Black Forest Dolphin

In Germany the fith season begun.

The Oktoberfest



Most of the germans do not visit this beer-orgy anymore because we feel kind of lost there.

If you want to order a beer in german the waiter might not understand you because the officiall languages are english, japanese, french and italian.
Also we germans have a sort of problem getting the correct Oktoberfest-equipment here. I am talking about those funny hats with goatbeards and the leather trousers. There might be one or two shops in some dark corners of Bavaria, who carry them, but they are really hard to find. On the oter hand there seems to be a massive industry for that kind of outfit outside Germany, because thousands of English, French, Italian and Japanese are dressed with it. So wearing your usual outfit (jeans and t-shirt) we feel very much out of place there.



Only every now and then we feel like beeing in Germany. This is when you by chance meet a policeman or a guy from first aid. They still seem to possess the german language ability. And of course the members of the bands. They are all germans but it is almost impossible to talk to them, because they are busy 18 hours a day and after that completely drunk.

Another big problem for us germans comes up, when we do not know the correct lyrics of the beersongs. Sure you find a lot of songtexts spread on every beertable, but when we want to use them we have to find out that they are printed in perfect phonetic english (except the headlines) Here an example:
“Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit” reads “ Eye'n pro sit dare gay mort lick kite". – very confusing for germans!

We also do not really understand why people travel thousands of miles just to double their bodyliquor with beer. They could do that a home as well, couldn’t they?

And why do Australians fly half the world, just to get tremendously drunk and then thrashing New Zealanders ("Fuck you, Kiwi") until the blood runs off their noses.

And why would you like to have your beer here



Instead of sitting in a nice litte bar next door?

There must be something special about it, which we germans did not find out so far. Please let me know if you have a clue.



Prost

Uwe