Buschfunk...and other musings on Berlin
Ah, the wacky, the wild, the wonderful world that is Berlin.
The city where you walk around a corner near a giant phallic column in the center of a park (think Washington Monument, but nothing near it to distract from the view) and discover some shirtless men...thinking "I have found the mother lode!". Get a little closer and you realize they're not shirtless...they're naked. Get a little closer still and you realize...
...they're all on Medicare (or Deutschebundesaltegesundcare, whatever they call it here). One thing Germans ain't is shy about their bodies, regardless of what they look like. In a way I admire it, but only in principle. Not to look at. Ew.
Germans are also not shy about sex. In the past two days I have seen a common billboard where a guy's towel is draped over his considerable...er...manhood; a gay magazine which, among other things, has ads for a dance night called "Conny's Buschfunk", an ad of indeterminate origin where a guy is smelling his own socks, and a "Lateinisch" gentleman advertising his 29cm penis (that's about 12 inches for the metrically challenged), with picture to prove it. Oh, and in case there was any doubt, there most certainly is German porn on the telly after midnight. However, it's not regular porn, but rather vampire porn. After these ladies fuck their gentleman callers, they drink their blood. I have a hard time believing anyone gets off to this alleged porn...or if they do, they must be very careful to finish before the people on TV do.
No David Hasselhoff sightings yet (thank god...maybe the rage is finally over), but I have done a whole lot in three days. Today I saw the Pergamon, which is HUGE and rather distressing when you consider that the Germans just up and took entire temples and shipped them off to the Kaiser...I'm sure they looked much better in their own natural setting. Cool to see, though.
Yesterday was a good day...I started at the East Side Gallery, which is a large section of the Berlin Wall that is still intact and covered with artistic graffiti, and took a ton of good pictures there. Over to Kurfürstendamm, which is kind of the Champs-Elysees of Berlin, i.e. overpriced shopping. I didn't buy anything there, but just wanted to see it. After that I hopped over to the Olympic Stadium of Nazi (and more recently, World Cup) fame, which was pretty cool.
Crap I gotta run, my internet is about to time out...but having a great time! Tomorrow it's off to Dresden for a day trip.
Später!
The city where you walk around a corner near a giant phallic column in the center of a park (think Washington Monument, but nothing near it to distract from the view) and discover some shirtless men...thinking "I have found the mother lode!". Get a little closer and you realize they're not shirtless...they're naked. Get a little closer still and you realize...
...they're all on Medicare (or Deutschebundesaltegesundcare, whatever they call it here). One thing Germans ain't is shy about their bodies, regardless of what they look like. In a way I admire it, but only in principle. Not to look at. Ew.
Germans are also not shy about sex. In the past two days I have seen a common billboard where a guy's towel is draped over his considerable...er...manhood; a gay magazine which, among other things, has ads for a dance night called "Conny's Buschfunk", an ad of indeterminate origin where a guy is smelling his own socks, and a "Lateinisch" gentleman advertising his 29cm penis (that's about 12 inches for the metrically challenged), with picture to prove it. Oh, and in case there was any doubt, there most certainly is German porn on the telly after midnight. However, it's not regular porn, but rather vampire porn. After these ladies fuck their gentleman callers, they drink their blood. I have a hard time believing anyone gets off to this alleged porn...or if they do, they must be very careful to finish before the people on TV do.
No David Hasselhoff sightings yet (thank god...maybe the rage is finally over), but I have done a whole lot in three days. Today I saw the Pergamon, which is HUGE and rather distressing when you consider that the Germans just up and took entire temples and shipped them off to the Kaiser...I'm sure they looked much better in their own natural setting. Cool to see, though.
Yesterday was a good day...I started at the East Side Gallery, which is a large section of the Berlin Wall that is still intact and covered with artistic graffiti, and took a ton of good pictures there. Over to Kurfürstendamm, which is kind of the Champs-Elysees of Berlin, i.e. overpriced shopping. I didn't buy anything there, but just wanted to see it. After that I hopped over to the Olympic Stadium of Nazi (and more recently, World Cup) fame, which was pretty cool.
Crap I gotta run, my internet is about to time out...but having a great time! Tomorrow it's off to Dresden for a day trip.
Später!
posted by Raawwwb! at 10:40 AM
1 Comments:
"Germans are also not shy about sex."
And I've thought that germans are one of the most serius and shy people I know.
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