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@kinocow

18 days

Sooo the podcast is live. Available for streaming wherever you listen to podcasts. Give it a listen :)

Decades From Home - A Podcast about Germany

@DecadesfromHome

18 days

On this week’s pod, we inject a little mysteryas we’re joined by our first unnamed guest, @Kinocow ! We talk about the cult of mangos, loneliness in Berlin, and why Germany isn’t a country for beginners. Find out more on Ep 196: How Now Kino Cow, Out Now!

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Emily in Berlin S27: Emily needs a residence permit from Ausländerbehörde to get a new job while the Ausländerbehörde needs a job contract to give her a residence permit, and all of this happens via Post and the comedy of chaos and ketamine turns Emily into a hermit.

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@giulio_mattioli

14 days

Will we get Emily in #Dortmund in Season 24?

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Schrodinger's Deutsche Bahn with video proof.

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1 year

Balayya is the Last Telugu Action Hero. I don't think anyone else can pull what he pulled off. The internet era made him a troll favorite which he brilliantly reuses to up his image. What a treat this man is on the screen. #BhagavathKesari

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@masthminching Indian families are an assembly line of people production. You study, work, get married and have kids. No one knows why they're doing it but just that they have to keep the conveyor belt going without questioning. Conformity for men, conformity with pressure for women.

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8 months

Used to be a pro at this. Trick is to select a wedding large enough that you'll fly under the radar. Dress nothing too fancy and have an envelope with the couple's name written (info will be on the banners outside).

Floyd

@floydiancookery

8 months

Has anyone here successfully crashed a wedding not knowing anyone? What's the story?

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@kinocow

9 months

Now people who've lived in Germany for over five years can become citizen. However, getting an appointment takes 15 years. So net win for the liberals and conservatives alike.

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@kinocow

1 year

A few years ago I met a Swedish woman at a bar and I went on a long reminiscing about TPB and how it changed my life. She asked if she could video call her brother and I could repeat what I said. Turns out he was one of the original programmers for the site and he was very happy

kinocow

@kinocow

1 year

Didn't see anyone mention it but The Pirate Bay (TPB) turned 20 years old on the 15th of September. Before Netflix/Youtube/Amazon enhanced film distribution, TPB brought in world cinema to the sleepy suburbs of South India, opening a whole new world.

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No German politician would admit this but one of the biggest hindrances to country's development is its iron fisted insistence on the German language and the belief that credentials earned here are better than elsewhere in the world.

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@kinocow

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Berlin is a city where when a couple separates or someone dies, the first reaction is shock and the immediate follow-up reaction is finding out when their flat will be empty and if Anmeldung is possible.

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@kinocow

1 year

The recent AMA by reddit CEO Steve Huffman (u/spez) is a masterclass on what not to do when going through a PR meltdown. For a left-leaning site like reddit, throwing around the "p-word" is like putting water on an oil fire. #RedditBlackout

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@kinocow

4 months

My top tip to German learners is to do away with the grammar. It removes fear and brings a kind of authentic shamelessness to the language which it really misses.

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@kinocow

5 months

My German has peaked to the level where I can't unsee that Darmstadt literally means Intestine City.

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@kinocow

10 months

Even @theliverdr is not prepared for this double-whammy

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@kinocow

1 year

Didn't see anyone mention it but The Pirate Bay (TPB) turned 20 years old on the 15th of September. Before Netflix/Youtube/Amazon enhanced film distribution, TPB brought in world cinema to the sleepy suburbs of South India, opening a whole new world.

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@kinocow

2 months

If you're a young person who wants to live in this nostalgia, book a ticket to Germany.

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@johnmoe

2 months

If you're a young person, it might be hard to really understand this but the whole world used to smell like cigarettes.

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An acquaintance living in the South of Germany sent me this text: "Hi, I'm moving to Berlin on the 1st of November and looking for a spacious 2 Bedroom flat, furnished, long-term and max 1000€" Should I break their heart?

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@kinocow

1 month

Don't give ideas to Germany.

Lana Del Reydempto

@reydempto

1 month

@germany_iam Here in the Netherlands they take the floors with them when they move

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4 months

You cannot unify without solving the problem on the ground. For anyone wondering why the East is a right wing hellhole, take a trip around, there are lifeless towns with no jobs, crumbling houses and a population that feels left out from mainstream politics. I

Tom Nuttall

@tom_nuttall

4 months

Still two countries: how Germany voted. (Black=Union; blue=AfD).

