A Few Great Things About Germany
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Believe it or not, there is no law enforcement involved in buying the cake or the German brandy-filled chocolates.
...you're ON alcohol and OFF sex ?...
...quite unbelievable ! 
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Cath wrote: but.. but.. but Germany has embraced him!
i fail to see how that is a great thing about Germany, unless you mean he spends less time in the USA because of it.
NOOLigan wrote: Kinski und Herzog. Was fuer eine Kombination.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes... 
Meine Oberstufeklasse studiert den Film im Moment... 
SHEDi xxx
Leave Me A Gnome wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: Kinski und Herzog. Was fuer eine Kombination.
SHEDi xxx
you should also check out Fitzcarraldo.
Beer Kraftwerk Techno/House Music/Clubs at the moment (e.g. Kompakt, Sender Records, etc) Trio ("Da Da Da") :) Nina ("99 Red Balloons" - classic!) Berlin Frankfurt (where my brother's wife's family lives) Friendly people The fact that they have no problem speaking English to you (unlike some other countries!) Public Transport (decent, efficient, on time) Cars (VW, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, etc) Hugo Boss clothes :)
Nick King wrote: Nina ("99 Red Balloons" - classic!)
Especially the German version... Much better lyrics than the English one...
SHEDi xxx
the Beer
the Alps
the Autobahn
Caspar David Friedrich
JS Bach
Krafwerk
Falco
Nena
KMFDM
Rammstein
die Frauen
German food + BEER!!! German science (medicine, chemistry, physics) German culture (classical music, 70s cinema, fine art of 1920-30s, architecture, etc.) German politicians and military (Bismarck, Brandt, Hindenburg, Moltke, Tirpitz, von Bulow, Max von Baden). :)
Here's a couple great things about Germany...
Them, and the sexy German accent that goes with 'em.
The beer, the cars, the fact that everything works, cleanliness, orderliness, punctuality, the machine tool industry.
, or worse :barf:
He looks Austrian to me, if you catch my drift...The fact that nothing of interest happened between 1939 and 1945. Nothing at all...nothing! 
Oh, and beer. :beer2:
Can't believe no one's mentioned naked saunas or marching music yet.
Agree with everything posted so far, plus my father's side of the family is from Germany.
The lack of nationalism and the pacifism of the post-ww2 generation.
Nena's armpit hair
Atari Teenage Riot
Kraftwerk
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Here's a couple great things about Germany...
Them, and the sexy German accent that goes with 'em.
You do like twins, don't you?
Grateful Shed wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Here's a couple great things about Germany...
Them, and the sexy German accent that goes with 'em.
You do like twins, don't you?
Never really thought about it before....
darran clarke wrote: The beer, the cars, the fact that everything works, cleanliness, orderliness, punctuality, the machine tool industry.
Cleanliness, orderliness, punctuality, THE MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY??
Yeah, I can tell you're an engineer. 
Where's the 'not so great things about Germany' thread? Is it that the answer is too horribly obvious?
I'd go for: The way they bang on endlessly about how we bang on endlessly about WW2. Look, it was rather an important event, it was our finest moment, and frankly everything that's happened since has been a bit of a disappointment. Let us have our memories. In any case, we're not that bad, that Fawlty Towers episode was 30 years ago, and I'm sure the tabloids haven't made a WW2/world cup 'joke' for at least, oh, 24 hours.
Shellshocker wrote:
Falco
he's austrian (or was. he's dead.)
words that can describe something which the english language needs an entire sentence to describe. e.g. schadenfreude.
darran clarke wrote: The beer, the cars, the fact that everything works, cleanliness, orderliness, punctuality, the machine tool industry.
Well...err... Some of these are sadly obsolete these days...
Almost nothing is working (not even the cars), cleanliness is going down (the kids throw anything everywhere)...
AgentWood wrote:
Shellshocker wrote:
Falco
he's austrian (or was. he's dead.)
