As a local I applaud you for doing great work for Munich's tourist bureau. But the Oktoberfest has greatly been transformed into a hardcore costume drinking festival. The traditional "Gemütlichkeit" is all gone. The beer tents are often closed, because they are overcrowded (so good luck finding a nice place for yourself and your friends). Binge drinking (or Komasaufen in German) has become a serious problem. The traditional music in the tents has been supplanted by cheesy disco music and vulgar pop songs in English (to please the tourists). Just because the band wears Lederhosen doesn't make it "original". By trying to be more international the traditional aspects have been replaced by pseudo culture and are therefore no longer special. The Oktoberfest has become a victim of it's own propaganda, many people wear fake Dirndls and Lederhosen like they would go to a toga party with too much beer. These are costumes without any relationship to traditional "Trachten", which are very specific for various Bavarian regions and also very expensive. The so called "Trachtengruppen" that are so prominently featured on these pages only come on the first weekend for a traditional march and opening ceremony. The other days of the Oktoberfest belongs to the fakes in cheap costumes. I have been on many "Little Oktoberfests" in other countries and they were as "original" as what's happening in Munich right now. It has become a hardcore beer Mecca for anglo-saxon combat drinkers, a alcohol tsunami which has to be experienced, endured and barfed through. Not much "Gemütlichkeit" there ...”
“Great apps for your iPhone Brand new: For the first time ever, Oktoberfest.de offers apps for your iPhone with a lot of very useful functions. Apart from mobile phoning and surfing the internet, especially the many little programs called apps, have made the iPhone so popular. The four very useful Oktoberfest.de iPhone apps will make your visit tat the Oktoberfest even more enjoyable: The Oktoberfest.de 5-in-1 Oktoberfest-Assistant The Oktoberfest.de Dictionary The Oktoberfest.de Ordering Assistant The Oktoberfest.de Blood-Alcohol-Calculator” (Steve Jobs team)
Germany is not diferent. Vivan las corridas.
P.d.: “Minsky’s vision… Minsky was a red-diaper baby”.
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Toda la razón del mundo. Estuve en primavera en el Frühlingsfest en Munich y ya daba bastante miedo, y eso que no es ni la cuarta parte de popular que el Oktoberfest.
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“Great Pictures! Love that young girls!
As a local I applaud you for doing great work for Munich's tourist bureau. But the Oktoberfest has greatly been transformed into a hardcore costume drinking festival.
The traditional "Gemütlichkeit" is all gone.
The beer tents are often closed, because they are overcrowded (so good luck finding a nice place for yourself and your friends). Binge drinking (or Komasaufen in German) has become a serious problem.
The traditional music in the tents has been supplanted by cheesy disco music and vulgar pop songs in English (to please the tourists). Just because the band wears Lederhosen doesn't make it "original". By trying to be more international the traditional aspects have been replaced by pseudo culture and are therefore no longer special.
The Oktoberfest has become a victim of it's own propaganda, many people wear fake Dirndls and Lederhosen like they would go to a toga party with too much beer. These are costumes without any relationship to traditional "Trachten", which are very specific for various Bavarian regions and also very expensive. The so called "Trachtengruppen" that are so prominently featured on these pages only come on the first weekend for a traditional march and opening ceremony. The other days of the Oktoberfest belongs to the fakes in cheap costumes.
I have been on many "Little Oktoberfests" in other countries and they were as "original" as what's happening in Munich right now. It has become a hardcore beer Mecca for anglo-saxon combat drinkers, a alcohol tsunami which has to be experienced, endured and barfed through.
Not much "Gemütlichkeit" there ...”
“Great apps for your iPhone
Brand new: For the first time ever, Oktoberfest.de offers apps for your iPhone with a lot of very useful functions.
Apart from mobile phoning and surfing the internet, especially the many little programs called apps, have made the iPhone so popular.
The four very useful Oktoberfest.de iPhone apps will make your visit tat the Oktoberfest even more enjoyable:
The Oktoberfest.de 5-in-1 Oktoberfest-Assistant
The Oktoberfest.de Dictionary
The Oktoberfest.de Ordering Assistant
The Oktoberfest.de Blood-Alcohol-Calculator” (Steve Jobs team)
Germany is not diferent. Vivan las corridas.
P.d.: “Minsky’s vision… Minsky was a red-diaper baby”.
(Disculpa el comentario por error en el post anterior. Bórralo si puedes)
Toda la razón del mundo. Estuve en primavera en el Frühlingsfest en Munich y ya daba bastante miedo, y eso que no es ni la cuarta parte de popular que el Oktoberfest.
Pero bueno, es lo que tiene el folclore pop XD
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