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What if I told you that Berlin was an illusion? That nobody makes any money off their art, they make very little money actually, in fact either working another job or having the dole or their parents pay their rent....
sure, that’s the same in any city you say. No, Berlin is specific. The amount of people working for exposure is ridiculous. So people like myself get lured there because it’s supposed to be good for artists, and just end up meeting a bunch of trust fund kids, or people extremely poor. Not only that, but I can’t even work a side job to supplement my artistic practice, because nothing pays well, so I’m just further and further into debt.
Berlin is a lie
If you see something on social media from people thriving in Berlin guaranteed they make under 1000 euro a month do not travel in Europe and if they travel internationally or especially come from China they have extremely rich parents. There is no money there. None.
And yet, nobody says anything. They just keep up the Berlin hype and lure other people to Berlin to ruin their lives ..because the hype is what people believes and maybe if they work a bit longer for free and maybe if they just get people in other cities to see their work and think wow cool Berlin then maybe they’ll have their big break...yeah no people rot there for years in drugs and distractions and unless they have some kind of income or backing from family they are trapped.
And you know what? Where I come from, nobody is a trust fund kid. I know ONE. Everyone else makes good money working at bars or another job, to be able to afford this lifestyle. I was disgusted with Berlin. Disgusted. Buncha posers. Who asks their mom to help them as an adult anyway
All the sex and partying can’t make up for the gaping emotional hole in your angry souls it seems
"I can't remember whether it was just curiosity or a certain desire to provoke, but at some point I started a survey among my Brazilian friends. I wanted to know from the men how they pee, standing or sitting, and the doubtful looks I got suggested that I was the first to confront them with this alternative. "Sitting, what do you mean?" they asked. "Do you think I'm gay?"
These men we're talking about, I think they're actually quite enlightened. They read newspapers, they don't eat meat, and they change their children's diapers, but not a single one of them ever had the idea of sitting on the toilet seat when they pissed. At first I thought it was an expression of machismo, deeply rooted in their Latino soul. But as time went by I realized that there was something else behind it."
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/coronakrise-in-brasilien-die-stehpinkler-und-ihre-maegde-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000171037344
1. Who the fornicate randomly asks their male friends whether they pee while standing or sitting?
2. Who the fornicate considers it machismo to pee while standing?
3. Maybe most importantly, for what is considered to be the pinnacle of German journalism, what the fornicate is going on at Spiegel?
I am now in my home country and have been outside the last few days. A lady biked by the other day with 3 kids, speaking German. I thought I just hallucinated it. And now, again, she biked by and said “links”. So I know she’s speaking German. I guess she is my neighbour. I guess I can never escape them.
And the thing that pisses me off so bad about this is people in my country will welcome this person with open arms and be interested to hear all about “Europe”. It’s just not fair how these fuckers can make our lives living hell and then go elsewhere and be seen as interesting due to their country’s propaganda. I glared at her and she saw me the first time. If she walks by I feel like saying something to her.
does anyone else feel peer pressured into having sex just because everyone else in berlin is so promiscuous?
what i was trying to ask is do people who would normally wait for someone they actually like and want a relash with end up having sex with friends and things because you are bored and feel like you should somehow be sexually active even if you dont necessarily want to be
A friend of mine told me that when she first moved here she signed up for a gym (I think superfit). She said when she tried using the sauna once she walked in and there were two guys blowing each other inside and that they didn't even stopped when she entered. She complained to management and they wouldn't even refund her membership and said that stuff like that "is common in Berlin" and that she should get used to it.
After I left Berlin, I felt really sick! Wherever I worked in Berlin, I was badly bullied and humiliated. I just wonder, why it's not officially talked about abroad? Berlin has a great ad but inside is hideous and rotting! When someone ever tells me again, that Berlin is a wonderful place, I swear, I'll hit that Human in the face! When will their terrible behavior finally trigger some kind of offensive? I mean, something like: articles and interviews with people who have experienced this, etc. There's almost no talk of it anywhere. Why?!
Really sorry to hear that. I have the feeling that work life here is like war. Everyone against everyone. Quite fascinating - Germany is doing well when it comes to unemployment opportunities. There is LESS competition here than in let's say the US or UK or Southern Europe. Why are people so hung up on competition and backstabbing? I don't get it.
