The European Union News Thread

Discussion in 'International News' started by Nico Limmat, Nov 4, 2009.

  1. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
  2. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Social democrats surpassed by extreme right

    [​IMG]
     
  3. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Eurovision of Comedy coming up

     
    Naughtius Maximus repped this.
  4. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well they are still EU.

     
  5. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Really? Is there any point the rest of you turning up? :)

    :giggle:
     
  6. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Yeah, this is just down the road from me.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironbridge_power_stations

    Of course, now we're worrying about keeping the lights on in the future. :(

    The thing we need to be doing is moving towards electric vehicles and making their capacity part of the overall energy structure.

    I see Shell are planning a roll-out of re-charging points at all their petrol forecourts in the future...

    https://www.theguardian.com/busines...vehicle-charging-points-at-uk-petrol-stations

    Hopefully all the others will be doing the same thing.
     
  7. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Meanwhile Germany and the USA still get 40%+ of our energy by burning coal.
     
  8. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    That's pretty amazing, isn't it. The reduction in nuclear has been a factor with the Germans, I'm guessing.
     
  9. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Your comedy industry is so lame even Henning Wehn made it there
     
  10. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    So you're saying that German comedians, legendary across the face of the globe as being the most efficient humorous in the world, are better ours, eh?!



     
  11. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I forgot this guy...



    :)
     
  12. Sandinista

    Sandinista Member+

    Apr 11, 2010
    Buenos Aires
    Club:
    Racing Club de Avellaneda
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    24:19 was the hardest i laughed in a long time...
     
  13. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Yes. They are better. You and the rest of the world cant know since you dont speak German. You somehow managed to avoid having to learn it...
     
  14. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    When you say I 'somehow managed to avoid having to learn it', this should provide a clue as to the method we employed...

    [​IMG]

    :)
     
  15. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Strictly speaking he's Scottish. I'm not sure if we're including them on our 'side' but, assuming we mean nation states at the UN he'd have to be.
     
  16. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    And it's your disadvantage until this day you're missing out on all those fantastic comics! Germany even has a complete branch of comedy that doesnt even exist in the UK: political cabaret.
     
  17. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Er.... OK! I love me some comedy so I'll check it out. :)


    Edit: Here's some according to youtube...



    Hmm..., yeah. It's very 'political' but it seems to lack a certain something. There's a missing element there which I can't put my finger on... something the audience should be doing? Possibly?

    Oh, that's right... yeah... laughing. Yeah, that's it. That missing ingredient. The 'X' factor as it's sometimes called. Nobody's laughing.

    So you've taken comedy and, with typical Teutonic efficiency, extracted all the erroneous, unwanted parts like... well, humour!

    Also, can I just out that it's essentially just stand-up, but sitting next to a piano. I'm not sure that really counts as a separate branch of comedy, does it?!

    Look, comedy is very much 'our thang', OK!? It's what we're good at.

    That fun-loving mad-cap view of the world we have... that quirky, sideways aspects of our collective British consciousness... that's our finest thing.

    Now, granted, it's something of a crimp when we apply it to things like assembling cars, TV's and fridges but, HEY! You play the hand you're dealt... AMIRITE?! :)
     
  18. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    That's a, not political cabaret and b, if it was you conveniently delivered proof you havent been exposed to it enough to understand it. ;)

    We are exporting comics to your shores, you arent exporting yours to us. Ergo, we're funnier. End of story. Oder?
     
  19. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Uh-huh!

    Well, good to know :)
     
  20. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    You know....you're right. I've read a few of your posts! :whistling:
     
  21. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    OK! Let's test our comic 'capabilities', shall we. How can this sketch be improved?



    Hint: It's a trick question ;)
     
  22. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    The "philosophers game" was recorded in 1860s stadium in Munich. We know about the good stuff.

    History will repeat itself with this comedy summit thingy with Brits not competing like in Fifa world cups at the beginnng cause they are the best anyways having invented being funny n stuff and the rest of the world will move the game forward to its current state of England being left behind in world football ... uh ... I mean comedy.
     
  23. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Another winning post, successfully proving your point... HURRAH! :)

    BTW we're still waiting for the proof positive about 'political cabaret'. I'm guessing you have a team of German scientists, working around the clock to put it together, right? ;)

    I, for one, am convinced you're correct.

    I mean, music, (if political cabaret includes that element), made 'Oklohoma' and 'Seven Brides For Seven Brothers' vastly superior artistic products to all those films without music like 'The Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now'.

    Yep! That's the one thing they lacked IMO :)
     
  24. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
  25. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany

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