Return voyage working out much better, so l am happy again! :-)

Yes, seatbelts and comfortable seats.
Definitely an improvement to the Regionalexpress!

Sadly a thing of the past…

Celebrating sounds very Italian… We Germans just share some sarcastic comments with our fellow travellers. :-)

What happened […]?

The long term effects of privatization and decades of car centric politics.

Or the Swiss.

You can imagine I gave up and did not go.

Not an option for me, mandatory appointment.

But something similar happened for as with your buses, but fortunately in a good way:
The preceding ICE was even more delayed, so I was able to catch that one instead. :-)

There was a bus substitute on one of my routes some time ago.
Turned out it was faster than the train because it took the Autobahn.
First time in my life arriving 20 mins early at that destination…

So we are still not worst?
I guess that’s… uplifting?

It certainly should be here by now.

But I still value the work ethics of the ICE personal very much.

It’s not their fault that their employer isn’t able to coordinate procedures efficiently…

I am confident that there is still growth potential along the remaining route!

Let me tell you about me once trying to get from Mainz to Nürnberg some time…

Growing up in a still deeply Catholic environment, and having heard all those Satanism-warnings in my 80s school classes (best promotion ever…) it was more Metal for me.
But yes, also “Bad Religion”, for obvious reasons… ;-)

OK, that totally changes the context!

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Just looked them up.
Fentanyl I found classified as Hardcore Punk, which would already be around since the 80s.
But 100 gecs seems to be something called Hyperpop, which is a genuine new GenZ thing!
Sounds interesting, will have a look!

Commenter said “or”, so not the combination of both.

I don’t know… Wasn’t the first to use autotune Cher?
You can’t get much more Boomer than Cher I would say…

Don’t know Hanabie, but Electric Callboy certainly is the ultimate comfort music for GenX and Millenials.
The Europop-Techno-Metal mix massively tingels my nostalgia based on the music genres of my youth. Plus it is a surprisingly fitting combination and rocks on a massive scale. :-)

Might well be, some variant of rap seems to be a good candidate.
Although here in Germany I would rather see immigrant-influenced Deutschrap here, maybe connected to the Talahon youth culture.
That would definitely fit the bill, as I certainly will never become a fan of any kind of macho ultra-conservatism.