Germans: “Ah, yes, zis looks good.”

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  1. I’ve seen the “fancy” version of this, with one line of blue stones (imagine blue mint candy) that cuts through horizontally around the middle.

    It seems that Germans are aggressively against good taste these days, which is weird because the older German architecture is fantastic.

  2. “Ich verstehe Ihre Frage so, dass es in Westdeutschland Menschen gibt, die wünschen, dass wir die Bauarbeiter der DDR dazu mobilisieren, eine Mauer aufzurichten. Mir ist nicht bekannt, dass eine solche Absicht besteht. Die Bauarbeiter unserer Hauptstadt beschäftigen sich hauptsächlich mit Wohnungsbau, und ihre Arbeitskraft wird dafür voll eingesetzt. **Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten**.”

    Walter Ulbricht

  3. Germans: ”you know what, i kinda liked the wall.”

  4. Pff, as if Hans thinks in English. He’d have a thorough look and say

    “Da kann man nicht meckern”

  5. German retinas don’t sense visible light like the rest of us. They’re sensitive to efficiency.

    To a you and me, this looks like a simple pile of stones caged in some wire. To them, this looks like marble from Carrara.

  6. Oh god, hide this pile of rocks from the Brits before it’s too late.

  7. Gott, wie sehr ich diese Gabionen hasse. Oder diese Schotter-Vorgärten. Frei nach dem Motto:

    ## My home is my castle; My garden is a Panzersperre.

  8. I unironically like this.

    It’s all about context: this, in an urban hellscape? It’s the iron curtain. This, in a green, bright, suburban backyard? Cool modern architecture.

  9. It’s an *Antifaschistischer Schutzwall*, you wouldn’t understand

  10. Board it up and fill it in with a ton of blue epoxy resin.

  11. I would prefer that to the literal concrete slap walls that two different people built around their houses in my village.

  12. Hideous.

    But you gotta admire the efficiency and cost savings here.

    Just couple of metal fences and pour in the gravel.

    This is extremely logical.

  13. They just can’t seem to stop themselves from erecting walls

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