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Just four more months until we get a glimpse of sunshine and are able to stay outdoors for longer than 30 minutes.
I thought it'd get better the second time around, but I'm just as depressed as I was last winter.
^ I am leaving :^). See - instead of moping around all my life how bad things are - I just vent my emotions here, but I take action outside of this site. Leaving germany soon, never coming back.
I have a theory that so little sunshine does some kind of damage to a person's brain. Their emotions die, they become territorial, aggressive, especially towards outsiders.
Week 12: Come come back to BLNHTR.de to remind yourself that it's not just you.
I'm sure all the ex-Stasi where snapped up to work in the BVG shops. I've never come across a more miserable lot.
BER Airport delayed another year :o))))))
There's so much to do. I can get drunk every day, have fun every day, I can work my PoPo off or dance to great music. I can live posh or cheap, I can do business or be a chilled out lazy bum. Whatever I like. It's hard to stay disciplined here. But yeah.. it's possible.
Remember-1 in 6 East Germans were part of a masssive informant system in the Stasi 80s. Berliners are trained in the art of Zersetzung, If you live in Berlin and are experiencing pervasive rudeness, understand that you have been targeted by the locals, that they discuss "you" with each other, identify you using whats app groups, and deliberately attack you covertly. You have to know that the East Germans carry the Nazi Legacy of their Grandparents. They actually truly enjoy harassing foreigners covertly. They are a culture who teach their children to have hatred in their hearts.
That is why they never invite you home for dinner, because they were taught to never bring anyone into the home in case they saw a Rolling Stones record, a pair of Levi Jeans or a book by an American author who wasn't a Marxist nutcase and report it to the Stasi. It get's passed down through the generations. Skepticism is rampant with the East Germans. They are unhelpful, unpleasant, unempathetic, unemotional, inhospitable, uncooperative, unfunny and understandably lost in their own over-competitive heads. I think I feel sorry for them more than hate them, maybe this is the wrong site for me :o)
Lol, are you me? Same story. I tried so hard, but after a year I just gave up. Nothing worked, no matter how friendly, inviting, exciting I tried to be, what kind of events I wanted to lure them out to, what kinda trips - I was always treated as the "retarded guest from abroad", so I just gave up.
No german friends, just a bunch of expats.
When returning to Berlin after a while:
1. Week: full of energy with a clear mind about your goals. Actually getting some stuff done.
2. Week: getting let down, set back, pissed off, best case: ignored by everyone and everything
3. Week: depression
I hate when people generalize about others.
Why this became a USA propaganda against Germany? As far as I'm concerned, the thing here is about Berlin!!!
Sorry, I'm just more upset then usual when berliners throw shi* at my country never even having been there. I'm sure that if I were British/Polish/French etc. I'd be doing the same, as most of my expat friends from these places have the same beef with Berliners...
So yeah, I'll reign it in now.
My German ex came to the states for 2 weeks once, it was the winter during the depression years and we didn't have much money so didn't see much and it was a bit colder than usual
But NOW she knows all about it and can tell anyone what an overblown place it is and speaks with authority about every detail of the place... I lived in Berlin for ten years but everything I say about that poop hole is discounted.... LOL
Guys, when I've posted here in the first place I didn't meant to be defending any country.. it's just that if you want to complaint about the States or Germany this is not the place, this a Berlin hating place and there is already enough to hate about the city, why talking about countries?! Isn't there anything else to complain like idk the fact that everytime you go to the post you get ripped off if the guy knows that you don't speak German?! fornicate those guys
The same people (far right and the Russian government) who have brainwashed people in the US and UK and have taken over popular discussion forums, comments sections, and social media all over US and UK websites are now targeting German, French, Dutch, Swedish citizens using the same tactics. It certainly doesn't help this forum is now on their radar thanks to the owner(s) setting up "trump-hater.com" recently.
Germans whining about tanks being transported through Germany.
Such simple minds.
Germans whining about:
- America funding around 50% of all NATO stuff
- Germany's NATO contributions are less than agreed to, something like 1.5% GDP (agreed to amount is 2%)
- America keeping over 60k strong deterrent force in Europe...
- ... So Germany doesn't have to spend so much money on their ~120k troops in total...
- ... which means that US tax payer money is effectively going towards protecting Europe...
- ... which means Germans have more government money for education, health, 5 weeks vacations, etc.
But still they whine about US forces being transported through Germany and US bases in Germany.
I hope that the US will pull out their troops one day and force Germany to pull funds away from The German Lifestyle™ and invest in their army. Maybe then they'll appreciate the free ride theyre getting.
People in Berlin usually do not work in global companies or organisations despite living in a big city. Global-reach startups and firms hire just as many or more foreigners than Germans, and certainly the smallest share of their employees are Berliners. That's why Berliners don't know a lot about the place of Germany in the world or in Europe. They do have a lot of opinions about the world but little concrete experience of working with strangers or, poetically put in the words of Kwame Appiah, living in a world of strangers. This plays into why they are ignorant about foreign policy but also a lack of interest on the part of the German elites to popularize their opinions on foreign policy. But this might change in the next 20 years.
Being arrested for posting fake news.
place is so bad people are so rude there is not much to do but stand and look at crap
F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal:
www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diesel-emissions-investigation-settlement.html
Ah, "German engineering" or "it's not bad if we're effing over non-germans". I can already feel the butthurt locals responding to this in the only ways they can:
- but GM/Chrysler/Ford did X in 200x and were not prosecuted! Unfair!
- but but USA bombed Hiroshima!
- but but but americans are fat!
- but but but but Iraq!
The absurd thing that happens a lot in this city is that people think they are open and friendly and when you react obviously with bounderies and distance they act like you think of yourself as higher.
One of the most racist comments I heard in de, from my ex berliner employer (architect): " I would rather hire a disabled german, than a foreigner who speaks badly german" ..." however we need ausländer, for our economy ..." Like we hate you, but we need you...So no hypocrisy at all, there' s no humanistic, progressive approach to it ...and Berlin as an international city is a myth, or worse, a fraud.