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A German teacher acquaintance told me that they basically do not fail high school students here anymore since around the start COVID. To be honest I've always had the feeling that German high school was like my American high school experience, but on easy mode and without any real fun. I mean, German grading dictates that answering 50% of questions right is passing. Of course a German would claim that they more thoroughly test knowledge, but I haven't seen that to be true at University at least. I had many final exams here that were 50% multiple choice questions. In fact, I was shocked during my first semesters I would take an exam and have a horrible feeling afterwards, like I absolutely bombed it, only to see once the grades were posted that I got a 1.7. was a really strange and surreal experience, especially after all the gaslighting I've had as an American here regarding US public schools. Say what you want, but the US outscores Germany in PISA now. And as far as I could tell, little blonde girls flirting with professors for good grades is WAY more commerce, facilitated by the fact that absolutely zero measures are taken to anonymize exams to prevent biased grading. In fact, the very opposite is done - professors are encouraged to do verbal exams which are virtually impossible to do objectively.
In summary, German education is easy and Germans pretend it's hard. If you have an average IQ you could excel at school here with minimal effort.
I have started my master course in 2014. The language of course was English. It was 2 years course. We (group of students) just had to write couple pages of report on whatever subject twice in a month and present It in the class for 10 - 15 mins in total. It was all theory no real life case studies or something similar. It was like, okay your subject is x and go search for x and come up with report / presentation. ( don't forget to cite properly for sure) It felt like English course rather than master studies. It was like 2 years of extended Erasmus. I was partying almost everyday.
Not suprisingly, there were some Germans who were having issues with the lessons because their English was not good. Seriously, lessons were like professor came, read the slides word by word and went away. Guess what? They asked to professors If they could speak German as they could not understand the lesson. This happened in %100 English taught master course.
I was not caring about lessons and I managed to graduate with 2.0 GPA. I ended up with this because I wrote the master thesis in 3 months. I just wanted to graduate. I agree, If you have normal IQ, It's impossible to have less than 2,0 GPA from allegedly difficult master studies in Germany.
All of the ambitious people from my MBA left Germany after graduating, probably because they knew hiring managers in Germany will know what a joke our degree is. What the last guy described sounds like my MBA as well. Basically an extended English class. I had one visiting lecturer from another country and that's the only class I got a bad grade in. All the German professors gave vanity grades and I know for a fact that female students were able to go talk to the profs after exams to get a 2.3 turned into a 1.3. Made the whole experience completely pointless.
There is a hidden frustration, envy and hate in the German employees / coworkers that occasionally bubbles out of them in a form of passive aggressive comments. They really do not like if you as a foreigner make relatively above average money "in their" german company.
They still think they're something special, blessed by God or something. For all the "refugees welcome" signalling done over the past decade, behind it there's a weird fallen master race complex that thinks a billion uneducated foreigners could come to Germany because they'll never be competition for a Stefan's job because he is special, either by birth or because the German state looks after its own. Obviously both are not true. Eventually there will be a wake up call and most likely it will be a repeat of the last world war. We know Germany can't go more than a few decades without a hard swing to the opposite ideological extreme because the only thing uniting ethnic Germans is a love of authoritarianism.
All these boot camps seem retarded. I know several people I studied with who have MBAs and went on to do data analytics or cyber security or data science boot camps. I honestly wouldn't care that these people managed to coast through something like 20 years of formal schooling and still be unemployable, but why do taxpayers have to fund this bullshit? If you get 2 degrees from college and still can't find a job then shouldn't the government cut you off at some point? But in Germany the dumbest, laziest people get the most support so you'll have people who have been in some form of education for 40 years and yet they still can't live a normal life. And then Poorfuck Pavlov who earns 2k a month as a plumber is helping to fund this crap. Mental as fuck.
Did you know that Germany doesn't allow kids doing Hauptschule to take the PISA? When you see how supposedly we'll Germans perform, just remember that they systematically filter out the dumbest 24% of people here. No such exclusions in America. Literally every statistic you have ever seen that makes Germany seem good is fake and gamed.
Remarkable how the dramatic decline in scores coincides with Merkel opening the floodgates to millions of the stupidest and most backwards people on the planet. They talk a lot about the disadvantaged immigrants, but they don't make it easy to distinguish which ones. The Arabs can barely read or think about much except getting married to their hot cousin and putting a burka on that, but I'm going to guess that the Ukrainians, Poles, Indians and generally most of the immigrants who aren't retarded Muslims are doing just fine and, in some cases, perhaps even pushing up the average including for Germans. But those Muslims, man, they are dumber than fucccking mold growing on the walls of some sonnennallee kebab shop. If they at least worked the fields or something, maybe society could sort of absorb them at least for another generation or two until they really get their numbers up, but in why would they go harvest asparagus or whatever when they could just not and the impotent, befuddled, half-senile Germans won't do anything about it until they go Nazi again because they couldn't just take a more moderate path with Muslim migration.
"Ich mag die Liberalen nicht, die nur so tun, als seien sie liberal. Aber tief drinnen haben sie die Nazi-Kultur verinnerlicht."
Journalist then changes subject. No questions for clarification. Beautiful.
