Weird Facts about Germans

My First Train Journey

Somethings that I have being dazzled with time and again here in Germany... but its really superkool...

• If you have been flabbergasted everytime something threw the word 'Yafa' at you, relax they probably mean 'Java', they pronounce 'J' as 'Y' and 'V' as 'F'...
• If its not clean, its not Germany.
• Chicken is as rare as vegetarian food :P ... Pigs ( ... Yuuuck) rule the roost.
• They believe that somehow their sheer will power to make you understand what they say, will really do it, even though it is apparent you do not know German.
• They have a cute way of saying bye.. "Tchuss" .. which is pronounced as 'Chioos' and thanks.. which is 'Dankashen' :)
• When they say 'Sex' they mean '6'.. Ah! what a disappointment... :P
• Gear up to drink from a toilet tap (Ewwww...) or forget about it... coz ' Water - 4 euros' .. and 'Coke - 1.5 euros'... So you almost always end up buying iced tea ( For all Nescafe lovers ) which by the way is the cheapest :)
• 'Bread' is the only known kind of food known to this species
• Friday, 11.00 am, International Office - " Oh my God! Stop calling! For God's sake , its Friday Afternoon, its weekend!
• They have Beer with breakfast, Beer with lunch and Beer with dinner... and Beer with any other meal they choose to have.. All their 'Fests' are without question and doubt, as an unwritten rule, 'Beer fests' and in a supermarket, you will find more space and time dedicated to Beer than anything else.. (atleast in Bavaria)
• The easiest way to get a visa extension, without even moving your lips and that too for the rest of your lives is to lose the 'Keys' to your office coz its worth a 30,000 euros... even your apartment might not be worth that much...!
• 20 bucks might take you as far as 6 miles or as far as 600 miles by the same train
• Maybe these people painted the globe, with crystal clear blue and so natural green, coz living in India, you always wondered it must be brown.
• You might be staring out of the window of the fastest trains at cars swooshing past at breakneck speeds.
• Bikes rock big time!
• It is deeply humiliating to find that the old lady next to you is hailing her bike in the train for a mountain hiking trip with all the top-notch cycling gear that you can imagine :)

If I have missed out on some really interesting stuff, do put in the comment, so that I can update the 'peculiar German race characteristics' for the mass benefit ( read: Next year lucky ones..)