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Called an elevator the other day at an sbahn station on the ring. Doors open, and one guy sitting on the floor was melting heroine. USA made a huge mistake. Should have dropped nuclear bombs in here. I hope some nuclear explosion happens here and wipes out everything.
Cool enough??This humans are products of this cold city.
What innovation has any Berlin start-up ever brought us? YouTube without moving pictures (Soundcloud), Another YouTube without moving pictures (DubSmash), restaurant delivery (foodora), online recipes (Kitchen Stories), Aliexpress based in Germany (Lesara), Cliffs notes for periodicals so there is no way to scale it (Blinkist).
Amazing city full of real revolutionaries! What a bustling start-up scene. After Brexit I am sure all of the tech giants and start-ups will flock here by the millions.
One of our company's wholly owned subsidiaries, small start-up, opened in Berlin in 2013. Had to relocate last year due to the fact that the workers in Berlin were, on average, had 245% higher absenteeism and required twice as much training as in offices elsewhere. The problem is not just the infrastructure, it is the entire city and its populace.
Not enough VC money plus harder to find decent and affordable housing. Even though cost of living is higher in major US tech cities, salaries are 2-3 times higher for the same work. Also, most of the negatives associated with US startups are still true in Berlin. High risk. Some don't want to pay anything. Long hours. Founders may just be rich bros who want the employees to slave away so they can party it up in Berlin and get laid every night.
I'll tell you a secret, all the startups just have operational offices in Berlin, but there is no way to feasibly get startup investments for a German company due to unfriendly tax laws.
The startup ecosystem in Europe is generally a joke and Berlin is no exception.
Full of belligerent Americans. Can't even say thanks in German at the supermarket, have to say "Thanks". Jesus. Learn one darn word. Basic respect. Another America at the doctor (speaking in poop English, don't try and make yourself easier to understand) throwing a fit, as they refuse to let her jump the queue and be seen early ahead of three people, just because the appointment she made no longer fits her very important plans. Then crying to try and gain sympathy. Receptionist isn't having that poop "you can wait or change the appointment to another time". Sit down and shut it.
I could say thanks in German, but i often say in english to advertise myself to nearby strangers in the hope of receiving some kind of human intereaction. It usually fails.
Also, I just cant do small talk in german, it feels so formal...
Dude, I'm American and you know this is complete B.S. A bit loud? Oh yes we are. But I prefer it to the clynical feel of the ubahns and sbahns at times when everyone looks miserable and not a sound is uttered.
A German girl yesterday in Lidl pushed past me to get to her items on the register yesterday. No excuse me etc. That is polite in Germany.
I guess your culture is "sit down and shut it because Berlin operates on a collectivism level rather than an individualistic one. Way to go robot hans ;)
Berlin has unbelievably bad food. The new wave of hipster food joints doesn't even manage to provide average quality food. The more established restaurants in the Western parts are stuck in the 90s. The only thing Berlin establishments are good at is mingling food with ideology (brutally local anyone?). Maybe getting riled up on some pseudo-ethical poop ideology makes you forget the less than mediocre food (provided at more than average prices).
If you think Berlin has good food you've probably moved here from some rural shithole. Anybody who's traveled to / lived in any other major city (Barcelona, Paris, London, etc.) knows better.
A city full of people living below or very close to the poverty line cannot have a flourishing food scene. The average person here isn't willing to pay more than 5€ for food and is more than willing to accept very poor quality. That is why there is a doner stand on every corner and why people consider sliced hot dogs with ketchup a delicacy. The only decent food here is foreign, run by foreigners and staffed with foreigners. German food is a joke and there are only so many ways you can serve pork with potatoes. That said, I don't understand why there are so many overweight people here. Big cities are usually full of relatively fit people. But somehow the people here manage to binge eat even the most disgusting dishes on earth.
Even the restaurants run by foreigners a very bad - horrendous service and no atmosphere. FORGET IT!
Soon the hype of this town will be over - I give it another 12 months....maybe 18 month. This town is just a big Lidl parking lot and the world is figuring this out finally.
The foreigners setting up shop in Berlin are the rejects from other cities. No experience or skills in catering. Spending their trust funds.
Non-Germans are a million times better at literally all service jobs than Germans. All Germans can do is pretend to be working. They are taught from early childhood that life isn't about accomplishments but the appearance of accomplishments. Sad nationality really.
