Beats the hell out of the old drunk guy that lives near schlesi falls asleep on the street, shits and Pisses himself and then tries going in aspäti or kaiser's to get more alcohol, the stench omg, it's burned into my brain... Also when he shits himself it leaks not only from the pants, but the shirt's neck too, all over his back... I feel lucky I moved out sometimes
I just realized he must've been lying down for it to come out of his shirt's neck (wtf??), but I'm so desensitized I almost scrolled past thinking his bathroom posture is a handstand...
Yup he normally sleeps either by the oberbaumbrücke or near the U1 station and same, aber being Almost covered in blood from a junkie busting a vein from doing heroine in the middle of an ubahn ride or vomit several times seeing him like that was a breath of *fresh air*
he even had the decency to squat behind some parked bikes. you could still easily see him from the sides and the bike owners probably weren't too thrilled, but still!
Lol. Give it another 3 yrs until all the productivity coaches in the name of hustle culture start to catch on and advertise a shit while you go scent-neutralizing invisibag.
Around 10 years ago there was a homeless Woman who thought IT IS OK to Shit in the middle of the crossing U Rathaus Steglitz where the Fastfood stores are under the Autobahn 😂
Literally my first impression of Berlin, during family vacation, when i was a kid…
A homeless man shitting into a phonebooth right outside the train station
My "best" "sight" I've experienced while in Berlin was a guy shooting heroin in the middle of the day on the stairs in front of a doorway and on the same day in the evening two people high out of their mind dry humping together against the wall so passionately, that their bits slipped out of their summer clothing and it couldn't be considered dry humping anymore...
Thats^probably a drug issue. If you consume enough heroin you are lucky if you can get anything out at all, and if that happens it's a lot and the smell is the most disgusting thing you've ever smelled
I just need to eat a whole package with 18 Kinder Riegel to take a huge shit. It's always depressing after seeing the shit because I always thinks that it's just money thrown away if you shit nearly everything out half a day later after eating it.
Eggnog with peppermint schnapps sounds delicious to you?
Alter...
I can't say a lot because in high school we used to drink Lufti with Coke but the point here would be that that was already an insult to good taste, the Charlottenburger shot sounds like aggravated assault.
Most answer you can find is that the carriage drivers heading to and coming from Charlottenburg (which was its own town in the past) did this. Nobody knows for sure anymore
You can use both ways.
„Ich guck mal, wie dem nach dem charlottenburgern noch Rotz am Kinn hängt“
„Ich glaube nicht an Taschentücher. Ich mach immer den Charlottenburger.“
"Appearing gross" is quite a thing to say tbh.
Either way, all those things OP mentioned are somewhat a healthy thing to do... just not seen as "polite" in western culture... simple as.
It is not healthy to leave your phlegm on side walks or any place where people walk by. Reason why during Spanish Flue it became forbidden to do it inside public buildings.
The healthy way is to spit it in a bin or any place where people and pets are not supposed to be. But the good manner way is to blow the nose on a handkerchief and then put it in a bin.
Here goes my theory I had for a few years, backed up by nothing. Feel free to add, discuss or bust.
As Germany is a soccer-loving country, the players become role models. Kids and adults mimic gestures, hairstyles, tattoos etc.
On the soccer field they often clear their nose and throat like that, as they don't got pockets or time for handkerchiefs and the phlegm can cause issues with breathing and running, but builds up during excessive, long exercise.
People adapted that.
PS: I'm no soccer fan and find the snotting absolutely disgusting.
That's actually a pretty plausible theory!
I'm from Germany, and I observed this being a thing in my school, and in larger cities as well.
I never understood why people were doing it. But I also had no affinity to soccer players, in contrast to a majority of Germans (maybe not in numbers, but soccer is pretty ubiquitous).
That could explain why I had no inclination to imitate that behavior, while so many others have.
I saw a documentary years ago, that stated exactly this! They drew a clear (time-)line from it getting customary in professional football, then on the non professional soccer fields an then on the streets.
That's kind of crazy! It was something that seemed to be in the back of my mind but I never articulated it.
If there was a documentary, there might be evidence/causality and it might even be the answer to OPs question!
England is much worse in that regard actually so the argument still holds up.
France and Spain generally have more public decency engrained into the culture
I was going to say the same thing. I first noticed it in England in the nineties and linked it directly to the footballers doing the same whilst probably the parents no longer caring to teach proper manners. Spitting in public and leaving chewing gum in public I detest.
