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Hard to believe this is “the best economy in Europe”. I feel like I’m in a third world country. I imagine frankfurt is completely different but Berlin is a ghetto
Some inspiration: Getting an idea about view-angles. Look to the side and notice how much you can see behind you. Look at your phone and notice how much you can see in front of you. Look straight and check how much you can see to the side. It makes it easier for example to say "Excuse me" when you realized someone already saw you. While they might just be a bit paralyzed. But you won't then say it as if they havn't seen you. Just a good thing overall to do. Another thing: Actually take a moment at home, to see where is the place for the wagon and where is the place where you go through, in a supermarket. Trust me it will come in handy. It's not about being about details. The less irritation, the more flow you have. So you can see to take serious such things. Which doesn't mean to be overly stuff or serious. It just means to take something serious. It can feel so good if you felt to catch 1 pasta that was about to fall into the sink because you felt so and then did it like you werew saving a penalty in a football match. This about going with your feel. It is meant to be such a seemingly meaningless detail. It is a moment of aliveness. It is a big problem to not go with one's feel and one gotto take it serious aka not take it not serious. It's all easy and good and especially it's joyful and exciting. There is always these moments throughout a day.
Another inspiration: If you had a really rough and annoying doorbell and someone (post) rings longishly and you were in your thoughts and now you lost your train of thoughts and feel angry. What do you do? 1. Express your feel. How do you do it? By opening the door 3. How do you open the door? Hit it back long? No, that would only make someone's day who knows the doorbell is like that and it is not how your feel expresses. You mean to say RING IT SHORTER!! Right? that's your feel. So you would open the door shortly. If the person manages to open the door in this short time (that equals your feel) they likely were expecting you to be pissed off about it. I had one say thank you to me, in this shit-friendly way (it was hearable from downstairs) which was clearly something the person already knew she would say, since she did not take my feel into account. To even see! that you can express how it made you feel...Because it might appeared like opening the door would be the complete opposite of that. :)
Eh, whatever. Here is another one. When somebody tells you to put the card, into the thing where you put the pin, don't take it out before the person will obviously tell you or you will take it out at the same time that they tell you which feels stupid. But you gotto feel that they will do so. It looks like this: you'd be looking into the air. That's how you feel dignity.
I wrote it a bit abstract, I couldn't really say what it really is. Because of course, you don't stare into the air. It has a meaning, it has sense. It doesn't feel like taking it out when you feel the person will comment over it. That is simply the sense, that's what I mean. In my mind I saw this is not understood by many while everyone knows the feel surely. Just trying to inspire you (not so good at that). I mean see it for yourself, I'm not writing any shi.t here. Dignity is dignity. Or go ahead and take it out when the person tells you if that feels cool with you. Good. Do it.
But I think I was actually pretending to be in my thoughts. It was not communicated to the other one. I think this is how it expressed. While it was not a lie. It's hard to tell what it actually was. ...Yeah now I have it. It's the only way to express it because it expresses anger about being looked at as stupid. The person should never believe you were in your thoughts. But yeah, some say these things also just friendly and then it doesn't feel dumb. You know this is way better than going like You think I'm fu.cking stupid, that would give a lot of credit. And I'm not saying to see the other one as an opponent. So yeah, as you can see it wasn't easy to put into words. So keep your feet calm. It's just some inspiration, it doesn't have to be perfect.
I did then get the receipt, she was handing it to me while wishing me a nice evening. Somehow she knew I wanted to have it (irony), while I really did hahaha :), Idk why but I felt I spontaneously wanted it, felt like it. Felt like I wanna check some things cause it cost a bit more. Just forgot to wish her a nice evening too, but she didn't mind :)
I just went shopping. The energy outside is unbearably evil. What's wrong with the place ?
The ancient Sumerians believed that the afterlife was a miserable, dark, gray existence in an underworld where the people ate dust and gradually faded away into wisps. Berlin holds a lot of looted Sumerian treasure. Think of that next time you are chomping down on some tasteless imitation of international cuisine, no one has smiled at you in you don't know how many days, and the grey clouds haven't shifted for even longer.
