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If you are seen as foreign in any way, skin color, accent, German grammar mistakes etc. you will not be respected. In that case, even the ticket taker or the dishwasher or the tattooed and pierced punk in the U-Bahn is considered higher in the caste system than you.
That is the way of it.
"If you are seen as foreign in any way, skin color, accent, German grammar mistakes etc. you will not be respected. In that case, even the ticket taker or the dishwasher or the tattooed and pierced punk in the U-Bahn is considered higher in the caste system than you.
That is the way of it."
This isnt entirely true.
They respect shows of strength.
Therefore, if you end every statement by going up high at the end, turning it into a question, they will see you as weak.
Even if your german is poor, and you arent quite sure if you are saying the right thing, if you bark it out with certainty and conviction, basically as an order, they will skip to it with a doff of their cap.
I honestly don't understand how you people can claim there are no native Berliners here. Walk the streets during the day in any spot that isn't Unter den Linden or Kudamm and 80-90% of the people you see were either born here or are at least German. Go to any non-hipster bar or club and you'll find tons of embarrassingly German people.
It depends on the neighbourhood. When I lived in Pankow (not Prenzlauer B, more northly) I met a lot of native Berliners. For example one of my neighbours open admitted to me that she hates Ausländer, she was old and had a slightly form of dementia, so she was uninhibited in displaying her views : )).
DO NOT fly back here with a checked baggage. Do not use German airlines especially AirBerlin (thank god the market reacted to their incompetence.)
If your baggage is lost, forget about customer service to help you find your valuables. Expect to be all alone with forms to fill up. Germany is just like airberlin. I hate them for losing my bag. I hate them for not helping me. They deserve to die in the market.
lol... sorry but to think that you had any thought of depending on customer service in Germany is laughable in and of itself. Especially if you don't speak fluent German in a commanding and condescending tone. (that is actually the only way to get anything done here)
So, you are happy hundreds of people are out of work, and Ryanair can take even more control of your precious market, because you lost an uninsured case full of easily replaceable junk?
And further more, you hope the whole country goes bust, just because you had to write down what you lost, even though this would actually help you to find your stuff in the long run?
Good to see you have things in perspective! /s
OP here responding to a condescending and out of touch prick. It appears that you don't understand the concept of ranting online and exaggerating it to let off steam instead of being rude to others in person.I am sure you will maintain your composure and rant rationally online when all of your clothes (pricy and not cheap hm) are lost for more than a week and you have nothing else to wear. Let's see how you deal with the non existent customer service in this country when it concerns your belongings.
I did report it and they found it after 2 weeks when it should take on average 48hr-72hr.
I sincerely wish you to lose your "case full of easily replaceable junk" in Tegel airport with Ryan air. I bet all of your belonging are junk since condescending pricks online are often lonely, poor and unattractive.
Feminists. I am a woman and I am completely fine not hating men. In fact, the more women I meet in Berlin, the more I appreciate men. Hell, it's not even what you posses between your legs, but I am becoming sexist because of this anti-sexist ridiculous culture. Ladies, deal with it! The society was very patriarchal for centuries. Yes, it's time for a change! Yes, we know the gap, yes, you can do it! Everyone acknowledges that and slowly but surely the gaps will be closed, BUT not overnight. It takes time. Also, not shaving your armpits will only make you stink more, that's it! But do whatever you want. It's a free world. It's a Western country after all and you have equal opportunities. Try feminism in the middle East. They might needed more... And if you're banging 100 men in Hepatitis clubs of Berlin, that's not a proof of empowerment, so shake off your STDs and find a hobby!
The "WAGE-GAP" is a myth. Read what these mostly smart women have to say about the supposed wage-gap. Feminists love to play the "victim" card.
Sarah Ketterer www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-1443654408
Heather Higgins www.youtube.com/watch
Christina Sommers time.com/3222543/5-feminist-myths-that-will-not-die/
Also this honest woman:
Kate Andrews blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/07/the-gender-pay-gap-is-a-myth/
Majority of women gravitate towards easy, clean and non-risky jobs. And then they are surprised why there is a wage-gap. Less pain = less gain, less risk = less reward. 97% of employees who die at work are men!
Science of wages is all in supply/demand - customers don't need somebody with a worthless but "cool" MA in gender studies or art, but there is high demand for "uncool" plumber or STEM graduate. Get it? People are willing to pay for something that benefits them and makes their life easier/better. This is also the reason why losers with worthless degrees love taxpayers money, especially in socialist haven called Berlin.
