So just back from a week in North Rhine Westphalia ...

[sasguru]

... with my old friend X von Y who's in the German diplomatic service. While there we drank several bottles of good Reisling and Mosel from his cellar and generally mused on the state of the world. Topics incuded (each of which would be worth a separate thread):

1. How Turkey is slowly becoming Islamist.
2. How Germany is slowing incubating its own tinderbox like the UK
3. How the German elite are turining against the Euro.
4. How the supply shock of cheap professional labour from countries like India will in short order lead to a much bigger positive demand shock as the newly rich middle classes will want Western goods and this is what Germany's mittelstand is focusing on.

And so on ...

[MarillionFan]

Tell the truth. You've been locked up for the week.

[sasguru]

Tell the truth. You've been locked up for the week.

Well to be honest Westphalia is so dull there's nothing to do. You need to have intersting friends to enjoy it.

[Paddy]

... with my old friend X von Y who's in the German diplomatic service. While there we drank several bottles of good Reisling and Mosel from his cellar and generally mused on the state of the world. Topics incuded (each of which would be worth a separate thread):

1. How Turkey is slowly becoming Islamist.
2. How Germany is slowing incubating its own tinderbox like the UK
3. How the German elite are turining against the Euro.
4. How the supply shock of cheap professional labour from countries like India will in short order lead to a much bigger positive demand shock as the newly rich middle classes will want Western goods and this is what Germany's mittelstand is focusing on.

And so on ...

and so on...

How Treaty of Versailles was unfair.
Why Austria should be annexed.
What to do about the mistreatments of Germans in Bohemia
Thieving Poles

[darmstadt]

3. How the German elite are turining against the Euro.

So all Germans are elite then?

I take it you were the bloke I saw walking through Bonn (which is where any diplomatic type people would be) then this must be your chap and surely you could have given it it's proper name: Nordrhein-Westfalen?

[Old Greg]

Well to be honest Westphalia is so dull there's nothing to do. You need to have intersting friends to enjoy it.

How long did it take for your friend to top himself?

[darmstadt]

Well to be honest Westphalia is so dull there's nothing to do. You need to have intersting friends to enjoy it.

Really? Köln closely followed by Düsseldorf and Dortmund have the best nightlife (eating, drinking, dancing, etc.) in Germany. They beat Berlin and München in a recent survey so maybe you were in the wrong place with the wrong people.

[MarillionFan]

How long did it take for your friend to top himself?

Bit mean. Well known fact that Germans don't have a sense of humour either.

Like Sas.

[shaunbhoy]

Like Sas.

You mean the man who put the Brat in Bratwurst?



I am sure his German friends see him as more Masturbate than Master Race.

[russell]

... with my old friend X von Y who's in the German diplomatic service. While there we drank several bottles of good Reisling and Mosel from his cellar and generally mused on the state of the world. Topics incuded (each of which would be worth a separate thread):

1. How Turkey is slowly becoming Islamist.
2. How Germany is slowing incubating its own tinderbox like the UK
3. How the German elite are turining against the Euro.
4. How the supply shock of cheap professional labour from countries like India will in short order lead to a much bigger positive demand shock as the newly rich middle classes will want Western goods and this is what Germany's mittelstand is focusing on.

And so on ...

Jesus Christ, this is what you do on holiday? What a fecking loser!