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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    Pedant wrote: »
    Germans ... they haven't changed.

    The following video is from 2008:



    not funny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    Johro wrote: »

    Dylan Moron doesn't know what he's talking about.. Germany is a cool place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    CamperMan wrote: »
    not funny

    Nein! Das ist very funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    CamperMan wrote: »
    Dylan Moron doesn't know what he's talking about.. Germany is a cool place.
    It's a comedy routine. It's supposed to be a laugh, i.e. not serious. Don't be so german :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Johro wrote: »
    It's a comedy routine. It's supposed to be a laugh, i.e. not serious. Don't be so german :D

    german soldiers had a sense of humour....

    after the d day invasion....if they heard a plane...they looked up....

    if the plane was silver ..they said, american

    if the plane was painted, they said, english

    if the sky was empty.......the said in a loud voice...luftwaffe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    I have a german worker who when started used to pull the pencil out of my hand......and noticed that they werent very engaging in social interaction of any type. I recently went abroad and found a lot of germans on a bus who were constantly yapping away...their leader looked the image of Merkel and dressed and spoke like her, persistently smiling...and when the replacement bus arrived..they hopped on board and took the entire seating...:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    CamperMan wrote: »
    Dylan Moron doesn't know what he's talking about.. Germany is a cool place.

    "You have absolutely no sense of humour, do you!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    biko wrote: »
    I prefer The Dutch.
    \o/


  • Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭haminka


    CamperMan wrote: »
    Dylan Moron doesn't know what he's talking about.. Germany is a cool place.

    i like his sense of humour and that particular acene, so does my other half who happens to be german. i find the germans pretty ok, very direct which many people mistake for rudeness and the fact is, if you are direct with them, they don't take offence and will respect you. the most effective way of handling them is when you want to say no, just say it and they're ok with that while let's say the irish will try finding all possible ways to work around it because it is considered polite. in germany it would be considered dishonesty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    Pedant wrote: »
    "You have absolutely no sense of humour, do you!"

    ye.. I have a great sense of humour


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    CamperMan wrote: »
    Pedant wrote: »
    "You have absolutely no sense of humour, do you!"

    ye.. I have a great sense of humour
    Clearly not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭CommanderC


    I work in tourism and I rate them tops in terms of friendliness, respectfulness and well travelledness :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,804 ✭✭✭Wurzelbert


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Let me mention something about the Turkish community in Germany.

    Most of them are very well integrated into society indeed, as they live in Germany for a good while. The majority of them came to the country, when many German men were serving as POWs all over Europe after the 2nd World War, and they worked hard enough to earn some money for their families, who still had to join them.

    [...]

    the main waves of labour migrants (not only from turkey) came to germany in the late 50s and 60s and later, so well after the last pows had returned home and the tidying-up and rebuilding as such had been finished…they came because the booming german economy needed more workers and looking for a better life than they had in their generally very poor home countries…


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    G Luxel wrote: »
    I have a german worker who when started used to pull the pencil out of my hand......and noticed that they werent very engaging in social interaction of any type. I recently went abroad and found a lot of germans on a bus who were constantly yapping away...their leader looked the image of Merkel and dressed and spoke like her, persistently smiling...and when the replacement bus arrived..they hopped on board and took the entire seating...:eek:

    I have noticed some Germans can only talk about work and you never get any personal info out of them, but I guess they only open up when they know you. they are definitely less superficial than the irish.

    a tour group of any nationality will do that. they have paid for their holiday and expect everyone to bow down to them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Wurzelbert wrote: »
    the main waves of labour migrants (not only from turkey) came to germany in the late 50s and 60s and later, so well after the last pows had returned home and the tidying-up and rebuilding as such had been finished…they came because the booming german economy needed more workers and looking for a better life than they had in their generally very poor home countries…

    germany needed workers in the 1960 and instead people came.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    CommanderC wrote: »
    I work in tourism and I rate them tops in terms of friendliness, respectfulness and well travelledness :)

    depends on who you encounter. i have met them when they were rude and arrogant and demanding, in which case i put them in their place. Der Kunde ist König aber nur wenn er sich königlich benimmt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    depends on who you encounter. i have met them when they were rude and arrogant and demanding, in which case i put them in their place. Der Kunde ist König aber nur wenn er sich königlich benimmt.

    May I ask, do you work in tourism or retail?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    May I ask, do you work in tourism or retail?

    both, why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    both, why?

    I was just curious ;)

    Anyway, I guess, you know, that every country has his reputation, when it comes to holidays? Germans putting towels on the beach-chairs? The French being like dirtbags? The Irish drinking their heads off? The Dutch, travelling in caravans and blocking the roads? The Chinese, spending all day long taking pictures?

    Sometimes, it's only a small minority misbehaving, but once, the damage is done, there's no easy way back, imo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    Pedant wrote: »
    Germans ... they haven't changed.

