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Bf broke his arm on holiday. We got back to berlin and the Health System in berlin... well... considering how much health insurance we pay... it’s an utter shambles. The people working at vivantes urban are the rudest a-holes. The place is old fashioned and reeks of misery from the patients to the staff. We have been ping ponged from clinic to hospital to clinical hospital. We’ve been lied to. We’ve been told wrong information. We’ve encountered unbelievable rudeness and a total lack of empathy (believable in the sense I’ve lived here for several years), and the bureaucracy... you feel like an account that must be filed and taxed and processed. We all know germans are allergic to providing a service when we pay (eg restaurant, mobile phone customer care) but when it is one’s health the lack of professional or empathy is at best disappointing and mostly frustratingly shocking.
Waiting times, even with an appointment, extend to 5 hours. I saw old people waiting that long. No one is given an explanation or a sorry. When you ask the staff, they shrug (the berlin sport) and look at you like an enigma. Then they give you a sarcastic response.
No one takes accountability as per usual in this country. You don’t get a holistic treatment. You are on your own. And if you have a really serious condition unless you bark the loudest you will be left to rot. People were constantly pushing in - as surprise surprise the supermarket experience for the checkouts applies to hospitals. Why be fair Germans? I love how they think they are the peak of civilisation and, In their racist demeanour, talk down to Asian countries or other parts of the world when their own manners are appalling.
Barbarians.
Once I had to go to en emergency and lay there to get the treatment. In the room nearby was some old person who was screaming for help.. I saw the personal just passing by in the corridor and nobody cared.. it was a very sad situation and i decided to not to stay here in germany when im old and will need some help
I hate homophobes. Everyone in Berlin needs to stop focusing on sex and realize that love is a thing. And its not something to be ashamed about.
What's with all the gay ads lately? Drag queen show here, gay dating show there. Seems like the only couples you see in billboard ads here are men. Almost forgot about the german ministry of energy's poster not too long ago that promoted throuples to save electricity.
A city where one of the most disgusting parks I have ever seen (Gorlitzer Park) has designated areas for drug dealers and memorial sculptures (because you know, they are also human beings). I work in Kreuzberg and I hate it. I cannot count all the numerous times i pulled out an excuse to work from home in order to avoid commuting there. Shithole.
I'm convinced that Berlin only has all these parks because they're cheaper to maintain than public toilets (yet serve the same purposes - public pissing, drugs and male prostitution). There's not even any good landscaping in most of the parks here - just beaten down, patchy lawns and large swathes of weeds and underbrush that look as unkempt as the average person on the U8. And it's not even relegated to shit-holes like Kreuzburg. I walked across Alexanderplatz today and say a very large pile of human excrement right in front of the Footlocker there, just a stone's throw from the brand new police station there. Go to Potsdam and you can see a beautifully manicured park without drug dealers and guys jerking off in the bushes. What's so wrong with Berlin that there is nothing of value here?
Can anyone confirm some insane gossip I heard recently. Is it true that gay men place their penises into the sewage outlets of other men? Please tell me this is an urban myth and not really true.
If true, is it this act that makes them 'gay', as in having a gay time. Sorry, but it makes no sense. Also, why is it that people who feel disgusted by such behaviour are referred to as homosexual phobes, phobias are fears right? Well why wouldn't someone be afraid of people who perform such such disgusting acts, and then call it gay.
Why are these people so admired and exhalted just because they put their appendages into a filthy sewage outlet. call me old fashioned, but I just don't get it.
A city of pretentious and rude pricks, wannabe creatives and "artists" and entitled people who think society and government always owe them something. Unbearable by all standards.
And send this to mindfucked Australian lefty morons www.captiongenerator.com/1406342/Shorten-Trusted-The-Feminazis
If you come across a braindead Berliner who says the EU and Euro is a good things, send them this link of Jacob Rees-Mogg www.youtube.com/watch
Yeah, not to mention the fact that NATO is what prevents real warfare. But Germans can't let thr truth get in the way of posters in the city that say things like "If you value peace you must support the EU". Even the great Soviet propaganda posters weren't this on the nose. What else could you expect from a country comprised of 50% DDR zombies that never critically questioned a party that used taxpayer money to promote songs with refrains that said "The party (yes a one party democracy LOL) is always right"
Leaving Berlin in 3 months! Congrats to me!
Anybody else experienced this screaming-into-one-s-ear-thing? For example, I pass by 2 people. They stand opposite each other in a hallway but talk to each other. So, I have to go through the middle to pass. As soon as I pass by, one person keeps on talking, but they seem to think that they can't be heard (since I am between them) and they shout through me. As I was some type of robot or something.
Had a a really rude experience,although in the other side ie. West...doesn't matter all germans are the same.....really wanted to slap those rude shop assistant bitches.....but irritatated them by pretending not to understnd and getting on their nerves.....these female dogs have had next time..........
Any Aussies out there with mates risking their lives fighting fires at the moment, Bettina Arndt was blasted as being anti -women for praising the male fire-fighters. twitter.com/thebettinaarndt/status/1195940147055013893
Wtf is going on with landlords here? Complained a dozen times about the pothead neighbor and the smoky staircase (smell of weed everywhere). Pothead neighbor also sold weed and was involved in other shady cr*p (stolen goods) and played around with fire in his apartment bec. he neglected to pay the gas bill, so the gas was switched off.