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@kinocow

7 months

Bavaria is banning gender in schools. I wholesomely agree banning der and die from the German language.

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@kinocow

4 months

"I found the way to get 10x increased conversion to my job applications" and the secret sauce is *drumroll* A GERMAN NAME.

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@kinocow

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Was talking to a 50+ y.o. German man who owns a large flat in a now expensive Berlin neighborhood which he got through squatting post the fall of the Wall. He was surprised that young people weren't protesting enough for cheap rents and the state of pensions.

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@kinocow

4 months

Deutschland: (cash only) But also there's no ATM in the closest 2km radius.

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@kinocow

2 months

Several Indians in Germany told me to head back to India for getting any medical attention because their experiences with doctors was shitty here. And this thread is going to be wild. (From Berlin Ausländer Memes insta)

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@edbrown3d

2 months

@AWunderhund @germany_iam Berlin Ausländer Memes has a story (that is now being covered by the press) about the widespread medical malpractice here experienced by both foreigners and natives. Buckle up, it is appalling:

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@kinocow

2 months

Berlin in a decade or so will be a city "once known for its club culture" replaced with the same looking office/residential block with a Starbucks to compensate.

The Berliner Magazine

@theberlinermag

2 months

News: 🪩 The end of #Renate ? The beloved Berlin #nightclub has announced it will close at the end of 2025, with the lease from real estate firm the Padovicz Group set to expire.

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@kinocow

1 year

Hahaha, this is spot on. PK fans getting butthurt for having political content in a review. Movies can have politics but reviews can't? Entering politics means entering public life, in a democratic country we're free to criticize our voted representatives. #BroTheDisaster

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@sunil_hitler

1 year

😂😂 #BroTheDisaster @FilmCompanion

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7 months

Yesterday a friend told me that she didn't like Berlin and I asked her why. "This whole city is performative, the people here need to appear cool to hide their insecurities and be mean to other people as a way to validate their own right to stay here. There's no kindness..

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@kinocow

5 months

In Andhra politics we have an actor/Che Guevera enthusiast siding with the fascists.

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@kinocow

3 months

A German colleague asked me if the Ausländerbehörde paid for German classes + exams and their eyes popped out when I told them it'd cost me €2500 out of my own pocket.

Rahul Jain

@rahulj51

3 months

@chloeprw Language learning is an industrial complex and a scam. So far I have spent about 3k Euros on German classes, tools and exams but hardly know enough to hold a real conversation.

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@kinocow

1 year

I love the confidence with which u/spez walked into the AMA knowing full well that he was going to be ripped to shred. For any tech/tech adjacent folks reading this, the whole reddit saga is a lesson on how not to do business. #RedditGoesDark #RedditBlackout

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@kinocow

1 month

Key tourist attractions in German cities: Berlin - TV tower. Cologne - Kölner Dom Hamburg - the sea? Stuttgart - an unfinished train station

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@kinocow

1 month

Döner prices in 2006 - €2,10 Avg. income in 2006 - €30,000 Döner prices in 2024 - €7 Avg. income in 2024 - €45,000 Proportion of monthly income to 1 Döner: 2006 - 0,084% 2024 - 0,187% The proportion of income needed to buy a Döner in '24 is 2x+ more than it was in '06.

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I stand corrected: Doner - €2,10 Doner Teller - €2,60

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Renate, Blank and now.Watergate. The day's not far when Berghain becomes a public museum to showcase the techno cultural heritage of the city and how it sold its soul for money, becoming yet another Stepford Wife city of the world.

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@kinocow

3 months

Berlin weather report: Longest day of the year and it's already dark before 4 PM.

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3 months

"What were you doing when the Wall came down?" "I was going to my usual club in Charlottenburg, I remember very well it was a Thursday evening. Before leaving, I saw that the Taggeschau showed at 2330 show that the wall was down, but didn't believe it" "Why not?"

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2 months

And you end up learning C2 German only to be prescribed some herbal medicine, tea and a week under a blanket.

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23 days

My first impressions of Germany were that the Wessis hated the Ossis and Bavarians, the Ossis hated the Wessis and Bavarians and everyone together hated the Bavarians who hated them back. Germany is united through Bavaria hate (and self-love).

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@kinocow

9 months

The Ayodhya admins definitely skipped the city planning lessons of the Indus Valley Civilization.

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@rajivtango

9 months

Arrangements for visitors to Ayodhya - two rows of open Indian toilets, directly splashing their contents into an open deep trench latrine... 😎

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A huge chunk of the anti-immigrant rhetoric will soothe out when ordinary Germans know that the Ausländerbehörde or other state institutions give €0 in support to immigrants. This is such a big misconception that I come across so often where they think I get €€€ for free.

