Germans hate Root Beer

April 25th, 2008

Root beer float
100% of Germans hate root beer. They think it tastes like cough syrup, despite the fact that root beer is indeed delicious.

In America we enjoy the unbeatable combination of root beer and vanilla ice cream, the tasty root beer float. This is the worst nightmare for a German, a combination of overly sweet, rich ice cream swimming in a sea of medicine. Germans hate things that are sweet, except for popcorn. Those weirdos put sugar on their popcorn instead of salt and butter, like God intended.

On the subject of sweets, every German in America will have the same experience as every American in Germany. The foreigner will spot a delicious looking piece of a cake at a diner or bakery and think they must try it with great anticipation, only to be let down that the cake is completely wrong. The cake in America is of course way too sweet, the cake in Germany is naturally great looking, but completely void of that sweet cake taste that everyone else in the world enjoys.

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Open Letter to Bruce Darnell

April 23rd, 2008

Dear Bruce,

Bruce

Please stop. You are embarassing us. We don’t know how you achieved such fame in Germany, since no one had ever heard of you before, but really, all of Germany is not laughing with you.

Maybe take some time off and take some German classes, but please never, ever appear on television again, until you get the basic vocabulary down.

To any Germans reading this, we don’t know who this Bruce guy is. Please don’t think he would ever have a chance of success aside of being a laughing stock in your country.

So, Bruce, on behalf of all Americans that live or lived in Germany during your tenure as Germany’s national court jester, please stop.

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Traffic lights directly above your head

April 19th, 2008

Although not all Germans are to blame for this stupid thing about Germany, the fact the Germans don’t start a revolution to change this is annoying.

When you drive in Germany, you never want to be the first car at a stop light, because in Germany they put the traffic light on your side of the street instead of across the street. This causes you to have to lean forward and sort of look around your rear view mirror to try to catch a glimpse of the traffic light directly above your head.

Since Germans have realized that they chose a rather moronic place to put their traffic lights, they often place an extra traffic light lower on pole that holds the crossbeam for the benefit of the first car at the light. That person need not look straight up, they can also look straight across the car, unless there is a passenger in the car, who would then block the view.

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Typical German Traffic Light

Germans have bad taste in music

April 18th, 2008

Although most Germans will argue against this point, it can be proven that Germans have bad taste in music with a few simple facts.

Exhibit A

The biggest musician of all time to come out of Germany is a guy name Herbert Grönemeyer. That’s right, their biggest star ever is a guy you have never heard of. And before you say, “but wait Falco was German”, that’s not true, Falco was actually Austrian (that little country that made a good setting for The Sound of Music, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and those little sausages that come in a can).

Exhibit B

Another fact that proves Germans have terrible taste in music is that every German has bought a David Hasselhoff album.

Exhibit C

The music you do know from Germany is Rammstein’s hit “Du Hast” and Nena’s 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) . Well, that Nena song is actually pretty sweet.

Exhibit D

An actual music video from the Hoff that every German loves, or at one time did love, or at least knows the words to:



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Germans drive binary

April 18th, 2008

You will encounter this whenever riding in a car that a German is driving. The normal flow of driving is to wait for the traffic light to turn green, then gradually accelerate up to cruising speed, cruise as long as no objects prohibit further travel, and upon observing a hindrance to slowly decelerate.

Not a German. A German only stops accelerating as fast as possible at the last possible moment, so that they can stomp on the brake pedal just in time to avoid collision. Even though gas costs $20 per gallon in Germany, this doesn’t prevent the senseless waste of gas or needless cause of stress and motion-sickness.

German traffic lights even warn you ahead of time with a yellow and red light that the signal is just about to turn green, so you can start revving your engine to race to the next red light.

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