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I think the pussyness of some guys here comes from the fear of not wanting to be the bad guy. You can even see it when some guys completely overact when they walk by on the street. It is not an expression of respect when they walk a big arch around you and then the other person also does that. It's in itself really absurd. I mean when one person happens to walk in the middle of the road and the other enters the pavement sideways then it is just as the situation is. Normally one person just keeps walking more at the edge and the other stays in the middle. But instead the one in the middle walks to the other side and it's like wtf and surely crossing boundaries also. Then other times people just keep walking or even walk more in one's way, kinda depending how you feel and therefore walk.
I've learnt to never look at the oncoming walkers, look to the side and pretend they are not there, it works 99% of the time, the other 1% give them a Berliner scowl when they bump into you.
I'm sure they have lessons in school to be unhelpful, nasty and downright rude.
I feel it's not good to pretend, looking to the side. You could do something simple instead. You give it a quick look to take care of the normal social thing of who walks who. And then you give the person credit to be adult enough to also just do it like this, to also tune out afterwards. The idea is to be on a different page as you simply would naturally be. It's an expression of higher vibe, like a catapult away. But it'sno trick, it's real expression. What you express you, you feel like. I mean let's not overthink such situation :)
Oh I look anyway when I feel like it. It depends what you communicate. Some people wanna know always what is up, that communicates. Others just get as you wrote affected by the other looking, not getting that this person might do the same. There is such a thing as a free looking. Then attention is not a matter of where you look. If you go like I should not look you're still irritating other person. Just can't anybody ever read the other pov as such. Like seriously I think we are really dumb about the sublte communications and understanding ourselves. Pretty much what you feel expresses, if you look or not, hence one idea would be such common sense approach to overstand such low vibe. You guys not get much it seems (just frustration) and I know it's not easy.
Wait this approach is actually quite dumb cause it's freaking too serious lol. It's actually hilarious. I mean wtf give credit to be adult enough that's freaking funny you know what I mean. Like it worked but it's not of life really. It's like you can't seriously quit an addiction because life is joyful, even though that in itself is rather an expression of the problem. I mean in itself it is funny in a healing way. Because it's freaking not working to seriously quit an addiction. It's like cooking tea in the fridge
I'm early here, let me make a joke:
Berlin is the party capital of Europe
there is 24 hour alcohol + cigarettes + & unhealthy food but if you have a medical emergency there are NO pharmacies or any place that sells any generic medicine in sight after 9 pm and anything late night takes 30 minutes to get to. for such a late night city, there should be more late night options. also the people are cold and rude
Made the mistake to get a German Berliner boyfriend. He is the most selfish male genitalia around. What I tought it could be a nice guy, after spending some time with him I just realised that he is a life sucking parasite that will only bring frustration and misery in me. Found myself being the psychotic girlfriend that turns into a controlling ogre next to him because I am fed up. I am about to dump him and never felt so good to know that. Will be my complete climax. I wish I could be sad and shed a tear, because I chose him once and saw something in him, but after time being with him, I only see how pathetic he is. I tought it’s cultural differences, different mindset, but I guess I only got myself a typical cancerous one...
Actually, I am a bit more ambitious than that... Hence, I earn money than him anyway. Mentioning that just to flash out to you and wage gap feminazis! Being foreign seems to be synonymous with “inferior” to you... Is Adolf your spirit animal or something?
@1st commentator: At least OP and those men make money unlike you. You just sit home all day and troll online. You are a typical berliner: arrogant without a reason, spiteful, anti immigrant cuck.
You call other men betas because you are an ugly loser who can't get ahead in life. I wish you to end your misery already.
One has to love the trash that German media spews:
www.dw.com/en/why-berlin-and-munich-are-among-the-worlds-best-cities-according-to-monocle/a-40740587
All of these livable lists are aimed at rich people. Monocle's is for those who are rich and want to be trendy. Berlin was nowhere near the top years ago until they realized it was considered cool. Tokyo is often near the top also because it is seen as a (rich) hipster mecca (Harajuku, Shibuya, and that general area) and the main guy behind the list lives there. It's an exciting city, but very difficult and stressful to live in long term, especially if you're not rich or Japanese.
