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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:
youtu.be/mN3z3eSVG7A
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.
How is Copenhagen for living? Less xenophobic?
I don't know about xenophobia but you'll earn way more money there. Food and alcohol is more expensive so fewer fat drunks, but I guess a lot of Danes rush the German border for that kind of stuff. Cars are even more ridiculously priced there. I have a feeling that there's less hidden patriotism there than in Germany.
You know what? There's no real German word for 'underemployment' because it's not a concept in Germany. Compare the definitions on wikipedia. 'Unterbeschäftigung' only refers to unwillingly working fewer hours than desired. 'Underemployment' also includes the underutilization of skills. There's no German word for it because in Germany it would apply to nearly everyone. 95% of jobs don't require 3 years of training, but apparently the Germans never got that memo.
Sometimes you can learn a lot about a culture by taking note of 'the dog that doesn't bark'.
Germans are so desperate for international news that praises them:
www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/staunen-ueber-deutsche-fenster-lueften-gegen-corona-16981490.html