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Are there any German speakers here?
Better yet, any Germans?

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(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:01, 132 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
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In the phrase ““Die Gesetzgebung selbst aber, die allen Wert bestimmt, muss eben darum eine Würde”, Gesetzgebung gets translated as “legislation”. The question is this: is that “legislation” in the sense of a given statute, or “legislation” in the sense of the process of passing laws in general? Would the second interpretation be plausible?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:01, Reply)
Hmmm....
Haben sie ein zyklonB-kannister für mein Jüden?

I'm sorry, I don't know...
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:05, Reply)
Tut mir leid
Ich habe kein Idee.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:05, Reply)
It could even (and is fairly likely to be) 'legislature'
Being the body that passes the laws in the first place, and that must be seen to embody some kind of set of moral principles.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 20:14, Reply)
I'm a Berliner

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:06, Reply)
You are Eddie Izzard AICMFP.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:08, Reply)
I hereby declare owing
Mr. Tugnut five of the finest internet pounds.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:18, Reply)
Yes!!!
*tries to slide on knees in office like Wayne Rooney after a goal*

*gets carpet burns on knees*
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:20, Reply)
Dammit!
You beat me by, oh, a good 45 minutes.

Izzard FTW.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
Ich habe nach Berlin auch gewöhnen

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:10, Reply)
awwww
he wasn't being serious :(
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:11, Reply)
Oh dear
Sorry! I am a donut.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:17, Reply)
Badum-tish!

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Truly excellent.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:20, Reply)
kartoffelkopf

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:29, Reply)
(in English) Thanks
D'oh!

Back to ze cooler for me.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)
My grandad calls me "mein kleine kartoffel"

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)
One of mine was a General
In the closing stages of WWII he saw some atrocities that flipped him out somewhat, and he started summarily executing German POWs personally, rather against the old Geneva Convention.

Perhaps your story is a little cheerier.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:38, Reply)
Yeah, my grandad just likes saying things in forrin...
That sounds grim, Mont.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)
Just a touch, eh?
He was a right-wing bastard himself, bless him.

Best ever mental racist quote:

'The Chinese are ruining Toronto. They're turning it into a miniature Lebanon.'


Eh?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)
Oh dear
Sounds like the Geneva convention was left at the door.

I can understand his anger though....that amount of horror must do something to your mind. Summary juuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssttttiiicceeee would be the only solution
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)
I understand too, but he did some bad things.
From what my father has said, towards the end of the war when the Jerries were getting rather desperate, they turned to the use of 'wolves' - kind of brainwashed child suicide bombers. They weren't hugely effective as they were easily captured.

Yes, my grandfather shot some children.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:08, Reply)
In the arena of war, things happen that defy comprehension
Things that could send you insane, like what you just described for example. How many of your pals would you see blown up or maimed by one of these 'wolves' before you started shooting before you asked any questions.

Not very many.

I suppose after you had killed 5 or 6 people, and seen many of your own blown to pieces, run over by tanks etc. You would be pretty desensitised, and would effectively become a killing machine. Well, at least being very capable of ending someone's life without much in the way of a second thought.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:18, Reply)
Someone did a study
based on an estimate of the ammunition supplied and the numbers killed; it suggested that the vast majority of soldiers on each side was shooting high, or into the ground, or something like that.

I realise that I'm going to get a ton of [citation required] responses to that: I can't remember where I saw the research, though.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I've heard that too
...but I suspect it was on QI.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:30, Reply)
doesn't surprise me
I'm so trigger happy when paintballing or playing computer games that I have no reason to believe I wouldn't be in a real war situation.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:33, Reply)
the implication of the study
was that a large proportion of soldiers were deliberately missing because they couldn't face shooting people, I think.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:38, Reply)
it's more likely that they were just shit

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:39, Reply)
when you look at today's squaddies
I think your interpretation is fairly watertight.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:47, Reply)
I met some squaddies at Donnington
a few years back. They were surprisingly nice people.

