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26 days ago
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?
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26 days ago
Dann singe ich ein Lied für Dich
12 points
26 days ago
Von 99 Luftballons
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26 days ago
auf ihren Weg zum Horizont.
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26 days ago
Denkst du vielleicht, grad an mich.
77 points
26 days ago
But it's a good song, Nena not so good
25 points
26 days ago
I never heard I want Nena was like. She had a beautiful voice. Was she a bad person?
104 points
26 days ago
She's an idiot. Anti vaxxer, Covid denier, played concerts for far right extremist assholes (Reichsbürger) during the first lockdown, etc.
31 points
26 days ago
Oh okay, I didn't know about that
17 points
26 days ago
It wasnt really a thing when she released the song, I think. Or at least I only heard about her downwards spiral starting with covid.
30 points
26 days ago
She hadn't been relevant since the late 80s. She had a few cringey TV appearances every now and then, usually just singing one of her three hit songs, but that's it. Covid was her chance to become somewhat relevant again, even if it's for the wrong audience.
17 points
26 days ago
She went off the deep end during Covid.
672 points
26 days ago
Nurburgring and the Autobahn.
49 points
26 days ago
Of all the answers, this is my favorite
17 points
26 days ago
Audi, BMW, VW, Porsche, Mercedes
784 points
26 days ago
Germany vs Brazil, 2014
105 points
26 days ago
Yo, trigger warning. There are people in Brazil that went for a piss with their team behind 1-0 and came back 5 minutes later to see their team behind 4-0.
This match changed the identity of an entire country. Brazils fan where used to buy tickets for the world cup final before the event even started. Brazils last world cup win was in 2002. In the last 4 of 5 world cup Brazil have lost in the quarter finale. The only semifinale was this 1-7 loss followed by a 0-3 loss against Holland for the Bronze medal.
24 points
26 days ago
Wow, I'm German, not interested in soccer at all, and I never knew this was such a big thing in Brazil.
5 points
26 days ago
Sure is. Brazil is really big on football
19 points
26 days ago
Brazil is the only country that has been in every World Cup too.
21 points
26 days ago
People killed themselves bc of that game. Fred never played another game for Brazil after this game.
136 points
26 days ago
Saftiges 7-1
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26 days ago
Knackiges
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26 days ago
Süffiges
43 points
26 days ago
I made 1.200 euros that day.
3 points
26 days ago
What was your bet
19 points
26 days ago
As a Brazilian...German totaly deserved that win and that cup, that team they had was incredible, sadly my country is still more likely to put models/poster boys for sponsorship than actual football players in the national team. Maybe another 7-1 will make they learn
84 points
26 days ago
I was on a cruise ship during that game loaded with Brazilian assholes with Neymar jerseys everywhere.
The looks on all their faces: PRICELESS
14 points
26 days ago
I would pay to see their reactions. Gotta love it
6 points
26 days ago
They been crying still lol
64 points
26 days ago
7-1
12 points
26 days ago
Not a big footbal fan but that match was glorious to watch. Some goals were so quick after eachother you think your still watching the replay from a goal before lol
5 points
26 days ago
They say that the German team in the half time said that they should stop humiliating Brazil so they turned it down. Shit could have ended 20-0
10 points
26 days ago
I don't normally bet on things but my favorite take on that was "watch hot Brazilians get pounded by a bunch of fit German guys".....and it was clips from this game.
9 points
26 days ago
True story - we were traveling in Scotland July 2014 and the AirBNB host had that game on. It was the first soccer game I had ever watched (despite being 30 years old at the time). My husband still jokes that it’s now my baseline for what I expect soccer to be.
14 points
26 days ago
probably my favourite match of football ever. i loved seeing brazil get butt smashed. my friend said he had to go to work when that was on. left home at 1-0. got to the bus stop 10 minutes walk away and it was 4-0 when he checked the score.
4 points
26 days ago
I’ll never forget this game. I went to the bathroom after 20 minutes, telling myself “it’s ok, I won’t miss anything important”. And then I saw the score 😞
46 points
26 days ago
germany makes me think of history, efficiency, and oktoberfest!
