OK! I tried to do a German...

[arwalden]

... but he wasn't interested. --- Sigh.

-- Allen

[hippiechick]

1. ach du lieber !

I've tried unsuccesssfully many times to 'get with' European men, never could figure out the secret. Guess maybe I need to stop shaving.

Sympathies, my friend ....


:hippie:

[Character Assassin]

2. I was married to one.

And can confirm that they're pretty much like everybody else.

Hey, where's your duck?

[KCDem]

3. German men ARE hard to meet!

I did a semester abroad in Marburg. One night, a female friend and I were in a bar, and we saw one of the men from our group, a homosexual, sitting with a group of gays (mostly Germans). My friend and I started lamenting about how hard it was to be female and meet German men, and how much easier our gay friend seemed to have it. About 5 minutes later, our friend joined us, and HE started complaining about how hard it was to meet German men.

That being said, I did, ahem, get to know an undertaker quite well over there. :evilgrin:

[TheBigGuy]

9. Marburg, huh?

The mediaval capital of Hesse.

I hear this is a real nice town.

[Karenina]

11. Did you hang out at the Caveta?

Did you ever meet the town icon "Joe?" Marburg is so beautiful...
As far as the MEN go, in my experience it takes time. The wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am is definitely not always the first card in the deck. Some of the VERY BEST, MOST LOYAL friends I've EVER made in life are German men. It's really another mentality.

[supernova]

4. My ex in-laws were all Austrian

But I never had a hard time meeting Austrian men. Cafes, konditoreis, beer halls. Heck, even the grocer would flirt.

*sigh* I seem to have lost my touch lately.

[McEmotion]

5. Come-on line

What kind of come-on line did you use? We are very sensitive to "want to do some liberating...baby?" Ha ha ha.
Must have been the wrong guy, try on. Germans are not very prude. And there's 82 million of us, so no need to worry if you want to go the German way

[short bus president]

7. yeah, no kidding

anyone who's ever seen any German porn KNOWS you guys are no prudes...

:thumbsup:

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. Ve haf veys of makink you talk....

und zey are not pleazent Ja!

[trof]

8. you haf rrrrrrrrrelatives in Churmany?

[bicentennial_baby]

10. Ugh! I Had a German roommate

in prep school...Annika. Worst roommate ever! Was'nt because she was German though, it was the incessant Rod Stewart & Elton John music that finally drove me over the edge. :P

[greeneyedpookie]

12. My dad is

German. Born in Munich after WWII. Him and his older sister was adopted out when he was six and was flown to Albuquerque, NM to meet his new parents. But alas, he is still married to my mom for 35 years, but who knows for how long tho.


:bounce:

GEP

[Dirk39]

13. No, no, no...

Hello from Germany!
It's about communication and rules in a given society. Nearly all germans learn about these rules by the given example of the way, american soldiers after WWII were communicating with german women.
Watzlawick used this as an example in one of his books.
It's really funny and absurd. It's like there is a secret rule which step you have to take in a given cultural order. I hope I can halfway explain how this works. It's like Germans have a set of rules from 1 to 10. But what is a 3 for the Germans is a 6 for the Americans and what is a 2 for the Americans is a 8 for the Germans.
They analysed the reasons why relationsships between german women and american men often failed. And the funny thing was, the americans somehow thought: the german women are "sluts", while the german women in the same relationships used the same terms to describe the american men. O.k. I know that women don't describe men as "sluts" or whatever. I don't know the english word, women are using.
But in a way, I would agree that americans are far more expressive and outgoing than most europeans. Before I was travelling to the USA for the first time, a lot of my friends kind of warned me, 'cause I would be a kind of typical european intellectual and Americans in general couldn't handle people like me. What I experienced was the opposite. I really really enjoyed it and still love America, how many Bushs might try to spoil the country.
But this study, Watzlawick was doing is pretty interesting, it teaches you, how much you are conditioned by the society you live in. In a way it's like, the more you think, you're just yourself, in your most personal moments, the more you are conditioned.
Greetings from Germany,
Dirk

[midnight armadillo]

14. All the German I know:

Ich bin ein Berliner nicht.

That's all I got from a semester of German 10 years ago :-)

[inthecorneroverhere]

15. whuzz-ya hobby?

Gotta have the same interests! Gotta do the same things!

Germans and Swiss are very activity-oriented. Not really into just hangin' -

[McEmotion]

16. Whaaaat?

Activity orientated? Is beer a hobby? I can only talk for myself and the Germans I know of course but our activities are....working and hanging out. I think Americans love their hobbies (cheerleading?) far more than we do.

[Throckmorton]

17. Did you wave you cute little butt at him,

did you, you strumpet.

I wish I were german : heavy sigh.....