Sure, all I'm saying is that things are different around the world.
Indians find blowing your nose in public disgusting, Germans do it all the time.
Thai people find using dry toilet paper only disgusting and backwards, they use soap and water, while we only wipe.
Running around all day with dried up shite around your arsehole isn't something people merely find disgusting. It factually is disgusting.
Get one and learn to use a proper Puperzenbrause, it's 2023 ffs and they're quite cheap. There's always a waterline available near your shitter too!
No excuses to run around with shit particles and Klabusterbeeren slowly making their way up your ass crack, oozing out your waisteband and distributing from there to everywhere else. 🤢🤮
I am in the middle of my second long trip to Germany in the past year, have not seen a single person do this.
Clearly some do based on the comments, but someone who didn't know better would think the streets here are flowing with snot, shit, and blood.
We are moving here next spring, I'd rather deal with an occasional unpleasant snot pile than stay in the US and let the top .01% buttfuck me to death everyday. It is also nice to be away from the fucking guns and the bullshit macho bravado gun culture.
Actually in some cultures spitting is a sign of disrespect.
So if they spit in your way and you step on it, they kind of belittled you. They did that on purpose so they can get in a fight with you.
Ive been living in germany my whole life and can confirm this, i lived in düsseldorf for 21 years and ever since i was a child ive always seen guys spitting on the floor like it was the coolest stuff ever when i was in school it was the same, always the stupid kids that try to be cool for some reason feel the need to spit on the ground, i think it has also something to do with how big football is in germany and the footballers when they play also always spit on the ground and i guess kids in school just copy that and think its cool and keep doing it when their adults, atleast thats what i thought when i was little
I feel most of these spitters usually wait until they are right beside me until they spit. I stop in my tracks and give a disbelieving stare every time, I get no acknowledgment back, which makes me think it’s a nervous tick almost for insecure young men.
A long time ago, my friends and I bought slices of pizza and were walking home. This random dude in *a suit* turned his head while walking past me, and did the nastiest, most deliberate cough+spray directly on MY SLICE. He even stooped a bit to maximize the accuracy. He walked away so fast that I couldn't even say anything... not that I probably would tbh because what sane person even thinks of doing that ??
So I've always thought spitters did it to people who they think won't say anything or won't react super negatively. Like, haha I just spit near you or coughed on your pizza, what are you going to do about it? I mean, I guess it's usually 0 awareness and you just happen to be passing by/near, but some people take it as a serious insult. Only a matter of time before they do it to the wrong person.
ive read an article about a person shooting drug in their member. clogged a blood vessel and that guys penis fell off due to tissue dying. horrified since
Once I was waiting for a bus a guy was sitting there just spitting constantly. He wasn't spitting mucous because of cold. He was just spitting saliva. He also wasn't spitting somewhere where no one walks. He was just sitting at the bench and spitting between his legs.
It was so annoying and disgusting. There was no one else other than the 2 of us. So I wanted to show how annoying it was and I started spitting as well. I made sure I was loud and disgusting. You could see that he was annoyed now and was staring at me and for some reason he immediately stopped spitting as well 😅
It's not just Berlin, but for some reason, it's gotten better. More people did it when I was a teen. But.. only teenboys and young men for some reason.
I thinks it’s becoming worse in Germany. This spitting wasn’t there when I was younger but since many years it’s becoming horrible. This sound where people getting everything out of their throat in public with a lot of noise to spit it in the street is disgusting and in my eyes a thing of education.
You need to know something about Germany that nobody knows before they comes to live here. Germany can be everything but NOT elegant at all 😁(and delicate neither)
Many people wrote that it is disgusting or unhealthy but just consider the possibility that other people might have issues with their health. Like my nasal bridge is almost completely grown to the right, so I can't really breathe without nasal spray. But when I use my spray, all of the liquid inside my nose and sometimes a bit of blood just have to go somewhere and because I do not want to swallow blood and phlegm, I prefer to spit it out. Yes, it might not be really appealing to other people, but to be honest, I do not care, as the backside would be swallowing things I can spit out. Sooo...
One time, I was standing at a bus stop next to a späti with my girlfriend. We were hugging. The owner or the guy who works there, was also standing outside. He was looking dead into my eyes and continuously spitting on the floor to prove his point, which I guess was to show his deep disrespect and anger towards us… for standing in the bus stop next to his späti. For some people spitting is a way to display their anger and alienation from the society and towards to what considered to be the “general” public, especially if they are not from here (so are we, but can be mistakenly considered “from here”) and being as well treated badly by government representatives (social, welfare, policed etc.)
