German Rant

[OwlHoot]

That's the Germans for you. Why use 8 letters for a word when you could use 30. Spelling tests must be a nightmare for German kids and ContractorDE must simply be full of spell check police!

If you think German is bad, what about Polish?

Sometimes I think Poles must be the smartest people on the planet, to be able to master their diabolical spelling. But then arguably they are the stupidest for inventing it in the first place.

[VectraMan]

Is that a new PC term for 'crap but turns up to lessons'?

Yes.

I'm still at the waking up screaming stage. Ich gehe in die Kneipe, but ich bin in der Kneipe. Madness. Trying to form a simple German sentence is harder than The Krypton factor.

No wonder they have no sense of humour.

[Spacecadet]

I might have thought this was British Rail, not Deutsche Bahn.

Even though my experience of the German Train system is limited, there is no way on this earth I could ever mistake it for the British system

[Mich the Tester]

No wonder they have no sense of humour.

They have. They speak English and laugh at you when you're not listening.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

No wonder they have no sense of humour.

They have.

My first contract in Germany, I stayed in Hamburg. Eppendorfer Lanstrasse Nr 22. Numbers 24 upwards were brick-built bomb damage replacements. Number 24, the first one in the rebuild, was a pub. It was called the "Winston Churchill". Tell me that's not a sense of humour.

[Pondlife]

They have.

My first contract in Germany, I stayed in Hamburg. Eppendorfer Lanstrasse Nr 22. Numbers 24 upwards were brick-built bomb damage replacements. Number 24, the first one in the rebuild, was a pub. It was called the "Winston Churchill". Tell me that's not a sense of humour.

My old flat was on Husumer Str