    The following video is from 2008 (not the 1930/40s). Notice the burning torches, the music, the helmets that look awfully like the Wehrmacht Stahlhelm, the uniform, etc.:
    There's a big difference between the "lads" in the 30's and 40's looking German, which is fairly understandable, and the Germans looking like the lads from the 30's and 40's. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Ill have a Prawn Goebbels, a Herman Goering, and Four Cold Meat Salads to go please!

    hilarious. I love british racist humour. even funnier to shout sieg heil whenever you meet a bunch of krauts. there was a German comedian in Britain and before he came on the audience all had made little hitler moustaches and he said he hoped they had brought their black shoe polish as a black was on after him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭Franticfrank


    You get good and bad people everywhere and I find the Germans to be quite mixed. Alot of boring introverted work loving types and also the friendly down to earth younger ones. One broad trait seemed to be that they all hated the French due to 'unfriendliness'. I find the French fine, must have be something to do with 1940...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    You get good and bad people everywhere and I find the Germans to be quite mixed. Alot of boring introverted work loving types and also the friendly down to earth younger ones. One broad trait seemed to be that they all hated the French due to 'unfriendliness'. I find the French fine, must have be something to do with 1940...


    The French generally like the irish but hate other nationalities.

    the French are a mixed lot as well. i was speaking German to mate and French tourist shouts out Nazi.

    not liking the French stems from the way Germans are treated in France if thez do not speak fluent French. The French are still touchy about the war as even the proudest Frenchman realises not every Frenchman was in the resistance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Nodin wrote: »
    Prussia was a seperate kingdom in 1815. Prussia didn't become part of a greater Germany until 180/71 and unification

    Er... no, it wasn't separate.
    Before Germany was "united" in 1871, it was a union of a number of kingdoms and duchies, Prussia being one of them. Others included Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, the free Hanse towns like Hamburg and Bremen, and many more.
    It was a fragmented place, lots of little despots, but it was even then the "Holy Roman Empire of German Nation", ruled over by the German emperor (who interestingly enough got elected, so that role tended to go either to the Austrian or Prussian king for centuries).

    The great unification that Bismark brought about meant simply that he kicked Austria out of the union, and made the Prussian king emperor by default.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Germans are good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    the sixteen federal states we know today was formed in 1990. The DDR was founded in 1949 and was an independent country. some mind argue that it was controlled by the russians, but the same could have been said about WEst GErmany and the allies. Two Germanys became one new Germany, a germany the like and size that had not existed before

    Well, not really, sadly.
    Most Germans both in the East and in the West feel more like the West had bought up the East.
    Germans in the East suddenly find that their 40 years of separate history are airbrushed out of existence along with their former country, and Germans in the West complain about the costs incurreced by the "lazy Ossies".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,468 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Found Germans to be very friendly and especially their women who'll talk to you no bother whatsoever :)
    Was in Stuttgart a few years back with a German co-worker who was part of a bike gang over there.
    Put us up for the whole week fed and found and I remember travelling to the stadium via train they were sharing cans around and each of them took a sip before passing it around , all very efficient.
    The mate then announced that it was my birthday and myself and another Irish mate watched in amazement as about 20 blokes and girls efficiently lined up in a straight line and each of them wished me a happy birthday with a handsake or a kiss on the kiss (from the girls :) in the train carriage :D
    Great place and very friendly people but like one poster said not very spontaneous. Even their humour is organised :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    according to the stereotype Germans have no humour but Germany is a vast country with very different people. their humour is different and they laugh at things that we would not dare, like suicide (check out Ulli Stein).

    The Irish are not always a barrell of laughs especially if you go up to Antrim. folks up there rarely rarely even smile, let alone crack jokes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Well, not really, sadly.
    Most Germans both in the East and in the West feel more like the West had bought up the East.
    Germans in the East suddenly find that their 40 years of separate history are airbrushed out of existence along with their former country, and Germans in the West complain about the costs incurreced by the "lazy Ossies".

    the west did indeed 'bring up' the east which presented opportunities for struggling businesses in the west to relocate to the east and show them the 'better' way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,909 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    the west did indeed 'bring up' the east which presented opportunities for struggling businesses in the west to relocate to the east and show them the 'better' way.
    or buy companies in the east, get big grants for doing so and close them down at the first opportunity seeing as they already had overcapacity in their ultra modern plants in west germany!
    Of course the billions in grants were never repaid.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Pottler wrote: »
    Gotta lova a woman with wool. Especially when she's 6', blonde and poured into a pair of denims...mmmmm..:D

    So you're into men then? Well each to their own I suppose.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Mr_Spaceman


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I love German food - bratworst, sauerkraut, frankfurters, Knudl, giant prezels, apple strudel and the like. Yes, it's pretty simple but is delicious. Their beers are just superb.:D

    I also love the way public transport in Germany runs exactly on time. The Germans are mostly uninhibited about nudity so there plenty of opportunities for nude swimming and sunbathing in Deutschland galore.:)

    When I think of Germany I think of huge forests, modern TV towers in the cities and of course the Autobahns.:pac:

    The tastiest McDonald's burgers I've ever had are those in Germany.

    You can't beat a good currywurst in Germany after a few jars. Or a kebab in Berlin.

    I love German breakfasts, strangely enough. Muesli, yogurt, cold meats, great bread etc.

    Plenty of gorgeous women and pure brewed beer too. Excellent public transport.

