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Ringbahn was out of service. Had to go to the doctor. On the way, witnessed an accident caused by an audacious Arab or whatever who crashed into another cyclist because he ignored the red light and tried to zigzag his way through a crowd of pedestrians with his bike. When he hit the woman, who fell down to the ground, he stood there like it was none of his business, a stupid empty look on his face. Two other woman came to help and said, "Helfen! Helfen!". Luckily, nobody got hurt and the female hygene product moved on undisturbed. Once at the doctor's, had to wait for an hour, even with an appointment, to get a wishy-washy info that couldn't be backed up because the test would be "too expensive". Two weeks of awaiting results for a precious statement like that. My trying to call the practice half a dozen times for an important additional request had failed. Apparently, nobody was in the mood for picking up the phone. It merrily rang without anyone caring. Went home without further ado, with no intention to use their services again. Now at home. The whole place reeks of weed from the unemployed neighbour three floors down. Property managers couldn't care less. They never answer the phone, and if, it's to day the person in charge isn't there and will be back shortly. Never happens. A typical day in Berlin. Life is precious. In other places.
Finding and making space for my disappointment, disgust and hate for Berlin feels very cathartic. Thank you to whoever created this site!! What a relief to read that other people feel the same way that I do...
After arriving in Berlin, summer of 2018, it has felt like one of the biggest disappointments of my life. I had great expectations for this open-minded, cultured city that values true artistic expression. However, I found myself very disappointed to experience that it's a pooping city full of dog poop and provincial, cold-as-ice Germans... People don't interact, just thinking of themselves, there's no true caring going on... There was this kid falling of the bike and crying, German mother didn't even turn around and didn't seem to care that her kid was lying on the ground... I helped the little girl and was grabbing her bike, when the mother turned around, looking at me with a nasty facial expression, telling me to "Einfach das Rad wegstellen"! "Yeah - You're welcome!!"
I feel so invisible in this city - transparent. It's this cold, tough Prussian culture of Northern Germany that drives me nuts. Gotta have pride = being a German egotistical asshole!! I have good mornings; I wake up and my mood is good and happy, but it changes as soon as I have to go out in the world and interact (or not interact) with this shitty, cold culture... I'm not the same person I used to be, this city is killing me... need to get out. I've noticed that expats from all over the globe start to behave the same way as these German assholes, since nobody is treated with respect (well, maybe on the very rare occasion someone will smile at you - oh wait - the lady at the ice cream place who smiled at me the other day, she seemed nice. That's because she was Italian, that's why! And I had hope and told my boyfriend that some Germans are nice too - in this city!). I've become one of them, a zombie who doesn't dare to look into people's faces anymore. I look on the ground, so I don't have to interact and that way it also helps with not stepping into dog shit. Thank goodness! Until I leave this place, trying to embrace a somewhat Buddhist approach and trying to see this city and its inhabitants as my biggest teachers... Sorry - not sorry!! Haters gonna hate...and I have become one of them.
Well three generations on since World War ii, they are still being made to feel guilty, which I think would pisss most people off, it woud be like still blaming the French for what Napoleon did. Time for certain people (you-know-who) to let go of their guilt-tripping and let the new generations of Germans, get on with their lives. If someone puled a guilt trip on me for what my grand-parents did, I'd be very angry too.
well people wont stop guilt tripping until it doesnt work, it pays very well, and keeps paying all the naive gullible students and their latest anti guilt trip cause..It's like a cow that keeps on milking.....cant guilt trip the Turks though, they are PROUD of their genocides
I stop by the bakery this morning to pick up some pastries for my goddam coffee. The young lady in there look nice but her attitude was just pure freaking nasty. I just gave her a nasty look back like what hell is wrong with you. You come to this place and think wow the women don't look bad until you interact with them. The women here aren't bad physically but their personalities are just pure disgusting. And the men here are desperate and mess with them anyway! Nasty disgusting freaking cunts! Other than sex, I would not have these female dogs as a girlfriend or a freaking wife! They all act the freaking same with that stupid reserved look they all have and no freaking humor.
American, British, and Canadian women have more personalities and humor than these freaking cunts here in Germany.
