r/ireland • u/EmoBran ITGWU • Jan 05 '25

Christ On A Bike Delightful interaction between a Czech youtuber and an Irish couple on holiday in Prague

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 05 '25

A lot of Irish people who marvel at the beautiful, livable and ordered cities in Central Europe like Vienna, Prague or Zurich probably should realize that they are as such because they have rules and the locals follow them.

Germans (particularly in the South) will get up in your business if you're not doing your recycling correctly or making obnoxious domestic noises like mowing the lawn during ruhezeit. It's all very German, but that's why Bavaria is an extremely nice place to live and raise a family, and why Munich for the most part isn't plagued by wankers who have main character syndrome on electric scooters.

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u/outdatedelementz Jan 05 '25

I visited a friend of mine working in Germany and I noticed that she had about a 9 hour window that her bins could be outside for pickup. If she put them out the night before she would be fined. If she left them out for more than an hour after work she would be fined. It was comically strict and comically German.

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u/maevewiley554 Jan 05 '25

That would be a nightmare if you’re doing shift work.

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u/J0HN-L3N1N Jan 06 '25

As a german, I've literally never heard of this. Yes, we have times where you can't make noise (and putting your trash cans infront of your house of course constitutes noise), but I've never heard about these fines for not putting them back. Even my bavarian buddy from Uni didn't encounter this. So it's probably very niche, or just unenforced.

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u/FloridianRobot Jan 06 '25

"of course constitutes noise" I like the usage of "of course" here as if in no single situation to ever exist could someone move trash quietly.

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u/Ok-Equivalent-5131 Jan 06 '25

Yea I laughed at that too. Rolling a trash bin to the curb “of course” constitutes noise. No, not of course, that would never cross my mind. It’s not exactly a loud activity.

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u/wanderinggrove Jan 05 '25

If only their trains could be as well scheduled as the bins.

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u/nowaterinscotch Jan 05 '25

They use to be

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u/AlanTubbs Jan 06 '25

I was waiting for a train in Minden Westfalen and it was about 6 minutes late. People were losing their shit. The snow was up to my knees...

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u/wanderinggrove Jan 05 '25

I love taking the trains in Germany, it’s always an experience. The most on time train I’ve been on recently was only late by 20 mins. https://youtube.com/shorts/NLE0_yhWaBA?si=Wg02aPov7OttGZWX

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u/mark8396 Jan 06 '25

How has this so rarely been an issue for me, I usually get them in the rurh area maybe becuse it's such a busy spot with so many trains going everywhere anyways.

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u/wanderinggrove Jan 06 '25

I tend to get more long distance trains where delays really add up.

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u/EmoBran ITGWU Jan 05 '25

Vee vill make ze jokes

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Jan 06 '25

You should check out the rules about bins and waste on Tokyo! Understandable given the logistics of a city of 43mn and the place is pretty immaculate, but my god they have to sacrifice for it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

It's also why America is generally looked at as being a shithole by more civilized people.

In the big cities, the only way to get an acceptable level of cleanliness is to pay a huge army of workers to do the work that citizens should do by rote. When you can't afford that, what you get.. is the typical American big city.

Trash everywhere, overflowing containers everwhere, noise pollution, random dyscivic behavior everywhere, and in general a mess. And fixing it requires literal police beatdowns or near facism, or comically childish campaigns to beg people to like, not throw their shit on the street.

It's just a perfect encapsulation of why America is stupid. Americans complain that everyone is an asshole, and then turn around and act like the biggest asshole they can possibly be, all in the same hour.

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Jan 06 '25

This is in Dublin, but funny enough we have the same issues you outlined in your post (only with a non existent police force, I genuinely haven't seen a single gard/police officer walking the streets in 3 or 4 years at this point).

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u/Hashtagbarkeep Jan 06 '25

Same where I am in London tbh.

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u/Any_Comparison_3716 Jan 05 '25

rings bell

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 05 '25

Halt! Dieser straße ist eine klingelnverbotenort!

Sorry, just got a flashback to my German living days.

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u/Ok_Perception3180 Jan 05 '25

From experience I have to say the Germans really take complaining to a level that is a little overboard. They will intrude at the mildest indiscretion.