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A German colleague asked me if the Ausländerbehörde paid for German classes + exams and their eyes popped out when I told them it'd cost me €2500 out of my own pocket.

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3 months

I'm starting to believe that most non-German residents think that the @germany_iam page is an official handle run by the Tourism Board of the Government of Germany.

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@kinocow

1 month

And Brits are crying over a 7€ visa to visit the EU while most of the world has to squeeze their bone marrows to get in.

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@germany_iam

1 month

I’m not joking. This is what I had to pay 2 years ago. - 2-year visa fee: €461 - Premium appointment fee: €115 - Service fee: €67

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Germany 2024: 1 freak knife stabbing: Deport all migrants 100 people doing the Hitler salute and 1000s more wanting to elect the far-right: No problem here.

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9 days

In the other languages I speak, if someone makes a mistake in pronunciation or placement, the meaning can still be deciphered through the context and placement of the word, a capacity which German language doesn't seem to have?

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My favourite thing about living in Germany is knowing that if I make one small language error, or slightly misspell anything, what I've said or written will be totally discredited and then subject to weapons grade condescension. It's a great vibe.

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First days in Germany asking a friend directions over the phone: "Where are you?" "I'm at Einbahnstraße" "Where is that?" "It's on Einbahnstraße, where else can it be?"

I am Germany

@germany_iam

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My institute in Göttingen has a nice fountain at the entrance with “Kein Trinkwasser” written in a gold plaque on it. As I traveled around Germany I noticed more of these plaques often also on fountains. I assumed Kein Trinkwasser was an architect who specialized in fountains.

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HR screening interviews are basically "can you speak C1 German or not" tests.

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@kinocow

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German fruit fly conditions are terrible. One day you're in heaven, multi-generational colonies thriving in bins full of the choicest organic waste from around the world, reared with perfect humidity and the next day you're frozen to death until next summer. Adios fruitfly.

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Was telling a German friend the other day that often I don't feel comfortable to going to a completely white space when I'm the visible other and they were like "wow, I don't even notice color and consider that you'd feel this way"

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Bosnian author Lana Bastašić on her “naive” idea of Berlin as free

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10 days

Deutsch ist nicht meine Muttersprache und ich möchte nicht aufhören, eine zu sein. Alle Fehler werden aus purem Hass und Respektlosigkeit gegenüber dieser Sprache gemacht. Die Deutschen haben dieser Welt schon genug genommen, (1/2l

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Sometimes people ask me why, as a foreigner living in Germany, I don't tweet in German when tweeting about Germany. This kind of attitude is why ⬇️

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2 months

If you're a terrible app developer and looking for jobs in Germany, please apply with BVG Berlin. As their new app redesign demonstrates, they only hire the braindead.

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2 months

Biggest rule of German bureaucracy.: Never show fear. Have an idgaf attitude while following the below three rules. If the bureaucrats smell fear, you're done for.

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@wahibhaq

2 months

Three golden rules when dealing with complicated #German bureaucracy: - Speak only German, just good enough to answer questions and get your message across - Strictly reply with just enough information, nothing more and nothing less - Don't piss them off

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21 days

Berlin weather report;

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3 months

In this week's @germany_iam I have an all time favorite. Pisses people off the right amount, dispenses arcane knowledge In level of nerd and is funny and accommodating. Thanks for taking all the grunts, not an easy job but It's been kickass.

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You hear it in whispers on the street, by späti guys selling hope along with 2€ beers, on the U-Bahn screens where everyone has their eyes peeled making excited squeals. WhatsApp messages are flooded with ideas of ideas, the city is fixated - it's going to be 24°C on Saturday.

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I can be a million years in Deutschland but still will have zero lust for Oktoberfest.

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@HonourableHusba

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1. A bonus to living in Altbogenhausen is that the marshaling area for the #Oktoberfest Costume & Riflemen’s parade is just down the street. This lady is on her way to march with her pals, wearing her medals for marksmanship. #Oktoberfest2024 #Munich #M ünchen …/2

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Wonder what % of the people who voted for the neo-Nazis in Thuringia and Saxony are police officers/professors/Ausländerbehörde - Bürgeramt workers/lawyers/judges/Beamtes. Even though the AfD might not make it to power the latent hate is there for all to feel. Shame.

