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Germany would be a bearable place if the Germans would cool it a little with the "efficiency". I use scare quotes because, as we all know, it's not real efficiency. It's making everything the minimum size, staffed by the minimum number of people, allowing the maximum number of participants, using the minimum quality of materials. Take the pavement near my job for example. Exactly enough space for two grown gents to walk shoulder by shoulder. In theory it's fine, but in practice it's hell. No one wants to walk with their elbows scraping a building, sometimes people walk next to each other and speak, some restaurants have seating outside, etc. Basically life happens, but Germans cannot account for that. Same with staffing. You hire 5 people to run a shop. It's possible to run the shop with 5 people in theory, but 2 are always out sick and so the cashier has to restock the shelves during opening hours so the till isn't manned 80% of the time, which leads to queues (which also were never accounted for, which means entire aisles are inaccessible). Extends all across the entire society here. Makes people chronically anxious. Makes them mean. How to fix it? Not possible anymore without huge shocks to the economy and change in mindset. Worst part is that Germans think paradoxically that because their lives here kind of suck that they are somehow good people. Because you had to drag your TV out 20 miles to dispose of it you are morally superiour. Tiresome society. COVID made it worse, too.
People living in London are brainwashed into believing that their city is so fabulous. When someone starts to criticise the city, they get defensive and start listing all the museums (which they never attend), music venues (which are closing down) etc. Londoners go into extremes regarding this but don't you think that many people living in Berlin are also conditioned to believe all the bogus hype around their city?
I know some people who actually are quite smart and have traveled the whole world but they hang out in certain groups and have developed this bizarre way of thinking that Berlin is like the new Rome or something. They cannot keep their mouths shut when visiting other cities around the world, comparing everything to Berlin .... "oh, but we also have that in Berlin".... "oh, that's nothing, you should see what we have in Berlin" etc. etc. Very bizarre considering Berlin has a really low level in all fields of culture/arts, specially for its size, the food is laughable, the city does not stand out with unique architecture etc. What a bizarre way to pat yourself on your back and justify your bad decision in choosing your environment.
Sometimes I tip bad waiters here 25% just to embarrass them. Me, an obvious subhuman foreigner, has the means to be generous even when Stefan is overtly insulting me. Pair it with a subtle jab at how it will perhaps improve his motivation at his job and I know for a fact he's still thinking about the encounter as he cries himself to sleep. Retards.
I hope you’re right, but most of the time they won’t give a f… and enjoy the extra cash, entitled and thick as always.
On this, do NOT tip in self-services places. There’s a new annoying practice where they push the card readers with the % of the tip beforehand. Most of the time this is for self-service venues where you pay upfront… SELF-SERVICE! Meaning you get a buzzer (if any) and pick your own order with no… service.
Like, if you serve me and the bill comes at the end, I’ll always tip… But these machines can suck it!
At first it was awkward and confusing, as there is a little pressure… You’re “stuck” at the counter while the person smiles at you and mentions the “select tip first”…
I developed a skill to look them dead in the add when I press “no tip” and their smiles fade… Nothing against the workers, but this practise can really really suck it!
Don’t normalise this shit.
I’ve dated a German.
(-100/5 not recommended)
Drained, dragged, suspecting something but it took me a bit to pin it.
Eventually, I found out there was a spouse. I went ballistic and exposed things to everyone he knows. Petty. Unapologetic.
Now I am the awful bad vile human… Jokes on’em, tho.
Wow!! She doesnt threaten her husband? The one who lied to BOTH of you...Germanism in a nutshell
why is the baby at the relatives? Did they just chuck the kid away like an old toy to continue their degenerate lifestyle? Was this guy good looking so you ignored the red flags and your intuition?
A German with morals, good luck finding that. Maybe if adultery was still illegal here. The Germans would probably be obsessed with being faithful then. I've never seen a country more controlled by the government than Germany. Germans supported the death penalty here by huge margins until it was outlawed, then they immediately all hated it. Same with gay marriage. If Olaf Scholz Said tomorrow that Germany is shifting to 100% nuclear energy then all of the "Atomkraft nein danke" people would simply cease to exist. If he said no more refugees then every refugee center would disappear in about a week. In short, Germans love government and are unable to form independent opinions and thoughts.
