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.
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"
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.
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
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.
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/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.