Things I notice

I noticed that in Marienplatz, while using the escalator, if you keep your hand on the side-strip thingy, that the stip moves faster than the steps...as me hand is always moved from say when it was parallel to me to waaay in front. (conclusion reached after rigorous testing!)

That when me iPod is playing a particular song, it is impossible for me to hum another song, no matter how low the volume of the iPod is.

That the guy who sells the BISS magazine in Muc Freiheit, changes the position to face either the oncoming people from Ubahn or the people coming from Karstadt, depending on what time of day it is, noon - faces karstadt, evening - faces oncoming Ubahn crowd.

that the rolltreppe going downward at Giesing is always not working between 5.30-7.00 pm!

That every wednesday the Ubahn driver for the U6, at about 8.32 am at Muc Freiheit, is the one who rolls his tongue a lot and always gives me a chuckle, biiiiiite zuuuurrrreeeeccccccccccck bleiben!

That Don_Riina has no real job and waits at Marienplatz, beer in hand, iPod in ears till I come along around 6, rants about the krauts, buys another beer at me stop (muc Freiheit in case you havent figured it out) and then leaves for a night of heavy gaming.

Do you have any real personal observations about the city and stuff or do you let life just pass you by while you are immersed in what is most important to you - You!!

Yes, I am bored!

oooh that the waitress at papasitos (short, blonde, pierced lip) always snogs this guy in the sandal store nearby at about 5.30pm!

Arshoo is also available on weekends for stalking jobs. TTers will be given a preferential rate.

The last seat to be occupied in the groups of four on the S1 is the window seat facing backwards.

For being stalked or for the ones requesting

. . . that the accordion players at Rosenheimerplatz (there are 3 that rotate shifts) are members of some accordion gang and if a rival accordionist takes their spot they gang up on him and push him out of the station.

If you throw an apple in the air and position yourself just right it'll hit you on the head. This is called "gravity and "good positioning".

that the Outside seating of Roxy on Leopold str. and all the other places like Bachmaier are on the inward side facing the strasse. That after crossing the Bachmaier hofbrau (towards muc freiheit) all the seating is on the outer side facing the shops...Why?!?! Dont know.

Its not just in Marienplatz, the thing with the escalator. All of them do that, even in the stores.

One of the gents (Karl-Heinz in fact) that sells Biss magazine in Marienplatz station has a wee dog. The dog supports 1860 or at least that's what the neckerchief he wears implies. He, or rather K-H, realises that the dog sometimes causes him lost sales to Bayern fans.
But the folk in a Thalkirchner Str. restaurant also support 1860 and give him a big discount on his supersized schnitzel on schnitzel day.

Nice one Katrina!

The ciggi karte at Die Bank has been stolen 4 times till last week.

Netzers, Havana Club still run the old machines where you dont require the chippi cards

I think we should put one these cat cameras on Arshoo's collar so we can see what he does with his day.
I'll bet the days average out to about the same in terms of wandering, hiding in bushes and staring at chicks.

So the catcam would become a pussycam.

On the street, in a shop or whatever, Germans won't say boo to each other.

But, the minute you're in a doctor's waiting room, they're saying hello ("Grüß Gott!!" or "Servus!!") and goodbye ("Ciao!!" or "Tschüs!!") as if old friends.

It's not just marienplatz, i notice that all over Munich. So much for German engineering, they can't even get the hand rail to go at the same speed as the steps!

That reminds me, Sauna, stark naked and chicks come in and say Gross Dick (always gets a laugh from me), same chicks later on outside refuse to acknowledge each other let alone any of the guys...puzzles me esp. as they were quite happy saying gross dicks all the time.

Blonde waitress - when I am early from work I get off at the Giselestrasse Ubahn and take a long walk home, and have spotted these two on quite a few occasions, and I know cuz the other waitress is shouting, wondering where her partner is!

Same goes for GM's.

Seems to be the case with all the escalator hand thingies, oder?

Notice when people get out of the U-Bahn, they only ever open one door when they're getting out? That's hammertime, right there.

Gunthers and Tumult also don't need the card. Something to do with the entry age being over 18 anyways so the machines didn't need to be upgraded and a fucking bird just flew into my window - wtf? Could she not see where she was going?

I notice that when people step on to escalators that dont work, they turn around and use the stairs instead and when they use digital cameras, if the display is switched off, they look completely perplexed as to how to work a camera.

I notice that even if it had been raining at some point in the day, Germans tend to open up the umbrellas at even a hint that it might rain later, it doesnt matter that when they are walking on streets and it ISNT bloody raining...dont open the brollie just at the possibility. That too the big friggin meant for 2 people ones!

The open-air drinking congregation at Rotkreuzplatz often dresses up at Christmas-time. That Santa's sack is actually full of Augustiner Helles was quite news to me.

The head cellarman at Augustiner Keller says ringing the bell for a fresh barrel is his favourite part of his job, as he likes seeing people dash for the beer.

There's strange tiles with alien (sectiod) heads on them around munich under bridges...and noone knows what they mean...

That compared to the Germans in me company more "auslanders" knew the exact directions to Hofbrauhaus.

EDIT: @ Pirulero, you serious?! I must check that one out and welcome the spaced out lads.

More and more German cars (Audi, BMW, Merc) appear to be imported from Canada and the US as they have the smaller license plate bracket/configuration (and thus N.American style, smaller plates on them). Not sure why, but I see at least 1 each day going to and from work. Or maybe they're getting them through Switzerland? Cheaper to import now-a-days?

