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I wonder where that antifa guy went. Maybe the lefties, thugs and feminists finally got him.
:o) Maybe he's out working to earn a living and trying to create wonderful things by being pro-active, instead of being anti-everythng and destroying what hard working people have built and saved to own. And you know what, I bet these moronic imbeciles will find some twisted way to justify themselves. I've traveled the world many times and I have never met any group more narcissistic and stupid as AntiFa thugs and Feminists.
That's strange, I thought you said you weren't going to post here anymore because not everyone agrees with your pathetic, childish lefty agendas. Good luck with your loser lefty friends, they will be the future drunks and alcoholics hanging around kiosks citing passages of Das Kapital :o))))))))))))) Stupid, hypocritical morons.
And they are the main reason Berlin is a a steaming pile of dog shiiiiitttttttttttt.
You dumb bitch. I'm not German, I'm not the guy who is always complaining about antifas and women and I am going to move out of shit-hole Berlin as soon as I've saved enough money from my horseshit menial job here to relocate. And I'm sure as hell not staying in naziland.
" Maybe he's out working to earn a living and trying to create wonderful things by being pro-active, instead of being anti-everythng" hahaha said from the motherfffukkku who is THE definition of anti and negativity. Dude you shittttin us all day everyday with negativity and anti shit. Shut the hell up
I wonder where that antifa guy went. Maybe the lefties, thugs and feminists finally got him.
I don’t understand what happened. When I first moved to Berlin I loved it, although it was a struggle, I thought I just had to get myself situated. Then after I got the anmeldung and poop after 6 months and a place to live I realized the struggles never ended. It was just a dark and aggressive a poor place. I don’t get how I had such a fun time before, I think it’s because I was subletting and I didn’t have an anmeldung. I know it sucks to not have anmeldung and bounce around if you want to live there, but my suggestion to anyone who wants to live in Berlin is just sublet for a summer and don’t get in their system. Because their system makes your life hell and it’s not easy to get out.
Yes, just be a tourist there, don't settle!!!
Just take the best out of it for a week or two, realise how lucky you are living somewhere else and allowing yourself just to visit! Eat good tasty food, buy some stuff and leave, thas a perfect scenario, I think!
This place is good for a visit but not actually living here. Plus, if you are a recent college grad this isn’t the place to come. Berlin can’t be taking seriously if you want to have a real life. The people, this place is a big joke. If I could I would sue this place for ruining my life. The only foreigners they want here are the ones who will clean toilets.
"The only foreigners they want here are the ones who will clean toilets."
So true. Germans scoff at PhDs in New York City who end up driving cabs while the foreign-born PhDs here (of which there are few because German academia has managed to hold on to biased, highly subjective selection processes for PhD programs - hell for most university programs) scrub toilets or deliver packages for Amazon. These people consider 40,000 EUR per year a "very good" salary. Calculate your monthly disposable income and use that to figure out how many years you'd have to save to buy a modest 50m2 apartment here. Backwards country.
I’m the Op. I remember I visited Berlin for a week and had the impression it was “challenging” for some reason. I have some psychic ability and often random words like that pop into my head. Well I didn’t know anything other than I had that sense, based on the energy of the place. If I had only known how challenging it was in every aspect..
I also remember feeling uncomfortable in the area I was staying, tense and on edge (kreuzberg). I am not sure why I became obsessed with the place, or considered to look into more what life was like there. I think what made it hard is I met several people during my time there who “loved” Berlin but nobody told me otherwise. I can’t imagine being obsessed with Berlin for more than a year or two maximum.
^ and I also thought for some reason I had to get “in” through this challenge so I put myself up to the challenge to move there, do all the things I needed to do like anmeldung etc, before realizing what the fornicate I had gotten myself into it was too late, and I spent a year stuck unable to get out of the place because I was so broke.
Ha, ha, when I first arrived in Berlin, I said to evry German I met, why aren't you buying these ridiculously cheap apartments, t=you will never have to pay rent again and the prices are going to sky-rocket when Berlin fills up. Everyone of them said the same "vee Germans do not buy, vee only rent". They are biggest phuck-knuckles on earth. Now they have to spend 60% of their wages on rent. A golden opportunity gone to waste. You could buy apartments in Berlin for €40-50,000 only ten years ago, some even cheaper.
They didn’t buy the apartments because they didn’t have any money. Because it is impossible to save that kind of money when you are taxed that high.
Isn’t the rave history of Berlin everyone was on welfare and so that’s why the parties became three days, since no one had to work on mondays ? This is what I’ve read somewhere. Having an industry is relatively new.
