The expat in Germany always complains about certain things German: apparent obsessions with order, neatness, bureaucracy. Well here's hilarious proof, in the form of a little film from 1996 starring our favorite punk rocker star blogger, that the humor, or irony or whatever, of these things are not lost on the (some? don't want to generalize) Germans themselves.
You can read the background at Johnny's post here. The clip is funny even if you don't speak German: all you need to know is that trash pickup has become drastically complex in this neighborhood. We see Johnny's character on the phone with an automated voice describing a schedule in which the yellow bins are dumped the 27th week after the brown ones, but only if there was no holiday in between and the blue ones were dumped the preceding week...etc. That kind of thing.
[the note you see at the begining, "die gelbe - einer der es gut mit dir meint" means "the yellow (bin) - from someone who's looking out for you"]
Posted by Heather at April 14, 2005 01:37 PM
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