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Yeah, gently caress the deaf people, because who needs subtitles? In all seriousness, I hate comments like those, and people who complain about subtitles are directly responsible for theaters avoiding subtitled screenings and thus add to the feeling of exclusion that deaf people experience. Please tell all of your friends who think like you why it's a really stupid idea to complain about subtitles. It's like complaining about having to wait for passengers on wheelchairs entering public transport, or about getting out of the way of blind people. It used to be that you could watch Jurassic loving Park 2 or Farrely Brothers stuff with subtitles, but now all we get are documentaries about drunk dairy farmers from Outer Mongolia.
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I'd be kinda surprised if you couldn't talk yourself out of the ticket based on how city signboards are different.
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Yeah, that's why I said "kinda" - it's not like you'd be able to talk yourself out of anything ticket related while abroad because it's different at home, now that I think of it.
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May 12, 2010 10:58
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Yeah better don't tell them you have an iPhone because they have special (expensive) plans for that. Be prepared to be price-gouged for SMS. The lowest unlimited data plan has only 30 SMS included and 100 minutes - and costs 49 €. Extra SMS are 0,19 € a piece. I think you'd be better off with BASE or some similar provider, I heard of data plans as low as 10 € - and they don't gouge you with the iPhone I think.
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May 14, 2010 23:14
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Ask 'em to chip a piece off the holocaust memoria... oh wait, that's the Berlin Wall, I always get those confused. Berliner Weiße mit Schuß would be the souvenir of choice, but I doubt they'll be able to bring that stuff on the plane, even if it's bottled. Pfannkuchen would be easier to transport (but messier) and besides, you'd get the same or at least similar experience from jelly donuts.
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Jun 15, 2010 08:17
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Oh, of course, if you wanna get specific drinks, you could get the whole slew of alternative sodas: Fritz Kola is available in a poo poo ton of different flavors and I think it's the one soda that kicked off the hype, lotsa others tried to copy it but failed (I think) - but it originated in Hamburg. Bionade isn't specific to any city in particular, but it gave a subculture in Berlin its name: Bionade Biedermeier. It's sorta like eco-soda, not as sweet as regular soda. Then there's Club Mate, which is sort of an acquired taste, and not specific to any city in particular either, but again, it's popular in Berlin. It's like leftist Red Bull (but with a completely different taste). Almdudler is a pretty new phenomenon as far as soda and Berlin go. It used to be that it was rarely available in bars, but now they've started an even more groan-worthy campaign than Bionade which features such gems as "5 Minuten Nachspülzeit". Here's a bit on the Bionade campaign though, which was MUCH better. http://www.blog-8.de/marketing-von-fuhrenden-us-getrankeherstellern-nicht-empfohlen
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Holunder is for sissies. Ingwer-Orange is where it's at.
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Fasheem posted:I wonder if I'd like Berlin. I'm leery of living in a place with a lot of artists cause most of the artists I've met are tedious jerkoffs, but I don't like living in small towns and Berlin is the cheapest big city in Germany. Well I guess you'll see a lot of hipsters and tourists, but that depends on which part of the city you live in. If you want to live in a big city you pretty much only got Berlin as far as German choices go. Hamburg and München are tiny in comparison, and the Ruhrgebiet really doesn't feel like one continuous city. Believe me, if you go looking for big cities and go to Hamburg, you'll be disappointed. Walk 10-20 minutes in any direction and everything turns to suburbia.
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Uh, if by "white goods" you mean the crapper and related porcelain, they usually come with those. Also, most places (I've seen) had at least the following: crapper, shower, sink, stove.
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Jun 23, 2010 08:00
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Ah, learn something new every day - well yeah, as I said, a stove usually is supplied with the flat, but I guess the guy who asked will see that himself when going flat hunting.
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Jun 23, 2010 08:37
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Clearly you've never tried PT (or ÖPNV as we call it) in Berlin - where people bitch when they have to wait 1 minute for a train.
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Jun 23, 2010 23:08
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Default Settings, I think if you're doing a huge (by German standards anyway) road trip, you should visit each of those cities as well as Flensburg. Also some cities in east Germany couldn't hurt either, like Leipzig or Dresden. Where will you be starting off, anyway, and how much ground do you hope to cover in how much time?
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Jun 29, 2010 21:47
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Yeah, but there isn't really much useful OTC stuff at a drug store except for very mild stuff like cough drops and band-aids. And herbal remedies, of course. They don't even have any good OTC painkillers.
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Jun 29, 2010 23:29
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I like Duisburg a lot, mainly for the Ruhr (or was it Rhein?) stuff there. I think the harbors and protective dykes and whatnot are really neat, even though they're not that special. I guess it's like Hamburg but a lot less touristy (and much much smaller but still pretty industrial). I dunno what it's exactly that I like about it, but it's the only other city in Germany besides Berlin and Leipzig that I really like.
