Author Archives: Hermann Observer
German Of The Day: Verantwortbarkeit, Verantwortlichkeit und Rechenschaft
Take your pick, all three mean accountability. Sort of.
You know, like the kind of political accountability the British just voted to get back again? They soon won’t have to comply to the whims of unelected Eurocrats anymore.
Funny, but in German (and in other European languages, it seems) there does not seem to be a clear-cut translation for that very simple word.
Großbritannien wird aus der EU austreten und erschüttert damit den Staatenbund in seinen Grundfesten. Es ist die größte Krise der EU in ihrer bisherigen Geschichte. Jetzt greift Plan B, doch gibt es den überhaupt? Bislang scheint niemand genau zu wissen, wie es weitergeht, der Schock steht den führenden Politikern Europas ins Gesicht geschrieben.
The Germans Don’t Want Brexit?
Depends upon which ones you ask.
“The sworn horror scenarios are nonsense. If the Brits want to leave the E.U., they should go.”
Stay tuned or something.
Is Nothing Sacred?
Talk about crossing a red line. Now all bets are off, people.
The influx of more than 1m migrants has already divided Germany. But the latest row casts it as a threat to the very heart of German culture: the right to walk around in public in the nude.
Nudists at a club near the historic town of Meissen were incensed when they received new rules from the local authority suggesting they would not be allowed to swim naked in the local lake where they have been skinny-dipping for over a century.
Neues aus Absurdistan. “Wir bewegen uns seit 1905 nackt im Gelände.”
German Of The Day: Arbeitslos
That means unemployed. You know, like this loser of a European Football Championship koala oracle at the Leipzig Zoo?
„Oobi-Ooobi’s” job was to predict the outcome of the German team’s soccer matches and after two big flops in a row they fired his furry Australian ass. Dumb animal You have to perform over here in this part of the world, pal. And there is no such thing as free eucalyptus.
„Der unparteiische Australier zieht die Konsequenzen aus seinen beiden falschen Tipps. Als sportlich fairer Verlierer überlässt er das Orakeln ab sofort den Anderen.“
NATO Picking On Russia Again
And warmongering. Just ask German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD).
“What we should not do now is inflame the situation with sabre-rattling and warmongering,” he said. The “situation” being Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its continued military intervention in Ukraine, which is apparently something other than sabre-rattling and warmongering when viewed from Berlin.
Steinmeier, an honor graduate from the Neville Chamberlain Institute of Applied Appeasement, now specializes in mistaking cause and effect and is also branching out into the popular field of abandoning worried NATO neighbor countries in the East. But despite all the rhetoric, the German foreign ministry assures the world that Germany’s mighty army, a formidable threat to Russia, will be there for its allies whenever it should be needed.
Was wir jetzt nicht tun sollten, ist durch lautes Säbelrasseln und Kriegsgeheul die Lage weiter anzuheizen.
Ann-Kathrin B.
Remember: These Folks Don’t Represent All Muslims Living In Germany
They only represent about HALF of all the MODERATE ones: Nearly half of Turkish immigrants in Germany put Islam above law.
That’s right. The latest Emnid poll indicates that 47 per cent of the more than three million Turkish citizens living in Germany admit following their religion was “more important” than obeying “the laws of the land in which I live”.
32 per cent said they yearn to live in a society of the times of the Prophet Mohammed.
I guess we don’t even want to know what the radical Muslims out there are thinking. Like duh. We already do.
36 Prozent der Befragten überzeugt, nur der Islam könne die Probleme der Zeit lösen. 47 Prozent halten die Gebote des Islams für wichtiger als die deutschen Gesetze.
Volkswagen To Build E-Cars
But they haven’t figured out how to equip them with diesel emissions test cheating software yet.
The sleazy, crooked, dirtball of a company also hopes to introduce more self-driving vehicles in the near future. If those work out, self-purchasing models will be the next logical step. And after that, who knows? The Welt or something.
Volkswagen unveiled a plan for the next decade containing culture change, as it strives to compete in an industry moving towards e-cars, self-driving systems and on-demand mobility – all while it deals with Dieselgate.
Mit Elektroautos in die Zukunft!
The Spy Who Got Left Out In The Cold
Crazy court rulings these days, I tell ya. One court here in Germany, for instance, just ruled that Edward Snowden HIMSELF cannot receive an honorary degree from the University of Rostock
This is because – now get this – providing controversial and politically charged intelligence service data does not constitute a scientific achievement.
What do ya thinka that? What a bunch of jurisprudence. Why, that’s absolutely positively, uh… Wait a minute. Sure makes sense to me, come to think of it (is that why this court decision is so outrageous?). But now let’s move on. So who the hell are these wackos from the University of Rostock?
Ist die Bereitstellung brisanter Geheimdienst-Daten eine besondere wissenschaftliche Leistung oder nicht?