"Die Linken sorgten dafür, dass Leute einen Brief gegen ihn unterschrieben, er wurde als Neoliberaler beschimpft, da hatte er noch gar nichts gemacht. Sie haben Scheiße an seine Tür geschmiert, Drohbriefe geschrieben. Daran kann man sehen, wie sehr sie es hassen, wenn Ausländer einbezogen werden. Und das waren alles Linke. Die Rechten sind einfach nur dumm, viel gefährlicher sind die Linken."
"Es ist unmöglich, deutsche Studenten zu unterrichten. Sie sind faul, sie machen ihre Hausaufgaben nicht. Und das System ist höchst korrupt."
Colleagues of mine went on a long weekend type vacation together with their wives and another couple and were for some reason very eager to tell me that it was some Ferienhaus in some tiny German village with its own private sauna. When I was uninterested they went into more detail about how all 6 of them sauna'ed together. When I was still not interested one colleague said "you know, all naked of course". I just put my headphones back on and went back to working, but what is with these narcissists? I will admit I cannot fathom the interpersonal trauma must have endured to be driven to a stone's throw from swinging, but why beg for a rise out of others? I don't care what people do in private, but I don't have to personally condone it either. And I certainly don't have to celebrate it when it's just normal German society. Cannot imagine letting my colleagues look aty wife's naked body. I never would have even considered this conversation before moving to Germany.
But did they all fuccck? Of course not, because Germans can't get it up anymore. I bet when they tell the story of how they met their husband or wife they lift up an eyebrow provocatively and say, "on an app for single people" as if this were the most provocative and edgy thing but they're done being ashamed and oppressed by the older generations and are ready to break out.
I just tried to terminate my internet provider contract via App. Of course after filling in the form and uploading my new rental contract. The App didn't load the next page after multiple times of trying. In other countries I would think it's an internet connection error/problem but since I know better and live in Germany for a while I know they do such things deliberately in hopes of you giving up and try next week or month etc. to cash in a few Euros. Best way to go is to sign as little contracts in scamerny as possible. Try to find a gym etc. with monthly "kündigung" be smart or you'll be bound paying these German mofos money for months or even years after you leave this hellhole of shittt place.
Yes, they do this. I tried to terminate my gym contract online but they said i have to come in person, send it by post and some additional other stupid rules like do it two months before the beginning of the 13th of the next month and some bullshit, otherwise it will get extended automatically to the next year and some other poop
There are a lot of jokes about muslims receiving free flatscreen TVs and e-scooter vouchers. Is there any truth to this? I've heard that Germany gives much more handouts to "refugees" than Sweden for example but if anyone would share some articles etc. that would be great. I really want to know where our enormous taxes are going.
There's a lot of truth to it.
I wish if that when using tax money to provide the Arabs with the flatscreen TVs and e-scooter vouchers they could at least include a rule that the Arabs can't ride them on the sidewalks. I don't know if I've ever seen an Arab riding one in the bike lane. The Arab youth also enjoy kicking them over a lot and parking them in the middle of the sidewalk. Tourists sometimes ride them on the sidewalks too and can be annoying, but overall I think a lot of the e-scooter hate is actually people hating the way the Arabs use them rather than the e-scooters themselves. Most Germans and most (non-Arab) people living here who use them do so in a pretty responsible way usually from what I see.
I don't think it's really true that government actually hands out TVs and scooter vouchers to refugees. But unlike some other countries, welfare is paid in Germany in cash rather than in vouchers that can only be redeemed for certain goods. I also think there was some court decision long ago that deemed owning a TV a basic human right in Germany (I think there was a case against a Harz4 recipient owning a new TV and the question of whether that could be counted as assets against which his entitlement to taxpayer money could be offset). The German belief is probably that a Harz4 person (or refugee) would benefit from soft integration because of the German state's dominating position in TV programming. As for scooter vouchers - I have never heard this and would surprise me since refugees already get the 0-euro solidarity ticket in Berlin (BVG/Bahn are basically state run at this point anyway). I admit I could be wrong though.
The state doesn't actually give the Arabs flatscreen TVs and e-scooter vouchers directly. It gives the Arabs money that they then use to buy the flatscreen TVs. Go to Mediamarkt in Neukolln and you will see the Arabs carrying their enormous TVs out of there all day. They also don't actually give the Arab teenagers e-scooter vouchers. Rather, the Arab teenagers mostly use stolen credit card numbers to pay for the e-scooters. This is why you mostly see them joyriding around before abandoning the scooter in the middle of the sidewalk rather than using them to get somewhere.
It depends on their legal status (asylum seeker, resident, citizen and so on) but very broadly you can figure around 500-600 euros to the Arab plus the same for his slave wife, plus slightly less to each of their children. Plus rent for their apartment/heating and generally free health care and transport and educational opportunities.
Because Germany is retarded, there isn't much incentive for them to seek out legitimate work. Why do a bunch of difficult work to make not that much more money? But because it's not that much money and the flatscreen TVs cost a fair amount of money, there is a big incentive to do under the table or illegal work that you don't report and don't pay taxes on.
Obviously this doesn't just apply to Arabs, but Germany has somewhat different rules for Ukrainians that encourage them to work more and actually contribute to society, which it seems like they do (probably not having Allah rotting their brains is a big part of this too).
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...