Why is Germany so bad at signposting places? So often they're misleading, or just stop as you approach your destination. This beauty in Südkreuz got my attention today: long distance trains, all four signs (for two completely different platforms) point to a no entry escalator
Thank God you don't have to worry about randomly being shot in Berlin. Oh, wait...
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/pressemitteilung.635595.php
Google translate this about the Berlin Lefty movement, what a bunch of morons www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/friedrichshain-kreuzberg/rigaer-strasse-steine-auf-polizei-autos-geworfen-sieben-festnahmen
Rigaer Str. is what opened my eyes to how idiotic the leftist movement in Germany, especially Berlin, has become and the impunity with which these low level thugs are able to operate. I honestly hope they kick them all out, make tons of arrests, and restore order to that block. It's disgusting how these violent creeps are still able to illegally squat in other people's property. And remember: there is more violent crime in Berlin (and most other large cities in Germany) from the left than from the right. This scum is the new face of Nazism.
This just happened to me today in the U-bahn in the direction of Warschauer Strasse after coming from my Buddhist meditation meeting: I was standing by the exit in a blissful state and looked around with a slight smile on my face as I looked around me I met the gaze of an man, he looked piercingly at me and said : Was kuckst Du so bloed? Yes the will kill your joy if you let them. Has this happened to anyone ?
They are all damaged goods. Damaged by their screwed-up parents, the state, the education system and their very indoctrinated peers. Look into the hollow faces of the very small children - its an eery experience they´re just not like regular children anywhere in the world. Germans are reptilian hybrids!
Eventually the city will change you, you'll be on edge all the time and you'll snap at the passive-aggressive (and downright aggressive) automatons Hanses when they cross you. And in that moment you gain the clarity that 99% of the people will cower in fear the moment you puff up your chest and yell back. They all have cushy lives, have never known any true hardship, and only yell at each other because they are never challenged on it.
I was raised in a place where people value harmony, are considerate of one another and are capable of some baseline level of decency and respect . My first years in Berlin were tough and turned me extremely timid, but eventually I too have become angry and aggressive. And it surprises me every single time, after having been bump into or yelled at by some Berlin bottomfeeder, when I yell back at them that the actually apologize or stare at me in disbelief.
I've seen it written here before and I think it's worth repeating that this whole Berliner Schnauze is an act. If American-style friendliness is fake and superficial then German-style rudeness is even faker and more superficial. Berlin is a lost cause.
People here are so rude. They have no manners. I just got bumped by them everywhere I go. Planes and airports with Germans is hell.They have no spatial awareness because their heads are up their uptight butts.
They are more concerned giving you deadly Germanic stares and passing judgements than walking without bumping into something or someone.
I'm getting really tired of random women here asking to see my penis. Happens at least 1-3 times per week. What the hell is wrong with this city? I have NEVER encountered this much unwanted sexual attention in my life.
Is it normal to be verbally abused by random strangers? I was walking down a street in Prenzlauer Berg at night. A big Turk crossed my way and as soon as he saw me he started yelling: 'F*** dich, Alter'. Since I am not an Alter I kept going. After I passed him I heard him spitting on the street, mumble something and than say loudly 'S** c***'. WTF??? I didn't know this person. I have never seen him in my entire life. What is wrong with people??
Welcome to Berlin baby.
I have one month left and then it's hasta la vista , whatever that actually means.
I can hardly wait to leave this screwed up city of retarded Lefties, screwed up Feminists and deranged drunks and drug addicts, not to mention the sexual perverts, street piissers, shiit eaters and morons who think the over-rated BergHain is cool.
Good luck losers, you'll need lots of it.
Business acumen LOL my sides. How to spot a loser from a million miles away trying to use that as an insult. Make sure you don't knock over the towers of cheap business cards nobody wants when applying for internships. Could anyone come across dorkier and more boring talking like that ?! I can basically hear you sucking in the drool and the zits popping in unison while you tighten the tie mum gave you. No wonder there are so many complaints here about not getting laid. 'Business acumen' lol please stop with the hard hitters, they're sooo insulting and eloquent. Made my day, going to get some extra funding now for fun because in American business you need to be a psychopath with no social skills to be thriving.
Berlin is full of losers. They have the most hair-brained app ideas that go nowhere, in their little techy bubble, they have no idea of customer service, no idea about cooperation, they never create, only copy.
