Jonathan Klinsmann at St.Gallen (Switzerland)

And in our spare time we are even halfway decent footballers.

And Id also bet the beetle was build in Murica

 

Actual kids these days aren't even millennials any more! The people who arbitrarily brand generations are going with Generation Z.

I think generational cohorts tend to blame younger generations for being worse at certain things, while being blind to the areas where the new generation is better. Since they old generation can't see the positives and can only see the negatives, they just figure the new generation is lazy. A tale as old as time.

Some things that make me feel old:

• A significant number of high school kids weren't alive when 9/11 happened.
• If they made a "That 90s Show" this year, it would be equally distant from the 1990s as "That 70s Show" was from the 70s when it first came out

 

Wherever it was built the engineering is shit.

 

All this talk about age is making me fee old. Can we please stop?

And the fact that the coach called him "too American" is being blown a bit out of proportion. Every person is different, and being an American soccer player is different than being a German one. So what.

What matters is whether or not Jonathan can adapt to this new environment and continue to grow as a player. I guess he's having some struggles in some ways, and for whatever reason the assistant called him out publicly for it. YMMV on whether or not that is a professional thing to do, or an effective motivational tactic.

What doesn't matter is a comparison of average hours worked, or whether or not German products are well-made, or whether Americans talk too much at work.

 

Try listening to your local oldies radio station

 

So does he have a working knowledge of German? Surely the club gives him a tutor to help him out. I can't imagine every player at the club speaks it fluently.

 

The best engineering doesnt help if it ends up getting produced on a Monday in Chattanooga

Mr. Daimler? You're working too much!

 

He at least understands German well enough to reply in English

 

Your trains are falling apart. And not content to have them just screw up in Germany, you guys have started sending them to Switzerland to derail as well. Your infrastructure projects, especially Berlin's new airport, reek of corruption and inefficiency, and your military's shiny new destroyer was so incompetently designed and engineered that it literally cannot be deployed. The reason you have less hours is actually good, but it's not because Germans are efficient. It's because Germany is one of the only countries that realizes that the nature of employment is changing, and that in order to keep everybody employed it's important to spread the jobs between people. But far from leading to more efficiency, it has done the opposite. For the sake of economic stability I hope you can figure it out and give others an example, especially the Norwegians because they're even more hopeless.

 

I don't know it and never said I did. Merely surmise ("my take") on my part.

 

Well, generalizations, while not being accurate for everyone (and, hence, not being politically correct) are usually based on at least some fact, Have a look at this table from Wikipedia that shows estimate worker efficiency in various nations. The top 10, the right side score = GDP/worker hr in 2013.
1 Norway 75.08
2 Luxembourg 73.22
3 United States 67.32
4 Belgium 60.98
5 Netherlands 60.06
6 France 59.24
7 Germany 57.36
8 Ireland 56.05
9 Australia 55.87
10 Denmark 55.75

 

Interesting. Obviously factors like population give Luxembourg and Norway a big boost. At the risk of offending someone, the data would seem to suggest the French are harder working than the Germans. Hm, that's err....debatable...

 

Well, as an engineer and someone who does all his own auto work, I can tell you engineering is the bigger problem in this case.

 

What's a radio..??

 

I hope JK gets more minutes this summer o drops a level or two or something... still so young for a GK.

Also, I love Germany, Berlin is maybe my favorite city in the workd, but these German posters are turning me sour sheeeeesh

 

FWIW, the bundesliga pundit on The Football Show this morning said Hertha has a history of knocking it's youngsters down a peg or two.

 

This know it all is feigning ignorance , don't bother .

 

Then don't build it there and put your name plate on it.

 

is that a podcast or a series? is it available for torrent?

I always wanna see highlights of weekly Bundesliga matches but I can't seem to find any in English

 

Yeah that is why your president is complaining about all those foreign cars in your streets and Detroit is a shambles

 

I am not sure that numbers of this type mean much in terms of how hard workers in different countries work. Even if workers in Vietnam (and many other developing countries) work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, they will not generate numbers like these in the near future.

 

At least we're not talking about median IQs yet.

Internet nationalistic confrontations _always_ end with median IQ tables.

 

Do people actually know their own IQs? If you do...why?

 

I wasn't trying to stand up for American automotive engineering. I drive a Nissan - best vehicle I've owned by a landslide.

 

It's a daily soccer show on SiriusXM's soccer channel.