Friday, March 02, 2007

Post Titled: Characteristically Uncharacteristic
News from the BBC! Baby monkies and tigers in love! Floating Dutch houses!

Walking by a empty lot there was a billboard (as usual) with a glossy diagram of the building which will soon be built there - you know the ones with the little digital people spotted in sporadically walking along the sidewalk. Another office building, and here we have our problem: this architecture that is best described as Characteristically Uncharacteristic, YAWN.

For a society that is so highly regulated and well-ordered, one that has never even undergone a revolution, I think there may be a glitch in the German DNA, something like LINE BLINDNESS. If you are waiting in line here it often happens that someone will simply ignore the line or try to create their own damn line even though there are obviously several people already waiting. I am not saying it is averywhere, but I see it about once a week, and it incites a deep rage within me. Not really, but kind of.

The Checkpoint Charlie hood is positively crawling with tourists and

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Blogger aufbühner&abräumer said...

yes yes. i truely hate the german line blindness. it enrages me too. why do people do that. you re in the supermarket, you decided not to take one of those 1-Euro-but-you-get-it-back trolleys because you just need a few things, but the few things add up and you re waiting in line, dying under the load of things you re carrying and someone just walks by totally ignoring you under the heavy heap of shit to creat a NEW FUCKING LINE

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