Germans are much more mean when they want to challenge someone from the beginning.
Whereas in England you would be thrown in at the deep end (and only of the pool), in Germany you would "ins kalte Wasser geworfen/geschmissen werden".
And whereas where an english person might jump in at the deep end, a german would "ins kalte Wasser springen".
I imagine this to be in the arctic, through a hole that an inuit had dug to go fishing through. Maybe it's not so bad though.