Yeah, I know he died in a car accident something like 10 years ago. But I forgot that he's Austrian. Whoops! Maybe that's a new thread. :)
The way the German police are handling the world cup kick offs and not the football ones. They understand that even though there are a minority off English idiots out there,most of the idiots are indeed there own fellow countrymen. This in my eyes proves that the german intelligence have done ther groundwork.A supervisor at my place of work has tickets for all the england games,he came back to work for two days then went back on friday.He told us that the germans where and are still great hosts and that himself and his mates are loving it.WELLDONE YOU germans credit where due.
James Thomas wrote: The Kelly Family, endless fun laughing at ridiculous haircuts
They are irish!
Bere wrote:
James Thomas wrote: The Kelly Family, endless fun laughing at ridiculous haircuts
They are irish!
But they could only exist in Germany, they have even cunningly disguised themselves as Germans. :)
James Thomas wrote:
Bere wrote:
James Thomas wrote: The Kelly Family, endless fun laughing at ridiculous haircuts
They are irish!
But they could only exist in Germany, they have even cunningly disguised themselves as Germans. :)
ffs. how can they be a great thing about germany. next i'll be seeing pictures of Heino here.
NOOLigan wrote:
ffs. how can they be a great thing about germany. next i'll be seeing pictures of Heino here.
Is this he? Now he must be German
James Thomas wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
ffs. how can they be a great thing about germany. next i'll be seeing pictures of Heino here.
Is this he? Now he must be German
He looks like David Bowie. Is it a German Bowie?
James Thomas wrote: The Kelly Family, endless fun laughing at ridiculous haircuts
They look like rednecks to me.
[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote:
James Thomas wrote: The Kelly Family, endless fun laughing at ridiculous haircuts
They look like rednecks to me.
no they look contrived folksy.
NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger... 
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NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger...
Kitsch of the worst kind and he still looks like that.
Made in Germany:
Aspirin (1897) Mundwasser ("Odol") (1893) Weckglas (1892) Kaffeefilter (1908) Tesafilm (1935) Chipkarte (1969) Teebeutel (1929) Knirps (Umbrella)(1932)
confusion wrote: Made in Germany:
Aspirin (1897) Mundwasser ("Odol") (1893)- mouth wash Weckglas (1892)- preserving glass Kaffeefilter (1908) -coffee filter Tesafilm (1935) - sticky tape Chipkarte (1969)- computer chip Teebeutel (1929)- tea bag Knirps (Umbrella)(1932)
confusion wrote: Made in Germany:
Aspirin (1897)
Sorry Norbert but I had to reply, thought it was only the Yanks who claimed credit for something they didn't do!! Problem is they go and make films to "prove" they did and everyone then believes it.
Aspirin: The French chemist Charles Gerhardt first made aspirin in 1853. He put it aside for about forty years and it wasn’t until 1893 when a young chemist named Felix Hoffman at the Bayer Drug Company in Germany rediscovered it. It helped to reduce the pain his father felt from arthritis. Aspirin was first sold as a loose powder starting in 1899 and in 1915 the tablet form we are most familiar with today was introduced.
Mouthwash: The worlds first mouthwash invented in 1755 by Dr. Julien Botot for Louis XV of France.
Sticky Tape: Richard G. Drew (1899-1980) invented masking tape and clear adhesive tape (also called cellophane tape or Scotch tape). Drew was an engineer for the 3M company (the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing). Drew's first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1923 (this tape was designed to help painters paint a straight border between two colors). This early masking tape was a wide paper tape with adhesive on only the edges of the tape - not in the middle. Drew made an improved tape called Scotch (TM) Brand Cellulose Tape in 1930. This tape was a clear, all-purpose adhesive tape that was soon adopted worldwide. The first tape dispenser with a built-in cutting edge was invented in 1932 by John A. Borden, another 3M employee.
The computer chip:
Jack St. Clair Kilby is best known for his 1958 development of the integrated circuit -- a single board with two transistors on it -- which he created at Texas Instruments. But he was also leader of the team that built the first ever hand-held electronic calculator in 1967.
Tea Bags: The first tea bags were made from hand-sewn silk muslin bags tea bag patents of this sort date from as early as 1903. First appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed by tea and coffee shop merchant Thomas Sullivan of New York, who shipped his tea bags around the world. A machine was soon invented to replace the hand sewing of tea bags.
