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Perestroika posted:Consider Lübeck instead, Kiel's far more handsome little sibling. Same temperate weather, really beautiful historical old town, and all the marzipan you could ever want. Only downside is that it's, like, super tiny. I'm from dowtown Lübeck and when my girlfriend first visited her reaction was "you grew up in a postcard".
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:05 |
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GaussianCopula posted:In my opinion you should name streets after people that
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:09 |
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GaussianCopula posted:In my opinion you should name streets after people that Jesus Christ, GC is making a good post
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:10 |
Cingulate posted:I dunno. Why not name streets after some African queen for a change? Most of your streets are gonna follow a) and at least some b) and c) already. Why not have one named "Nzinga von Matamba-Str."? Because a) She was not a nice person. b) She has no connection to Berlin or even Germany. c) Her name is not easily spelled I don't see why there has to be a street names after an African queen in Berlin - just like I don't think cities in Ghana have to have a Adenauer Street.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:20 |
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Just follow Mannheim's example and number them so you get A3 and D4 and poo poo. This may require some adaptation in cities that aren't Mannheim but where there's a will there's a way.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:26 |
GaussianCopula posted:I don't see why there has to be a street names after an African queen in Berlin - just like I don't think cities in Ghana have to have a Adenauer Street. Barring this one incidence where the committee maybe could have picked someone better, I don't see why there couldn't be. Or would you rather Wedding kept its streets-named-after-former-German-colonies-in-Africa as a reminder of Germany's "gentle" history of colonialism? vvvv Lübeck owns. Drone fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jun 26, 2017 |
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Bistromatic posted:I'm from dowtown Lübeck and when my girlfriend first visited her reaction was "you grew up in a postcard". Yeah, I've been living here for a while now, and I'm still occasionally struck by just how incredibly quaint this place is. And hey, one advantage of the fairly small size is that you can get to anywhere important within just 10 minutes on foot.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:32 |
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Hmmmmm, I wonder why GC thinks naming streets after Hindenburg is cool, but naming streets after an African Queen would be not cool. Quite the mystery we have at hand here. I love the idea of never renaming streets though. Because it means the inevitable Helmut-Kohl-Straßen will all be some lovely small road in a random Neubaugebiet.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:35 |
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Agree, Lübeck is the prettiest.GaussianCopula posted:Because I wouldn't mind if some city in Ghana had an Adenauer Street. Why not? I mean, you feel street names should have some sort of local origin. Ok, I guess most people would say most street names should have a local origin. But why shouldn't a few have different origins, beyond "I feel they shouldn't have"?
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:45 |
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If your streets are named after anything other than "town in whose direction they point" and "notable thing on this street" like Kirch- Haupt- or Hafenstraße, Am Bach, Am Berg etc., sorry bout you living in a poor neighborhood
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:48 |
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It's the contrast that does it. Hafenstraße, Am Bach, Nzinga von Matamba-Str., Kirchstraße, Friedrichshain (Yeah Hafenstraße is right next to Am Bach in this city)
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 13:53 |
Cingulate posted:Agree, Lübeck is the prettiest. Would you want a street named after a warlord who poisoned their sibling and traded in slaves and collaborated with different European powers to stay in power? Probably not. The fact that she is female and black should not change that. Drone posted:Barring this one incidence where the committee maybe could have picked someone better, I don't see why there couldn't be. Or would you rather Wedding kept its streets-named-after-former-German-colonies-in-Africa as a reminder of Germany's "gentle" history of colonialism? The people actually living in that quarter have made a list of constructive proposals that would have solved the the problem of having streets named after questionable people (this Nachtigal person seems to actually have been rather decent but whatever) quote:Anwohner hatten 2011 die Initiative Pro Afrikanisches Viertel (IPAV) gegründet, um Straßenumbenennungen zu verhindern. Die IPAV hatte Tausende Unterschriften gegen die geforderte Umbenennung gesammelt und 2016 Kompromissvorschläge gemacht: Der Nachtigalplatz solle wie bei der Petersallee umgewidmet werden und statt wie bisher dem Kolonialpolitiker Gustav Nachtigal dem Theologen und Schriftsteller Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal gewidmet werden. Die Lüderitzstraße soll nicht mehr Adolf Lüderitz gewidmet sein, sondern der nach ihm benannten Hafenstadt Lüderitz, so die Idee. GaussianCopula fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Jun 26, 2017 |
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GaussianCopula posted:Would you want a street named after a warlord who poisoned their sibling and traded in slaves and collaborated with different European powers to stay in power? I particularly wouldn't care if the person was not associated with the city. Don't need to restrict the Genghis Kahn Street name to cities that have been sacked by the Mongols!
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 14:30 |
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I hope that if any city has a road that's terrible in every way but council can't touch it because it brings so much traffic into town, they have the good sense to call it Martensteinstraße.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 14:33 |
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best streetnames are obv in Hamburg Ole Enn, Lütt Kollau, Ophagen
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 14:55 |
Cingulate posted:I guess for most people, this would be bad because street names are considered as praise, but to me, considering many streets are named after quite awful people, that's not really the case - I think street names are just names that remind us of people, and it's good to be reminded of bad people. So no, I wouldn't mind that. Call a street Genghis Khan Street, call it Voldemort Street for all I care - not to celebrate them, but to remind us of what humans are capable of. In that case, why rename streets that are named after people responsible for the German colonial history?
