Illuminati-R-Us

Spooky.

Hertha HAVE to win tonight against Cottbus, or this will be a very hairy promotion fight.

I loved the VW ad though.

Hmmm. I think I kept about $ 10 worth of Deutsche Mark when we got the Euro, and I doubt this would buy even coffee for all of us. Considering the options, I think an opinion piece in the local paper is best. This is something Enzo is certain to do well. AND get a refill when he turns up at the plac...

No, I meant to say YOUR questions proved my point :)

Who do they think THEY are?
Throwing out a frinedl, well behaved, well-groomed elderly (Ihope you don't mind thee word) customer. It's a disgrace!

What about having breakfast here a couple of times and not leaving a tip?

^^ ^^^ My point exactly. To clear up the confusion: Hertha was playing Duesseldorf last week, and the Neander valley (Neanderzhal), where the first Neanderthal man was found, lies close to the city. That's why every opposing team calls Fortuna the Neanderthals. On the brittle bone thingy? No opinion...

That's what I like about sports conversations: You can follow the thread for pages upon pages without ever having the foggiest idea what the others are talking about - IF they talk about a sport you aren't familiar with. So then, Hertha are back to the top of Zweite Fußballbundesliga with a hard-fou...

This is a classic case of Schadenfreude. There is this old creep, thinking, o good, they are shitting their asses off from Cholera, I'll fly in, sign up a few tontons macoutes, noone will notice, and after a few smashed up politicians I'm back in business. Seems it didn't turn out that way.... :twis...

Mäkäräinen. Äny problem? Next? Finnish sounds beautiful, by the way. Once listended to a choir performing Romantic Finnish choir music. Very nice. Open vowels, soft consonants. Nothing at all difficult to pronounce, really. If you got the hang on it. Ever heard of the composer Einöjuhani Rautavaara?

Poli-tics Poli - many. Tics - blood sucking parasites. Yup... seems to sum it up. At FWIS there are two sides to every argument, my side and the wrong side. Come on in and tell us why you're right and everyone else is wrong. If you're arrogant enough, you may just be headed for a new career! (Quote...

Same from over the pond. Who is going to do the puns on all my linguistic mistakes? Get going again, please, STAT.

Since the world is flat, time zones are but another hoax.

I get the nagging feeling though that Bielefeld might actually exist, passing a large station marked with that name every time I do my weekend train commute.

Man (haha!), I am lookingforward to that. I'll see about getting a seat somewhere, maybe even for one of the later stages.

I attended the 2006 match for third place, with my brother in law. Very memorable event, and I have enjoyed giving Cristiano Ronaldo a good boo ever since :D

I probably don't need a link for this. A young man with known psychological problems buys an automatic weapon with 6 replacement magazines, with a lot less difficulty than a 20 yo astrophysics student could get hold of a tepid beer in Texas. He goes to a supermarket parking lot, where a Democratic c...

And all the best for 2011 from Germany as well. Boss, many thanks for this nice and cozy place (although maybe that is not what you envisaged it to be).

A very Merry Christmas to everyone here, whatever the Christmas days do or do not mean to you. It's wonderful to be here.

Thanks, Lance, for this friendly and neighbourly place.

whatever one can say about the late ex President Ernesto Kirchner, it was him who drove the effort to repeal the amnesty laws. Kudos, Argentina.

Mactep wrote:Assuming that "min" is really a "sec",...

No, no, really min. - they would sometimes have to wait a quarter hour even though extremeley long trains arrived every 2.5 min. My point was that indeed everyone waited patiently in line and didn't scramble for the trains.

You DO have magic powers! I spent a few weeks in Japan during my student days. I found the public transport ubelievable. 16 coach local trains every two and a half minutes making stops with a precision of a centimeter or so during rush hour. Everyone would stand in line at the precise location where...

I'd be very interested...:)

Goes to show that unmanned space flight is so much more efficient than manned spaceflight.

Cunning!

Bitter cold here, but it started snowing only this night. Some colleagues needed 2 hours when they normally just ned 20 min. For me it went well: 70 min instead of 40, driving slowly but without interruption.

The rumours are true. I've been there, and they exist. They wear white gloves.

Public transport in Tokyo I am sure is viable environmentally and economically.

I think the story is entirely believable. According to what I heard, he was an extremely generous man.

And I love his art, just for the record. Guernica is one of the very few pieces of art that ever brought tears to my eyes.

Mactep, if your German is up to it, you might try this professional treatmentof the problem in my esteemed FAZ. What you heard seems to be correct: The energy advantage of public transport over the car is substantial but not dramatic. One point that isn't mentioned s that cities congested with cars ...