Umbrella: The basic umbrella was invented over four thousand years ago. We have seen evidence of umbrellas in the ancient art and artifacts of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and China. In 1852, Samuel Fox invented the steel ribbed umbrella design. Fox also founded the "English Steels Company", and claimed to have invented the steel ribbed umbrella as a way of using up stocks of farthingale stays, steel stays used in women's corsets
AgentWood wrote:
Shellshocker wrote:
Falco
he's austrian (or was. he's dead.)
words that can describe something which the english language needs an entire sentence to describe. e.g. schadenfreude.
poor falco
Shellshocker wrote:
Falco
Is this the Spurs player or the Panther Burns guy? 
AgentWood wrote:
words that can describe something which the english language needs an entire sentence to describe. e.g. schadenfreude.
Agent, it is still a sentence, they just take out the gaps and call it a word (a long one). Try reading chemistry in German, ridiculous.
Another great thing:
They just shot Bruno the bear and have enviromentalists in an uproar. My favorite quote on the issue:
"The death penalty has been abolished," said Scherer. "This bear didn't do anything bad — for me it is absolutely unnecessary for him to have been shot."
It's a bear, people. There are more important things in this world to cry about than a bear that happened to wander into Germany.
Granted, it's a shame they did it, but they saw it as a threat and did what they thought was best.
JHC
68Pontiac wrote: Another great thing:
They just shot Bruno the bear and have enviromentalists in an uproar. My favorite quote on the issue:
"The death penalty has been abolished," said Scherer. "This bear didn't do anything bad — for me it is absolutely unnecessary for him to have been shot."
It's a bear, people. There are more important things in this world to cry about than a bear that happened to wander into Germany.
Granted, it's a shame they did it, but they saw it as a threat and did what they thought was best.
JHC
Bruno was the first brown bear to roam free in Germany for some 170 years.
Germany is to be applauded for the outcry. Just because your country doesn't give a fuck about the environment (world or your own) it doesn't mean everyone else is wrong. Plunder the planet kill and corrupt in any country you see value (oil) in just to ensure you live your fat, polluting lives why don't you?
James Thomas wrote:
68Pontiac wrote: Another great thing:
They just shot Bruno the bear and have enviromentalists in an uproar. My favorite quote on the issue:
"The death penalty has been abolished," said Scherer. "This bear didn't do anything bad — for me it is absolutely unnecessary for him to have been shot."
It's a bear, people. There are more important things in this world to cry about than a bear that happened to wander into Germany.
Granted, it's a shame they did it, but they saw it as a threat and did what they thought was best.
JHC
Bruno was the first brown bear to roam free in Germany for some 170 years.
Germany is to be applauded for the outcry. Just because your country doesn't give a fuck about the environment (world or your own) it doesn't mean everyone else is wrong. Plunder the planet kill and corrupt in any country you see value (oil) in just to ensure you live your fat, polluting lives why don't you?
Could you please enforce yourself to be more clear in your grammar and reasoning?
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James Thomas wrote:
68Pontiac wrote: Another great thing:
They just shot Bruno the bear and have enviromentalists in an uproar. My favorite quote on the issue:
"The death penalty has been abolished," said Scherer. "This bear didn't do anything bad — for me it is absolutely unnecessary for him to have been shot."
It's a bear, people. There are more important things in this world to cry about than a bear that happened to wander into Germany.
Granted, it's a shame they did it, but they saw it as a threat and did what they thought was best.
JHC
Bruno was the first brown bear to roam free in Germany for some 170 years.
Germany is to be applauded for the outcry. Just because your country doesn't give a fuck about the environment (world or your own) it doesn't mean everyone else is wrong. Plunder the planet kill and corrupt in any country you see value (oil) in just to ensure you live your fat, polluting lives why don't you?
Could you please enforce yourself to be more clear in your grammar and reasoning?
His grammar and reasoning are exemplary Ian.
