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Hilarious.

 

So your visit was about a year ago then? As I said above, I know you're a teenager. In fact I'd bet my house on it.
Fair play to you for being proudly British son, but being proud of who you are doesn't mean you should denigrate others.

You're entitled to your opinion though lad and good on you for expressing it.

 

the ignorant shouldn't be congratulated on spreading their ignorance

 

He's just a young lad with a lot to learn. We've all been there. He'll grow up in time.

 

Why are you posting then?

 

I'm 10 years old, I travelled to the future.

 

I judge people by my own experiences and find racial stereotyping a very dangerous thing.

I have visited Germany on many occassions in my life and I have always found them welcoming, friendly and helpful. Berlin is a wonderful city and Berliners are amongst the most pleasant of city dwellers I think I have met. I have had three good friends who are German and two of whom when they came to stay would insist upon going to the match at the old Dell particularly if it was an evening game. They just loved the proximity of the pitch and the atmosphere. Rather interestingly they both had a sense of humour which clearly was at odds with the national stereotype.My third friend was a teenage penpal whose family I stayed with and he in turn stayed with my family and what lovely people they were. In life I have found very little difference between the various nations other than that do or organise things a little differently.

 

Adam Banana you're the most ignorant, misguided, tragic person I've ever come across. I really do pity your life.

 

Yeah that stereotype unsurprisingly is false. I don't think sense of humour varies much from country to country. What is true though is that they don't make good TV.

 

cf. better

Such as 11 men of the same nationality on a 114 x 74 yard patch of grass.

 

They do if you like soft porn with your tea, and hard porn with your Horlicks.

 

Germans and Germany are/is class. I'd be happy to be a German if I had to change nationality. Could shave off your pubes, sit in the park all day naked, and abuse 12-year old racists at the airport in the evenings.

 

I Visited Germany as a boy as my Step father was part of the occupational forces for a while. I was taken to a place in Germany called Dresden. I was taken there with a few other lads and lasses to teach us something about war we were told.
This was just before Christmas 1947 I was barely 5. What I saw that day has stayed with me all my life as it has the others. We were watching people queueing for food.
We stopped out side a schoolhouse. Which was just a large house that had been patched up with rubble as a border for a playground. That was where our school bus parked and it drew attention from the locals. Now we as children had been told about what we now know as concentration camps and about the Holocaust. We had though actually been to a centre of rehabilitation where there was still some men and women yet to be rehabilitated with their homes. Your imagination can work out how emancipated they were and the state they were in.
So back to our trip to Dresden. One of the questions we asked as children Why were these people and children still here why had they not been repatriated to their homes. Of course it was because these people were not dissimilar in looks to the refugees we assumed they were refugees. Truly they looked no different.
We were shown around mainly rubble to be quite fair. There was a huge rubbish tip on the outskirts that seemingly had thousands of people on it (Remember I was only 5) The whole area was pretty well flattened with hundreds and hundreds of just burnt out shells of houses.
We eventually walked back to the school bus and although the crowd of adults had mostly dissipated there were probably around 30 or so adults and the same school children in the make shift school playground or sitting on the rocks. The most eerie thing I remember was the quietness of the whole area.....No birds or animal sounds just a kind of silence. (Similar to Belsen and Auswitch area's) The adults were not talking just shuffling around. The children in the playground began to kind of talk and to climb on to the rocks and rubble to sit and just stare.
At this point our teacher said we should eat our packed lunch. Which contained a couple of Sandwiches a biscuit with currents in a cake with icing sugar on it an a sweet cherry on the top Also a couple of pieces of fruit. (first time even I had seen icing sugar and a sweet cherry not that I got a chance to eat it as i will explain)
It was a lovely day so Me and few others went out side our coach to sit down and eat our food. My little friend Sue came and sat beside me and spread her travel blanket on the big brick and we started to take out things from our goodies bag one by one.
Suddenly there was gasps and shuffling all around us. We looked up to find every one in a circle around us adults kids the lot. Then a commotion and shouts as suddenly some of the older boys and girls in our group with the teacher pushed there way through to us.
The eyes on those children were like saucers and some of the adults too. It was as if they had never seen door step sandwiches before. At this point we hadn't got any of the biscuits or cake out yet. For a while, we just by now standing, mid bite of a doorstep. Looking into the children's eyes. Somehow believe or believe it not we did not feel frightened the whole thing was just weird with this kind of gasping noise silently in the back ground. I know that sounds daft but I don't know how else to describe it.
I took the sandwich away from my mouth and went over to this tiny little girl the smallest one around she was like a rag doll. I broke off part of the sandwich and offered it to her. The silence now was deafening. For a while she just looked at it, then at me several times,nobody said word. Then the most gorgeous smile and she took it.
You Could see by the way she ate it she was very hungry. The next thing I know was the rest of the coach had come out onto the road and was doing the same. The whole atmosphere changed. We made sure everyone got at least something they all were so hungry, children and adults alike.
Finally it was time to head home so we said our goodbyes. I was the last one on the coach that afternoon.....Just as I was about to board the little girl come running over and said something I couldn't understand, other than the word Danke.......She gave me such a hug and I hugged her back.
What on earth I can hear people say.......I have read certain individuals posts on this thread and others like it expressing their hate for the Germans.
Nobody can deny the Holocaust or any of the horrors of world war two. You also will get for the rest of history those that will always feel that the Germans should have been wiped out. Just as you will get some Germans saying much the same thing about us. What the Germans did in the world was handed back to them 3 fold, short of the Holocaust of course.
The German people suffered tremendously. You might argue well they asked for it, may be they did.
However their children and children's children did not!! It is with them the same as with us we have to build a future without wars.
Germany is a strong nation that has worked hard to get back onto its feet economically it is doing very well. It is inevitable that anyone who has a reasonably strong economy in the European zone is bound to be a big influence.
Being in Europe economically is the best thing for the UK in my opinion we need them as much they need us. It is true I don't like them interfering in our laws but it is the same for them ....So why not us.......

