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I met a German once who didn't do any of these things.

Phew, how lucky was I, eh?
 
joinerjohn1 said:
Hey Jack, I have met plenty of Germans abroad. Stayed at one hotel which had signs up saying "No towels on the sunbeds (both in English and German, and some other language) Watched one morning at 7:10 am as German tourists placed their towels on the sunbeds,, and half hour later some Spanish chap who worked at the hotel took them all off and chucked them all in the pool. I've watched them steal from the buffet breakfast , because they were going on a day trip, when the hotel offered them packed lunches. I've also watched them push to the front of a queue in shops etc, all without disregard for the people who have been waiting patiently.. So you reckon this is an inbuilt hatred of Germans?? Not at all, I have a hatred of all who steal, push their way to the front of a queue, and generally act in an unsociable way....... What about you ?
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So we're going to play the "stereotype a nationality on the bad ones we notice game"?

Germans: Pushed into queues, reserved sunbeds and pilfered breakfast?
Gosh.
That's pretty strong stuff.
I would have gone for "made a real mess in Poland too", but I guess these things have a half-life.

I wonder what how us Brits will be judged now that JJ has opened this can of duty-free worms.
I'll stick to tabloid coverage (I know how you like those JJ).
Some of the first page of a google search for "British tourist behaviour":
You have a hatred for people who "generally act in an unsociable way" on holiday and you picked... the Germans?

There was also a tabloid story about a British girl who *ahem* entertained (there's no way a more graphic description wouldn't get me banned) 24 men in a public bar.
Is that typical "British" sociable behaviour?
If so, what are you planning to get up to on your holidays JJ?!
Actually - don't tell us. I'm sure there are other forums for those sorts of answers.
 
btiw2 said:
I wonder what how us Brits will be judged now that JJ has opened this can of duty-free worms.
I'll stick to tabloid coverage (I know how you like those JJ).
Some of the first page of a google search for "British tourist behaviour":
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Well, if you can't even let your hair down a bit whilst on holiday.;)
 
btiw2 said:
So we're going to play the "stereotype a nationality on the bad ones we notice game"?

Germans: Pushed into queues, reserved sunbeds and pilfered breakfast?
Gosh.
That's pretty strong stuff.
I would have gone for "made a real mess in Poland too", but I guess these things have a half-life.

I wonder what how us Brits will be judged now that JJ has opened this can of duty-free worms.
I'll stick to tabloid coverage (I know how you like those JJ).
Some of the first page of a google search for "British tourist behaviour":
You have a hatred for people who "generally act in an unsociable way" on holiday and you picked... the Germans?

There was also a tabloid story about a British girl who *ahem* entertained (there's no way a more graphic description wouldn't get me banned) 24 men in a public bar.
Is that typical "British" sociable behaviour?
If so, what are you planning to get up to on your holidays JJ?!
Actually - don't tell us. I'm sure there are other forums for those sorts of answers.
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See?

I was all sarcy in one post, and called JJ's comment 'bigoted' in another.

You come on here all rational and mamby-pamby, citing yer links and yer evidence and yer bleedin' reason.

They have something in common - our respective posts will make no difference. Have no effect.

But I enjoyed mine :)



I'm shallow.
 
Devil's Advocate said:
See?

I was all sarcy in one post, and called JJ's comment 'bigoted' in another.

You come on here all rational and mamby-pamby, citing yer links and yer evidence and yer bleedin' reason.

They have something in common - our respective posts will make no difference. Have no effect.

But I enjoyed mine :)



I'm shallow.
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I really didn't think my post would make a difference.

Hacker News had a discussion last week about the "one thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?".

Hacker News is full of tech types (who will invent skynet and doom us all) so I expected the answers to be "fusion power", "AI", "super capacitors", "alien contact" etc.

Those answers were all in there, but the top answer was:
"Civilized discussion on hard topics"

When the geeks are wishing for civilised discussion over cures for cancer and faster-than-light travel then I guess the state of reasoned discourse is in a bad way.
 
May as well try persuading a flat earther that the World is a globe :D
 
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fillyboy said:
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Now you're complicating things.
I shouldn't have been so gender specific, my bad.
Think of the endless entertainment we could enjoy if these two actually posted on here with the sole intent of winding DA up.
He'd be in knots in no time at all.
And, JoT would provide the necessary lubrication towards greater entanglement.

Not going to happen, but the predictable outcome would be hilarious, I'm sure.
 
This post was made in this here thread by myself in response to DA saying that Germany acts for the benefit of the whole EU and can see the bigger picture. Admittedly, the post wasn't exactly deep down the bunny hole and was rather limited in scope but the 'facts' are there to be either accepted or refuted based on one exercising a modicum of research and an equal modicum of critical thought...I'd be happy for anyone to show me that the 'facts' are false and that my inference is askew.
P J Thompson said:
Artificially weak currency (both within and without the EU) - leading to artificially attractive exports, low bond yields caused by the comparison with southern European countries - meaning cheap borrowing for the country, interest payments on the bonds bought from those southern European countries that have high bond yields due to desperately trying to remain within the Eurozone, the largest political voice within the EU - bought in large part by the preceding bits of this paragraph.....
No, Germany definitely doesn't have it's own interests at heart. Any more than it's industrial base was built on the very clever work of Martin Bormann and his German industrialist Nazi cohorts at the end of WW2.
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DA's response?
Completely ignore it and start popping off at someone else about not liking Germans. :D

Which seems to be a rather big part of the DA mo. Ie, ignore anything which might actually upset the one wheeled (well to be honest even that wheel is actually missing some spokes, a rim and a hub) applecart of a self righteously pompous and deluded world view, swerve it completely, attempt to render the discussion a tabloidesque/playground series of the full gamut of logical fallacies, try to grab some 'allies', give up on the thread entirely and start again on a rinse and repeat cycle next week....

It's like talking to a petulant child or a NaN or a creationist. Your words don't even go in the one ear. They bounce straight back off the closed mind membrane.
 
"So Tony, Margaret said you are her greatest achievement, what is your greatest achievement meine freund?"

"U,u,u,uh, I,I,I,I, well that's a toughie. Could you define achievement for me before I,I,I answer?"

"Yes certainly. Achievement. Something you have achieved. A goal or aim that you have succeeded in completing"

"A,a,a,ah, I see, well......I saved Iraq from Saddam and I have left a very vital Legacy to the people of Britain and I,I,I believe, the World at large."

"You're a tw@ Tony"

"Yes, Angela. Yes, I am. But a rich one (inane devilish grin)
 
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