    I had a really close friend from the east (Rostock) who passed away suddenly a few years ago and a nicer, more genuine, generous guy you'd have been hard pressed to meet.

    Of course, there are idiots, same as everywhere and the mullets with sleeveless denim jackets at the football are hilarious.

    The vast majority of Germans in my experience are thoroughly decent people.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I have a few German friends (living in Germany BTW not here) and they have a great sense of humour, very much on the style of the Irish sense of humour, so they aren't all boring, just a higher chance with such a large population.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    RVP 11 wrote: »
    I have a few German friends (living in Germany BTW not here) and they have a great sense of humour, very much on the style of the Irish sense of humour, so they aren't all boring, just a higher chance with such a large population.

    Good old statistics...the higher the population, the higher is the chance to find eejits, decent people, gorgeous women...;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Lars1916 wrote: »
    Good old statistics...the higher the population, the higher is the chance to find eejits, decent people, gorgeous women...;)

    Not to mention 11 good football players ;):D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    We had a Kris Kindle in the office

    We have a German team leader and some smart ass got him an orange Dutch football scarf
    It's just what some lads do, mess up the Kris Kindle


    Jaysus, he was highly insulted
    I wasn't aware the Dutch and Germans didn't get on

    He didn't like the Turks either for some reason


    I am shocked he took part in the kris kindle. We had one in work years ago and the Germans (the ones willing to take part) demanded we make it a 5 euro limit. 5 euro, I dont know why we bothered having one FFS, might as well not bother.
    saa wrote: »
    The last time I was at a comedy gig two german gals stormed out and told yer man on stage that they did not pay to be insulted.

    .


    I am shocked they paid into the club!

    Tightest race on earth without a shadow of a doubt. Disproportionate number of very, very strange people, socially awkward men.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I am shocked they paid into the club!

    Tightest race on earth without a shadow of a doubt.


    You might be confusing them with the Swiss there...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Shenshen wrote: »
    You might be confusing them with the Swiss there...


    Havent met many in truth but Swiss women seem to be stunning. A perfect storm of nordic German blonde blue eyed meets mediterranean tanned skin all rolled into one mixed look of the both :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Havent met many in truth but Swiss women seem to be stunning. A perfect storm of nordic German blonde blue eyed meets mediterranean tanned skin all rolled into one mixed look of the both :)

    Oh, you meant tight in that sense. Sorry, I misunderstood.


  • Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    cml387 wrote: »
    They know what Vorsprung Durch Technik means.

    They have words like schadenfreude and zetgeist which have no english equivalent.
    And what about Nena and her red balloons?



    I know this song is supposed to be antiwar, but it always got my blood up for a fight. Probably like all those flag waving american red necks who love Fortunate Son, some songs don't work the way they should.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    I am shocked he took part in the kris kindle. We had one in work years ago and the Germans (the ones willing to take part) demanded we make it a 5 euro limit. 5 euro, I dont know why we bothered having one FFS, might as well not bother.

    ......

    Theres always the possibilty they didn't want to be stuck spending money on somebody they couldn't stand.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 167 ✭✭promethius42


    Definitely an industrious people, I would love to go to Berlin just to see the place, with a mix of history and culture like that definitely worth a look in my opinion.


  • Site Banned Posts: 5 gold_bull


    germans have an iron will , they dont suffer fools and dont allow sentimentality to get in the way of hard headed issues , fiercely pragmatic , so are the british ( or at least they used to ) but the brits have a good sense of humour , the germans are like a serious version of the british

    their nothing like us and thats not to say i think they are better btw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    They have very short memories


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Nodin wrote: »
    Theres always the possibilty they didn't want to be stuck spending money on somebody they couldn't stand.


    There is always the possibility that they are tight, end of. They used to run a mile if anyone came around at Christmas with a charity collection or what have you. I just cannot stand nor respect a level of tightness where parting way with a one figure sum of money is too much. If they live their life like this they are clearly utterly loaded anyway, I just cant get it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    They have very short memories

    Who are you? Are those my feet?

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    There is always the possibility that they are tight, end of..

    Or it could be they just don't feel the need to effectively 'buy' respect and friendship, or the need to prove themselves to others by spending.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    The only German interaction I have had is a friend I made on Xbox live.

    His English is rather good, we play games, make stereotypical jokes about each others countries and kill aliens. It's a real bonding experience.

    Aside from that I have not met or interacted with any Germans and so don't have a positive or negative thing to say about them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    There is always the possibility that they are tight, end of. They used to run a mile if anyone came around at Christmas with a charity collection or what have you. I just cannot stand nor respect a level of tightness where parting way with a one figure sum of money is too much. If they live their life like this they are clearly utterly loaded anyway, I just cant get it.

    Well, to give a bit of balance, 5 Euros would buy you a very decent bottle of wine in Germany. Or about 2 kilos of chocolates.
    Germans do tend to be shocked at prices when they come over here, most things are about double the price.

    And when you pay half your income in taxes, you like to think you've given plenty to charity already ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Love 'em.

    If only Hitler was alive in Ireland today. I think I'd take to the streets to enjoy seeing skangers being rounded up...assuming that's who he'd target, in my mind though, he is.


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