[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.
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A Few Great Things About Germany
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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... 
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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.
KRAFTWERK
PROPAGANDA
German Wheat Beer (you can see the lumps of yeast in it!)
YOGI BEAR'S German cousin
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. 