First off, the bear wasn't intended to be placed in Germany, he wandered there himself. He was attacking unusual wildlife (stuff bears usually don't attack); was not avoiding urbanized areas (like bears normally do); and Germany believed it was only a matter of time before he caused a human casulity (since most bears that act abnormally have a high probability of attacking people).
James, how you go off assuming that I care little for the enviroment, is one hell of an assumption. Killing the bear isn't hurting the German enviroment anyways, because the bear was not naturally from there.
JHC
The Brown Bear is indigenous to Europe, including Germany. True, it's been extirpated, but that's not the same thing as saying the Brown Bear isn't from Germany.
And if a species is extirpated from it's natural environment, there are corresponding deleterious effects upon the environment, so the absence of Brown Bears has harmed the German environment, regardless of whether you or I can describe the effects of that extirpation.
If the bear had not his papers in Ordnung, it was normal to shot him down... It is not up to Germany to host all the misery of the auslandisch bears...
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: The Brown Bear is indigenous to Europe, including Germany. True, it's been extirpated, but that's not the same thing as saying the Brown Bear isn't from Germany.
And if a species is extirpated from it's natural environment, there are corresponding deleterious effects upon the environment, so the absence of Brown Bears has harmed the German environment, regardless of whether you or I can describe the effects of that extirpation.
Minus any 100 dollar words, the bear hadn't been there for 170 years, the enviroment now has a new balance. . . so reintroducing him would actually change the enviroment in a negative manner.
JHC
68Pontiac wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: The Brown Bear is indigenous to Europe, including Germany. True, it's been extirpated, but that's not the same thing as saying the Brown Bear isn't from Germany.
And if a species is extirpated from it's natural environment, there are corresponding deleterious effects upon the environment, so the absence of Brown Bears has harmed the German environment, regardless of whether you or I can describe the effects of that extirpation.
Minus any 100 dollar words, the bear hadn't been there for 170 years, the enviroment now has a new balance. . . so reintroducing him would actually change the enviroment in a negative manner.
JHC
Here's a $1 word: bollox.
You have no scientific basis for your claim that the bear harms the environment. In fact, if I could be arsed-- and I can't be arsed-- I could do the literature search and come up with evidence to the contrary.
Get over your prejudice against edjimacashun and learn a few things, will ya?
EDIT: 68, I'm not attacking your education level with this post. I am saying you continually exhibit a prejudice against education. In this instance, if you had some background in ecological science, you wouldn't be making the claim you made. Stubbornly denigrating education isn't helping your understanding of the world.
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Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:
68Pontiac wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: The Brown Bear is indigenous to Europe, including Germany. True, it's been extirpated, but that's not the same thing as saying the Brown Bear isn't from Germany.
And if a species is extirpated from it's natural environment, there are corresponding deleterious effects upon the environment, so the absence of Brown Bears has harmed the German environment, regardless of whether you or I can describe the effects of that extirpation.
Minus any 100 dollar words, the bear hadn't been there for 170 years, the enviroment now has a new balance. . . so reintroducing him would actually change the enviroment in a negative manner.
JHC
Here's a $1 word: bollox.
You have no scientific basis for your claim that the bear harms the environment. In fact, if I could be arsed-- and I can't be arsed-- I could do the literature search and come up with evidence to the contrary.
Get over your prejudice against edjimacashun and learn a few things, will ya?
EDIT: 68, I'm not attacking your education level with this post. I am saying you continually exhibit a prejudice against education. In this instance, if you had some background in ecological science, you wouldn't be making the claim you made. Stubbornly denigrating education isn't helping your understanding of the world.
???Prejudice??? How was my post prejudice against education?
I only stated that since the bear was not present in Germany for 170 years, nature already has a balance. Reintroducing a species as large as a brown bear will throw the enviroment in an unbalanced state. . .yes eventually it will balance back out, but that would take years to do.
I'm not against reintroducing them in Germany, just noting the contradiction of the enviromentalists screaming over this incident. They are stating that by Germany killing Bruno that they are hurting the enviroment, but reintroducing them is what really is hurting the enviroment.
As for us never ending. . .well, I hope you don't get hot under the collar, as it is only discussion that makes life interesting. No anger or malice on this side of the screen. . .hopefully you see it that way as well.