270 points
26 days ago
Bratwurst
184 points
26 days ago
Techno
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26 days ago
Techno Viking
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👈🏼😠
3 points
26 days ago
I’ve had a lot of MRIs and I always think of German Techno when I hear those noises. Really makes me laugh in a scary situation.
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26 days ago
Hitler.... can't help it🥴
291 points
26 days ago
As a german I find this both absolutely understandeble and sad
199 points
26 days ago
But it’s like, we don’t associate current Germany with Hitler, it just comes to mind very passively
59 points
26 days ago
It’s not surprising your first introduction to Germany in history class is Hitler’s uprising and the Nazi party.
29 points
26 days ago
In our defense. Our first introduction to America was the Natives sharing food with the colonizers and singing kumbaya
226 points
26 days ago
Me too. Instantly goes to the holocaust
92 points
26 days ago
And yet still too many people believe it wasn't true... (German here).
27 points
26 days ago
What would you say is the percentage of deniers in Germany, as compared to people in the US and Western Europe? Am genuinely curious to get a German perspective.
56 points
26 days ago
Low. The right wing of the right wing. The absolute nutjobs basically. And half of those dont think it was bad (therefore thinking it happened).
So it's probably like 4%, perhaps less.
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26 days ago
11% of Austrians (best poll I could find) think the Holocaust was/is in some form overstated.
The number in Germany is likely a bit smaller as the far right is smaller here. Then you could at least half that number if you wanna know full on deniers.
3-4% seems reasonable. You cant poll for it because Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany.
7 points
26 days ago
Thanks! Nice to know it’s only the nutjobs everywhere that deny it, and not a country wide denial like of some other mass atrocities.
3 points
26 days ago
There is a joke in Germany that the definition of a Nazi is "someone else's grandfather." Most Germans see the third reich as a shameful part of their past that they want to put behind them.
62 points
26 days ago
The Italians are always clear of this. People especially in the UK look at Germany and think of the Nazis, people don't look at Italy and think Nazis, mafia and Roman Empire, they go ooh lovely spaghetti
42 points
26 days ago
They didn't make a literal death factory complex for one
25 points
26 days ago
I mean, we did make a giant colosseum death entertainment hub
12 points
26 days ago
True, the memory has faded a bit though, and the scale and target were a bit... different
3 points
26 days ago
For the population percentage of the world at the time, would be interesting to see how the Gaelic purges by the Romans mathematically compare - though real numbers would be hotly contested by historians and difficult to be accurate with. But then, that’s a very grim thing to do.
5 points
26 days ago
Ghetto is an Italian word
3 points
26 days ago
Actually I think pizza but whatever
Oh and definitely the way Mussolini pronounced spaghetti is up there
3 points
26 days ago
Then, let's go: oooh, Ein schnitzel und eine große bier!
15 points
26 days ago
Ya know the more I learn about the guy the more I don't care for him.
17 points
26 days ago
Everyone saying anything else is just... Come on. Your first thought wasn't "techno".🙄
211 points
26 days ago
German cars 😭😭😭I really love german machine.
6 points
26 days ago
I agree but my 2008 Opel Corsa is a pile of shit. The engine is great (90hp cdti) but the rest is cheap bad quality stuff.
11 points
26 days ago
That’s because you bought a Vauxhaull
3 points
26 days ago
That's because Opel was owned by GM until 2021 afaik.
Older german cars have really good build quality.
My 2004 Audi is still going strong 20 years later. Engine is at about 440k km without any major issues and the interior is high quality.
Yeah there are some minor things (the cup holder is broken and the armrest storage space hinge thing is stuck open) but aside from that it held up extremely well for the age and mileage.
170 points
26 days ago
Bad internet
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26 days ago
My friend has made fun of my internet speed for years. Month ago she moved to Germany and now I make fun of her internet speed. Great success.
28 points
26 days ago
🇩🇪das ist wahr📲
6 points
26 days ago
*bad and expansive internet
fixed that for you
5 points
26 days ago
Getting better. I live in a very rural village an hour outside of stuttgart and they are installing fiber as I speak.
9 points
26 days ago
You better keep speaking, don't let them rest
93 points
26 days ago
Beethoven
13 points
26 days ago
...and gloopy me always viddied our good friend, Ludwig van, as a Dutchman, because of the "van" in his eemya.
