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As a German: you are exactly right. Sitting down at the Stammtisch is asking for trouble. It's reserved for the die hard locals - it's coming from Stammkundscha
by nisa 2y ago
As a German: you are exactly right. Sitting down at the Stammtisch is asking for trouble. It's reserved for the die hard locals - it's coming from Stammkundschaft which roughly translates to regulars. Still it's perfectly fine to sit next to it or somewhere else in the bar. Usually sitting directly at the bar is the place for newbies or foreigners and people are often willing to talk and interact. Sometimes the bar keeper is interested in having a conversation or someone ordering a few beer initiates a conversation and invites you to their table.
Unfortunately my experience (in eastern Germany, maybe it's not universal) you tend to meet lot's of broken and fucked up people in bars and very little normal ones. At least I seem to have a talent to attract assholes and fascists that tell me their world view after a few beer. But this depends on the bar and the area. It's not all happy happy live.
- bratwurst3000 2y agoi live in southwest germany and that seems like a esst germany problem. here i can meet interesting people in bars. for sure drunk nuts but hey its a bar. i think the real german thing against loneliness is the Verein. you go there and share interests with people and usually u become friends witj them.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoI think that very much depends on the Stammtisch. There are also welcoming ones and open ones. Some you might have to RSVP for, some you hear about from friends.
- nisa 2y agoFunny how this whole reply of me was just a misunderstanding after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497747 and even more funnier I'm doing this and most of my friends but nobody calls it Stammtisch here. It's usually just called Treffen. Stammtisch is so hard wired in my brain to bars full of smoke and people drinking beer at a table called Stammtisch. It's all a complete confusion. My comment has little to do with your comment. It's two completely separate things.
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