Reply to: Eccentricity

[sasguru]

Just because you are butting uglies with a Kraut doesn't mean it is a good country. It just means that zee German women have no standards.

Ugly Cretin

You really are a complete loser, eh?

[sasguru]

Everybody forgot that the reason for the middle ages was probably due to this one guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius

If the romans managed to completely conquer the german territories we would probably all be poncy greasy-haired Vespa riding mummy boys.

FTFY

[BlackenedBiker]

Who was it who noted that the state of a country's civilisation could be gauged by the number of eccentrics it tolerated?
Judging by that criterion, Germany's is a far superior culture to ours.


PS Note to EO, BB and DP: eccentricity is not to be confused with stupidity

Just because you are butting uglies with a Kraut doesn't mean it is a good country. It just means that zee German women have no standards.

Ugly Cretin

[Francko]

Everybody forgot that the reason for the middle ages was probably due to this one guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius

If the romans managed to completely conquer the german territories we would probably travel by spaceships by now, cancer and other major disease would be cured, Italy would not be under the current corruption and most of the world would live in peace and harmony.

[cojak]

Get a life you prat.

Rather uncalled for there Threaded?

Got a bit of indigestion?

[Mich the Tester]

Well WTF was that Lardy *rsed git lumbering towards the Football posts like a knackered hephalump in your Old Avatar?

That was me, but the face wasn't visible. Look, I'm a forward, not some namby-pamby flyhalfy metrosexual thinboy.

[shaunbhoy]

My point in mentioning Germany is that I think Germans as a clulture are generally stiff, conventional and conformist.
And for them to be more tolerant than us indicates a change for the worse in our society.

Well if tolerance is your overriding benchmark, then CUK must be the most cultured institution on the planet for putting up with a combined 35k+ posts from you and your fellow slackjawed jack@ss AtW!

[sasguru]

Get a life you prat.

Threaded, eating fewer pies might mean losing some fat and maybe improve your poor self-esteem.

HTH

[Drewster]

It isn't me. I don’t post pictures of myself on t’internet.

Well WTF was that Lardy *rsed git lumbering towards the Football posts like a knackered hephalump in your Old Avatar?

[EternalOptimist]

Oh. Thanks.

I cant provide a ref to the 'official mind' theory, but the idea is that every document that passed over a desk had a subliminal slant applied to it. an anti germanic slant.

The cumulative result was a strong anti german official stance, which made it easy to go to war.

thinking about it, its a sort of 'institutional racism 1900 -1913' with the squareheads being the target

[bogeyman]

Get a life you prat.

Oh. Thanks.

What did I do to deserve that apart from question your assumption - which you seem to think we should all accept as the definitive last word?

If anyone is a 'prat' around here, it's you, Threaded.

[threaded]

Reference for that?

Get a life you prat.

[EternalOptimist]

Germany was consider a superior culture by the Brits prior to WW1.

one of the best theories for the cause of WWI that I read was the 'official mind'
i.e. British resentment over German cultural superiority, and the shock of the boer war

how dare they be so fckng smart when we run the world

[bogeyman]

Germany was consider a superior culture by the Brits prior to WW1.

Reference for that?

[threaded]

Who was it who noted that the state of a country's civilisation could be gauged by the number of eccentrics it tolerated?
Judging by that criterion, Germany's is a far superior culture to ours.


PS Note to EO, BB and DP: eccentricity is not to be confused with stupidity

Germany was consider a superior culture by the Brits prior to WW1.