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Noahdraron posted:I guess Al Qaeda doesn't hate us as much as other nations but they feel they have to make at least a token effort every now and then and send some rookie to do the job, what with resources being scarce and all. They couldn't even be bothered to find a good target. Seriously, who cares about loving Bonn? Maybe they had a thirty years old book that named Bonn as the German capital?
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ArchangeI posted:Maybe they had a thirty years old book that named Bonn as the German capital? Maybe they'll try to kidnap Helmut Kohl next, that would be hilarious.
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midnightclimax posted:Maybe they'll try to kidnap Helmut Kohl next, that would be hilarious. They will try to kidnap his wife in order to blackmail him into carrying a (malfunctioning) bomb into the Bundestag. This all very much reminds me of a front page article on SA about how Obama now uses mentally challenged suicide bombers because all the competent ones died in previous attacks.
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RIP Peter Struck, he was a pretty cool guy.  Seems like the SPD can't produce any decent people these days and he could have taught a new generation how to wear a mustache and be a good social democrat.
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Noahdraron posted:RIP Peter Struck, he was a pretty cool guy. You mean this guy: "Unsere Sicherheit wird nicht nur, aber auch am Hindukusch verteidigt."?
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bronin posted:You mean this guy: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that he was, to a certain point, correct.
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Riso posted:There are still several government offices in Bonn that never moved. Yep, and there are employees of the Bundesministerien flying the 500km between Bonn and Berlin on a daily basis, it seems kinda stupid at times.
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Neuntausend posted:Yep, and there are employees of the Bundesministerien flying the 500km between Bonn and Berlin on a daily basis, it seems kinda stupid at times. How did they decide the split? I know Finanz and the AA are run prettymuch exclusively from Berlin, but I think a lot of the domestic stuff is still in both/bonn? It seems incredibly stupid, but at this point moving everything to Berlin would only serve to take a shitload of money out of Bonn.
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Landsknecht posted:How did they decide the split? I know Finanz and the AA are run prettymuch exclusively from Berlin, but I think a lot of the domestic stuff is still in both/bonn? It seems incredibly stupid, but at this point moving everything to Berlin would only serve to take a shitload of money out of Bonn. And back then it wouldn't have had the same effect? The decision to not completely move the government was pretty ridiculous and based on the desire to placate those who were against having Berlin as a capital instead of Bonn in the first place. In case you weren't there / too young / don't remember / whatever: It's always been part of the Grundgesetz (constitution) that Berlin is the capital. Due to that not being feasible in practice while Germany was divided, the government of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (aka "West Germany") was set up in Bonn with the understanding that it would be temporary. For the next several decades, politicians went on to talk about how the government would of course immediately be moved to Berlin as soon as Germany would be reunified (which basically everyone thought impossible up until November of 1989). Then the unthinkable - reunification - actually happened and suddenly the talking point was "Yeah, Berlin is the capital, but not the seat of the government, we'll need a vote to change this". When Berlin won, this "Yeah, the government is going to move, but not all government agencies will move" BS was implemented. It's a miracle that anything was moved at all. I wouldn't have been surprised if the next talking point would have been "Yeah, the agencies will move, but the officials will stay in Bonn and telecommute".
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This is pretty much the micro version of the EU Brussels-Strasbourg split. It just lacks the exclusive high speed rail connection between Bonn-Berlin for politicians.
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So at this point I suspect that a Cat would be more qualified to build an airport.
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Landsknecht posted:So at this point I suspect that a Cat would be more qualified to build an airport. Capitalising nouns is such a telltale giveaway for us German speaking folks 
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Adulterous Hitler posted:Capitalising nouns is such a telltale giveaway for us German speaking folks No, you see, this is what he meant:  
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Sereri posted:No, you see, this is what he meant: That's not even a rimshot-level joke, that's the god-honest truth there. That excavator, by itself, uncrewed as it is, would have been able to put up an airport by now.
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How in the gently caress does the FDP get ~9,5% anywhere in the year of our Lord 2013? 10% even. What in the gently caress. What the hell is wrong with Lower Saxony?
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Oh geez, and here was hopeful they might not make the 5%.
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Sereri posted:No, you see, this is what he meant: Or maybe he's talking about famous German celebrity Daniela "The Cat" Katzenberger. Having her trying to build an airport would keep her off my TV, so everybody wins.
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Saw this on the newsstand at the grocery store here on New Year's Eve. It feels appropriate somehow.
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Well, now there's a chance of it coming down to overhang-mandates again. I wonder if we'll ever get rid of those.
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Drone posted:Saw this on the newsstand at the grocery store here on New Year's Eve. It feels appropriate somehow. I could give you a list with the 3,5 million most annoying people in Berlin :iamafag:
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Adulterous Hitler posted:I could give you a list with the 3,5 million most annoying people in Berlin :iamafag: You mean the Telefonbuch ?
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Well that does it, no more Currywurst or Döner for you ungrateful jealous plebs. < >
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Sereri posted:You mean the Telefonbuch ?  I'd also like a good, well reasoned explanation why in the flying gently caress the FDP managed to get 10% in Lower Saxony. They even loving gained 2% relative to 2009! I guess that means Rösler is out of the woods, never would have thought it.
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Rösler is going to step down. He's the FDP's Michael Steele.
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Landsknecht posted:Who is forming the government? It looks like the SPD/Gruene and CDU/FDP have exactly the same number of seats won? It's not entirely decided yet. The full count will take a while longer, so there's still a chance that one of the coalitions will end up with a seat or two ahead (possibly through overhang). Update: The count is now finished, SPD+Grüne managed to win by one seat. Also, apparently a lot of the votes for the FDP came about due to strategic voting from CDU-supporters. Perestroika fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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So apparently, after losing our ability to build airports, we've also lost the ability to build train stations. Someone tell Blohm & Voss to never go into public transportation lest their poo poo mysteriously implode.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:So apparently, after losing our ability to build airports, we've also lost the ability to build train stations. quote:Eigentlich sollten schon im Jahr 2020 Züge durch den unterirdischen Bahnhof fahren Schon im Jahr 2020. Schon.  Why did it need to be underground again?
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Adulterous Hitler posted:I could give you a list with the 3,5 million most annoying people in Berlin :iamafag: but none of them are Swabians 
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There's a joke in there somewhere with hipsters and Swabians and underground.
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Zwille posted:There's a joke in there somewhere with hipsters and Swabians and underground. Yeah, but you've probably never heard of it.
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My new theory is that the Prenzlberg-Schwaben are to blame for BER failing.
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Because of all the Spaetzle that they keep throwing into the airports fire protection system?
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Well wasn't the problem with the airport the fire protection system made by the swabians from Bosch?
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I'm desperately looking for that Didi & Stulle strip, where they go to their favourite bar and find out its been converted to sell Käsespätzle for 30 €. Ah man that last panel is so funny, can't find it now. Anyways, Didi & Stulle owns.
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It's not the exact same you're thinking of, probably, but it's close. Click for bigger version.  bonus 
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So between 2011 and today, we've had, what, six politicians lose their PhD to either plagiarism or gross negligence, with three of them in high-profile positions and one being the big kahuna of our loving ministry of education. How have I not been bombarded with topical jokes by my american or european buddies?
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