Then he disappeared for a couple of months and his place was raided by the police in his absence - which the landlord witnessed himself. Instead of being alarmed, he said he was worried about the poor guy and hoping he WAS OKAY wherever he was.
The neighbor let his friends move in while he was away in Poland (his home country...XD) to escape the arm of the law - one of them looking like a junkie, which the landlord was told. Surprise: he just gave zero fvcks and just carried on as usual. He actually lives in the same house with his girlfriend and their little daughter. There are other young families, too.
Fast forward, couple weeks later: pothead is back, junkie has to move out and ends up sleeping in the attic.
Where the landlord finds him (alive). A bit of a shock? Maybe. Does he kick out the cause of the trouble? No way..he just politely inquires what happens.
Ironic twist: pothead seems to be willing to move out by choice.
A guy I knew here told me about how he lived in a building with some long-term renter who was incredibly crazy - schizophrenia or something but who really can tell? Anyway, the guy went nuts at some point and obsessed over his female roommate started randomly beating on their door on night. Anyway, they ignored him but he continued to do it and literally broke their door. He called the cops and they just told the guy to go back to his apartment but did nothing. House admin also did nothing at first but eventually, after many many complaints, kicked the guy out. The whole thing took like 4 months though.
Anyone else saw that guy with long hair, wearing a black skirt and holding a rolling shopping bag at train stations and making weird sounds while he walks back and forth ?
Berlin was a lie. A great (?) place to find a job and have a career but a very bad place to socialize.
It can't be that my best friends are non-Germans after 7 years that I have spent in Berlin.
Germans automatically don't like you, there is also a good number of foreigners who were born in Germany and UNFORTUNATELY as as rude as Germans.
Racism is everywhere, despite the fact that I didn't get much of it so far. But it's a multicultural society, so racism is to be expected.
Germans like to tell you off when you do something wrong. They don't seem to have a good way of correcting your mistake and they will betray everything to your colleagues.
At work (the Germans) don't even greet us, they appear often as cold or robotic, unsocial and disgusting. Why people are sooooooooo rude. They are in FIGHT MODE at any time. Muslims are prejudiced against Germans, Germans seem to be against everyone else.
Despite the fact that I learn German and didn't give up, Germans don't seem to WANT to help me into this attempt. Foreigners are kinder in this and they also correct my mistakes. Many times Germans speak very fast or use regional accents PURPOSEFULLY even-though you warned them that you're still learning.
Muslims grew up in a society with prejudice, hate and racism and when they grow up they don't seem to want to integrate and be part of what they DON"T LIKE. ( to an extend they are right )
Humanity is barely a characteristic here.
They also smoke cigarettes like crazy !
Too much hate on the streets. I have regular conversations with a friend about how bad the situation here is. He tells me to leave from here otherwise I will go crazy but it's not really possible since I have a job and everything and I am hooked up to the society here. The only chance to meet a good German, is either someone who travels a lot abroad or someone with a very good education. The school-dropouts and the AUSBILDUNG people are the most asociable, heartless and stupid people on earth.
Where are the good people in Berlin, and why it has to be foreigners (mostly other Europeans or Americans/Canadians, Australians)
I found this page by chance and now I know I am not crazy, I am not seeing things negatively, IT IS exactly what I see so far.
This city is only tolerable because of the educated foreigners who were not born in Germany.
When Germans hear you saying such stuff you get this typical reply --> Then go back where you came from.
GERMANS ARE WELCOMED IN MY COUNTRY, THEY ARE HELPED, PEOPLE SMILE AT THEM AND OFFER THEM THE BEST THEY CAN OFFER. GERMAN WHO WORK AND LIVE IN MY COUNTRY DON'T WANT TO LEARN MY LANGUAGE AND YET MY PEOPLE DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT IT AND TRY TO FIND A WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH GERMANS (IN ENGLISH OR GERMAN)
WHY CAN'T I HAVE THE SAME GOOD EXPERIENCE IN GERMANY ?
Agree to everything.
Also I observed that %99 of the time, if you make a comment about Germany on Youtube, Reddit or Quora at least one German answers "go back to where you come from". And the OP tries to explain why s/he cannot leave, spouse, children, financial reasons....Germans are very rude.
Whereas in where I come from if people make bad comments about my people/country, we usually answer: "I'm sorry such d*ckheads found you. Unfortunately it's a problem for us locals too"
It is impossible to live here without always having another vacation planned within the next 3 months.
Germany has passed a new law that finally makes upskirt photos illegal. Welcome to 2019. But they also pushed through legal text that makes it illegal to post or share videos showing someone being killed. Up to two years in prison. Wonder what group they are trying to protect.
Ad if a woman took a photo down your shirt of your chest, or up your shorts, would you be highly offended and run to the police or treat it as a bit of fun. I've lived in share houses where girls have taken shots with flashes over the shower v=curtain and I just laughed it off. What a whining fcked up generation of professional victims.