Why German education system is so far behind

[Skybird]

Let's yodel!

http://de.sevenload.com/videos/Qa7BY...s-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!"

[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.

Chock

[Lafferty]

I know like 5 or 6 words in German.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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]

Originally Posted by VipertheSniper

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

du dödel di...!

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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]

Originally Posted by 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

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Um, I don't think subsims would have the same appeal

Why not? You could always check the AUTO-YODEL option box.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

And all of this picked up by the enemy ship's Yonar system.

Sounds action-packed to me!

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.