Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
Christ no - the efficiency is a myth (see building projects in Hamburg/Berlin for example - or even how they took three ****ing months just to put a new revolving door on our ****ing building).

Angela should be queen of everything of course though
I know the efficiency thing is a myth these days, but that German attitude of 'why doesn't everyone do things like us?' still lingers in places.
My favourite recent example of the myth of German efficiency being exposed when it was pointed out after that terrorist chap was shot in Italy that we now had the bizarre spectacle of the German police being bungling incompetents while the Italian police act with ruthless efficiency.