Why Germans are strange #1

Or adorable. Or funny. Or just so German.
Thoughts of a returnee. Not to be taken too seriously ;)


 

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1. Christmas cookies and articles are being sold in September.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/FileStack_retouched.jpg

2. There is always paperwork to do. For an internship, for an university ...  Germans love filling stuff in.

http://www.gruene-hessen.de/partei/files/2013/07/Flugl%25C3%25A4rm.jpg

3. There are at least three election posters in my street with the same view on the same topic - and all from different parties.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/6/68/Tatort_Logo.svg/280px-Tatort_Logo.svg.png

4. Germans love to watch crime series (Krimis) or utterly boring talk shows (maybe as a compensation?). Talk shows usually end with contestants trying to talk louder than the others and lots of "Jetzt lassen Sie mich mal ausreden."

http://www.catering.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Pfand1.jpg

 5. There is Pfand for all kinds of plastic bottles - but not for plastic juice bottles.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Kath._Kirche_Helminghausen.jpg

 6. The streets are deserted on a Sunday.

http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/storage/pic/mdhl/artikelbilder/lokales/rn/dolo/do-lokal/3476420_1_do_verkaufsoffener_sonntag_foto_schaper_004.jpg

7. Except when it is Verkaufsoffener Sonntag of course.

http://www.wernerhellweg.de/bilder/whw_waschkueche.jpg

 9. Many Germans have cellars with a Waschküche - where they do their laundry.

http://www.zentrum-der-gesundheit.de/images/titelbild/vegane-suppen.jpg

10. Germans comment that you eat soup like a Brit.