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s2g despite the efficiency myth germans are actually incredibly lazy and refuse to even execute basic tasks at their jobs half the time (although they work hard to find excuses about why it's 'not their job')

berlin people who love la maison are so embarrassing it's like the same quality you can get at every 2nd bakery in france for literally 3x the price

also tbh I feel like the answer is that Germans are often such pricks that it completely discourages a lot of people, like pettily and also very rudely correcting people or pretending they don't understand when someone makes minor, MINOR errors

such bs, I edited (ie ran everything) on an Eater site for 4~ years, it's now been shuttered and so have a bunch of others despite often actually breaking news and having a solid following, now most of those sites have been semi-closed and the whole publication is gonna be a sad husk of what it was

therefore they declared it a "dangerous setting" for police and called the riot squad - over 1 (one) agitated but not particularly dangerous guy. (club security should have called an ambulance and not the police but that's another issue)

I think it was a case of them rushing and throwing things into bags without thinking but still very annoying!!

subletter who took my berlin apartment for 6 months stole most of the coat hangers??? and then is bold enough to be like UM WHERE'S MY DEPOSIT literally 6 hours after moving out???

also yes they also gd love to bring a whole ass picnic to the library

ok wortelmoffen is an incredible word!!!

stg germans are ADDICTED to going to quiet places (library, quiet train car), having full blown conversations and then screaming at anyone else who does the same

if woke is over does that mean i can complain loudly and publicly about my syrian zionist (!!!!) flatmate????

prob gonna have my citizenship application rejected for posting this bc some dweeb like nic0l@ss p0tter will screenshot it for the cops or something

german media calling palestine an "imagined state" I AM LOSING MY MIND

German homeowners urge rent control exemption for private landlords As Germany's new government pledges to extend rent controls over the next four years, property owners' association Haus & Grund is calling for a carve-out for smaller landlords.

ohhh boo hoo poor landlords, did your financial plan to juice people for one of life's necessities not pan out bc of the mean old government?? www.thelocal.de/20250515/ger...

very cool how the instagram account "no context real housewives of ny" is better at covering palestinian issues than like 98% of mainstream english language media

i mean tbh the rent brake is a useless law bc there's literally no penalty for breaking it except "pay back the difference"

actual jaw drop at the fact that a CDU politician is suggesting that landlords can't just do/charge whatever the fuck they want

jordan peterson discourse has crossed over to the world of Real Housewives

this loser spent 3 minutes pulling random paper out of the bin and waving it at me and screaming "YOURS! YOURS" even tho I pointed out that there's like 5 apartments in the buliding

i just told a german to chill out with his pedantic german bullshit and he did NOT take it well and just started screaming at me
(moved into new flat 5 days ago, put 1 (one) box in the neighbor's paper bin by mistake (which is next to ours and with zero marking)

ofc Canada does not lock these people up for weeks but they still have a fortress-ass mentality that can definitely overreach when it wants to!

people are appropriately freaking out about the US's awful border control practices but fun reminder that Canadian border services are also pretty free to search laptops, I've seen them do this and reject people for very petty reasons like a recently updated CVs (because they might work iLLeGaLly)

germany's niche insurance industry is kinda wild

need to know the adjectival form of muffindeal

german is such a beautiful language

they should ban people from drinking red bull on public transport because that stuff smells fucking nasty tbh

ok so i know perth isn't nyc or london but it's kinda wacky that most coffee shops here close at 1 or 2pm and also there's no shortage of bars that close at 11pm

this is right in the middle of Perth's main cruising beach..... love this for the gays 😍

visiting my parents in Perth and everyone on the gay apps has the "monogamy" tag selected and like I knew I lived in a bubble in Berlin but wasn't expecting this....

making sure I'm on the right wavelength to watch the white lotus by popping a lorazepam before each episode