Put simply, everything annoys me about them, Germans. Here is a list of my 'of the moment' pet peeves:
- The way they talk with High rise terminal inflections. They talk in lists, because the language dictates that the verb comes at the end, so you have to listen to the very last word. Irritating
- The language is a minefield and sounds like ar3e, it does not flow and they do strange things with their mouths like a monkey to make the sound. the grammar is horrible and the presicion leave no room for ambiguity... which is the issue I take with teh culture... no room for ambiguity and personal interpretation... always this is X and that is Y. Because that is the way it is and do not question it ... we are right and our culture is very successful
- Their need to reinterpret whatever you have said and reformulate it to their own pigeon holed idea of the world... i.e. reductive
- When you say one thing they need to say it back to you... eg. you say 3rd floor... "3er Etage" and they will say "3er Stock?". It feels like they are correcting you
- Which brings me to didactic behaviour. Dogmatic
- Childish mentality. The need to show off that they are open parents and failing to exert any discipline because generally showing consideration is not done here
- casual, subtle or overt racism. Mentioned I was going to live in China for a year and get met with mocking asian voices/accents and making their eyes slated with their fingers... they were in their 50s, not children btw
- name tags on doors, no privacy
- saying Disnay
- inability to pronounce the A in anything. It isn't eppel it is Apple
- obsession with Bio / organic themed whatever and scorning, which is in general their smug attitude
- criticising foreigners and enjoying it, yet being the biggest hypocrites
- never accepting they could be wrong
- no one can empathise, they only think of me me me
- speaking before thinking
- shouting and barking, rather than negotiating or critiquing
- their only joy is taking pleasure in other peopples misfortune or even suffering
- jealousy, esp of a foreigners life/status
- no value for beauty and aesthetics, but the few who do are so arrogant and elitist about it
ugly buildings, landscapes, dimensions... doors are all strange sizes and the shapes of things are all 'off', never cute or quaint... just practical and like a factory...
- allergic to curves and circles in their designs, it is always square and straight lines
-the standardisation of anything designwise... which extends to shopping
- the horrible packaging and logos
- the ugly flat colours... that eagle on the passport... the word Deutsch...eugh
I have said my piece... for today! This is a miniscule fraction of all my thoughts about their shortcomings. No nation is perfect but this one is particularly unlikable.
an old ossi grandad riding his bike with german rock music blaring out the back. Mir fehlen die worte.
The way their expression and behaviour towards you changes as soon as they hear a foreign accent. Not all of them but most of them. Its like you are less than human.
They are neurotic, insecure, and fearful... terrible combination. Hence the need to cut people up, push in front and other opportunistic behaviour. Only thinking of number 1. You sad, pathetic, lonely, empty and damaged people. When you finish your meal in a restaurant and are just in the process of getting up they run over and jump into the seats for fear of someone else getting there. Think towels on sunbeds at 7am re resorts they are sharing with brits and others. In the UK we are taught to suppress childish selfish behaviour at home and at school. Probably the same in other countries, presumably. Whereas here the parents set this example and the cycle continues. Pushing in queues/running to a seat on public transport. R u n n i n g. At school we were taught not to run anywhere in public spaces to avoid danger. Now I have my pride to not run to a seat shamelessly. These plebs have NO shame. Savages. How about having pride in being a gentleman or lady and accept you win some you lose some re getting a seat. UK society is also somewhat broken like many places but there are still some codes of decency remaining, like not interrupting, not asking rude questions, saying please and thank you, not being impertinent to those you do not know asking ridiculous questions about their culture/ putting down their culture the moment you meet them / opening a door to a stranger / smiling and giving a friendly vibe to strangers or those providing hospitality / saying sorry or excuse me when bumping into someone and the list goes on.
Everything is completely correct. One more thing: You know when you're at a bakery or an imbiss and the salesperson turns around and doesn't know who was there first (because Germans don't really know how to for a proper line)? I can't remember a single time in Germany that a person has willingly admitted that he or she got there last and let me go first. Where I am from it would be considered EXTREMELY rude to be that opportunistic. This country is stuck in a post-war eternally adversarial mindset. German society is a zero-sum game. It's not like that elsewhere.
It gets worse though. I remember several times on the train where I have seen disabled people waddle over to the "disabled section" and rudely tell people to get out of the way. I accept the fact that some people need those seats, but you can say it without being rude. It's not like people sit there on purpose to make disabled people angry. German trains are just always crowded. If a German ever tries that with me I'll just not move. I have a feeling that they've never even considered people can react any other way.