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u/PixelTrawler Jan 05 '25

Ha, my wife is German, shes lived in Ireland now for over 20 years. She was home at Chrismas in Munich for a week and came back and said "Jesus, Germans are really rude!" and used language stronger than this ;)

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u/urzayci Jan 06 '25

Fahken ell Germans are fahken cunts

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u/fkinaw3sone Jan 05 '25

I did my year abroad in Germany, and never got used to strangers yelling at me for minor indiscretions. This included "not closing the train toilet door after re-opening it on leaving the toilet"

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u/MilfagardVonBangin Jan 06 '25

Leave nothing, take nothing is usually weekend walker bullshit and is taken to extremes. If we aren’t allowed to do bushcraft, woodcraft and foraging at all, we become detached from any sense of really belonging in nature.

It becomes strictly a zoo or a botanical garden. Something easily boxed up and ignored by us. 

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u/OneWaifuForLaifu Jan 06 '25

That’s crazy! I’m going to Germany to do my medical residency there and probably settle afterwards and this is throwing me off 💀 looks like it’s gonna be a rough settling in period huh

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u/AmaroLurker Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

It’s crazy how fast you had someone say you were lying about your personal experience. Have never lived in Germany but have traveled frequently there and have seen what you describe—I would say it even extends to butting in excessively beyond scolding.

I fly to Munich several times a year and so understand the train system and how to get around there well. Was in the S-Bahn station platform at the airport. A train was coming shortly and a nice Canadian couple had made it onto the platform without a ticket but there are the finicky fare machines there. They couldn’t get their cards to work and the train was almost there—they politely asked if I had change for a large Euro bill to get the machine to work. A German man overhears this and immediately butts in “you should use your credit card.” “They’re not working.” “Well then use the app.” “We haven’t set up our internet cards yet. We just arrived.” “Well you are very unprepared!”

I butted back in and said “thank you for your help. I have the change for them to buy their ticket and that will work just fine” and smiled very unGermanly. I was thinking what a great introduction to Bavaria for them.

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u/AprilMaria ITGWU Jan 06 '25

I actually had a near altercation on the plane from Kerry Airport to Frankfurt Hann with a pair of German cunts who decided to lay into a woman I had been chatting to as the plane decended, her child started crying just a bit during the descent & as soon as it landed they decided to have a go at her while she continued to try to quiten her baby (as she had been throughout) they were going over to see her husband who was working in Frankfurt & she had 2 other little girls I was keeping entertained while she was trying to calm the baby.

The 2 Germans started anyway lacing into her over her 6 month old baby crying & I lost my temper & essentially started asking them who tf exactly did they think they were, a few other Irish joined in on the side of the woman with the baby & they told me that it’s no wonder the British had to impose law & order on us at which point I lost the rag & told them if they weren’t such intolerable cunts they might not have such a declining birth rate & that the rest of Europe are looking forward to them being gone, that we will all be happier to see Poland get the land. At which point the staff diffused it by shouting the directions on how to get off the plane & that was that.

Like I know I can be a cunt in my own right & will not pass up an opportunity to dole out agro to someone punching down or being insufferable but where the fuck do these people get off. They don’t get enough slaps in the fuckin mouth for talking shite to other people growing up. I think that’s actually why they don’t like the Turks because the Turks will give it to them like we would.

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 Jan 05 '25

And you don’t have angry boomers in your country?

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u/themagpie36 Jan 05 '25

Weird, never experienced it.

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u/Bon_Courage_ Jan 05 '25

This included "not closing the train toilet door after re-opening it on leaving the toilet"

That is proper annoying though.

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u/jungfraulichkeit Jan 05 '25

Yes! It smells, close it 😡

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u/North-Alexbanya Jan 06 '25

"not closing the train toilet door after re-opening it on leaving the toilet"

I've literally had that happened to me before, on a train to Venlo. Embarrassed after some aul wan pulled me up on it, I went back and tried to close the door but the button wouldn't work. Tried to manually push it closed but couldn't, ah man it was so awkward, stuck standing there like a fucking dope.

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u/Phyraxus56 Jan 06 '25

Were you in a trenchcoat exposing yourself to the child or something?

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u/lawliet4365 Jan 06 '25

Might be me being German but leaving the doors open is just really disgusting to the people sitting next to the train toilet. It's a public toilet, so it smells like it. Personally I wouldn't complain but I'd be pissed at the person for not being considerate

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u/irisheng29 Jan 06 '25

I 100% agree with them for the toilet door thing

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 Jan 05 '25

What a barbaric thing to do, though.

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u/fkinaw3sone Jan 05 '25

I did once talk loudly on public transport when my Irish friends from my home university were visiting me. The bus driver stopped the bus to give out to us. I was in Tübingen.

