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It's a joke that they changed the Ausländerbehörde to a more friendly-sounding name. The employees there still talk to you like you're poop on the bottom of their shoes.
The weather is nice, I would love to go out ... but wait ... I would have to see Germans. Better stay in.
Back in the UK I loved to go out, staying inside made me depressed. In Berlin its the other way around.
Its hard to be spontaneous here. And everywhere you go you feel like you are being judged. Germans always have to interfere and "give their Senf dazu" so even just going out for a bit can never be a chilled thing. In general I think its also hard not to internalise the depressive and bitter mood of this city while out and about. I am shocked every time I go home at how people in shops just talk to me like a human being and how much q little bit of small talk can immediately lift your mood.
Non-discounters usually have students working there outside of the hours normal people are usually at work (weekends and evenings). Gen Z Germans really seem like they might have been influenced enough by Netflix to smile and act like real human beings. It beats the hell out of dealing with the dour middle aged zombies who work at all the discounters.
@the person above me. yeah, there seems to be a difference to the non-discounters any time past 5/6 when a younger crowd works. The Edeka near Hbf also has a mixed crowd in terms of ethnicity. For the first time I’ve seen black people work in a supermarket. They are students so its not their life career and I wish them well. Generally, staff over-there also smiles and have a bit of a chit chitchat with you.
I,m married person in my 30s, in this god forsaken city in startup environment if they know im married they look at me like on some alien asking why i got married and want family, they all seem to be or homosexual or changing partners like every year, wtf....
Gay men have more than 5x the number of sex partners v. heterosexuals and 4x the number within a year. They are more promiscuous. Just accept the facts and stop looking for homophobia everywhere. It's not a coincidence that gay men are the most likely demographic for HIV.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3334840/
I agree with the "homophobic" guy, and I'm gay myself. Most gay guys don't care about being with just one person and staying safe. Thats why I stay away from these people as I actually do search for someone to be with in a monogamous relationship. In Berlin is even harder as NOBODY wants any relationship.
yes, this is what i mean these ppl in berlin despise normal long term relationships with having family and kids in their plan. Instead they prefer to go to kitkat to f%^ck random person and call it a day, or change partners depending on mood, if someone thinks differently they look at him like on some kind of freak, wth ...
"i wouldnt say this trend only applies to the gay or homosexual community though. this is something i have only witnessed in berlin"
Bingo. People here think freedom is a synonym for hedonism and we've now seen a few generations that were taught to oppose conservatism and tradition and anything 1930s Germany supported at any cost. Take a normal human and remove reasoning and accountability and you have a modern-day German (to abuse a Jack Nicholson quote).
The Ubahn drivers in this penis poop city drive like they are bringing you to Auschwitz. Hurensons
Germany sends infected patients with coronavirus in home carantine. Lack of hospital equipment, of staff, or just pure stupidity.
I miss seeing good looking feminine women with high heels and good fashion on the street. Why do women in this country look like garbage?
What is wrong with them....
If Arabic and Turkish women are so hot, why are their men the biggest predators in this city? Why do they look at every female as if she was a piece of meat? If they were blessed with good looking women in their community, they would be happy and content and not bitter, overly horny losers.
What the fornicate is wrong with the bureaucrats in this country? How is it that I cannot resolve a single administrative or financial matter under a week, why the fornicate am I flooded with snail mail in 2020? Did anyone tell the govt that waste separation is useless if you have to chop down a freaking rainforest to get registered at the Bürgeramt?
Worst of all, is everyone autistic? Did somebody collect all the village idiots of Europe and drop them off here? Did I miss a memo? freaking hell.
herzlich willkomen in berlin, the place when sanity is scarce, and common logic goes to hell, i actually after moving here noticed i collected so many papers in 6months than for my entire life in my country, actually to deall with this flood i started to segragate them and collect in boxes in different colors, you need a system against it or loose your sanity for good
Germans don't seem to know how to listen. It's like you explain something to them a dozen times and they still don't understand it or maybe they just don't care. It's just a bunch of type A jerks who'll bully you around as long as you let them do it. I hate this shithole.
Corona is coming. Soon the Germans will open the concentration camps again. We have to get out man. THEY WAITED FOR THIS ALMOST 80 YEARS
Germany's fucked. Some retard Germ with coronavirus went to carneval and probably infected fuckknows how many people and his nerd wife is a Kindergartner so she probably infected like a billion more Germans since we all know Kindergartner is just a euphemism for pedophile in this country. First cases in Berlin will be reported within the next 7 days. After that it's just a matter of time before everyone here is broken since basically 80% of the city is poor as poop and rides that overcrowded POS subway and pisses in each others mouths at Berghain. Imagine how sad you'd be if you kicked the can here.
You are very confused indeed, Tropical Islands is this: www.tropical-islands.de/ Not sure how you came to think that is was a swinger club. It actually worse because of the amount of people, kids, families and of course lack of hygiene, water etc etc. I wish it was a swinger club!
Berlin is enough to make the sanest of people have a mental breakdown and to turn the most sociable of people autistic. I am talking from personal experience. But with the right mindset you can cope here, you just have to keep your head down and only hang out with people who have a positive attitude, are disciplined and doing something with their lives.
Totally true.
I go to work, sport, sometimes tinder and meet some non german women, and stay at home and watch Netflix,Fallon,Kimmel. And soon I will get the fornicate out of here. You have to take care of your cocoon and keep it clean. Works even in this hell
"Don't postpone getting the fornicate out of this shithole. It never gets better. You just get older and fatter and uglier and will have wasted even more of your short life in this incredibly miserable place."
I only managed to survive there for 16 months and even that felt like an eternity.
"Theres something i like about the challenge of sticking it out here though."
Spoiler: It ends with you jumping out a 10th floor window of putting your temple on a train track. Or maybe just becoming indistinguishable from a German which is actually even worse.
I'm overseas and need to talk to someone at my bank, but every time I call I get back room people who can't or won't speak any English and they all talk with aggressive weirdo German accents, it's really spooking me out, I want nothing to do with Germany ever again, but I'm forced into this situation. What makes it worse is every time I call, I get a different person and they all sound as filthy as each other. I wish the guy I need would pick up, it's driving me crazy.
ehm there are German banks providing service in English, I guess yours is not one of them (e.g. ING provides no English speaking services and they are very clear about that). There are usually one or two people who can handle requests in English, but I would not expect them to be always available. I cannot think of anywhere else (even my home country) where you can easily find somebody willing or able to assist you in English if that is not part of what they offer. Hope you manage to sort your stuff soon.
Just deck then next guy who gives you shit! in this town it's in any case self defense!....unfortunately the cops won't agree!
I tell you one thing.....that shuts these Berlin posers up!
Why are these people so into wearing costumes whenever they have chance ? Seriously asking. I live one of the "carnaval " city and people do wear meaningless costumes and get drunk all week long. Half of these people are over 30 years old. Do they find this thing really so funny ?
Did you see the "clever" and "satirical" parade floats?
"Everyone I disagree with is a nazi"
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"Prepubescent humor stolen from South Park"
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"Dehumanization based on non-mutable characteristics is a German tradition"
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Imagine being a grown human being and wanting to participate in this kind of degeneracy. Germans are so stupid and they'll never learn from their dark, dark past.
Do entire cities effectively shut down in the UK because Britons want to dress like kids and sit around all day in tents drinking and snorting coke? It's impossible to do business with anyone in Cologne this week. I don't think this kind of "tradition" is common in England.