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[raindoc]

What does it mean in Malay?

Edit: It means... Dangge?

malayans are just germans in disguise, right mutes?

 

[Tash]

Cool, now I can add another language to my repertoire! Kickass

Dangge = Danke = Thanks = Mercie = Grazie = Takk = Efcharisto = dankä

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

malayans are just germans in disguise, right mutes?

You're confusing them with New Zealanders.

 

[flippedb]

Es ist wirklich schlecht dass ich kann nicht gut schreiben. Wenn ich ein Text lese, verstehe ich die meisten Wörter, genau als ich ein Audio höre...aber für mich, schreiben ist ein echtes Problem.

 

[Milchjon]

Es ist wirklich schlecht dass ich kann nicht gut schreiben. Wenn ich ein Text lese, verstehe ich die meisten Wörter, genau als ich ein Audio höre...aber für mich, schreiben ist ein echtes Problem.

Das ist doch schon ganz gut!

 

[Tash]

It's "Merci". Sorry, that just stuck out to me.

uups, correct

 

[brotkasten]

Do tell

I told you to trust me on this one. I'm a delicious cookie, how can you not trust me?

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

I told you to trust me on this one. I'm a delicious cookie, how can you not trust me?

I think it's the tag.

 

[Milchjon]

I told you to trust me on this one. I'm a delicious cookie, how can you not trust me?

I think Amaro would be a better comparison.

 

[brotkasten]

I think Amaro would be a better comparison.

But amaro is delicious.

 

[Milchjon]

But amaro is delicious.

Also bitter and Italian.

 

[TheFeedingHand]

Germany with 13 percent of its population being foreign-born, INTERESSANT.

Where are these people coming from? Polska? Russia? Italy? Turkey? Our mother nation (Spain)? China? India?

 

[raindoc]

Germany with 13 percent of its population being foreign-born, INTERESSANT.

Where are these people coming from? Polska? Russia? Italy? Turkey? Our mother nation (Spain)? China? India?

mostly from turkey and the balkans.

 

[Milchjon]

mostly from turkey and the balkans.

Also quite a few German-Russians.

Edit: Damn, Italians are second behind the Turks. Followed by Poles, people from former Yugoslavia, Greece, Croatia, and only then followed by Russians.

I think with Russians, it's a bit complicated though. Many Germans migrated to Russia over the past centuries and were then allowed to come back, which is why they're technically German, but appear like Russians.

 

[brotkasten]

Germany with 13 percent of its population being foreign-born, INTERESSANT.

Where are these people coming from? Polska? Russia? Italy? Turkey? Our mother nation (Spain)? China? India?

50-60s probably from south Europe (Spain, Greece, Italy). From the 70s on I'd say Turkey and Eastern Europe after that.

 

[TheFeedingHand]

mostly from turkey and the balkans.

Oesterreich is not far behind multiculturalism. After all, who would've guessed this guy was an Oesterreicher 20 years ago?

Also quite a few German-Russians.

Germany gotta take those engineers/scientists

 

[Diprosalic]

Oesterreich is not far behind multiculturalism. After all, who would've guessed this guy was an Oesterreicher 20 years ago?

switzerland has 23%. try harder neighbours.

 

[TheFeedingHand]

switzerland has 23%. try harder neighbours.

thank those swiss banks that don't ask anything.

 

[Milchjon]

switzerland has 23%. try harder neighbours.

80% German?

 

[Diprosalic]

80% German?

not yet, but soon.

 

[Milchjon]

Actually only about 15% among the "Wohnbevölkerung". But I know quite a few people in Southern Germany who work there.

 

[raindoc]

Oesterreich is not far behind multiculturalism. After all, who would've guessed this guy was an Oesterreicher 20 years ago?

some people still struggle to believe that:

"Wieso redet denn der Englisch mit mir?" Österreichs Fußballstar David Alaba war am Dienstag im ÖFB-Teamcamp in Seefeld einigermaßen verwundert, dass der zu Besuch gekommene Tiroler Landeshauptmann Günther Platter (ÖVP) mit ihm auf Englisch kommunizierte.
"How do you do?", soll Platter gesagt haben. "Danke, gut. Sie können ruhig Deutsch mit mir reden, ich bin Österreicher", so die Antwort.

EDIT: Ösi Bua

 

[TCRS]

speed limit on the Autobahn? NEVER!!

 

[Milchjon]

speed limit on the Autobahn? NEVER!!

There's a commentary on SPON which likens the knee jerk reaction anytime someone proposes a speed limit to America and gun control. I think he might have a point.

And I must say I actually preferred driving US highways. Much less stressful.

120 is damn low, though.

 

[brotkasten]

Endlich Feierabend!

 

[systemfehler]

Ich muss immer etwas grinsen wenn ich den Alaba mit seinem österreichischen Akzent höre.

Ich muss prinzipiell bei jedem Wiener grinsen...

 

[Patrick Bateman]

There's a commentary on SPON which likens the knee jerk reaction anytime someone proposes a speed limit to America and gun control. I think he might have a point.

And I must say I actually preferred driving US highways. Much less stressful.

120 is damn low, though.

