Kevin, your statement needs some correction: In Germany we´re panic-buying toilet paper, canned goods, fuel and Gold. "We" have very much experience in total shutdowns of any civil order twice in history. And "we" really FEAR any form of disorder like that ;-) But the "Wurst Käse scenario" is a quite brillant expression - think I´ll steal it from you
Thrice surely? 30 Years war? Mother Courage etc etc. I've read Johann Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus (as well as C V Wedgewood) ! Boy when 'you' create a disaster 'you' don't do it by halves.
I dare to point out „Germany“ as a national entity wasn´t existing during the 30 Years war... Furthermore I could rise the numbers by mentioning several more incidents, BUT: this is by nature a jokes thread, not one about German history, hence please apologize any inaccuracies by me kind regards Olli
Well not as a political entity but there were plenty who lived in the region who regarded themselves as German whether they lived in mighty Saxony or Prussia or some one horsed bishopric or other micro state.
Clocks go forward tonight in the UK, so spare a thought for these workmen having to move the Avebury Rings forward one hour .... then off to Stonehenge...
Recently, at some foreign checkpoint: Immigration controller: You´re German? Me: Yes Immigration controller: Occupation? Me: No, no! On vacation!
From some old Goon Show in which Neddie and Eccles are both British agents in WW2. Neddie: Eccles, how's your German? Eccles: He's fine, how's yours?