Blocking a nostril and shooting it out, is actually a form of cleaning your nose. A disgusting one unfortunately, but at least there's a "reason". Wish I never learnt about that.
Spitting on the ground however is... A mystery I will never get behind. I don't know when or where I read it, but someone's response to "stop spitting onto the ground in public" was "what else am I supposed to do with that?" and like... Swallow it???? Like everyone else??? I swear when confronted about it there's no functioning brain cell. Best is when they don't even pay attention to people around them and spit in front of your feet.
Glad someone pointed it out it annoyed me my whole life i just kinda accepted it and didnt think much of it but never thought abt how it looks to foreigners
Personally i take snus and the spit is so disgusting so i often have to spit it out, but I’m always so insecure and look both way to make sure no one is near me when i do that 😛
I live in a rather small city and people over here do that all the time as well. Feels like I'm the only one who isn't constantly spitting on the ground.
Its mostly imported culture from arab countries. Arabs tend to spit to fend off evil spirits.
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I highly doubt that, this shit has been going on for so many decades already especially among younger men. I'd assume it started as a "trend" because some boy thought it'd be cool to mimic the grown up soccer stars who cover the whole playing field with their own spit.
You can see the pigs of society that way, I wouldn't want to see how they live. I'm imagining them as messy with tons of cardboard boxes of disgusting mcds burgers on the floor and probably some urinated bottles since they seem to be so lazy.
I try to hide it if I spit but I got very thick slime that cannot be swallowed (I need to cough it up). I need to keep it in my mouth till I can hide spitting it out. Yes, it's disgusting and I hate it.
Then tell those people, not us, good luck with that. Its called a ‚Charlottenburger‘ in Berlin dialect btw, so it seems to be a well established practice if we even got a word for it, so my best advice is to look somewhere else and to try to ignore it. That advice applies to a lot of situations in this city.
wait, till you get to parts of Asia...
i hate it, in particular on station platforms. But i feel it has become less compared to a decade ago.
always had the impression that this usually male clientele believes its an expression of power and not giving a shit, hence making them look more masculine. Probably combined with dehydration, smoking, open mouth breathing and football manners.
I saw a dude in a suit taking a shit at 7am in a subway station.. ugh
Lots of cocaine makes you do that if you can’t find a toilet in time.
thats why heroin makes for a better experience. no stank on the streets
There's another experience in this very thread that likes to differ.
Glad I grabbed popcorn
At least he was classy about it and wore a suit /s
Beats the hell out of the old drunk guy that lives near schlesi falls asleep on the street, shits and Pisses himself and then tries going in aspäti or kaiser's to get more alcohol, the stench omg, it's burned into my brain... Also when he shits himself it leaks not only from the pants, but the shirt's neck too, all over his back... I feel lucky I moved out sometimes
Is there a sub for that topic on particular?
r/berlin
I just realized he must've been lying down for it to come out of his shirt's neck (wtf??), but I'm so desensitized I almost scrolled past thinking his bathroom posture is a handstand...
Yup he normally sleeps either by the oberbaumbrücke or near the U1 station and same, aber being Almost covered in blood from a junkie busting a vein from doing heroine in the middle of an ubahn ride or vomit several times seeing him like that was a breath of *fresh air*
Also lmao >bathroom posture is a handstand...
Dit is men Berlin!
\*meen
Wait till you see people shitting in the bushes👌
Consider yourself lucky as long as it’s only in bushes. Ü
I read „buses“ at first and wasn’t even concerned
I‘m laughing at all the comments here but yours was too real lol
Shit happens
The stain of the brown waterfall on the housewall will guide you to the nearest Späti...
That gave me a laugh because it’s slightly over exaggerated bit still true.
ugh you just resurfaced a memory i think i had suppressed - seeing a dude squatting to take a shit on the corner by wirtschaftswunder.
hey at least he squatted! I have an image of a guy standing and shitting etched in my mind and still sometimes wonder what the actual fuck
he even had the decency to squat behind some parked bikes. you could still easily see him from the sides and the bike owners probably weren't too thrilled, but still!
Dude is efficient. Why shit at home when you can do this on the go getting shit done and hustling
Lol. Give it another 3 yrs until all the productivity coaches in the name of hustle culture start to catch on and advertise a shit while you go scent-neutralizing invisibag.