Plenty of trust fund babies here but not the high quality trust fund babies of real cities. We are talking the 600 to 1000Euro a month trust fund babies whose family has bought them off with this money just to go away and push their stupidity on others.
The white text reads:
"KILL THE INVESTOR IN YOURSELF"
The black scrawling reads:
"A censorship does not occur (Art. 5 GG)" an innuendo on the socialist monitoring laws in Germany.
(Recorded in Kreuzberg)
Excellent catch. This is a prime example of the scummy leftist's mental process. Directly incite violence towards a specific individual and it's completely ok. If someone would have drawn a swastika or mentioned any minority there then it would have been repainted within 5 seconds and the federal police would investigate it as a constitutional matter. Antifas are really stupid, thinking the Grundgesetz covers a graffito.
Oi, my mom ist Arbeitslos - don't know about my vater ! Its not our fault that the wessies pushed all our businesses under - capitalism is the real problem, I learned all about it at school today. Tomorrow we're learning how to beantragen Arbeitslosengeld - my teachers says its going to be in our final exams that he writes! We also learnt that because men get paid better, its v important for society that us men particularly focus on arbeitslosengeld so the girls and immigrants can get jobs and then society will be equalled and better!
Berlin is terrible for having this website where trolls and retarded alt-right pepes hate on retarded AntiFas. Heil Marx, heil zizek
Berlin has the most retarded subreddit. It's the place where hipsters and expat programmers meet. Everything gets downvoted to "0", because they are all a bunch of pretentious wankers that think they're better than everyone.
LOL you are 100% right. The people there are complete idiots, which is a perfect reflection of the people you encounter on the streets. If you post ANYTHING critical of Berlin or Germany you will immediately get banned. I recommend we organize a day where we bombard them with facts about the dire state of this "city".
Not sure what's worse, the Germans in Berlin or the ex-pats in Berlin.
Why do all women in Berlin have the same hideous bowl cut?
It's no exaggeration. Every woman in Berlin over the age of 35 immediately becomes 25kg overweight, gets that haircut, dyes it dark red, wears thick, black-rimmed glasses, wears a tiny Jack Wolfskin backpack and carries her "look-at-me-I-am-cultured-even-though-I-work-as-a-civil-servant" book in a small plastic Tchibo bag. They are also perpetually angry, scowling creatures who stare off into the distance because the only form of human interaction they are capable of is passive-aggressive sighs when you can't get through the subway door fast enough.
All German men suffer from autism.
downvotes don't make it not true. All German men under 35 hate America but wear baseball caps slightly tilted, wear thick-lensed glasses (probably from years of having to look at this dump), refuse to bathe, are extremely socially awkward and suffer from peter pan syndrome. The only decent German males have spent a large amount of time outside of Germany (and not on their annual 2-week vacation of Spain or some other third-world country that makes them feel like they are not poverty-stricken losers).
Nothing that any scummy Berlin leftist can formulate into a coherent sentence. "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Trump is sexist, xenophobic and racist" isn't really much of a critique. Especially when the ruling party in Germany officially stated gems like that foreigners should be required to speak English while at home.
Iam in Berlin since 10 years. I married here. After 10 years here i did not recognize any Germans. Not because I don´t want, but simply because People here are so Smart and willing their Peace. If you go to Pub here, can you realy find many of Berliner, they sitting alone at the Bar and they want not to be disturbed. What the fornicate is happen with People here?! Sorry Berlin, but you are realy SICK!
If you want a place in rest and peace INSIDE (!) Berlin, move to Gatow. This is a tidy little village (!!) with regular people (!!!) inside the Berlin boundaries (!!!!!).
You can have a nice bath there whilst watching myriads of weirdos pissing, pooping, barfing, fornicating or consuming substances ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HAVEL (That's well about 1600 ft between both shores).
Sorry, here's the link: kookykimbo.tumblr.com
Will someone please tell Berlin Feminists that the rest of the world is totally over Feminism, even these wonderful ANTI-Feminist women think it's a joke, well it would be a joke if Feminism wasn't so destructive, dis-uniting and putrid. No wonder there's so many Feminists in Berlin, like flies to a dog turd.
Sad Germans who cannot take criticism should create their own website where they can exchange stories about how they are the most universally hated nationality on earth.
They're too busy re-living the"glory" days of the DDR :o) In other words, all the Nazis living in denial that they were Nazis ;o) They are 25+ years behind. I feel sad for them, but their Schnauser attitude keeps them in their Ostalgia bubble, us against the world mentality. Sad little people.