The same procedure as every year.
Category Archives: Habitudes
Let’s get this party started!
It’s official. Berlin police will act immediately and systematically as soon as there is any violence – tomorrow.
You know, tomorrow during Berlin’s vaguely political and completely nonsensical annual May Day riots.
And just in case you’re in town and interested, please get in touch with this guy. He’s your friendly neighborhood left-wing extremist tour guide. The capitalist Schwein.
“Die Polizei wird konsequent und unverzüglich einschreiten, sobald Gewalt da ist.”
Better save than sorry
“It’s not like we don’t trust you or anything, Greece,” Germany said. “It’s just that we don’t trust you.”
Profiting the most from the EU by being its biggest winner (exporter), when push comes to shove, Germany always has to shell out the most too.
That’s the part they don’t like, understandably – that amount up there (in billions) is what Germany will be paying to bail out Greece. And they will help bail them out too, of course. But with another regional election rolling around in Germany again and all, Merkel and Co. are going to make the Greeks agree to save until it hurts first.
“If Greece is ready to accept tough measures, not just in one year but over several years, then we have a good chance to secure the stability of the euro for us all.”
“I underestimated how good German beer is”
4G? Oh, gee. What do you mean it’s gone?
Who is Gray Powell – other than that Apple iPhone engineer dude who got a little too happy on German beer at a place called Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City, California of all places and left his 4G prototype iPhone on a bar stool to get picked up later by somebody else who recognized its value and sold it for $5,000 to a gadget web site in New York that’s now making a big noise about it, understandably – and why won’t we leave him alone?
The website claims it bought the phone from a man Gizmodo reportedly paid $5,000 (£3,254) for access to the device. who discovered it on March 19 “lost in a bar in Redwood City” near Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Google wasn’t home that day or something
Anti-Facebook feelings in Germany are growing these days because, well, uh, bashing Google day in and day out all day long even gets boring for Germans to do every once in a while.
An organization here called the VZBZ (Very Zesty Bitching Zealots?) said that Facebook should have to ask its users for approval every time personal information is passed on to third parties via an “opt-in” option and not continue with the “opt-out” option it uses now.
Facebook opted-out on the opt-in option, opting for the opt-out option opstead.
Meanwhile, German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner is so pissed off with the company that she says she will delete her Facebook account if it does not straighten up its act sehr pronto already. So there. That’s the end of that company.
Partly for historical reasons, Germany is particularly sensitive about privacy issues, with campaigners bristling at plans by US internet giant Google to launch its Street View service later this year allowing users to view panoramic still photos of city streets.
Germans endangered by time change again
What a difference an hour makes. If you’re German, that is.
German sleep researchers are concerned, some might even say downright nervous about the coming daylight savings time change here.
The German biological time system being much more sensitive than say, uh, everybody else’s out there, pushing back/forward the clock just a mere hour can be an extremely stressfull undertaking here and can even lead to untimely German heart attacks. Or could. Maybe. Maybe not though, too. Hard to say for sure.
Doesn’t anybody care? Other than not me, I mean?
“Richtig gewöhnen wir uns daran nie.”
Unprepared and unwilling, understand?
Now we know why the Bundeswehr is unprepared for combat. It’s because the Bundeswehr is unprepared for combat (we already knew that they were unwilling).
But at least now it’s official or something. The being unprepared part, I mean. So that way nobody has to feel bad about it or anything, I guess.
Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces criticized the country’s support of its soldiers, saying the Bundeswehr lacked the most basic necessities for its missions abroad.
Ein Bombengeschäft
A bomb of a business, a roaring trade, a gold mine. And the same procedure as every year.
“Germany Now World’s Third Largest Arms Exporter.” Now? Been that way for years, folks. Get used to it already.
Pacifists. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
“When it comes to arms exports, few will be surprised that the US tops the list.”
We said we’re sorry already
More Germans are leaving the church these days. More than usual, I mean. I wonder why?
“The flood of revelations began in late January when an elite Jesuit school in Berlin admitted systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s. A school attached to a cathedral in Regensburg where Benedict’s brother was choir master was among those later implicated.”
Celibacy is the sign of full devotion.
Another coalition of the willing (not)?
Or does it just stay business as usual?
“The responsibility for stopping the Iranian bomb thus rests with a coalition of the willing. The attitude of Germany—Iran’s most important Western trading partner—will be critical to the success of such a coalition. But while the recent announcement by Siemens and Munich Re to exit the Iranian market have garnered headlines, hundreds of German manufacturers remain determined to continue doing business as usual with Tehran.”
Much of that business goes undetected via Dubai.
Observing Hermann 