JHC
I know fuck all about bears, but i would have thought they could live in Germany in protected areas quite happily. I'm sure they could live in UK too, as they did up to 300 years ago. Biggest enemy to bears, I imagine, was hunters.
Cant see a problem with re-introducing the bear; in UK we have reintroduced the wild boar in a few small colonies successfully, except for the massive specimen that nearly wrote off a car i was driving a few years back, by kindly stepping into the road. It is in wild piggy heaven. RIP
68Pontiac wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:
68Pontiac wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: The Brown Bear is indigenous to Europe, including Germany. True, it's been extirpated, but that's not the same thing as saying the Brown Bear isn't from Germany.
And if a species is extirpated from it's natural environment, there are corresponding deleterious effects upon the environment, so the absence of Brown Bears has harmed the German environment, regardless of whether you or I can describe the effects of that extirpation.
Minus any 100 dollar words, the bear hadn't been there for 170 years, the enviroment now has a new balance. . . so reintroducing him would actually change the enviroment in a negative manner.
JHC
Here's a $1 word: bollox.
You have no scientific basis for your claim that the bear harms the environment. In fact, if I could be arsed-- and I can't be arsed-- I could do the literature search and come up with evidence to the contrary.
Get over your prejudice against edjimacashun and learn a few things, will ya?
EDIT: 68, I'm not attacking your education level with this post. I am saying you continually exhibit a prejudice against education. In this instance, if you had some background in ecological science, you wouldn't be making the claim you made. Stubbornly denigrating education isn't helping your understanding of the world.
???Prejudice??? How was my post prejudice against education?
The "minus the $100 words" comment. Along with comments made in previous posts-- comments about "real world experience" and about people here saying "I'm smarter than you," "I'm more educated than you," etc. It just seems to me to indicate a prejudice against education of the sort exhibited by people who don't have the college degree. I've seen it throughout my life, and always from people who don't have the college degree.
Anyway, I'm not attacking your level of education (and I know you've put in work towards a degree), I'm just saying that it seems to me you're a bit prejudiced against education, and if you would get over that, you could move on.
I only stated that since the bear was not present in Germany for 170 years, nature already has a balance. Reintroducing a species as large as a brown bear will throw the enviroment in an unbalanced state. . .yes eventually it will balance back out, but that would take years to do.
Nature is out of balance because the bear isn't in the environment. What looks like balance to uneducated eyes (anybody who doesn't have a background in ecological science) is actually a wildly out of balance ecosystem.
I'm not against reintroducing them in Germany, just noting the contradiction of the enviromentalists screaming over this incident. They are stating that by Germany killing them that they are hurting the enviroment, but reintroducing them is what really is hurting the enviroment.
That viewpoint contradicts ecological science, unfortunately.
As for us never ending. . .well, I hope you don't get hot under the collar, as it is only discussion that makes life interesting. No anger or malice on this side of the screen. . .hopefully you see it that way as well.
JHC
I see it that way as well.
Burt Reynolds wrote: Cant see a problem with re-introducing the bear; in UK we have reintroduced the wild boar in a few small colonies successfully, except for the massive specimen that nearly wrote off a car i was driving a few years back, by kindly stepping into the road. It is in wild piggy heaven. RIP
You cannot imagine the problem it is at the moment in the Pyrénées... They reintroduced a few from Slovenia and it becomes subject of pro- and against bear demonstration !!! What I think about it... Let them live peacefully...
And they do not eat frogs nor horses (for the Belgians in vacations), so where is the problem ?
Burt Reynolds wrote:
Cant see a problem with re-introducing the bear; in UK we have reintroduced the wild boar in a few small colonies successfully, except for the massive specimen that nearly wrote off a car i was driving a few years back, by kindly stepping into the road. It is in wild piggy heaven. RIP
Actually, the wolf has been introduced to Yellowstone National Park here with tremendous success. Probablyt even more applicable than the boar because it is a predator.
Boar sounds more like bear, though. 
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: The "minus the $100 words" comment.