This link also sums up a lot about real inequality, not Fake-Feminist inequality kookykimbo.tumblr.com
btw. Men's NBA league makes huge amounts of money, but women's WNBA league makes a loss. Similar is in football and many other high-paying sports. Nobody is interested in watching women playing these sports, and this is the main reason for a huge wage-gap.
Germans are grimy as hell.
According to Urban Dictionary, the definition for "grimy"
Grimy
Slang (n.) A back-stabber is a GRIMY person, untrustworthy, doing wrong to others to gain something, selfish...willing to step on people to get to the top. Doing something fucked-up to anybody, even a so called friend if they can get something out of it.
"Grimy" describes Germans collectively and Germany politically/economically, especially in the EU.
Could someone please delete the nonsensical "Comment" posts below. Thanks
www.thelocal.de/20170905/ticket-collectors-attacked-at-berlin-station-as-crowd-encourages-aggressors
OMG, this is the best news I've read in 6 years, the drinks are on me. I'm smiling like a Cheshire Cat. If they catch these guys, they deserve to be Crowdfunded for their legal expenses and bronze statues for each of them at HermannPlatz. Why can't we hear more feel-good news like this.
Turkish men
Actually, make that Eastern Turkish men and women, I often wonder if they're cave people, the ones from the West of Turkey are really nice people, some of the best I've met, they also can't stand the Eastern ones, because they give Turks a bad name. Remember that Constantinople was once the centre of the universe, and they are making a big comeback, keep your eye on Turkey.
German native here, in Berlin since 10 freaking years (reason: I probably hate myself).
Where to start? If Berlin had a face, I would lovingly cave it in with a friggin' bottle of whatever overpriced bottled beer the arrogant, top-knot wearing moron with the triangle tattoo at the bar negligently peddled to me, any time of the day! But, spoiler alert, this concrete nightmare of a "capital" is so featureless and so architecturally desolate that the best cityscaping ever done here was performed by the combined efforts of R.A.F. and U.S. Air Force (shame they didn't finish the job). fornicate you, you ugly piece of overrated crap! Every euro of rent I have to pay is a personal freaking insult.
Sadly, there is not enough space here to fully vent a decade of pristine hatred, so who is gonna get it? The entitled, stuck-up, whiny, overly tattooed, overeducated, underpaid, self-important, mate-guzzling hipster-fuckups? The eternally impolite, grumpy, poorly dressed, self-pitying, welfare-nourished, provincial-minded "real Berliners"? The braindead, boring, techno "scene" that is only barely bearable when you are completely drugged out of your mind? The annoying, pretentious HU-TU-FU-FUCK YOU students with their pitiful "political" fashion trends, dirty apartments, social warriorism and endless, pointless drivel? The always too loud, always too aggressive, pumped-up, lazy freaking Turks and Arabs with their greaseball haircuts, bronze age values, dodgy German and silly loud cars? Hassling my girlfriend on her way to work, then getting in line to get that welfare money? Get a freaking job you freeloading filthy scum. fornicate all of you, you should get run over by one of these ugly BSR garbage trucks.
And don't get me bloody started on the local "cuisine", every single "specialty" that ever came out of Berlin is a disgusting disgrace that consists to 99% of grease and/or ovaries and sugar. freaking currywurst? Give me a gosh darn break. Döner? You gotta be freaking kidding me. Eisbein? Erbspüree? Liver with APPLES WHAT THE FUCK. 2 zoos, 3 operas, 3 million assholes and not a single beer brand worth drinking? I could go up the freaking walls 24/7. Please just drop the bomb and do this city a solid favour.
But the worst part, really the worst thing, is, they love it! Like a bunch of syphillitic mongloids, Berliners think all of their tremendous and numerous shortcomings somehow amount to something "cool" worth protecting, they wallow in it and ram their septum-pierced snouts into their own socio-cultural filth. God almighty, I can't go on, you got me all upset now.
This is not a comprehensive account, because you didn't use the words pretentious or pseudo. Adults acting like pathetic teenagers. What type of city sees Berghain and Kit Kat Klub as their best entertainment. Only a couple of months left for me, then I'm out of this Sexually Transmitted Disease cesspool. The best way to handle this place is to sit back and laugh at the freak-show. Roll up ladies and gentlemen, see the tattooed ladies, and the bearded homosexual Feminists, roll up, roll up , see these weird tribes of degenerates who think punk and techno is cool, roll up, roll up to the Berlin time-warp, see the freaks trapped in their Stasi-mentality cage of their own making. THE GREATEST FREAK SHOW ON EARTH
German Women are one of the most annoying Women on Earth. Filthy Cunts.
