A stereotypical, American man cave.
^^^The deluxe version^^^
There's probably beer.
Music playing.
A video game or two.
Some sports on.
And boys. There must be boys for the man cave to truly be a man cave.
Now. Put the same scene in Germany.
Lederhosen, ready!
Take away the video games. And the sports, because the World Cup hasn't started yet.
As for the music, make it an electronic, jazz mash-up.
And make sure that wimpy American six pack is replaced by a 24-bottle crate that's half empty.
Yep.
It's not bad at all. I'm just...living with a guy.
And he has a man cave.
And it's real life.
And I think it's really, really entertaining.
I've only seen my roommate once. But his friends, his friends I have seen on their pilgrimages from man cave to beer source.
No matter where you are, at the very core, some things are just fundamentally consistent across cultures.
Like music. Music's a big one.
I have yet to hear any songs sung in German.
Sure, my roommates' electronic jazz didn't come from the states (...right...?), but any music I've heard with words has been American music.
I've heard Katy Perry a couple of times.
She's after the German's own hearts
They are touring Germany while I'm here....hmmmm....
Even Jay-Z has been played.
Don't mess.
But here's the best part:
We're in Germany.
So "bad words" in English don't have the same power here. They're just words.
Which means that when you're walking in the toy section of Müller's (the German love child of Walmart and Walgreens) and Jay-Z screams "I've got 99 problems but a b*#&h ain't one", no one bats an eye.
Minus the shocked American who is questioning whether or not this is real life.
And then when Backstreet Boys proclaims just which way they want it, only the American is rockin' out.
And I'm not sure if the sexual innuendoes in some of Katy Perry's stuff makes sense to anyone else. Or if the songs make sense at all.
Wait what?
Tragedy.
tschau,
kendall
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