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@kinocow

1 year

Also it's not the user's problem if u/spez can't figure out how to make money from his app. The modern internet has been founded on the promise of free flow of information, if you want to monetize everything there will be a backlash. #RedditGoesDark #RedditBlackout

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1 year

I find talking in German with other immigrants easier than talking with native German speakers. It could be because I don't feel judged by the grammar and and I feel confident about my fluency.

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@kinocow

3 months

Aww lookie, Brexit has cut down this poor white man's passport privilege and has to gang up with the Chinese, Brazilians and East Africans. Can we have some tears for him please?

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@chrislowndes

3 months

Berlin passport control this morning. My flight landed 1 hr 35 mins ago and still in the queue. Brits with Chinese, Brazilians, East Africans, Americans and Argentinians. Lots of angry Brits. No sign of any EU citizens - they breezed through the eGates 90mins ago. Thanks, Brexit.

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1 year

At some point in life, you move away from home and it becomes a distant place where you're just a visitor but never a full-fledged member. Go back, go back where? To be at the real home I'd need a time-machine not a plane ticket.

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@kinocow

3 months

"Business fluent German (C1) required for this role" Skilled migrants - No.

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@cherrysberries

2 years

Skilled Migrants Aren’t Interested in Germany - Why Europe’s biggest economy can’t get the immigrants it desperately needs.

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@kinocow

6 months

Revised German language levels: A - Beginner B - Intermediate C - Fluent D.1 - Deepl Free D.2 - Deepl Pro

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7 months

(German friend learning Telugu) "Your language is funny" "Why?" "There are so many butts and shitting butts" "What?" "The ద looks like a butt and the ధ looks like a shitting butt, the థ is a pregnant woman shitting and the బ is.." "....."

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@kinocow

8 months

..look for any oldies that need assistance w.r.t. food or water and get them what they need and then go fill your plate up and plop yourself next to them and get in on the marriage goss. No one talks to the olds and these little gestures win hearts.

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3 months

Why's this prevalent amongst Telugu grads? Telugu states have the highest concentration of engineering colleges in the country and decades long emigration to the US. When you see earlier generations go make it big in the US, everyone wants to follow suit, creating excess supply.

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@MallikarjunaNH

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Lip syncing in the interview. Guess from which state this hard working candidate belongs to. 😉

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4 months

A few years ago a skinhead pulled a knife on a friend and me. There was a scuffle, my friend got hurt (not knifed) and we ran. Later I went to a store owned by a German-Sri Lankan Tamil friend who after hearing what happened hugged me and asked, "First time?".

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@kinocow

4 months

Yesterday at Biergarten outside of Berlin, a man went on a drunken anti-immigrant rant about the Deutsche Volk, how "they" (read immigrants) don't work and how the Deutsche Volk need to stand together. Nobody said a thing and I was the only Ausländer.

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3 months

German word of the day: Beziehungspeck - The weight/tummy one gains when in a relationship. *Haven't seen Florian in a long time" "Florian has a girlfriend?!" "Ja, his fuckboi days are over, they're moving in together and he has a Beziehungspeck and all" "It's serious then"

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@kinocow

1 month

The National Socialists were an anti-Semitic party. The AfD are an openly anti-Islam party. The hate remains the same, the object of hate is different.

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@kinocow

4 months

Yesterday at Biergarten outside of Berlin, a man went on a drunken anti-immigrant rant about the Deutsche Volk, how "they" (read immigrants) don't work and how the Deutsche Volk need to stand together. Nobody said a thing and I was the only Ausländer.

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@AnneRabe2

4 months

Rassismus, Rechtsextremismus, Spielen mit den Nazisymbolen gehört so sehr zur deutschen Kultur, dass wohl kaum jemand sagen kann, dass er so etwas in irgendeiner Form noch nicht erlebt hat. Es ist fester Bestandteil unserer Alltagskultur, genau wie unsere Entlastungsnarrative 4/9

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2 months

Advice from a librarian: Keep borrowing books from your local library even if you don't feel like reading as the activity would mean their funding wouldn't be cut.

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21 days

Woman in front of me at the supermarket line is buying the ultimate girl dinner. 750mL Gorbachev Vodka and ham.

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@kinocow

3 months

Someone was telling the story of Goethes Faust and it turns out Faust tricks the Devil by using a trick of German grammar (Konjunktiv ll)? I didn't verify but it seems plausible that one of the greatest German novels written has a grammatic climax.

