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A topic that me is fascinated again and again: the underground, road or rail (not to be confused with the S-Bahn !).

This is the term for those funny half-above ground, half-underground public transport things on the go in many German cities. The travel times on the road, sometimes in tunnels, sometimes simply through the area, and thus are neither right nor roads underground. The first drive that is just down the street with the cars without their own routes, and there were relatively few cities like Berlin and Munich. And the latter need not always go underground - can even go up a few meters in the air - but have always had their own, have cut off from all other transport routes, as in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich etc.

But say only least in everyday usage, "light rail". In Dusseldorf, for example, is said to all tram or underground, depending on where you start and how. This was also for years supported the fact that the underground city rail lines were signposted by the main train station with "underground". Good of the comprehensive technical simplicity and the urbane, cosmopolitan connotations sake.

Now, after careful restoration in the Central Station is anything but pretty accurate - and as happened elsewhere in Dusseldorf and surroundings - "Stadbahn" but with a U, because people are still underground to say the things. Take it but partly underground.

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German sense of humor (?)

Is there, the famous German sense of humor, attesting not only foreigners but also time the Germans own support?

I tend to say there is "no." The Germans come to me the other way around often enough before and hilarious people, a people that is to have happy and contented for some fun. Especially at the exact spot where the outsider does not realize that it should be fun. Therefore Loriot laughs before the camera: the fun factor should be increased with feigned seriousness yet.

In the sense I have on my XING profile Organizational affiliations an imaginary club, are the VEmBgT, or: Eimsbüttler club with a balcony for pigeons. After all, as so few people I know, I live in Eimsbüttel and got nervous a balcony and pigeons. And it is the unofficial club for that reason. And that's a core area of German humor: the exaggeration to absurdity in the organization of trying Nichtzuorganisierenden. The

some Michaela Schalk yesterday evening to the late hour at all understood but no more. In a XING message with the subject line "What's that for your club?" barks at me which I previously unknown woman Schalk, someone should "find more of a positive solution for all living beings."

Uh, that was now the German humor, aware of turns and full of fake sincerity?

Or does the woman not stop the wag understood?

And - wait a minute, * * look at her profile - she is working Schalk not McDonalds? A company that can so excited about "for all living beings positive solutions," it cut down whole forests, animals slaughtered in genocidal excessive number and still on top of the world's children are obese do?

Or is also part of a very German joke?

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fascination fair

Last week I was traveling at the ITB in Berlin, the world's largest tourism fair. Which was expected, pure sensory overload - noise, smells and views from almost every country on Earth, the force, all within a few hours to a port; Hinz and Kunz as the way, every possible language ringing through the halls ... Hammer.

The Fair: understand the Germans to stage really, and the others notice. In Hanover, there is CeBIT, the world's leading computer science fair, in Frankfurt, the world's biggest book fair takes place always Otherwise, the greatest things usually found in the U.S. or, increasingly, China. But with shows to know from the Germans.

you even have invented the term "fair". Since the English need many words - "fair trade" for the event and exhibition center "for the venue - and the rich somehow failed to match the meaning of" fair ". The fair is an important part of almost every major German city, always in the public transport network anchored and architecturally accessible, uh, impressive. And not only every city has one, each city also has its themes: From dogs in Dortmund toys in Nuremberg about so few things of more or less important.

In the UK, however, be there at the Birmingham NEC and Earls Court in London, and that's it anyway. Media effect and are popular by the general public in any case, the Ideal Home Show (houses and establishments shall constitute something like a British fetish) and the Boat Show, but since it was somehow too.

No, the show is a German thing per se. Take them but also many aspects of Germany together today: a not to be striking sense of organization, the obvious large-scale operation of public transport and an informal and friendly international.

Thank you for the pictures I Schrottie Flickr users (top) and the ITB (below)