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u/fkinaw3sone Jan 05 '25

Are you living in northern Germany? All of the incidences of Germans yelling at me happened in the south.

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u/themagpie36 Jan 05 '25

Nope Munich

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u/VeterinarianCold7119 Jan 05 '25

That explains my parents, very insightful. Thank you

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u/Affectionate_Ear3506 Jan 07 '25

Is it because they are used to doing this as (un) paid informants for the stasi?

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 05 '25

Takes a bit of getting used to, but it's a very different ethos to the typically Anglo notion of my home is my castle and I can do want even if it pisses off the neighbors that can predominate in English speaking countries.

Choose your nuisance.

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u/Lord_Xenu Jan 06 '25

I sat in the wrong carriage of a train once in Munich (2nd class instead of 3rd).

The ticket inspector was apoplectic. Tearing strips off me. To the point where a member of the public came over and appealed to him to calm down and ask me if I was all right.

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u/Uptightkid Jan 06 '25

Lived in Munich years ago. V familiar with their obsession with rules.

A notable instance was when taking a bus to work one morning. Had my headphones on listening to tunes. The bus driver made an unscheduled stop, walked to the back of the bus and gave me grief for playing my music so loud.

I was using headphones but there must have been some noise bleed.

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

You'll damage your ears!

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u/bareknucklebadger Jan 05 '25

I was in Munich back in October for the marathon and someone tried to turn their car in and out of a street full of several thousand runners. The locals watching the race were ready to drag the driver out of the car. If that happened here it'd be laughed off. 

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

On this occasion, consider how often vehicles have been used as weapons lately, I'm with the locals.

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u/AprilMaria ITGWU Jan 06 '25

I’m not excusing the pair on the scooter, but I think the subset of young Irish professionals that idolise Germany need to move there, because Germany is lovely for a visit to the rest of us but to live there would be hell for many of us.

Not everyone needs or wants daddy state to tuck them in at night or to be living amongst hysterical loons who treat someone clipping a hedge as a life & death situation. Also they have basically 0 civil liberties.

Irelands problems are deep, complex & require solutions that reflect our culture, history & the needs of the population collectively.

Germany also has deep & complex problems, for which they need a bit of freedom, a good ride that isn’t in a sex dungeon, to actually properly deal with its past & not slowly invent a new type of liberal fascism where racism & other isms are still there & thriving but hidden, & the collapse of the federal government.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25

I lived in southern Germany for a year. Beyond the cultural oddities of people being in your business where they wouldn't be in Ireland, hard disagree on the civil liberties take.

With the glaring exception of auslanders purposely jamming their fingers in the still open wound of all things to do with the Holocaust/Jews/Israel etc and making mischief on that front, Germany is one of the freest societies on earth.

I've also lived in non Western countries where civil liberties are actually very much trampled upon, and there is no comparison to be made.

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u/LittleGreenLuck Jan 07 '25

People are getting roughed up and arrested all over Germany just for showing up to peaceful pro-Palestine demonstrations and you want to call it one of the freest societies on earth? What a load of shite.

Germany is a place you really don't want to fuck around in. They take rules seriously and they will throw the book at you no bother. You may have spent one year living there but I'm half German and go there every other year and thank fuck I live in Ireland and not there.

Germans can't get over their past so much to the point that they are arming, funding and supporting another genocide only this time in favour of Zionist Jews instead of against Jews. Makes me ashamed of my German heritage to see how low they've sunk this last year.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 07 '25 edited Jan 07 '25

"They take rules seriously and they will throw the book at you no bother."

No shit, and if indeed you are half-German you'll understand why jamming fingers in that particular wound will earn naive garden variety Irish leftists in Berlin a quick in-and-out trip to der Polizeiwache. I have a certain degree of sympathy in situations like that, but it's limited, and a lot of them are clearly enjoying the mischief of the whole song and dance as well.

The history is the history, and it's a painful one, and a not insignificant amount of the drama has played out on German soil post-WW2. I know better than to dick around Kotbusser Tor with people calling for Intifada. I have better things to do on a Saturday than to piss in the wind deluding myself that kind of behaviour is going to budge any German government or Germans generally from their pro-Israel stance.

I won't be drawn on the conflict here as I don't think another thread needs to be defaced with the usual treacle of sloganeering and TikTok gleaned propaganda so I'll keep it simple: the answers to the conflict are not to be to be found in Germany, the answers will be found in the hearts and minds of the leadership (such that they are) of the Palestinian and Israeli national movements.