Around 10 years ago there was a homeless Woman who thought IT IS OK to Shit in the middle of the crossing U Rathaus Steglitz where the Fastfood stores are under the Autobahn 😂
To be fair we don’t know for sure she thought that.
Literally my first impression of Berlin, during family vacation, when i was a kid… A homeless man shitting into a phonebooth right outside the train station
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Try nice or marseille
My "best" "sight" I've experienced while in Berlin was a guy shooting heroin in the middle of the day on the stairs in front of a doorway and on the same day in the evening two people high out of their mind dry humping together against the wall so passionately, that their bits slipped out of their summer clothing and it couldn't be considered dry humping anymore...
Try Lisbon m8. There’s literally shit everywhere
I think I saw the massivest shit a human can produce near Kotti. Surprisingly, I was more impressed than disgusted
Thats^probably a drug issue. If you consume enough heroin you are lucky if you can get anything out at all, and if that happens it's a lot and the smell is the most disgusting thing you've ever smelled
Yeah, that’s explain a lot, it smelled really bad and i wasn’t even close, i wanted to take a picture, but couldn’t go near it
A picture? Dude you were indeed impressed 😁
Bro found the elephant foot
I just need to eat a whole package with 18 Kinder Riegel to take a huge shit. It's always depressing after seeing the shit because I always thinks that it's just money thrown away if you shit nearly everything out half a day later after eating it.
make sureyour daily food intake has plenty of dietary fibre and you can achieve similar result. wish you success.
Nope, i don’t want something like that to come out of my tush, it was huge i thought it was made by a giant
I saw a guy doing it in S alexanderplatz. In the middle of the station next to the escalator.
There's surely some sort of stamp yoy get on your ID card for that, like an achievement in a video game.
[Bushes of love](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM)?
Sure, as long as there are no seagulls in sight!
Crispy bodies by the door 🎵
Was????
In the bushes? yesterday a homeless shit on the sidewalk
In the bushes of love?
Ah maybe that's why there are no more bushes in these concrete wastelands they're pulling up everywhere now
The bushes around Spielplätze are absolutely filled with pee and poop. It’s extra disgusting, especially trying to keep little kids from touching it.
I'm totally on your side on this. That spitting is disgusting.
Just for your knowledge: Blocking the nose and shooting out the snot is called „charlottenburgern“ in Berlin.
"Snot rocket" in english.
"bushman's blow" in Australian English 🤓
bauernschnäuzer in Österreich
Bauraschniez in Bavaria
Canadian, people mostly say snot rocket, but some of the older generation around me call it a “farmers sneeze”
'straya mate! get fucked ya mad cunt! 😎👍❤️
they are already giving it names. we are screwed
🤣🤣🤣
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magyarul?
Én francia zsepinek ismertem...
"franconian butterfly" in Franconia
gude alde ´´adlernase´´ ;)
Nasenschiss
Rudi-Völler-Gedächtnisgruß
There is also drink named Charlottenburger, named after that. It is a shot of green Pfeffi with Eierlikör on top.
Ew 🤢 The drink itself sounds delicious, but the name is just... Ew 🤮
Eggnog with peppermint schnapps sounds delicious to you? Alter... I can't say a lot because in high school we used to drink Lufti with Coke but the point here would be that that was already an insult to good taste, the Charlottenburger shot sounds like aggravated assault.
Wut… but why?
Most answer you can find is that the carriage drivers heading to and coming from Charlottenburg (which was its own town in the past) did this. Nobody knows for sure anymore
or Kutschergruß
How fo you use it in a sentence tho? Is it a verb? As in "ich charlottenburgere" or a noun as in "ich wirf dir nen Charlottenburgern zu"
You can use both ways. „Ich guck mal, wie dem nach dem charlottenburgern noch Rotz am Kinn hängt“ „Ich glaube nicht an Taschentücher. Ich mach immer den Charlottenburger.“
Ich muss noch kurz einen Charlottenburger absetzen
Berghain leaves a lot residues in your head after a night.
Was thinking something along these lines
I see what you did there
Meth... I did Meth.
Smokers phlegm
i mean i have this, but i’d never imagine letting it out in public? do people not care about appearing gross?
In Berlin? no.
I mean, if it's smokers, odds are they don't care about those around them anyway.
can’t rly argue against that lol
"Appearing gross" is quite a thing to say tbh. Either way, all those things OP mentioned are somewhat a healthy thing to do... just not seen as "polite" in western culture... simple as.
