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this is an ode to a city that allows me to be. soil rich enough to blossoms me. bear me fruits and feed me its sweet nectar. a place where freedom of expression is encouraged, from one creativity to one identity. circle of trust created within potentiality. a community where i finally belonged, it is a sanctuary for my chosen family.
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as i grow, i grow collectively.
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thank you for giving me the time to experience change of seasons emotionally, and the space to breathe deeply with every single challenges you presents me.
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as i grow, i grow collectedly.
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im loving you infinitely.
Anyone else here notice that German guys in public bathrooms don't leave the customary space when using urinals? In every other country I have been guys almost never use the urinal right next to you out of respect for personal space. In Germany, even if there are 6 urinals and no one else present, they'll still stand right next to you. Why?
LOL I also noticed that in German WCs. I also noticed the underwear here doesn't have a hole in it for when you pee. It looks like womens panties sort of and it means you have to pull them down to pee. How do real men who don't pee sitting down deal with this?
Remember when that one judge Stefan Hank state the following in his ratio decidendi?
"Despite the increasing domestication of the male in this context, urinating while standing is still quite common. Someone who still practices this formerly prevailing custom must regularly expect sometimes considerable confrontations with - especially female - roommates, but not a chemical burn of the marble floor installed in the bathroom or guest toilet."
Pissing while standing obviously isn't a "previously prevailing custom" as anyone who has ever walked through Berlin more than 5 minutes will be able to tell you. What an absolutely bizarre country.
Previous poster here. Seriously, what psychological trauma causes this degree of repression and anal-retentiveness?
What about those born after WWII? What about those born in West Germany? What the feck is wrong with these people? I'm honestly flabbergasted. I've lived in four countries on three continents, never before have I seen the institutional normalisation of a collective developmental disorder on such a grand scale. Please help me find an explanation, I have to deal with these feckers for two more years until my contract expires. I think it would be easier to cope if I could explain it. Is it something about the educational system? Is it the climate? The geopolitics?
For one thing it's because Germany is a society without morals. Sure, there is some concept of a minimum standard that must be used when dealing with others but that is dictated largely by the government and maintained by force. That's why you see so little charitable giving and volunteering here. Look up OECD data for voluntary participation in organizations and groups for a clear illustration. The individualist countries in the report, like the USA and Australia, completely pummel Germany in nearly every way imaginable. Germans defer ALL responsibility to the government or, at the very least, "experts". They don't help people in need because, in their eyes, that's the role of the government only. Generally everyone in Germany shirks responsibility and accountability to the greatest extent possible and consider doing so to be the zenith of freedom (in Germany, you'll learn, freedom is nothing more than a synonym for hedonism/degeneracy).
And then there are so many rules and regulations here that people have stopped behaving like humans. It's illegal to insult others, it's illegal to throw glass bottles in the garbage on a Sunday, it's even illegal to dance on certain days. I've often thought to myself that you can teach a German manners but you could never teach one to be polite. Every sense of individuality is beaten out of German children from a young age by rigid rules and a harshly segregated educational system (children are railroaded into the roles of prole or intellectual already at the age of 10 and there's minimal mingling among these classes). Despite "free university" and government grants, on average it takes someone in Germany an entire generation longer to move from lower social ranks to middle class when compared to America. Add to that a largely uniform and status quo-friendly media and have a nation of people that believe something but don't have the mental capacity to explain why without vaguely appealing to collective emotions. Ask a German to give specific examples for why they oppose AfD (and - I am showing my German social conditioning now - I am in no way defending the AfD here) and they simply can't answer without using the kind of abstract reductionism that quickly becomes indistinguishable from a meme. It's why meaningless words like "solidarity" and "conservation" and "data protection" are able to justify anything conceivable in Germany from exorbitant taxes to abysmal service and literally anything in between.
Finally, they all have a blindspot for their own nationalism/patriotism. Ask a German if they're proud to be German and they'll invariably say no. Ask them what country has the best X, be it health care or environmental standards or quality of manufacturing or women and they'll all say Germany. They're pleased when they can embrace EU transnationalism because they see it as an extension of Germany and the soulless ideals Germany stands for (when Angela Merkel was once asked to describe how she views Germany she famously noted the "moderate weather" and "air-tight windows"). If you've been here longer than a week you'll already know how Germans react if you in turn show any pride in your own nationality in any way, however mild.
If you're used to people with passion or a heart then you'll forever be hopelessly depressed here and IT IS 100% THE FAULT OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
Why not defend AFD, I've spoken to many of them i Dresden and they were all very well educated and not at all hateful racists, they just want their own culture and heritage to be respected, like every other nationality in their country. Political correctness is a tool of the left to silence the majority.