Been away from Berlin now for two months and from day one I didn't miss it at all. Just get out and everything will fall into place just like it used to before moving to Berlin. Don't feel bitterness when you leave, just feel sympathy or at least pity for them.
i was out in the subway.
man there are way too many broken up people here. vomiting pissing deranged drunks and junkies all over the u bahn stations and in the trains
to them the city is a giant extension of their mental toilet
so they see no objection expressing themselves by pooping all over everyone
it's quite stressful being around these freaks
there was such a smell of piss at the subway station that it was hard to breathe
and then in the train some drunk guys pants were falling down and he was with another drunk buddy and they got off at the same stop but exited through different doors after growling their farewells to each other like they had just had broken off some love affair
oh and thats after they harrassed some spanish tourist schoolgirls with sexual stares
this kind of poop really does nothing for the quality of life, welcome to berlin the free zone for the disenfranchised
expressing themselves with inconsequential faux rebellion and teenage acting-out way past its expiration date
And that's on a Monday. What about the shitt and pisss smell in the lifts. The consequences of cheap alcohol, and I bet these people think they are really smart and everyone else is an idiot. To meet a balanced person in Berlin would be like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
Does anybody know a better place in Germany? Where is it and why is it better? Feel the urge to leave.
Poznan, and nearly everyne speaks English. Go to these cafes for the best food, much better then Berlin's offerings: Falla, Wypas, Zenit and Gardenia and if you like cakes, Sorrir and Mixtura. Best food by far in Europe. I'm finding it hard to leave, but in Berlin I couldn't wait to get out.
People that dress nicer in Munich? Munich is the same level of soul-killing or even more. Full of money-entitled stiffs and everybody trying to look the same wannabe german solvent middle class minion because being different here is no good. The nightlife sucks, women only talk to you if you are white and want to sign a 10-year contract relationship, and yeah more money but it’s all about the bayern-club, you’re in or you’re shhh.... at least Berlin is a backyard of less exclusive freaks than the rich village people.
Munich is like the polar opposite of Berlin, which is bad as well as the person above described. A healthy city would be a mix of different types of people, not one city attracting all the hipsters/artists, musicians, left leaning, anti-everything, poorer, drug addicted people and another attracting boring, conservative, elitist snobs.
Rats. People that act like jerks, full of themselves, close minded and when you confront them on the nasty behaviour, suddently they become victims and need understanding as they are not having it well in their heads and that’s why they are jerks.
No, honey. That’s no excuse. You’re a jerk, and you need to do something about getting better, if that’s really the case. Otherwise you’re just garbage. Sorry, not sorry.
Lots of them “struggling” souls in Berlin. Amazing
Being (allegedly) mentally ill and neurotic is somehow cool here, it seems.
Feminazi, veganazi, struggling “artists” etc. Basically everyone that comes to Berlin to be cool, alternative, get wasted and “techno without drugs doesn’t work”.
All these narrow minded, stupid people that think they are somehow cool.
Drugs are not the problem, is the stupid people doing them. Techno is actually good in Berlin, listen to it sober once. Feminism is needed, but not for some priviledged white bored hens in Germany, veganism is stupid if you eat tofu, avocado and things that saw half of the planet to end up in your plate. Chicken, pigs, cows, all good. If left to live and breed, will become invasive species. We will have to kill some anyway. That coconut oil is damaging more, destroying wildlife habitat. We are all bullies to this planet, just because we exist and consume. Vegans, vegetarians, omnivores etc. Let’s just realise there’s no one better than anyone and not one superior to another.
People are dumbed down, douchebags, iresponsible but yet with ideas of morality, but when scratching the surface beyond the fakeness, you discover weak, stupid, ignorant, sheltered morons, that act immature and blame it on some invented struggles.
Some people have real problems, these idiots are just dumb and bored and need an activity to give their sad lives some meaning and purpose.
Can't take anyone seriously who has no compassion for animals, it strikes me as a psychopathic lack of empathy. I've been eating "tofu, avacado and thngs..." for three decades and have n health or boredom problems with food, in fact I've never liked food better, no doctors, no guilty conscience and save money.
We all die in the end. Animals, humans... it’s the circle of life. Important is that we don’t suffer while doing it.
And if you think it like that, a cow to become beef suffers less and/or shorter than a kid with cancer on its way to death.
