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Do you know any foreigners who actually make more than 1500 after tax per month
HEY DO REMEMBER MY POST LAST WEEK?
Do you think it has anything to do with the reason the Irish Embassy is closed?
They haven't announced to the public yet, but there is a growing Covid cluster amongst the staff, and they all agree, ONE PERSON IS TO BLAME for letting the evil in.
The singer songwriter who recently scored a job there....
I don't know nor do I care. Just write the person's name - I'm not going to try to play a pop trivia game. Why would a popular singer songwriter work at an embassy?
And of course the obligatory logic here: Were we ever contact tracing every person who infected others with the seasonal flu? So far, covid19 has killed about 50% the number of people in Germany who die in a typical year of the seasonal flu and that is spread over 1.5 flu seasons. Curiously only 517 people died in Germany of the flu last season.
A lot of people here complain about Peter Pan Syndrome in Berlin and they're completely right. It feels like in most other countries there is a point where adults are expected to stand on their own two feet. In Germany, people are infantilized well into their late 20s. School/Abitur until you're 20, then at least 6 years to get a master's (though when you speak to Germans you'll quickly learn that almost no one graduates without doing 1-2 extra years). People can stay on their parents' health insurance until 26. They get "Kindergeld" until 27. They can be tried as "youths" until they are 25 or more. On the other hand, they still must attend some form of schooling until they are 16 even if they've graduated (yes, it's possible to finish Hauptschule before 16 - such students must attend some kind of training or schooling or else their parents will be fined or lose custody). They can have sex from the age of 13 (can even have sex with someone 20 years older with very few restrictions). Officially according to the German rating system, films can have FSK 0 (suitable for children from 0 years old) for films with entire subplots about giant penises (www.youtube.com/watch) - but until very recently if there was animated blood or swastikas then it was effectively banned from being sold within the country. This is the website of the biggest children's/youth magazine in Germany (www.bravo.de/dr-sommer/die-neue-penis-galerie-175567.html NSFW). This all leads to completely undisciplined Stefans and Claudias that have a malformed view of the world. It's one of the many reasons that these people are intolerable. Getting these people to accept that their upbringing was completely messed up is as difficult as getting a person who beaten as a child to accept that they were physically abused. The word cognitive dissonance is thrown around a lot these days, but that definitely explains Germans.
Exactly what also happened in Berlin www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8818631/Swedish-police-chiefs-plead-resources-migrant-mafia-gangs-terrorise-country.html
Describe the German language using one word or sentence.
German is such a beautiful language. That's why internationally it's used exclusively to train dogs and why there's so much popular German-language poetry that is so loved worldwide. In its perfected form, Yiddish, it really shines with the kinds of throat noises almost no other language can offer.
Weird compulsion to make every statement use a strong verb (like "command") with an unnecessary noun to sound more intelligent than it is. There is (or was) a long article on The Guardian about it from back before they started sucking Germany's sausage all the time. Something like "the substantisation of academia" or something. Went into detail on how Germans love that way of writing because it sounds more authoritative. And don't even get me started on the use of passive voice here to shirk off ANY personal responsibility and their overuse of exclamation points. "Hier wird eine Maske getragen!!!!" Etc.
they always have to hammer everything home and make absolutely sure the message has got through. They are not content with direct, it's somehow got to be more than that. Thats why they always say things and then follow it up with an email saying exactly the same thing spelt out explicitly as if you are stupid.
Berlin leaving feels like a whole different city than Berlin pre-move or even Berlin first six months
I remember the first day I ever came to Berlin and was at Unter den Linden saying to the person I was with "I love Berlin" as I slowly began to concoct a multi-year plan to move here. If I had a time machine I'd go back and show myself what a few years did to me. Or better yet, I'd suckerpunch my old self in the back of the head and run off. Nothing would be off limits to prevent former me from moving to this shithole.