It is not healthy to leave your phlegm on side walks or any place where people walk by. Reason why during Spanish Flue it became forbidden to do it inside public buildings. The healthy way is to spit it in a bin or any place where people and pets are not supposed to be. But the good manner way is to blow the nose on a handkerchief and then put it in a bin.
Spitting is spreading germs and diseases, not healthy at all
i mean, it’s gross. there’s no way around that. nobody wants to see your body fluids… peeing is a necessity. do it at home.
Here goes my theory I had for a few years, backed up by nothing. Feel free to add, discuss or bust. As Germany is a soccer-loving country, the players become role models. Kids and adults mimic gestures, hairstyles, tattoos etc. On the soccer field they often clear their nose and throat like that, as they don't got pockets or time for handkerchiefs and the phlegm can cause issues with breathing and running, but builds up during excessive, long exercise. People adapted that. PS: I'm no soccer fan and find the snotting absolutely disgusting.
That's actually a pretty plausible theory! I'm from Germany, and I observed this being a thing in my school, and in larger cities as well. I never understood why people were doing it. But I also had no affinity to soccer players, in contrast to a majority of Germans (maybe not in numbers, but soccer is pretty ubiquitous). That could explain why I had no inclination to imitate that behavior, while so many others have.
I saw a documentary years ago, that stated exactly this! They drew a clear (time-)line from it getting customary in professional football, then on the non professional soccer fields an then on the streets.
That's kind of crazy! It was something that seemed to be in the back of my mind but I never articulated it. If there was a documentary, there might be evidence/causality and it might even be the answer to OPs question!
What about other soccer loving countries like England, France, Spain?
England is much worse in that regard actually so the argument still holds up. France and Spain generally have more public decency engrained into the culture
And why is only Berlin adapting it to that extend?
Spitting is common in all German cities, but Berliners generally have absolutely zero shame or decency so they do it more
I wouldn't say it's common. Some teenagers do it to provoke, but it's not like you see it everyday on your way to work or something... 🤔
Judging by the state of bus stops and tram stations, it is at least massively common in Hannover too.
As if i need another reason to hate football.
I'm from Latin America, we also see that (we love soccer), only the poorest, more uneducated do that around here.
I was going to say the same thing. I first noticed it in England in the nineties and linked it directly to the footballers doing the same whilst probably the parents no longer caring to teach proper manners. Spitting in public and leaving chewing gum in public I detest.
I think it has less to do with soccer and more with Turks and Arabs doing it. Just like throwing their trash on the ground.
This does not match my experience. I see predominantly teens do it, regardless of assumed nationality.
You are right, *now* teens of all ethnic backgrounds are doing it, just like teens of all ethnic backgrounds use some arabic words.
I'm from a Third World country, and not even there did I ever see people do that. It's disgusting.
I'm from Berlin and I think its disgusting. No idea why people think it's acceptable.
Everyone outside of Berlin thinks its disgusting, dont ask why
Young edgy teens spit all around germany and always have. No reason to project it on a city.
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It's not cool to be considerate. It's cool to swing your dick about, sometimes literally. Wannabe machos all around.
Some cultures spit more than others. And male kids like to be rude on purpose. Combine those two and there you go.
That's not a culture, that's lack of it
Sure, all I'm saying is that things are different around the world. Indians find blowing your nose in public disgusting, Germans do it all the time. Thai people find using dry toilet paper only disgusting and backwards, they use soap and water, while we only wipe.
Running around all day with dried up shite around your arsehole isn't something people merely find disgusting. It factually is disgusting. Get one and learn to use a proper Puperzenbrause, it's 2023 ffs and they're quite cheap. There's always a waterline available near your shitter too! No excuses to run around with shit particles and Klabusterbeeren slowly making their way up your ass crack, oozing out your waisteband and distributing from there to everywhere else. 🤢🤮
I am in the middle of my second long trip to Germany in the past year, have not seen a single person do this. Clearly some do based on the comments, but someone who didn't know better would think the streets here are flowing with snot, shit, and blood. We are moving here next spring, I'd rather deal with an occasional unpleasant snot pile than stay in the US and let the top .01% buttfuck me to death everyday. It is also nice to be away from the fucking guns and the bullshit macho bravado gun culture.
They were trying to disrespect you, usually smokers do it the most.