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@kinocow

3 months

"I was 17 when the wall came down" "What were you doing that night?" "I was sleeping of course, I had to go to my Ausbildung the next day, but it was useless because only 5 people showed up out of 40" "Wat did you do after?" "What everyone did, went to West Berlin playing techno"

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@kinocow

8 months

Fam asked to advise someone moving to Germany. I said yes and contacted the said person. They expect responses from me ASAP (find me a flat, find me an appointment) and the one that annoys me the most, "can you tell how to evade taxes in Germany?". Don't be like this.

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@kinocow

4 months

During my time curating the I am Germany account I got three responses from fellow twits who reported the rampant racism in the school system here and how even after repeated complaints the schools chose to do nothing. I checked with a teacher friend here (contd..)

Chiara

@freakologie

4 months

@kinocow the toxicity of Germany as not multikulti Country not even with the people - German - not German enough even if born and educated here because not having both parents native of that Country.

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@kinocow

1 year

A friend who got his German citizenship overnight went from complaining about the slowness of the German naturalization process to complaining about how there are too many immigrants and how Modi is the greatest. Took less than a year of naturalization for this change.

Gaurav Sabnis

@gauravsabnis

1 year

I can never respect white collar immigrants who then turn anti immigrant or anti diversity or anti LGBTQ. You can at least understand misplaced resentments in the blue collar or low income world. But people with healthy bank balances are doing it out of commitment to bigotry!

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@kinocow

3 months

Germany to Ausländers - Don't think, don't question, don't even like something on your phone screen. Pay our old people their pensions and then fuck off and die.

Judith Meyer

@GermanPolyglot

3 months

Germany‘s transformation into an authoritarian state is progressing quickly: today‘s cabinet meeting will write a new regulation that would make it possible to expel foreigners if they post a single social media comment expressing approval of a terrorist crime. Instant expulsion,

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@kinocow

12 days

Tell me you haven't washed clothes with your hands without telling me you haven't washed clothes with your hands. Having used dishwashers and washing machines, I'd never l, ever dream of going back on this.

Aashis Joshi

@aashisjo

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I urge degrowth & other climate action researchers to keep in mind that all extraction adds damages to people & ecosystems somewhere, & challenge them to rise above techno-modernist ideology to envision radical alternative ways of organizing our lives & societies. 1/

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@kinocow

2 months

Mentioned this strategy of bulldozing through German life with nonchalance and the refusal to take a no. A person who was listening said, "it must really be taxing you in a lot of ways even if you pretend it doesn't effect you" and then it clicked.

I am Germany

@germany_iam

2 months

Yeah. Let's say after a while you get tired. Some friends of mine can be very direct and confrontational, and made their way through Germany. We're not like that. We don't feel at ease like that. It's tiring and we don't want to constantly have to behave like that.

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@kinocow

4 months

Companies also need to figure out that learning German requires full time commitment. For immos that have to balance between finding home, relationship(s), prepping for family, doing dung paperwork while taking time out for keeping a connect with home countries it's not easy.

cascais26 🏳️‍🌈

@cascais26

4 months

@vonmuf @kinocow Companies need to figure out that there are simply not enough people that are fluent in German to fill all the positions. They won't magically appear just because it is a requirement. It's totally fair to have that requirement, but they need to be aware of the consequences.

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@kinocow

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Berlin public transport ranked: 1. U-Bahn 2. S-Bahn (when they run) 3. Bus 4. Legs 5. Pigeon 6. Tram

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@kinocow

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How many years before CDU Ministers say, "the mandate of the people says we need to get into an uneasy coalition with the AfD but we promise that we'll do no evil"?

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@kinocow

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Someone gave the idea, oversaw project management, gave it to third parties for development, went through possibly a ton of edits, vetting and then on social media posting. Not one person in the entire chain of command found it problematic.

James Jackson

@derJamesJackson

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The Bavarian Interior Ministry has deleted the video, telling dpa “we take the criticism of the video very seriously and have stopped the campaign for now” adding “we deeply regret if the video has caused any irritation or misunderstanding”

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kinocow

@kinocow

6 months

The only way to get along as an Ausländer in Deutschland is to develop really thick skin. Having an idgaf attitude and a strong sense of egocentric induvidualsim is the only cure to fit in Germoidistan.

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@kinocow

2 months

Why are German street names complicated like Hildegard-von-Baumschulenweg Straße or Trozkiqüiztöwstraße and not Coolstraße, Maxstraße, Gutstraße?

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@kinocow

10 months

I'm presuming it's easier to buy a gun in America than opening a bank account in Germany.

