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The Goethe-Institut Says Germans Are Even More Terrified Of Germans Than You Are
ALL we know about Germans we learnt from the Goethe-Institut, “the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution operational worldwide”:
We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. We also foster knowledge about Germany by providing information on its culture, society and politics. Our educational and training products enable mobility in an international learning community.
A new video called “Typical German: Professional vs. Personal” explains more.
Why do Germans stick to the point?
Why do they value stability and structure?
Why do Germans never leave things to chance?
Why do they stay focused on the objective?
Answer: They fear other Germans.
The division of Germany into smaller states meant Germans were “constantly surrounded by enemies”.
You see? If you don’t like Germans and wonder why they bombed your granny’s house you should blame Germans – the other Germans:
It’s all a huge misunderstanding. “We’re all Germans…”
Madeleine McCann: Blackpool’s Charles O’Neill and William Lauchlan Look Like One, Two Three E-Fits
MADLEINE McCann: Anorak’s look at the missing child in the news. Today the Sun summons the name of convicted child abusers and killers Charles O’Neill and William Lauchlan.
The headline states and asks:
MADDIE SUSPECTS 2007 SPAIN TRIP
McCann cops probe 2 Brit paedo killers
RIGHT TIME…RIGHT FACE?
We can deal with each point in turn.
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Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
Using Blonde Maria To Bash The Gypsies And Feed Off Madeleine McCann
WHEN the tabloids looked at the blond child found in the Greek gypsy camp they thought of Madeleine McCann. The Daily Star went as far as declaring “Maddie Found In Greece“:
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Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (2)
Bad Juxtaposition: American Airlines Advert Illustrates ‘Belgium Plane Crash Kills 11 Parachutists’
GRIM news that a plane crash in Belgium has killed 11 parachutists. How is the story presented by the Daily Telegraph?
Not well.
It looks like American Airlines is using the crash as a chance to burnish its own credentials…
RIP Boogie: Marathon Running Dog’s Death Is A Warning To All Fun Runners
WHEN Boogie, the Chocolate Labrador dog, ran this month’s YMCA Half Marathon in Evansville, Indiana, the Press saluted his bravery. With no training. Boogie had just joined in the run. He even got a medal.
With no training, Boogie, 8, ran the 13.1 mile race in two hours and 15 minutes.
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Posted: 19th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Not Madeleine McCann: Blonde Found On Greek Gypsy Camp Gives Hope To Ben Needham’s Mother
MADELEINE McCANN: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing child in the news:
The Daily Mail has a question:
Is this some other poor parent’s Maddie? Police appeal for help identifying blonde girl, 4, found living on gypsy camp in Greece after charging couple with abduction
The blonde with the gypsies. Always the gypsies.
Greek authorities have requested international help to identify a four-year-old girl found living in appalling conditions in a gypsy camp with a couple whom they have arrested and charged with abducting her. The child was found on Wednesday near Farsala in central Greece during a routine search of the camp by police looking for drugs and weapons.
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Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
Spurs Monkey Balls: Mixed-Race Loveable Yido Andros Townsend Is Enslaved By The Ridiculous Society of Black Lawyers
COMMENT of the day comes Peter Herbert of an outfit known billed as the Society of Black Lawyers, a name that manages to be both sinister and laced with a pretentious Sixth formers ideas of grandeur. He wants to admonish the FA for Roy Hodgson’s monkey-laden England pep talk.
Roy Hodgson’s comments may not have been made with the intention of causing offence as he has explained with the backing of the FA, nonetheless, offence was caused,’ writes Herbert in a letter to the FA calling for a full and proper investigation.The FA’s statement also confirmed that they had not received any complaints from the England players and therefore the matter was closed. The comments of the FA smack of “institutional racism” bearing in mind the Lawrence Inquiry definition of “unwitting racism”.’
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Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Sports, Spurs | Comments (7)
Still Looking For Ben Needham – He’s No Maddie McCann
WHERE is Ben Needham? Ben vanished on Kos when he was 21 months old. That was 1991.
The Daily Star reports:
Kerry has spent 13 years looking for her child with no help. Meanwhile millions have been spent probing Madeleine McCann’s abduction from the family’s Portuguese holiday apartment in May 2007.
Why must these two events be elated? Good that the British police think finding out what happened to Madeleine McCann worth the effort. And Kerry Needham has had help. The tragedy is that we are no closer to knowing what happened to her son.
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Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
FAIL: Sydney Morning Herald ‘Enjoys’ The Bush Fires
AS the New South Wales bush fire rage, the Sydney Morning Herald looks back and smiles on its live blog:
That has been changed to read:
Our fantastic photographers do some of their best work during the bushfire season.
1981: Heather O’Rourke Gets Her First Barbie Doll
FLASHBACK to 1981, and Heather O’Rourke is enjoying her first ever Barbie doll. Thanks to this doll, Heather was able to channel the full demonic experience in the guise of Carol Ann in Poltegeist. She also featured in 12 episodes of Happy Days.
