[-] no way

NO U
...wait

nice place where you live.

dutch bag

#1

Those are some nice clouds in your picture there.

I am a fan of towering cumulus clouds.

blame canada!!

He's not so bad, i like him. [-]

Time for a new poll like this :

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=568623

you really suck it up for every piece of attention you can get, don't you?

It's all he's got.

in his defense, he'd probably get 1st place this time, so it's worth it.

:-(

I want the first place this time.

You deserve it. The only real rival IMO is brumu, but you're superior in this aspect.

f1

I got nothing against ya.
Course, I don't know you that well, so just gimme time. :P

sure, but ra is simply better.

*golf clap*
Didn't even see that, but it's early and I haven't had much coffee yet. :<

no "Ba-dum tssh"? :(

No. Take a [+] instead?

no, i demand musical support!

Clapping is musical!

it can be.

How talented do you think people are that stand around watching a golf tourney?

Might as well try to synchronize farting pigs.

Whoa whoa whoa. You just said it had to be musical, you didn't say it had to be good music.

I don't know what village you come from, but here farting pigs are NOT regarded as music. Nor do people have their weeding dance to their sounds.

You telling me some of that German polka doesn't sound like farting pigs? :P

And I stand by my original statement that clapping is musical. Not good music, but certainly better than farting pigs.

based on my own experience I can say that more polka is heard in America than in Germany.

golf clapping is not musical either.

I imagine polka is only heard in Germany about the time it's only heard in America: Oktoberfest. I've never heard it anywhere else.
Also, golf clapping is musical as it's part of the overall golfing experience. The ambiance, if you will.
Lastly, I love you.

sometimes during Oktoberfest but really not that much.

luv u 2.

I'm glad we got through this.
Have a [+].

see #36 for how it is done. ;P

Fine then. [-]

*plays "Stalin, Freund, Genosse"*

thank you. late, but not too late. :)

cause people on esr never bump decade old threads? ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMim-y5P_oE

I should also add that every singer in this song volunteered for this freely, and only because of love for the revolution and USSR in his heart.

lolz.

People in the GDR "volunteered" for lots of things.

you're implying that "volunteered" could be "misinterpreted"? :(

they also all voluntarily voted one party.
and voluntarily joined that smae party if they wanted anything that resembled a career.
They also vlountarily didn't make jokes about the GDR so they wouldn't voluntarily go to prison.

that is the beauty of the revolution, it makes everyone join hands and become comrads.

freedom of choice is such a wonderful thing!

Haha. Yeah, of course people in GDR went to jail for making jokes! But in Soviet Russia you just got shot!

text:

"Sorry boys. Was just some idea of mine..."

Obviously I was kidding! So noo need to apologize Marx! It was a good idea born out of democratic reality. Everywhere where there is democracy a la Indian, Brazillian, etc, etc slums, people gravitate towards Communism. I am grateful for the efforts of all the people who have acted on those noble beliefs and built so much. I will forever hate those who destroy their work.

well, people really got send to prison for jokes in the GDR, so the joke was kinda lost on me.



But please, pretty please, let's not start a fundamental discussion again ;)

Oh please. Anyone you know? Anyone at all? (for a joke?! which is not the same as underground newspaper) Under what law? And when?

don't have direct source, but this for example:

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&am...169381.php


The newspaper is your avergae daily state-newspaper, nothing that would try to exxagerate stuff.


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interesting part, around middle of interview

That's interesting but not at all what I had in mind. There wasn't any legal base for prosecuting someone for a joke, and the system wasn't quite an african blood diamond junta, no one REALLY had to be afraid of this, this is just more anti-communist FUD. Lastly, no government is fundamentally different in regard to prosecuting descent. Nazist, Socialist, Libertarian, Communist, it doesn't matter.
PS
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/mchenry.contempt...88146.html
lol

well profane insults and political satire are two different things, don't you think.

As for not being afraid of the government, I guess you'd better talk to people who actually lived in and how afraid they were. It is however common knowledge here, that people were afraid to renovate their houses and make them pretty, because it might put them in the spotlight, their neighbors might think they were spying for the government (which 100.000 people did!) and the government might thing they were collaborating with the west and pull them in for interrogation. But of course coming from me that is only "second hand" knowledge.

136 people shot dead for the "crime" of trying to go another country, does give a certain impression though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall#Escape_attempts

Wasn't a junta, but certainly was an oppressive regime.