But they were Scottish, so I think that's probably why.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:49, Reply)
When you factor in the consideration
that on my father's side of the family we have been in documented military command for several hundred years - including generation after generation of truly brutal Border warfare for and against the English, the desensitisation (is that a word?) was already massively ingrained before he'd seen a moment's action.

My father and his brothers used to have to line up in their kilts for inspection and they all called him 'sir' until the day he died. A formidable soldier but a rather poor human being as a result.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:28, Reply)
it's a wonder you have turned out to be such a stable and well-rounded individual

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:34, Reply)
we're using this (!), nowadays
EDIT perhaps it does explain a lot, eh? Never thought of how all of that might have affected me, actually.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:35, Reply)
I choose not to
it is up to you to decide whether or not I'm being sarcastic
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:36, Reply)
Ha! Cryptic....

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:37, Reply)
He was being saracastic
you're a fucking mental case.

When are we getting our Tayyabs on then?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:38, Reply)
No - he wasn't was he?

Fucking soon I hope. I'm raring for a good old chopfest.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:40, Reply)
I just don't know any more....
I'm still conducting a feasibility study regarding coming up to eat meat.

I think my financial backers may need a slightly better reason than that though...
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:42, Reply)
Tell Mrs Vipros
if she doesn't let you come, you will lose face in front of the whole internet. Tell her face is very important to your people.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:46, Reply)
And if she still doesn't get it
...show her the hairy side.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:48, Reply)
all sides of my face are hairy

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:51, Reply)
The phrase refers to hands, not faces I believe
It's another of those good old hilarious 'domestic violence' jokes.

When's the cooker coming?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:55, Reply)
ah, now I get it!
tomorrow morning
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:58, Reply)
my people?
I think she thinks we are all a bunch of mentals to be honest.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:51, Reply)
For God's sake don't show her this thread then.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:55, Reply)
fortunately she doesn't read b3ta at all

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 17:02, Reply)
Come on now
Did you not even stop to reflect last night when you rounded up and executed 25 snood wearing German tourists?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:39, Reply)
haha they WERE looking at me a bit funny after that, in my local,
now you come to mention it.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:44, Reply)
Fuck 'em, they're Bosh as well
Get them, before they get you. Hurry, before they know you're on to them.



*passes bag of grenades*
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Joking aside
Posting all this shit has been rather revelatory to me.

I'm going to be thinking about this a lot. I'm 50% professional murderer. Even my old man, who ended up as a chemical engineer and then a teacher/chaplain flew jet fighters for a spell.

My brother and I have broken the CHAIN OF DEATH, it seems.

EDIT hopefully my daughter will be a serial killer, or something.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:59, Reply)
killing us with boredom/stupidity/ugliness doesn't count?

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 17:05, Reply)
Nope. Not from where I'm sitting.
Righto, I am off to Leighton Buzzard.

See ya
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 17:07, Reply)
what a coincidence, I'm off to Ackrington Kestrel...
*dies*
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 17:08, Reply)
Up until now, that is.
Let the bloodbath commence!

I know there are still wars and what not grinding on at the moment, but the lack of actual World Wars and conscription etc mean that the people who are out doing the killing, are doing so out of choice, to a certain extent.

The thought of being 'called up' and given a gun after a weeks and told to get on with it is a horribly chilling and happened within living memory, so there is every possibility that it could happen again....I would just tell them i was a junkie bender autism, and hopefully get told to fuck off.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 17:08, Reply)
At least he wasn't German.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Get Bazmorningstar's missus to look it over.
She's German.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:09, Reply)
OI! BAZ!
Get yer missus over 'ere!


That ought to do it.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:11, Reply)
Pfft!
My mum is German and would be able to read that but truthfully wouldn't be able to understand it in either language.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:13, Reply)
I've emailed her.
I reckon that kind of request for clarification from a German is likely to cause a national crisis though as everything already makes perfect sense to them and requires no explanation - it's fucking weird.... but we'll see...
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)
it can mean both
Germans - they're efficient little buggers!
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Hurrah!
That's all I need for the argument in that section of the paper I'm writing to work...
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:46, Reply)
I would like to take this opportunity
to put "99 Red Balloons" in everyones head

Cheers
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:13, Reply)
And Nena's armpit hair...
A hairy German girl. Hmmmn

*thinks*

Would.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:17, Reply)
What about a quarter German non hairy girl?