Lmao look at the costs just for a notary when buying real estate here. Germans like to pretend their notaries are anything more than a robot that reads text aloud and confirms signatures because otherwise they'd be mad at having to pay several thousand euros for zero actual benefit. But these are also the same people that thibks it makes sense to pay a realtor 3x monthly rent because they let you look at an apartment for 15 minutes once. Everything here is designed to rip you off.
just a shitton of unnecessary closing costs when you buy. Property tax in Germany is low because somehow the government managed to f#ck up their own calculations for like 60 years. The highest court decided that how it's done now has to be changed but Germany is trying to postpone that because it's gonna financially ruin a shittton of people. Eventually it's gonna change though and everything is gonna get a lot more expensive, including renting an apartment.
Do these idiots not realize that when you put a shower head on the wall you need to MOUNT it and not sit there hosing yourself down like an animal? Oh yeah, and the mount needs to be situated at the foot of the tub. In order to spray the water down the length of the tub instead of out onto the floor. You don’t mount the shower in the middle. You also need a shower curtain. You also need a toilet that doesn’t have a shelf for poop
LOL I was beginning to think I was the only sane person in this country for noticing this. What the hell is with the weird showerhead mounts that are like 10cm above the tub? Is that for people that shower sitting down? Also what's up with the drains here being so slow. I have become paranoid that mine is clogged so I clean it once a week. No matter what the water drains about half as fast as the tub fills while I am showering.
As far as I can tell, people here also don't ever properly clean their skin. They don't use loofas or washclothes or anything that scrubs off dead skin cells. In fact, I remember a German ex gf I had once who made fun of me for using a loofa. By her reasoning, I was only using it because I was "afraid to touch my own genitals". Germans are dumb fucks.
Berlin makes me paranoid
This cannot be overstated. Never seriously got into conspiracy theories until I moved here. There is absolutely no way Germany achieved first world status without some serious hidden conspiracies. A country where most the people have an IQ below 100, are lazy, extremely prone to alcoholism/drug abuse, that was defeated in two world wars and has pretty much zero natural resources... yeah right.
They just did good PR guys because they had to to save their international reputation. Do you know that IBB artist grant they gave out? They made PR everywhere around the world people back home posting about how fantastic germany is (again) well they are asking for that money back.... I saw something something about fraud yesterday. Apparently you could only use the items on certain things. Whatever
West Germany, man. This country got A LOT of money and help from the US when East Germany was still around. A lot of money and help to show commies how rich they are. That’s why. South Korea is also very rich for the same reason. But Koreans are smart so they also contributed to the economic boom there. Germans are dumb so the economy gets worse and worse
It doesn’t help that our names are on the doorbells showing the location in the building where we live. That makes me the most paranoid because I have a street facing window where drug dealers stand directly a cross and there is another building directly across. And I am a woman living alone...
Germany should pay back all the funds given under the Marshall Plan. They also need make restitution to Greece, Italy and probably most other European countries for WWII. Until they do so, and pay for their own defense programs, they should have absolutely no say at all internationally. They shouldn't be invited to G8 summits, they shouldn't be able to speak at UN and NATO conferences. This country currently cannot be taken seriously.
Marc Twain:
Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the general rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over the page and reads, "Let the pupil make careful note of the following exceptions." He runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than instances of it.
Wtf are you talking about German language being logical? They change the genders randomly throughout the tenses. At first when I was learning German the only way I could learn it was to not question the rules and just memorize it because it made no sense. Then I realize the entire society functions like that
there are quite a lot of rules about the genders as well although obviously some you just have to memorise. But apart from genders theres nothing difficult about it. Its pronounced like its spelled and a lot ot the words are transparent i.e. they do what they say and yes i repeat it is a logical language which makes you think more logically too
German is a language for autists. And it's not even precise, as some of you claim. Yeah, the declination system makes it very precise sometimes. But other times it's completely ambiguous. Take for example this sentence: "Was von dir erwartet wird ist unmöglich". It could either mean "That which you are expecting is impossible" or "What is expected of you is impossible". There are plenty of these kinds of sentences. They're retarded, just like most Germans. Imagine some fat old German slob sitting around and deciding which words will henceforth be male, female, neuter. That's the same archetype that's sitting in every position of petty authority here.
Yes but the sentence you give as an example would not be on it's own, it would have to have an additional qualifying sentence to make complete sense. English is an inferior language altogether, made up of several other languages German, Latin, French, etc...and American English is grating on the ears nowadays but very nice in pop music but nothing else.
Its funny how they think that cursive font is a good idea for ads or products. Looks so dated
I'll never forget my first month in Berlin about 12 years ago, I went into an arty video rental shop in P'berg and took a movie to the counter, the guy had a look and said "that one is out", I said, "how was I supposed to know that", he said, 'It's unusual for this to happen that the movie is not there", so I went back and spent five minutes to find another movie and he said, 'That one is not available either", I said, "It's a strange system, why don't you add a note that the video is not available", he said, "we've been using this system for many years and it works very well", I said, really, you think it works well". I spent five more minutes to find a movie, took it to him and guess what, that's right, not available, "I said that's three times this happened and you tell me this stupid system works well, are you insane, what the fucckkk are you thinking, how can anyone possibly think this is a good system". He said "if you don't like the system, then I don't want you here", I screamed at the top of my lungs "WHAT SYsTEM, YOU freaking MORON", and left. I never went back to this german khunt, so he didn't get another cent from me.