It's common knowledge here Stalin ate babies for breakfast. You're seriously telling me here, your parents were AFRAID to make jokes for the fear of the government? "second hand" knowledge or "second hand" fairy tales?

"136 people shot dead for the "crime" of trying to go another country, does give a certain impression though."

Yes, leaves an impression that 135 were really stupid and not impressed by barbed wire and armed guards.

Hey, look, 500 poor souls being killed a year for """crime""" of trying to go to another country and noone gives a shit, because its normal, and US is "democratic".

But I get it, nothing else for me to learn here. Just wanted to "see for myself".

well, you have never been to the GDR, have you?

Their houses were fucking grey in grey and decayed. Five years later many were renovated and painted with brighter colors. So, yeah, I did see that myself, it's no exxageration, even though you try to ridicule it. Sure another reason might be that there simply wasn't much paint to buy due to a planned market.

My parents weren't afraid, becuase we come from WEst Germany, and yeah people in the GDR ovbiously told jokes in private when they knew everyone well. But a bad comment to the wrong persons could get you in trouble, and as my link shows during some period you could get send to prison for political satires.


Your comparison to deaths along the American border is as bad as it gets. Because there it is about keeping people from entering instead of leaving.

Compare it to entering/leaving a house.

The American behaviour is that they tell you not to enter their house, if you don't do they shoot you.
The GDR build a house around you, and forbid you to leave. If you do they shoot you.

Sure the people who tried crossing the border like that were idiots, but that's what despair will do to you...


Anyhow, we had a discussion like this before and I think be both know it will lead nowhere, so I think for peace's sake it's better if I don't reply to your next comment :)


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don't -> do

yes no one gives a shit, that's why the US got such an awesome reputation all over the world, especially among younger people.............................................

NOT.

Are you fucking kidding me? You're comparing US's reputation with being in the "axes of Evil"?

you make the "evil" sound way less evil as it probably was, and probably underestimate the disliking america and american politics is facing all over the world. and by that I don't mean some arab countries that burn flags on the streets.

"Comrade Brezhnev, is it true that you collect political jokes?" — "Yes" — "And how many have you collected so far?" — "Three and a half labor camps."

xD

wtf is that abomination?! ugliest drawing ever

well duuh!

you got 25 seconds

DON'T PRESSURE ME. GAH!

F1

Gillz is the man
You're all just tryin to swagga jack him

what ... i mean. what?

he went to school with loadsa black guys and mexicans, duh

fu hater !

morbid

morbid

but it's lolcats lol

As a young man, I (luckily... this WAS before all this Financial Crisis nonsense), i got a job as a Junior Document Controller (read: guy who worked with already made CAD documents, physical A3 blueprints and SQL database structures) for a Canadian company, SNC-Lavalin's London Offices. It was a striving company with one major project in Russia (an oil pumping station, Central Processing Facility and related 200 miles of pipelines), and were about to land another Oil & Gas one in Canada, somewhere in Newfoundland & Labrador Island. Well, in mid-2008, first project was almost finished, and second was on pre-contract terms but they were staffing up for it anyway. Sadly, planning sucked and 1) Siberian thing was finished, 2) it was decided to deal with the Canadian project with their Montreal & Calgary offices alone (it was meant to be MonCalLon join project). And our office went from 450 people and 5 floors to just the managers and like 50 people (what i heard by keeping in touch with ex-colleagues). What was my point? Oh yea. CANADIANS FUCKING SUCK, THEY ALWAYS HAVE THEIR FIRST INITAL ENGRAVED ON THEIR SHIRT, THEY SAY "ABOOT" ALL THE TIME, THEY HAVE BEADY EYES, MAKE CONSTANT FART JOKES AND WORST OF ALL, THE TOPS OF THEIR HEADS AREN'T ATTACHED TO THEIR BODIES!!!!!! In the ShadyAK book of group of people i rage about, they are only below peadophiles and those mountain rednecks who raped the deliverance dudes in ass. THEY ONLY WANTED DIRECTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIONS.

ha, that's pretty much what I'm doing at the moment as my on-the-job training. Minus the SQL and it's a gas compressing station.
Though I do get to check and correct A0 CAD documents, calculate some things and order shit on top of that :P


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oh and no Canadians, only Germans and one Romanian-German. :]