[Extipletape]

Damn, I am half German.

[Lapsinuibense]

Well, the system is metric everywhere except the US and Liberia.

[Dr.Hoodoba]

You don't like good beer, panzers (every German is legally required to sponsor one), pumpernickel or bratwurst and sauerkraut.

You're from Austria and glad that nobody noticed Austria wasn't with the good guys in WWII.

You still like wearing a small moustache

[KixdricyArrip]

You own a website and don´t like the fact that lawyers can just come and demand lots of money from you, because for example you made a small mistake in your impressum (like forgetting a telephone number) or you used the foto from another website (maybe a foto of a cake that was made by another person (for example the owner of Marions Kochbuch) or because you (or someone in your guest book) mention a term that is protected by trademarkt rights in germany (for example "Ballermann Party" )

[georgshult]

You're from Austria and glad that nobody noticed Austria wasn't with the good guys in WWII. Don't listen to that Nazi propaganda.
If you want to learn more about Austria, please watch The Sound of Music and Sissi - everything else is irrelevant.

[Alupleintilla]

Originally posted by Lancer
Well that's not just a German problem and it's another reason why I live in the Philippines as much as I can. Just can't live free in the west anymore. It was better with the Vikings than the lawyers because at least with the Vikings you both had a weapon. I always believed that germany was worse than other countries in this manner, because here the lawyer is paidf by the recipient of his cease and desist orders (and not by the person who hired him to protect its trademark rights) and the lawyer can send you a cease and desist order as soon as he spots the mistake you made.

So that in germany upon receiving such a cease and desist order you can either:
a) Sign the cease and desist order and pay the lawyer a charge for the work he had with writing this order (the charge you have to pay is dependand on the value of claim and normally ranges from 100 € to several thousand € [oh and I might add that it is the lawyer himself who determines the value of claim, so that, without problems, he can determine the value of claim to be 100.000 € just to get as much money from the recipient as possible])

or
b) fight the case before court and successfully concince the judges that the cease and desist order of the lawyer has no base.


I thought in all other countries it would be that:

1. The Lawyer has to informally write a note first to the webpage owner (for which he cannot demand any money from the recipient) and only could send a cease and desist order if the webpage owner doesn´t react to the letter/mail accordingly (for exampling by removing the stumbing block as soon as possible)

and/or

2. The Lawyer isn´t paid by the recipient of the cease and desist order but by the person who hired him for protecting his trademark rights.

(meaning that in those countries the system couldn´t be abused as much as in germany as a money milking machine for lawyers)

[TypeTeasiaDer]

David Hasselhoff and Lederhosen spring to mind.

Oh and pron with scheiss- nein danke.

But then I love Can, Propaganda, Fritz Lang, Kraftwerk, Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill and Honigkuchen.

And sauerkraut with caramelised apples and pork sausage...

[huntbytnkbel]

You also get to civilize Poland as an optional extra.

[bestcigsnick]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
It can't be done . It can be attempted.... and think of the fun trying.

See Heresson. That happens to me only in nightmares- like being stuck in a lift with a Muslim fundamentalist, an evangelical Christian and the current Inquisitor General (sorry, I mean Pope...)


France is a lost case, too. Their television and pop music for the most part, yes. But they have produced the odd decent painter, novelist, dramatist and architect, f'r instance. Even Frederick the Great thought so...


...then he hadn't read Julia Kristeva or watched Chateauvallon marathons or listened to Claude Francois...

[LoveTTatall]

Limburger cheese- with caraway seeds. An acquired tase...

[qd0vhq4f]

Originally posted by Dry
I'm d** f****g happy NOT to be german and NOT to have to like Knoedeln. Contrary to popular belief about Hermania noone here has to like them

[22paseabelldaps]

Originally posted by BeBro


Contrary to popular belief about Hermania noone here has to like them Oh, well, maybe you're right. To be true, my dictionnary about Germany is from 1936.
You mean I should update it?
Anything new, worth mentioning, since then?

[ZESINTERS]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
But never tell anyone from Köln (Cologne) that you like Alt (Düsseldorfer Beer) or anyone from Düsseldorf that you like Kölsch (Beer from Cologne) as this will result into an immediate attempt by them to reeducate you to their local brew of beer For some reason, I have the feeling I'd like to be reeducated in any kind of beer.
So, say again, what should I say to be reeducated...?

And...btw, any sexual reeducation, by chance...?

[Tij84ye]

Originally posted by BeBro


Updates can never be wrong. As for new stuff, hm, brown is out of fashion these days, and we don't invade our neighbours anymore, at least not that often. Anything else you need to know is summed up nicely by this:
ROFL!

[desmond001]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph

The most commonly accepted German food are Pfannkuchen. The most eaten food in germany however must be either french fries (with curry ausage), Döner or Pizza

[rarpAcconavox]

How do you spell Stackenblacken?

[Eromaveabeara]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Of course I cannot be nasty in this thread as Germans now own my soul. Deutschland über Alles and all that!

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
über alles in der Welt,
wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
brüderlich zusammenhält.
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
von der Etsch bis an den Belt.
|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
über alles in der Welt! :|
Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
sollen in der Welt behalten
ihren alten schönen Klang,
uns zu edler Tat begeistern
unser ganzes Leben lang.

Posting that was unnecessarily stereotype enforcing. But I can help myself.

[GfBTWMmV]

Germans aren't usually French, so they have that going for them.

[Numbiydq]

You konw being the allies of the evil Fins is one of the most important reasons Germans where the bad guys in WW2.

[bawayTeen]

Originally posted by Oerdin

Is that code for the beaches are full of fat men in speedos? If you combine it with:
The restaurants there have more german than spanish food and in the clubs you have german DJs and everywhere one speaks Deutsch, then you´re absolutely correct