I can't decide between Beethoven and hamburgers.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 299 | September 26, 2020 5:34 AM |
I thought hamburgers were American.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 26, 2018 12:39 AM |
OCD.
Black socks with sandals.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 26, 2018 12:40 AM |
On a global level - too many to count.
On a personal level - scat porn.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 26, 2018 12:41 AM |
[quote] I thought hamburgers were American.
Fucking moron
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 26, 2018 12:46 AM |
Germans discovered Uranus.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 26, 2018 12:46 AM |
Ah, ya.....nice schniedel posted at OP!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 26, 2018 12:47 AM |
R9 is the ABSOLUTE WINNER on this thread
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 26, 2018 12:48 AM |
[quote]I thought hamburgers were American.
[quote]Fucking moron
Settle down r10 - it's clearly not as clear cut as all that. And many people do attribute the "modern" hamburger to Americans.
[quote]While the inspiration for the hamburger did come from Hamburg, the sandwich concept was invented much later. In the 19th century, beef from German Hamburg cows was minced and combined with garlic, onions, salt and pepper, then formed into patties (without bread or a bun) to make Hamburg steaks.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 26, 2018 12:51 AM |
Symphonies. some lieder and some literature (Goethe and Schiller).
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 26, 2018 12:54 AM |
Frankfurters, too.
Plus a lot of great German-Jewish refugees like Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer and film directors and writers Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, Henry Koster, among other refugees from the Nazis.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 26, 2018 12:56 AM |
Helen Fischer, aka the Billie Holiday of schlager music
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 26, 2018 1:01 AM |
Seriously, there can be no question: Johann Sebastian Bach.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 26, 2018 1:06 AM |
The man with "the Touch".
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 26, 2018 1:07 AM |
Getting Helen Schneider to do Sunset Blvd.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 26, 2018 1:10 AM |
Biodynamic wine.
Or Berlin cabaret. I'm going to go with Berlin cabaret. (Kurt Weil etc).
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 26, 2018 1:13 AM |
Because of Germany, we all know the real effects of fascism
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 26, 2018 1:14 AM |
R35 Germany did not invent fascism. Mohammed might get that honor.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 26, 2018 1:18 AM |
Killing all those Russians.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 26, 2018 1:19 AM |
US space program. No moon landings without Nazi and British rocket scientists.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 26, 2018 1:20 AM |
I'll see R19's practical [italic]Autobahn[/italic] and raise him one fabulous [italic]Boney M[/italic].
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 26, 2018 1:31 AM |
Milli Vanilli, obviously.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 26, 2018 1:33 AM |
Gutenberg's movable type printing press, you illiterates.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 26, 2018 1:36 AM |
This is what R45 had in mind.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 26, 2018 1:40 AM |
My family spoke German when they came to America. It bothers me that people try to associate me with Nazis, when some of my relatives fought for the Allies during WWII.
Germans contributed great music, Goethe, and Luther. In the US, most of us have kept our heads down and worked as hard as we could. We knew the people who were already here didn't want us or like us.
I'm a gay, liberal Catholic American with German origins. My parents worked hard to give me an education and to be sure I knew my place in the world. None of us choose our origins.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 26, 2018 1:43 AM |
Peter Berlin + Apple pie.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 26, 2018 1:43 AM |
I know what their worst one is!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 26, 2018 1:45 AM |
No-one is blaming Argentina's crazy on its German migrants.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 26, 2018 1:49 AM |
R50, Argentina gleefully accepted Nazi war criminals. The US accepted families like Drumpf. Probably more alike than you think.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 26, 2018 1:54 AM |
Doll production, many of the antique dolls one sees in personal collections & museums were made in Germany. Changing tastes & Hitler's rise to power severely damaged the German doll industry , many people refused to buy German products during & after the two world wars. Pic below: German bisque doll, circa 1860's-1880.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 26, 2018 1:54 AM |
Every thread R38, every thread with the islamophobia. Ok fine.
Mein Kampf and the Koran are actually two very different books. Reading is hard for you.
