DRUNK

beck's isn't considered shit here, it's just...cheap. like oddly so. i don't get it but i keep buying it.

• When touring in the wine-growing regions, camping in one or all of the vineyards that sit on the banks of the Rhine is strongly recommended. When you get there, ensure that you wrinkle your nose at the sweet wines that are sold to tourists, express a bit of interest in dry wines, and bingo - you will be dragged into the wine racks by the delighted owners and forced to taste huge quantities of their best produce. Expect to be joined by half the staff and their families.
• Never, ever, walk on the grass. Ever.
• Never cross a pedestrian crossing when the man is red, even if nothing is coming. On the other hand, crossing where there is no official crossing-place is perfectly acceptable.
• Old ladies expect you to give way, especially if you are young and at the head of a long queue. Sharp elbows are the best defence.
• If you are in Munich, get up early one day, go to the market in the centre of town, and obtain a Weisswurst. You must go in the morning, because by midday they are past their best. They are white sausages made from the white fatty gunk that runs out of the pig when they cut its throat, and taste very nice. Try one, you will be surprised. Honest.
• Never, ever spend an entire evening drinking Altbier. It is very nice but gives you a pounding hangover.
• If you get caught up in a bar where drinking songs are being sung, do not hide behind your beer hoping that nobody will notice you. It is far more acceptable to join in. Of course nobody expects you to know the words, you're a foreigner, so just wave your beer around and make appropriate singing noises during the chorus.
• In what used to be the West, it is much, much better to be thought a foreign tourist than a foreign worker. Unemployment is a big problem and feelings against 'foreigners taking our jobs' run high.
• In Hamburg, get onto one of the harbour tour boats (Hafenrundfahrt). They are well worth it, as these are some of the biggest shipbuilding yards in the world, and your little grockle boat is dwarfed by the shipping that is in dock. Awe inspiring.
• Planten und Blomen in Hamburg is a horticultural park, a bit like Kew Gardens, London. At dusk in the summer months, go to the fountains (near the Telemichel - see below). They have coloured lights beneath them, and in the evenings for an hour or so they dance to music played over loudspeakers across the lake.
• The Telemichel is Hamburg slang for their telecommunications tower. There is a rotating restaurant (with an excellent menu) at the top, from which it is possible to look down on Planten und Blomen, the Olympic Village, and also plummeting bungee-jumpers. On a summer's day it is often also possible to look down on swarms of hot-air balloons.
• If you switch on the radio, don't be surprised if the music sounds the same on every channel. This is absolutely normal.
• One in three Germans is a smoker. Cigarette promotions are held in bars, and asking for a non-smoking seat in a restaurant will be met with blank looks...
• ...Except in Berlin, where service doesn't extend to blank looks. Expect a disdainful stare from the bar area where the staff are enjoying a drink.
• To tip waiters customers usually round up the bill to whole units. For example a beer costing DM4.50 costs DM5 with tip.
• Public transport is excellent all over Germany although it's cheaper to rent a car and drive for long distances than it is to take the train.
• Credit and debit cards are not as widely accepted in Germany as in the rest of the West. Cash is always welcome, even small change in fact, as keeping the Pfennig in circulation is the subject of a campaign in Germany. Since this entry was written, the Euro has been introduced, no doubt causing the pro-Pfennig campaigners some concern.
• Also the subject of a campaign was the Ampelmännchen - the little green figure telling you it's safe to cross the road. In the old days of the east/west divide the DDR benefited from the services of a very jaunty little figure, complete with hat and, in one case, an umbrella. Due to EU standardisations the figure was to be replaced with the generic international version and people all over the East were up in arms.
• Germans are generally very friendly and hospitable people, all the more so in the East. It's perfectly normal if you're in a crowded restaurant to squeeze onto a table with a few complete strangers.
• Indian restaurants in Germany are terrible, because German food is very bland and there's not much of a demand for late-night chicken vindaloo. The mainstay of the German fast food industry is the doner kebab.
• When buying fruit and vegetables in a German supermarket weigh your own produce, push the button corresponding to what you're buying and affix the resulting sticky label on the plastic bag. It's not cool to have separate bags for everything, so put your potatoes in with your carrots and beans with all the labels on the outside. Bring your own bag to carry your shopping in and don't forget to recycle.
• Recycling is very popular in Germany. Biodegradable rubbish gets taken away and composted, glass is melted down (bottles generally have a deposit) and re-used, and most packaging bears the 'green point' which indicates that it can also be recycled.
• Nudism is acceptable in many public parks. Picture the first sunny day in May, with half a dozen naked men trying to convince themselves that it's warm enough to be sunbathing and a little old lady in a coat and furry hat out walking her dog and not paying them the slightest bit of attention.
• Drinking in public (or at work) is also tolerated and the police, although they don't stand any abuse, are generally lenient.
• You can visit the Reeperbahn, Hamburg, the most famous and biggest red light district in Germany. You can have a look in hundreds of sex-shops for every need you have, and can also have a nice time in the pubs, drinking whatever you want until you drop on the floor. But be careful, as 'a little bit' of champagne will cost you.
• Every 'Hamburger' thinks Hamburg is the most beautiful town in Germany, maybe in the whole world.
• Hamburg has got a lot of water. It has a harbour, and it has some lakes in the middle of the city. You can sit at the sea or harbour, and have a drink. There are no pubs, just a few restaurants, where you pay $10 for a small beer. So be careful.

