"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
And what did they say about arresting the Hamas guy who is also the subject of an ICC warrant? My guess is they know arresting a Palestinian would cause their masses of imported Muslims to burn Germany down.
I can mimic the Chermans: 'But vee haff seen ze zuffering of ze Paleztinian peebles! Ze TV news...'
I was clicking channels yesterday and glimpsed Al Jazeera, a po-faced report about some 'threatened' hospital in Gaza, showing what was obviously a perfectly healthy young man lying on an ambulance stretcher with his eyes closed and head turned to the side, pretending to be a casualty. Do people even look closely at this rubbish propaganda?
I've been called an Anglo-Saxon barbarian (in French!) by Continentals when I ask them to stop waffling and look at what's right in front of their eyes.
It's partly language differences you know. English is stripped down, simple and direct in expression. It is believed to have lost most of its Germanic complexity during the Danelaw, as a PIDGIN means of communication between Danish and Anglo speakers. Yes English is a form of Pidgin compared to most languages. 'You give food, He hit head...'
You can write pages in French without actually committing yourself to 'yes or no'. Waffle is easy. Similar in German where many sentences have formal ambiguity. Try translating a German news report and trying to figure out if something did, or did not, happen. We insert 'alleged' to avoid being sued, but Germans use the Subjunctive case 'It was to have been', which is barely English at all.
Might I suggest the Israeli PM identify as a child pornographer? Germany's rather relaxed about that sort of activity now. Hell, they might even grant him citizenship.
I was stationed there twice in the 70s. On the second posting, there was a German contractor who was waiting for "the South to rise again", so to speak. I'll never forget Herr Vogel.
And what did they say about arresting the Hamas guy who is also the subject of an ICC warrant? My guess is they know arresting a Palestinian would cause their masses of imported Muslims to burn Germany down.
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ReplyDeleteWhy, I don't see any reference to that at all. How...odd.
I can mimic the Chermans: 'But vee haff seen ze zuffering of ze Paleztinian peebles! Ze TV news...'
ReplyDeleteI was clicking channels yesterday and glimpsed Al Jazeera, a po-faced report about some 'threatened' hospital in Gaza, showing what was obviously a perfectly healthy young man lying on an ambulance stretcher with his eyes closed and head turned to the side, pretending to be a casualty. Do people even look closely at this rubbish propaganda?
I've been called an Anglo-Saxon barbarian (in French!) by Continentals when I ask them to stop waffling and look at what's right in front of their eyes.
I put all this down to Kant versus Hume.
It's partly language differences you know. English is stripped down, simple and direct in expression. It is believed to have lost most of its Germanic complexity during the Danelaw, as a PIDGIN means of communication between Danish and Anglo speakers. Yes English is a form of Pidgin compared to most languages. 'You give food, He hit head...'
ReplyDeleteYou can write pages in French without actually committing yourself to 'yes or no'. Waffle is easy. Similar in German where many sentences have formal ambiguity. Try translating a German news report and trying to figure out if something did, or did not, happen. We insert 'alleged' to avoid being sued, but Germans use the Subjunctive case 'It was to have been', which is barely English at all.
It's been said before, but bears repeating: the Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.
ReplyDeleteMight I suggest the Israeli PM identify as a child pornographer? Germany's rather relaxed about that sort of activity now. Hell, they might even grant him citizenship.
ReplyDeleteClearly, the urge to arrest Jews has not been culled from the German DNA.
ReplyDeleteI spent three years over there. It was in the 70s and they hadn't quite got over their Hitler fetish. Apparently It still floats among them.
ReplyDeleteI was stationed there twice in the 70s. On the second posting, there was a German contractor who was waiting for "the South to rise again", so to speak. I'll never forget Herr Vogel.
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