There are, for example, entries on personal transport (summary: two wheels good, four wheels bad), techno music, obsession with Japan China, the 10% of (mostly bourgeois professional) Germans who model themselves on Americans, café culture (one thing one can't argue with there) and the semiotics of soft drinks, audio-visual media (apparently not having an interest in it is considered by Berliners to be a sign of deep sociopathy), the precarious balancing act of Berliner irony and Berliners' relationship to other German cities (apparently Cologne is not so much a mecca of underground electronica as a boringly bourgeois provincial town inhabited by orange-tanned, Ed Hardy-attired "guidos"; Munich, meanwhile, exists solely so that Berliners can slag it off for its conservatism and boringness) and the inevitable ordeal of family Christmases ("One good rule of thumb is - the more artiste, urbane, and bohemian a German person appears, the more remote and redneck his family background will be. For example, all those cross-dressing, Ketamine-addicted, full-body tattooed gay skinhead minimal-techno deejays (so, roughly 20% of the population of Berlin), stem from (remote rural towns in south-western Germany).")
I'm late to the party but through the wonders of Google somehow stumbled upon this. I'd just like to thank you for mentioning this awesomely hilarious blog. Ever since Nathan Barley ended, I've been longing for someone to take over mocking the faux individualism and excentricity-by-the-numbers that you can find in East London, and apparently, Berlin. This is definitely the best written yet.
Hi, long time lurker here, thank you very much for the link to this awesomely funny blog. I know many people who are fascinated with Berlin and dream about moving there, and of course they are the exact same type of mock individualists and lazy pseudo-artists that are being made fun of in the "berliner" blog.