I notice that, the older I get, the more my navel fills up with lint.

Oh Doom! Oh End of The World! Oh Shit! Back to the drawing board.

Will my squadron of suicide blackbirds NEVER learn?

Freaky. I used to get lint in my navel. Haven't found any for years. Maybe its going into my gut and making me fat. Excellent theory. I shall blame my modest (not) weight gain on lint.

(Another bacon sandwich, please).

Do you mean the Space Invaders?

I notice that newbies on TT have increased exponentially, they are more PC, more fragile and some of them are plain german polar bears! They dont make newbies like they used to

I notice that the vetrans on the other hand have become more cynical, acidic and try and distribute too many pearls of wisdom about the board. They dont make vetrans like they used to either

It may be a simple case of adjusting and recalibrating their targeting system Brain. I mean Sin. Take a leaf out of Gene Simmons book and get back to das Drawing Tisch. I will compile an avian ballistics report when enough appropriate empirical data has been collected.

Arshoo, vetrans? Doctors of animal medicine in drag, distributing pearls, Transexual Tiermediziner?

Dude, stop licking your fingers after rubbing them on the escalator guiderails.

no, not like those...not cool enough to be art, just non-descript and shoddily stuck there too so probably not official like for electrcity cables or whatever...will snap one next time i remember...

Might be cuz he has been spending too much time at Reitschule and its 'rubbing' off on 'im.

Nah! I've decided blackbirds are unsuitable, and their wage demands too high. Notwithstanding, I get the distinct impression that they aren't paying attention during briefings.

I shall be training crows to do the task in future. Heavier payloads and more momentum for when they hit the glass. Crows are natural headbangers, so I don't need to mention the 'S' word.

You can identify people working in IT by the colours they wear (brown), their: spectacles (cheapo Apollo metal frames), soft brown imitation leatherette briefcases or stained cloth bags bearing this symbol,
gait ( a loddle =unsure of where they're going but seem know at the same time, unwashed styless hair, drinking chocolate on the underground in the morning, pallid complexion, vacant averted stare, crumpled unironed t-shirt or 100% polyester shirt, brown pants just that little bit too short and total lack of interest in themselves or anything else. Travel the U5 any morning between 6:30 and 9:00 and you'll see what I mean. In winter it's awful to watch them disgorge from the train and wind their way to Siemens/Qimondo... in concentration camp inmate lines of misery. I go down with the dogs before breakfast to watch and sometimes take photos so that future generations will know...
I've actually often thought of giving them money or at least alerting the authorities or social services to their plight.
Jim Jarmusch could do a great film about this. So could I if I had a camera.

Working for Siemens is not working in IT, it's not even working in the meaning current in the western world. It's more akin to being absorbed into some form of gigantic tapioca pudding, with a logo on the side.

Get with it! They're more likely to be wearing this nowadays:

I agree, though I would have said chocolate pudding! it aint the western world, it aint IT but it is more and more chocolate...have a doubt ... ask Keydeck! He will do the needful

I've noticed that the women who come into my office for a meeting around 3pm, especially in the summer, get distracted and look over my shoulder when the guy in the appartments opposite comes out onto his balcony stark naked and hangs his tackle over the cold metal railings.

Summer, 3pm and you know that the metal railings are cold because...

I would usually infer the metal railings are warm if not hot!

Faces North. Its not the temperature of the metal that causes the women to glaze over as he parades himself. To be fair, there used to be a babe who paraded topless in the same block but she moved on.

That is spooky. Are you serious? (who loves a good alien conspiracy theory)

If you are in traffic and one lane moves faster for a few seconds, all the idiots will jump lanes.

Red lights in Munich are set not to allow the smooth flow of traffic, but to make you stop every first or second red light. If you drive 10-15kmh faster than the posted speed limit, you can hit every light while it is green.

This is true in other areas. What do you learn from it?

They are broke and need to blitz you? Either that or I fear the worse, Germs are idiots when it comes to common sense.

Yes, that is one funny thing I always notice as well. Even funnier is the fact that once only one door is openend by the person getting out, no one will dare to open the other door as well. All the people getting out and getting in rather push and wait and push through just one door!

What is on these people's minds? Is it the German sense of 'fairness'? "If I opened the other door, other passengers might have some advantage in getting out or getting in. So if I open the door, I would be better off but others could benefit as well. So I prefer that we are all worse off together! And if I just jostle and push hard enough I might be the winner in today's contest in getting a good seat on the train!"

If in such a situation I open the other door I feel like a teacher in a kindergarden for mentally disabled children.

It's your duty to educate your fellow countrymen, same as at the supermarket checkout when people don't put the divider on the belt after their shopping, lean over them and make a point of putting it where it belongs, we'll learn 'em yet!

I always open the other door, and then flash a look at the guilty party like- well, it wasn't that hard was it?

Yes, flashing a look at the guilty party can be fun sometimes (I doubt it helps though).

Always good to know that one is not alone in, well, noticing things!

Another recommended line of education is buzzing the stupid sheeple walking on the bicycle lanes with this empty look in their face. Come up real close and then avert them last-second while honking or ringing the bell. The ones who survive the heart attack and can walk afterwards will never do so on the biking lanes anymore, plus the expressions they get on their faces are good entertainment.