Is Germany the model country?

[DBA_bloke]

Breeding is just something else I happen to be good at sg. I think it is just nature's way of stirring up the gene pool and keeping the nation's intellect at an acceptable level. What's with this oracle-chap anyway? Bit anal don't you think, even if they are located in London?

Hadrian's Wall: Roman gene pool protection.

[DBA_bloke]

Never mind perjorative rhetoric, you just revealed your true colours with your personal delusions of superiority, not to mention a somewhat racist post.

I bet you set the video for Call My Bluff.

[pisces]

Having worked in Germany in the late 90s and being back there now I have noticed a couple of things;

Firstly, the working environment is far more relaxed now than then. People will work their contracted hours and no more (I believe working more than 40h/wk is illegal but I have no direct source). No one is under any pressure to work more hours (unlike the UK). They take a proper lunch break rather than the sandwich at the desk, as was before. But most importantly - The work gets done! (unlike the UK). That said, finding someone to take responsibility for anything is nigh on imposible.

Secondly, Management consult the workforce. The staff councils are brought into any and all business related discussions and as such the workforce have less of a 'them and us' mentality.

Public Transport - €1.65 gets me across the city and a ferry over the river. Trains are every 3 mins, clean and modern. Other day the ferry left 4 mins early but went back so that he left on time.

The only things I really here locals winge about is taxes, especially the solidarity tax to pay for infrastructure in the East. And depending on where you live, education. Apparently it's becoming more expensive and kids have to provide their own text books.

All in all it seems like they have the work/life balance a bit better than we do and I haven't heard a single person bleat on about house prices. Not saying it's a utopia though

But what we're all dying to know is have the women starting shaving yet?