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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.
When I go through the city I can't help but thinking Oh it's him, or Oh look it's her again. People are such posers, they don't know how to behave natural, making big deals about the simplest forms of behaviour. It is like how else would you for example wait for a train or sit, just freaking sit. They're so checking themselves and as a result each other and as a result themselves. Their perceptions are not quite real. This mantra of what's the big deal which also has something amused, not ridiculing, is good to keep a boundary to sanity and to channel anger in not so aimless random ways. Because it is not unsocial to not want to behave unnatural. Overall it does feel better to not try to figure out why somebody acts the way he does, but instead staying connected to how you behave natural simply.
i think this applies to most larger cities with high youth population.
in berlin, it is just more obvious due to lack of normal and ordinary folks.
I don't know why people try so hard here.
I think it is in general stupid to think that you are better than others just because you try so hard to follow trends on how to be alternative. Kindness, fun personality and a positive aura are the best qualities to have as a person. You don't need weird edgy clothes and haircut to be liked and accepted.
Becoming cool by seeming alternative really only workers in smaller, more conservative cities. In big cities and cities like Berlin, too many are like that and no one will give a shit. You will need to know the right people are have something that sets you apart from the thousands of other similarly looking people all over. I don't think many people understand that, unless they come from a big city, and expect it'll be some sort of wonderland where they have thousands of instant friends because they like the same music, have tattoos, wearing trendy clothes, etc. When that doesn't work out, they then may just hope the fact they lived in Berlin will give them extra cred when they decide to move elsewhere or back to their home town.
Be careful here in clubs. You can get hep A.
"Please notice the Hepatitis A infection break out especially if you are guest in Berghain and Kit Kat Club."
www.berlin.de/ba-mitte/politik-und-verwaltung/aemter/gesundheitsamt/zentren/artikel.248356.en.php
OMG, you're right, down the bottom in red print, and this is a Government report::
"Please notice in this context the Hepatitis A infection break out especially if you are guest in Berghain and Kit Kat Club
!!!!!please vaccinate yourself against it !!!"
This is so, so fcked up
I read this link below and thought it deserves another airing www.returnofkings.com/128473/i-spent-one-month-in-the-epicenter-of-cultural-degeneracy
In the place where I study we have a communal area.
It has comfy sofas and a kitchenette, where you can chill out at breaktime and chat with fellow students.
The main language was German, but people were chilled about it if your level wasn't very high or you wanted to talk in another language.
Then the spanish people joined.
Jabbering, blabbering and shouting to each other, across the table, across the room.
Whatever they felt like saying, but at maximum velocity, in their own language, even though they definitely speak german, and maybe english too.
Now the communal area is empty, as people prefer to go outside, or to a cafe if it's raining.
But the spanish people now hold the communal chill out zone, as loudly as they can.
Walls, in the absence of a police force that is willing and able to uphold a nation's laws, work.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/23/berlin-school-installs-anti-prostitute-fence/592768001/
Today I had a conflict in the park with the lady who thought she i her children. I showed her the photograph, and she started screaming that she was supposed to I her children without her permission. But only ducks and the lake were on the photo. The kids were far away so I couldn 't take pictures and I didn 't want to photograph them. The lady started screaming that she was supposed to bother her and her children too! I was nauseous when I started crying, because the whole situation was very distasteful. The woman was filled with hatred. Absolutely unnecessarily. This happened to me in East Berlin, Lichtenberg. I've been here eight years and I hate it here. People are disgusting.
She wouldn't have had the nerve to tell an actual naked german guy to put clothes on, or tell a german guy pissing in front of her kid to stop. Instead she'll bully a foreigner taking pics of ducks. Sounds like a typical passive aggressive bullying german.
More pathological narcissism. No one wants pictures of German kids. And if you don't want to randomly end up in strangers' photographs then consider never going into any public place or perhaps moving to the jobless, unpopulated areas anywhere in East Germany, you neo-luddites. You'll be greeted with the conspiracy-theory ridden, drunken, miserable human beings for which your soul so deeply yearns.
"You have your terms mixed up. The woman who was defending her children was not passive aggressive, but AGGRESSIVE and HOSTILE."
You sound like a typical Berliner, no wonder you're all a bunch of losers, living in some crazy time-warp of Ostalgia. I can only laugh at you :o)))))))
Berlin is like the psychological version of Chernobyl. Except radiation damaging your body, there is psychological warfare all around that is damaging your mind. Before you know it, this psychological warfare poisoning takeover of your mind, controls every aspect of your life, and you can no longer function in any city besides Berlin. You can only function in depressing, dysfunctional Kafkaesque Berlin, because nowhere else is cool, sexy, poor or grey enough for you.
Been reading police reports here:
www.berlin.de/polizei/polizeimeldungen/
Why do they, without exception, include the brand of car in every report involving automobiles? How is that ever relevant?