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Much better.
Less Krauty.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:22, Reply)
I dunno...armpit hair is one of those instant turn offs

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:20, Reply)

Heutiger Tag wird der Tag sein Dieses they' Regehen, es zurück zu Ihnen zu werfen Jetzt Sie should' VE irgendwie Verwirklicht, was Sie erhielten, zu tun I don' t glauben dass jedes Glaubt der Weise, die ich über Sie jetzt tue Backbeat das Wort war auf der Straße Dass das Feuer in Ihrem Herzen heraus ist I' m sicheres you' VE hörte es allen vorher Aber Sie hatten nie wirklich einen Zweifel I don' t glauben, dass jedes glaubt Die Weise, die ich über Sie jetzt tue Und alle Straßen, die wir entlang gehen müssen, sind Wicklung und alle Lichter, die uns dort führen, machen dort sind viele Sachen blind, die ich wurde Wie zu Ihnen sagen I don' t können Weil möglicherweise You' Regehen, die Person zu sein, wer mich speichert? Und schliesslich You' bezüglich meines wonderwall Heutiger Tag war das Gehen, der Tag zu sein? Aber they' ll werfen es nie zurück zu Ihnen Jetzt Sie should' VE irgendwie Verwirklicht welchem you' Re nicht tun I don' t glauben dass jedes Glaubt der Weise, die ich tue Über Sie jetzt Und alle Straßen, die zu Sie führen, waren Wicklung und alle Lichter, die die Weise beleuchten, blind machen dort sind viele Sachen, die ich möchte, dass zu Ihnen I don' sagen; t können Ich sagte möglicherweise You' Regehen, die Person zu sein, wer mich speichert? Und schliesslich You' bezüglich meines wonderwall Ich sagte möglicherweise You' Regehen, die Person zu sein, wer mich speichert? Und nach You' bezüglich meines wonderwall Besagt möglicherweise You' Regehen, das zu sein, das mich speichert You' Regehen, das zu sein, das mich speichert You' Regehen, das zu sein, das mich speichert
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)
Oasis can suchen mein dich

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:16, Reply)
Ja!
Mit Tännenbaum und Käse!
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:16, Reply)
Wow!
Your copy and paste skills are amazing.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:16, Reply)
I'll be honest, I didn't make a career out of it.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:22, Reply)
WunderWand!

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:17, Reply)
Erwähnen Sie nicht den Krieg!

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Ich bein ein Spiegelei

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
For you ze war ist over, Tommy

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:21, Reply)
ACHTUNG!

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:28, Reply)
BABY!

that one's my favourite
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:30, Reply)
Monty!
Get me the knives.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:33, Reply)
Sorry I forgot my sark mark

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)
Yeah
I bet you're really sorry(!) ;D

/sarcasm blog
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:36, Reply)
*proffers Hussar sabres*

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)
I hate the word proffers
I just thought you should know.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:41, Reply)
I'm sure that is going to have an enormous impact on his future posts

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:43, Reply)
I expect him to use it constantly to try and provoke a reaction.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
but now he's read that he won't use it at all,
so I get my way after all.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
You and your crafty psychological tricks.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
...and their miserable failure....

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:58, Reply)
*proffers cock*
Chomp on THIS, beeyatch.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
Or maybe I want you to overuse it so it annoys everyone.
That way I stop everyone using it at the same time.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:58, Reply)
So all I have to do to really annoy you
is to continue to use it judiciously as I currently do?

I think I can manage that.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)
Or maybe I just want you to keep using it because it makes you look like a twat?

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)
You're the poster of
'The Internet Guide to Milton Keynes: pubs and cycle paths of note' - we clearly have massively different opinions as to what constitutes a 'twat'....
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Agreed.
I'd 'proffer' it if you stopped too.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Mein Herz mit dich

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:31, Reply)
Hmmmm...
"Herz" sounds a bit like "Hertz". That has something to do with frequency.
"Dich" sounds a bit like "dick".

