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Germans seems to be made up of several archetypes. It’s like they can only have a few styles of being And are clones of the same thing
1) antifa “links” or whatever white guy or girl with dreads who lives in a squat, wears refugee welcome shirt but hates foreigners and has no friends of colour. “Isn’t racist”.
2) “bio” girl wearing oversized grandma clothing in their 20s, often a single mom
3) spiritual German who travels to India for a retreats but is secretly xenophobic, often a single dad
4) woman working at REWE cashier or other stores who is middle aged
5) any other male city employee or police or bouncer or professional
6) a German that goes clubbing or is into fetish, an “artist”
7) ex DDR mentality person
You forgot the old single women who make 150 complaints per second. They’re always your neighbor and they’re either extremely rude and spy on you, or they’re nice to you so that they can benefit from you. If they’re nice to you, they usually have problems with their ex and need support.
The problem with latching onto an activist ideology is that there is no endgame. I'm sure during the times of first and second wave feminism there was a lot of merit to their gripes. But now they're still demanding ever more despite the fact that they have achieved everything they set out to achieve a hundred years ago.
Have to go back to Berlin today for a couple of weeks. I am fully aware that I cannot talk back to Germans because of the insults law and am currently being sued for 8k from the state for sending vague sms saying “fuck you”. But I’m sure I’ll be insulted plenty of times and shoved off the pavement and overcharged and xenophobed.
Can anyone reccomend some parks or areas nearby in the city where I can spend some time over a little while to save my sanity while I have to be there ? I remember someone saying botanical gardens before...
LOL another person arrested for calling someone a fag:
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/pressemitteilung.948415.php
What a retarded country.
Some years ago, a group of LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU's opened the only restaurant in my neighbourhood, it was a welcome surprise and I frequented it regularly for the first month, what I didn't know was that these sexist morons wanted it to be only for LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU's, and anyone who didn't fit their payhetic world view were made to feel unwelcome. So all the straight people stopped going there and guess what, they failed miserably, costing them a fortune, but hey that didn't matter because the money came from the straight father of one of the LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU freaks.
There's an LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU turd here who will now down vote this post many times, don't trust any thumbs hat mention LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU's she is prolific. I think this story and the my points about the down voter, pretty much sum up Berlin. The narow-minded moron capital of Europe, where everyone has to conform, or look out. Even in Berlin LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU's are a tiny minority, it's just that they are selfish, narcissistic, egoists and stand out so you think there are more of them, but look around, the greater majority of people are family oriented and struggle to bring their children up with a wholesome outlook on life, but the degenerate freaks are always in their children's eyes and ears, luring these impressionable young souls into their sordid, debauched ratholes. Is there anything more sad than an old LBGTQTZHGDRTY-FU's still visiting these filthy, meaningless, sordid, dens of iniquity, what a bunch of losers they are. .
Don't forget Drag Queen Story Hour that made it's way to Berlin to seduce innocent children with overt sexuality and satanic symbols. Oh no, maybe the one guy with 3 gay multiple personalities with downvote this too. Too bad he can't downvote his own HIV.
The music they play at Kit Kat club is just bad
Incest is legal for same sex siblings and minors in Germany err wtf
A hom is what the homosexual who said "this is not homhater" is. She comes on here regularly and tries to denounce any post that doesn't agree with her narrow homosexual point of view and also up votes herself many times. Typical of homos to do this, especially in Berlin.
The Germans can sweep all their problems under the rug. I wish there was a public debate about, what it is like, to be a foreigner in Berlin! You don't need to be black. It's enough, that you're not German! www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus209919525/Deutsche-Polizisten-Wie-sollen-wir-denn-da-rassistisch-sein.html
Meanwhile the owner of Ankerherz (some left-wing publisher) is getting death threats from Antifa because he wrote on facebook that he doesn't believe that all 300,000 German police are racists. This country truly is a big fat walking contradiction. Feels like half of the people here are far right and the other half are far left.
One reason is because pretty much all German media is owned by the state or a small group of people who have beliefs that line up very well with the official state stances. If Angela Merkel ever does another press conference I highly recommend watching the Q&A afterwards. Then compare the types of questions she gets, and the responses she receives from the media to any press conference with Donald Trump. You'll feel like it's two completely different worlds.
This guy seriously thinks that having "intercultural training" completely eliminates racism and prejudice? That is the second most German thing I've ever heard, second only to someone claiming that "being drunk makes you less racist." I would be willing to bet my entire life savings that "intercultural training" in the police department is a 3 hour seminar where they role play with exaggerated cultural stereotypes. I studied in Germany and had to attend 2 or 3 "intercultural trainings" and they were all exactly as described above. Like nearly every course I did in Germany, it was a waste of time because it was so ridiculously superficial. I really, really wish I could speak to this policeman face to face.