But with rare exceptions (like Merkel opening the flood gates) the government can't actually do anything. It says it's going to do something and then they discuss it for seven years and decide it was all just too complicated to figure out and just go on doing the same thing. That's part of why the country is in terminal decline and just slowly rotting away.
OP here to answer questions:
Yes, I was attracted to him and ignored the red flags in hopes for the greater good. Foolish. We live and learn.
The wife is handicapped or so (don’t know exactly or if even true). Might be just mental issues, my best guess. My other bet is the child is tossed as well because of this toxic home environment. The baby might not be safe with them. It seems she has a record of violence (at least on him).
I got caught in an extremely toxic and crazy story. I absolutely do not excuse his choice of getting involved with someone else.
(This is third party insight I have and… might not be the truth at all. Maybe it’s just people trying to soften me with tearjerkers or trying to make me feel bad for him)
The only thing that saddens me as well is that they have a baby… it looks like they don’t even love or wanted this baby.
it’s rather a burden that messed up with their techno druggy lifestyle…
wtf knows, in the end. they’re very married.
why dont you go to NeuKolln and date a refugee? They are very macho and need a western woman to support them, in Berlin you will be very trendy. The "wife" likely got pregnant and kept the baby to tie the man down, but when born realized the baby would'nt do the trick.
This humorous article popped up in FB www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/berliner-autor-el-hotzo-disst-berliner-kult-club-berghain-unnoetig-li.2207078
And in the FB comments all the germans were triggered, attacking the comedian for having an opinion, how dare someone making fun of some sh!te techno club. Absolute dimwits in Berlin.
Something is seriously wrong with Germans. They talk nonstop trash about every other nation, but they can't take the slightest criticism. I remember how much the Germans went insane when Ai Weiwei complained.
It's just weird how Germans gaslight and trivialise anything here. Saw a random video on FB where a random nobody said something like "why TF do German showers have this glass half wall? They don't work." And hundreds of Germans claiming that 1. Glass half walls aren't common, And 2. That glass half walls are in fact actually good. Dead Internet Theory is true here, it's BND bots all the way down.
yes they talk trash about every other nation, especially USA, when the trains suck, the customer service sucks, the apartment search sucks, of course 50% taxes suck, all the leeching fake fluchtlinge suck yeah, those in glass houses shoud'nt throw stones
The easiest way to get a Berliner triggered is to bring up Ai Weiwei. Many other artists around Europe share the exact same sentiment and they left this dump as they have no time to waste their talent - something which the Berlin "artists" simply don't have (with a few exceptions).
Go find a German and tell him the tap water here sucks.
I'm out of this hellhole in two weeks finally after 10 years Berlin...
Healing from Berlin means you don't feel the need to check berlinhater anymore. And this coming from someone who used to check this website religiously. The sooner you can get out of Berlin, the better! Been gone for two years now and I haven't missed it once. Berlin really is the $hithol€ of §hithol€s.
What the hell is deutsche Markenbutter? Surely some kind of industrial polymer. Definitely not actual butter. It's as hard as candle wax. Do Germans feed their cows super glue?
Yes, this is the western propaganda and manipulation of data, similar to what scams people to come to "the best country" in Europe. They are clowning themselves and soon they will fool no-one youtu.be/qbYhujlQ8d4
The Chinese are more and more like ant people who toil for the glory of their little microdiccck poohbear leader with his rosy cheeks and also perhaps so their spoiled son can become educated and eat enough rice to get fat and thus bring status to their family. Of course they're happy. No existential dread. No real thoughts beyond the pragmatic. What a life! I don't think I'd like to be one of them, but the west should definitely leave them alone and not provoke a war with 1.4 million ant people.
