Who said Germans are lacking a sense of black humor? This is a billboard for a funeral company. The text translates as: “Please step closer”. A more loose translation would be “Don’t mind the gap!”
Entries Tagged as ‘Germany’
July 2, 2007
On towels and fair play…
As a German who has lived in the UK for a number of years now (with a 1-year stopover in California) it never seizes to amaze me how deep certain stereotypes run on both sides of the Channel. While many of them may be justified, I’ll be trying to just observe some of the differences [...]