has been created by 2 Americans who recently visited Munich. It sounds improbable, I know, but it’s true and I am living through it to confirm this. The official slogan of Germany should be “Anything Goes” (kinda like THIS). Why you ask? There are so many reasons that I would probably overload the blog if I listed them here, so I will focus only on the examples from last weekend. First – the clothing is out of this world. You have everything from the über fashionable to those that just can’t quite get out of the 80’s. I cannot tell you how many jean jackets I have seen. Not to mention the amount of old school mohawks (not frohawk’s either). I’m talking old school style. 2nd- My buddy and I went to a a discotheque and experienced the bar scene of Munich. In the USA only the REALLY wasted guys would be caught singing Backstreet Boys, The Village People, or Madonna. In Germany – Anything Goes, the whole club sings every word to the whole song. Straight guys, straight girls, gay guys, gay girls, it didn’t matter at all. No comment on if I participated in singing. Finally- at the same bar, guys would get up on stage and dance with the girls too. There was no bouncer to through them off immediately, or a group of other guys to boo them off. They just got up there did there thing and no one cared. (no – I definitely did not join this. My dancing is worse than my singing).
Those are just 3 examples from this weekend but there are plenty more that I won’t go into here. Like so many other things I have talked about here — this isn’t a bad thing or a good thing, just different. Just very different.