Reply to: Stupid Germans

[scooterscot]

Originally Posted by scooterscot
View 2: Is about "I've learnt so much from my mistakes I'm thinking of making a few more" - Yet the UK does not.

It was empathy!

[Doggy Styles]

Somebody who had an appreciation of 3000 years of history wouldn't need to ask that question.

Good point, well made.

[Doggy Styles]

NOT UK people, people in England. When there's a side of you you don't like you need hide behind the union.

View 2: Is about "I've learnt so much from my mistakes I'm thinking of making a few more" - Yet the UK does not.

[doodab]

Did "Germany" exist 3000 years ago

Somebody who had an appreciation of 3000 years of history wouldn't need to ask that question.

[Troll]

Perhaps it comes from an appreciation of German culture?

Quote Originally Posted by Goethe
He who cannot draw on 3000 years (of history) is living from hand to mouth

Did "Germany" exist 3000 years ago

[scooterscot]

That's not a reply, to me it looks just like a desperate and tangled statement about your assumptions and prejudices of UK people.

NOT UK people, people in England. When there's a side of you you don't like you need hide behind the union.

[petergriffin]

If you do not understand that history informs the present and future, my ignorant friend, you really are very stupid indeed.

sasguru is professional and courteous

[shaunbhoy]

I have German relatives by marriage.

Anything to do with your "aristocratic" background?

[Doggy Styles]

What contradiction?

View 1: Is about people looking in the past for answers with no idea how to move forward. Reeks of bitterness IMO.

View 2: Is about "I've learnt so much from my mistakes I'm thinking of making a few more" - Yet the UK does not.

Implication of contradiction seems to me hook line and in sinker with the characteristics of view 1, looking for flaw rather than result. Redundant of ideas capable of only consumption, what a waste.

This now the UK as I see it, pillage for what's worth create nothing. Sad times indeed.

That's not a reply, to me it looks just like a desperate and tangled statement about your assumptions and prejudices of UK people.

"Let history be exactly that and move on" indeed!

[darmstadt]

Perkins realised that by inserting a golfing umbrella into an elephant's rectum and holding firmly onto the handle, he was able to travel across the African bush at speeds of up to twenty five miles per hour.

HTH, RSA

[sasguru]

I hadn't realised you were German. You learn something new every day.

I have German relatives by marriage. Must have rubbed off on me

[darmstadt]

The inside leg measurement, in sixteenths of an inch, of a fully grown male Golden Retriever is inversely proportional to the amount of nose hairs that their owner has by a factor of 2.

HTH, VSAM

[Arturo Bassick]

Yes it is the Teutonic way to keep hammering at something even if no one finds it remotely amusing.

I hadn't realised you were German. You learn something new every day.

[sasguru]

HTH, BOAC

Yes it is the Teutonic way to keep hammering at something even if no one finds it remotely amusing.

[darmstadt]

Girls will be boys, boys will be girls but Leslie had a problem reconciling the two.

HTH, BOAC