We were on another one of our Bavarian city tours yesterday (in Regensburg, more about that in a later post), when my Mum spotted this notice on a door:
“The depositing of free newspapers and advertising in front of the door or the letter boxes is forbidden.
Violations will be prosecuted! The administrator”
But…
Ha 😉
And no, the intrepid violators weren’t the two of us, in case you were wondering…
I’m linking this to travelwithintent’s Look Up, Look Down photo challenge, which, coincidentally, is all about signs this week 🙂
Lady Of The Cakes 
Lol!
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Ha ha! I love how rebellious the Germans are 😉
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I want to know what’s going on with the fonts on that sign… they are all over the place!
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Yeah, so much for German efficiency 😉
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Written by the Hausverwaltung.. .
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They let the Hausmeister’s thirteen-year-old lout design it…
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Changing the font size keeps it interesting, you know? Bloody Germans
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Yeah but…. there’s no CONSISTENCY! How very un-German 😉
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Alles ist verboten…my first German sentence. The 2nd? Es kostet geld…
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I think that’s true for just about everywhere 😉
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ha ha! Brilliant! Perfect for this week’s challenge. The administrator probably chose a door without a letter box deliberately and then people just put the stuff on the doorstep:)
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I didn’t see the letterboxes… they may have been round the (forbidden?) corner…
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I love it. They’re not ‘free’ newspapers they’re kost los! That’s awesome costless newspapers. That made me laugh!
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I like the “verfolgt”… like they gonna run them down in the street and break their legs up against the wall…
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Brilliant too. Mind there’s no cameras to see if it was you!
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I’m INNOCENT! …unless cake goes missing.
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Oh yeah baby!
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🙂
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hahaha! Contradictions like that are hilarious 🙂
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It’s the small things 😉
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Great find…♪ http://lauriekazmierczak.com/eights/
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Thanks 🙂 Love your 8’s
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Wow, were the police at the scene of this egregious violation within 5 minutes?
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No, they were too busy keeping people off the lawns 😉
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Someone thinks they’re a rebel…
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I bet they were wearing sandals without socks, too!
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Ooooh, a German trying to be rebellious! 😉
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You should see the length of my mum’s Mietshaus Hausordnung! I’m feeling all twitchy…
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Love this one. 🙂
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Who is this “administrator”?
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Well, it actually says the “administration”, so there may (or may not) be several…
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All the better to prohibit things…
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The administrator’s gonna be PISSED!
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Yup 🙂
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Hahaha I love it, we don’t pay any attention to signs here in egypt, either! ♥♥♥ ;^)
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I take it Egypt has far bigger problems than ‘illegally’ deposited newspapers… it’s an entirely German luxury, this 😉
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Lol, illegally deposited everything is a problem here! This country is notoriously dirty because there’s no infrastructure for trash cleanup. It’s quite pitiful, but very little to be done about it, the culture here is very lax about litter so I don’t think anything will change any time soon. It’s a bit shocking to western eyes!!!
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Ha! Verboten is one of my favorite German words, just because it sounds so very, very hardcore Deutsch when you say it. I also enjoy yelling out “Schweinsteiger!” at random intervals during any football match he shows up in for the very same reason. 😉
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Yeah, that guy’s name is just so made for the football pitch, LOL!
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Oh, these people clearly haven’t yet reached the state of resignation in the face of snail-mail spam. 🙂
In the house, where my brother’s flat is, they just have a cardboard box under the letter boxes, so that the people who live there can just throw away the ads and brochures on the spot.
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In Germany, everything has to be recycled, so somebody’s got to offload all that lot at a recycling bin somewhere, and it adds up to quite a considerable pile…
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Oh, and I’m assuming the bins for paper aren’t too large, are they? Actually, with this in mind, I’m surprised that these people haven’t set up surveillance cameras to register the offenders and the times when they come. Perhaps, also a bear trap or two. 🙂
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I think the installation of such a system is imminent…
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I mean, if I were a person who delivers the spam, I’d definitely be scared off, if I came up to this door, and saw my picture on it with the words ‘WE KNOW’ under it.
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WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WE’RE COMING FOR YOU!!!
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Exactly. 🙂 I think it’s cheaper than hiring lawyers and better than dispensing empty threats in angry notices.
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Ha ha! Very naughty : )
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I knew you’d appreciate this one 😉
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Weeeell, to be nitpicking:
The “Mittelbayerische” is neither a free newspaper nor advertising, so it’s perfectly ok with the sign to put it in front of the door 😉
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Yeah, somebody pointed out that the offending piece of print in question may indeed be a subscription newspaper and, hence, ‘legal’ – but it still made us laugh 😉
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“Ist Verboten” has somehow made it into my vernacular, so this post tickled me pink!
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Well, that’s allowed, I think 😉
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It’s fun to yell. So many German phrases are fun to yell.
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