Also, the cow’s life is not wasted in vain if it becomes burgers...
Just sayin’
Guys, don't critique the vegans (or any other alternative lifestyles) or drug addicts (it's a serious disease after all). What I can't stand is the jerks and close minded people... That's the issue here in Berlin, for a city that's supposed to be so liberal and cool and open minded.
One final thought for the evening. In 2007 Wikileaks released a chunk of information about the German organ that was tasked with handling the insanely huge amount of Stasi documents. Read through it, it's eye opening. It turned out that the overwhelming majority of the people that ended up working for that unit were, you guessed it, former Stasi. And we're somehow expected to believe that the government was just too incompetent to weed them out. Keep in mind that in the mid 2000's Germany had the highest rate of unemployment in recent history, so it couldn't have been that they just couldn't find anyone else. I wonder what other parts of the government they're active in.
Over the past few days there have been a lot of news articles written about crime in Germany as the crime report was released a few days ago. They all generally go to great lengths to reassure us all that things aren't as bad as we think they are. They all repeat one line: Crime is on the decline. And it's a line we should be used to hearing. It was spat at us from every corner of the German press last year, and was famously parrotted by Merkel herself when Trump claimed that refugees had "strongly and violently changed" culture in Europe. That in turn led to more news articles still about how wrong Trump was. People like Philipp Seibt foamed at the mouth as they typed out their rebuttals that grandly missed the point entirely: He was talking about violent crime. And he was right. If you obfuscate the data enough you can claim anything you want.
Violent crime had been steady in Germany for a while, but in 2016 something caused it to jump almost 7%. If you're not sure why or how then don't worry because the police included this nice little tidbit: „Die Zunahme der aufgeklärten Fälle von Gewalt zu 92,1 Prozent der Gruppe der Flüchtlinge zuzurechnen.“
So another year rolls around and the media is doing its thing again. Crime is constant. Nothing to worry about. Things are great. Violent crime is down 1.9% (from record highs)! Murder is only up a moderate 4%! Rape and sexual assault is only up 18.2%! Distribution of child pornography is only up 13.6%! They think we're idiots. The populists at Netzpolitik even cricitize the increased presence of police.
But what I personally detest the most are braindead journalists like Frida Thurm at Zeit who try to paint foreigners as paranoid. In her article from April 2nd, she laughs us off, saying that we're irrationally afraid unlike our German counterparts who wander about free of worry. Too bad for her (and us) that we are overrepresented as victims in 357 of the 490 categories of crime recorded in Germany.
And this is all assuming that deep down all these statistics published by the police are free of falsification and gross incompetence. Look back through a few weeks on Berlin Polizeimeldungen. There's a few deaths that happened just recently and, unless it's extremely obvious that it was murder, they always without a doubt state that the death was not suspicious.
In the same way Feminists use kindergarten statistics to 'prove' their wage-gap claims, it would be laughable it wasn'y so pathetic.
Undocumented 'immigrants and refugees' can do what they want when officially they don't actually exist.
I wish I knew how to get in contact with you, I appreciate your writing style and ideas and I'd like to talk you into editing a centrist-rational online paper, to combat the extreme left morons and extreme right. morons, tey are almost mirror images of each other, it's time moderate people took back the Western world from Soros-funded puppets.
If you're serious you can write me at szvp16c@vistomail.com.
why do German men wear wigs? Why do they wear ugly presciption glasses (spectacles)? Always the same 90s frames we haven't been wearing for years... in the modern world. Jack wolfskin... eugh... North face.... grey/black brigade on the depressing Ubahn. When my dad visited he said he felt he was being 'processed for the gas chamber' and though I thought it was tasteless actually the Ubahn is depressingly drab and gross. The language always sounds patronising... the people are generally very patronising so this fits. Always didactic and never diplomatic. The 'direct' culture is just a euphemism for rude AF. Selfish creatures of this city and foreigners who wish to emulate the berliner schnauzer attitude are just self-centred and ill-mannered brutes looking for a platform to be anti-social, brash, and abrasive and get away with it and in fact revel in it! Nowhere else would this foul behaviour be tolerated. The ignorant pigs who have been dragged up here just don't know how civilized humans can interact and how it can be (in western Europe). Whenever people try to be polite or considerate it is laughed and scorned at as 'bourgeouis'. People have no grace in this dumpish city, and just shrug all the time and huff and puff, sighing and staring with their dour joyless faces. Staring, staring and grumbling all the time. And smoking. I can't stand these barbarian pigs.
