things I hate about Germany
*The music. The only music people here listen to is bad american club music. Seriously, everywhere, 'I wanna make love in this club, in this club ...' like at all hours of the day. I have been to one cafe where the men in the cafe were listening to classic rock, which is cool! Plus for Germany! But they were also looking at semi-pornographic magazines, which brings me to ...
*Pseudo-porn everywhere. It's not just that people here don't mind showing nipples, or whatever, it's that every advertisement I see is sexual. And in every magazine there's pictures of women wearing just a thong, straddling some piece of equipment or something.
*"Oh, public transportation in Germany is so reliable and punctual! You can go anywhere on it!" Yeah, if you are a fucking millionaire. Seriously, one trip to the city center is about $3. And a monthly ticket (just inside Frankfurt) is 80 Euros! That's like, more than $80! So I walk everywhere. Which is exhausing, and uses up lots of calories, which brings me to...
*Food. Seriously, it's way worse than England. There is absolutely nothing here I like to eat. Everyone goes on about doner kabobs, but they, too, are bad here. It's like there's some invisible tastiness filter surrounding Germany and every thing you bring inside the borders immediately becomes bland and unsatisfying. I eat cheese and bread. And that, too, is expensive.
*Also, the food is terrible. I'm always hungry and I feel like I never eat. I eat a lot of bratwurst. Which is nasty. But it's only 3 euros and when I just want something to make me feel like I'm not going to faint, why pay 5 euros for a sandwich, which actually isn't a sandwich, it's just bread with a tiny bit of butter on it and the thinnest piece of meat you can possibly imagine.
*Coffee is bad, but cheap. Still, it's pretty bad.
*While I am sure there are some German movies, art, culture in general, it's fairly difficult to find. On the whole, people watch shitty American movies. Get your own damn shitty movies!
*The men. I hate them. They seriously have no respect for women. I have not met a single man here who I would be comfortable being alone in a room with, except perhaps this American guy. And I have several stories of unwanted touching (nothing horrible, but still unwanted), and the men seriously don't care if you glare at them, tell them to stop, it doesn't matter. I'm sick of just being made to feel like shit because I don't know how to deal with this kind of thing, I don't speak the language that well, it's scary, right, not knowing what to say. And I'm scared to be outside of my room after dark, because I feel like I'm not regarded as something valuable by half the people out there. And I like guys. Like 95% of the people I hang out with on a regular basis are guys. I know dudes well, and the ones here are the sleaziest, nastiest people I have ever come into contact with.
Seriously, Europe sucks. Sorry for the depressing post, but I feel like we're fed this lie about Europe, like ahhh Europe, how romantic. When really it's just a more expensive, more commercial and sex-crazed version of America. With horrible food.
*Pseudo-porn everywhere. It's not just that people here don't mind showing nipples, or whatever, it's that every advertisement I see is sexual. And in every magazine there's pictures of women wearing just a thong, straddling some piece of equipment or something.
*"Oh, public transportation in Germany is so reliable and punctual! You can go anywhere on it!" Yeah, if you are a fucking millionaire. Seriously, one trip to the city center is about $3. And a monthly ticket (just inside Frankfurt) is 80 Euros! That's like, more than $80! So I walk everywhere. Which is exhausing, and uses up lots of calories, which brings me to...
*Food. Seriously, it's way worse than England. There is absolutely nothing here I like to eat. Everyone goes on about doner kabobs, but they, too, are bad here. It's like there's some invisible tastiness filter surrounding Germany and every thing you bring inside the borders immediately becomes bland and unsatisfying. I eat cheese and bread. And that, too, is expensive.
*Also, the food is terrible. I'm always hungry and I feel like I never eat. I eat a lot of bratwurst. Which is nasty. But it's only 3 euros and when I just want something to make me feel like I'm not going to faint, why pay 5 euros for a sandwich, which actually isn't a sandwich, it's just bread with a tiny bit of butter on it and the thinnest piece of meat you can possibly imagine.
*Coffee is bad, but cheap. Still, it's pretty bad.
*While I am sure there are some German movies, art, culture in general, it's fairly difficult to find. On the whole, people watch shitty American movies. Get your own damn shitty movies!
*The men. I hate them. They seriously have no respect for women. I have not met a single man here who I would be comfortable being alone in a room with, except perhaps this American guy. And I have several stories of unwanted touching (nothing horrible, but still unwanted), and the men seriously don't care if you glare at them, tell them to stop, it doesn't matter. I'm sick of just being made to feel like shit because I don't know how to deal with this kind of thing, I don't speak the language that well, it's scary, right, not knowing what to say. And I'm scared to be outside of my room after dark, because I feel like I'm not regarded as something valuable by half the people out there. And I like guys. Like 95% of the people I hang out with on a regular basis are guys. I know dudes well, and the ones here are the sleaziest, nastiest people I have ever come into contact with.
Seriously, Europe sucks. Sorry for the depressing post, but I feel like we're fed this lie about Europe, like ahhh Europe, how romantic. When really it's just a more expensive, more commercial and sex-crazed version of America. With horrible food.
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