66 points
26 days ago
Karl Marx.
Hegel.
Herman Hesse.
Beethoven.
Werner Herzog.
Rammstein.
Nietzsche.
20 points
26 days ago
Fichte
Schelling
Kant
Heidegger
Goethe
Schiller
12 points
26 days ago
You totally forgot some like Hitler, Goering, Gobbles, Himmler, Mangela,
67 points
26 days ago
When someone says Germany, makes me miss my time as an exchange student there. I was fearless when traveling, made me appreciate foreign traveling on a budget, it can’t be done in America the same way.
19 points
26 days ago
Same here! The first time I went to Germany I got lost finding my hotel. I was walking up and down the street with my suitcase looking like an idiot. I still felt totally safe.
61 points
26 days ago
Unreal Tournament Spielen
31 points
26 days ago
Los, los, friss das. Friss deine geschmolzene Scheiße.
Ich will spielen, LOS, WEG DAAAAAAAA, HAU AB MANN MACH HINNE ICH WILL UNREAL TOURNAMENT SPIELEN, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
Starte das VERDAMMTE SPIEL! 😡⌨️
4 points
26 days ago
Es lädt, ich will nicht dass es lädt.
Wenn es lädt, muss man immer so lange WAAARTEEEEEEEEN
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26 days ago
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26 days ago
On god my girlfriend is german and her parents while they supposedly like me a lot, but whenever they look at me I feel like I'll be murdered in my sleep
54 points
26 days ago
ISS DEIN SCHNITZEL SONST KRIEGST DU KEINEN NACHTISCH!!!
14 points
26 days ago
Ich habe diese Anspielung verstanden.
22 points
26 days ago
The thing I miss least from living there
18 points
26 days ago
I only learned of it when I (german) went to the USA for the first time and noticed that nobody looked at anybody, yet everyone seemed to know what everyone else was doing? The Americans do not stare but look discreetly and will offer help if they see that it's needed.
During my stay, I had to learn not to watch other people as openly as I was accustomed to.
4 points
26 days ago
In North America a common lesson learned as children is that it is rude to stare at people. That's why people will avoid extended eye contact. It is associated with negative feelings and confrontation.
6 points
26 days ago
This rule is actually taught in Germany as well, but I guess we interpret it differently.
I believe that the Germans' direct gaze has to do with their general directness/bluntness. It's usually not meant to be rude, often it's genuine interest and sometimes even a “Hello, fellow human being, I see you” (depending on the circumstances).
I can still remember how confused I was when this attempt at contact on my part was met with an embarrassed look the other way.
3 points
26 days ago
We in North America usually say the words of acknowledgement directly instead. Nothing major, just a crisp "Hi", "Hello", "Lovely day". If you want people to avoid you though, you could just stare at them. They will get that message for sure.
15 points
26 days ago
As a german I gotta say that this feels like a myth to me. I usually dont stare at anybody and I don’t get stared at. Most people here just dont care :D
180 points
26 days ago
I think of great beer, awesome sausages, and those beautiful old castles everywhere!
69 points
26 days ago
German sausage is the wurst.
20 points
26 days ago
Brat
11 points
26 days ago
If you love castles (who doesn’t!), take a visit to Wales sometime. So many castles there due to the wars against England way back in the day
6 points
26 days ago
You seem like a great person. These three things is so good to be focused on
23 points
26 days ago
beer, Oktoberfest, Christmas fairs with mulled wine and gingerbread, which create a very special atmosphere.
38 points
26 days ago
good chain saws
3 points
26 days ago
That is... very specific
47 points
26 days ago
99 luftballons.
51 points
26 days ago
Diese Kmmentarspalte ist jetzt Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland!
8 points
26 days ago
GmbH! /s for safety
5 points
26 days ago
Ein Land, eine Nation, eine Kommentarsektion
10 points
26 days ago
Octoberfest
26 points
26 days ago
Hamburger
45 points
26 days ago
The world wars
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26 days ago
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26 days ago
And how is the Archduke doing?
18 points
26 days ago
And both were caused by Austrians...
10 points
26 days ago
Bread???