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 14:58 |
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GaussianCopula posted:In that case, why rename streets that are named after people responsible for the German colonial history? You'd think it's no big deal - just something you do and that's it. But no, it's A Thing. Slightly more seriously: if all our streets are named after German guys with ortsbezug, one could get the impression street names are in fact always celebratory, and particularly that they're there to celebrate German dudes.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 15:12 |
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scrollte gerade mal bei spon runter und musste herzlich lachen:
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Goa Tse-tung posted:best streetnames are obv in Hamburg
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 15:54 |
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Wilhelmsburger Reichsstraße
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 18:42 |
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Ich würde vorschlagen, Straßen- und Plätze ausschließlich nach Tieren zu benennen, um zartbesaitete Sozen und Lehramtsstudenten nicht emotional zu zerrütten. Hier sind schonmal genug Beispiele für einen Kiez: Tigerallee Pantherplatz Löwenallee Mausgasse Marderstraße Windhundgasse Pumaplatz Flamingoallee Fuchsstraße Dachsgasse Wieseleck Biberstraße Leguanallee Büffelstraße
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 18:44 |
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just rename everything after dogs, because dogs are the best also jail everyone who disagrees, because as doghaters they probably would have committed some serious crime down the road anyway
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 18:46 |
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Fuchskusuweg
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 18:49 |
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Randler posted:Ich würde vorschlagen, Straßen- und Plätze ausschließlich nach Tieren zu benennen, um zartbesaitete Sozen und Lehramtsstudenten nicht emotional zu zerrütten. Also why not Tyrannosaurusstraße
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 18:51 |
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Cingulate posted:In this case the offended party is GC ..? According to threadlore, GaussianCopula could certainly tell you why no Tyrannosaurusstraße was mentioned.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 18:56 |
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Pinguinweg wäre wirklich bezaubernd. Ok ich bin überzeugt. Großartige Lösung.
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 19:05 |
When they run out of animal names, GC would probably be more than happy to take an apartment on PzKpfw38(t)-Straße
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# ? Jun 26, 2017 19:07 |
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Drone posted:When they run out of animal names, GC would probably be more than happy to take an apartment on PzKpfw38(t)-Straße Luckily this will never happen, the amount of available animal names is titanic. By the way, I call dibs on the Portia-Gasse. I'm tired of living in a street named like some dudes abducted a bishop long ago and got this dumb street named after them.
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Randler posted:According to threadlore, GaussianCopula could certainly tell you why no Tyrannosaurusstraße was mentioned. aphid_licker posted:Pinguinweg wäre wirklich bezaubernd. Ok ich bin überzeugt. Großartige Lösung. I'd still like Tyrannosaurusstraße
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Drone posted:When they run out of animal names, GC would probably be more than happy to take an apartment on PzKpfw38(t)-Straße There is a Panzerwiese in northern Munich and I have no idea why it's called that way. It's also something like 97% rabbit and sheep poo poo by weight; worst Wiese ever 0/10
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Cingulate posted:I'd still like Tyrannosaurusstraße poo poo, I'd like to live there too
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:There is a Panzerwiese in northern Munich and I have no idea why it's called that way. The military used to do stuff there
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Drone posted:When they run out of animal names, GC would probably be more than happy to take an apartment on PzKpfw38(t)-Straße
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# ? Jun 27, 2017 00:19 |
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Ich warte für den supermarkt zu eröffnen. This is my second time in Germany. What are some of the big social political problems facing the country currently? Are there nationwide problems or can anyone tell me specific problems with NRW?
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# ? Jun 27, 2017 06:59 |
I wanna live on Froschkönigstr.
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Bedshaped posted:Ich warte für den supermarkt zu eröffnen. "Ich warte darauf, dass der Supermarkt öffnet." Welcome to Germany. Big problems will depend on whom you ask. As a left wing person I'd say it's stagnating wages, our severely underpayed and understaffed nurses and the right-wing backlash against our refugee policy. A rightwinger will tell you it's immigrants. Can't really tell you anything NRW specific, but we have people from there in the chat IIRC. How long are you staying?
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Bedshaped posted:Are there nationwide problems or can anyone tell me specific problems with NRW? NRW ist selbst ein Problem meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach. Hoffe das hilft.
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botany posted:How long are you staying? Until Thursday. After that, possibly the rest of my life. Sereri posted:NRW ist selbst ein Problem meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach. Hoffe das hilft. Dein Gehirn geht nicht. breadshaped fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Bedshaped posted:Until Thursday. After that, possibly the rest of my life. Scoping the place out before relocating for work? If you're a UK citizen, the Brexit negotiations will have just as much importance for your here as they would at home. Though I think the chances of the German government just abandoning UK citizens living here are extremely low.
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