What a day! augustine biergarten

[MarillionFan]

Clockwork Orange anyone? Burgess thought that the CCCP would win the cold war, and predicated British slang would be full of Russian-isms such as 'horrorshow=khorosho=good' and 'droogs=dryuzhya=friends'.

Great book that, film not so great but still good...

But that never sloochatted did it?

You're sneeting son

[stek]

I assume here you are being very sarcastic.

No, reading a book called 'The Nazi Party' by 'can't actually find it now' but it tells of how Hitler ruled by 'you sort it' politics, no rules, no edicts, nothing much written down apart from ones that got his goat up, he more or less left it the various NASDP leaders to sort it themselves.

Of course they ran roughshod all over each other, sacking people, creating pointless organisations, trying to oppose each other, a real mess but at the end of the day as far as official records show, Herr Hitler did nowt much except look at models of Germania and the Welthaupthalle and occasionally bugger up his generals plans.

Hence the holocaust deny-ists claiming there's no record of AH ever sanctioning any Final Solution because he didn't - he just said to his many underlings - sort it - and they tried and we know what happened.

Fascinating stuff, i'll get the book's author when it's light, it's in the unlit conservatory and I can't see the book ends....

I'm no Hitler apologist before anyone starts, he was evil personified but like any nutter, he excused his behaviour by some sort of justification, and after reading I feel he did it by the fact 'I never said do THAT..' when in fact he did mean do that but distanced himself by being very vague and more or less conveying an idea rather than a direct order.

This stuff is worth reading.

[AtW]

No, reading a book called 'The Nazi Party'

I did not read that book, however what I know for fact is that in authoritarian regimes that tend to militarism (Nazi Germany, USSR) they do a few things really well - demanding right paperwork left right and center and especially accounting for future army recruits starting from school.

This was done well in USSR and it must have been done extremely well in Germany that is known for its puctuality when it comes to accounting things.

Chances are not being in Hitler Youth at some point would have been deemed as being a traitor.

[stek]

I did not read that book, however what I know for fact is that in authoritarian regimes that tend to militarism (Nazi Germany, USSR) they do a few things really well - demanding right paperwork left right and center and especially accounting for future army recruits starting from school.

This was done well in USSR and it must have been done extremely well in Germany that is known for its puctuality when it comes to accounting things.

Chances are not being in Hitler Youth at some point would have been deemed as being a traitor.

Yes I agree, also anyone in West of Russia after WW2 who might have met/been captured by Germans, in Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin' Dyen' Ivana Denisovicha) - that title translation is really poor but the missus says I'm wrong, tells of Russians in WW2 who were captured by Germans and so after the war were put in camps.

Also the was a lot of fuss when Gagarin was chased for Vostok-1 because he was from Smolensk and had been involved in guerrilla fighting against the Germans and was therefore 'tainted'...

Got the gig tho!

[MarillionFan]

My son had a fancy dress party recently where everyone was expected to come dressed in German national costume.

For some unknown reason no-one turned up and now I'm being investigated by social services.

[AtW]

For some unknown reason no-one turned up and now I'm being investigated by social services.

Is your son Eric Cartman?

[d000hg]

You already do:

"Kicking the can down the road"

Never heard anyone say that. Can == arse? So not sure what this phrase means.

[sasguru]

pooper went out on the lash last night with his recently born kid and ended up ensuring said kid spent the evening inhaling second-hand cigar smoke.

Living the dream pooper, living the dream.

One can only surmise as to what level of deprivation Pooper suffered in his early life, such that a few beers in a garden constitute paradise,

[Arturo Bassick]

I can't believe he is such a lightweight that he thinks he should have a hang over from 3 Litres of good German bier (unless he was on a mission and drank them all in an hour).

[doodab]

I can't believe he is such a lightweight that he thinks he should have a hang over from 3 Litres of good German bier (unless he was on a mission and drank them all in an hour).

3 or 4 litres can easily get you into trouble if it's the middle of the day with the sun beating down. Best to slip the odd alcohol frei or wasser in there as well, or a cheeky bionade.