Kudos to R9
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 26, 2018 1:56 AM |
a setting for Liza!'s Oscar winning role
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 26, 2018 2:10 AM |
Frauen; without whom we would have no cradled mugs, scented candles, teal pumpkins, fibromyalgia, pumpkin spice, or the rule that a 'Y' can replace any vowel in a child's name.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 26, 2018 2:11 AM |
High art music
or chemistry. we wouldn't have aspirin or codeine without Germany
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 26, 2018 2:13 AM |
Marco Hofschneider, nude twink actor from Europa, Europa.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 26, 2018 2:21 AM |
Nina Hagen! Klaus Nomi! Falco! 99 luftballons!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 26, 2018 2:22 AM |
Kant, who destroyed speculative metaphysics, putting an end to the sillyfest about souls and gods, and Nietzsche, who remains unbeatable as an interpreter of human psychology and how morality interacts with it.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 26, 2018 2:27 AM |
I'm this scene in "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant"
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 26, 2018 2:55 AM |
44 is right. Are you all to young to remember the history channel biggest impact over the last 2000 years. It was the printing press
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 26, 2018 3:01 AM |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Nobel prize in Physics, detected x-rays.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 26, 2018 3:03 AM |
The printing press & the Protestant Reformation.
The press gave the Reformation rocket fuel.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 26, 2018 3:21 AM |
They helped popularise circumcision - from German royalty, to English royalty, to the UK upper classes to the US upper classes and then beyond.
Thanks to the Germans and their issues with syphillis, they in part, gave the English speaking world the kindest cut.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 26, 2018 3:27 AM |
Arthur Schopenhauer.
Thanks for the anti-natalism Art.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 26, 2018 3:29 AM |
A very special gift for Data Lounge: Schadenfreude!
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 26, 2018 3:34 AM |
[quote]Marco Hofschneider, nude twink actor from Europa, Europa.
No dong in the version that played in America, America. And if ever a plot point centered on dong, this was it.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 26, 2018 3:38 AM |
Bert Kaempfert made some pretty good music in his day, he also helped the Beatles produce their first record when they were working in Germany. The list is a long one though and at least one third of all Americans are descended from at least some German (or Austrian or Swiss German) ancestry.
In a way, the Protestant Reformation was a move forward for humanity although it brought great suffering to Germans in the form of the Thirty Years War, or, as some German historians like to put it now, the First Thirty Years War, the Second Thirty Years War being the First and Second World Wars and the peace/truce of the 1920s and 30s full of upheaval, economic, social and political not just for Germany but for the rest of the world including Russia and America--1914-1945.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 26, 2018 3:48 AM |
Wasn't Jan Hus the original reformator? He preceded Luther by almost a century.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 26, 2018 3:55 AM |
I’m with R58 - aspirin!
Although I know the printing press made modern civilisation possible - and German science and scientific achievement was a powerhouse in the first half of the C20th...
But that the studious German bio chemists for aspirin every time I get a stinking headache
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 26, 2018 3:57 AM |
Germany has given the world a number of film geniuses, perhaps more than any other first-world nation. (And yes, France: I see you and I love you, but... no.)
I offer you all Rainer Werner Fassbinder, an openly gay, post-WWII German: THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, LOLA, so many others.
One of Germany's gifts to the world.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 26, 2018 4:05 AM |
The music of Richard Wagner.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 26, 2018 4:12 AM |
Big fat juicy uncut schwang!
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 26, 2018 4:15 AM |
Evil. The word "umschlagplatz," for example. It devastates me that I know the word, yet it's impossible to ignore. Kind of like Hitler being Time's Man of the Year (1938).
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 26, 2018 4:15 AM |
[quote] Wasn't Jan Hus the original reformator? He preceded Luther by almost a century.
I thought he was Czech??
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 26, 2018 4:16 AM |
The Presleys were of German origin.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 26, 2018 4:17 AM |
r 87, I'm not so sure Jan Hus would be considered German as much as Czech or Bohemian although I'm not sure what his first language would have been. I'm fairly sure he was in favor of Bible translations into various vernacular languages of Europe, including German. I believe he was burned at the stake for his ideas.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 26, 2018 4:18 AM |
The Poodle, the Dachshund, the Doberman. Germans are dogish.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 26, 2018 4:22 AM |
Also r87, there were many German speaking people who lived in Bohemia at the time of Jan Hus and Prague was thought of as more of a German city, the Slavic Czechs were more the rural population so it's entirely possible that German was Hus's first language. The descendants of the Bohemian Germans were the Sudeten Germans who figured prominently in the talks between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. They were largely expelled to Germany and elsewhere by the then nation of Czechoslovakia after World War II.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 26, 2018 4:38 AM |
What?
What kind of question is this?
It was ME!
You got that!
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 26, 2018 4:39 AM |
Richard Wagner & Beethoven
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 26, 2018 4:40 AM |
Former DL icon Luise Rainer (who was nicknamed "The Viennese Teardrop", in hopes of making people think she was Austrian).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 26, 2018 4:48 AM |
R84, I saw several full frontal scenes right here in America.