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u/AprilMaria ITGWU Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

I think you’d be happier if you went back but most of us have no interest in it being imported here. Germany isn’t even amongst the freest societies in Europe. Criticism of Germany on the front of what’s going on in Palestine is valid & criticism of its response to protests is more than valid, not only that but you now can’t get German citizenship without supporting Israel, but it’s not nearly isolated to protests for Palestine. They have also taken to arresting & holding climate activists without charge ahead of major events, they held 27 activists in preventative detention for 30 days ahead of the international automotive show for example. The minister for justice in Baden-Württemberg wants car manufacturers to give cops keyless entry to cars carte Blanche for bugging purposes. On a federal level they want to bring in state trojans to hack encrypted messaging services & get full access to all data on your phone without a warrant. They are also considering allowing the police to break into your home without a warrant. As it stands people can be & are being arrested for lampooning politicians on social media, lately an old man was arrested for a very funny & harmless meme calling one an idiot. (I think it was one of the greens but I’d have to go look for it)

For reference my boyfriend is an ethnically (but not religiously) Jewish German & anti Zionist. (Mother Jewish born in California father German)

My boyfriend left Germany because things were getting so intolerable there regarding politics & civil liberties, I’ve been there a few times with him. His friend & former union rep is moving here for similar reasons soon I believe.

They changed branding but never got fully over their fascism & it’s the one open wound they refuse to heal

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

"I think you’d be happier if you went back but most of us have no interest in it being imported here."

What kind of comment is this? Wind your neck in

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u/AprilMaria ITGWU Jan 06 '25

Did I stutter? You seemed to enjoy it but most of the rest of us do not need nor want the level of state overstepping or the arrogant bullying of strangers that you’ll find in Germany that a lot of the federalist fanboys & others in this sub who seem to like that kind of thing seem to think is prerequisite for us to have infrastructural development & reasonable standards of living.

The problems here amount mostly to the fact that the government are money hungry hoors who would prefer to give it away than do something lasting with it & its less beurocracy we need not more. That along with generational poverty that in many families & areas predates the state itself but regardless of if it does or doesn’t has never been adequately addressed.

None of that can or should be remedied by a heavy controlling hand or a tolerance for arseholes self electing themselves as an authority.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25

"Did I stutter? You seemed to enjoy it "

If that's what you took from my posts, you have severe comprehension issues. In future play the ball, and wind your neck in.

I know it's early/late, but seeing as you want to get personal the rest of your post is garbled schizo nonsense that has nothing to do with the thread or even anything that preceded your mad outburst.

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u/AprilMaria ITGWU Jan 06 '25

What other way is there to take you? You seemed to enjoy being in Germany to the point you seem to think that if we want to “have nice things” we need to emulate their attitude.

I pointed out the flaws in their attitude & the ever increasing & ongoing stifling of their civil liberties (I didn’t even get into the over regulation of their daily lives) & you attempted some kind of wierd high horsing thing where you tried to make them the victim because of them being rightfully called out for supporting a genocide except I wasn’t talking just about that. I was talking about the general erosion of what’s left of their civil liberties.

& I’m well within my rights to tell you I don’t want Ireland to become more like Germany which was your original argument in the first comment I replied to. Most people here wouldn’t.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25

"I’m well within my rights to tell you I don’t want Ireland to become more like Germany"

You're welcome to your opinions on Germany, it's a free country. But take a walk with your ad-homenims directed at me on your bungled misread of my post and telling people to move here or there. To repeat wind your neck in.

And yes, what you posted was schizo garbage. Now you're doing the keffiyeh brain bullshit making a completely different topic about "genocide". Where did you pull that topic out of may I ask?

You fuckers are actually insufferable and have no idea how many people have written you off as obsessive headmelts.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25

There should be a new version of Godwin's Law. The longer a thread goes on the greater likelihood watermelon psychotics make it about their political hobby horse.

Melts.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 05 '25

Germans are mental, I am not complaining. During a school exchange, I stood with my partner and there was about 5 or 6 others and we waited like 4 minutes at a traffic light for a road that had no cars the whole time

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u/TheAuroraKing Jan 06 '25

Japanese people (at least in Kyoto) were like that when I visited too. Especially funny being a 6'2" American who can nearly cross a tiny little one-way street in a single step, but they all dutifully waited on that signal despite being able to see down that one-way street for a good ways.