Jesus Christ, this country is populated by autists.
Holy hell. How did this nation of weirdos and NPCs exist for so long? They're like rusty, inefficient steampunk-era robots without the aesthetic appeal.
Hi everyone! Im out of Berlin, living in a small german town. Lost my job due Corona.. Dont know, where to start, because this self isolating driving me crazy sometimes.. I have no friends here, so all alone..
I was thinking to return to Berlin, but no way.. There was a reason i left and i think thats why i keep returning to this site to remind myself of the situation down there.
I decided to look for happines in a smaller city than Berlin, earn some money and build a tiny house in my home country in the woods, so i can return there when im older.
I wish you all luck and stay positive!
When i got here i almost went crazy fron depression and anxiety. I just had this feeling like something in me is screaming all the time to get out. Why is it so bad? I tried to be happy like the people who say berlin is amazing, but I just end up feeling numb. When people say there is no other place like it, I just feel like Germany must be pretty bleak if this blows their minds.
Hey fuckhead. I did not dislike the post. I gave love to it. Doesn't change that you are a loser rasict who will always be a loser. To the OP I wish you luck my man.
Take care not to end like the losers on this site who will post poop even in 20 years and still stay in Berlin. Be a winner and take responsibility for the things you do. Instead of searching for the fault in other colors and cultures.
Don't end up like those conspiracy losers here.
Somehow being a critical thinker and citing statistics about homicides (gee, wonder who's committing most of them in the western world?), automatically makes you a conspiracy theorist and/or a racist. Charming. I guess when you're understanding of sociology, politics, and philosophy can be boiled down to a soundbite that's the best you can muster.
Here's another interesting little experiment to carry out in your own back yard. Search for "Polizeimeldungen Berlin" and click the link that says "Gesuchte Personen" and tabulate your own little breakdown of the ethnicity of the criminals shown. Sorry, is that racist too?
WHY do people let their dogs poop everywhere and just leave it behind? When I have to step off the sidewalk to avoid groups of assholes (always men in their 20s 30s, like these corona rules don't apply to them), I always step in a fat wad of dog shit. Filthy city.
I posted the last comment. I left Berlin four years ago now but returned to organise shipping of my belongings back home to Australia. The level of hate in Berlin is palpable. I walked around and simply could not believed I spent eight years of my life in that town. Sure..hard to start from scratch again back in Australia. But I found Berlin even worse. You can taste the hate in the air..Its a pressure cooker that's going to implode. Leave while you can..You stay and you will go broke and you will stay broke.
P.P.S. In my four year absence Two friends died from drug misadventure. One suicide under the U8..Good friends businesses down the toilet at the hands of their fellow Berliners. And after eight years in that idiot Ihad one friend....A German woman who systematically self sabotages every god darn relationship she finds herself in..Thank the gods above I never got anyone pregnant . The women I knew in Berlin would need a D.N.A. test to find out who Daddy is..Yeah...That skanky.
In my experience Australians are too human to survive in Germany long term. Sorry to generalize, but people from countries like Germany, France, Netherlands, Nordics all seem kind of like cold blooded machines. No, not all people, but the average person here is insufferable to a degree not seen in other places. Probably has something to do with the insanely high population density here couple with very, very small homes and flats and chronically overburdened infrastructure of all sorts.
Oh man..So Sweet.Coronavirus wipes out Berlin clubs. I hope they all go broke. Bye Bye Berlin. Just a toilet with no party now.
Let's just see this as an opportunity to virtually escape this sh1thole. You can just talk to people around the world instead of interacting with closed-minded uneducated Berliners.
Anyone else feeling desperate they have to stick to this country God knows how long for??
I am no longer in Berlin and I have to agree with the people who said the rest of Germany is no better... surely, fewer bums, rude people, weirdos but it's the culture that is unbearable.
I had found some strength to put together my escape plan and now I am stuck here indefinitely :(
Yes, thinking about having to stay here stuck inside of a tiny apartment with paper thing walls for another 6-18 months is driving me crazy. Just the thought of my foreseeable future being in this overcrowded cesspit makes me depressed and borderline suicidal. I wish I'd left last year like I knew deep down I should have done.
What's weird to me is that most East Germans don't know AT ALL the extent to which the GDR was a horrible police state. I've never spoken to an East German who had any idea how many people were killed for trying to cross, how many lives were ruined by a state-run press and a secret police force that routinely ruined people through Zersetzung. Hearing East Germans revel in their Ostalgie makes me sick to my stomach.