You frequently have a dick. Wow.


Oh, yes. I'm like a walking Rosetta Stone, me.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:36, Reply)
as we discovered earlier today
either too frequently or too infrequently. We don't know which though.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
I missed that...

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)
search for "it's a sign of" on
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post617986
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:43, Reply)
Fucking hell, Chronicler!
Cheers!
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
I'm in yer internetz
dokumenting you're lyfe
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:46, Reply)
Don't tell anyone about that thing I did

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)
Don't worry
I'm the video too, I won't be letting anyone else see it anytime soon.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I didn't know you could record webcam
Did he make you piss in a high-heeled shoe too?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
Unfortunately it was a peep toe.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)
properlols!

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:57, Reply)
CHCB sneezed and nearly peed, but didn't because she has good mary-muscles
I said I almost did that once, and she said it's either too much sex or not enough. She can't recall.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:43, Reply)
Probably best to try getting lots of sex first
then if that was the wrong one you can always use a cork and some gaffer tape.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)
I don't need to try, mofo

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)
Hanging around at the docks with a sign saying "£10 for everything"
doesn't really count as sex.

Especially if nobody gives you ten pounds.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)
It's not the docks anymore
It's either Netherfield Road or the back of the Uni. But since that one got murdered it's a bit quiet behind Biosciences nowadays...
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)
It's only quiet because I've started wearing a ball gag
apparently I was putting the research assistants off their lunch.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Your clients can't believe the lengths they have to go
to get you to quieten your enthusiasm for your work
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:57, Reply)
If only the rosetta stone was a sexy as you though.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:41, Reply)
I have a jigsaw of the rosetta stone
I wish I had one of Enzyme....
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
Chevron-wrecker

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)
If you had one of Enzyme
the bit with his bum on would be missing.

Because you would have removed it in order to put your penis in the jigsaw.

So you could imagine that what you were doing was like having sex.

With Enzymes bum.

But you would just look like a lonely thread-deleting jigsaw-fucking hob-breaking child abuser.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:47, Reply)
that is becoming quite a litany
have you got it saved in a text file so you don't forget?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:23, Reply)
No, but I know a seven point plan that could improve your life!

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:24, Reply)
I feel like I could really benefit from a 7 point plan to improve my life

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:24, Reply)
I think you probably could too.
I think it would start by presenting mrs vipros with your latest commisions.

Then impregnating her and bringing up the resulting offspring.

Next I would make sure that anything you pass, be it closed or open, which contains fermented grape of grain juice should be immediately poured down your gullet.

I feel then that some sort of course on the benefits of observation should be undertaken, possibly followed by detailed study on the soldering and bending of copper pipes and the correct way to attach them to radiators.

Now, although you have extensively renovated your current abode, I think the next challenge would be to construct a dwelling from scratch.

Then you should ensure that nothing you ever do or say could be considered incorrect.

And finally, you should have a nice cold beer. But don't let Mrs Vipros know.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)
I'm pleased to see that it is tailored to my own personal needs and situation
I will take this under advisement
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:32, Reply)
As an addendum
you should also come to that there london and consume a large amount of charcoal grilled lamb covered with lots of spicy goodness
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:35, Reply)
it's looking increasingly less likely, in the short term anyway
I've got quite a lot on at weekends now, and tickets were more expensive than I expected.

edit: do you like the way I said "increasingly less"?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:38, Reply)

*is flattered and disturbed in equal measure*
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I'm disturbed that your flattered and disturbed in equal measure when disturbed should really be winning.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)
This is a fair point...
I'm still not sure whether I can make it out on Saturday; what do you reckon I should do?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
Eh!
Make it out where?
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 15:57, Reply)
To a jigsaw fetish club

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)
Where does this bit go? I can't seem to fit it in anywhere...

*points at withered erection*
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:24, Reply)
Yeah that sounds pretty true.

(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:26, Reply)
I think it goes
in the replies to a different post...

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. Meh.
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 16:26, Reply)
In case there are...
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
(, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 22:21, Reply)

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