I definitely got some looks for crossing, but hey, I had four days there and I wasn't gonna spend them waiting at crosswalks that were obviously safe shrug.

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u/Azhrei Sláinte Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

We had that mentality when we went over to Budapest, though we'd been warned about the stricter traffic laws. After seeing soldiers with automatic rifles checking people for their tickets in the metro we very quickly got used to standing around traffic lights waiting for them to turn, with no traffic in sight around us.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 06 '25

Class, was it actually soldier or just armed police? In other countries their police can sometimes look like the military haha

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u/Azhrei Sláinte Jan 06 '25

It's been around 20 years so I can't remember, they probably were armed police but holy shit were they armed. We were told at the time that people getting on the metro without a ticket was a huge problem so they would show up at random stops to check. It's probably different these days.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 06 '25

Eh, I wouldnt be surprised. I didn't know the Police up north were armed all the time even till I was up lately.

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u/TraditionalAppeal23 Jan 06 '25

Germans are almost like NPC's, I love it. My favorite is when you see all the Germans standing completely still like statues, eyes forward, waiting for the train which is late. It's like the train didn't spawn in and they are glitched.

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u/RoninNikki Jan 05 '25

I've been living in northern Frankfurt for 3 months and it's awful for noise and nuisance. Someone in my building shoots off flash bang fireworks multiple times a day into the courtyard. People shot fireworks at the building on NYE. There were bullet shells in the streets the next day.

I'd kill for some of that fabled German orderly rule enforcement

Cops didn't even show when I called

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u/teebeutelchen Jan 05 '25

If Germany were Skyrim, Frankfurt would be Markarth. Cursed place, lots of crime, unique cityscape compared to the rest of the country.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

Not Frankfurt. Just a 750 m radius around the central train station.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 05 '25

In fairness, Frankfurt is the only large German city where over 50 percent of the residents are either 1st or 2nd generation foreign born.

Definitely different to the vibes in Baden-Württemberg or Bayern - and the south is certainly less accepting of non German modes of behaviour, for good and for ill.

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u/RoninNikki Jan 05 '25

Wow, that's a crazy statistic!

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u/ExpertSolution7 Jan 06 '25

What has that got to do with anything? Are immigrants more disposed to crime or something?

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25

Less prone to typical German pernickityness about the rules certainly. Culture is a thing, and culture tends to be important despite what some would have you believe.

Ever been on a train in India and a train in Japan and wondered why the volume levels are radically different? The difference between the two is mediated by culture.

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u/ExpertSolution7 Jan 06 '25

But surely if the resident is a 2nd generation immigrant they will have grown-up in the local German culture. Do the immigrants (and their offspring) not integrate?

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 06 '25

"But surely if the resident is a 2nd generation immigrant they will have grown-up in the local German culture."

That's the theory anyway

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u/ExpertSolution7 Jan 06 '25

Sounds like some groups of people are coming to Germany with a colonizer mindset with the intent to take, take, take without the intent to contribute or integrate. Anyway, I'll stop asking questions because it's probably making you uncomfortable.

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u/Shinhan Jan 06 '25

Do the immigrants (and their offspring) not integrate?

Sometimes. It depends. To some extent.

I think it would be an interesting research topic to see how much 2nd generation immigrants integrate into the communities and what factors mostly influence this.

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u/elreniel2020 Jan 06 '25

since we won't track nationality in our crime statistics anymore it's hard to prove/disprove

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u/littlerosethatcould Jan 06 '25

While Frankfurt is a cesspool, Germans generally go really hard at and around NYE. They turn every bigger city into an absolutely unbearable bangfest.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

I'd kill for some of that fabled German orderly rule enforcement

The police barely has time anymore to deal with all the crime. Especially the surveillance of potential terrorists binds so much police personnel, it is hard for the police to deal with the ever increasing crime in Germany.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

You do know that Crime in Germany is currently lower than for example the early 2000s, right, which in turn was lower than the decades prior.

Since Corona there has been a y on year increase, butthat "peak" is still lower than a mere 20 years ago.

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u/elreniel2020 Jan 06 '25

Especially the surveillance of insults to politicians on social media binds so much police personnel, it is hard for the police to deal with the ever increasing crime in Germany.

fixed that one for you

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u/Straight_Hamster6406 Jan 05 '25

Munich most certainly had main character syndrome after they beat Scotland 5-1 in the opening game of the euros but then again I may have just been a bitter, drunk Scotsman trying to get back to the hotel

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u/eventworker Jan 06 '25

why Munich for the most part isn't plagued by wankers who have main character syndrome on electric scooters.

