What are some cultural faux pas in Bavaria and Munich?

Update: as musical background and to highlight the cultural duality of Bavaria (as well as a celebration of Quora's new YouTube embeds), here's a RamYodel mashup. "Geil," as we'd say in Munich. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T5q2C2IEBE Ok. read more

Update: as musical background and to highlight the cultural duality of Bavaria (as well as a celebration of Quora's new YouTube embeds), here's a RamYodel mashup. read more

Bavaria has its own set of rules and etiquette. Reuters/Michael Dalder Munich, most famously home to Oktoberfest, is part of Bavaria, in south Germany. Bavaria, progressively conservative and traditionally modern, differs from the rest of Germany so crassly it may as well be its own country. read more