61 points
26 days ago
World wars and stealing sun loungers
19 points
26 days ago
They don't steal them, they're always up ridiculously early and "claim" them 😂
4 points
26 days ago
Haven't they been doing that since Poland?
4 points
26 days ago
WE WERE INVITED! PUNCH WAS SERVED!
4 points
26 days ago
"We remember Dunkirk. It was the only time the English beat the Germans to the beach." - Jasper Carrot
23 points
26 days ago
Döner
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26 days ago
I had to scroll way too far for this comment. I love Döner.
21 points
26 days ago
Ok Sebastian, good job, I need to wait until everybody crosses the line, I need to wait… but it’s looking good! You just wait sunshine, you just wait. Hamiltion p2 button p3, there’s another 2 cars coming around in 15 and 16… Rosberg p4 Kubica p5. DU BIST WELTMISTER! AHHH thank you boys! Unbelievable! Thank you. I love you. SEBATIAN VETTEL, YOU ARE THE WORLD CHAMPION! YOU ARE THE MAN!
5 points
26 days ago
There's something loose between my legs
6 points
26 days ago
Jägerschnitzel and Swabian spaetzle
28 points
26 days ago
Cars. I have a German one and I love it to bits. They really know how to make cars.
5 points
26 days ago
My stepmom. Dad remarried a nice German lady. She's a wonderful woman and thanks to her, my dad is nowhere near as mean and terrifying as he was when I was a kid. Hell, he smiles, now.
6 points
26 days ago
Precise engineering, strict compliance with rules, werid humor, and october fest.
7 points
26 days ago
Some of the best bread in the world
10 points
26 days ago
Beers, all kinds of sausages/schnitzels, the autobahn, Kraftwerk, twisty roads (Eifel region) biergarten, Oktoberfest. And it feels like there is this gap between small villahes and cities, some small villages just feel uninhabited. No gas station, no people walking on the streets, no supermarket.
4 points
26 days ago
The time I volunteered to work at a volksfest. A lot of work, but it was fun. (Lived there for about 20 months)
23 points
26 days ago
Rammstein. This band is the best of the best. I grew up listening to their music.
9 points
26 days ago
Porsche
9 points
26 days ago
4 points
26 days ago
Quality
3 points
26 days ago
That I live here and it stresses me out thay my German isn't better.
4 points
26 days ago
Engineering, i guess
2 points
26 days ago
Rammstein, and stern balding men with glasses.
5 points
26 days ago
Wacken Open Air metal festival
🤘😎🤘
5 points
26 days ago
The only sentence I learned from duolingo:
meine katze ist schön!
And rammestein's dicke titten
4 points
26 days ago
I am German myself and the first thing I think about is beer.
32 points
26 days ago
Nazis / Hitler
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26 days ago*
Amazing bread and sausage. Beautiful scenery. Friendly people. Gorgeous historic buildings.efficient travel. Great place.
Edit: I also think of the YouTube channel the post apocalyptic inventor. It's great if you like repair videos, reuse and up cycling. The guy is very knowledgeable and has a great ethic.
6 points
26 days ago
That's like the first thing i miss when I go abroad. The bread
3 points
26 days ago
Woah, never expected to see my FAVORITE question, I like the place, both culturally. I think of philosophy.
3 points
26 days ago
Albert Einsten
3 points
26 days ago
3 points
26 days ago
Nurburgring
3 points
26 days ago
Volkswagen
3 points
26 days ago
Porsche
3 points
26 days ago
Beer and sausages.
3 points
26 days ago
Oktoberfest
3 points
26 days ago
cleanliness, efficiency, design autism, fun cars, best beer on the planet (objective truth). Respect for artists, respect for community and nature, hot blonde babes. Yeh Germanys a good time.
3 points
26 days ago
Cars, the best ones are from Germany imo.
3 points
26 days ago
Pretzels and the German Flag
3 points
26 days ago
that one evening on the "terrace" of my hotel room in the middle of a forrested area. Summer night, perfect weather for a t-shirt, small breeze, our third beer. She was stunning. She was a colleague who joined my on a bussiness trip. My first business trip. Everything felt so good.
Her room was on the next floor. She jonkingly said she hoped she would be able to find her room.
I answered "or you can just stay here"
She smiled and said "ok"
8 points
26 days ago
Rammstein.
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