Sauerkraut ? Beer ?
i´m curious........pump it out of your system. now.
me and noisemonster are statementing whether it´s true or not.

you killed our peopl :ticking:










just kidding, i dont really care. cant really have prejudices against you, since youre practically the same.

except for the bratwurst ofcourse

:wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow:


my husband is half German and half Italian.....so my last name is now of German heritage. I'd love to visit Germany one day. I heard the castles are beautiful.

I'm not prejudice against you Krauts..You're all Nazi's and are cruel, right? Do nothing but guzzle beer and eat sausages? :duh:

Do I even need to explain that I'm kidding? My 2 favorite teachers of all time were German and one was the reason I took the language in high school..I'll be there in 2 years for World Cup..:D

[Edited on 11-11-2004 by poobs]

Half of my family is German, actually, its primarely German(dads side) and Polish(moms side)

I'm a bit German. My dad is all into the language and whatnot.

I had a German Art teacher... he was weird. My aunt lived in Germany for the majority of my life, though, she speaks German and still translates for a German magazine at home. And she's by far my favorite aunt.

After I returned from a trip to Germany nearly three years ago, I posted the following "retrospecitive" on a message board. When I saw this thread, I just had to go look for it, and here it is, in all it's glory.

(I'm not even going to bother with a disclaimer, as there are way too many things in these contents to bother disclaiming).

Please plant tongue firmly in cheeck before proceeding:

I just returned from Germany, where I attended
the Herbstnachte III festival featuring Cinema
Strange. Hmm, 6000 miles just to see those bitches? Yes.
So, instead of reporting on useful information that
Cinema Strange fans would really be interested in
hearing, I'm just going to list some random revelations
and observations of mine (being sure to put to good
use my talent for generalizing, stereotyping, and
overzealous use of defensive measures). Here you go:

1. Germans eat a lot of bread.

2. Germans eat a lot of bread and cheese.

3. Germans eat a lot of bread and cheese and cold- cuts.

4. Germans eat a lot of bread cheese and cold-cuts and DONT GET FAT

4. Apparently, Germans are more canine-friendly than Americans.

5. I like showers that stay warm longer than 12 seconds.

6. Club-goers at Pagan Lovesongs in Bochum do some odd sort of
line-dancing thing to certain songs.

7. Germans manage to have much better mohawks, even though Aqua-net is
superior to their hairspray (Taft?)

8. People in Germany speak German.

9. Germany is not in South America.

10. Germans don't think it's funny if you dance around with large sausages dangling out of your lederhosen.

11. If you don't like carbonated mineral water, plan
on dying from dehydration.

12. Germans actually go to see bands play live, instead of just going to lame clubs to hear the same playlist spun repeatedly.

13. I am short.

14. If you walk down steep stairs holding two full drinks when you already have 4 or 5 drinks in your stomach, by the time you get to the
bottom, there's nothing left in the glasses. I still
haven’t uncovered the secret behind this mystery.

15. If someone accidentally bumps into you, trips you
or knocks you down, don't expect an apology.

16. If you accidentally do this to someone else, if you
apologize or say excuse me they will think you want to get
in their pants.

17. Homemade license plates are perfectly acceptable.

18. The average German citizen speaks 7 languages fluently, while the average American speaks .8

20. Don't leave 7 hours early for your flight if it takes you 8 hours to get to the airport.

Well the various sleeping pills and tranquilizers
haven’t fully set in yet, so I might as well continue to
humor myself:

21. The bartenders pour the drinks like no one's looking over their shoulders. Ahh, yah!

22. Delores can drive a big van like nobody's
business.

23. I get so easily annoyed that I annoy myself.

24. If you push together two hotel beds to do it, you
fall through the crack. And it's funny.

25. It's legal to drink while you drive, but if you get coffee
at a cafe you have to finish it there before you
leave. Makes sense.

26. If the passenger seated next to you on an airplane falls asleep while the in-flight meal is served, tell the attendant you'll hold his for him, and then hurry to eat it before he wakes up.

27. Germany has much better graffiti than we do.

28. You can park blocking the way of traffic, and still nobody will
honk at you.

29. Its nice when old German men wink at you.

30. If you're going to a festival held at a castle in
the middle of nowhere, get directions.

31. That cobble-stoney road on the way feels kinda good. If you know
what I mean.

32. Would you like a beer, or would you like to just drink out of the toilet?

33. I don't take kindly to people telling me what to
do.

34. If you wear stilettos to a castle festival in the
rain, it doesn’t make you any taller because you're
pretty much sunk in mud up to the ankles.

35. The huge "windmills" you see throughout the German
countryside are actually what makes the earth rotate.

36. In Germany you only have to be 3 years old to smoke,
5 1/2 to drink and the only requirement for pot is
the ability to make a rolling motion with your
fingers.

37. A German language textbook published in 1957 is not
exactly current.

38. The 8 foot wall on the side of the autobahn is not necessarily the Berlin wall.

39. We stole "kindergarten" from them! No wonder it
doesn't make sense!

40. I hate myself.

41. I don't care.

42. So what I'm saying, doctor, is that everything is
long and thin - like Kareem Abdul Jabaar.

Once again you have succeded in making me laugh:duh: <3yew bcbaby

Hhaha! What a wonderful list. How long ago was this?