German women are passive aggressive, but when you (as another woman) confront them, they play the victim or need to have others defend them. Weak-minded and think they are smarter and more attractive than they really are. And huge sluts. Hey, at least if you put out, be good at it. LOL.
On Fridays they have Berliners extremely bad mood because they are waiting two days off!
I read people think that people here live in the past of GGR and would be behind the real world. And I think that is not true. There is life always around no matter the way of things. It is more a disconnection from such alive things. There is a lot of romance and real life in the eastern things. I mean it is obvious, one side is more focussed on collectivism and social needs in that regard are met and the western side is more focussed on individualism but also has collective things going, just not so directly. And the biggest thing always seems to be the unnatural approach to sexuality, something very straightforward, that is not always about love vs mindless freaking but simply also playfulness. And in this regard it is strange when you think of pick up. As if wanting to play tabletennis would ever be something onesided. What I mean is that it is so absurd to think of oneself as somebody who just wants to fornicate somebody, when it is just a longing for this innocent intimate playful thing, that is not satisfied by mindless freaking or any of the rather narcissistic versions of it.
I agree with the first poster - after deciphering - that people in Berlin have no finesse, no nuance, it's thrust without charm. They're like perpetual teenagers. Little Peter and Peta Pans running around with no guidance, no moral compass and in the long run, they're going to pay dearly for this. Sad but true.
OK, get ready for this, I've actually nailed it, I've broken the code. Here it is:
Never wait for German's to be friendly towards you, take it to them. Give them a big smile and soften their hardened hearts. It works. Try it and report back with you how it went.
This is a good idea, german's have a hard resting face, but smiling or saying hello usually makes them smile.
Complementing them on their appearance can leave them orgasming on the floor.
Unfortunately I picked up this tendency for empty flattery as a tic.
When I went to Helsinki, the equally hatchet faced Finns were not as receptive to my empty flattery.
They reacted like I was Anders Breivik come to visit when I smiled at someone or told someone they had a nice hat.
Gotta admit, if I only had two choices, USA or Berlin, I'd choose Berlin, they're both sh-itholes, but at least Berlin is more affordable, for now that is. In fact the American cultural vampires have just about fcked up the whole world. Their tentacles reach far and wide. Now we have creeps like Zuckerberg and Brin and their Zionist agendas to deal with :o((((
It is the opinion of all Germans that smiles are fake especially when proffered by an American... The comment "Fake smiles would go down better in the sociopath's Mecca, San Francisco." is ridiculously funny to me.
A real smile (which is 99% of the time the actual case) goes down swimmingly where people are receptive to genuine kindness and friendliness even from total strangers.
Reminds me of a time when I was crossing a toll bridge with my then angry and dark minded teenage little sister in the car. We pulled up to the toll booth and the woman collecting the money was smiling and laughing and we exchanged some banter as she took my money and gave me the change and we both laughed, as I pulled out of the toll booth I turned to my sister with a smile and she met my gaze with a look of absolute contempt (similar to what I get from Berliners when I smile at them lol). "Why the F$#K is she so f*&king happy and fake!" said little sister...
I tried to explain to her that day about how sharing warmth and friendliness with others, even strangers was a good thing to do as I have tried to explain to countless "Berliner friends" over the years. Spreading smiles for the sake of smiles is enough of a reason... but... eventually my sister did get it, once she got past her dark and tumultuous teenage years... Berliners shall never get past that stage methinks.
It depresses them cause they don't know how to connect to it and feel that the person who smiled should know so they take it as an offense and feel misunderstood. Not realizing that they too have this ability. At the same time they often need their guard of criticalness so they went that road and the smile is the other road, so again they feel it is a provocation cause this guard they only took to ease the pain from the wounds of their soul,which is though not only a guard but also a sword that wounds them in the sense that it distances them from feelings. On a good day they can smile, it's a state thing. And sometimes they want to smile also but their habbit traits don't allow it. Other things are that they try to be friendly also or did so along the way, yet made bad experience with this and let that be, not realising that it was the trying that is like an opposite polarity to the genuine way. On top of it being genuine would be like going back to being very vulnerable and often being even misunderstood by other genuine people and especially being like a candy store, triggering people around them left and right only to be hurt again. It is tragical :(
That at least is the one side, the other is the damage they cause to others but also to themselves in the process. Feeling anger or hate from being mistreated is not contradictory to feeling empathy from such perception. That being said real empathy does not need anything back and is simply a side-effect of perception that also is like a shield to their abuse naturally. Overall anger and love are very related, it isn't always about sense but how you feel and that your feelings are valuable and real. In fact anger does not offend effectively but often communicates one is offended. It's complicated...
