Ask me about germany.

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Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

Sheik Yerbouti posted:

I'm living in Buckow

That's where I grew up, near Johannisthaler Chaussee- hey there fellow Buckow-goon :cool:

Growing up in Germany I appreciated movies being dubbed. Usually they do a really good job with it too and use the same voice actor for the same movie actor across projects. The only thing that made me go :wtf:

was when the voice actor for Patrick Stewart in ST:TNG got switched between season 3 and 4.

Now that I am used to watching movies in English though it annoys me when I see a dubbed film because the lip synching seems way off. Maybe there's less of a budget nowadays to do it right or I have just gotten more perceptive.

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I just drowned the teacher in words. Everyone else writes 3000 words essays? Just babble away for a few more pages, make it 6000, get padded on the back for your use of stream of consciousness and net 14 points.

I hated losing 2 or 3 points for "content" just because my writing is very terse. So for AP English finals I went all out ~~making up~~analyzing as many symbolisms and metaphors as I could think of. 15 points, bitch :mmmsmug:

(We've got letter grades in middle school and it switches to a 1-15 scale in high school).

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Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

Skip Frankfurt if you can. Stuttgart, Nuernberg, and Muenchen are worth spending a few days in.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2009 22:59

Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

heeebrew posted:

My grandparents are headed to Berlin next week, is there anything I should ask them to bring me back? Berlin or German only candy or drinks?

Have them go to the KaDeWe which is sort of like the Harrodd's of Berlin- all kinds of overpriced items for tourists to bring home. Supermarkets should carry the aforementioned Berliner Weisse or if you want to go non-alcoholic try to find Almdudler lemonade (it's Austrian, but I have seen it in a few Berlin stores before). Pretty much all the Kinder brand candy items are great as is Hanuta

# ¿ Jun 17, 2010 02:29

Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

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.

That's just a matter of finding the right district to live in. Berlin has lots of little communities and it's easy enough to avoid certain subcultures. For example I grew up in Neukoelln which is a blue collar district. Move a couple miles to the south or west and you get more white collar. Move north or east and you'll run into students and drug dealers

# ¿ Jun 25, 2010 03:10

Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

Pharmacy = Apotheke (over the counter and prescription stuff)
Drug store = Drogerie (shampoo, toothpaste, some OTC)

# ¿ Jun 29, 2010 23:05

Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

elwood posted:

Should both be good to waste an hour or so.
*aka Castle Wolfenstein

If you do end up going to the Wewelsburg make sure you get a tour guide to take you to the crypta. It's usually locked and has an awesome echo chamber if you stand right in the center of it.

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Cross_: Aug 22, 2008

elwood posted:

Never, under no circumstances, should you ever even think about joining a Schrebergartenverein. The pettiest bullshit imaginable goes on there.

Obviously depends on the specific club you join. My parents use their garden as a weekend getaway and aside from mandatory work duty for the commons areas it's not too bad. I guess if you get involved in the whole committee business it might be as dreadful as joining an HOA.

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