“Act out every fantasy you can dream up” with Barbie, such as killing your loved ones, possessing your cat; eating the sofa…
It’s all in thsoe eeys:
Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Celebrities, Film, Flashback, The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment
Smoking Graphic Shows How Cigarettes Make You Hairy, Wrinkled And Less Likely To Pull A Celebrity
THE Cancer Society of Finland has produced Tobacco Body, a graphic showing how smoking can damage the body. For the purposes of education, it’s picked two lithesome blondes.
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Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Erich Priebke And The Society of St Pius X Shame Italy And Evoke Its Nazi Past (Photos)
ERICH Priebke lived to be 100. In 1998 the former SS office was given a life term for his part in the 1944 slaughter of 335 Italians at Rome’s Ardeatine Caves. But Erich was old when the law finally caught up with him. So. He got to see out his days under house arrest in the Rome. Even then he was allowed out to shop and stroll in the city’s parks. A magistrate let Priebke holiday in a friend’s house near Lake Maggiore.
Before that he’d been working as German language school teacher in Argentina. In 1994, an American journalist caught up with him. Priebke was extradited.
Priebke said he was only obeying orders.
Now the killer is dead. And he’s a problem. The Vatican has placed a ban on holding the funeral in any Catholic church in Rome. Argentina doesn’t want his remains. But the Society of St Pius X, a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics, offered to bury him. The Society of St. Pius X’s members have included the Holocaust denier Richard Williamson.
Monday, Nov. 20, 1995 – former SS Capt. Erich Priebke, waves to friends as he boards a plane in San Carlos de Bariloche, 1,062 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.
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Posted: 17th, October 2013 | In: Flashback, Reviews | Comment
Marijuana Is For Us: Seattle Cannabis Cooperative Celebrates Legalisation
MARIJUANA is now mainstream in the USA. But the debate over the use of cannabis in the UK is nil. The criminality that underpins all the Government’s view on drugs stymies debate. Anyone saying the drug has uses is either a crank or a drug-addled fool. How sad it that if someone wants to smoke a joint to alleviate a symptom or chronic condition in their own bodies they become a criminal.
Most of us know of someone who smokes or has smoked weed. You could, perhaps, count them in the millions. But they are forced to hid it away, a guilty, filthy, illegal habit. It’s not ‘them’ who use marijuana; it ‘us’. It’s the elite.
On Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, Washington became the second U.S. state to adopt rules for the recreational sale of marijuana.
We went to look around Shy Sadis The Joint, a medical marijuana cooperative in Seattle.
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In Photos: St Anthony Of Padua Goes On Tour In Ireland
THE relic of St Anthony of Padua is on tour in Ireland. The meet and greet marks the 750th anniversary of the discovery of the saint’s remains by St Bonaventure in 1263. This year, St Anthony’s aged flesh has visited New York, California, Chicago, Canada and South Australia. Soon it will be in Britain.
Fr Mario Conte, international editor of the Messenger of St Anthony magazie tells the Catholic Herald:
There is nothing at all superstitious about relics, he said: “It’s love that is the real meaning of a relic, a link of love between you and that person.”
The relics have been on show at the Church of the Visitation, in Fairview Dublin.
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Church Erects Father Ted Tribute Mural
ON Twitter Carl Tidy spots this Church mural that suggests Father Ted’s Father Jack has been in the building. ARISE:
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Posted: 17th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
Leeds School Let Kids Smoke In The Playground
CAN it true that teachers at Elmete Central School in Roundhay, Leeds, has been, as the Sun reports, “allowing 11-year-olds to smoke – with teachers dishing out fags at break times. Pupils’ cigarettes would be confiscated at the start of the day but returned by staff at break times”?
What do we know about the school? Its website tells us:
Elmete has a well-established specialist of providing Inclusive Specialist Education at two of our centres, in Roundhay and Meanwood….
All staff provide a broad and balanced curriculum which will develop the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for future learning. All staff, including support staff who work to remove barriers to learning and support the pastoral needs of learners…
Learners enter school at different stages of social and emotional development. All Learners learn in different ways and progress at different rates. In the course of learning, learners develop their skills through a variety of processes. These include:
Investigation
Experimentation…
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Striking Essex Fire Brigade Tells Residents: ‘Avoid Kitchen Fires By Not Using Your Kitchens’
ESSEX County Fire and Rescue have advice for anyone looking to cook a meal during the Brigade’s strike: don’t.
Divisional Officer Neil Fenwick tells the taxpayers:
“Cooking is a huge cause of fires – around a third of all house fires start in the kitchen, so by ordering in a takeaway people can make a real difference and help us reduce the risk of fire. This advice is even more important to people who are going out for a drink. More than 10% of kitchen fires start after 11pm as people arrive home from a night out.
“Cooking after drinking is a recipe for disaster so our best advice is on your way home grab a kebab, murder a burger or hurry for a curry rather than try and cook when you get in.”
He’s got ready quips for fish and chips.
The advice is simple: to avoid kitchen fires do not use your kitchen.
Genius.
James Taylor Is Backed By The Beatles In This 1970 TV Show
IN November 1970, James Taylor, 22,appeared on the BBC in James Taylor Sings James Taylor. The first American signed to The Beatles’ Apple label, Taylor sang Carolina in My Mind with Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
“I just heard his voice and his guitar,” said McCartney, “and I thought he was great.”
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