Not quite as wrong as supporting Bayern, but Tim?
Song playing as this was published: Feist: My Moon My Man
Yes, the 3rd of October is a great day in German history, so much so that it’s a public holiday.
On this day in 1942 Germany launched the first man-made object into space: A V2-A4 Rocket from Peenemünde. And it didn’t even fall back onto London or Antwerp.
Now, I know that Mr. Haddock has pretty much of a monopoly on the Female German Football Team Scene, but a World Cup match between England and Germany has to be worth a mention, even if it is “only girls.”
Now proud Englishman that I am, I’ve obviously stuck a fiver on ze Tjermans to win, […]
When Ze Tjermans start to openly mock the rampant, box-ticking mentality and bureaucratic stupidity of your country on their main television news programme, it really is time to wonder if NuLabour’s touchy-feely infantilisation programme hasn’t gone a little bit too far.
What, you want a proper translation of the story as well? But I’m ‘working’! […]
“I’m afraid I can’t accept that contract.”
Actually I said, “You’ve got to be fucking joking!” but I’m trying to give the impression that I conduct my business conversations with a sense of reserve and decorum.
“I’m not proof-reading anything that man has translated into English - it’s always gibberish, I can’t work out what it’s meant […]
Britain’s Railways: I thought I knew what they’re like. In a land where no money is spent on the national infrastructure, where everything is incredulously expensive and yet of poor quality, the trains definitely don’t run on time and consuming the over-priced sandwiches available on board is meant to be as near to suicidal as […]
Whilst writing this post I’ve realised I’m semi-quoting Bill Bryson in Notes From A Big Country, but I have at least returned to the beginning of the post to say that I internalised, rather than just plain plaigerised his text. I don’t have a copy of the book with me, so I’m paraphrasing from memory […]
The day that I moved to Germany was June 26th 1996. I know this because I still have the copy of “Scotland’s” Mirror, one of the newspapers which was handed out on the plane on the day that I flew there.
“Achtung! Surrender!” the disturbingly intelligent headline read, over a photograph of, I think, Stuart […]
I’m sure that Mr. Sparky could tell you a lot more about viral advertising than I could, although having received this advert from three different sources so far this morning, I reckon they’re doing a pretty good job.
“Brüller“, “sehr witzig” and so on the e-mails were titled. All I could think of was that the […]
Or “Utterly Useless Tips For The Pathetically Single #157”
In Germany, at the end of every single TV advertisement for a product that might be sold at a pharmacist, be it medicated shampoo, cough lotion or the latest opiate derivative a warning appears and is read out: “Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen lesen Sie die Packungsbeilage und […]
