Talk about gag
I mean PR gag, of course. Berlin’s a tough town, man. It’s dog eat dog here. Why it’s so dog eat dog here that it’s man eat man.
A website advertising a new restaurant has called for potential guests to donate their body parts – for later. But that’s understandably a, well, tender subject here because a Berliner was murdered and partially eaten by a cannibal not all too long ago.
I cannibalive it.
“I am assuming it is a misguided joke. But it is disgusting.”
Germans sceptical about delaying discrimination process
Chalk it up to German efficiency, but a new pilot program to test anonymized job applications here is being met with great scepticism.
Meant to reduce discrimination against people with immigrant backgrounds, women and others, German employers are clearly disgruntled about having to put off the prejudice until interview time.
Strange, isn’t it? Otherwise fanatical about protecting identities here, when it comes to hiring, German employers just can’t know enough about the applicant.
If you’ve got a name like Mehmet or Neylan, there’s a good chance your application will be answered with a rejection letter.
The economy really must be booming again
This is by far one of my top five if not my absolute favorite scam here.
Although the political class in Berlin still pretends as if workers in Germany will actually be working until they are 67 in the future before being able to retire here (the system – or the demographics – she is broken, Señor), last year’s Vorruhestand (early retirement) numbers shot up 10,000 over the previous year, making it the highest number of early retirees (171,129) to throw in the towel (early) over the past six years.
Don’t get me wrong, though. These folks had to retire early because they were sick. Honest. No, not sick of working. Most of them had one of those newfangled, you know, psychological-like ailment-type sicknesses. But don’t worry. They’re feeling better already.
Der weitaus größte Teil – rund 64.000 Menschen – habe aufgrund einer psychischen Erkrankung in den vorzeitigen Ruhestand gehen müssen.
Grüne Acres
More strange geometric patterns apparently created overnight in German corn fields by, uh, aliens. Or at least by out-of-towners. Or, well, maybe not.
All together now!
“Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm living is the life for me.
Land spreading out so far and wide.
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.”
Sie ist nicht von der These des Bürgermeisters überzeugt, dass es sich bei den Tätern um auswärtige Besucher handeln muss.
I like this guy
He’s so… German. You know, so provocative? I mean so Besserwisser-like (know-it-all) provocative? And in this case it’s all the more provocative because he’s provoking other Germans. You may not agree with everything this guy has to say, but it’s hard not to like someone who so clearly bends over backwards to be poltitically incorrect. And this is somebody from the SPD, mind you.
German Central Bank board member and former Berlin finance boss Thilo Sarrazin is now bringing out a book called “Germany is Abolishing Itself” in which, among other things, he warns of foreign infiltration/domination in Deutschland (wow, that’s a new one) – only this time of the Muslim kind. Yikes. The International Jewish Conspiracy is an established fact. But now the freakin’ Muslims are moving in? Like, I had no idea.
Die reine Lust an der Provokation treibe ihn zu „immer fragwürdigeren und menschenverachtenden Aussagen.“
Vacation Nation
At least they waited until the vacation season was over. In what can only be seen as an attempt to stage a hilarous end of summer practical joke, the spokeswoman for a small business entrepreneur association has actually suggested that Germans go on vacation too much and that they should cut their annual leave time down from six weeks to four.
Cutting vacation time in Germany? Hardy, har, har. That’s a good one.
Es gibt Themen, bei denen verstehen die Deutschen keinen Spaß.
We must stop Sightwalk!
You know, sightwalk.de, one of those many German Google Street View-type companies that have been taking pictures of your homes out there for years now? Oh, you never heard of them? And you couldn’t really care less nor do you feel threatened by them in the least? Well there we have it.
Maria S.
Germans concerned about American middle class
Sort of. I mean like, who else will keep buying their exports even though they can’t afford to?
“While America’s super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever.”
PS: The word “Obama” cannot be found in this article.
