It is a fact that if a country gets snow dumped on it.....

[BlasterBates]

....it doesn't work

Now Germany is brought to near standstill by 12 hours of solid snowfall (and they're not coping any better than us) | Mail Online

So all those tutting on the trains, saying "it's different in Norway".....it isn't....and yes when six inches of snow get dumped on Norway the trains stop there too.

[Pondlife]

Despite what the Daily Mail tells you, I got a taxi from the airport to my flat without issue late last night, this morning the trains were every 3 mins as usual and the ferry left on the dot.

Maybe I'm in a different Hamburg.

[MarillionFan]

....it doesn't work

Now Germany is brought to near standstill by 12 hours of solid snowfall (and they're not coping any better than us) | Mail Online

So all those tutting on the trains, saying "it's different in Norway".....it isn't....and yes when six inches of snow get dumped on Norway the trains stop there too.

Tory lies.

On the icy planet of Europa they have snow 3 miles deep! The bloody trains still work though!

[shaunbhoy]

Maybe I'm in a different Hamburg.

There's a different one?
Sweet!!!

[Clippy]

....it doesn't work

Now Germany is brought to near standstill by 12 hours of solid snowfall (and they're not coping any better than us) | Mail Online

So all those tutting on the trains, saying "it's different in Norway".....it isn't....and yes when six inches of snow get dumped on Norway the trains stop there too.

This would never have happened under Hitler...

[BlasterBates]

Despite what the Daily Mail tells you, I got a taxi from the airport to my flat without issue late last night, this morning the trains were every 3 mins as usual and the ferry left on the dot.

Maybe I'm in a different Hamburg.

Indeed you were lucky...

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,734458,00.html

Chaos in German means Chaos.

One day when you're driving up an "Autobahn" and it starts to snow you'll know what I mean.

[BoredBloke]

I was in Poland on the weekend when the snow hit the UK. On the Saturday night it was -23 and deep snow on the ground. Everything ran ok although flights were cancelled because of fog

The best of it was, I couldn't get to Gatwick from London, but had no problem driving from London the Liverpool to catch the flight from there instead

[gingerjedi]

It's also fallacious for a Brit to say Germans are extremely efficient, they only look efficient compared to us as we are feckin' useless in the scheme of things.

[Bunk]

It's also fallacious for a Brit to say Germans are extremely efficient, they only look efficient compared to us as we are feckin' useless in the scheme of things.

One of the things that surprised me most about Germany was how absolutely flipping useless all the bar staff were. None of them would have lasted 5 minutes in London serving at that speed.

[gingerjedi]

One of the things that surprised me most about Germany was how absolutely flipping useless all the bar staff were. None of them would have lasted 5 minutes in London serving at that speed.

Maybe we should adopt the near 2 pint stein? More time drinking and less time waiting.

Maybe I was wrong about the Germans?