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Originally posted by Evangeline Hhaha! What a wonderful list. How long ago was this?

Aye, I guess it's been over three years! Keep in mind though that this was just a my narrow-minded impression, observations, and tips to future travelers. And most of it alludes to inside jokes that probably were not even that funny to begin with!

I feel as if I'm fully prepared for Germany now, Batcave..Thanks!!

That's a super list.

Excuse me, sir, do you happen to know a little German?

Yes, he's sitting right over there.

wow thats an insane list. . . . . . . . . i used to live in germany. . . . . i can count to eleven and i have a little german somewhere inside but its mostly italian and canadian

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Originally posted by seacaptain Excuse me, sir, do you happen to know a little German? Yes, he's sitting right over there.

I seem to be easily ammused today.

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Originally posted by minimandy14 i have a little german somewhere inside

Did he get lost? :o:o:o

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Originally posted by seacaptain Excuse me, sir, do you happen to know a little German? Yes, he's sitting right over there.

Skeet Surfin'
Skeet Surfin'
If everybody had a 12-gauge
And a surfboard too
You'd see 'em shootin' and surfin'
From here to Malibu
Because it's totally bitchin'
Ridin' wave to blast the pigeons
And it's so neat shootin' skeets
While you're riding out the heavies all day

First wave, don't get tired
Second wave, aim higher
Third wave, pull and fire
Skeet Surfin', it's alright

We're waxin' down our surfboards
And loadin' up our traps
Tell the teachers we're shootin'
We're never coming back
I've got a gun rack in my Chevy
For when the surf and the flak get heavy
And we'll have fun with our guns
'Till our lifeguard takes our ammo away

First wave, don't get tired
Second wave, aim higher
Third wave, pull and fire
Skeet Surfin', it's alright

First wave, get the knack
Second wave, pull the trap
Third wave, how's that?
Skeet Surfin', it's alright

Sharing sunsets with my favorite girl
When we shoot the curl, we really shoot the curl

First wave, don't get tired
Second wave, aim higher
Third wave, pull and fire
Skeet Surfin', it's alright

First wave, get the knack
Second wave, pull that trap
Third wave, how's that?

I wish they all could be double-barrelled
Wish they all could be double-barrelled guns

Skeet Surfin' can't you see?
Do you wanna come along with me?
Skeet surfin' can't you see?
Do you wanna come along with me?
Skeet Surfin' it's alright
Little girl we'll have fun tonight
Skeet surfin' can't you see?
Do you wanna come with me?
Grab your board, run to the beach
Skeet surfin' it's a lot of fun

In women's tennis, I always root against the heterosexual

Good to know.

wow, that´s a list indeed....let´s see. noisemonster!!! i need assistance ...yes, our castles are beautiful though we don´t have as many and as nice ones as the Southern Tyrolese people. Castle Neuschwanstein is worth a trip, but even more looky looky is the castle Linderhof -both castles built by Ludwig.

In general one can say that there are massive differences of Northern Germans and Soutern Germans. The wealth status, the dialect, and most of all the view on certain things and their way of behaving. Often people say that e.g. people in Hamburg arent´s as friendly as people in Bavaria but i am not sure whether one should generalize it. ......anyways. it´s the "Wessi" (West German) and "Ossi" (Eastern German) prejudices some people still have.

Bratwurst ..mmmh, i think the Nürnberger people make the best ones even though i´m not into them that much. i go for the Augsburg-based Bosna sausage or a good old decent Curry Wurst at times. (will this end in a penis / chorizo topic again after that statement ????).

World Cup 06 ...aaah, i´m scared of that. that many people here. but i don´t think i´ll live in Germany still by then. i think on moving to another country next autumn. and just coming over to visit my family as often as i can.

hey batcave, you didn´t only adapt "Kindergarten" from the German lingo but also "Rucksack" ....tsk. word heist. what kills me on America is that various places have the names of European cities. Vienna etc. why ? an attempt for cultivation ???

we eat a lot of bread ...mmmmh, i´ve been told this before by Italians. might be true. we like to have a bread or semmel with marmelade for breakfast, we sometimes eat bread along to lunch and sometimes in the evening also. i don´t .....seldom. and if i do then in the evening for dinner. to Germans a bread with cheese and sausage on is like a subway sandwich to an American i suppose ...

the average German speaks like 7 languages ? no no no. most Germans are capable of English ("zee man lives in zee house" :lol but not too many know more than like 2 languages. maybe 3. if you go to high school here you have to take Latin or French so you´re capable of that one as well...

i´d say that Germans are pretty much into the concept of politics, stock market, ikea, h&m and above all - in love with safety, cleaniness. they like things to be settled and organized as well as original. well, that´s all there is to say now.

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Originally posted by EvilMotivator Good to know.

It's a movie* reference... Poobs picked up on it.

*Top Secret

Card tricks, novelties, souvenierrrrrs..:D

[Edited on 11-12-2004 by poobs]

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Originally posted by 7cut i´d say that Germans are pretty much into the concept of politics

Yes, I agree. I dont know why people say Germany was just an authoritarian country(Hitler, Kaiser, etc..). At the beginning of the 20th century they had the biggest social democrat party and at the end they had the worlds most poweful green party.