Ugh...YES!! Always the Jack wolfskin...
"The language always sounds patronising... the people are generally very patronising so this fits. Always didactic and never diplomatic. The 'direct' culture is just a euphemism for rude AF. "
TOTALLY AGREE!!!!! Sooo true... So patronizing and so rude.... I'm not used to nice interactions anymore. It's sad.
"Whenever people try to be polite or considerate it is laughed and scorned at as 'bourgeouis'. People have no grace in this dumpish city, and just shrug all the time and huff and puff, sighing and staring with their dour joyless faces. Staring, staring and grumbling all the time. And smoking. I can't stand these barbarian pigs."
OMG - yes, yes, yes!! I totally agree with everything!! And my goodness, the staring. The Zombie stare!! Thanks for your words.. it made my day. LOL
The things I hate about Berlin:
1. It is grey, grey, grey. There are no curves to this place. All boring, ugly squares and straight lines.
2. German design is boring, and seems intent on being boring... Brandenburg Gate and Pariserplatz.
3. Germans. Actually should be number one. Where do I start. They are the most obstinate and self-righteous cretins. They are didactic. They can't appologise ever. They are never wrong(!). They are not allowed to make mistake. Everything is pflicht and "you must!" They state opinions as if they were facts. They fail to leave a sense of doubt. They don't have the ability to see a subtext. They are humourless... or at least their version is based on schadenfreude. Cruel beasts. They are opportunists, running like losers to sit down on the trains or underground. They can't queue. They do not understand the concept of excusing themselves to get past someone - instead they act as if you have deliberately stood in their way. They always stamp their feet like military if you are in their path. Their language sucks titties, it hasn't been modernised because guess what germans are old fashioned and scared of modernity and progression. They are unsexy. They speak only in cliches and as if reciting text book stereotypes. They are racist and have no idea about political correctness.
Up until the last sennece I was wondering if I wrote this and forgot about it, but beleive me, they are the most politically correct Lefty morons on the planet, not that they av=ctually beleive anythung they say, but they have to say the 'right' thungs to try and look unlike their Nazi ancestors.
Also a little advice, don't over-se te word didactic, sure it fits them perfectly, but read this and see why www.urbandictionary.com/define.php
Are you sure you aren't reading my mind. Although I am a bit surprised that you don't mention Feminazis here, they are the scum on top of the cesspool of Berlin losers.
Why does every other German man have bierbauch and prescription glasses?
The Women in Berlin are filthy feminazi cunts,they are mentally ill and passive aggressive
You are 100% correct, Berlin is full of ungrateful, narcissistic, statistic distorting, sexist, Feminazi cunnts. Let's get quotas for them to dig roads and clean out sewers, oh no, they just want 'equality for the creamy air-conditioned jobs. Go MGTOW, you'll be much happier.
Berlin's moronic left wing 'anarchists' at it again, what a bunch of mentally ill losers, one month they burn cars and now they bicycles, what next, roller boards? They are the dumbest animals on this planet.
In Friedrichshain unknown people have lit several rental bicycles in the middle of the road. The fire place is located in front of the Left Autonomous Center in Rigaer Straße 94.
There were at least three rental bicycles on the arrival of the fire department, which can be rented throughout the city, ablaze in flames. Only under police protection could the emergency services extinguish the flames.
The emergency call for the fire was received by the police in Berlin around 3 o'clock. In addition, around 30 people dressed in dark clothes reportedly stayed on the street. When alarmed police and the local fire department arrived, the people fled in different directions. According to first information nobody was hurt. The bikes burned down completely.
Even a garbage bin and other rubbish burned. At 4.30 am, several hoodlums wanted to pull a garbage bin onto the street again. However, this was prevented by emergency services. The people involved fled again, this time in an adjacent building. When about 15 minutes later, seven people left the building, officials took their personal details. The state protection determined.
Had to pass through Germany today and it's not just Berlin that is a sh*thole, Dusseldorf is absolutely disgusting. Germany sucks in total...