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Germany to reintroduce longhouses with weaving workshops

May 18, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humor Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

After uncovering the remains of a rural settlement dating from the 3rd to 5th centuries CE offering new information about daily life during the final centuries of the Roman Empire…

And considering how Germany today is clearly incapable of introducing the radical economic reforms it needs to continue as a competitive industrialized nation, the helpless German government is considering a proposal by the Greens to reintroduce these ancient longhouses and weaving workshops as an alternative path to progress and prosperity.

Skeptics point out, however, that the huge bureaucratic hurdles blocking a return to such an alternative lifestyle could take several centuries CE to overcome.

German humor at its best

January 30, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humor Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

German media and sensitivities. It’s a long and troubled history.

Greenland police fine German satire show for US flag stunt – A German public broadcaster has been fined while filming a show in Greenland after a satirist sought to raise a US flag in public. The incident unfolded amid heightened sensitivity over statements from the US president…

“At no point during filming was it intended that the satire was aimed at Greenlanders,” the broadcaster stated. “The editorial team expresses its regret to the people of Greenland should this impression have been created.”

“It is not funny. It is immensely harmful.”

Europe to make Trump “buckle under pressure”

April 4, 2025 By in High Art, Home Cooking, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

And monkeys to fly out of Europe’s butt.

Trump will ‘buckle under pressure’ if Europe bands together over tariffs, German economy minister says – U.S. President Donald Trump will “buckle under pressure” and alter his tariff policies if Europe bands together, acting German economy minister Robert Habeck said Thursday.

“That is what I see, that Donald Trump will buckle under pressure, that he corrects his announcements under pressure, but the logical consequence is that he then also needs to feel the pressure,” he said during a press conference.

German of the day: Größenwahn

February 12, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Humor Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means megalomania or having delusions of grandeur.

Also see Lachnummer. That means being a joke or a laughing stock.

Annalena Baerbock: Russia wanted to prevent me from becoming chancellor – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wants to thwart the US Gaza plans. Talks with partners are underway, she said on “Maischberger” – and emphasized her claim to power within the Greens.

German of the day: Reich

May 22, 2024 By in Higher Education, Humor Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

That means rich.

And Donald Trump apparently wants to “unify the rich” to help move our country down the right path. I mean up the right path, of course (Biden & Co. are responsible for the down part). And if anybody knows about rich, its Donald Trump.

Trump’s social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a ‘unified Reich’ – A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.

Insurrection, German style

May 21, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Boy oh boy. that was one close call for German democracy itself.

Or something. Yawn. This “coup” is so embarrassing it’s cute. A cute coup. It’s kind of like US-Amerika‘s January 6, only dopier. If you can imagine that.

Germany coup plot trial begins amid high security – Self-styled Prince Heinrich XIII among alleged ringleaders of plan for violent overthrow of state…

A total of 26 people are on trial – a 27th, a man in his 70s, died recently in hospital in Frankfurt – and the three cases are expected to go on for a year or more. Gundula Fehns-Böer, a spokesperson for Frankfurt’s regional court, said: “It’s a challenge for us all, but we’ll sit here for as long as we have to sit.”

The alleged plotters were arrested in December 2022, when heavily armed forces stormed houses, flats, offices and a remote hunting lodge. Investigators had surveilled the group in the previous few months. Among the arrests made were a leading member of the QAnon conspiracy theory organisation, a clairvoyant, a dentist and an amateur pilot.

German of the day: Aufstand

December 13, 2023 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

That means insurrection.

The Germans just had to have one of their own, of course. And I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but their insurrection was even more ridiculous than ours was. 27 old farts were going to “overthrow the German government.” Silly old farts too, They didn’t even know that Germany doesn’t have a government. Or that when it does it just overthrows itself.

Germany charges 27 suspects over Reichsbürger coup plot – German prosecutors have charged 27 suspects after carrying out raids against the far-right Reichsbürger movement last year.

For the first time after a series of raids last year, federal prosecutors in Germany on Tuesday brought charges linked to an alleged coup plot hatched by members of the far-right “Reichsbürger” movement… Also charged was the entrepreneur and aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, who is alleged to have been the ringleader.

“An extremely hairy man covered with dirt?”

August 26, 2023 By in Hard Facts, Home Cooking, Humor Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

That’s no Wolfsmensch (wolfman). That’s the German Green’s Minister for Sustainable Agriculture (see him collecting those nuts and berries there?).

But why isn’t he in Berlin? Doing his freakin’ job there? What the hell is he doing in the Harz Mountains? Another government boondoggle, no doubt.

Mysterious naked ‘wolfman’ spotted in Germany’s Harz mountains – A terrifying image of a strange naked “wolf man,” who authorities think has lived in the woods for at least five years, was taken on Tuesday by hikers in Germany’s Harz Mountains.