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 26, 2018 11:23 AM |
Marika Rökk! Movie Musicals! Hot Jazz! Tap Dancing!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 26, 2018 12:01 PM |
r107 I'll have to see it again.
| by Anonymous | reply 109 | May 26, 2018 12:24 PM |
Just ordered it, r109. Thanks.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 26, 2018 12:26 PM |
The Netherlands (formerly the German lowlands).
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 26, 2018 1:43 PM |
German Expressionism. Metropolis is still a mind-bending masterwork.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 113 | May 26, 2018 1:45 PM |
General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz, just for starters.
Along with millions of German Americans, the biggest ethnic group in the US.
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 26, 2018 2:04 PM |
The Germans help others feel better about themselves when they drive their overpriced beamers
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | May 26, 2018 2:07 PM |
The beautifully lyrical German language, of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | May 26, 2018 2:14 PM |
With all the health care people on here, surprised no one's mentioned Robert Koch. You could almost call him the Father of Modern Medicine.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 124 | May 26, 2018 2:14 PM |
R73 (and indirectly R113) - you beat me to it, though it's worth repeating
Fritz Lang
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 125 | May 26, 2018 2:14 PM |
German expressionist painter George Grosz’s Metropolis is a good one, too.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 127 | May 26, 2018 2:17 PM |
Dürer had a lovely penis. Just look at those low-hangers!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 129 | May 26, 2018 2:27 PM |
Cool cars and great home appliances. Great philosophers.
Also a national outlook that says that life is meaningless, we're all staring into the abyss anyway so keep your yard tidy.
R52 is the gayest person on 9 planets and Io.
| by Anonymous | reply 130 | May 26, 2018 2:50 PM |
Sustainable Architecture
The first Passive House was built in 1996.
| by Anonymous | reply 131 | May 26, 2018 2:57 PM |
Tanz der Vampire - Das Musical
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 133 | May 26, 2018 3:41 PM |
R130 - where does that philosophy come from? I think it’s true.
| by Anonymous | reply 134 | May 26, 2018 3:57 PM |
R133 Wasn't that an Austrian musical? I know it had its premiere in Vienna.
| by Anonymous | reply 135 | May 26, 2018 4:13 PM |
Didn't they kill a bunch of Jews in Europe.
| by Anonymous | reply 137 | May 26, 2018 4:24 PM |
The composer Carl Orff. Best known for his cantata Carmina Burana.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 138 | May 26, 2018 5:00 PM |
Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht. The lovely Carola Neher, who sings this song, died as a prisoner during the war in Russia.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 139 | May 26, 2018 5:21 PM |
R137 According to American millennials, nope. Never happened!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 140 | May 26, 2018 5:25 PM |
R140, well, Stalin killed 60 million white people. Hitler killed at most 3 million Jews. Millions die in third world daily.
| by Anonymous | reply 141 | May 26, 2018 6:15 PM |
r140 4 in 10 is not the majority, you senile Boomer.
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | May 26, 2018 6:16 PM |
All modern chemistry and medicine is based on the chemists (and alchemists) from Heidelberg etc. working from medieval tones to present, with some insertions and knowledge by the Persians. So: modern medicine.
The printing press: so literacy, books, mass media, eventually the internet.
Musicians such as Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Orf.
Philosophers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Schopenhauer.
Writers such as Goethe, Hildegard von Bingen.
And so on, woodworking, crafts, doll making, watchmaking, cabinet-making...
All this and Currywurst, too.
The
| by Anonymous | reply 145 | May 26, 2018 7:07 PM |
Oh, R145 reminded me: The Bilderberg Illuminati and the Vril Society!
| by Anonymous | reply 146 | May 26, 2018 7:12 PM |
You have the Brits to thank for the internet r145.
| by Anonymous | reply 147 | May 26, 2018 7:14 PM |
R141, for starters it's 6 million Jews. Germans were great record keepers. 2.white Russia is Belarus, a geographic area, or a political prisoner. NOT a skin tone.
3. If you think the old Soviet Union consisted of white ppl, well, even Stalin was born in Georgia, not Europe NOT white ppl.
Anyway,Dietrich gets my vote.
| by Anonymous | reply 149 | May 26, 2018 7:30 PM |
Oh c'mon.......Germany, thank you!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 150 | May 26, 2018 7:30 PM |
R149 Don’t bother. R141 is a millenial, so...
| by Anonymous | reply 151 | May 26, 2018 7:31 PM |
R53 My comment was serious and not necessarily meant as an insult. But you don't have the mental sophistication to understand that, I guess. I call out your FFs as "philosophobia" or "critical thinking phobia".
