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Wriggling Snake Aug 2016 8:33pm, 5 Aug 2016 12,689 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Bloody Germans. Imagine a place where everything worked properly. Good lord we would be bored
NoFleecingAround Aug 2016 8:35pm, 5 Aug 2016 29,302 posts	Quote Pin NoFleecingAround Quite, what could we complain about then?
Eynsham Red Aug 2016 9:14pm, 5 Aug 2016 949 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red I spent a month in Gemany recently and found that German efficiency is a myth that they laugh about themselves.
Jono. Aug 2016 11:47am, 6 Aug 2016 4,345 posts	Quote Pin Jono. shocked to learn the other week that the Germans have built an airport that is erm, shit............. bloomberg.com
Wriggling Snake Aug 2016 1:16pm, 6 Aug 2016 12,692 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Good point,was it those VWs that aren't as efficient as we were lead to believe. I think the most efficient German thing I ever saw was the speed with which you could buy beer at the Munich Oktoberfest.
Fitz Aug 2016 11:30pm, 6 Aug 2016 1,574 posts	Quote Pin Fitz Music events where you have to buy drinks tokens and then exchange them for drinks. Double queuing, double aggro, complete waste of time.
Duchess Aug 2016 11:34pm, 6 Aug 2016 7,043 posts	Quote Pin Duchess Festival tourists in Edinburgh who not only want to walk at the speed of an arthritic snail, but to do so whilst three or four abreast thereby blocking the entire pavement.
Ultracat Aug 2016 11:28am, 7 Aug 2016 11,465 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat Neighbours house alarm going off at 4.30 am and not switching it off for over half an hour
postieboy Aug 2016 11:47am, 7 Aug 2016 3,576 posts	Quote Pin postieboy The stupid cow who made Mrs P's life as difficult as possible trying to make a three-point-turn and then driving off without taking the vacated parking space which we both assumed she wanted. I mean WTF??? I'm quite relieved this person drove off, Little P's vocabulary would have been greatly enhanced for the worse as they would have got a piece of my mind in no uncertain terms!!!
Dvorak Aug 2016 1:25pm, 7 Aug 2016 12,016 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak [interesting piece on Berlin Brandenburg International, Jono. A farce I've kept up with on and off since my first visit to Berlin in 2001 and seeing the billboards "BBI - coming in 2007!]