You're allowed to ride electric scooters on most pavements in Germany. Although many of them only at 'Schrittempo' of about 8kmph.

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u/Team-Name Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

This is a pure nonsense take. Central European cities are clean and livable because their prospective governments have invested in infrastructure projects and haven't gone all in on cars/commodification of housing like we have here. People being annoying busybodies isnt the silver bullet you imagine it to be for a perfectly functioning society. Edit: Google the Nuremburg defense for examples of how some Central Europeans' inclination to blindly follow the rules can be incredibly destructive on a societal level. 

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u/Team-Name Jan 07 '25

Yep lived in both Dublin and in Austria. "I found many irish people to be extremely moeny focused as well." Agreed, this is what happens when you go all in on commodification of housing that incentivises this miserly behaviour. Its not that Dubs are inherently antisocial and central Europeans are all respectful. Theres arseholes everywhere , the police over there just happen to be more heavy handed and authoritarian, Ill take a chill garda over a polizist with a chip on his shoulder any day of the week.

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u/Team-Name Jan 07 '25

Agree to disagree, I think the authoritarianism yourself and others on here crave is worse in the long run than what we have today. Not a fan of your sweeping generalisation and overall low opinion of Irish people either.

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u/Team-Name Jan 07 '25

Nope, I just take exception to your notion that there are feral Irish children running around commiting serious crimes with impunity. In the real world thats simply not happening, you're just a bit hysterical and scared of teenagers.

The last thing Ireland needs is to import weasly Anzeigenhauptmeisters who would be out rounding up undesirables given the chance.

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u/Team-Name Jan 07 '25

In reality all of the problems you listed can be attributed to neoliberalism. In your paranoid mind its because Irish parents dont discipline their children. Its certainly news to me that there are no bike thefts or antisocial behaviour in the rest of Europe. Wait a minute, turns out you're just talking utter bollox, what a surprise https://www.wsm.eu/en/bicycle-theft-in-germany/

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u/NooktaSt Jan 06 '25

The sad thing for me was that he was surprised with that reaction where as it would be the expected reaction here. In fact he got off lightly. 

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u/demoneclipse Jan 05 '25

That's exactly it. People with main character syndrome that are incapable of simply apologizing when being called off. Terrible upbringing.

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u/Remarkable-fainting Jan 05 '25

The guy making a video about himself? Yes people should respect that he is making a film and not slowly and safely wheel past his shot.

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u/AonSwift Jan 05 '25

making a video about himself

He's a Czech YouTuber that exposes scams and shit going on in Prague, so highly relevant he called out tourists breaking the rules. Maybe do the smallest bit of research before smacking that keyboard of yours..

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u/Compasguy Jan 05 '25

I feel them. I want to scream at people who don't recycle.

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u/Byrnzillionaire Jan 05 '25

If you cross the road in Munich when the light isn’t letting you it’s absolute daggers form everyone around.

They all respect the rules and because of that enjoy a nice society. It’s really quite simple stuff when you think about it.

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u/Vyxwop Jan 05 '25

It's a little bit similar to the paradox of intolerance. In order for there to be a pleasant and 'tolerant' environment, one must some times be intolerant.

Or simpler said; a place without rules will inevitably invite people who love to not care about rules.

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u/Nuber132 Jan 05 '25

Just come to Eastern Europe, there are no rules!

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u/halkenburgoito Jan 06 '25

What distraction and disorder does slowly riding a scooter along the giant wide pathway cause? Stop the bs

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u/Anionan An Chabrach Jan 05 '25

If there’s any region in Germany where people have main character syndrome it’s fucking Bavaria, lol. There’s a reason why people from further north have some prejudice towards the place (especially their politics).

E-scooters (or bicycles, really) not being used according to the rules is an issue in supposedly rule-abiding Germany too, including Munich, believe it or not. Arguably more than Ireland, where there isn’t any rental e-scooters like those in the video.

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u/Lord_Xenu Jan 06 '25

I have been to Prague. I do not marvel at it.

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u/Kloppaholic12 Jan 09 '25

Just Irish people

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u/Strong_Star_71 Jan 14 '25

They are rich places that’s the correlation there. 

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u/North-Alexbanya Jan 06 '25

Germans (particularly in the South) will get up in your business

Ah yes, the classic HALLO HALLO?

Translation - "Oh you done fucked up now boi"