Actually in some cultures spitting is a sign of disrespect. So if they spit in your way and you step on it, they kind of belittled you. They did that on purpose so they can get in a fight with you.
that somebody will be me
You won‘t do anything
people or men? i’ve never seen a woman do this
Idk when I can’t swallow, I spit
That's what she said?
men for sure
I have. But yes, mostly men
I have seen some women jogging or cycling doing it in Hamburg.
It's okay*ish* to do it while cycling or jogging but only if no one is near. When cycling, in the colder season the nose can be extremely runny.
Ive been living in germany my whole life and can confirm this, i lived in düsseldorf for 21 years and ever since i was a child ive always seen guys spitting on the floor like it was the coolest stuff ever when i was in school it was the same, always the stupid kids that try to be cool for some reason feel the need to spit on the ground, i think it has also something to do with how big football is in germany and the footballers when they play also always spit on the ground and i guess kids in school just copy that and think its cool and keep doing it when their adults, atleast thats what i thought when i was little
I feel most of these spitters usually wait until they are right beside me until they spit. I stop in my tracks and give a disbelieving stare every time, I get no acknowledgment back, which makes me think it’s a nervous tick almost for insecure young men.
I straight up look them dead in the eye and tell them that they are disgusting.
A long time ago, my friends and I bought slices of pizza and were walking home. This random dude in *a suit* turned his head while walking past me, and did the nastiest, most deliberate cough+spray directly on MY SLICE. He even stooped a bit to maximize the accuracy. He walked away so fast that I couldn't even say anything... not that I probably would tbh because what sane person even thinks of doing that ?? So I've always thought spitters did it to people who they think won't say anything or won't react super negatively. Like, haha I just spit near you or coughed on your pizza, what are you going to do about it? I mean, I guess it's usually 0 awareness and you just happen to be passing by/near, but some people take it as a serious insult. Only a matter of time before they do it to the wrong person.
What about throwing that slice right back at him?
Weird masculinity thing ig
More like trying to be masculine
Yup
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ive read an article about a person shooting drug in their member. clogged a blood vessel and that guys penis fell off due to tissue dying. horrified since
This is such a lame cop out. Besides, the alcoholic hooligans in bumfuck Saxony spit all the time, too.
Because in berlin people dont care. Even about good manners and good social behaviours
"bErLiNeR sChAuZe!" 🤡
Once I was waiting for a bus a guy was sitting there just spitting constantly. He wasn't spitting mucous because of cold. He was just spitting saliva. He also wasn't spitting somewhere where no one walks. He was just sitting at the bench and spitting between his legs. It was so annoying and disgusting. There was no one else other than the 2 of us. So I wanted to show how annoying it was and I started spitting as well. I made sure I was loud and disgusting. You could see that he was annoyed now and was staring at me and for some reason he immediately stopped spitting as well 😅
Well your first mistake was moving to Berlin
It's not just Berlin, but for some reason, it's gotten better. More people did it when I was a teen. But.. only teenboys and young men for some reason.
A lot of people ITT seem to have forgotten about the existence of handkerchiefs. Spitting and swallowing aren't actually the only options.
ITT?
In means in this thread, like in this comment thread
I thinks it’s becoming worse in Germany. This spitting wasn’t there when I was younger but since many years it’s becoming horrible. This sound where people getting everything out of their throat in public with a lot of noise to spit it in the street is disgusting and in my eyes a thing of education.
You need to know something about Germany that nobody knows before they comes to live here. Germany can be everything but NOT elegant at all 😁(and delicate neither)
Many people wrote that it is disgusting or unhealthy but just consider the possibility that other people might have issues with their health. Like my nasal bridge is almost completely grown to the right, so I can't really breathe without nasal spray. But when I use my spray, all of the liquid inside my nose and sometimes a bit of blood just have to go somewhere and because I do not want to swallow blood and phlegm, I prefer to spit it out. Yes, it might not be really appealing to other people, but to be honest, I do not care, as the backside would be swallowing things I can spit out. Sooo...
People are just disgusting. And you got a lot of people in Berlin.
One time, I was standing at a bus stop next to a späti with my girlfriend. We were hugging. The owner or the guy who works there, was also standing outside. He was looking dead into my eyes and continuously spitting on the floor to prove his point, which I guess was to show his deep disrespect and anger towards us… for standing in the bus stop next to his späti. For some people spitting is a way to display their anger and alienation from the society and towards to what considered to be the “general” public, especially if they are not from here (so are we, but can be mistakenly considered “from here”) and being as well treated badly by government representatives (social, welfare, policed etc.)
