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What the hell is with hairdressers in this city? They are all, and by all I really do mean 100% of them, either extremely trashy, low-class sluts that reek of stale cigarettes and cheap perfume - the kind of scum that could tell you every detail of what happened on the slew of reality tv shows that aired last week OR they are middle-aged, disgustingly arrogant shrews you'd expect to be employed by some government office. And somehow they all cost the same amount, which is too much, and are all unable to cut hair wort a damn.
That's why I love it when the Frenchies come here on the weekend, you see some really beautiful stylish women who love their femininity and say Fkkk You to Feminism. More than 100 prominent French women last week signed an open letter denouncing #MeToo and its French equivalent “Expose Your Pig” for infantilising women and threatening sexual freedom.
Read the following, signed by 100 prominent French women.
“As women, we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power takes on a hatred of men and of sexuality,” said the letter from influential women in entertainment, publishing and academia.
“The movement chains women to the status of the eternal victim.
“What began as freeing women up to speak has today turned into the opposite — we intimidate people into speaking ‘correctly’, shout down those who don’t fall into line, and those women who refused to bend (to the new realities) are regarded as complicit and traitors.”
I really do think it has something to do with the demonisation of the working class in this country. People here like to look down on other people, and especially people who have an academic education feel superior to anyone who doesn't have one. That's why sadly a lot of working class people start to feel inferior and therefore start smoking and behaving 'ghetto-like' - although there is nothing wrong with their professions at all.
I recommend the Turkish guys' place just opposite to U-Schoenhauserallee. Turkish people knows hair business in general. Hair-dresser guy just came from Istanbul, he told me. I visit him for styling occasionally and quite happy, he knows how to use brush at least! Germans hairdressers are really retarded, they use hair-curler or other machines and that really burns and harms hair. Besides, instead of paying f*cking 35euros for a hair iron I can purchase the iron myself for 50 euros.
Incompetent, rude, frustrated and hateful employees in big shops..Got a cool experience in MediaMarkt with a cashier while trying to buy some cheap headphones. She refused to let me pay because she couldn’t tell a (german) debit card from a credit card. AS A CASHIER, employed to handle payments... and of course, without even bothering to check it anyway. After a snorty comment, I handed her an EC card and still refused because she got offended... Dropped her as my boiling point was close and tried to pay at a different counter. She then run to her colleague to advise not to let me pay when she noticed. I asked her why the reason to be mean, answer “Because I have the right to sell to whoever I want”. The CASHIER, ladies and gents. I simply snapped and called her a stupid bitch. No regrets. I am simply tired of this God Syndrom bullsh*t you get around here from everyone because reasons. Manager popped, directly at me, not even checking on his incompetent, mean spirited employee. I offended, I was the villan. As he was a little fat dude in a pink shirt, I used my broken German to point out his resemblance to a pig... It’s nice when they shut up when you go full savage. Their delusion of superiority is amusing.
End of story: I went to the ATM right outside, got back, paid cash and got my stuff 1 min later anyway...
Don't forget that basically every customer-facing employee you will ever encounter in this city, with the only likely exception being waiters and barkeepers, has completed professional training lasting at least 2 but more likely 3 years. And they are still utterly incompetent.
OP here: I know I acted childish and idiotic. Not really proud. Went reading how to deal with irritability after that. I was just fed up to the bone & snapped wildly. I did pay as I needed my stuff that day... Also, it felt good to rub it in her face and not giving the satisfaction of giving up and go searching for another shop... This city makes you mental!
Cool, glad you picked up in it and thought about it (kind of shocking on this website so good on you). Don't know though if you really showed them by still purchasing from them but you had your priorities straight and got what you needed instead of wasting more time. But yeh, it can really push your buttons especially if the nerves are already strained.
Well, from the story it seems that the lovely German lady tried by all means not to let the customer get his stuff... Therefore, by getting the stuff that easily, was kind of a punch in her face. Which I can imagine how priceless the look on it must have been afterwards, knowing these gentle creatures...
My nine year old kid want go away from here hahaha he told me kids at school are cold
Not being able to trust people or connect with others. Either you encounter self-absorbed individuals with 0 notion about the existence of “others”, fake people that once they get a glimpse of your weaknesses they’ll use that against you at any time, savage people with non-existent communication skills that make akward even the small talk about weather, the ones who are acting like they are better than everyone else, the ones that run away to hide when a close one is in difficulty because they don’t want to deal with anything that endangers their glass shell etc etc Where is the humanity? The compasion? The notion of friendship? And ironically, Germans seem to like volunteering in Africa a lot for humanitarian actions... Is all that only for Tinder photos and getting mechanically laid?
You should look up Robert Hares clinical criteria for psychopathic traits.You may find after researching that 98 per cent of all people you meet in Berlin,will tick the boxes on all traits required to clinically be diagnosed as suffering from one of the cluster B personality disorders or some form of ADHD,OCD,Antisocial Personality Disorder or at least some form of Sociopathy,stop fighting your gut,deep inside your body knows there's something deeply wrong and unpleasant here,when you can accept that,it all becomes a whole lot easier.
Trouble is that to survive here, you have to become like them, but it's so incremental, you don't notice how much you've changed until it's too late and you become psychotic yourself. BUT, admitting it has happened to you is the first step to recovering your real self again, even if somewhat more hermit like. Best thing to do is go for a holiday in any other city and see the difference.
Looks like Germans couldn't queue to save their lives.
German efficiency? PLEASE. Been in this country 4 months and Germans are the eve MOST INCOMPETENT people one can ever have the misfortune if dealing with...they are stupid, arrogant and this entire country is a SHAM:
Is there a German equivalent to the following things?
ACLU
C SPAN
NPR
Health inspections
Chambers of commerce
Vocational school
C Span
www.bundestag.de/service/glossar/glossar/P/parlamentsfernsehen/247220 & Phoenix
NPR
Öffentlich-Rechtlicher Rundfunk
Health inspections (in restaurants?)
Lebensmittelaufsicht
Chamber of Commerce
Insustrie und Handelskammer
Vocational Schools
Duale Ausbildung & Fachschulen
Anyone here ever dealt directly with the police here? How did your experience go?
I did. Two officers. Same case. One dude was incompetent-ish, seemed a bit useless, repeting everything I said adding „we cannot do anything“, while the other one seemed bright, good English, knew the law, confident, proactive... Big surpise: he was Turkish and I am so racistly grateful he was there...
In traffic stops tgey are arrogant and rude... so smug that they have caught the bad man redhanded... I just smile and listen to their arrogance with a dumb look, hand them my California Drivers license and say ... "English?"... they either get angry and spit about for 5 minutes or stumble with broken English for 5. Result is that I leave with no ticket.
Wankers
Berlin logic 101: Always blame the foreigners.
If there is a more German way to do things, it MUST be superior.
www.thelocal.de/20180110/berlins-homelessness-crisis-shows-why-we-all-need-to-speak-german
Interesting to follow police reports in this city and notice that it takes the police on average about 6-12 months after a crime has been committed to release pictures of the criminals. How is protecting the identity of this filth something anyone should strive for?
Saying they like Multi-Kulti is their sheep-like mantra to hide the guilt driven into them by their school principles who try to project their guilt for WW II onto the third generation post war people. They are forced to go to concentration camps during school outings. Berlin feels like one big concentration camp, especially when traveling on the U8 anywhere near NeuKoln. To quote Donald Trump, Berlin is a shiithole.