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December 19, 2008
Ich werde ganz nervös, wenn ich Deutsch spreche
Some might say I have been heavy handed with German culture this week. Some people might need to shut the hell up. One World Cup and two World Wars. Doo dah. Doo dah.
Also, fuck the French.
Video enthrallment via Iowahawk. Sprockets sketch? You know I am going to be all over it.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 19, 2008 07:24 AM
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In defence of Germans (or at least Germanic):
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Goethe, Schubert, Telemann, Handel, Schiller, Hesse, and...
a rather large branch of my family tree.
God. You pureblood English are so angry. That's why you can't make wine.
Posted by: Occam's Carbuncle ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 19, 2008 11:47 AM
He's just upset because his queen's real surname is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and her son, the heir apparent to the English throne is apparently attracted to horse-faced women and Islam with equal intensity.
Heh, pureblood English, as if there ever were such a thing...
Posted by: dpatten at December 19, 2008 05:14 PM
If William ever becomes king it shall be the first time an Englishmen (more or less) has sat on the throne since... well, not the House of "Windsor" (Germans), Hanover (more Germans), Stuart (Scots), Tudor (Welsh, supposedly), Plantagenet or their cadet Houses of Lancaster or York (French, supposedly), or the Normans (also supposedly French, but basically Vikings)... that takes us back to Harold Godwinson, and his father only had his job thanks to a Danish king.
Bit of a poor showing for the last thousand years or so.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 19, 2008 05:25 PM
As to the Germans, all arguments must refute posted video evidence or face further mockery!
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 19, 2008 05:26 PM
Sprechen sie nicht Deutsches dann. Sorry that's as close to a snappy comeback as my schoolboy German will take me without venturing into dangerous territory like verb conjugation and the differences in them related to familiar/formal pronouns.
Oh God, I just flashed back to my 9th grade German teacher chewing me out because I couldn't remember the difference between the third person masculine pronoun in dativ and akkusativ case.
Posted by: dpatten at December 19, 2008 05:27 PM
You cared enough to remember the French.
(Laughs out loud.)
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Posted by: OregonGuy at December 20, 2008 04:24 PM
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