Why German education system is so far behind

[Skybird]

Let's yodel!

http://de.sevenload.com/videos/Qa7BYTb/Loriot-und-das-Jodel-Diplom

Be warned that this feature includes German humour. Before watching, fasten your seatbelts and shoot down the lights, I mean simply shut them down, you know. That is to prevent you from damaging yourself when falling off your chair after having died to death, I mean brought to death by bordem and feelings of total helplessness, and prevent paparazzis from making funny photographs of your silly face after it lost any expression of understanding and distant intelligence.

"Loriot rules!" :lol:

[VipertheSniper]

Well certainly one of the weaker Loriot sketches.
Still made me chuckle. du dödel du ;)

[Chock]

My German is too crappy to have followed all the dialogue, it kind of runs out of steam after things like asking where the train station is and ordering a couple of beers, but I still thought it was pretty funny.

:D Chock

[Lafferty]

I know like 5 or 6 words in German.

[The Avon Lady]

That is to prevent you from damaging yourself when falling off your chair after having died to death, I mean brought to death by bordem and feelings of total helplessness
It seems that the PLAY button isn't working and I can't start the video.

Oh.

It finished.

[Skybird]

Well certainly one of the weaker Loriot sketches.
Still made me chuckle. du dödel du ;)
du dödel di...!

[The Avon Lady]

Well certainly one of the weaker Loriot sketches.
Still made me chuckle. du dödel du ;)
du dödel di...!
Who knows how history would have turned out if, instead of the Enigma encrypter, Uboat communications would have been based on yodeling. :hmm:

[Tchocky]

Who knows how history would have turned out if, instead of the Enigma encrypter, Uboat communications would have been based on yodeling. :hmm: Um, I don't think subsims would have the same appeal :)

[The Avon Lady]

Who knows how history would have turned out if, instead of the Enigma encrypter, Uboat communications would have been based on yodeling. :hmm: Um, I don't think subsims would have the same appeal :)
Why not? You could always check the AUTO-YODEL option box. :D

[Tchocky]

Bernard starts yodeling from the conning tower, and I have to pass the message on to the comms officer, who yodels it through the Yodecoder, yodeling the plaintext to the kaleun.
Then we realise that it's double-enyodeled for extra throat-wobble security, and we are treated to the sounds of the old man quietly yodeling to himself in his cabin.

[The Avon Lady]

Bernard starts yodeling from the conning tower, and I have to pass the message on to the comms officer, who yodels it through the Yodecoder, yodeling the plaintext to the kaleun.
Then we realise that it's double-enyodeled for extra throat-wobble security, and we are treated to the sounds of the old man quietly yodeling to himself in his cabin.
And all of this picked up by the enemy ship's Yonar system.

Sounds action-packed to me! :yep:

EDIT: This stage of the war saw the introduction of a new anti-Uboat weapon: THE DEAF CHARGE.

[Skybird]

There would have been no subwar in WWII, that easy. some subs would have been bombed out of the water in the first month when they started to yodel, the rest would have retuned to port early to ask what that recent yodel comm was meaning. Some skippers would have been executed for insubordination when mentioning that line saying "du dödel" (a nasty word in german), and generally many would have been brought to the Nürnberg tribunals for having yodeled at all, which is rated as a crime of inhumanity to ears in general and Allied sonar operators in special.

[Smaragdadler]

...Runes were not always a thing of the past. The use of runes keeps popping up through history. They have been used for cryptic messages during wars, album covers, and, of course, in role-playing games.
Hitler was noted as using runes during his reign to send cryptic messages from one camp to another. Also, since long before the association with Nazi Germany, the swastika has been a world wide symbol of good luck and happiness. The ancient symbol has also represented the sun, the four winds, the four seasons, and the four directions of the compass. Some say that its original affiliation was with Thor's Hammer.
A man named "Herman Pohl Magdeburg" sold bronze amulets with runes etched on them to soldiers during World War I for protection in battle. An occultist named "Seigfried Adolf Kunner" (sic) created and taught a whole series of rune exercises. While contorting their bodies in rune like shapes, his pupils would yodel which they believed released magical energy. ...

yollololollüddülü...feeehuuuuu.....feeeehuuuu...fe eeeeehuuuyuudululuduluuuuu. :)

[kiwi_2005]

While were on the Germans :) I just watched a good german movie "Das Leben der Anderen" (The Lives of Others) with english subtitles about a playwriter during the communist East verses West spy era just before the fall of the Berlin wall. Great movie does anyone know if it was based on a true story:hmm:

[VipertheSniper]

Well as far as I know it was based on many accounts of victims of the communism in East-Germany.

[Skybird]

if it was based on a true story

Simple answer: No. In the GDR, several people working in governmental services even got executed for trying to drop out. they also had a paragraph saying that writing disparagingly about the GDR was to be penalized with not less than three years prison. The chief of staSi, Mielcke, was absolutely unforgiving on members of the official organs not fulfilling their duties, and defended a position of total mercylessness on such "traitors". A case of a StaSi-member actively protecting subjects of StaSi-Observation is not known. The cultural scene in the GDR was heavily infested with StaSi-spies.

In Germany, the film was discussed quiet controversial,and especial eastgerman victim organizations protested about the movie's perceived attitude to paint the picture of a staSi which had room enough for individuals to show a heart, and forgiveness. Such victim organizations, and private persons suffering from the StaSi-tyranny, are very angry about this movie. the movie got more warm attention outside Germany, then inside Germany.

Being undecided in the beginning, I consider it to be controversial, at best. I cannot recommend it, and the more time went by, the less i liked the movie. It serves several cliches about the GDR, not the reality. There were better German movies on history in the past couple of years, and in the decades before as well.

I also do not like the director. Saw him three times on TV, also read interviews with him in papers, and he proved to be an arrogant, pseudo-intellectual bigmouth claiming to speak for all German society. Bah.

[kiwi_2005]

Thanks for that. I got out the movie cause i liked the main actor forgot his name but saw him for the first time act in another movie WW2 about a Jewish woman that becomes a spy for the british and falls in love with a nazi officer who he played, when the town was occupied by the allies the canadians handed him over to the nazis and they shot him for treason against germany.

That was (suppose) to be based on a true story.

[Skybird]

Some more for the friends of silent humour:

http://de.sevenload.com/videos/kBfJuLm/Loriot-im-Konzert
(without words)


One of his most famous, if not the most famous of his sketches:

http://de.sevenload.com/videos/KNCavGf/Loriot-Kalbshaxe
(German)


And a little mean and dirty christmas-poem. In the sixties, at first release, it lead to a scandal and provoked a day of debate in parliament:

http://www.yolanthe.de/aktuell/advent/adv-loriot.htm

[Heibges]

I know like 5 or 6 words in German.

That's like 4 words more than I do. But Gunter Grass is one of my favorite authors, which makes me want to learn German.