I would punch a German in the face but I think they like that. That’s why they secretly try to rile you up, it’s their way of flirting and they go home and jack off to it. Why BDSM is so huge here
Good Lord, all locals are dumb here? Today noon I went to a well-know salad chain to get a salad. I ordered my salad and a middle aged German lady too. The waiter shouted that the salads are ready. Dumb woman picked up mine before I reached the counter. (I ordered beef, she ordered chicken no way to confuse) I told them beef salad is mine. She have it back and said she thought they're the same?? The waiter shouted at least 2 times chicken and beef you stupid woman???
Today I went to the supermarket afte work, so it was around 9. There was only one till open and the queue was about a mile long. I asked if they could open another till but got no reply. When I finally got to the front and said hello to the cashier she ignored me. So I said OK, no hello than she said "But I said hello." and angrily scanned my things. Dumb butt country!
Every German I know: I have such Schadenfreude that Trump has Corona
Me for the past few days:
Me once more for the past few days:
Leftwing German today: Don't you feel Schadenfreude that Trump has Coronoa?
Me: No, I simply do not care. People get Corona, its a virus that can infect anyone.
German:
In Germany it's probably illegal to say anything negative about Merkel. In the infamous words of Ronald Reagan:
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bruh German girls are BOMB but then other day to day issues. What say?
They are liars who will slowly trip themselves up in their lies over time and whem you finally see them for what they are you'll have a hard time saying f*ck off. Better to stay away from them completely or only date non-Germans. Better yet don't date anyone in this shithole.
You know, I've come to the conclusion that university in Germany is free for one of two reasons:
1. Germans know the quality of their universities is very, very bad and that any institution that charges money and teaches so little would be sued into oblivion within 2 years.
2. Germans are such cheapskates they would NEVER pay for university if it cost money. They won't even pay 50 cents to use a public toilet or 2 euro more per month to shower daily. I once briefly dated a German who walked two hours to deliver a letter herself instead of paying 50 cents for a stamp.
i dont think they realise how bad it is as they are unable to view the world outside of their own systems. They think that deep diving into specialised topics and rote learning all the theory is the proper way of doing things. They always build things from the ground up like you would build a computer or a house. It is very logical and it seems to make sense that if you have in depth knowledge of all the fundamentals you would eventually get a good overview and begin to form connections. But humans are not computers. They are stuck in the theory and the fundamentals and never move into useful knowledge.
I have a theory about Berlin. Say you moved to Germany when you were a student, and everyone ten years older or more than you are still getting wasted on drugs every weekend. Well then you don’t have a concrete role model for how you should behave in ten years. So ten years slip by and you end up like them, and since everyone else is at it you keep going . By that point, you have developed very little in terms of a person. You’ve basically been in limbo for a decade. You look at your friends from back home, and they seem to have gotten a lot more done in that time. Furthered their lives. Berlin is like a time vortex, taken up by trying to survive financially and distraction from getting so broken every weekend that you never have time to think about your life. Now normal people who move to Berlin only for a few years can see right past this. They can see the steep decline of how their lives were at say 25,30 before they moved to Berlin for a few years. But everyone else? Well they don’t have any progression to compare themselves to if they’ve been there since their early 20s. Essentially, they are frozen in time. This is why we see people 35 + who think the same things are novel and exciting as a teenager would. And that’s why they defend Berlin so hard because it’s impossible now for them to leave. They don’t have any real world adult life skills. So don’t try to talk about Berlin sucking to them, you’ll be ostracized. Deep down they probably know they are losers.
Kind of true for me. I moved here in my early 20s and worked at a series of crappy Berlin jobs. My coworkers were all about 10 years older than I was. They were a mix of kind low class "assi" families and people who partied and drugged out all the time. I always wondered how they ended up in a crappy job in their 30s considering I was better at it without even having any real work experience. Anyway, I've wasted about 10 years here now and haven't progressed much at all really. I'm still earning a near-poverty level wage. Still surrounded by people who have clearly made even worse life decisions than I have. I wish I had moved away when the culture shock hit me after moving here. At the beginning I remember a period of 6 months or so where I think I didn't talk to anyone at all because I was so depressed. No idea how I have made it this long without killing myself.
I also hate "edgy" Berliners who think completely normal social positions are subversive. Complaining about capitalism every chance you get isn't intelligent discourse you dumb krautbitch who makes a small side income by selling fetish comics on the internet. I really wish these people knew what things were like in the GDR.
The bare minimum should be going about your day without encountering anger and hostility. There is something deeply wrong with this society.