Oktoberfest in Pattaya looking for 170k steer

[paulg]

I am told that the German venues are looking forward to the first Pattaya Oktoberfest in late September
They are looking for a steer about 150 plus kilo, to BBQ. We know someone who is all bull.

If you see germans around Montys or Howards in the next few months , they are waiting for you know who to check in,
to measure him up for a spit.The big problem is he is putting on so much weight , he might not fit on the BBQ

Too much fat and not enough meat .Maybe Indian style BBQ, him and his ladyboy together.

I would drink to that.

The Germans,And whatever you do,as Basil Fawlty says," DONT MENTION THE WAR"

Ill-mannered krauts, football teams with spiked helmets and a rottweiler for a pope: The clich├йs the British have about Germans are seldom particularly pleasant and more often than not have something to do with World War II. But the essay competition "But don't mention the war" has given British students the chance to discover a very different country.

The famous Fawlty Towers skit, "But don't mention the war," lent its name to a recent essay contest sponsered by the German Academic Exchange Service.
When Germans go on their package holidays, it is said, they get up extra early and run down to the pool with a towel in order to reserve the best sun lounges. That, at least, is what the British say. It seems that they come across such over-eager, sun lounge-obsessed Germans all the time on their trips to island paradise.

That, however, is just one of the many stereotypes the British fondly cultivate when it comes to Germany -- and the gutter press joyfully trots them out at every available opportunity: from the macho bravado of "blitz the Fritz" chants at every football match to prophecies of doom that Germany is going to take over Europe whenever the EU is on the political agenda. The latest significant rift in the German-British relationship was caused by headlines about the German pope, Benedict XVI -- pilloried as "God's rottweiler" by the Daily Mirror. The method is tried and tested: The British media let rip, and then laugh at the "krauts" for being in a huff. For best results, just allude to the Second World War.

This is why the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has called its essay competition, in which students at British universities write about Germany, "But don't mention the war." It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to what is possibly the most famous episode in the legendary British comedy series "Fawlty Towers," in which the bad-tempered British hotel-owner Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, drives his German guests crazy by constantly talking about the war.


Every British child knows the lines and even a fair number of Cleese fans in Germany would be able recite them: "Would you please stop talking about the war all the time," asks the German guest. Fawlty: "Me? But you started it." "We didn't start anything," the guest answers back. "Yes, you did," replies Fawlty exasperatedly. "You invaded Poland." Cleese, master of the goose-step, is now the essay competition's patron. He says that he is happy to help smash the ludicrous stereotypes peddled by the gutter press, as well as the clich├йs held by idiots like Basil Fawlty who hang on to a view of the world which is 50 years out of date.

"Too much Hitler, not enough modern Germany"


BRITISH STEREOTYPES OF THE GERMANS: GOOSESTEPS AND SPIKED HELMETS




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"In heaven, the Germans are the engineers, the French are the lovers and the British are the humorists.
In hell, the Germans are the humorists, the French are the engineers and the British are the lovers."


More?
Book: Us & Them. (cartoons) by Paul Davis.
1977 Movie: The Choirboys.

And, of course, Monty Python.

[Aunty]

...........as well as the clich├йs held by idiots like Basil Fawlty who hang on to a view of the world which is 50 years out of date.

That's the Poms for ya!

[cottmann]

...........as well as the clich├йs held by idiots like Basil Fawlty who hang on to a view of the world which is 50 years out of date.

That's the Poms for ya!

Pots and kettles, Aunty dear, pots and kettles!