Getting bullied is totaly normal overall in the German society. TV shows, comedians, workers, partners. It's a very German thing. Swiss and Austrians are the same expect people from Holland. They are very sweet.
Seems to be a historical thing. This behavior comes from insecurities. And if you read about the History of germans not only world wars also the other stuff then it's obvious why it's in their genetics. They are mentally ill. Not your problem. You won over the cancer of this society and a new chapter has begun. Enjoy it and dont think about that time
There is not less corruption here than US/UK. Germany has a muvh less mature and weaker anti-corruption law. In fact, it wasn't long ago that Germany allowed tax deductions to companies for paying bribes in foreign countries (sounds lackadaisical but true). Germany's equality act is also much newer and weaker. Also, just as an example, insider trading isn't taken seriously and no one has ever gone to prison in Germany for that. In general, German courts never punish individuals for commercial crimes - it is always at most a fine for the corporation. Also don't forget about political corruption like when Edathy was tipped off that he was about to be investigated for pedopo*n which allowed hom to destroy evidence and hide out abroad.
Don't trust transparency international's index. They are a German non profit that are financed by large German corporations to paint Germany in a good light. Maybe Germany is less corrupt than southern europe but definitely not less than us/uk.
If you listen to a germans opinion about Berlin you will be disappointment
I remember I went to vabali with an ex and he said to the attendant when I wasn’t looking that the flavour she used smelled like a sewer. I think he was hitting on her. This is german flirting
All berliners care about is having fun and ignoring reality. Then when you point out the reality of their lives is actually quite dark, they hate you
And forget about talking about any serious topic. Want to culturally appropriate and be racist and defensive flexing your white privilege even more during festival season as an “indianer”? Cool, it’s your “freedom” to do so! Assholes !!!! Selfish children. Not progressive place AT ALL
I think a lot of Germans who belong to a certain generation (Generation X, Millenials, Generation Z) and grew up in West Germany were raised in prosperity and never had to worry about anything. Even if they fell on hard times - their parents are always there to bail them out. And they know that. So, they develop this mindset that they can do whatever they want, they will never have to worry.
Sometimes I feel Berlin attracts a lot of people with trauma . They either work through their darkness and trauma and leave a better person (myself) or they just retraumarizd themselves over and over again in that city because it’s all they think they dezerve or all they know
How long do most expats stay in Berlin, on average?
Germans like making other people suffer. It brings them pleasure. Miserable people. I’ll stay away from them, I’ve suffered enough. Nazis
OP: they are jealous. Seeing people with ambitions, with positivity, and with willingness to learn and become successful KILLS them from the inside. They can’t fathom how a foreigner can be happy and they’re not. So they do their best to bring us down to their level, and they win because they’re more experienced. these people are rotten to the core
Lol yeah i also realised that recently. One generarion separation from naxi germany. Nazi officers are still alive today. People who forced slave labor. And even worse - in the east there is not even one degree of separation from stasi. Those same government spooks are still among us. Don't trust any German above the age of 30.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails also hates Germany.
In 2005 during a festival tour through Europe he wrote "Deutschland kann meinen Kugelsack lecken" on the band's official webpage. He also also posted under the name "teitan" on an online message board and detailed how much Germany sucks. He said the people are stand-offish and act pretentiously arrogant. He said it's a pain in the butt here because no air conditioning and you're either freezing your butt off or sweating to death all the time. He bitched about that retarded German band Die Toten Hosen and how their ridiculous stage props fell on top of his instruments and destroyed them. He complained about how Rock am See festival was too miserly (German: environmentally conscious) to provide the specified electricity which resulted in a blackout during the show.
For a guy who probably only spent a few weeks here cumulatively over his entire life he nailed Germany on the head pretty perfectly. Germany sucks.
Germany also treats foreign celebrities pretty badly. I remember a few years ago Tom Hanks was a guest on "Wetten, dass" and he said in an interview that the show was too long and the German press freaked out that a foreigner would say anything negative at all about a crappy TV show is paid for by the German taxpayers that is 3 freaking hours long.