Blind obedience to a leader, especially a militaristic one, in order to establish a society build on this obedience and destruction of other societies meets the essential definition of fascism. I'm sorry that this is an uncomfortable truth for some folks.
| by Anonymous | reply 152 | May 26, 2018 7:32 PM |
Germans are and have always been the scum of the earth. Nothing has changed.
| by Anonymous | reply 153 | May 26, 2018 7:33 PM |
As a text-based form, the internet is based on the initial moveable type.
| by Anonymous | reply 154 | May 26, 2018 7:34 PM |
Bullshit r154. How far are you trying to each with that? Moveable type is based on writing so whoever first scrawled on a cave wall is responsible for the internet? Calm your tits hunty you’re being ridiculous.
| by Anonymous | reply 156 | May 26, 2018 7:38 PM |
Well it wasn't really a German or anyone from any nationality who invented writing or any form of symbolic communication. That would be more prehistoric before nations.
| by Anonymous | reply 157 | May 26, 2018 7:41 PM |
Sorry to say ... but nothing is going to wipe the atrocities this nation has had committed ... and with no doubt is capable of doing it again if the opportunity/circumstances arise.
| by Anonymous | reply 158 | May 26, 2018 7:45 PM |
Plenty of atrocities to go around to limit your outrage to one country, one religion, one political system.
| by Anonymous | reply 159 | May 26, 2018 7:47 PM |
I get Germany, Bavaria and Austria all mixed up.
| by Anonymous | reply 160 | May 26, 2018 8:22 PM |
[quote]All this and Currywurst, too.
Currywurst is so nasty it made me go vegetarian.
| by Anonymous | reply 162 | May 26, 2018 8:58 PM |
[quote] All this and Currywurst, too.
Wasn't that the name of some old Bette Davis film?
| by Anonymous | reply 163 | May 26, 2018 9:09 PM |
The royal Battenbergs, which became Moutbatten when the royals didn't want to sound so German. And then they became Windsor to erase all the German.
| by Anonymous | reply 166 | May 27, 2018 12:17 AM |
[quote]The royal Battenbergs, which became Moutbatten when the royals didn't want to sound so German. And then they became Windsor to erase all the German.
The Royal family were Saxe-Coburg Gotha, which they changed to Windsor. The Battenbergs were another (lesser) branch of the family
| by Anonymous | reply 168 | May 27, 2018 2:29 AM |
[quote] As a text-based form, the internet is based on the initial moveable type.
Apart from the absurdity of the logic of this statement, it is worth pointing out that movable type was invented by the Koreans and not by the Germans.
| by Anonymous | reply 169 | May 28, 2018 12:15 AM |
Oversized, double digit Deutsche dong.
| by Anonymous | reply 171 | May 28, 2018 8:42 PM |
[quote]Read up on how Israel was formed.
Because the Ottomans, who were Islamic invaders in the first place, lost the war in the Levant. That's how Jews got their homeland back.
| by Anonymous | reply 172 | May 28, 2018 9:05 PM |
boris becker! steffi graf!
| by Anonymous | reply 173 | May 28, 2018 10:26 PM |
R138, Your video was absolutely trippy! And very German!
| by Anonymous | reply 176 | May 28, 2018 11:41 PM |
Oh, my dear God, R175. Did the Nazis use him to rape information out of people?
| by Anonymous | reply 177 | May 28, 2018 11:41 PM |
Already mentioned before:
Carl Benz Gottfried Daimler
Who invented automobile cars powered by a machine, not horses
Feridand Porsche
Fritz Leonhard, engineer who invented and built the first, not steel constructed television tower at Stuttgart/Germany. The blue print for all TV Towers worldwide.
Fritz Fischer, inventor of the flash cube, holder of more than 1000 Patents including the legendary "Fischer Dübel" Think about him, when you make the next hole in your wall to fix something there.
Martin Herrenknecht. His tunnel drilling machines are there, whenever you need a every long hole underground all over the world.
The mp3 player.
The Planetarium. Invented and developped by my great grandfather and Professor Bauersfeld for Carl Zeiss in Jena.
Arriflex cameras. They won tons of oscars for there technical equipment and supplies for the movie and TV industry.
Frei Otto. The roof of the Munich olympic Stadion for the games 1972 was a milestone in architecture using new Materials.
"The Greens". First party with goals about the enviroment.
| by Anonymous | reply 178 | February 28, 2019 8:34 PM |
Rosenstolz. Movie scenes are from the coming of age movie Sommersturm.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 180 | February 28, 2019 8:45 PM |
Since the European Song Contest is just around the corner:
Nicole - Ein Bisschen Frieden (a little peace).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 181 | February 28, 2019 8:51 PM |
[quote]I thought hamburgers were American
Hamburgers as people know them today is an American dish. Nobody gives a shit about the half assed attempts the Germans created.
