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"Forbidden Love" video clip update: Business as usual for Christian and Olli
Nothing too terribly exciting happened with our adorable German soap couple yesterday, with both Christian and Olli going to work and dealing with the drama of their friends and colleagues. It is a bit interesting to note, though, that in this particular soap, the one gay man has darker hair and an apparent coffee fixation, and the other is fair-haired and a compulsive urge to help his friends iron out their issues. Sound familiar? Either Olli is blowing Christian a kiss, or he wants a cigarette.
Anyway, today's scenes demonstrate that not every day in a young gay man's life can be roses and rapture, as there are bills to pay and coffee to brew. Let's just hope that these fellas don't give our Stateside couple a run for their geld in the dry spell department. All of yesterday's scenes appear in one clip after the break, with subtitling of course courtesy of Nanna and uploading thanks to Gays of Daytime. Enjoy! (Note there is some NSFW language in the opening confrontation with Gregor. If you have any sensitive-eared German co-workers you may want to turn down the volume.) Submitted by on Tue, 2008-04-29 11:38. |
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One thing that confuses me about VL
Yes... most places...
...will serve coffee and alcohol. It will not be an uncommong sight to meet up with friends and while one nibbles away on his/her Latte Macchiato, the other will order a beer or a cocktail.
NoLimits stays open late, so it's more of a coffee place during the day (while you would still be able to order liquor) and more of a bar at night (and you'd still be able to get coffee).
The entire set up of the Nolimits- bar is actually quite realistic!
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The Gays Of Daytime
European Drinking Behaviors
Even a lot of corporate cafeterias in office buildings in Germany and France offer either beer and/or wine. This shocked me when I first saw it in Germany as in the U.S. we have incredibly strict no-alcohol on premises policies within the same company. But it appears that Europeans manage better self-restraint because when I discussed this with co-workers there they found the whole idea of anyone getting drunk at work to be almost beyond comprehension.
Think of it this way: in some U.S. states you can buy wine or beer in a supermarket, but in others you can only buy them in special stores.
Licensed coffee houses exist in Canada too
I don't think you will find
Twist of my sobriety
afhickman
"It takes a village (to make Village People)"
In Bulgaria, there is a cafe every ten metres or so. They invariably serve coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol. Sometimes, in addition, they serve deserts such as cakes, creme brule, chocolate "pancakes," etc. Ice cream is a little harder to find, but there are outdoor kiosks for this. The deserts are almost invariably good. Which is fortunate, because meals themselves are often bland and greasy. Alcoholism is said to be a problem here (rakiya is the national drink), but I have yet to see anyone drunk. I have, however, heard tales. Typcially, Europeans can hold their liquor, especially in Northern countries (in spite of Hamlet's rant about "some vicious mole of nature" in Danskers). When I was a student at a DOD high school (forty years ago!), I saw lots of drunk American GIs, but I never saw a drunk German. I'll never forget my shock when, once, many years later, in Munich, out on the town after a soccer game, I happened to run into my first bonafide German drunk. He was weaving and thowing his arms around and looking for a fight. Perhaps this had more to do with his team's having lost than with the state of his sobriety! But a drunk German--at least in public--that's a rare sight indeed.