I'm sorry, I feel such analysis is not helpful. And such frames is focus on the problem and at least the idea to remind somebody of who they are and accept them as they are seems better. or to simply let them be or dislike also. Feeling instead of thinking. Sorry for off topic. After all this page is about venting. These things enable me to express understandings, it's like a bad habbit, I mean maybe it does help in some way but overall I feel not so good about it. It's just that even though it is about venting, the upcoming prejudices also make me angry, despite me being regularly angry about things here just like most people here. Atst I know that people are really resistant to reflecting and it is almost wasted to have understanding. But wait, apart from it being like a shield. So yeah take it for what it is, this is not my opinion but simply expressions and thoughts that as you can see are confusing to me even. I really don't like the notion of fixing somebody or giving them a role based on thoughts that are just there and not attached to somebody. I mean just use your own head, literally just expressed some inspirations
Berlin. I left this idiot a few years back. Best move ever. It's so poop that I don't even deem it worthy of a casual visit. I'd rather defecate somewhere more deserving.
So many weird cults here. The "anarchist Lefties are the strangest :o))). What's with the huge earlobe plates and nose rigs, I couldn't possibly sit opposite someone with a nose ring, they are the ugliest piece of jewellery I've ever come across. Don't get me started on the neck and face tattoos.
So many messed up lives here.
Yeah, it's their lives of course. Unfortunately you come in contact with them and it s not a pleasant interaction. Not because of their visually disturbing physical appearance, but because of their pooping character, which is of course also reflected in their image.
It's always funny to look how saddened and shocked are German "girls", when thy find out that nobody is interested in them. I love this look of disbelief and offence on their faces. "You don't want to fornicate me, are you gay?" No, Charlotte, I'm not. It's just because you are ugly sexually popular woman with big feet stuck in them Birkenstock flip flops, messy hair, unshaved armpits and ankle pants.
if you look in the mirror ,and then say im so cool and good looking you would be getting some girls ,but you are not ,all of us hope to find partner or a one night stand.if thats what you want but ,there are somebody for everybody out there just chilli my friend .and yes i am english .i dont agree what happens in this country all the time but i am here and was 5 minutes to getting wiped out at the the christmas market in berlin after watching rouge 1.my the force be with you..
Most German women are proud bags of STDs. Sometimes I pity them. God forbid you encounter a fair good looking one for once. She will act like her genitalia is made of gold. They are the most unattractive females. Not because of look, because of boring, plain, stiff and repulsive character. Bunch of flavourless sluts.
I'm Italian and I'm in Berlin for three years of design studies. The first year I wondered, the second year I was terrified and disappointed and now in Berlin I totally stopped communicating with people! When someone wants to ask me out for something, I'm not answering, and I'm just going on. People are very bad here. I hate Berliners. I want to go home, but I still have a year in school. I think I'm going crazy! They're all very cold, and I'm just alone.
I'm so happy for you that you found this site, to realise that you're not crazy. Everyone thinks they are going crazy here after a year or two and really start questioning themselves, but it's the dynamics of this city. You have people who were physically and psychologically tortured by the Stasi, never knowing who they can trust, being fed even more rubbish than Zionist media feeds us in the West. They are now 25 years behind Westies, and feel totally lost, so they take it out on the foreigners who are the only reason there is enough money in the Berlin government to pay for garbage collection, road repairs, train maintenance.
Remember,the rest of the people are not from there and go home every chance they get or they leave after their studies, so you can't build strong friendships here. Plus hundreds of thousands of "artists" but no money to buy their works. It's a very unhealthy, unbalanced city. The only way to survive is to have a healthy relationship, and that is almost impossible as well.
Prague kind of sucks in its own way. Way too many tourists for its size. A lot of stag and hen parties. Large chunk of expat community are backpackers teaching English then leave after a year types. Plenty of Roma thieves and various scammers. Czech is also a lot harder to learn than German and fewer Czechs speak English well compared to Germans in Berlin. At least it's a much nicer looking city.
If you just look at photos, it seems like some fairytale place, but the reality is different. The buildings are also pretty ugly after you get out of the very old areas, spray paint on most of them just like Berlin. The salaries are much lower than Berlin, though fewer people are unemployed there. I'd personally aim for Vienna, Amsterdam, Barcelona, or Madrid, but they all have their own issues as well.
Amsterdam is great, just stay away from the dope and you'll be fine. Actually, I read that the lowest incidence of dope smoking in the EU is with Amsterdam locals :o) Take it from me all you young ones in Berlin, smoking dope does mess you head up, it's just very subtle in the way it does it, you hardly seeing it coming.