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Jun 30, 2010 20:36
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Yeah, the Humboldthain Flak towers (mainly the one to the west) nearby the Unterwelten also give you a nice view of the city but you better expect to strain your neck quite a bit to see Mitte.
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Jun 30, 2010 20:49
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If you're permanently moving to Germany, why not get the iPhone here? I figure it'd save you a lot of hassle. The low end plans (in the 40-50 bucks range) are poo poo in regards to SMS, though - you'll either have 40 free SMS -or- free SMS to anyone in the same network, which is nice if you know a lot of people on the same network, but you can't really tell the network from the number anymore. Any extra SMS will cost you 19 cents, although you don't pay for incoming texts.
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Yeah you could but the 3GS is poo poo compared to the 4  I mean, you're really missing out on a lot but then again this time next year you can probably buy unlocked 4s already so whatever. I got a question myself: I'll be in Saarbrücken for a long weekend in August, what are some good/cheap places to eat? I figure Flammkuchen are big over there, but what else? And where? Also if there's anything worth seeing in the city I'd love to know about that too
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Brecht posted:Follow up question, Berlin residents in particular: what's my best bet for internet service? Uh, Alice/Hansenet? They're pretty reliable.
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Sereri posted:And they also have a 1 month cancellation period unlike everyone else where its 12 or 24 months. That's new though, isn't it? I know I signed up for a 24 month contract a couple years back.
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JCrap posted:Going to Berlin for one day Get your rear end to the Burgermeister under the Schlesisches Tor subway station, it's pretty great. Drink Tannenzäpfle beer and feel like a hipster while traffic moves around you The whole joint used to be a former "Café Sechseck" aka public pee-pee place Also take a walk along the Oberbaumbrücke, great view and close by the Burgermeister, just keep walking east, then north. Lotsa great clubs nearby, too. If you wanna see the East Side Gallery, that's just a left after the Oberbaumbrücke, too. As for beer gardens, http://www.luise-dahlem.de/ is pretty great but a bit off the map, almost rural, although it's still within the city limits. http://www.brauhaus-spandau.de/ is also far out but it's got local beer and is a bit expensive but cool too if you're into that whole "holy poo poo I'm piss drunk this must be Europe - hey is that a castle" thing, also you get to see a lot of West German architecture (i.e. tanning salons and cheap Italian restaurants) - for a more authentic experience, venture along the subway line no. 7 (U7), exit at Zitadelle and go asking for medieval dining or whatever. If you wanna, you can take a tour and see bits of the Waffen SS (or whatever) labs, although the majority of the tour is about medieval poo poo and bats. The dining there is top notch, though, albeit expensive. 50 bucks'll get you the whole experience, they'll give you a napkin and a knife and then you can go hog wild on a bunch of food like they used to back in the 1300s or whatever. If you don't wanna go all that far, give http://www.eschenbraeu.de/ a try, it's a very local beer brewed in Wedding, a district of the city which isn't about marriages but rather about immigrants, workers, unemployed and college students. It's close to Leopoldplatz, which in turn is a station of the U9, which is about 10 minutes from Berlin Zoo, the former center of the city. If you don't go to Berlin Zoo while in Berlin, I'll hate you forever. It mightn't be pretty but it's the heart of the Western part of the city. Basically, if you go all "Ohhh I gotta see Mitte", I'll hate you. Mitte is part of the city, but it isn't all there is to see about it. (Fun fact about Bielefeld: The sign language sign for Bielefeld used to be the same as "jerk off" for a while until it changed to something resembling the sign for "suffering", I poo poo you not.)
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Sounds like the premise for a modern-day interpretation of "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" 
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Yeah, a pack of noodles and some tomatoes in a can go a long way. 3-5 € a day sound about right although you can stretch that further if you buy in bulk, like at ethnic supermarkets. There's loads of huge Asian supermarkets that have big bags of rice (and of course instant noodles but those get old fast, at least for me, even when I try to mix things up with veggies and poo poo)... As for the cell phone - I think most plans are for 2 years, not one, so you might have a problem there if you want to unlock that phone beforehand unless you're tech savvy.
