my mom's from some tiny german town. most germans i know are very apologetic about the whole master race thing that happened oh so long ago. i don't really care, i hardly consider myself german.
I should really pay you a sincere condiment for that one... if I can mustard up the strength to do so-
Good morning, well, I guess it's not easy to find people in the US who don't have german ancestors. IIRC about one sixth of your people have german ancestors, including Heinz Ketchup, Levi's Jeans, etc. Now back to bratwurst and sauerkraut . Regards Gyro
Well yes, and no If the germans won WWII the world would be an entirely different place. There would be no Jewish state (no jews period!) the Germans would control the arab oil fields, little tokyo in L.A. wouldn’t be so little, Berlin would be the seat of world power, Wiener schnitzel and Apple strudel every friday night, and the Germans would have kicked ass in Raiders of the Lost Ark Hotwater
I don't like the French, they are much worse I went backpacking and French people are just arseholes.
From just having a quick look through this thread, there are some terrible posts. I spend a lot of time in France, and they have always been lovely to me.
I would like to ensure my is justified. I backpacked a week or so through different parts of France. Stayed in hostel, in a farm, even in a bloody train station for a night Either way, in Paris mostly, the people were rude and unhelpful. They weren't interested in helping somebody who spoke English. The worst case was at the train station, where I had trouble with my Interrail ticket. The guy, instead of helping me, laughed in my face and put the shutters of the booth down. Maybe I was unlucky, but I didn't like them. Thereafter I went through Brussels and Amsterdam, but eventually ended up in Berlin. The Germans were actually very nice people.
Did you make an effort to try and speak French? Because I get annoyed when people come here on holiday and don't even try to speak English. The very first time I was in Paris, I couldn't find the hotel so jumped in a taxi and the driver was the friendliest person I had met in a while. In cafés they were friendly. Maybe it was just you :tongue: Your post wasn't the terrible one though!
Come on they’re just waiting for a reason to reemerge from their sarcophagus to once again make war against men and take their rightful place among the stars “Mankind is waiting for the messiah but the German, his messiah is not the prince of peace but another Barbarossa, another Hitler” Hotwater
i hate all non americans the way i hate canadians, which is to say, not at all. but i consider it my patriotic duty to irritate the shit out of them. :biggrin: