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Why we love The Germans
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philsussex
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Great sausages.
I like the Germans. I've been all over Germany and I've met with nothing but kindness and friendship.
A little story for you. My father hated the Germans. Absolutely HATED them; he made Basil Fawlty look like Ken Clarke. If we were out and he saw a car with a German plates and a 'D' on the back he'd sneer and say "Huh, bet you wish you were driving a Panzer through our streets instead don't you?" When I asked him why he hated them he used to say "They spent six years trying to kill me why should I like them?" If someone said "Well didn't you spend six years trying to kill them?" he'd reply, "No! I only spent four years trying to kill them, I still owe them two years."
When he got re-married in 1971 his new wife decided she'd better do something about this, so they went on a three week touring holiday round Germany. Well, talk about a conversion: "Germans? Best people in the world after the British. They just had a funny five minutes that was all." He even slightly regretted the course of World War Two: "At the end of 1940 it was obvious that they weren't going to beat us and we weren't going to beat them. We should have made peace with them and then both of us should have attacked the Russians. The Americans would have joined in and we could have wiped communism off the face of the earth."
Ah. I miss his saloon bar solutions to world problems. But if he can go from hating the Germans to liking them then anyone can.
A little story for you. My father hated the Germans. Absolutely HATED them; he made Basil Fawlty look like Ken Clarke. If we were out and he saw a car with a German plates and a 'D' on the back he'd sneer and say "Huh, bet you wish you were driving a Panzer through our streets instead don't you?" When I asked him why he hated them he used to say "They spent six years trying to kill me why should I like them?" If someone said "Well didn't you spend six years trying to kill them?" he'd reply, "No! I only spent four years trying to kill them, I still owe them two years."
When he got re-married in 1971 his new wife decided she'd better do something about this, so they went on a three week touring holiday round Germany. Well, talk about a conversion: "Germans? Best people in the world after the British. They just had a funny five minutes that was all." He even slightly regretted the course of World War Two: "At the end of 1940 it was obvious that they weren't going to beat us and we weren't going to beat them. We should have made peace with them and then both of us should have attacked the Russians. The Americans would have joined in and we could have wiped communism off the face of the earth."
Ah. I miss his saloon bar solutions to world problems. But if he can go from hating the Germans to liking them then anyone can.
coventrygull
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Heidi Klum 
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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God, where do I start. Having just been to Berlin again the first thing I'll say is the long, warm and stable summers.
And an Airport Express which is a tenth of the price of either the Gatwick or Heathrow equivalents.
And an Airport Express which is a tenth of the price of either the Gatwick or Heathrow equivalents.
Dick Knights Mumm
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I too like the old bosch.
Milton Keynes Seagull
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I bet if someone had said that about Pakistanis, you'd be the first to type the word "racist" onto your keyboard!
Milton Keynes Seagull
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Berlin to be exact.
Ditto.
Uncle Buck
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Cracking country, except when the flight from Koln to Gatwick gets cancelled, although it meant ending up in Amsterdam.
only been once and loved it.
my friend normally goes numerous times throughout the year - he loves his German football. like a lot of people he is a big St. Pauli fan, and goes to watch them at least twice a year.
i myself am going to the Oktober fest this year, and will hopefully join my friend on a German football tour next season.
oh and my girlfriend is German (by blood). all her grandparents are german, but her and her parents were born in the UK, so although she is English by birth, by blood she is 100% german. dirty bitch.
my friend normally goes numerous times throughout the year - he loves his German football. like a lot of people he is a big St. Pauli fan, and goes to watch them at least twice a year.
i myself am going to the Oktober fest this year, and will hopefully join my friend on a German football tour next season.
oh and my girlfriend is German (by blood). all her grandparents are german, but her and her parents were born in the UK, so although she is English by birth, by blood she is 100% german. dirty bitch.
