The Berlin U-Bahn is OK with we being weird
The latest advert by BVG has churned adult a charge opposite Europe – and it’s not tough to theory why.
In “Ist mir egal” (“I don’t care”), rapper Kazim Akboga – in uniform as a BVG central – gives passengers a low-down on correct practice when travelling with BVG.
“The whole definition of a video is to have fun,” BVG spokesperson Josefin Langer told The Local.
“We wish to tell everybody that it’s not critical how we look, where we come from, or what skin colour we have – we’re only here to take we from one place to another.”
It’s a summary that’s utterly critical as thousands of refugees arrive in Berlin, she added.
The lane seemed on YouTube on Friday 11th December, and BVG’s couple to a video perceived roughly 9,000 shares within a initial 5 hours of appearing on Facebook.
“It’s left by Europe!” pronounced Langer. “We’ve had calls from Finland, France, Austria…”
It turns out there are utterly a few things Akboga “doesn’t care” about.
Whether all of these conform with BVG’s central manners is another thing – though it’s flattering entertaining, possibly way.
So what accurately are we authorised to do on a BVG train, according to Akboga? Well…
1. Yawn during a conductor on a Monday morning
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
Ok, this isn’t weird. Actually, it’s flattering unavoidable.
Bonus points to anyone who can conflict a titillate to boredom when looking during this picture. We didn’t conduct it.
2. Wear a stand top
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
Oh come on. It competence be surprisingly amiable for Dec in Berlin… though it’s not that warm.
3. Play shrill music
The guys in a video are sombrero-clad and personification guitars – though we reckon you’d get divided with many genres. Even techno, probably.
4. Bring a dog in a shark costume
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
Because because not.
5. Carry your lounge on a train
What’s a Berliner to do when they pierce house? Pay for a dismissal company?!
Of march not. If a lounge fits on a tube, it’s travelling by tube.
6. Ride a horse
Because if there’s one thing some-more sparkling than cantering by grassy meadows, it’s removing a U2 to Pankow.
7. Sit on another guy’s lap
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
It does save seats, we guess.
8. Give a giveaway striptease
Little famous fact: a poles many passengers use to stay station are also a ideal height for a impertinent pole-dance. (Apparently)
9. Be a bearded woman
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
We have a unctuous feeling we’ve seen something like this before.
10. Have no tiny change
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
Do those things even exist?!
11. Not give a tip
He unequivocally doesn’t care.
12. Cut onions
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
If zero else, it’s a good approach to make certain nobody wants to lay subsequent to you.
13. Grate cheese
Well, you’ve already finished a onions. You competence as well.
14. Bring a drudge and a jar of mustard
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
…nope. We honestly have no thought what this one’s about.
15. Play a drum
Naturally.
16. Have a large nose
Or as Akboga puts it, a “potato nose.”
We consider that’s flattering mean. The lady in a video doesn’t even have that big a nose.
17. Wear a rabbit costume
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
Cute alert.
18. Take selfies
Because if we didn’t take a selfie on a tube, did we even go on a tube?
19. Camoflage yourself opposite a seats
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
WHERE DID SHE GO?!
19. Do a splits
“Only we adore we only as we are.” Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
Of course, some of a video’s points should really be taken with a splash of salt – though BVG aren’t about to let that get in a approach of their fun.
“Some lines protest a terms of transportation? We don’t care,” a association commented on a Facebook post about a video.
Image: Facebook screenshot
“Of march we’re joking about many things in a video,” Langer told The Local.
“This is only a approach of saying: it’s not critical to us what we demeanour like or where we come from. It’s only critical that you’re a good chairman – and that we buy a ticket!”
Yep: even BVG draws a line during some things.
Basically, you’re not authorised to:
1. Not have a ticket
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
It’s all fun and games until someone dresses adult as a sheet appurtenance to censor from a conductor.
2. Not have any money on you
Image: BVG / YouTube screenshot
In conclusion: move your horse, your onions, your robot, your stand tip and your pug. Just don’t forget your wallet.
Happy travelling!
(Oh, and if a video doesn’t go viral, BVG doesn’t care.)
By Hannah Butler
Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20151211/19-weird-things-you-can-do-on-the-berlin-tube