World happiness index is retarded though. They rate dumb stuff like access to healthcare as a determinant of happiness instead of just asking people if they're happy. It's ideological propaganda like all think-tanks in northern Europe (look at transparency international's corruption perception index). Finland has the most dementia in the entire world, HIGHLY correlated with depression, and they're supposedly happiest? Fake and gay. As for China - yes 1000x they are bug men. All those videos where you see some poor FCK get hit by a car and then 100 other bug men just keep running over the guy. Dystopic bullshit. Hell on earth.
On bug people interacting with retarded Germans: www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/china-olaf-scholz-gibt-in-peking-cannabis-tipps-einfach-nicht-rauchen-a-ce1d2c51-e63b-4264-9a31-b1f6782f41a7
I wish the concerned Chinese student had told Scholz that if studied in Berlin he'd be concerned about getting beaten and/ or sexually assaulted by a group of Arabs for "looking like a trans" and asked for advice, and Scholz would probably have told him it's best to just make it easier for them by laying down, taking your pants off and then "close your eyes and think of Germany."
How about Germans just don't go shopping on Sunday if this is the grand logic were using now? Why does the state even need a monopoly on force at all? I remember back in 2007 when Germany had a 6 month eu presidency and tried to make Holocaust denial a crime in the whole EU. Imagine the backlash of Hungary or UK had said "how about you just don't deny the Holocaust". But alas, Germany needs cheap intoxicants to keep people stuck here.
Sunday, a secularized mandated day of rest in Germany. If you ever say it seems archaic or parochial the German gets angry. How can you relax if the government doesn't force you to? And besides commerce is third wave transphobic capitalism. Nevermind that restaurants, bars, theme parks, museums are all open. You end stage capitalist may not shop of Sunday to atone for your overly consumerist lifestyle.
Barely performing any work so that you have time to do your shopping on weekday afternoons is an important part of German culture. Perhaps if you worked harder to make more money you would have more time during the afternoon on weekdays to go shopping. If you are not able to do that, you are a leech who is not contributing back to the country that generously invited you here to work and contribute to its economy. I think that's sort of the working logic at this point. The religious bullllshit doesn't really explain much at least here in Berlin, where most of the German people seem to spend their Sundays drinking Sterni while trying to come down from all the cheap shitttty domestically-produced ammphetamine they consumed all weekend before that.
I have arrived in Germany in 2014 as master student for English taught master program.
After graduation, I managed to find a job in English. (I work in IT). I received TELC B1certificate (language requirement to obtain German citizenship). Time passed and I managed to obtain German citizenship by fulfilling each and every requirement of citizenship law. I have never received any financial aid from state so far. (I don't need and demand It) I am still working in IT and I am at least planning to keep working 2 - 3 more years in Germany. (to be able to save some money).
I just provided my background because I will tell you now how German society vs their laws are out of touch. As I received German citizenship, I started to apply for jobs because I am fully relieved now and I want to find out what type of jobs I can find. I am actually not inclined to change jobs but I just want to interview. Anyways, the famous "How is your German?" question comes up everytime. I explain them the above and a bit more about what I have done professionally in German. I always end up with something like this " Ich habe noch nie auf Deutsch gearbeitet aber Ich kann mich daran einfach anpassen." because you know, I don't want to lie. %90 of times, I get rejection due to "lack of my German skills / experience"
In Germany, you can get citizenship with B1 level of German but you can't get German speaking jobs because, they need "native level German" for jobs. LOL. Then, they wonder, why they can't find skilled migrants or why so many skilled migrants leave Germany after getting citizenship.
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/178ozg1/more_and_more_skilled_migrants_move_from_germany/
foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/22/skilled-migrants-arent-interested-in-germany/
yes Germany is an overrated shithole, but so is India, India is just a idiot without any good qualities except gang rape and cheap worthless tech support. Germans are understandably want to eject these monkeys befpre they completely start pooping in the street like back home
For me, the Indians just don't even rank in this country's immigration woes. It's the Muslims that are the biggest issue. Indians are pretty hard working and value education, and the gangraper ones don't seem to be the ones that come here. Meanwhile, Germany welcomes the worst the entire Arab world has to offer, gangrapers included as we all know, which is especially bad since the Arab world is the worst part of human civilization in our current moment in history.
