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mottallica

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From: Israel

back from berlin with one word to say

amazing

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 11 2012 15:18:00

Munin

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From: Hong Kong

RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to mottallica)

As a German I don't understand what everyone sees in Berlin...no offense to anyone from Berlin...to me it's just dirty and grey and way too spread out..

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 11 2012 16:15:31

Gimar

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to mottallica)

hahaha as a dutch person, I have the same thing with amsterdam :D

Never been to berlin that I can recall, but my mom being german i've been to germany manymany times, and there are realy nice towns and beautifull nature to be found.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 12 2012 6:56:37

Anders Eliasson

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to mottallica)

Munin.
You´re right, Berlin is dirty and grey and spread out, but thats not what Berlin is about. It has to do with the spirit. There´s always been something special there. I´ve been there many times in the 80th and it was great. Very open minded and polycultural. In autumn 89 with a hammer and a chisel during the first week of breaking down the wall. Later in the 90th. Very inspiring with the new squat movement in the former DDR part of the town. Grey and dirty, but full of life.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 16 2012 16:49:22

Doitsujin

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to mottallica)

If you are foreigner and like Berlin I suggest that movie.. :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1642665/

I saw it at a fantasy film festival. Was fun.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 16 2012 16:59:11

Ruphus

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to mottallica)

Berlin in contrast to places like Düsseldorf or München is a charming place, like an old lady that knows life.
The most humane spots in Germany are those where Polish people once emigrated to. Their warmth and humbleness seems to have beautifully blended with German reliability. First example of all the so called "Ruhrpott", secondly Berlin.

Another charming point is Berlin´s architecture of often old buildings with high ceilings and creaking old wooden floors, as well as the obvious status of having most green of all German major cities.

Only drawback is the superficiality increasingly brought in by pisa incomers from all over Germany who seek the fashionable capitol. This unfortunately has turned a once grown, solid sociology into wishi washi, and the timbre from rock´n roll to techno crap.
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Funny for me besides, to sit in the Near East and see pictures from my former Berlin quarter almost every day on German TV. So many takes from not farther away than a couple hundred meters from my old place.

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 16 2012 19:13:42

chester

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to Ruphus)

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Polish people...warmth and humbleness

Are you referring to Polish people from Poland, in eastern europe??

I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the largest Polish populations outside of Poland) and I'm pretty sure I never saw any of my neighbors smile. EVER.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 16 2012 21:15:58

Doitsujin

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to chester)

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I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the largest Polish populations outside of Poland) and I'm pretty sure I never saw any of my neighbors smile. EVER.

haha

I think Düsseldorf and München are pretty if you know the right places to go.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 17 2012 12:45:38

mottallica

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to chester)

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Are you referring to Polish people from Poland, in eastern europe??

I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the largest Polish populations outside of Poland) and I'm pretty sure I never saw any of my neighbors smile. EVER.

היית צריך לנסוע עד לשם כדי לגלות את זה? האמאות הפולניות שיש בארץ זה לא מספיק?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 17 2012 14:29:46

chester

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to mottallica)

חחח.

אמהות יא תבע.

Gotta live somewhere, right?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 17 2012 20:30:17

Ruphus

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RE: back from berlin with one word t... (in reply to chester)

quote:

ORIGINAL: chester

quote:

Polish people...warmth and humbleness

Are you referring to Polish people from Poland, in eastern europe??

I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the largest Polish populations outside of Poland) and I'm pretty sure I never saw any of my neighbors smile. EVER.

Hi Chester,

I don´t think that it ought to take smiling for the attributes I was referring to.
Guess you could be right though / suppose that Polish culture is of a rather melancholic tradition.

I do appriate humorous mentality a lot, like with the GBs.

However, what I am envisioning with those Germans of Polish roots is a special beauty of its own.

When I met the parents of some thelike friends first time as a teenager, I wondered why they would apparently dislike me. ( They would shake hands laconically while looking past you.) But they turned out to be actually well grounded and very nice folks.

Like with the sweet mother of one of them. It would usually take only 15 minutes after my arrival until she would enter the room with a tablet with a heap of yummy sandwiches. ( "You must eat something, my son.")

Or her son, already earning while we were still in school. When the munchies would get us after a nights booze while already broke, he would spend us a meal self-evidently without a hitch. - Or how everyone would stand up for the pals if there was trouble in a concert hall / discotheque.

When it is about standard of empathical skills, reliability, loyality and helpfulness, this mentality is top.
Bounding conditions much harder to find in the cheeringly superficial realm of fashionable places like Munich, Cologne or Düsseldorf.

Try to call up people there in the late evening, telling them that you have a truckload of furniture to unload and heave up to the fourth floor ( high cealing floors without elevator ).

I had that without preannouncement. One phone call, and a dozen of my friends from over 20 km away showed up in about half an hour, whooped the stuff in no time and left again, not even staying for a beer as they had to get up early next morning.
We are friends since almost fourty years, and that´s just common ways for guys like these.

Or have a breakdown with your motor bike in the Ruhrpott and see what happens very soon, with other bikers pulling in to see whether they can help the stranger.
Or visit a typical bar there and have a feeling like being part of the community long since.

No carnival, no hipster glitter; but earthy atmosphere as it gets.
- I like it straight.

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 18 2012 13:50:07