What is it with Germans....

[RichardL]

....and mullets? Having spend some time in Germany in the last two weeks there seems to be a big liking for mullets, or long messy hair in general, bad moustaches and denim jackets. It does tend to be an older (40+) thing and more in the south than the north. If Status Quo could only grow bad moustaches they could be a cultural phenomenom in Bavaria. They could be even bigger than David Hasselhof.

Also why is it that so few of them seem to have learned that if it is midnight and there is no traffic on the road and you are at a pedestrian crossing, you don't really have to wait there patiently for two minutes waiting for the green light to come on to tell you it is OK to cross?

[domingo]

*yawn*

[VanDijk]

According to your description, you must have lost your way and ended up in Austria. Hasselhoff, mullets, moustaches and waiting months before traffic lights are only popular past-times down there in the South. Check your maps better the next time around.

[RichardL]

Well I went to Ulm, Munich & Vienna (which is indeed in Austria) and that did seem to be "the look" for the older generation. Hamburg & Berlin much less so. I only passed through Stuttgart on a train so I can't comment on that.

[Maczebus]

I went skiing in Schladming in Austria a couple of years ago and can at least vouch for their strange love of Mr. Hasselhoff.
Bad taste in clothes and haircuts wasn't all that prevalent, due to having to be wrapped up and most of them having a little class there.
But boy, do they like David "I've bin lookin' for freeeedom!" Hasselhoff!
All, and I do mean all, of the bars and restaurants I went in had a picture of him towering over the bar/restaurant owner, with that famously cheesy grin. Not to mention his mullet... ahhh ... I'm seeing a link now!

[VanDijk]

Uhm, lighten up guys. That was a stupid joke of me.

Didn't see that Richard was serious in his statement, it rather sounded like a stupid flame to me.

*Austria is a great country with very nice and friendly people. Vienna is one of the most beautiful cities I've visited.*

@maczebus
Aha, I see, a secret Hasslehof adorer. Bah. What bad taste! ;)

*this is sponsored by the Austrian Travel Agency ATA.

[VanDijk]

Originally posted by RichardL
Well I went to Ulm, Munich & Vienna (which is indeed in Austria) and that did seem to be "the look" for the older generation. Hamburg & Berlin much less so. I only passed through Stuttgart on a train so I can't comment on that.

I hope you had a good time. Stuttgart is a boring city compared to Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. Not worth a stay.

[1a Schnitzel]

Originally posted by RichardL
....and mullets? Having spend some time in Germany in the last two weeks there seems to be a big liking for mullets, or long messy hair in general, bad moustaches and denim jackets. It does tend to be an older (40+) thing and more in the south than the north. If Status Quo could only grow bad moustaches they could be a cultural phenomenom in Bavaria. They could be even bigger than David Hasselhof.

Also why is it that so few of them seem to have learned that if it is midnight and there is no traffic on the road and you are at a pedestrian crossing, you don't really have to wait there patiently for two minutes waiting for the green light to come on to tell you it is OK to cross?

Of course this is what you see when you cant afford more than a youth hostel! :D
Sorry, but where I was born we have no mullets and denim jackets. But maybe I have a higher income and visit reasonable attractions, ever tried german theatre? No, well why should you if you dont speak the language! So all you can bring back from your trip is more prejudice! Man, you can be proud of yourself, Now you are a real Brit, you are one of them!

[domingo]

Originally posted by maczebus
I went skiing in Schladming in Austria a couple of years ago and can at least vouch for their strange love of Mr. Hasselhoff.
Bad taste in clothes and haircuts wasn't all that prevalent, due to having to be wrapped up and most of them having a little class there.
But boy, do they like David "I've bin lookin' for freeeedom!" Hasselhoff!
All, and I do mean all, of the bars and restaurants I went in had a picture of him towering over the bar/restaurant owner, with that famously cheesy grin. Not to mention his mullet... ahhh ... I'm seeing a link now!

I haven´t heard of this hasselhoff in years. Now since I visit BS eveybody is writing about this dude and the Germans.
What kind of people did you meet?
Hasselhoff... gimme a break.

[VanDijk]

Don't be too harsh with the Brits. They need to look down on other people to feel good about themselves. Those sorry lads can't find anything good about themselves.

[bocatuna]

Wow! what an exicitng new topic, making fun of Germans, right up their with taking the piss out of the French and Americans. Why don't you use your braincells and take the piss out Costa Ricans or Greenland, a more challenging topic in which to demonstarte the superior wit and comedic abilities of the British.

[VanDijk]

Originally posted by Mike Segroves

Doesn't all that goosestepping wear out the stage floors pretty quick?
On the smaller unpopular german stages where the directors unfortunately don't bother about. Yes.

They find the actors to be not good enough for them and the stages too smelly. A pity that is.

links zwo drei vier. rechts zwo drei vier. augen zu drei vier.

[domingo]

Originally posted by Mike Segroves


Doesn't all that goosestepping wear out the stage floors pretty quick?

Yes, goosestep is fun, my most favourite hobby.
Stillgestanden! Präsentiert das Gewehr! Die Augen rechts! *uftauftauftataeteraeetaeteraetaeteraeaeaea*
Und jetzt: Links schwenkt... Marsch! *humbahumbahumbataeteraeaea*

Yes zat is zo much fun I feel like mi grandpa!
JAWOLL!
domingo

[1a Schnitzel]

But it is more like "Stiiiiiüüüüüüüillgestanden!":D
Ah I ze zhat you have learned az much az I have, Peter, Grossvater would be very proud of uz! ;)

Ja Ja Schtereotyping iz so eazy wis us germanz (sorry Krauts), was?

[bocatuna]

How do you type on a stereo?

[bocatuna]

That's boca's a really dick.

Anyone know how the drinking song celebrating the longest bar in the world in Dusseldorf.

Forgotton how it went, something like Wier haber in Alsberg , wier haber in Dusseldorf, der linkser bar in da world, or something

[1a Schnitzel]

type doesnt come from typing but from typus, or or was it typhus? Wäll anywäy, in two years you should ztart using zhis word to sound intelligent, okay?

[benine]

Off topic (as if the topic needed addressing), but
Shawn Bradley is German?!? How many mormon german's are there?

[bocatuna]

There are 338, but don't make me name them all.

[RichardL]

Originally posted by VanDijk


I hope you had a good time. Stuttgart is a boring city compared to Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. Not worth a stay.

The only bit of Stuttgart I really saw was the inside of the railway station, of which I don't have a single memory. Is there a large tower thing in Stuttgart? I seem to remember seeing one through the train window. I nearly stayed in Stuttgart but I stayed in Ulm instead as Reading were playing SSV Reutlingen in Schmiechen, near Ulm. Can you guess the common hairstyle among the older Reutlingen supporters? Ulm isn't a great night out, unless you enjoy looking in the windows of shoe shops. It does have the "Titty Twister" music cafe though, which has a great name if nothing else. Right next door to the Cathedral (boy those 736 steps are fun in 85F heat) is a shop called "socks & more" as if a shop just selling socks wasn't enough. I also went to Copenhagen, Malmo, Prague & Budapest. Budapest is perhaps the only place I've been to where someone would consider it worthwhile to put an anti-theft steering lock on a trabant. For some reason Ferencvaros play the Scotland 1978 world cup song "we're on the march with Ally's army" before the game, as part of the build up.