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  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    They're a bunch of copy cats - nearly everything the Germans did in the past us good ole Brits did first. Except wearing leather shorts and hitting each other.
    Steve C
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    They are incredibly hospitable, clean and tidy (on the whole), and Germany is a surprisingly beautiful country
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  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    NGale wrote:
    Ok forget the little issue of invasions and such (certinally where the French are concerned, they are a restaurant nation afterall) but generally now they are a more peacefully widely traveled people
    I believe the Kaiser had a table reserved for 1914, but he forgot his wallet and wasn't allowed to leave without paying. And everyone knows that Hitler was really just a restaurant critic...
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    He was also Austrian.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    ansbaradigeidfran wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    Ok forget the little issue of invasions and such (certinally where the French are concerned, they are a restaurant nation afterall) but generally now they are a more peacefully widely traveled people
    I believe the Kaiser had a table reserved for 1914, but he forgot his wallet and wasn't allowed to leave without paying. And everyone knows that Hitler was really just a restaurant critic...

    Na with the French it's more like 'Table for 3,000? come on in!'
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    sc999cs wrote:
    They're a bunch of copy cats - nearly everything the Germans did in the past us good ole Brits did first. Except wearing leather shorts and hitting each other.

    We seriously need to not be moralising about that sort of thing.

    _41608984_morris_dancing_pa_416.jpg

    Cameron3.jpg
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    linsen wrote:
    He was also Austrian.

    So was Mozart, no accounting for sanity then :lol:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    linsen wrote:
    He was also Austrian.
    Quite right, but he always brought friends with him when he went to visit neighbouring countries.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    linsen wrote:
    He was also Austrian.

    Not after he annexed it he wasn't.
  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    linsen wrote:
    He was also Austrian.

    Socks, shirts WHATEVER
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    And they're lazy. They just stick lots of little words together to make one ridiculously long word, instead of making up a new shorter word.

    And then use "n" to make a plural. Which is just silly. Everyone knows you use "s" to make a plural. Deeeeeerrrr!
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Always Tyred wrote:
    sc999cs wrote:
    They're a bunch of copy cats - nearly everything the Germans did in the past us good ole Brits did first. Except wearing leather shorts and hitting each other.

    We seriously need to not be moralising about that sort of thing.

    _41608984_morris_dancing_pa_416.jpg

    Cameron3.jpg

    yes and we are also a country that does shin kicking and cheese rolling as a sport
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    and they can play football.
    Steve C
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Good research AT :)
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Greg66 wrote:
    And they're lazy. They just stick lots of little words together to make one ridiculously long word, instead of making up a new shorter word.

    And then use "n" to make a plural. Which is just silly. Everyone knows you use "s" to make a plural. Deeeeeerrrr!

    absolutely:

    forums, formulas, thiefs, mediums

    8)
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    I tried to get a lower camera angle.
  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    In their favour, their beer comes in litres not pints!
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

    Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    Always Tyred wrote:
    sc999cs wrote:
    They're a bunch of copy cats - nearly everything the Germans did in the past us good ole Brits did first. Except wearing leather shorts and hitting each other.

    We seriously need to not be moralising about that sort of thing.

    _41608984_morris_dancing_pa_416.jpg

    Cameron3.jpg

    :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
    Steve C
  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    oktoberfest_girls-thumb.jpg
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

    Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    damage36 wrote:
    In their favour, their beer comes in litres not pints!

    gallons more like!

    methinks we need a forum trip to Germany with Linsen as translator, the rest of us can just be British and shout loudly and slowly :lol:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    damage36 wrote:
    oktoberfest_girls-thumb.jpg

    That's misleading. They are just very small people.
  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    Greg66 wrote:
    And they're lazy. They just stick lots of little words together to make one ridiculously long word, instead of making up a new shorter word.

    And then use "n" to make a plural. Which is just silly. Everyone knows you use "s" to make a plural. Deeeeeerrrr!

    That's far too restrictive. Try Welsh, where you can make something plural in a hundred and one different ways:
    beic -> beiciau (bikes)
    ffordd -> ffyrdd (roads)
    lôn -> lonydd (lanes)
    cath -> cathod (cats)
    ci -> cŵn (dogs)
    llaw -> dwylo (hands)
    ffwrnais -> ffwrneisi (ovens)
    pioden -> piod (magpies)
    llwyn -> llwyni (bushes)
    marchog -> marchogion (horse riders)

    Now there's irregularity for you!
  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    Can we insult the Belgians next? My wife feels very left out.
    Steve C
  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    No-one made any jokes about jugs. I'm off to find some bustier germans on google...
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

    Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Greg66 wrote:
    And they're lazy. They just stick lots of little words together to make one ridiculously long word, instead of making up a new shorter word.

    That's what I love about German!

    Geschwindigkeitsbeschraenkung = speed limit

    Windschuetzscheibenwischer = windscreen wiper

    Strassenbahnhaltestelle = tram stop

    And this monster...
    Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    sc999cs wrote:
    Can we insult the Belgians next? My wife feels very left out.

    Its not a proper country. They haven't even got proper seperatists - they just want to go off and be part of France, which is no different to becoming an Arsenal fan.
  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    linsen wrote:
    And this monster...
    Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
    I'll see that, and raise you a Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    edited October 2008
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    And they're lazy. They just stick lots of little words together to make one ridiculously long word, instead of making up a new shorter word.

    And then use "n" to make a plural. Which is just silly. Everyone knows you use "s" to make a plural. Deeeeeerrrr!

    absolutely:

    forums, formulas, thiefs, mediums

    8)

    I refer my Right Honourable Friend to the response given earlier by Lord Always Tyred of Great North Outer Beyond London:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... a#15010067

    Formula is borrowed from old Italians. That SO doesn't count.

    I suppose the houses in your road have rooves, do they? And each of those things on an Formula One tyre is a groof? (actually, thieves still takes an "s" so I WIN :P )

    And when I visit a group of people who are going to tell me the future and speak to the dead, I certainly don't visit a bunch of media.

    8) 8)
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  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    Litres
    Oktoberfest.jpg

    vs

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    Pints
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

    Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    Always Tyred wrote:
    sc999cs wrote:
    Can we insult the Belgians next? My wife feels very left out.

    Its not a proper country. They haven't even got proper seperatists - they just want to go off and be part of France, which is no different to becoming an Arsenal fan.
    They were also jealous of the flatness of the Netherlands and invited two world wars over to help level the place for them...

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