At least they waited until the vacation season was over. In what can only be seen as an attempt to stage a hilarous end of summer practical joke, the spokeswoman for a small business entrepreneur association has actually suggested that Germans go on vacation too much and that they should cut their annual leave time down from six weeks to four.
Cutting vacation time in Germany? Hardy, har, har. That’s a good one.
Es gibt Themen, bei denen verstehen die Deutschen keinen Spaß.
You know, sightwalk.de, one of those many German Google Street View-type companies that have been taking pictures of your homes out there for years now? Oh, you never heard of them? And you couldn’t really care less nor do you feel threatened by them in the least? Well there we have it.
Sort of. I mean like, who else will keep buying their exports even though they can’t afford to?
“While America’s super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever.”
PS: The word “Obama” cannot be found in this article.
Just when Germany thought it was finally getting Google under control (sort of), freakin’ Facebook comes along with a brand new service that will be able to locate mobile Facebook Germans faster than you can say hide-and-seek.
Of course Facebook Places users would have to want to use this service first and sign up for it and all that, but what’s that got to do with it? It’s the principle of the matter – I think.
After all, even if German Facebook users would want to be found by others they shouldn’t be allowed to be, because… Well, should they? What happens then?
This is really starting to get diabolical, I tell you. I think it’s the Brain Police.
Die Frage “Wo bist du?” wird man wohl künftig immer seltener hören.
As you know, Germany is greener than green. I mean, they ought to rename this place to New Greenland already.
And one of the reasons Germany is so green is that they take very, very good care of their garbage. They seperate it into different piles and clean it and recycle some of it and then incinerate the rest with green energy generated by coal-burning power plants (their coal here is green too).
And the stuff they don’t get around to they ship off to Brazil. Illegally, I mean. Well, they did this time. Brazilian authorities, green with anger, have now asked Germany to take it back please.
“Der Verstoß gegen internationale Abkommen ist ein Affront gegen die Unterzeichnerstaaten und in diesem Fall eine Missachtung Brasiliens und der brasilianischen Gesellschaft.”
It was 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (whoever he was). In Hamburg, of all places.
50 years? Wasn’t it more like 500 years ago? Was that really the same planet?
“Incredible though it may seem, today it will be 50 years ago to the day since the band played the first of what, during the course of five separate visits over the next two and a half years, would be 281 concerts in Hamburg.”
“Their work rate was phenomenal – at one point in 1961 they played for 98 nights in succession, frequently starting at 7pm and going through until 7am. They learnt how to survive on their wits, their flair for improvisation, their innate cockiness – and on a steady stream of uppers.”
And this is the same Taliban that Germany wants to buy, I mean, talk to?
Just up the road from a Bundeswehr camp in a village in the region called Dasht-i-Archi, about 100 Taiban rode into town on motorcycles with two prisoners – a married man and a woman who had presumably committed adultry. They then stoned them to death in the town square.
It was not clear why the Bundeswehr was not there to do anything about this, but then again it’s never been clear why the Bundeswehr is never there to do much of anything about anything like this that happens down there. Perhaps they weren’t there because they didn’t want to interfere in the expression of religious freedom or something.
“Das Paar wurde eine Stunde lang gesteinigt und da die junge Frau noch nicht tot war, richteten sie die Taliban am Ende mit einem Kopfschuss hin.”
That’s how much (or little) Germans have donated privately to the victims of the flood catastrophe in Pakistan so far; 2 million euros.
I’m not going to judge anybody here, you should donate what you feel like donating. But that’s the problem with Pakistan, I guess. For some strange reason, the Haitians’ suffering was one hundred times more deserving than the suffering going on in Pakistan right now, or felt like it was.
Image isn’t everything. Or is it the only thing?
UN-Angaben zufolge warten rund sechs Millionen Menschen dringend auf Nahrung, Wasser, Medizin und ein Obdach.
Observing Hermann 