I drove 180 with my VW Polo and tailgated BMWs and women today on the Autobahn. Felt good.

 

[Milchjon]

I drove 180 with my VW Polo and tailgated BMWs and women today on the Autobahn. Felt good.

I went to the range with my AR-15 today, brought my son. Felt good.

Spoiler

 

[raindoc]

Ich muss prinzipiell bei jedem Wiener grinsen...

10/10

 

[Fritz]

Endlich Feierabend!

spot the casual racism!

 

[Milchjon]

GAF. Where Austrians and Germans get along.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Yup!

Video was actually really cool. Needs more of the guy in your avatar though.

spot the casual racism!

Holy shit, is that a really bad fitting jacket or is his chest really that wide? He looks like a human rectangle.

 

[Fritz]

Video was actually really cool. Needs more of the guy in your avatar though.


Holy shit, is that a really bad fitting jacket or is his chest really that wide? He looks like a human rectangle.

I thought he might have swallowed a camping table before filming. There is just nothing redeeming about this "work".

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

I thought he might have swallowed a camping table before filming. There is just nothing redeeming about this "work".

I don't know, he's rather endearing. Reminds me of the "good ol' days" in Germany!

 

[Fritz]

Endearing? He does remind me of an angry Baron Harkonnen.

 

[dondarm]

Ugh, gotta cancel this out with some different Schlager:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O2DjAiS29k

 

[TheFeedingHand]

GAF. Where Austrians and Germans get along.

Why would you both NOT get along? After all, Austrians are ethnic germans.

 

[brotkasten]

Why would you both NOT get along? Austrians are ethnic germans.

Austrians are to Germans what Canadians are to Americans.

 

[Milchjon]

Austrians are to Germans what Canadians are to Americans.

But Canada is kinda superior to the US :-(

Edit: Oooooh, I get it. Brot is trying to make this a place where we don't get along.

 

[TheFeedingHand]

Austrians are to Germans what Canadians are to Americans.

So basically Germany is the place where all the crazy shit happens, while Austria is the pacifist and has the hottest women?

 

[raindoc]

But Canada is kinda superior to the US :-(

Edit: Oooooh, I get it. Brot is trying to make this a place where we don't get along.

obviously. never trust an italian!

 

[TheFeedingHand]

obviously. never trust an italian!

 

[anonymous_abc]

There's a commentary on SPON which likens the knee jerk reaction anytime someone proposes a speed limit to America and gun control. I think he might have a point.

thats an interesting point.

And I too prefer to just cruise on the Autobahn. If it's full I don't even mind just going tempomat 90 behind the trucks so relaxing

 

[Tash]

So basically Germany is the place where all the crazy shit happens, while Austria is the pacifist and has the hottest women?

Not sure I would sign that statement..

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

So basically Germany is the place where all the crazy shit happens, while Austria is the pacifist and has the hottest women?

Nope. There's Switzerland, but it isn't pacifistic, they are neutral. After the EU finally gets its act together and federates, I fully support an invasion of Switzerland just so there isn't this terrible eyesore of a hole in the middle of it.

 

[Milchjon]

So basically Germany is the place where all the crazy shit happens, while Austria is the pacifist and has the hottest women?

 

[Haunted Tank]

Lo and behold, tis Vaddertag! Prost!

 

[raindoc]

So basically Germany is the place where all the crazy shit happens, while Austria is the pacifist and has the hottest women?

nah. no crazy shit in germany, that's what switzerland and austrian politics are for.
but the hottest women part is totaly true.

Lo and behold, tis Vaddertag! Prost!

not here. (2nd sunday in june)

 

[GunslingerVit]

Oha....some heavy accusations in the Luxembourg trials, where one witness claims his father helped BND initiate/prepare/plan the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.

Pretty much no one actually believes that it was really just the act of a single person, so given the shit we've heard in the Luxembourg trials it wouldn't be shocking if this (and similar stuff) happened in Germany as well.

I think the actual news is already a few weeks old, but it went completely past me. Obviously I'd argue the witness isn't particularly reliable (and frankly I don't believe the insane story), but it would certainly explain a lot. If that turned out to be true...holy shit. That would send shockwaves through society and politics.

Yeah, sounds really unbelievablly crazy. Read this article yesterday and was perplexed since the major part of the story went past me, too.

Was zunächst lediglich nach einem inner-luxemburgischen Fall aussieht, hat sich schnell zu einem Prozess entwickelt, in dem das dunkle Kapitel der NATO-Geheimarmeen, die unter dem Namen Gladio oder Stay Behind bekannt wurden (Der lange Arm von Gladio und das Eingeständnis eines Bild-Reporters), neu in das Licht der Öffentlichkeit rückt.

Kramer, der immerhin unter Eid in Luxemburg ausgesagt hat, dass sein Vater, der Offizier der Bundeswehr, Mitarbeiter des Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND) und dazu noch in in das Netzwerk der NATO-Geheimarmeen eingebunden war, für das Attentat auf das Münchner Oktoberfest verantwortlich sei, rückt nun auch in das Interesse größerer deutscher Medien.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39086/1.html

 

[Rufus]

After the EU finally gets its act together and federates,

Haha. Right now we're more likely to split up.