Around the world people associate Hamburgers with America. Nobody credits Germany for what Hamburgers are today.
| by Anonymous | reply 183 | February 28, 2019 9:00 PM |
Fräulein Menke - Hohe Berge
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 184 | February 28, 2019 9:03 PM |
Nina Hagen, the many faces of German punk and Neue Deutsche Welle.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 185 | February 28, 2019 9:12 PM |
Bad Master Boys.
Hot brodude German boys spitting on, slapping, and pissing on ugly old f-aggots. Hotter than motherfuckin' shit.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 186 | February 28, 2019 9:12 PM |
A much better example of Bad Master Boys. Skip to where they're spitting in his face. So fuckin hot, dude.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 188 | February 28, 2019 9:19 PM |
Oktoberfest Gaudi. (Gaudi = Fun)
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 189 | February 28, 2019 9:23 PM |
Extremely weird pornography, Oktoberfest, and lederhosen.
Their cars are pretty cool too.
| by Anonymous | reply 190 | March 1, 2019 12:59 AM |
Fans of David Hasselhoff.
| by Anonymous | reply 191 | March 1, 2019 1:02 AM |
Mathematics. Newton’s letters to Leibniz are a major portion of the foundation of Principia Mathematica.
| by Anonymous | reply 192 | March 1, 2019 1:31 AM |
I think it's a bit much to say we owe Germany for kicking out Einstein, Billy Wilder, the Jewish artists. However, in that category, I offer Louis Lowy, a survivor of Auschwitz and other camps, who after the war went back to Germany to help rebuild the social work profession, which had been destroyed there under the Nazis. When he was assailed by Jewish people in America for working with Germans, he told them, "The Germans have behaved horribly, but there are 70 million of them, and they're going to disappear. If I want them to be better, I have to go teach them."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 194 | March 1, 2019 3:47 AM |
TYPO sorry -- "there are 70 million of them, and they're NOT going to disappear"
| by Anonymous | reply 195 | March 1, 2019 3:49 AM |
Boris Becker (lordy I loved him as a teen)
| by Anonymous | reply 196 | March 1, 2019 7:59 AM |
The English language. Technically, it’s a germanic dialect, and it conquered the globe.
| by Anonymous | reply 197 | March 1, 2019 8:16 AM |
Another vote for Dürer. His woodcuts and engravings are sublime.
For example, look at the detail of the wood beams and the sunlight coming in through the window.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 199 | March 1, 2019 9:22 AM |
Here is a drawing by Dürer of his mother shortly before her death. I believe reading that her death was very hard for him.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 200 | March 1, 2019 9:24 AM |
Let's not forget about Dürer's nude self-portrait. Looks like he had quite a wurst, with an impressive pair of lowhangers.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 202 | March 1, 2019 9:29 AM |
Yes, he was quite pleased with his appearance (at least in younger years):
The drawing @ r202 always struck me as very modern. It looks early 20th Century.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 203 | March 1, 2019 9:37 AM |
Books (Gutenberg) AND television (Nipkow).
| by Anonymous | reply 204 | March 1, 2019 9:42 AM |
So basically books, television, classical music, modern philosophy, palaeontology, space science, modern medicine, the English language as well as German, Dutch, Flemish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Frisian, Yiddish and Afrikaans, and hamburgers.
| by Anonymous | reply 206 | March 1, 2019 9:55 AM |
So what, r169? One cannot deny Gutenberg's contribution, nor the extent to which it revolutionized Europe.
[quote]Gutenberg in 1439 was the first European to use movable type. Among his many contributions to printing are: the invention of a process for mass-producing movable type; the use of oil-based ink for printing books; adjustable molds; mechanical movable type; and the use of a wooden printing press similar to the agricultural screw presses of the period. His truly epochal invention was the combination of these elements into a practical system that allowed the mass production of printed books and was economically viable for printers and readers alike. Gutenberg's method for making type is traditionally considered to have included a type metal alloy and a hand mould for casting type. The alloy was a mixture of lead, tin, and antimony that melted at a relatively low temperature for faster and more economical casting, cast well, and created a durable type.
| by Anonymous | reply 207 | March 1, 2019 9:55 AM |
English and all those other languages do not come from German but they did share a common ancestor (the so-called Proto-Germanic language).
| by Anonymous | reply 208 | March 1, 2019 10:04 AM |
Well, yes, R208, that was rather the point.
| by Anonymous | reply 209 | March 1, 2019 10:05 AM |
Well she obviously never used sunscreen R200
| by Anonymous | reply 211 | March 1, 2019 12:02 PM |
The Pickelhaube. Apparently to deflect sabers.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 213 | March 1, 2019 9:26 PM |
The pagentry!
“Has anyone seen my parrot?”
Kaiser Bill, probably.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 214 | March 1, 2019 9:29 PM |
German pastry and my two dachshunds
| by Anonymous | reply 215 | March 1, 2019 9:51 PM |
I really hope you're joking, R217!
| by Anonymous | reply 218 | March 1, 2019 11:18 PM |
R87 Darling, Jan Hus was Czech
| by Anonymous | reply 220 | March 1, 2019 11:38 PM |
Wikipedia: Lands constituting German Bohemia were historically an integral part of the Duchy and Kingdom of Bohemia. Later, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of First World War, areas of Bohemia with an ethnic German majority began to take action to avoid joining a new Czechoslovak state.
| by Anonymous | reply 221 | March 2, 2019 12:26 AM |
KaDeWe, sausage, schnitzel, streusel, breads, beer, precision optics, diesel engines, the Autobahn, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Hindemith, Weill, Berliner Philharmoniker, Montblanc, me! (I'm at least half German)
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 222 | March 2, 2019 12:30 AM |
The word "fremdschämen," which means "to feel ashamed about something someone else has done; to be embarrassed because someone else has embarrassed himself (and doesn't notice)."
Why we don't have this word in English, I don't know.
| by Anonymous | reply 223 | March 2, 2019 12:33 AM |
Like their honorary descendant, Drumpf, they have the best words -- like Schadenfreude, which the whole world is feeling is about USA right now.
One thing that stood out to me when I visited Germany for a month as a 20 year old -- how can people eat so much sausage, every day, three meals a day... and they can be so oppressive! I had a Eurailpass and was supposed to travel first class, but a fat German man of 50 or so saw me, thought I was in the wrong place, grabbed me by the arm and dragged me to second class, saying "Baby!"
The film "White Ribbon" is a great example of their patriarchal parenting style - god I hope they've eased up! Oh and I had a half-German, half-Irish friend who said she was staying in Germany with her kids until they grew up so they would learn some self-discipline and not be lazy drunk slobs like the Irish. So I guess there's that.
| by Anonymous | reply 224 | March 2, 2019 12:37 AM |
But speaking of lazy drunk Irish, in Munich you could hear young men singing loudly/drunkenly and breaking beer bottles all night long. Maybe it was a southern German Catholic sort of thing?
| by Anonymous | reply 226 | March 2, 2019 12:40 AM |
German chocolate cake was invented in America (using Samuel German’s chocolate)
| by Anonymous | reply 227 | March 2, 2019 12:53 AM |
R221 Jsi c'ech, hlupaku? Mluvis' c'estinu? Ne? Nijsuj chuj v chaj. Relying on a wikipedia and arguing with speakers of the language is kind of dumbass. I guess by your logic, everyone who lives on the West Bank is an Israeli, right?
| by Anonymous | reply 230 | March 2, 2019 2:29 AM |
R224 Europe is feeling schadenfreude about the United States? You mean THIS United States, the one with basically zero unemployment, 3% GDP growth and no looming trade implosions? Yeh they're pissing their pants laughing,
| by Anonymous | reply 233 | March 2, 2019 3:36 AM |
every German i've been with has had the same sour taste to their skin
| by Anonymous | reply 234 | March 2, 2019 3:40 AM |
Are you talking about the United States with a psychotic Adderall-addicted three-year-old at the helm, R103? The United States that just shat itself attempting to talk North Korea out of nuclear weapons? That one?
Because "fuck you, my 401(k)'s doing [bold]GREAT[/bold]" is a pathetic look.
| by Anonymous | reply 235 | March 2, 2019 3:41 AM |
R233, not R103. Scheisse.
| by Anonymous | reply 236 | March 2, 2019 3:42 AM |
Once on a train to Berlin, I watched a fat German woman wrestle her suitcase into the over head rack while her pants slid down revealing the largest pair of panties I have ever seen. She laughed, pulled up her pants, and sat down to start eating snacks from a grocery sack that seemed to be full of food.
| by Anonymous | reply 237 | March 2, 2019 3:46 AM |
Christmas trees and ornaments.
| by Anonymous | reply 238 | March 2, 2019 6:46 AM |
r235, are you referring to the president who has kept Kim from launching missiles and threatening the world for the last year or so?
| by Anonymous | reply 239 | March 2, 2019 6:55 AM |
Fuck you, Trump supporter at R239, you’re on the wrong site.
| by Anonymous | reply 240 | March 2, 2019 6:57 AM |
r239 Surely you can't be serious.
| by Anonymous | reply 241 | March 2, 2019 6:59 AM |
Mozart was austrian R217. Get some education!
| by Anonymous | reply 243 | March 2, 2019 12:23 PM |
[quote][R235], are you referring to the president who has kept Kim from launching missiles and threatening the world for the last year or so?
And how the screaming fuck did he do that, oh hallucinating Trumpanzee??
| by Anonymous | reply 244 | March 2, 2019 4:46 PM |
r243 Sorry, genius. Salzburg didn't become part of Austria until 1805. Get some education!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 245 | March 2, 2019 5:00 PM |
Love seeing people talk about Mozart's nationality as if it's a settled issue, or might be settled with only a couple of back-and-forth replies right here on DL.
[quote]As can be seen, evidence is available to support a variety of opinions about Mozart's nationality. Thus, he was Austrian because the town in which he was born and raised is now in Austria, and because he made his career in Vienna, the Austrian capital. He was German because he felt himself to be German, and because the residual and moribund empire that included Salzburg was labeled as and felt to be German. He was neither Austrian nor German because Salzburg was independent, neither part of the Habsburg Austrian possessions nor part of a (yet to exist) German nation-state.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 246 | March 2, 2019 5:22 PM |
In the 1930s many people also felt themselves to be German and we know how that turned out.
| by Anonymous | reply 247 | March 2, 2019 7:51 PM |
We have been in Germany only a couple of times, never of our own volitia (train changes, once with our then husband) and disliked it at once because it seemed so American, totally un-European. Makes sense since Germany ceased being a nation in 1945 and has since been just an occupied territory controlled by the international usury bankers and policed by the American army. Austria, on the other hand, is authentic and we have always loved it.
| by Anonymous | reply 248 | March 2, 2019 8:07 PM |
R248 Are you plural, dear - or perhaps royal?
| by Anonymous | reply 249 | March 2, 2019 8:12 PM |
Millions of these things.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 250 | March 2, 2019 8:16 PM |
I think of Wusthof and Zwilling J.A. Henckels knives.
| by Anonymous | reply 251 | March 2, 2019 8:34 PM |
[quote] The word "fremdschämen," which means "to feel ashamed about something someone else has done; to be embarrassed because someone else has embarrassed himself (and doesn't notice)."
[quote] Why we don't have this word in English, I don't know.
Isn't that second hand embarrassment?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 252 | March 2, 2019 8:41 PM |
The world feels Schadenfreude about us - we feel Fremdshämen about Trump.
| by Anonymous | reply 254 | March 2, 2019 9:55 PM |
Their readmittance to the human race after WWII
| by Anonymous | reply 255 | March 2, 2019 10:03 PM |
Germans give me the creeps.
| by Anonymous | reply 256 | March 2, 2019 10:23 PM |
I don’t think anyone has mentioned the Brothers Grimm and their collection of folk tales.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 257 | March 2, 2019 10:48 PM |
Well the Americans did steal the German scientists after the War which contributed to the advancement of its own technology. Like sending man to space etc
| by Anonymous | reply 260 | March 3, 2019 3:27 AM |
History/WWII/Military junkies know the answer. The king tiger tank, the most powerful tank in WWII.
The tank with far and away the biggest dick in WWII.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 261 | March 3, 2019 3:50 AM |
The Volkswagen emissions scandal......
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 262 | March 3, 2019 4:15 AM |
Ok, r243 , Salzburg is part of the fucking Roman Empire, ok ? Dick.
| by Anonymous | reply 263 | March 3, 2019 6:22 AM |
Apparently I am the only real Datalounger in this thread. Who are you people?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 266 | March 3, 2019 7:05 AM |
If we stop referring to Mozart as Austrian then we can also delete half the names in this thread, because they were born eons before modern Germany was established.
| by Anonymous | reply 267 | March 3, 2019 7:08 AM |
Music, Philosophy, Jägermeister
| by Anonymous | reply 268 | March 3, 2019 7:20 AM |
Ich bin ein Deutscher, ihr Bitches!!
| by Anonymous | reply 269 | March 3, 2019 7:51 AM |
There are some delicious German words. One of my favorites is Ungeheuer........ (which means "monster"). Pronounced OongaHOYa. Frankenstein was an Ungeheuer, as were many of my 2 am dates when the bar closed and nothing better had appeared to sweep me off my feet......LOL
| by Anonymous | reply 270 | March 3, 2019 8:50 AM |
Recently in New York City, I met a German tourist who was very drunk on a Sunday night and simply walked up to me and said he wanted to get his dick sucked. I took him home and he just laid back and let me work on it and moaned for 2 hours while I deep throated his uncut kielbasa. I've been with guys who responded to a simple blow job with Ecstasy, but he really made it enthusiastic and when I jerked him off, he exploded well over his head. He also like to kiss, and we ended up playing around until the sun came up and then fell asleep for a few hours before he had to go back to his hotel to pack. I wouldn't call it quite a romantic experience, but he definitely was someone who really enjoyed every aspect of his body and love just being touched.
