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Was watching a video on youtube by Ruptly of the anti-lockdown protests a couple of months back in Berlin. In the video I kept seeing the police spraying something on protesters. Didn't seem to bother them much so I assume it's not pepperspray/tear gas. But what is it? Anyone know?
The number of people who don't care to wear a mask on public transport. A date with Miss Rona, anyone? Clowns.
Masks probably don't work anyway but that's not really the point. Germany's great at making rules and not enforcing them, which does nothing but further erode public support for laws/rules. If there's a 500EUR penalty for not wearing a mask then they should have people checking at every station and enforcing it. Doing otherwise is just a sham. Now, if one guy on a train in the middle of nowhere in Berlin did a Hitler salute then I am 100% positive they'd arrest him and fine him.
Duh, that piece of plexiglass totally protects them. Also all the cashiers wearing face shields. Coronavirus is totally spread by people breathing directly into your face and totally not through aerosols that aren't filtered. Obviously Germans know how to keep the virus from spreading since thus far like 9k people have died (normal year about 25k Germans die of the regular flu but in this year only 411 this season according to Robert Koch Instutut). Germans just know everything about preventing disease even though there are no novel treatments that have been developed in Germany. And if you don't completely believe everything written above you are a conspiracy theorist and it should be illegal to deny any of it.
I only rode the subway twice since lockdown and saw one person not wearing a mask each ride. Both looked turkish. That said, Germans have a tendency to wear them on their mouth/chin only which is pointless. Also all the people with masks that have exhale valves - those are also worthless.
the walk of shame is a whole lot dirtier and lonelier
I'm ashamed of Berlin. I always make excuses so my parents won't visit me here because I don't want them to see what a hole this place really is. I don't want my mother to see so many men pissing in the street. I don't want my father to see all the gay stuff going on in public parks. I don't want them to see how poor this city looks and how depressing it is in the winter.
Luckily most people in the US (where I'm from) don't care about Germany and don't know how degenerate Berlin really is. When I make it back later this year I hope most people won't think of me as an untouchable if I tell them I lived here.
The walk of shame? That’s knowing all the people who you went to High School and University are doing well. And your dumb butt thought it would be a great idea to move to Europe. Now you are stuck and broke in this piss city and working a minimal wage job. That’s a walk a shame!!!
I love how everyone is an individual in Berlin, you never see two Germans looking the same, or saying the same things, or cooking the same food, or listening to the same mindfuck, pathetic techno garbage 'music'.
Yes Berlin really is a city for free spirits. I am always amazed at how every Berliner I meet has a different worldview and a completely different life philosophy. It's always refreshing to speak with strangers here because they all seem like a completely different species. Not once have my prejudices about any Berliner been correct upon closer inspection. This city definitely does something to foster critical thinking and free thought.
I love how everyone is an individual in Berlin, you never see two Germans looking the same, or saying the same things, or cooking the same food, or listening to the same mindfuck, pathetic techno garbage 'music'.
Germans really try to give our life advice. Bro I see what you’re wearing, where you’re living, how you’re picking up, who you’re dating, your dumb butt kids, your pooping attitude, your pompous ness and terrible taste, the shittyy food you eat, your awful sense of style, lack of manners, and your stupid job. And rented apartment. Get the fuccc outta here
I love how people in Berlin talk like they know everything about everything when in their 30s they have still not experienced
-making above a students wages
-professionalism
-owning anything
-financial management
-actual game when it comes to dating as well as sensuality
-motivation and ambition
You basically will never like Berlin if you come from an actual city, that isn’t completely shit. You’ll just like Berlin if you like being a pleb or maybe have rich parents where you can live your pleb fantasy. Oh, and if you are a ducking loser where you come from so you can just be cool in Berlin.
Anyway They’re basically eternal students and tbh I feel sorry for them because they’ll never know if they spent their entire 20s in Berlin anything to compare it to, then later in life they’ll be stuck inBerlin while all their friends who visited for a few years have moved on and didn’t fornicate themselves for the future. I doubt any of these fuckers have been to more than a two star hotel
Because as adults we don’t drink one euro beers by a canal, we make a time to meet someone and show up to it and buy them dinner as a show of respect and treating them properly. It’s the same way we don’t just lie there in bed or semen instantly. Why do you starfish?
Lazy German fuckerZ
I can spot german women in other countries from a mile away. (Or would they like the specific square metres of kilometres haha?!) baggy, massive pants for the ladies. Some dumb butt scarf in +29 C?!? Some stupid backpack ( get a rolling suitcase if you are over 20 lol) and some dumb butt braids. Not to mention, body language classless, no makeup, and BO
Customer service.
I have an emergency in my flat, called the provided, grumpy female dog answered.
Asked if English is OK as my German is not so good. No. Any colleagues I can get transferred? No.
Eventually I excused myself in advance for the bad German and tried to explain the Notfall.
She understands until checked my contract, and saw I have a basic one (sorry for not having a fancy corporate one for the flat I live alone, bitch) and then she got the worst attitude I have ever gotten.
Talking over me, rude, literally flipping me off to send an email and insulting me that she cannot deal with my bad German, raising her voice.
Eventually I raised mine too only to call her a cow and hang up.
It drives me insane how inconsiderate and rude these human beings can be, and I am
mesmerized that they have jobs dealing with people.
To the “German” troll who posts here. This research explains your mentality better than we do. Jealousy, only enjoying when you do provocative things, having stress all the time... www.google.gr/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/study-finds-germans-incapable-of-enjoying-life-a-834973-amp.html
“Doch wer gilt schon gerne als egoistisch (62 Prozent), materialistisch (56 Prozent), rücksichtslos (50 Prozent), gierig (49 Prozent) und überheblich (43 Prozent)? Die Angaben in Klammern geben an, wie viele Deutschen ihren wohlhabenden Mitbürgern – zumeist ohne sie zu kennen – diese negativen Eigenschaften zuschreiben.“ Gtfo Cherman.
