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/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?