Berlin Germans always have to be right, they can never admit that there DDR ways are total shiiittt.
So happy I left that enormous public toilet and the pathetic 'alternative' creeps there. 'Alternative' , what a joke, they all look the same, freakish sheep. FUCKKK YOU BERLIN, FFUCKK YOU, FFUCKKK YOU, FUCCCKK YOU.
I hate having to see these sexual toy King posters all over the city.
I hate those rotating boxes above clocks on street corners. 100% of the time it's two ads for dildoking, 1 ad for Artemis brothel, 1 ad for a weird sex massage place. When Billy Boy changed their logo from being a cartoon male genitalia I thought maybe Germany was ushering in a new era of maturity but I was wrong. Dildoking has the most prepubescent ads I've ever seen anywhere. Pretty sure no woman has ever ordered anything from that company, ever.
Those massage and brothel ads just make me so depressed and angry for the Romanian women trafficked in here. I feel disgusted as the Germans who pretend to be progressive but truly don't give a single poop at how women are victimized in this brutal industry. The German government protects pimps and turns its back on the women.
What the hell is with Germans and their constant, completely unnecessary usage of English words both in written and oral form? Do they think it makes them seem more modern?
Sometimes you read stuff written by Germans and 30% of the text is basically in English. The worst part is that most Germans suck at English anyway.
Say whaaaat???
To be a baker you have to Ausbildung/train 3,5 years??? Are you kidding me???
Was talking to a baker today and thought he is playin me.
Don't get me wrong. Bakerman js a honored job but 3,5!!!! Years of training???
Wtf. Germans are the dumbest motherfuckers in the galaxy
They artificially stretch these Ausbildung. Few years ago I met a girl who made an Ausbildung to work in the meat department of supermarkets, she told me they have art lessons. You don’t need art lessons to sell meat and they still cannot train you to have taste in art. Utterly pointless.
Not just that (but of course paying people poorly is 100% a big part of it), it also makes it more difficult to change careers because they'll say "Oh you have learned Kaufmann für Büromanagement, not Kaufmann für E-Commerce. You are not qualified for this job. Do this 18 month Umschulung and apply again". I am convinced that is why so many Germans are so bad at their jobs - there's no way to change careers. Also, for the most part, Ausbildungsberufe are looked down upon. As a result only kind of dumb people do most of them, so teachers inflate their grades so they don't have classes of 80% fails. For some Ausbildungsjobs this isn't the case - nurses and plumbers and electricians have all seemed to be intelligent and motivated (in my experience) but anything that has to do with office work or dealing with customers - they are always incompetent AND rude.
The straw broke the camel's back today, so here you go.
Just got a bill in the mail telling me I owe money to the Zoll for a package I got delivered a week ago.... OVER TWO HUNDRED F***NG EUROS. For a package that cost me 300 EURO. WHAT THE F*** IS THIS ABSOLUTE HELL HOLE! Why in the name of d*** can they drain your money like this? It's like unless you want every single thing in your life to be 100 % German, you're gonna get punished for it. I am afraid to order anything online in case I get a surprise bill in the mail later telling me that I owe more than 2/3 of the price for "handling costs." MY S*** BETTER BE DELIVERED IN A F***ING GOLD PLATED BENTLEY FOR THOSE FEES SON!!!!!!!!!!! How are people OK WITH THIS??? People I talk to are like "Oh, you know. Good ol' Zoll! Keeps you on your toes!" AND I'M LIKE F***ING NO IT'S NOT A CUTE QUIRKY THING ITS F***ING S**T!!!!!!!!!! I will be out of here like a BAT OUT OF HELL as soon as the travel restrictions lift. I have been here two regrettable years and I have never experienced such a miserable, hateful, exhausting, clusterf*** of a**holes in my entire life.
I hate having to go to work every day and listen to all these hipster idiots who are obsessed with Berlin, and how they could never live anywhere else, how the people are so nice and friendly (????!!!!!!!!!!), etc etc. And I have to pretend that I like it here, when in reality it chokes fat d***.
I yield my time.
Duty-free limit in Germany is 22 EUR (due to some dumb fuckery it's effectively 27 EUR but that's not really the point here). Duty-free limit in America is 800 USD. When Trump accuses Germany of unfair import taxes he's not wrong. And that's before you look at the tariffs on cars. Germany wants all the benefits of isolationism with all the benefits of globalism. I pray for the EU's collapse.
Berlin reminds me of some kind of lord of the rings Mordor