problem with Indians are the nice educated ones come first then like in the UK, once they get a German passport they will apply for family reunification all 100 cousins, uncles, those losers are the corrupt street pooping gang rapes who will come on reunification visa then join the backward Arabs in making Germany even worse then native Germans make it
Fair enough, although at least that's an extra step before the gangraper ones all come. With the Arabs, it's a free for all. Germany just can't help itself. They love Arabs. You could argue it's some kind of cuckk thing since they sort of hate the Arabs too, but I think it's more like ying and yang or love and hate or a symbiotic relationship where parasites feed off but also clean a larger animal. Somehow the Arabs and the Germans compliment each other, the rest of us idiots who made the mistake of coming here are damned in their perfect little romance.
german women love and crave being treated like a Hijabi slave woman but German men are suck betas
hence the 3rd world sex tours for the Frauen. German men get to feel morally superior because it's all about feeling warm and fuzzy inside for the beta cuck
Even the German women won't go near the Muslims for the most part--maybe only the most extreme ones, like the German women who appear in all those old scat movies at Kitkat. Generally, the older German ladies seem to prefer African guys and notably ones from non-Muslim African countries. Can't blame them honestly--the German men only seem to be able to get it up from getting pisssed on in some dark room on G with deafening techno droning on in the background--and those non-Muslim African guys seem pretty respectful and accommodating for the most part.
Now there is a mobile app in germany that anyone can use to take, upload photos and report others e.g. for parking on sidewalks etc.
Yeah, but fuckk that stupid entitled female genitalia for parking on the sidewalk. I use that app sometimes to report Arabs parking their expensive cars on sidewalks and in bike lanes while they're smoking hookas or waiting for their slave wives to buy baklava and stuff.
With Burgergeld + lots of untaxable income from your coke taxi or money laundering business or farming out poor women who are real refugees in some wretched Neukolln whorrrehouse goes a long way.
There's on rich motherfucccking Arab in a Ferrari that cruises around between his various shady businesses in Neukolln and parks on sidewalks and blocks bike lanes that I've reported on that app at least three times. The retarded Germans don't make these criminal parasites pay taxes, but hopefully that Allah pig will at least have to pay some parking tickets to the government.
Also the Muslims here barely pay for their indoctrination from Allah and terrorist training and slave-holding practices at the mosques. The Turks fund a lot of that to further speed up Germany's Islamification, and so the Muslims save some more money on that instead of paying their church tax like the German suckers.
Funniest thing I've seen with Germans is that probably 80-90% of them are too retarded to know what to do when they walk past each other. They frantically pretend to be engrossed in the foliage or parked cars or the ubiquitous guy pissing on the street corner (just kidding, Germans pretend that last one doesn't exist). Somehow being able to pass a other human being and be normal seems like a litmus test for whether you're too autistic for society and Germans pretty reliably fail. I have actually had conversations with several Germans who confessed to me that this common interaction caused them great anxiety. Before moving here I never even considered this could be problematic for anyone except people who probably need to be in some kind of institution. Now I love the pass and nod or smirk technique. Freaks Germans out almost as much as asking "wie geht's?". The irony that they think I am the crazy one in these encounters isn't lost on me.
Can we also talk about their (lack of) spatial awareness? Seriously, I just can't endure It anymore. They just block each and every enterance or sidewalk and never get bothered to make a space for you to pass. I recently started to realise that, they also stop suddenly while walking. I really don't get It. Someone walks ahead of you and suddenly stops. It's like they are getting cripple?
I think when a thought arrives in their mind, time just sort of stops for them and they stand still and paralyzed until they have processed it. And we're not talking mind-blowing epiphanies about philosophy or astrophysics or anything. Just things like, "perhaps I should buy milk on the way home" or "oh, yes, this is a supermarket and I must pay money now" or "do I want to go right or left now?"
With step toilets, place two sheets of toilet paper on the step and watch it all all float down the German idiot without leaving a trace of a stain.