I was only poking fun at the use of a few words that you used: "deleterious" and "extirpation". I didn't feel threatened or anything. It's kind of a joke with Marines, when someone uses large words to poke fun at them a little bit. Sometimes I forget that our humor and civilian humor is a little different.
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Nature is out of balance because the bear isn't in the environment. What looks like balance to uneducated eyes (anybody who doesn't have a background in ecological science) is actually a wildly out of balance ecosystem.
That might be the case, as I'm not an expert on the german ecosystem, but it must really be out of whack because of other extinctions. . .how do we bring back the dinosaurs?
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: That viewpoint contradicts ecological science, unfortunately.
????????????
Let me set up and example. A simple circle of plant-life, rabbits and wolves.
There naturally is a balance of population of all three innature. If one increases, it affects all three. If more plantlife happened, there would be more rabbits thriving to eat the plants, which in-turn would increase the number of wolves. If one increased and the others did not, the ecosystem would have problems. If there were too many rabbits, they would destroy the plant-life, and harm the ecosystem. If there were too many wolves, they would damage the amount of rabbits, the amount of plantlife would go out of balance. Something eventually brings these back into balance.
First off, an animal that has been gone for 170 years, the ecosystem more than likely has already created a balance without it.
However, reintrudicing a large bear can have a large impact on the ecosystem. They are ominivours, which leads to more competition for food. Also there are animals that don't have defense mechanisms for the bear as they are completely unaware of thier existence. Good example is that Bruno was seen damaging hives of bees to get honey. The bees don't have a mechanism to defend themselves or their hive from a bear. . .in the time it takes them to figure out how to protect their hive, many colonies numbers will be affected. With a lesser amount of bees, less pollination of certian plants occurs, so less seeds for future plants, which would affect the herbavours, then the carnivours. . . .etc.
Again, I am not against a bear being reintroduced. I was poking fun at the enviromentalists.
JHC
68Pontiac wrote:
Let me set up and example. A simple circle of plant-life, rabbits and wolves.
JHC
Beavers have been reintroduced to SCotland, there is a thought that reintroducing wolves would return a balance where deer populations are out of control and ruining woodland.
As for bees needing a couple of minutes to sit down and work out a strategic response to a surprise attack ?
Queen bee: "OK guys we've had a time out, we want you all to get out there and sting that hairy thing!"
Hive: "Huaa!"
Doesn't work like that does it? But the end result is the same.
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NOOLigan wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger...
Kitsch of the worst kind and he still looks like that.
Tell me, as a true Bremer, why is this kind of music rather popular in Germany? What's the secret? Or it's the national musical feature (like chanson in France)?
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NOOLigan wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger...
Kitsch of the worst kind and he still looks like that.
Tell me, as a true Bremer, why is this kind of music rather popular in Germany? What's the secret? Or it's the national musical feature (like chanson in France)?
beats me.
Well I see the bear-thing got out into the world...
Yeah it's a big shame and anyone is angry about that kill. I think it's sadly amusing that they couldn't put him to sleep - but when they were allowed to kill him, he died the next day...
I think it was a matter of money and time. "We can't catch that bloody animal, so let's kill that bastard." Normally is that an american point of view .
So R.I.P. poor Bruno. I hope your relatives take bloody revenge on Bavaria one day...
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NOOLigan wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger...
Kitsch of the worst kind and he still looks like that.
Tell me, as a true Bremer, why is this kind of music rather popular in Germany? What's the secret? Or it's the national musical feature (like chanson in France)?
This kind of music is only popular to old people (and some misguided young ones). Don't be afraid... Even my parents hate it...
You have perhaps to split real Volksmusik from Schlager. Real Volksmusik are traditional songs and Schlager is Kitsch disguised in traditional sonds. Whereas Schlager up to the 60s are classics. It was a time when no one spoke english here - so Schlager was intentionelly the first german pop-music. Everything from the 70s on is kitschy sh***.
Bere wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger...
Kitsch of the worst kind and he still looks like that.
Tell me, as a true Bremer, why is this kind of music rather popular in Germany? What's the secret? Or it's the national musical feature (like chanson in France)?
