Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..

[Edited on 12-11-2004 by DylerPlummer]

i agree.


mainly becaue i know fuck all of politics..

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Originally posted by Jette i agree. mainly becaue i know fuck all of politics..

Nothing to do with politics all Sebs posts are tiresome and bore me

hahaha! thats a bit harsh

I think Dyler's on the rag..

I think Dyler's a hag!

And a nag..

Nag..

Hag..

Fag.. :P

:wow:

Well I wasn't going to make that connection, but now that you mention it..You DO look like a cigarette..:duh:

[Edited on 11-13-2004 by poobs]

Cigarette?

The English call cigarettes fags..Haven't you ever heard that?

bare with the youngin.........:duh:

Didn't someone have to explain arse, too? You should watch more English films..

hahaha, i dont think dyler meant that meaning of the word either

i found this on the internet.

Germans drink beer at the Oktoberfest, in lederhosen and a silly hat. Proper Germans are blond and have blue eyes. They live on sausages with sauerkraut. And their music does not go beyond Beethoven and Bach. Clichees abound. Always good for a laugh when you try to find an answer for what is typically German. But what is typical, when you are talking about a country with a population of more than 80 million?

Is it typical, that Germans have a hard time being positive about themselves? You can’t think of anything either? How about hospitality, generosity and a readiness to help. Punctuality perhaps and zeal. Whatever, in the past ten years, German society has changed. Influenced by many people of different nationalities who have come and now call Germany home. And as a result, many of the old clichees just don’t work anymore.

Yet the tale of the "nasty German", who has such a problem with his image in the world, was one Boris Becker and Claudia Schiffer could not get around either. But if you come to Germany with an open mind, you’re in for a surprise. You will find Germans with dreadlocks. And Germans who eat kebabs. Germans who like to laugh and live it up. In many places the mentality of ordinary Germans is closer to those in neighbouring countries, than it is to Germans in other (Bundes)Länder. Modern Germany is far too diverse and complex to fit into a simple clichee. There is something new to discover that is "typical" everyday. And that is probably "typically German" as well.

here's my statement about my home country germany. (in no particular order; just 'brainstorming'. haha, prejudices about ourselves..

language: we have a kind of complex, complicated language, although for (most of!) us, it's easy to speak. many have difficulties with foreign languages, this results in that special funny accent of germans speaking english (you all know). but as 7cut said, there's a quite good foreign language education in school.
germany has a whole lot of dialects, not all of them are easy to understand. and: we use more and more anglicisms, even ones that do not have the original meaning (did you know that the englishgerman word 'handy' means 'mobile phone'?)

food: yesssssssss, we are eating bread, bread, bread. (well, not me really, but the 'normal' germans do). and it's not only that white, soft bread, but often wholemeal bread and breadrolls. but the fast-food scene is slowly taking over the eating preferences of the young. and: i guess we eat way more döner-kebab than the turkish people. i think döner is even more popular now than hamburgers or schnitzel.
haha, the one of you who said beer is absolutely right! there are some alcoholics here, but in my experience the russians and polish are the real alkies.

the east/west-conflict: even if we wish it wasn't so, there's still a gap between ossis' and wessis' thoughts. i think this also results from higher unemployment rates in the east. there are way more people electing neonazi parties in the east (not so long ago, it was more than 10% in sachsen? or was it brandenburg?) of course, you cannot generalize that. we're slowly mixing up. there's a lot of narrow-minded people in the western part, too.

music/scene: unlike other european countries like sweden, we have v e r y few bands that are known outside germany (, and switzerland, austria, and maybe the netherlands). don't know the reason for that. (there are many good bands, but all not well-known, or if, then only here.) many of the 'alternative' people listen to emo/hardcore, or university students might listen to hamburger-schule-bands. i'm an absolute exotic with my taste of mainly, let's call it electropunk.

bureaucracy: this is extreeeeemely annoying here. you have to fill out myriads of forms, and no one really understands officers' or lawyers' german.

and (bai ze veh):
q (by a german): can i become a beefsteak?
a: oh, i hope you won't, sir!
(haha)

.......now i bored you, eh?

:D i'm off to the phoenix show in frankfurt. laters!

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Originally posted by Noisemonster i guess we eat way more döner-kebab than the turkish people. i think döner is even more popular now than hamburgers or schnitzel.

well ofcourse its more popular! döner is the best food there is :D

Hey Noisemo, do the Americans have "Semmeln" ? i tried explaining a friend of mine what it is but failed horribly...

i never asked an american about brötchen. aren't they called breadrolls?
hey 7 - do you call a normal brötchen a wasserbrötchen? when i moved to southern hesse, i didn't know what this was, the bakery staff girl looked at me like i was retarded or something..

whaaat ? never heard that term before ...but i know that Berlin-people call a "belegtes Brot" a "Stulle" ... a normal "semmel" is a "Sternsemmel". or just "semmel".

Oh my Gosh Turtle! I love your avatar! Yeee-hawww!