Story time
Not long ago a little German company named Wirecard was founded. They did something with financial transactions. Why did they exist when there's PayPal, Adyen and the other million finance service providers? Probably solely because Germany likes to foster domestic companies with fat subsidies and big stakes by German banks (in this case Deutsche Bank Commerzbank - probably a lot more). Anyway, as you may have seen in the past few days, Wirecard managed to lose 1.9 BILLION Euros. They're simply gone. The CEO pretended that he was the victim of fraud, but then immediately stepped down.
Why should I care you may be asking yourself. After all, aren't all banks corrupt to the core? Aren't all German companies nothing but fraud machines? Siemens, Deutsche Bank come to mind. Huge, state-sponsored fraud. There's nothing else you can call it. Well get this: A few months ago a little newspaper from the UK called FINANCIAL TIMES did some investigative journalism and noticed that there was a lot of fishy BS going on with Wirecard. They wrote about it and what did Wirecard do? Did they address the problems or maybe even try to fix them? No, they (via the new German financial regulator BaFin) sued FT for reporting the truth. They used the entire weight of the German legal system to silence Financial Times. Luckily a few months later and the fraud is so huge that it couldn't be hidden any longer. The company's stock has absolutely tanked and brought down Deutsche and Commerz with it.
Three important tl;dr takeaways:
1. All German companies are corrupt as hell (LOL @ Transparency International upvoting Germany because their whole nonprofit is financed by German companies)
2. German regulators are either corrupt or incompetent as hell. The German regulators act as lapdogs for German industry and will attack anyone who isn't compliant.
3. Investigative journalism in Germany is impossible. Bad whistleblower laws, bad journalism protection laws. If you read any of the normal news outlets here you'll get a perspective that is nothing but 100% supportive of the German government and German industry. There is no dissent.
Oh, and the story about Wirecard didn't even make it above the fold on Germany's most popular news website. Really makes you think.
in my german class it stank. In my other class it stank. In my other class it stank. 3 different buildings. these people weren't german, maybe it was the teacher who smelled up the entire rooms. is there a problem with air circulation in these buildings?? the rooms just stink....
God, I remember when I used to have to ride the S-Bahn to work. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a fully packed train in the late afternoon sun. Easily 35-40 degrees inside the train car. If you're lucky no dour old lady slammed the tiny little windows closed that offer at least a little fresh air. It's amazing more people don't pass out all the time.
I remember when I first arrived in Berlin and didn't have data. I was in a taxi on the way to a sublet that had been arranged for me by a friend's cousin. I was 5 minutes late. The guy yelled via sms that he was leaving, and sorry it didn't work out, he had to leave for the airport (German). I had to get the cab driver to pull over and call him to remind him (I had already told him) that I was on the way there, and all my stuff was in the car, as I was moving in that day. So he left the key with the neighbour. Then he sent me several voice memos, apologizing for being so angry and telling me that if I didn't want the flat, it would be ok, I wouldn't have to pay him. I arrived. The whole place stank like old meat, rotting milk or something, He also didn't change the sheets or do any laundry before I arrived, and there was no washing machine in the flat. I decided to take him up on his offer not to stay there, as he seemed unstable. He had also previously told me that I could party at the flat and drink all his alcohol, even though I told him I don't drink, he told me to bring friends. Anyway whatever, I ended up finding another place to live within 3 days, and I wrote him a text message thanking him for the offer but I wasn't going to stay. Then a week later he writes me a text, accusing me of smoking in the flat, breaking the door to the balcony and leaving it a mess. He tells me that if I don't pay him 500 euro (more than the rent) he would call the police and have me charged. So I just blocked him.
I thought he was just a crazy guy. Little did I know this was a typical German interaction.
I regret spending time in Peter pan’s land but I’m turning 34 this fall and I’m glad I got out when I did.
good for you, that's a good milestone. I moved when I was 31, I didn't realize what the city was like. Im the OP. Glad I only lasted two years. I cannot imagine being 40 in Berlin. Sure I like clubbing but whatever, I had a stable life and a good job and I went to Trash Land.... you live you learn I guess
I guess no offence if you are 40 in Berlin, sorry I don't mean to hurt people on the forum.... Just like, yeah its kind of harder to leave there once you get older I guess, if youre not german….guess it depends what kind of life that you want. I don't like socialism and being a rat so whatever.
I love when my German neighbours steal my packages even tho it is clearly written for the delivery NOT to leave with neighbours in both English and German. I also love how the neighbours don’t leave a note with their number and I’m expected to track them down. I also love when they sign off a random name so I have no idea where my package is and I don’t recieve it. I also love when the package man rings random doorbells when I am home all day and decides to leave with someone else even tho I am on the first floor. I also love having my doorbell rang over and over as if it’s my job to accept packages for my neighbours. I also love when the postman yells at me because I refuse to accept other people’s packages and rings the bell after I closed it