Sorry, FB. I thought you were just another krazie like AI.

Humour in a German topic ... shurley shome mishtake?

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Apology accepted!

A common misconception of German people is that they lack humour! But thats to be expected when our media is British orientated.

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You may be left waiting a very long time before Angie starts talking about the Jewish question and "Lebensraum". Other issues, mostly to do with 2010, dominate her thinking.

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Maybe I should have put a smiley on that.

The German sense of humour is no laughing matter.

Sorry, Baron. I keep an eye on these German-bashing threads for trolls and my sense of humour occasionally deserts me.

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It's true that there is someting a little unnerving about seeing the words "Messerschmitt" and "Daimler-Benz" in the same sentence in relation tomodern current affairs but let's face it, the British and the French have large military constructors too.
I'd say that at some point there will be the equivelent of an EU army, or "Task/Expeditionary/Peace-keeping Force", and armies need equipment. I'd imagine the military industries will be preparing themselves to be the most efficient in order to win any contracts that might be tendered in the future.

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Anti-Germany? I wonder if you'll ever get anything right on this forum beyond the comment on the Ron Paul thread over on the Foreign Affairs section. This thread is more pro-Germany than anything you'll ever come up with, because to be "anti-Germany" is to lie about what Germany's government is up to.

Also, a single sentence is a "rant"? Um, no. Rants take up several paragraphs and generally violate paragraph rules. Rants generally feature personal opinions rather than stark reality. Not my fault that you want to hide from reality.The former is not under discussion at all. However, the latter certainly is. Heard about the groups demanding reparations for "displaced" Germans from the governments of the Czech Republic and Poland? How about the South Tyrolese demanding "independence" from Italy? Better hope that Mrs Merkel's coalition holds together; they're already too far right for not only the country's good but also the continent's.

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Um, nothing wrong with that. And the Sudeteners deserve compensation.

All German governments have to pay lip service to the groups like the Sudetendeutsch but nobody in Germany expects their government to actually make demands on behalf of these groups. So Lebensraum is not on the agenda either.

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