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Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6z03A5zRs

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Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I almost went to Munich summer 08, but it was gonna be 3-4 grand for the trip + getting my passport in order and yeah I couldn't get that money together. Sucks because I was 18, it was led by my German teacher, and she had insane rules but truth told i could've wandered out and drank myself stupid on my own or with any of the other seniors.

I will go to munich one day though god dammit.

Molothecat
Jul 25, 2007

Wrath, hate, pain, and death!

munchen is the greatest city in the world

Clunc
Dec 24, 2009
Last year it seemed like the beer prices were slightly higher than the previous years and the lines to pay more were longer. It's sad I'll be out of the country this year.

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

Molothecat posted:

munchen is the greatest city in the world

what no it's Hamburg, du Bayer

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Clunc posted:

Last year it seemed like the beer prices were slightly higher than the previous years and the lines to pay more were longer. It's sad I'll be out of the country this year.

Prob cause they let all the Syrians in :sigh:

Saga
Aug 17, 2009

Decebal posted:

Also germans love techo for some reason and because of that one of the best styles of music became popular all over the world.



Just think of the cultural impact of "trans europa express", the classic Wehrmacht theme tune and a hit from La Rochelle to the gates of Moscow!

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

I always wondered why these big wurstoberfest type dealies are so confined to the midwest and Texas.

There are tens of millions of German Americans out there, but the sum total of our German cultural expression is that once a year we have a vague holiday where we spend like two hours at some fairground drinking malty beer and pretending sauerkraut is a vegetable and half us us can't even be assed to do that much.

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
Wait ein minuten German comedians exist?

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

Duckbag posted:

I always wondered why these big wurstoberfest type dealies are so confined to the midwest and Texas.

There are tens of millions of German Americans out there, but the sum total of our German cultural expression is that once a year we have a vague holiday where we spend like two hours at some fairground drinking malty beer and pretending sauerkraut is a vegetable and half us us can't even be assed to do that much.

I think that because of certain unfortunate events in history Germans and people with german ancestry have been shamed any time they show any cultural pride. Even though, as a culture, they created more useful things for humanity than Ireland or Mexico.

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Three-Phase posted:

Wait ein minuten German comedians exist?

We had them for centuries. It's just that for us, comedy is the height of culture, so we don't bother translating it for non-Germans. The best a foreigner can hope for is a badly translated book written by one of our comedians. :v:


Delthalaz posted:

I stayed at an Airbnb in Germany for a few weeks and the toilet was some sort of nonstandard aberration. You'd poo poo and it would go around this curve down to the water so you couldn't actually see the poop or toilet paper. The Airbnb folks were Asian so maybe they decided to bring some civilization to your gross country.

Actually, I think only about half of our toilets use the "poo poo shelf"-system. The one in my apartment isn't, for example. And my apartment bathroom looks like it hasn't been changed since the 70s.

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004

System Metternich posted:

you posted the wrong guy by mistake, heres what he really meant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjHD2n-yGU

I ended up watching ~3 hours of his videos and can't stop laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMS71XIWxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30315D0FIk0

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


XMNN posted:

Swiss Germans are either weird mountain hillbillies who also happen to have lots of money or weird international banking gnomes with lots of money

and they speak german wrong

Almost everyone in Germany speaks German wrong and the effort to determine who exactly it is that isn't is called the "dialect debate" or Dialektdebatte and it is the only political question in the German-speaking world that actually matters.

e: it'll probably turn out to be five old people in a village somewhere

aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Feb 3, 2017

Thots and Prayers
Jul 13, 2006

A is the for the atrocious abominated acts that YOu committed. A is also for ass-i-nine, eight, seven, and six.

B, b, b - b is for your belligerent, bitchy, bottomless state of affairs, but why?

C is for the cantankerous condition of our character, you have no cut-out.
Grimey Drawer
I took German during high school because I had a wicked crush on the German teacher. Ah, meine Frau - warum hast du mich nicht belästigt?

Mushika
Dec 22, 2010

Zahgaegun posted:

I took German during high school because I had a wicked crush on the German teacher. Ah, meine Frau - warum hast du mich nicht belästigt?

In 2002, I found myself at a bad rear end dance party in an old giant barn in the middle of nowhere some distance outside of Gnas, Austria. I was fairly fluent in German at the time, so when people started asking me where I was from, they didn't believe I was from the states. Not because my German was terribly great, but because they couldn't believe someone from that far away would hang out at some podunk barn party next to a pig farm in rural Austria. I had to show them my U.S. ID before they believed me and then somehow people got really excited for some reason and they weren't even like juggalos or anything they were really cool kids thanks for listening.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
Kühle Geschichten, Brüder!

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Ich bin ein Berliner AMA

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
You can tell Germany is a major player on the world stage when "geil" is known to Americans through their pornography travels.

Honky Dong Country
Feb 11, 2015

Thread needs more delicious wieners.

tenspott
Aug 1, 2002

by FactsAreUseless

Commie NedFlanders posted:

slavoj zizek loves to talk about german toilets, as a way of referencing the german ideology embodied in their every day actions. germans are known for philosophic idealism , and their toilets have a little shelf where the poop falls, allowing one to examine the poop for health purposes, before the flow of water can continue

this post right here, is the poop on the shelf

it seems like when you take a leak that the shelf would cause a ton of splashing. germans sound not so sharp.

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Aix
Jul 6, 2006
$10

tenspott posted:

it seems like when you take a leak that the shelf would cause a ton of splashing. germans sound not so sharp.
the watery hole is still there, you just have to aim for it. also the shelf usually has a little puddle of water on it which minimalizes splashing. ingenious engineering, im thinking about importing some to sell on tv

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