This kind of music is only popular to old people (and some misguided young ones). Don't be afraid... Even my parents hate it...
You have perhaps to split real Volksmusik from Schlager. Real Volksmusik are traditional songs and Schlager is Kitsch disguised in traditional sonds. Whereas Schlager up to the 60s are classics. It was a time when no one spoke english here - so Schlager was intentionelly the first german pop-music. Everything from the 70s on is kitschy sh***.
Thank you for your kind explanation!
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Bere wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote:
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NOOLigan wrote: I'm not going to quote as I don't want to see him again.
Heino is evil.
You got me intrigued. I just went to Wikipedia to see if there's something on this guy. Hmm... Schlager- und Volksliedsänger...
Kitsch of the worst kind and he still looks like that.
Tell me, as a true Bremer, why is this kind of music rather popular in Germany? What's the secret? Or it's the national musical feature (like chanson in France)?
This kind of music is only popular to old people (and some misguided young ones). Don't be afraid... Even my parents hate it...
You have perhaps to split real Volksmusik from Schlager. Real Volksmusik are traditional songs and Schlager is Kitsch disguised in traditional sonds. Whereas Schlager up to the 60s are classics. It was a time when no one spoke english here - so Schlager was intentionelly the first german pop-music. Everything from the 70s on is kitschy sh***.
Thank you for your kind explanation!
You're welcome... :D
James Thomas wrote:
confusion wrote: Made in Germany:
Aspirin (1897)
Sorry Norbert but I had to reply, thought it was only the Yanks who claimed credit for something they didn't do!! Problem is they go and make films to "prove" they did and everyone then believes it.
Hi, JT! I've read them actually in a magazine. I didn'T know, if it's true. Interesting Informations from you. But a Knirps it's a special umbrella. You can fold it together and put it in a hand bag. Other Innovations shall be: Battery (1805), Tempo (1929), Dynamo (1886), Straßenbahn (1881), Preventing pill (1961), MP3 (1987).
confusion wrote:
James Thomas wrote:
confusion wrote: Made in Germany:
Aspirin (1897)
Sorry Norbert but I had to reply, thought it was only the Yanks who claimed credit for something they didn't do!! Problem is they go and make films to "prove" they did and everyone then believes it.
Hi, JT! I've read them actually in a magazine. I didn'T know, if it's true. Interesting Informations from you. But a Knirps it's a special umbrella. You can fold it together and put it in a hand bag. Other Innovations shall be: Battery (1805), Tempo (1929), Dynamo (1886), Straßenbahn (1881), Preventing pill (1961), MP3 (1987).
you really have to put your points into english.
Tempo - paper facial tissue Straßenbahn - tram/street car Preventing pill - the pill, or anti-pregnancy pill
NOOLigan wrote:
confusion wrote:
James Thomas wrote:
confusion wrote: Made in Germany:
Aspirin (1897)
Sorry Norbert but I had to reply, thought it was only the Yanks who claimed credit for something they didn't do!! Problem is they go and make films to "prove" they did and everyone then believes it.
Hi, JT! I've read them actually in a magazine. I didn'T know, if it's true. Interesting Informations from you. But a Knirps it's a special umbrella. You can fold it together and put it in a hand bag. Other Innovations shall be: Battery (1805), Tempo (1929), Dynamo (1886), Straßenbahn (1881), Preventing pill (1961), MP3 (1987).
you really have to put your points into english.
Tempo - paper facial tissue Straßenbahn - tram/street car Preventing pill - the pill, or anti-pregnancy pill
Thx. I thought, if there are even Miele-Washmachines in Australia, everybody would know, what is Tempo and what is a Straßenbahn.
Gotta love this:
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5759838?FSO1&ATT=HMA>1=8393
Who else fills a soccer ball with concrete, chains it to a tree, then painting: Can you kick it on the sidewalk in front of it.
JHC
Beating Portugal last night, I know it was for 3rd place and noone really gives a shit, but it's nice to see a pissed off Ronaldo
The German Order Nice to see you again lads.
Oh! Almost forgot, Norbert took great pleasure in announcing penalties (or penalty shoot-outs 
) were a German invention.
