Everyone knows those properties that the Germans are assigned abroad. organizational ability and painstaking accuracy, precision and perfectionism, deep enthusiasm and a penchant for sentimental Schmalz
Usually I do not believe in the validity of such stereotypes, although the Germans really matters in some organization can do. But at times World Cup brings together the whole stereotypical traits: And the result is ... Gaudy!
Yes, in the opinion of the German houses, balconies and cars on WM-times one can hardly avoid the impression that the Germans are indeed on organized freaks who are always striving for perfection and a Schopenhauer purely depend in any shit so that the rationality is first been completely suspended.
Not that the German is the only one who decorated his car and his apartment for the World Cup with the flag. No, the course also does the odd Englishman. The American doing it anyway, WM or not. But the Englishman impulse buys at the cash register such a flag. The German, no: the German makes it as my one roommate and draws three weeks before World Cup start in a planned operation going on a shopping detailgenauest mission.
day I got such a "decorating company with close up. As the housemates take an afternoon off from work and makes his way with money and cloth bags (for environmental reasons!) Armed. The latter then he stuffs with plastic flags and festoons fully galore. Then the company falls into the hot phase, then "decorated". Since he spends a half hour with a hammer, step bar, and the tongue put out by concentrating the teeth - and finished the World Cup theme-show booth.
And no one is bothered by it.
Yes, it is even asked by the other roommates, where he did all this come from? "You, you can go ma 'to the penny. Hamse Since very nice things. And Edeka have flags at half price ..."
But it made no half measures.
Then yesterday comes the first game of Germany. So much black, red and yellow make-up I've ever seen. So much sympathy to the television, so much shouting, so much drama! Why do I have left England pflegmatische just behind me, yelling out only the last Assisting the TV and not some ordinary middle-class roommate? What is now going on here?
However, I can not see everything so black (red-yellow). Watch me out the window at the busy Fruchtallee so I can conduct a representative study showing that most Germans consider but also the World Cup-times a very good sense of the day: out of 100 cars here in the period 15 : pass 30 to 15:32, have my count after just 10 flags. Again, have 3 of these 10 only two Germany-flag ...
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