Translation: “But who likes to be considered selfish (62 percent), materialistic (56 percent), ruthless (50 percent), greedy (49 percent) and arrogant (43 percent)? The information in brackets shows how many Germans attribute these negative characteristics to their wealthy fellow citizens - mostly without knowing them. ”Gtfo Cherman.
Today I said that there should be more incentitives to work, such as higher pay. If getting Hartz 4 leaves you better of financially there is no need to work.
Some German thought that this will ruin peoples lives because of Lohndumping. Weird German logic.
Honestly the only college course I learned anything useful in qas economics. Germans have special interest groups that habe been lobbying to prevent economics from being taught to all children as part of the standard curriculum and I am convinced it's because it would put a stop to all these dumb ideas like above. Especially Berliners would benefit from learning a little about the free market and why populist lefty ideas like rent caps don't work.
There's a German troll in here, guys. OR... Someone pretended to be German. Be diligent. And keep posting! ;)
Everyone complains about beggars being foreign, but..
Almost all of them are German junkies.
I see a lot of Motz beggars than anything else.
Despacito on electric violin can be annoying. SURE, but at least is something (music/entertainment) in exchange for your pennies.
I rather listen to that for the whole ride, than seeing drugged out, bruised and dirty Motz people asking for “money or cigarettes”.
Almost all crime in Germany is foreigners!!!
We Germans follow the law. If you don't like it LEAVE!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Germany
Buchpreisbindung is stupid. It's basically a government-imposed cartel on book pricing in Germany (that thankfully doesn't apply to books from foreign publishers YET, but that's not the point). Basically every book published in Germany is required by law to be sold for a specific price set by the publisher. Only after 2 years are book sellers allowed to lower the price. But sometimes they'll purposely damage books to sell them for cheaper (you'll see 20 copies with a Mängelexemplar sticker). The system encourages publishers to re-release books every two years with trivial addendums.
But the worst part of the system is thay they claim it is to protect smaller book sellers. Well how many independent book stores have you seen in Germany? Almost none, and the few that do exist are so cheaply outfitted you wouldn't want to spend a minute longer than necessary there.
Also considering the fact that publishers sell their books to book sellers at a discount, it doesn't protect anything. Especially in a world with Amazon that can negotiate bigger discounts than any other seller on earth.
And this thing is so heavily enforced it's ridiculous. A few years back the government fined Meinpaket.de because they allowed people to use discount codes on books. Now all other websites seem to be scared as hell of violating this dumb law.
Buchpreisbindung is just another retarded law that Germans are convinced is good. Test it out yourself. Casually mention that you think free market prices, like in basically every other country on earth, are superior. And then watch Germans get mad because they can't list off a single advantage to this dumb system.
German here and I am disappointed in the undifferentiated opinions on this website. Was everything here written by one person? All my friends think Germany is great. My foreign friends at uni also say Germany is number 1. We have the strongest female leaders (Frau Merkel and Frau Von der Leyen) ever. We are a role model to the worls and especially the EU. Maybe we are too direct for you spoiled anglo-americans, but everyone I know says this is a good trait. Germans are definitely not assholes. Maybe it's true that in Germany you earn about 20% less than you would in USA but I am happy to earn less and in exchange never have to worry that I will have difficulties in live.
If you hate Germany so much then get out, we do not need you here. All the Syrians I know are grateful to be here unlike you rude foreigners. We only need good foreigners here who love the way German society is.
I like how the Krautcuck's post implies he has "a lot" of foreign friends, but if you were to ask most foreigners in Germany they would claim to lack German friends.
"All the Syrians I know are grateful to be here unlike you rude foreigners"
Oh well, enjoy living in Al-Germanistan, Hans Abdul Müller.
^ I suspect so too. But in case he/she isn't, I'll make some observations of my own. I befriended a Syrian guy when I was in Germany and he is thoroughly unimpressed with Germany and has tolerated their crap for the last four years. I know plenty of other foreigners who feel the same way.
OP,
You must be kidding right? Merkel and Von den Leyen have been total disasters for not only Germany, but Europe as well. They are both living proof that you don't have to be good at what you do to go up the chain in Germany. Both are immoral and incompetent by any reasonable measure. You should understand that their is a difference between been direct and being a complete male genitalia when it's not needed or warranted. Most Germans who have been abroad (and never come back) actually understand this. Although inviting refugees into one's country seems a kind act, I can't help but think that the Germans and their sad excuse for leadership have done all of this for their own over-inflated egos. I have to wonder how one can live without difficulties here when wages are often poor and the government takes up to half your pay from you. It can really only be viewed as theft. And you're all happy with this?
Oh, and OP proves that Germans are usually bumbling minions of the government and OR media. Claim that Germany is the best in (insert irrelevant topic), but if you ask them if they are proud to be German, they deny it, because that would be "Nazi" (while behaving like an actual nazi!).
What the frank...
It’s funny because germany is always comparing itself to USA but USA couldn’t give a fornicate about Germany, except maybe to believe the propaganda it puts out which is complete poop because Germany sucks. And by the way I didn’t earn 20% more in USA. I earned about 300% more
"We are a role model to the world and especially the EU." The last time your country tried to be a "role model to the world" was back in the 40's. We all know how that attempt ended. "All my friends think Germany is great." You must be referring to your imaginary friends. "Maybe we are too direct for you spoiled anglo-americans." No, we Anglo-Americans, along with many other non-Germans, don't believe it's right to disrespect others. "Germans are definitely not assholes." Oh yes you are, guess again. Go sit on a wurst Hansi.