A fully automated Döner Kebab slicing robot? It’s about time, is all I can say.
Germans eat about 400 tons of Döner meat a day. Somebody’s got to slice the stuff.
Erste Döner-Messe in Berlin: Branche bestaunt vollautomatischen Döner-Rasierer
Tag Archives: German
You can’t depend on ANYBODY these days
Sheesh. Of all folks (or Volks, if you prefer), rumor has it that the Germans are now beginning to lose thier angst about climate change. Now, of all times. Where angst is in the air and everywhere, I mean (they’re scared of freakin’ daylight savings time for crying out loud).
According to a Spiegel survey – and Spiegel Leser wissen mehr (Spiegel readers know more) – only a piddly 42 percent of Germans lose sleep at night anymore when it comes to global warming. Pitiful, people.
Come on, now. Get with the plan, Volks. Boo! Or something.
Heute hält jeder dritte Deutsche die Prognose der Klimaforscher, nach der es langfristig immer wärmer wird, nicht für zuverlässig.
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.”
Invisible glue goo
“Once the invisible glue that bound the Union…
German policy is now being dictated by less idealistic priorities rooted firmly by national interests.”
When weathermen go bad
Weather he’s guilty or not…
Popular German weatherman Joerg Kachelmann was arrested in Frankfurt after his long-standing girlfriend claimed that he had forced sexual relations with her after an argument, something he denies vehemently.
But other than that, Kachelmann reports that it’s going to remain generally warm and even a bit humid in the next few days, especially for him, with a mild chance of rain and thunder showers, which he’ll miss, should they happen, him being in jail and all.
“Without wishing to prejudice legal proceedings, we regard it as unthinkable that the accusations could be correct.”
Time to get nervous again
Gee, I wonder how anti-Atom Germany is going to react to this one (not).
Clean nuclear technology? Not with our ideology.
Bill Gates is sinking “several billion dollars” into a project with Toshiba to develop small-scale efficient nuclear reactors that burn spent uranium.
Mastermind?
Oh never mind. Caught him too.
Damn. The guy behind that poor man’s Ocean’s 11 Berlin poker heist, the mastermind guy himself, got busted too.
Who would of thought that possible? That it would have taken this long to get him, I mean.
Wo sind die 242 000 Euro Beute?
More Internet Angst
Germany is still not the “digital society” some of you might assume it must be.
An organization called Initiative D21 just broke down Germany’s predominantly technophobic Internet angst population into several angst making groups:
The “digital outsiders”, 35% of the population, are actually frightened by computers and refuse to touch them.
The “occasional users” with 30% will actually use Internet technology from time to time but don’t ask them to work with it regularly or deal with things like Excel (I feel their pain about Excel, I must say).
The “digital pros” with 12% gladly work with Excel and even do PowerPoint, although I wouldn’t know why they would want to.
“Trend users” go further and even build websites and spend why too much time online – on the couch.
Then there’s the “digital avant-garde”, 3% of the population, the real sick puppy techno Internet freak types.
Personally, I don’t know what’s more worrisome; the first or the last group.
Die Deutschen sind immer noch Internet-Muffel
Pakistan ist eben anders
Pakistan is just different, you know. Than Germany, I mean.
I was at a the hairdresser, an elderly man who doesn’t resort to electric clippers. All he has is a creaky pair of scissors, a comb and aerosol with water. He did a neat job bit I wasn’t entirely happy.
I said: “I look like Hitler.”
He looked at me in the mirror, gave a satisfied smile and said: “Yes, yes, very nice.”
In the Islamic world, not just in Pakistan but right across from Iran to northern Africa, anti-Semitic sentiment of course plays a role.
The spy(s) who came down with a cold
Actually, it’s their currency that has a cold at the moment.
Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the Bundestag on March 16 that the country may have to consider ordering “intelligence agencies to set up surveillance of who is getting together with whom for which kinds of speculative processes, and where” to protect the euro.
Observing Hermann 