARE CHEAP. Considering it is so dark in the winter they may want to spruce some things up? Third world yo
I know germany is third world country because nothing ever functions properly, they never have any money for anything, they are not up to date on the latest technology, they steal all your money in taxes and pay a low wage, and it’s only a few steps away from becoming again a dictatorship . Really I feel these people have just been politely keeping the dictatorship scenario away because they have to to save their international reputation
Long rant, kind of weird I'll admit, sorry in advance. No receipts though, I promise.
Next time you're talking to a German and you mention air conditioning and they regurgitate the Official Domesticated German Response to that topic ("vee dont need air conditiona in Chermany, it is only hot heea one veek per yeeea" or "air conditiona make head huhrt and neck stiff"), then give them a little task to work on. Germans love simple tasks. Ask them to find out how many people die per year in Germany due to heat. Then, because that number is useless in a vacuum, ask them to compare it to the US. A German will naturally happily do this because in a German's mind, Germany is always superior to the US in every way.
A little spoiler for you: On a per capita basis nearly 50x more people die in Germany from heat compared to the US. That's around 8,000 annual deaths in Germany. For context, about 10,000 people die of firearm homicide in the U.S. per year and the gun debate hasn't ever paused over the last 30 years. And Germany has 1/4 the population of the U.S.
To drive the point home further: Adjusted for population, more people in Germany die from heat exposure than people in America die of firearm homicides. And it's not even close. Only if you include all gun deaths in the U.S. (homicides and suicides) do the numbers start to become similar. And, and this is the important part here, based on comparative statistics from both countries, 98% of those German deaths are preventable. Have you ever even heard anyone in Germany suggest air conditioning needs to be more wide spread? I certainly haven't. Even the hospitals in Germany usually aren't even air conditioned.
Of all EU countries, Germany has the second highest residential electricity prices. A kWh in Germany costs nearly 30% more than it costs in neighboring Austria or France. Why? Germany's insane forced environmentalism and the knee-jerk "Energiewende" because of Fukushima. Know how many people died due to the Fukushima meltdown? Between 1 and 2,202 depending on who you believe. How about Chernobyl? Between 78 and 4,000. No need to list every incident here, in Germany more people die every year due to heat exposure than all deaths directly attributable to nuclear energy.
I'll admit here that until recently I didn't know this interesting tidbit. I noticed after looking at a chart of Germany's excess mortality on Destatis where the author was trying to explain away a significant bump in August deaths as heat-related and totally not covid-19. I don't have the data to know if that's true. But I am fairly sure that Germany's 2020 summer wasn't much warmer than the one in 2019, 2018, 2017, etc. And it certainly wasn't warmer than the US's 2020 summer. Is it all a lie? Are heat-related deaths in Germany just an unofficial sundry category to obfuscate death statistics here? I don't know, but if those deaths aren't highly inflated then Germany's really darn callous to allow these deaths to remain so high. 98% ARE PREVENTABLE.
So next time a German tries to casually dismiss the legitimate application of air conditioning, ask them why they don't care about a German health issue that should be as large as the gun issue in the U.S. Another spoiler: You're going to be dealing with a mad German.
Are you talkling about me? Now look how lame you are. Trying to get along better at the cost of someone else. That's the essence of scapegoating. I think you just deserve to be in Berlin very well. And just because you're too dumb to get what I mean doesn't make you a better person. I wrote for example something very wise, it's just how it is you know. To stay with a feel. metaphorically. Of course you dumb sheep don't get what I meant by that. You didn't understand that effectively people are trying to throw you off your feel. You are angry, someone says something and you are thinking what to say. You don't get that there is something to say as a continuous stream of how you feel. That's why you are a little weakling. You don't even feel how you do. And I was to inspire someone like you but all you cared about was to have something to get along better. You were literally blocking every idea I had, that easily could have gotten to something. things need space. You know I don't need your verification. I don't care. But you can really go fornicate yourselves and you know what for. You are just as hypocritical as everyone else you claim to be such. You cannot not agree with that and make jokes all you want, it not gonna ease your shame. You didn't even care what I was getting at. Yoju were just projecting. I mean haha what you are writing is PATHETIC. You are apologizing for me within your own insecurity to say how you feel. Wow, you have great confidence my friend. Maybe you should have read some of the things I wrote, what confidence is. Haha. You see, You should be entertaining me if anything. You don't even get the meaning of that.
What does Reddit Berlin think of this site lol
If you search this site name on there you can see a few hits. A while back there was one that's since been deleted where they were laughing that someone here said German men have "week-old dickcheese". I recall seeing people there saying "yeah, there's some crazy people over there but they're not completely wrong". Funny how that thread was deleted.
www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/frauen-den-handschlag-verweigert-oberarzt-darf-kein-deutscher-werden-li.111944
Zero acceptance of other cultures. The man is a doctor and Germany doesn't want him because he doesn't want to shake hands with people wtf. At the same time some people from other countries don't get thrown out of this idiot for committing crimes. Germans get triggered if you don't do EXACTLY what they want even if you a nice and decent person (I don't know if that guy is though).
Didn't you know? Integration is only for others, NEVER for Germans. It's why you have to renounce your citizenship to become German BUT Germans don't have to renounce German citizenship when they get another one (at least according to the German government). It's why the "German-Russians" were so poorly integrated that 4 generations later they're still allowed to return to Germany. It's why there are German schools scattered throughout the Americas. God I hate Germans.