GERMANY APPRECIATION THREAD
Hawkeye
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These are some of the inventions that were made by germans:RecordsRecordplayerMP3Ree-to-reeltoothpastecoffe-filterModern-helicopterScannerBirth control pillAirbagTelephoneLight bulbTelevisionRadioChipcardComputerRadarAspirinAutomobileMotorbikeBacteriologyBeer (Reinheitsgebot)Currywurst aka BratwurstGutenbergs printing of booksDieselDowel, wallplugJet engineHomeopathyTheory of relativityDC DynamoGlider, sailplaneX-rayBlue jeansPlaymobilNuclear fissionRefrigeatorMouthorgan, harmonicaPeriodic Table of the ElementsTramBobbycarTeabagThermosbottleLighterCocaineFaxmachineLCD technicMoonrocketPaper handkerchiefDaily newspaperBraYou see, the whole day you got contact with german inventions. I think you can appreciate that !!!!!PeaceHawkeye
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no one has 'tooken it there' in this thread yet?
"bang-up job in those 2 world wars guys!!!"
nah, just kidding.
GERMANY is DOPE! fuck... porn everywhere, in the airport. Heidelberg castle... fries and curry wurst... bier..........
props to my man DJ Hype and Karin Offenwanger
g-unot!
I thought maybe someone is saying something about the record player, or TV, MP3, reel-to-reel, bra and birth controll pill.
But all you got in mind is that ??
OK let me start to collect all stereotypes I know about other countrys ..... no....
I dont do that.
If I start this I'm as low as you and this will be a 20 pager and thats not worthy.
If you stop believing what Foxnews is bringing the whole day you can maybe start to clean your own dirty cloth and grab yourself on your own nose like a german saying says.
Peace
Hawkeye
German dudes creating german threads; german dudes flipping out when you don't instantly co-sign?
The longer I'm reading threads on this forum the more I get the feeling of kids fighting over bullshit.
I don't know why you're so shocked that someone would raise the world wars, or at the very least the second world war, in an "appreciate Germany" thread. If you have living grandparens who were involved in the war, which wasn't so long ago, then it's very much the first thing you associate with the country. My grandmother and her sister have tattoos on their arms from Aushwitz. I'm not saying that you or your generation is culbable for this, but I think it's only reasonable that people recognise Germany for all it's accomplishments, of which Auscwitz is one. So forgive me if birth control isn't what first comes to my mind when I think of Germany's accomplishments.
quick! look over here!
BAN
i'm getting used to it... but STILL: WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!
I heard you guys invented the "sense of humor" though.....
seriously though, i love me some berlin and hamburg.
I used to always bring up the the wars and the Holocaust with the Germans. Yeah, I'm so discreet and charming like that. That said, they were more open about having those talks then any American would be with regards talking about to African slavery or Native American genocide. Just an observation.
After a while, I got to know a lot of Turkish people in Germany and really enjoyed getting to know them.
I wish I would have got over to the former East areas. Maybe next time?
I found overall that the Germans are warm and open people. Every now and then I would be walking down an old street and think about being there up through the 40s and shudder. And then I'd think about what Americans do and fall over and puke.
If I'm talking to an American guy I'm not refering the whole time to all the ugly things that this country did over the last 400 years.
Maybe its all a form of marketing, image and public relation. All those inventions where made by germans, but who earned the most with most of those inventions ??? You right, the americans. It goes so far that Edision and Bell are named for inventing some of these things which is false.
But fuck it, true is what I belive right ?? Thats the problem, and thats the reason why the first that comes up are the bad things that our contry did in the past while others are fucking the whole planet for the last 60 years, right ??? Right !!!!
Like the daughter of the ambassador of Kuweit which told the story of babys laying on the floor of the hospital and being kicked by soldiers from Iraq. Everybody knows this story or urban war legend, but it was made up by a public relation company to swing the voters opinion to going to war.
You guys in the US got a pretty good PR culture over there.
I liked what Stephen Colbert said about the truth and believing whats true.
Stephen Colbert at the White House
And I can cosign what Fatback wrote, thats what I meant with grabing the own nose, try to talk to your people about the 40 acres and a mule. The german companys paid reperations to jewish people, where is the money for the slaves ???
