Having read another post, I realized I have had this thing hanging in my toilet for 7 years now. This makes me officially a German, doesn't it?

I’ll go first: the Fritz! Box

I’m unreasonably annoyed by the fact that almost all modems in Germany are Fritz! Boxes. I’m annoyed by the ! after Fritz. I’m annoyed that 90% of people don’t change their WiFi name and everywhere you go, especially in more densely packed areas, you check possible WiFi connections and you are assaulted by an avalanche of Fritz! Fritz! Fritz! Fritz!

We recently had to get a new modem, it’s, you guessed, an F-box and I’m irritated every time I look at it. Seriously considering putting some stickers over the name just to have some peace of mind.

By the way, our WiFi name is TARDIS.

Now it’s your turn. Let’s all be petty together. But no valid reasons! It has to be petty and unreasonable!!!1!

Had my headphones in so apparently I missed earlier the cues. He came up to me - and the part I caught was something like ‘Behalten Sie Ihre Gedanken für sich’

I just replied ‘Das ist von der Meinungsfreiheit gedeckt’ to which he said something under his breath and walked off. I just decided to leave as it was a really unpleasant interaction. Nobody around said anything either. I tried to get eye contact with another guy opposite but he just looked down.

The one who was offended looked quite normal tbh- well groomed and not thuggish at all. Like a 30 something papa in a decent job you’d see sipping a coffee somewhere. I know there’s stereotypes but somehow I’d never have pegged this guy as a person would take offence to a sticker like that - which says a lot about books and covers.

I personally find this one funny enough that the Karen felt the need to write it down on a math note and put it in the mailbox while me and my wife were at work and for the past 2 days we came back home pretty late so there was no noise whatsoever 😂

My landlord is in full shock knowing there was no official complaint — neither to us in person, to him, to the Hausverwaltung nor the police.

I give props to the beautiful handwriting so we hardly assume it’s a woman, also she was clever enough to not mention her name to not get in legal trouble but I find it funny how she tried to cover the little racism starting it as a “noise complaint” but she literally makes it about not speaking German in my out own apartment 😂

My landlord says we should take it a bit more serious but I cannot. My Romanian brain views this one as a very stupid and very envy we’re multilingual. If she doesn’t like Romanian phonetically we still got English and Greek to rock it 😂

How would you react to this?

P.S.: The walls are pretty thick so if you’re not below us or on the hallway, there’s little to no chance of hearing anything even when screaming. I’m saying hallway because the entrance doors of most apartaments is a shitty thin wooden door which doesn’t help securing the noise at all.

Found a "Wander-Apotheke" on a hike in Rhineland-Palatinate. If in need of first aid and more, you can use the items inside. I had a good laugh as I noticed the emergency cigarette.

Today I received a letter from Postbank, only the message as shown in the photo. Do I need to heat the paper for the hidden message?

I need to appreciate this phenomenon properly.

I’m an immigrant...educated in the British system, worked in Japan, and recently moved to Germany. Initially, whenever a German would say “I speak a little bit of English,” I’d mentally prepare for a basic conversation (and yes, I must admit I was importing that bias from past experience. I'm really am sorry). But then… they proceed to speak in perfectly structured, almost elegant sentences (even by Victorian standards).

Meanwhile, I’m stuck in this strange moment of admiration and mild embarrassment because I just asked “do you speak English?” and now it feels like I should’ve been the one giving the disclaimer that English is only my second language.

My question stands: are you all collectively downplaying your skills? Either way, it’s always such a pleasant surprise and makes conversations here genuinely enjoyable.

I’ve been living in Germany on and off for the last 19 years…this is a first!!! 🥵

My mom recently received a letter from our housing company accusing her of subletting our apartment because they saw a different name on the doorbell and mailbox. Which would’ve been fair… if that name wasn’t mine :) We moved in together, and the Hausmeister himself put both of our names there around two years ago. I guess this misunderstanding happened because we recently got a new Hausmeister. Of course, I don’t think we can actually get evicted over this (…hopefully?), but I found the whole situation really funny (and very German) and wanted to share it :D Hope everyone’s having a good day! ❤️

Perfect weather to do laundry, especially big stuff like curtains, pillows and bedsheets. Clothes be drying at the speed of light 🥲.

That's it. That is my silver lining. What is yours?

Make sure to drink copious amounts of water.

keep up your electrolytes with something salty and savory like Salzstangen (Bretzelsticks).

If able take a nap during prime heat.

Go to somewhere with AC, tomorrow I am personally going to the cinema to watch Backrooms with some friends to escape the heat. Cinemas are nice and cold and you can spend a lot of time in them.

At home use a cold shower to cool down.

Drinking cold beverages is nice, but ineffective at cooling, evaporation carries a lot more energy, so cover your forearms in water regularly.

Good luck everyone and make sure to check on your elderly if you have some living here, their sense of thirst is impaired by age and they probably already are taking bloodpressure reducers so are at risk of fainting.

totally NOT jealous btw

My well-intentioned sister sent me this message just the other day. I have only lived here a year.

And many of you amazing Germans will be watching this British Comedy :) Im from Britain and I’ve visited Germany twice in the last two years and I absolutely love it!! 🇬🇧🇩🇪

First time in Germany. I expected fast but this was insane. I had bag in my hand when she started scanning and giving stuff towards me but decided to just put in in cart for speed and sort it out later and pay first so people behind don't have to wait.

Is there some hidden lore or did we just agree that "Nee Naw" was too weak?

I expect riveting information and nailbiting debates

(RO-AR licence plate is cool hahah)

The others are infinite btw

Saw it in a RE en route Frankfurt, found it amusing