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@kinocow

3 months

"You're from India?" "Yes" "I was in a Bollywood movie with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bacchan" "What?" "It was my first day in India, I was 19 and when we got to the hotel a woman approached us if we'd want to be in a Bollywood movie the next day. We were tired but said why not"

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@kinocow

1 year

People in Germany definitely don't know how to be inside a crowded train. Everyone crowds near the doors while the aisles and the ends of the wagon are completely empty?

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@kinocow

5 months

One of the best German classes I went to, the teacher had two mandatory Biergarten sessions, where we had to employ all the German we learnt after drinking a few beers.

swamp hag 🐰☕️✨

@potatoslav

5 months

my german is somehow always better after a few drinks

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kinocow

@kinocow

8 months

Be the long lost college friend from the groom's side, or even better the brother of the said friend. Trick is to smile in a general direction but not at anyone and sneak your way into a photo or two. Go to the food stalls straight but don't eat yet..

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@kinocow

3 months

Heard about a German non-profit that fired all its non-German staff (mostly brown immigrants) but not before taking pictures for their website harping on the diversity of their team.

I am Germany

@germany_iam

3 months

It's keeps happening when companies what to promote their "diversity"

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@kinocow

8 months

Also, the goal should only be the food but not making friends. Steer clear of any personal conversations. Max duration of stay should be no longer than an hour. Funny enough, I can spot the crashers from a mile away now, I just let them be. Eat and let eat. Enjoy!

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@kinocow

22 days

Is there a German word for being hungry yet extremely lazy to cook or eat anything?

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@kinocow

19 days

When down with a cold/fever, you've to drag yourself to the doctor, wait for two hours in a packed waiting room, only to be prescribed herbal tea and a sick note. Clearly, the Finance Minister of Germany doesn't have these problems, he doesn't belong to the 99%.

Oliver Luksic

@OlliLuksic

20 days

Gesundheit: Lindner fordert Abschaffung telefonischer Krankschreibung , das ist richtig.

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@kinocow

2 months

@potatoslav Need one with the Indian flag for English

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@kinocow

8 months

(Some general rules: Don't steal. Don't be greedy. Don't hit on women. Get into photos to confuse the family later. I prefer crashing the same tested venue than sampling new places but it's a matter of adventure and taste)

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@kinocow

2 months

Learning that Peter Thiel's parents are German and lived in apartheid Namibia before moving to the US doesn't surprise me about his far-right political support anymore.

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@kinocow

6 months

I really pray the CDU dipshits don't kill the 49€ Deutschland Ticket when they come to power the next year. It's an unbelievable miracle that Germany is doing this public transportation feat which is unparalleled to anywhere else in the world.

Emma Pinchbeck

@ELPinchbeck

6 months

@QuarryAli @GWRHelp £10k a year to use the trains SPECIFICALLY on one route, between 2 designated stations. Hard to believe that it’s difficult to get people to travel by train rather than car isn’t it? Our second hand EV was only just more expensive.

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@kinocow

5 months

I've read somewhere that people think Germany is some kind of liberal paradise thanks to everything that happened post 2015 but it has always been hyper conservative and the events of the past half year only confirm that. As a non-EU brownie, I don't feel free.

nathan ma

@nthnashma

5 months

Tomorrow is May Day, a day of solidarity, but one for which Berlin has allocated up to 6000 armed cops, and a day on which I'm not sure if I can leave the house safely as a brown man with no EU passport to see friends or go to my garden or, indeed, attend one of the many demos

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@kinocow

1 month

Dear SPD/CDU, if you go rightward trying to pander AfD voters, you'll lose your own base and end up strengthening AfD in their own game. Decide between having the second oldest population in the world or having a functional economy.

Maurice Stierl

@MauriceStierl

1 month

Lost for words. On the day that a fascist party becomes the strongest political force in a German federal state, the president of Germany declares that limiting access to migrants must be the country's 'main priority' in the coming years.

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@kinocow

8 days

It's hard to fathom the kind of economies these people lived in - a world that seems that impossible for a normal wage earner in today's time. Why aren't the young people protesting? Because they're tired and exhausted, that's why.

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@kinocow

1 year

You can't have a website that runs on the free content of people and then pull the rug from underneath them. SV folks think that they should be paid for their amazing efforts when forgetting the countless hours "users" spent generating content. #RedditBlackout

Aakash Gupta

@aakashg0

1 year

🚨 BREAKING: ~40% of Reddit is going dark for 48 hours. Here’s what’s going on 👇

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