No more crazies!

We just want to keep all you mainstream ignorant folks in the party. Left Party point man Gregor Gysi is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore. The SED (German communist) replacement party in Neues Deutschland, the Left Party, is sick and tired of being hassled within their own ranks by ungrateful comrades mostly from that yet pretty-much-uncharted “western” part of the nation and is now ready to start throwing their sorry non-conformed Hinternteile (back parts) out.

It seems that the Left Party is a big noise now, or at least they want to come over that way, and the times when you could turn a tolerant blind eye to the wackiest of left-wing ideas has now ended or is about to or might, maybe. They couldn’t come down and clean up on the usual loonies too hard too fast at first, you see, otherwise people might think that they were the SED (German communist) replacement party in Neues Deutschland. Which they are, of course, but actually aren’t, uh, if you get my drift.

It appears that certain unstable members from THE WEST have of late been calling for unusual things like asking constituents not to vote for their own party out of protest against something not, well, wacky enough. Which really isn’t all that unusual in Germany, if you stop and think about it. The SPD does it all the time, for instance (more power to ya, Wolfgang Clement). But, on the other hand, if you take a good look at the SPD these days, I can definitely see where Gysi is coming from. I mean, it’s not like he’s crazy or anything.

„Wer der Fraktion bewusst schaden will, der gehört nicht in die Partei.”

Anti-Jungle Camp show grossing everybody out now, too

January 26, 2009 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes Leave a comment

Damn. There really is some kind of a Neue Deutsche Ekelwelle (new German gross-out wave) going on. On TV, I mean. Or it sure seems that way when you read these comments about last night’s “Wetten, dass…?” show, anyway (it was competing for viewers with RTL’s smash hit jungle freak extravaganza).

“And in the end, one realizes sitting at home on the sofa just how awful our TV situation is. Especially when you tune in once a month to our big Saturday night show to watch our entertainment elites complain to invited foreign stars about how stiff Germans are compared to the rest of the word.

It’s no wonder so many guests have to get up and leave in the middle of the show to catch a flight. What kind of a country is this anyway, when you get invited to a show to hear the hosts continually complain about themselves?”

Oh I don’t know, it’s probably the same kind of country in which journalists write an article the next day complaining about the same thing. You know, complaining about the TV hosts who complain about themselves. There’s nothing ekelig (gross) about that. Germans just like to mecker around (bitch and grump) a lot.

It ain’t no big deal, really. It’s just what they do. And as you can see, I love to do so myself (bitch and grump), thank you, and I’m not even one of them. Maybe it’s the water here or something.

Und… „Amerikaner müssen Filme über unsere Geschichte drehen, damit sich die Jugend überhaupt noch dafür interessiert.“

Angie already gladly giving Obama her best wishes

January 20, 2009 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes Tags: Obama 3 Comments

So here’s my wish list, Mr. President (I know it’ll be a few more hours yet before you’re sworn in, but first come first serve):

1) It’s time to enter a new era of international cooperation. Translated from German that means the old era of international cooperation was much too anstrengend (too much work) for us already, we want to say even more now and do even less than we have in the past.

2) No one land can solve all the world’s problems by itself. In your language this means of course that no one weak country can. But several weak countries, all pulling together, can keep a stronger one from trying to do so.

3) The era of Alleingänge (unilateral actions) is over. In English: The era of your unilateral actions is over. If we pull a few like we regularly do here and there that’s different because we are weak and small (see points 1 and 2) and therefore that’s OK.

4) Whatever you do, do not enter into another new era of protectionism. Translated from German that means something like please keep buying our cars because nobody here wants them anymore.

5) I have a whole lot more of these for you of course but this is your first day at work and I don’t want to come over as being too demanding or pushy or anything, not right just yet anyway.

„Sie hoffe, dass die zukünftige Zusammenarbeit mit den USA von gegenseitigem Zuhören geprägt werde.“