Peace
Hawkeye
during my high school year in the US (Oklahomaaaaaaaaw), kids asked me if we had cars in germany. i told them that Benz and Daimler (Mercedes) invented the car and that Mercedes-Benz and Porsche were German cars.
Their reply: No, Henry Ford invented the car.
Me thinking: DUH! The assembly line!
Them asking: So do you have something like a Volksfest in Germany?
Me answering: Volksfest is a German word. Just like Kindergarten!
Next one asking: How about refrigerators?
Another one: Is Hitler still your president?
i like germany... sometimes. not now though. but i used to like it. back when Schr??der decided not to support the war against Iraq.
i like some German Jazz and Krautrock and most Prog and Psych. I also like our food and beer. I like the Autobahn. I like German cars.
I don't think flossing your country's inventions is such a great look anyhow.
And Delay, I'm in antique stores all over VA with "black sections" (for records). In fact, I was in a store in Bristol a few weeks ago where they had a black section and a Charlie Pride section. I wanted to ask him why CP wasn't in the black section with Johnny Mathis and Lena Horne, but passed.
Levi Strauss may have been from Germany originally but so what?
that's like giving Austria credit for the Holocaust because Hitler was born there.
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Whatever, all those inventions where made by germans.
I have problems to realy love my country, that comes out of all the things that happend in the past. The germans got a very complicated relationship to their nationality the soccer worldcup was the first time that the whole country was dressed in our national colors. Even than it was discussed if its not to dangerous doing that as if the next world war was on the door saying hello,,,, let me in I'm a nazi too !!!!!
While other countrys maybe have a little to much pride for their nation
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Hawkeye
a german invention is only a german invention when made on german soil yes ????
So if you invent something while staying in germany its a german invention, yes ???
By the way, the Austrians say that Hitler was german and Mozart was Austrian.
Peace
one last thing from me: i'm not german!
When people bring up the Holocaust, you should say "I'm not gonna hug that tar-baby."
Anybody see the previews for that BeerFest movie? It actually looks pretty funny, but I wonder what germans will think about it? I'm guessing they'd probably be pretty offended, but who knows?
Would you like to pet my monkey??
My backgroud is german. Eventhough my family has been over here since the 1800's it's still a biatch for people to always tryin to associate me with Hitler. Not so much now, but growing up it was pretty shitty.
And, in part, I feel like people of german decent have lost a big portion of their heritage because of what some evil fucks did. Many families change their names and distanced themselves. Whole cities outside of germany changed their name and got rid of many traditions. It kinda sucks, but then... I don't help any since I'll always cheer for England in footie! HA!
GERMAN APPRECIATION!!!
Because no one lives in a country that is without guilt, they only have a better image because they manipulate the media and the school books in a better way.
Peace
Hawkeye
By the way, I think the humor is either a jewish or a english invention
This movie will probably be full of cliches, but whatever, cliches can be funny in a way and nothing is more boring than political corectness.
By the other way, we have enough german comedy movies which are working with german cliches like our habbit with the island of Mallorca where we the whole country drinks Sangria wine out of buckets on the Ballerman 6.
What I dont like is letting other people look bad while acting like you where the unguilty truth.
Today I saw a Judge Judy like show on TV where they had a HipHop crime to jugde over. Man that shit was full of cliches and I thought to myslef "Oh my god, what are "normal" people thinking of HipHop if they see that ??"
Peace
Hawkeye
One of my favorite record stores is Flipside in Dusseldorf. Carsten is that dude.
Grope is also one of the nicest, down to earth German's I met. I think he has a couple records too.
There is a lot of historical conciousness - unmatched worldwide, I would say - and the debate about the past is lively and open.
On the other side, a lot of people are annoyed by the fact that the Nazi regime and the holocaust are generally the first things popping up if you talk about Germany. There was a related debate a few years ago when Martin Walser talked about the "Moralkeule Auschwitz" (moral cudgel Auschwitz). However, humanity (and not Germans only) skates on thin ice. That??s a lesson to learn and Germany managed to learn after WW2.