I’m trying to make sense of it. If anything it gave me as a white empathy for what it must feel like to experience xenophobia and racism. Although it’s not close to what POC encounter in Berlin, it gave me a taste of what it could be like. That and it made me grateful for my life before Berlin. But also it helped me become less ignorant and more focused
Even Swiss and Austrians can`t stand Germans.
There is no close friendly relations between German speaking countrys , unlike English speaking countries.
The cause of all the problems I have in the life currently, is "living in Germany"
I want to scream that I want to be out of this country so much. I am stuck due to financial status and COVID
On the other hand, I am sadly seeing my time / life is getting wasted in this country.
I am worried, concerned and unhappy in this place
Perfect description of Berliners
Jobsworth
A jobsworth is a person who uses their job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner. The term can also be applied to those who uphold petty rules even at the expense of humanity or common sense.
Exactly how I thought these AntiFa lefty scum would be living:
The police have taken almost 60 activists out of the squatted house at Liebigstrasse 34 in Friedrichshain since Friday morning.
Stained mattresses lie around, dishes and bottles are piled up in the kitchen. It smells of rubble and concrete that was used to convert the house on Liebigstrasse into a fortress.
Some rooms are filled with broken mattresses, sleeping bags, and debris. Apparently to make it more difficult for the police to penetrate from the outside through the additional boarded-up windows. Individual walls have been broken through, apartment doors and passageways have been partially closed in other places and reopened by force by the police. The flooring in the house is largely destroyed.
There are still food supplies like rice and beer in the kitchens. The rooms, which can only be recognized as kitchens by dirty dishes and a few foods, were obviously also used as bathrooms. There are around 15 toothbrushes in a container. It was heated with old tiled stoves.
Those pricks had a trapdoor installed, but fortunately the Berlin police was too clever to fall for it. I am glad it got evicted.
here some footage www.pscp.tv/w/1OyJAgEQwRyKb
only rats can live like this
Because they were squatting in someone else's property for a decade and the police did nothing about it until a couple of days ago. And the media wrote idiot articles about it like about how Liebig 34 is a cultural institution in Berlin. All the while the lawless thugs terrorized people living there by setting stuff on fire, throwing rocks, loud music, loosening screws on government workers' cars, throwing paint at people, throwing molotovs at people, etc.
and in the meantime they made sure that people who go to work (you know that weird concept whereby you go somewhere for 8 hours or more a day to get money to pay for food/clothing/rent etc) could not do it properly. Well done on all the cable fires for which it took a week to fix. They are just a waste of space and people who should not be living in a civilised society.
Exactly how I thought these AntiFa lefty scum would be living:
The police have taken almost 60 activists out of the squatted house at Liebigstrasse 34 in Friedrichshain since Friday morning.
Stained mattresses lie around, dishes and bottles are piled up in the kitchen. It smells of rubble and concrete that was used to convert the house on Liebigstrasse into a fortress.
Some rooms are filled with broken mattresses, sleeping bags, and debris. Apparently to make it more difficult for the police to penetrate from the outside through the additional boarded-up windows. Individual walls have been broken through, apartment doors and passageways have been partially closed in other places and reopened by force by the police. The flooring in the house is largely destroyed.
There are still food supplies like rice and beer in the kitchens. The rooms, which can only be recognized as kitchens by dirty dishes and a few foods, were obviously also used as bathrooms. There are around 15 toothbrushes in a container. It was heated with old tiled stoves.
German girl Looks instructions:
Always have piercings everywhere, especially on the nose, eyebrows and mouth
Always have tattoos everywhere, especially on hands and back
Wear baggy potato sacks and let your baggy pants sag a little so that your arsch looks horrible
Wear a jack wolfskin jacket at all times
Dye hair blue, pink, or at least three different colors
If you’re over 35, have short hair
Walk and talk in the most masculine way ever
Wear sports shoes. No high heels!
Whey isn't there more suicide in Germany? In the 50s Berlin was the suicide capital of the world. When you walk around the city and interact with the locals it seems like everyone here is depressed. But suicidality isn't that high right now. Anyone know why? Is it the easy access to alcohol and drugs?