"Berlin Businessman" what a joke, :o))) Good luck with the Ostalgia, we know where that ends up :o)))
Q: How many Berlin drug addicts, drunks and general losers doe sit take to change a lightbulb:
A: Can I have some money to buy weed and beer.
'Love playing spot the US basement dwellers that never have been anywhere other than far up their own arses. Using words like 'deranged' and bitching about feminists and lefties is a dead give away. Sad!'
Projection. Most Americans that I've met in Germany are driven, goals-oriented and friendly. Everything it seems you are not.
'Business acumen LOL my sides. How to spot a loser from a million miles away trying to use that as an insult. Make sure you don't knock over the towers of cheap business cards nobody wants when applying for internships. Could anyone come across dorkier and more boring talking like that ?! I can basically hear you sucking in the drool and the zits popping in unison while you tighten the tie mum gave you. No wonder there are so many complaints here about not getting laid. 'Business acumen' lol please stop with the hard hitters, they're sooo insulting and eloquent. Made my day, going to get some extra funding now for fun because in American business you need to be a psychopath with no social skills to be thriving.'
What the heck are you saying? What are you hoping to achieve with this silly stuff you are writing?
Sexual abuse is a giant problem in Germany, but it's trivialized such that you never hear much about it (aside from that brief wave of cases regarding refugees 2 years ago). And yes, historically there are so many cases of institutionalized child abuse, perpetrated primarily by the green party, that will make you shake your head. But it's worse than that. An ex of mine told me several stories from her childhood that left me pale as hell. Like, during one of those yearly class trips German schools force kids to take, several guys from her school busted into the bathrooms while some girls were showering and groped them. And the school/police did literally nothing about it. Nothing. Or how in Kindergarten children were forced to expose their genitals to the entire group as a form of punishment. And don't even get me started on the degenerate culture of saving water here, which takes the form of sharing baths/showers until many siblings are well into puberty. No wonder Germans are so messed up psychologically and aren't having children.
And, if you do just a little research, you can see that there is real objective proof sexual abuse isn't taken seriously here at all. Less than 20 years ago forced penetration in marriage was not even considered rape. It took until last year, 2016, for legislation to be passed that actually makes molestation illegal. They also only got around to considering only verbally saying "no" without physical force enough to consider forced penetration as rape (unsurprisingly, the greens again voiced their concerns). It took a new scapegoat for sexual violence for the courts to do anything. Oh, and before you think that things are safe now consider this: it is still illegal to fire employees even after they repeatedly sexually harass, touch and grope other employees. You know, those superior German labor laws protecting the basest of the base. This country is messed up.
Oh great, we now have a capital F Feminist here, giving her spiel. Hey, everyone has problems, sexual abuse doesn't only have to include penetration, there are plenty of women abusing young boys as well you Feminist piece of S. F off with your thinly veiled anti-male propaganda. Tyical of German Feminists.
1. Why do bathroom doors have frosted windows?
2. Why can I hear people in the same flat shit?
3. Why don't they flushers work correctly?
4. Why are Germans so cheap?
Scatological country. I also have asked myself numerous times why all toilets here either have a platform to inspect your feces or are built so that you poop down the back wall of the bowl. This entire low-flow garbage that has spread its tentacles to every single toilet in this country is stupid, especially considering the Wasserwerk admitted that infrequent use of water leads to more expensive maintenance (www.zeit.de/2012/14/Wasserversorgung).
Do Germans have assholes farther in the front so they aren't pooping straight onto the dry bowl? Or do they just love to clean fecal matter from their morning squat?
I hate Germany and can't wait to finish my doctorate so I can move the duck out of this poverty-ridden, racist idiot with men who are losers and women who can't add value to the market (not talking about those real stay at home moms who hold it down), but the ugly fat Germans who cook fatty foods and can't even raise their kids correctly lol.
WTD? My BMI is 20, something lower could probably make me sick! But I'm from the country lol
Does anyone know of any spas or "wellness" complexes in or near Berlin that require you to wear a swimsuit while in communal areas? I want to go somewhere relaxing with my girlfriend but I don't want to see floppy dongs and deflated boobs all over the place.