| by Anonymous | reply 271 | March 3, 2019 9:10 AM |
R271 2/10
And the German word for sausage is wurst - kielbasa (kiełbasa, to be more precise) is the Polish word for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 272 | March 3, 2019 9:16 AM |
the chili-cheese dogs at Der Weinerschnitzel are superb.
| by Anonymous | reply 273 | March 3, 2019 9:22 AM |
Schwanzlutscher sounds so much better than cocksucker.
Du Fotze! = you cunt!
Du Miststück! = You bitch!
Leck Mich Am Arsch! (originally from Götz von Berlichingen by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe) = Kiss My Ass!
| by Anonymous | reply 274 | March 3, 2019 9:25 AM |
r273 Der Wienerschnitzel, Dummkopf.
| by Anonymous | reply 275 | March 3, 2019 9:27 AM |
actually, it's called DAS Wienerschnitzel.
I don't know exactly the rule for that, but there is "der" (as in der Stuhl / the chair, der Termin / the appointment, der Morgen / the morning) and "das" (das Wetter / the weather, das Pferd / the horse).
Plurals are indicated with die.
Das Wienerschnitzel (singular), die Wienerschnitzel (plural)
But of course Germany makes it even more complicated in other cases:
Der Stuhl (singular), die Stühle (plural)
Der Termin (singular), die Termine (plural)
Das Pferd (singular), die Pferde (plural).
| by Anonymous | reply 276 | March 3, 2019 9:43 AM |
Hideous ancient fat ugly dyke-sow merkel is a traitor to the German people.
| by Anonymous | reply 277 | March 3, 2019 9:47 AM |
Aw FUCK. Now I just realized that Der Wienerschnitzel is a food chain restaurant.
My apologies for r276. I would delete it if I could.
| by Anonymous | reply 278 | March 3, 2019 9:48 AM |
r278 You must be German. Americans (like me) are not as polite as you are. Vielen dank.
| by Anonymous | reply 279 | March 3, 2019 10:07 AM |
The most hideous word in the German (or any) language must be "austausch."
| by Anonymous | reply 280 | March 3, 2019 10:24 AM |
Is exchange really that much better?
| by Anonymous | reply 281 | March 3, 2019 10:40 AM |
Actually, the funniest word for English speakers (and the first German word one sees when arriving at a German airport) is the word for exit in German " ausfahrt!!!"
| by Anonymous | reply 283 | March 3, 2019 6:52 PM |
And America used to be a british colony, by your logic that makes every famous person claimed by America british, ok? Dick. R263
| by Anonymous | reply 284 | March 3, 2019 6:54 PM |
Einstein
Goethe
Kant
Currywurst
Sauerkraut
Beer
Architecture and Engineering
| by Anonymous | reply 285 | March 3, 2019 6:57 PM |
"Das Bauhaus". The invention of all modern architecture.
It was a revolution in design and architecture all those famous architects and designers did in the 1920's. Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier et.....
The Germany in those times was a society dancing on a vulcany. That led straight Ingo WW ll.
All this Bauhaus guys left Germany because of the war or being in great danger as Jews and finished their work abroad.
| by Anonymous | reply 287 | May 2, 2019 9:00 PM |
If it weren't for the Germans, we never would have had this,
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 289 | May 2, 2019 9:08 PM |
[quote]I can't decide between Beethoven and hamburgers.
Shut the fuck OP. Nobody credits Hamburgers, as they are made today, as German. Gurl, you wish.
Germany’s greatest contribution to humanity is two World Wars. They’ll always be known for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 290 | May 2, 2019 9:12 PM |
Actually their worst is The Holocaust and World War 2. They still can't shake off that bossy and OCD stereotype so many years later.
| by Anonymous | reply 291 | May 2, 2019 9:21 PM |
Not to be insensitive but I got both an Emmy and an Oscar for the holocaust.
| by Anonymous | reply 296 | September 26, 2020 5:19 AM |
Sustainable architecture. The first zero energy house, Passive House, was build in 1990 in Darmstadt.
| by Anonymous | reply 298 | September 26, 2020 5:34 AM |
Sustainable architecture. The first zero energy house, Passive House, was build in 1990 in Darmstadt.
| by Anonymous | reply 299 | September 26, 2020 5:34 AM |
