The difference is that when there are two people having a conversation they aren't almost screaming, because they understand each other. Those using their phones like that however...
And yes, I tell them their shit doesn't interest anyone. It's helping when you look like an bad angry bearded biker.
I'm in the glorious position that I have to cross the road once to get to the baker that is a supermarket too, another road crossing and I'm at the butcher. From my door to the bakery, to the butcher and back home... 200m.
The next Aldi, Tedi and REWE is about a kilometer away.
If there is some god... I hope hell is a place reserved for this people...
before their own painfull death... I hope they suffer, they have to watch all their beloved people, siblings and offspring die horrible painfull deaths and everyone they hold dear suffer, suffer and suffer... until they die as the oldest humans in ages, bound in a catatonic state for decades and I will gleefully keep the machines running that keep them alive!
And people wonder why I despise all religious institutions, no matter the flavour of their business selling people an empty shell they named hope.
They for sure work on that for their "beloved leader"... but in the end I predict parades held in his honour in front of a Mausoleum, where a hugh dried up, orange painted turd with a yellow toupet is on display in a glass box.
I bet some megaMAGAmorons will embark on a quest to prove their nonsense right... and in the end find out it was the same companies that polluted the air, water and soil whos CEOs are buddybuddy with their beloved leader...
You know the stereotypes about germans, no humor, stare at you, love their rules and laws, cold and pedantic, wait for the green light on a pedestrian crossing at 3 in the morning, but go pedal to the metal the moment their Porsche/Benz/BMW enters the Autobahn... and we drink beer all day and eat Sauerkraut.
:)
Seriously, the only Sauerkraut I really like is the batch my Dad makes every year in autumn and I don't drink beer.
You and grew up in completely different cultures, even if both are considered "western". We both are a product of how we grew up.
If someone would accuse me, as a german, of stareing, I'd be baffled, because for us it is normal not to look away after a split second. We also like to say things directly and don't like waste time with small talk and chit chat in some situations. Many think this makes us cold.
And... you obviously know about the darkest parts of german history. I was born 24 years after the third Reich was defeated and 80 years later this time still haunts this country. That's why we sometimes react a bit "twitchy" if people use expressions that either were used by the fascists or sound like they would have liked them. I hope you understand my first reaction even better now.
I knew it!