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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?
I left 2 years ago. Imagine how it would be to grow up in Berlin under the influence of Ritalin from the age eight to sixteen...
True. The 'jewish'(zionistic describes it better) school and Dr. Buchmann(dr-buchmann-kinder-und-jugendpsychiatrie.de/team.html) they forced my mother(who at that time didn't speak that well German) to give it to me over a period of 8 years. They persuaded my mother I need this drug otherwise I will have to go to a 'Sonderschule' and sooner or later I'll land in prison and get in contact with drugs(how funny nobody told my mum what Ritalin truly is). My father was already a 'rolling stone'...Not one blood screening was made in that period and I was never asked how I feel under the influence of it. Whatever I could go on and on. A weird combination of night walks on psychedelics, traveling and being observant let me realize my own true man show. I hope what I just wrote is not to much out of context.
Whenever I got a new job, I always had to win the respect within the first months, it was like my previous experience was completely irrelevant in the eyes of the employees with a distrusting attitude towards foreigners.
Could you guys just give me some advices how to stay here and not to become a mind unstable person or miserable berliner-like? I've got a job last week and now will work hard to earn money and leave this hell as soon as possible, but it gonna take a lot of time. So, how can you live here at least a year since today and don't want to kill yourself everyday? I feel exactly so.
Never leave your apartment.
Hang out with other short-term dwellers.
Lift.
Keep in touch with your family/friends back home.
Don't consume any German media.
Be vigilant when out in the city. Read police reports. Stay away from Wedding, especially Gesundbrunnen (probably the most dangerous area in the city).
Abandon any desire you have of being accepted and treated with respect by Germans.
Consider Germans you encounter to be inferior unless they prove you wrong. It's easier to let their idiocy slide when you adopt this framework.
Avoid long-term expats in this city at all costs.
Avoid German "physicians".
If necessary, self-medicate with vitamin D & tryptophan - especially in fall/winter.
Good advice. I would add to make fun of angry, frustrated berliners when you leave your house. Don't get into a relationship that will drag you down. The most miserable people I met there were people who ended up prisoners in this city because of family situations: got divorced, than had to stay there for the childrens kitas.
I would like to connect, since I feel similar. What I ecountered in this city is really sad and I don't want to become one of the people here. Is there a facebook group or something we could connect?
Leave now. You think I'm joking, just leave, it's the best advice you will ever get and you'll kick yourself in five years time for not taking it, when you are close to a nervous breakdown or you've actually become one of them to survive. Lots of B Complex with B12 extra.
I wish I would have discovered this site back when I lived there ... I would have been much more comfortable with what I really felt at that time. But for those who are still unsure what do, just stay true to yourself and you will make the right decisions.
What a shame,.
This used to be a very active site until the owners started trying to censor anything against the LeftTurds.
Same thing happened to The Guardian, they started deleting anti-Feminist comments and now they're broke, the only thing keeping them afloat is the Scott Trust, all caused by a Left-wing Feminist editor.
Now Breitbart are in financial difficulties because they started deleting anti-Zionist comments, so they have to bring Bannon back, with financial backing from one of the 1%.
Any whiff of censorship leads to catastrophe, always has. An open forum, is a good forum. The Jewish lobby are always trying to stifle debate, and now they've created a whole new breed of anti-Semites, that never existed before they tried to silence people.
I hope this forum becomes healthy again, I think it provides a very good community service of letting people know the are not crazy, because they are not alone in seeing Berlin for what it is, warts and all.
As if you just compared a little page where people vent their frustrations about life in Berlin to the Guardian and freaking Breitbart, what the hell is wrong with you? As if you think The Guardian, Breitbart and "BerlinHater" are the only 3 forums or channels for you to discuss politics and vent your "interesting" world view. For that matter, why on earth have you reached the conclusion that this page is the right place to cast aside everyone you don't agree with as a member of "the left" and blame Jews for everything bad about the world? What made you look at this site and think "bingo, here's an audience who'll listen to my anti-semitic bullshit". What a wally you really are.
We really have removed nothing, so I'm not szure what the complaints are about!
These nutjobs thrive on a persecution complex. "LeftTurds" are everywhere, everyone is censoring them, all media is run by "leftists" (or "Jews") except their far right trusted sources, one billionaire, Soros, is paying hundreds of thousands of actors to protest (and the far more numerous right leaning billionaires don't exist apparently).
www.youtube.com/watch They're really out in force today.
Do you really think that the Israeli government pays people to comment on Berlinhater.com? Do you really, really believe that? That is maybe the most insane thing I've ever heard. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure such practices go on from most governments globally but on Berlinhater? What possible benefit could this have? You are a berk of the highest order.
The author of this article proves that Germany is indeed a moral cesspool. So glad I am no longer there.
www.returnofkings.com/128473/i-spent-one-month-in-the-epicenter-of-cultural-degeneracy
I have found Berlin people extremely rude, racist and homophobic to the extreme.
The city and it's trains are covered in graffiti.
The trains are always late and they all make a horrid braking noise!!
Homophobic?! Men are practically freaking each other on the streets. I've seen an older dude cuddling up to a barely legal youngster the other day in broad daylight. Bald dude walking around in heels and tiny shorts. Two dudes blocking off the entire isle at Edeka because they were making out. poop like that can get you arrested in the States, not mentioning beat up or killed. Are you kidding me right now?