The novel Er ist wieder da, published in English as Look Who’s Back, imagined the Fuhrer mysteriously waking up in modern Germany.
“Sometimes you don’t want to be a foreigner in our country. But neither do you want to be a German.”
Category Archives: Helplessness
NATO’s Eastern European Members
Beautiful German weapon sales of the week.
Because somebody has to admire them.
Military action by Russian-backed groups against Ukrainian government forces has started to nudge policymakers back towards weaponry designed to resist a land assault.
Today’s Headlines
Riots in Suhl refugee camp in Germany.
Refugee chaos in Macedonia.
UK sends cops to Calais to stop migrants from coming through the Chunnel.
Slovakia refuses to let in Muslim refugees.
Germany expecting 800,000 migrants this year.
Maybe this is just me but I think the problem here could have something to do with all of the refugees coming to Europe right now. Has anyone called Brussels yet?
Maybe it’s time for the Europeans to consider putting up a wall down there in the Mediterranean Sea somewhere. And have Mexico pay for it.
Als Erstes muss eine Mauer gebaut werden, für die Mexiko zahlen muss.
German Of The Day: Dumm, Dummer, Til Schweiger
That means dumb, dumber, the dumbest.
Speaking on German TV Thursday, Schweiger dismissed claims he is using the immigration debate as a way to garner positive PR. “I’m the most successful filmmaker in the country, what do I need PR for?”
“Sie gehen mir auf den Sack.”
How Do You Want Your ID?
Rare to non-existent, many Germans will tell you. They place them in microwaves here to destroy the RFID chips inside, you see.
Or boil them – if they’re paranoid about microwave ovens, too.
Otherwise most of these folks appear to be able to live normal, somewhat productive lives.
When it comes to privacy, Germans can’t take a joke. After it was revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency had intercepted calls in Germany, sales of old-school typewriters were reported to have skyrocketed, as some Germans assumed that sending letters might make communications surveillance harder for U.S. officials.
It’s not only American surveillance that Germans are concerned about, however. On Tuesday, a 29-year old man was arrested at Frankfurt Airport after authorities noticed that he had microwaved his German identification card, reported German news agency dpa.
German Sommerloch Update: Office Chairs Incorrectly Adjusted For Many Employees
Especially for the ones still on their Sommerloch summer vacations, I bet.
Sitting for long periods strains the spine. Many desk workers therefore complain about backache. Correctly adjusting the office chair can prevent these complaints, however.
„In vielen Betrieben gibt es gute Stühle, aber die Beschäftigten haben sich damit noch nie befasst.“
German Of The Day: Umweltunfreundlich
That means eco-unfriendly. Or in the case of biodiesel, this means “being so eco-friendly that it is eco-unfriendly.”
More starry-eyed government interventionism in action. To save the world from destruction by using biodiesel they have to destroy the world first by producing it. This reminds me of those good old communist planned economy days. And we all know how that went with the best made plans of mice and communist men.
Dem Biokraftstoff gehört die Zukunft. An negative Begleiterscheinungen dachte keiner. Doch die Indizien, dass vermehrt für das Weltklima wichtige Wälder gerodet, Sümpfe entwässert und in Ackerflächen umgewandelt werden, mehren sich. Nach Informationen der Weltagrarorganisation FAO dienen nur noch 47 Prozent der Weltgetreideproduktion – Weizen, Reis, Mais – der Ernährung.
I Thought Germany Already Had All Driverless Cars
Just try crossing a busy street here and you’ll see what I mean.
But word is that only one in five Germans would be happy to ride in an autonomous car, according to a survey by Germany automobile industry monitoring association KueS.
I guess Germans just can’t stand the idea of losing control. Over the car that’s already out of control, I mean.
If we took the lead in autonomous vehicles, we could over-take the Germans, the Spanish and the French in a huge new industry. We just need to keep our foot on that accelerator – while browsing some play-lists on Spotify and sending a few e-mails of course.
This Is The End
The end of German society as we know it, I mean. The latest survey says it’s all over but the Heulen (crying).
A shocking 71 per cent of Germans, it turns out, would risk crossing the street even when the pedestrian signal is red.
39 per cent of Germans said they had taken public transport without paying for a ticket.
And 20 per cent of cyclists said they would run a red light.
Asked what most represents Germany to them, 63 per cent of respondents named Volkswagen, ahead of Goethe (49 per cent), Angela Merkel (45 per cent), and the national anthem (44 per cent). Somewhat alarmingly, Adolf Hitler came seventh, named by 25 per cent of those polled.
German Sommerloch Update: Truck Spills Lots Of Carrots
And “the cleanup work took a pretty long time.”
Die Aufräumarbeiten dauerten ziemlich lange.
Observing Hermann 