Oh, boy. East Germany must have been hell on earth for normal people. All the worst German culture has to offer + constant surveillance + can’t escape + even members of your own family can turn you in. Maybe that was the only place that was more horrible than today’s Berlin
Top post on Germany reddit today:
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/fqikl8/acquired_taste_german_style_freshly_ground_pork/
"I love mett. I understand American's fear of raw pork, but each time I've described it to them they look at me in disgust even after I tell them it's a highly regulated food amd that is is safe to eat in Germany. I find it sad to find so many close-minded people who blow off a piece of German Culture just because it's "new and different"."
LOL Germans are so _fucking_ retarded. What the _fuck_ kind of braindead Heinie cannot understand that people don't want to eat RAW meat?
One of those self-serve bakeries at Alexanderplatz used to sell this garbage. The thought of raw pork on a roll sitting out in a glass where people touch it and flies land on all for hours makes me sick. At least tartare and sushi are generally made from high quality meats. Mett is made from the same low quality drivel you'd get at a discounter here. Complete with undenatured antibiotics (Germany uses more animal antibiotics than any other country). But at least the label proudly states that the animal was born and slaughtered in Teutonia. What a joke of a country.
I am the biggest loser on earth. I am living in a desperate city. I am a right thinking loser who is afraid of any change in life just because I don't want to leave my comfortabe situation which means I should change my life.
But no! Instead of changing my mind and situation I am writing every day pooping posts in a site called Berlin hater and in my deppest inner I know that I am the problem and I hate myself.
We'll see you guys tomorrow when the next post of me is coming about refugees, Corona, beroiners, Germans. Yes all guilty people but me
Yes, I know just how you feel, I was the same when I first started feeling BerlinPhobia, I thought "it can't be all of them, it must be me", luckily I found BerlinHater a few years after that, and realised that it's not me, it's this commie stink-hole, full of lefties who leech off the state, AntiFa thugs, pseudo intellectuals, isolationists, drug addicts, party-addicts, alcoholics and just plain rude, suspicious, ungenerous people with no social graces and nothing positive to say.
When I first went to Berlin, I was positive of mind, optimistic, creative, full of material and spiritual generosity, adventuress and full of love for life.
The worst day of my life was when I woke up one day and realised I'd become just like them, it was a nightmarish realisation that sent me into the depth of despair, until the day I decided to sell up and move, once I made this a definite decision, I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders, I saw some light at the end of the tunnel, but I was quite apprehensive because I wasn't sure of how life will be in a more civilised city, I hadn't lived anywhere else, permanently, for 9 years, but within one week of leaving Berlin, I was 80% back to my real self again. Now after one year I'm 100% back and loving it, I feel like I'm paradise yesterday, three people said hello, etc for no reason, just to be friendly. I haven't seen one person piissing or pooping in the street, I haven' even seen people spitting. No scavengers looking for bottles to earn enough to survive on and support their alcohol and drug habits, only the odd beggar, but no army of them.
I feel secure because I know my friends have my back, a feeling I never had in Berlin.
So stop saying "it must be me, it can't be this whole city". If Berlin was a person, it would a schizoid, depressed, anxious, psychopathic mental midget.
GET OUT OF THERE, NOW. I said NOW, you shouldn't even be ready the rest of this, pack your bags and escape from the lunatic asylum, NOW, just run as fast as you can. And wherever you go, make it home, because multi-culturalism is buullshiit, it's hard enough trying to navigate the culture we grew up in, without the added stress of trying to navigate twenty plus other cultures, or even one other culture. Sure, visit other places with cultures different to your own, when you are on holidays, but don't live in them.
Corona sexual act Berlin and Germany :)
Credulous media wondering why Germany's virus death rate is so low in spite of thousands of infcetions...well..they are just lying a la China; not as blatantly but everyone is conditioned in Germany and Berlin to a life of lies, chief of which is the good quality of life, so what's a minor lie by German doctors for faking cause of death in the official stats?
Actually, it's the other way around, they are lying about how many people are infected, whereas the reality is they just have a flu, which is what Corona is anyway, it's just another flu, like Avian, Tami, Swine, Mers, Ebola, Sars, Zika etc. The only difference with this one is it's been used to intimidate the masses in accepting martial law, and at the same time to close down all shops etc, to weaken the Chinese economy to stop hem from becoming the world's reserve currency. We are in the middle of a currency war, and you'd better pray the west wins it. Start educating yourselves on the importance of Currency Wars in these times. If China becomes the world's reserve trade currency, the west is in for a very rude shock. www.dnb.com/content/dam/english/economic-and-industry-insight/global_currency_wars_us_201110.pdf