luv berlin

but what is their law on smoking it :o?

half a dozen naked men trying to convince themselves that it's warm enough to be sunbathing....

i'm drunk and you're at work

i love a drunken revival. because i'm a southerner, i suppose.

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[i/]am0n, who is am0n?, well he symbol smiled in technicolor.[/i]

guess i'll do my drinking here now

do i detect a hint of reproof?

any ill will was stillborn i assure you

can i join you here why bc i think i am drunk

i wish i could play this game, maybe tomorrow

tehresa, you are drunk in my prayers.
― Lingbert

how come half of jw's posts were about buybacks?!?!

i miss lingbert.

he's the only person in this entire world i have chatzed with.

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we're all a fool for lingbert.

i chatzed with lingbert

i sat across the table from him while he ate pancakes

i hate when i run out of tonic

aw jeez

they found a note in the wall at aushwitz. lingbert came over, darnk a peroni and watched lost w/ us. things are afoot for my man. did u hear about the valley in pakistan that got overrun by taliban>? i get two magazines now, both weekly, and they pile up, they do

do u hear just a beat

there are funny peopkle that think they found a skull on mars

did u see that

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5255394/Alien-skull-spotted-on-Mars.html
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what do u think of acidy squelches in songs?

or in life

is 'ban the phrase in this club' as trite as in this club

i once saw a developmental version of ilx with CHATZ INTEGRATION 2009 it seemed tight (things you don't understand, because you are old 9. instant messaging

― jergïns, Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:58 PM (1 year ago))

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'stoner rock'

bye

aw jerginsa

jerginsa!

jergins, i wish you understood instant messaging!

that is clearly not a skull it is cummingtonite!

that sounds dirty/

massachusetts is pretty skank iirc

jergin-san

why thank you

@ jergins: jaunty!
@jaq: yay yes, & i can return your dish!
@jaq: brilliant!
@estela: love you too!

he thought it a disaster for some reason but srsly, a one room apt and we gotta bring our own chairs? my expectations aren't high

lol gotta bring our own chairs wednesday

loool

nrought a chair only 1 cuz ursul4 ditched but it was tight, curry and then i went to dick's and got us milkshakes

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lingbert in uruguay again btw

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¡VIVA!

one glass of wine.

i miss walking past dick's on my way to the gym and snickering at fatties eating fat but i also do not miss walking past dick's on my way home from the gym and smelling hamburgers and being really hungry. also safeway that smelled like donuts ALL THE TIME.

guys

whoa

oya

?

aw

<3

DRUNK

hi

again?!

Bc Wheeeeeeeeee! !!!!!

Totally! !!!!