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I was invited to drink with someone I met in Kreuzberg so yea I took the challenge and stopped being anti social in Berlin because man these people are so freaking rude and I am originally from American where if you are going to be rude or talk poop just hope you can back it up. So I went into this guy house for a beer and good lord the house was disgusting asf. Trash bags everywhere smelled funny poop stains all over the place I immediately felt felt sick. I text my friend to tell him to call me to say he need a ride so I can leave because I really did not want to hurt his feelings. My friend called me and I dipped instantly. The next day he came over my house to drop off something and he was so surprised that my house smelled good and look organized. Now tell me why don’t people here keep up with their hygiene I think that’s the FIRST thing you take care of when you wake up honestly
Looking at share accommodation and rooms for rent in Eastern Germany was something I'll never forget. I'll never forget all the bad smells and the attitudes of the people who were looking to lease one of their rooms out. In a land of rich cultural heritage, it's criminal.
Hauptbahnhof is a disaster. Too many stairs and too slow elevators. How do you get around this place carrying luggage?
When they built it there were signs all over the place that said "Welcome to the world's most modern train station". Germans think it's an innovation because it lets in sunlight. Oh yeah, that was also before a huge metal girder fell off the side of it because there was a minor wind storm.
I have never seen a foreign person who is truly happy to live in this country
Today I saw a couple of young French tourists try to ask the driver of a bus if it was going to the stop they wanted to. He just shook his head and avoided eye contact. So they got on the bus and asked at the plastic divider and he just ignored them. I tried to help them and apologized for how rude people in this city are. Normally if someone said "Everyone in this city is an asshole" the other person would say "No, no, I have met some really nice people here" but when I said it they said "Yes, we were just in a restaurant and the waiter was sooo rude. Do they all hate tourists here?" I feel bad for anyone who comes here for vacation.
I'll never in a million years understand how these idiots can look at someone asking an open question and just shake their heads no. How stupid do you have to be to think it's appropriate to respond to someone asking to buy a ticket by shaking your head? Are these people actually mentally retarded? Because there's no other explanation.
www.exberliner.com/features/opinion/germans-why-so-rude/
The thing I love best about Christianity is that it's based on simple principles.
Jesus says in the bible that any fool can love their friends, but it takes a wise person to forgive their enemies.
Berliners would never understand this profound truth.
He also said, do not be like the heathens who make a grand show of their faith, but pray humbly in your room in silence and there your prayers will be answered.
Unlike Muslims who make a huge show of placing their mats in Berlin parks and airports etc and make sure the whole neighbourhood is woken from their wailings that sound like someone has an upset stomach.
I don't follow any religion, but if I have to choose a belief system, it will be christianity every time.
Just read that 85% of Berliners rent... lmao. No wonder they're all so angry. They have no stake in society and are basically slaves.
Why are people here so provincial? Their clothes, their hair, the way they carry themselves. The only cosmopolitan people are young folks and foreigners who were not born & bred here.
It's a combination of a Berlin thing and a big anonymous city thing, if you go to smaller German cities like Cologne, the people are way more friendly and also dislike the Berliner attitude.
He's right about the gays, there's more in Cologne than in Berlin. Wouldn't really matter to me but I rrally don't want my kids to see people having sex in public which is common in Berlin and Cologne because Germans are too dumb to make a civilized society.
Cologne does indeed suck for other reasons too. People might be a little friendlier than Berlin but they're still Germans so kinda retarded.
I tried to explain to a berliner why people might express positivity or optimism when they don't actually feel it, but are trying to. I feel crazy now.
My hatred of berlin is starting to taint my whole idea of northern europe. Like, I don't even want to see it. I just want to head south to where humans are actually meant to live. There is a dark, grey, negative, draining energy here.
True, it's because of their traditions, they don't want to come into the 21st century, many of them still live with medieval ideas and superstitions. So many countries touching each others borders wit a history of betrayal, killing any possibility of trust, suspicion is bred into their children as well. USA and Australian pizzas are far better than Italian pizzas because people are not bound by tradition and free to think outside the squares.
I LOVE MODERN CAPITALISM, PHUCK LEFTY SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM.
I don't see millions of people clamouring to get into China, Russia, Iran or Nth Korea, they all want to come to the New World. Europeans need to grow the phuck up.
What happened to Wirecard scandal? Did It vanish from the face of the earth suddenly? (!)
This case depicts German mentality. When there is a problem, they pretend like It never happened and of course don't own It. These people do never accept their mistakes and can't take ownership of any problem.
Glad atleast BS Payone and others got more customers. I think they are liquidating wirecard bht any news has just removed itself from the face of the earth. Imagine if this was Payone or Square. poop would be piling through the roof in terms of media coverage. Bafin is corrupt as hell.
3 years here have made me so numb. I'm not sure how to come back and feel alive again.
went to a cafe to get a cake at 3pm with my bf, on bergmannstr, and we were working from home so needed to takeaway. I ordered a slice of cheese cake to the unfriendly server. I then decided we wanted to order something else, another slice of another cake. This is where I don't get this culture. She was so cross and aggressive towards me because I 'changed my mind' as in I decided to buy MORE. How dare I not come in there knowing I wanted 2 slices but thought I wanted 1 to share then decided to spend a little more and buy two slices... and inconvenience her and not be a robot knowing exactly what I will do a month before doing it because I didn't plan that at 15:04 on 28 July I will want to order two slices instead of one. She decided to punish me by seving me a slow as humanly possibly and then looked angry I handed her a 20 note. She then dumped the change on the counter and was the most unpleasant little troll imaginable. How dare I spend my hard earned cash there. How dare I change my mind... how dare she have to do.. HER. JOB. How dare I expect manners and simply to want to spend more in the business that employs her butt. The twisted logic in this bizarre town is just too much. I am working and paying an earth in taxes, yet I am punished daily by these pathetic, bitter, twisted, petty, jealous nazi trolls. Who agrees? Tell me I am not mad!!?? What the F?! Only in this city do I get questioned for having brown eyes cos I am a brit. Only here do people ask me why I look 'southern'... only here do people ask where my 'sources' are from... and I am white!!!!! Backward, fearful, parochial, provincial, backwater, simpleton BEASTS.
German cake is the worst cake I have ever tasted. Every cake is either over mixed and rubbery tough, or like soggy bread, or tastes like plastic. I had a "cheesecake brownie" where the cheescake was literally just salted egg! I still can't believe that I paid actual cash money for that gustatory insult.
Its a symptom of the the lack of sensory pleasures here. Its probably owing to their history. Also it is mediocrity. Thank you for listening to my cake rant.
I know exactly what you are talking about, it was so common for me in Berlin I really thought I was going crazy, the best decision in my life was leaving Berlin, let them stew in their own disgusting 'culture'.
GasLighting is the term for making someone think they are crazy, and hat's what they do, hey gaslight you. The term comes from a 40's movie.
I work as a cook at a big restsurant Cafe.I know exactly what you mean.I have no idea where the attitute came from.I am not saying the customer is right all the time blabla.But most of time I saw my colleagues are very rude.Spent their time for talking with others(same colleagues)so they just ignore customers.They are even ruder when the customers were kind or.not Germans.But they always complaining that they did not get enough tip.
I was talking to a friend about this type of attitude the other day and they were trying to give me all kinds of advice on how to handle it. I just told them in the end there is no way to explain or Justify or even comprehend this type of attitude and trying is what drives you mad. Just laugh and leave