Germany and Germans

[dougie86]

Originally Posted by Indurain

In every way, I have found Germany and Germans thoroughly polite and kind - despite my poor command of the German language.

+1
Beautiful country. Amazing people with impeccable manners, great attention to details, accuracy like a clock work. And everything in Germany works with mechanical precision.

Once I was brought to see Verdun and the skulls and skeletons.
What was it with the French and the Germans?!

[netwit]

Originally Posted by XodoX

The thread is a few days old, but I'd still like to say something. I'm a german who moved to the U.S a few years ago. I don't really get why Americans think we are "way to organized" "pedant" etc. I don't think that's true. Every society needs to be organized to some extend, otherwise there would be chaos.

When I lived in Germany I came across a German farmer who'd "organised" his horse to pee only when the farmer held a bucket under him and to do his other business the same way. Saved on bedding.

Toilet training horses is just a little too organised for me.

There is or was also an expression another (female) friend came across on a date with a German man (in Germany). I don't know the exact wording because it was strange to me, but basically the way she translated into English was he asked her if he could come up to her apartment for a few "units of pleasure." Again, a little too pendantic for me but if you (or anyone else) are familiar with the German term she used, I'd be really curious to read it in German.

I don't know if it was regional, or perhaps it was the phrase of the moment about the university crowd (she was a teacher).

[effie g-tad]

Originally Posted by big daryle

The average German is far, far more educated and enlightened than the average American. Admittedly, that is faint praise at best.

das geht mir heute aber runter wie sahne!

meaning this is good to read, here and now.
still, i think no one should be forced to look to another system as an ideal to copy. an average belongs in the realm of maths, not humanity, imho.

[effie g-tad]

Originally Posted by netwit

When I lived in Germany I came across a German farmer who'd "organised" his horse to pee only when the farmer held a bucket under him and to do his other business the same way. Saved on bedding.

Toilet training horses is just a little too organised for me.

There is or was also an expression another (female) friend came across on a date with a German man (in Germany). I don't know the exact wording because it was strange to me, but basically the way she translated into English was he asked her if he could come up to her apartment for a few "units of pleasure." Again, a little too pendantic for me but if you (or anyone else) are familiar with the German term she used, I'd be really curious to read it in German.

I don't know if it was regional, or perhaps it was the phrase of the moment about the university crowd (she was a teacher).

rofl. "streicheleinheiten" in literal translation would correlate with stroke units.