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Aug 8, 2010 22:24
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unixbeard posted:I would try and find a temporary place for 1 month while you look around, then start looking as soon as you get there. Yeah, he could look for "Zwischenmiete" which usually is much easier to get. I know a friend of mine who was fed up with Hamburg and decided to go to Berlin for a while, so she put up an offer for her place in Hamburg (right next to the Reeperbahn though) and went looking for a Zwischemiete place in Berlin. Independently of each other, she managed to claim a place in Berlin as well as having hers claimed, within 15 minutes of posting her offer. Another friend of mine who's looking for a place to stay in Berlin is still looking after two, three weeks - but she's looking for a two-room apartment on her own, which can get pretty expensive for one person but is really affordable for couples - I know two couples personally who found places within a few days. So it depends. If you're looking to shack up with other people it'll depend on whether they'll like you or not more than anything. I don't think a lot of WGs take that stuff seriously and are actually happy about new blood. No clue about the paperwork.
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You'll have to pay about 5 € per prescription, it's called Eigenanteil. Glasses and hearing aids and stuff like that usually isn't covered by health insurance, but that depends. Orthopedic stuff like wristbands and supporting socks are covered... it really depends. For therapies you'll have to pay about 50 € for 10 sessions, generally 10 % of the total cost. Most stuff the doctor does is covered, but for some preventive exams, like skin cancer exams, you'll have to pay extra if you're under a certain age, but that depends on the health insurance you get. Techniker Krankenkasse, for example, covers skin cancer exams before the age of 30, most other insurances only do after you've reached 30. If it's not covered, it costs 20 - 30 €. And then there's Überweisungsscheine. Basically, if you go to a specialist and then to another specialist, you'll have to pay the quarterly 10 € Praxisgebühr again unless you get a paper saying that the other specialist sent you. Like if you went to a nose doctor (HNO in German, dunno about the English equivalent) to an eye doctor. Dentists and orthodontists (the guys with the braces and stuff, right?) are a wholly different matter. A regular doctor or specialist in some other field can't send you to the dentist/orthodontist and vice versa. You don't have to pay for checkups with dentists, though, only if you get actual treatment. Stuff like broken legs and vaccines should be covered I think. Basically if it's necessary, it'll be covered.
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Well, that's pretty much every city in the history of cities.
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Aug 22, 2010 22:32
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That ticket doesn't work for IC/ICE trains, now does it?
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Sep 5, 2010 10:55
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FLX posted:Also: Holy poo poo, I thought the picture of Hoeneß with the sausages jammed inside that bun were a joke and that you'd actually get the Nürnbergers on a plate or something. Seems like a breakfast-only thing though.
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Sep 7, 2010 10:55
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That's too bad but they look like they're a mess to eat anyway and make me wonder why McDonalds doesn't offer Currywurst or Bratwurst anywhere. Or Pommes Spezial.
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Yeah, I guess it's some sort of morbid curiosity as to how absolutely generic they could make Currywurst and the likes. I'm imagining something like Chicken McNuggets, only with pre-formed sausage pieces made to look like they were cut and dips of your choice. Ew gross. Didn't they offer pizza at some point in time?
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Sep 7, 2010 13:19
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Just pocket your change and drop 1 or 2 euros as a tip whenever weird sums come up. Problem solved.
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Sep 10, 2010 12:54
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More like 500 €.
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Sep 16, 2010 10:49
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Or go in right before midnight, withdraw maximum amount, wait til past midnight, withdraw maximum amount again. Haven't tried it myself but heard it works.
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Sep 16, 2010 11:04
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Yeah it's pretty important that my flatmate be able to let me know via photographic evidence that he just shat out a literal CRAP OBELISK standing on end
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Sep 22, 2010 12:10
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Bullshit, it has nothing to do with East or West or hipster or not hipster.
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Yeah, the last winter was the worst by a long stretch, particularly in Berlin. I think we had so much loving ice on the streets that we dreaded above-zero temperatures because that would mean that the snow'd melt and then freeze again instantly, creating a freshly smoothened and slippery as gently caress surface. I don't think Berlin is that bad during fall/winter/spring, though - it's just a bit harder to socialize outdoors.
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Sep 27, 2010 22:32
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I guess "Ich bin ein Abenteurer auf der Suche nach Schätzen." works but it sounds kinda lame.
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That's why I said "kinda". With "auf Schatzsuche" it does sound better though, but you got to remember that it's a translation of a translation - isn't it?
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Ziir posted:Edit: Why is there an article in front of Abenteurer? I dunno, why is there an article in front of "adventurer"?
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Oct 6, 2010 21:56
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I wouldn't ever say "Ich bin Student" but rather "Ich studiere", same for Lastwagenfahrer ("Ich fahre Lastwagen"), and neither would I say "Ich bin Berliner" or "Ich bin ein Berliner" but rather "Ich bin aus Berlin" or "Ich bin in Berlin aufgewachsen", but maybe that's just me.
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I wasn't responding to the whole article thing either but rather that I won't even say the sentences in a way that would even require articles, i.e. I'd rather use the verb form of those nouns instead of using an article + noun construction.
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