 

Sorry to be an annoying little pedant, but paragraphs please Beddy. I'm sure it's interesting but it hurts my eyes.

 

That stereotype is nonsense. Who made all the porn movies in the seventies and eighties?!! Straight-laced my arse.

Believe it or not, the English have a similar stereotype (rather serious and prudish) around the World, particularly in America. Which is, of course, a load of nonsense but then again most stereotypes are.

TeddyBear, that was a fantastic read (pity you did't space it a bit. My eyes are sore now!). Hopefully that young lad Ramirez will soak it up and realize the stupidity of what he's saying.

 

Sorry mate posted in a hurry......will try and edit later. BT

 

Well I've just read this thread through from the start.

Mr. Gaston Ramirez must be trolling - nobody can be so stupid and offensive. I've only ever passed through Germany but it seemed pretty welcoming and the locals I bumped into were welcoming.

My father would have a better idea. He served with the forces there in the 1980's, he said the culture and people are great. Said they visited some lovely places, live music, cobbled roads and atmospheric streets with live music. Yeah, when you go on holiday you often get stereotypical people, but he said the people always made them feel welcome. You shouldn't judge on a quick visit when you were twelve. My father was unsure of visiting Turkey for a holiday as he'd never been before and knew little about it, but now he really likes the place and would happily go back again. We're all pretty similar.

I don't think they're a million miles away from us really, I'd say we have more similarities with Germany than the likes of France, Italy or Spain/Portugal.

They most certainly are not "the worst country". That is a purely idiotic statement.

 

I don't think they're a million miles away from us really, I'd say we have more similarities with Germany than the likes of France, Italy or Spain/Portugal.

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Totally agree.

 

Myself and the wife have been to many holiday destinations and many times we have had German guests staying at the same hotels and we have always found them to be polite and friendly,and mostly their English is excellent ,us Brits on the other hand could behave better.

 

I stayed in an Ibis Hotel in France a few years ago along with several friends and having had a long day I set off to bed at about midnight while everyone else including the very lovely Mrs Godders stayed in the bar chatting and drinking.

When I got to my room I turned on the tv and got undressed and ready for bed and decided to look to see if there was a sports channel or the news in English on the TV when I came across the Canal national TV channel broadcasting the most uncensored pornographic film I have ever seen.

I thought never mind Canal TV this was more like Carnal Knowledge TV.

While I stood there in my pyjamas aghast but concentrating on what I was seeing the very lovely Mrs Godders came into the room.

Well never mind the film being blue the air was soon blue and I thought I was going to have to go to reception and see if they had a second room I could have for the night.

The net effect was she hardly spoke to me all weekend and it was about a month before she forgave me even though to this day I don't understand what I did wrong.

Of course whenever I stay in a hotel these days I make it a rule to never turn the TV on.




PS I have put plenty of paragraphs in this posting for those who struggle with their reading.