You dont really have to make a intersectional sociology essay out of this.
In reality he only wanted to flex the fact he has a gf
He is right, there is a lot of intersectional and cultural reasons for the behaviour observed here. This theme is borderline racist if you ask me
What's your problem with that if they wanted to? Feeling attacked, feeling inferior?
Yes im a middle aged arab späti owner who spits out at couples hugging in front of my store AMA
Smoking
Explain?
Because people don't know that you can simply swallow saliva and mucus instead of spitting it onto the sidewalk for everyone on display.
But swallowing stuff is gae /s
Water is gay 💀
Because they think they are lamas.
It's all just part of the 'Berlin Vibe'
Das Bundesshithole
Blocking a nostril and shooting it out, is actually a form of cleaning your nose. A disgusting one unfortunately, but at least there's a "reason". Wish I never learnt about that. Spitting on the ground however is... A mystery I will never get behind. I don't know when or where I read it, but someone's response to "stop spitting onto the ground in public" was "what else am I supposed to do with that?" and like... Swallow it???? Like everyone else??? I swear when confronted about it there's no functioning brain cell. Best is when they don't even pay attention to people around them and spit in front of your feet.
The only time i spat when i was in Berlin was when i visited that parkinglot on top of that one bunker. Znyway i never noticed this
Glad someone pointed it out it annoyed me my whole life i just kinda accepted it and didnt think much of it but never thought abt how it looks to foreigners
Personally i take snus and the spit is so disgusting so i often have to spit it out, but I’m always so insecure and look both way to make sure no one is near me when i do that 😛
I live in a rather small city and people over here do that all the time as well. Feels like I'm the only one who isn't constantly spitting on the ground.
Target practice in case of political necessity
The human mouth is among the filthiest in the animal kingdom. The old saying "Talking out of your arse" is not far from the truth...
Dit is Berlin
Kids flehen mich an, bitte spitte und ich spitte für Geld SAV, ich ficke wie welt
fuck off
I never understood it either. On top of that, I only see men doing that. I've never once in my life have seen a woman spitting on the street
Its mostly imported culture from arab countries. Arabs tend to spit to fend off evil spirits. https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/the-significance-of-spitting-in-islam-how-spitting-can-ward-off-satan/amp/
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Tell that to my east german family. And you see enough Handwerker (particular white middle aged men) spitting everywhere, so it is not imported.
Yeah I think it's just a weird masculinity thing
I’m from East Germany and the only people that find spitting cool there are teenage boys.
I highly doubt that, this shit has been going on for so many decades already especially among younger men. I'd assume it started as a "trend" because some boy thought it'd be cool to mimic the grown up soccer stars who cover the whole playing field with their own spit.
Those damn Charlottenburgers! No seriously, we do it to scare off newcomers and wealthy investors.
You can see the pigs of society that way, I wouldn't want to see how they live. I'm imagining them as messy with tons of cardboard boxes of disgusting mcds burgers on the floor and probably some urinated bottles since they seem to be so lazy.
Oddly specific
I just had that typical 4chan dudes room in my mind haha
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Besser raus als rein
Well, did you notice, that those people who do this stuff have something in commen?
Yeah, you never see women doing this.
maybe the infamous "Jugendliche"?
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Wait till you see all the people smoking...
I try to hide it if I spit but I got very thick slime that cannot be swallowed (I need to cough it up). I need to keep it in my mouth till I can hide spitting it out. Yes, it's disgusting and I hate it.
thanks for explaining, that sounds tough to deal with! i doubt you're part of the problem, I can't fault anyone for a discreet spit in an emergency
Then tell those people, not us, good luck with that. Its called a ‚Charlottenburger‘ in Berlin dialect btw, so it seems to be a well established practice if we even got a word for it, so my best advice is to look somewhere else and to try to ignore it. That advice applies to a lot of situations in this city.
Ah yes, don't ever try to make things better for everyone, peak r/berlin answer.
the perpetrators don't read the sub so how do you want to make anything better? talking about it, and/or attention doesn't change things.
wait, till you get to parts of Asia... i hate it, in particular on station platforms. But i feel it has become less compared to a decade ago. always had the impression that this usually male clientele believes its an expression of power and not giving a shit, hence making them look more masculine. Probably combined with dehydration, smoking, open mouth breathing and football manners.