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DuckToller Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 18 hours ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said: VIDEO-2018-10-17-07-45-481.mp4 1.69 MB · 0 downloads One of the greatest German humorists of the 20th century - Loriot, Thank you !!! Audiophile Neuroscience 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 58 minutes ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said: Yes I agree. The clip reminded me of the saying "Sometimes I Sits and Thinks, and Sometimes I Just Sits" ....sometimes credited to Winnie the Pooh (A A Milne) but apparently goes back to a Boston newspaper in 1905 The only problem with doing nothing is you never know when you're finished ! ...or when a heffalump needs your help ... Audiophile Neuroscience 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 1 hour ago, esmit said: That is a joke in itself! Oh, you should give yourself then a try with Otto Waalkes, from East-Frisia, quasiment boderline to the Dutch Friesland.. Not completely spanish, although especially his earlier works were quite funny (imho), while his later work was/is only professional funnyism. Somehow between Herman Van Veen (young) and Rudy Carrel (late), who are the gold standard of Dutch humor for Germans ... I've preferred Van Veen anytime, the motorcycle 😉 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 4 hours ago, Confused said: Nothing wrong with a bit of dressing up on a Saturday night …. As much as I enjoy many of the different kinds of (British) humor in this thread, I need to admit, that some very British ways of spending the Saturday evening are quite distasteful ... and more seriously, I might prefer that search algorithms have no association made of this forum and uniforms with nazi symbols plus AH lookalikes. jm2c - ymmv Link to comment
DuckToller Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: C'mon, AH figure is a part of pop culture since at least 1940: His images used to appear in WWII (also satire) brochures and are present on Wikipedia and everywhere. Let's relax a little, creating additional tensions isn't the aim of this thread, I believe Context seems to be important Link to comment
DuckToller Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 18 minutes ago, christopher3393 said: Forgive me, but I had thought there was a long tradition of French Hitler humor as well. I'm thinking of De Rire and Charlie Hebdo in particular. Please forgive me for being German by nature and "only" having residence in France and a French family ... I do appreciate a lot the humor tradition on Nazis and Faschists. from Chaplin, De Funes to Jojo Rabbit, though context is king. @sphinxsix to get more info on that subject just google "Harry the Nazi" christopher3393 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 All right, after we have heard some of the truth, even about the marathon discussion regarding hen and egg ;-), here is something which I found somehow disturbing but absurdly funny. Today, I've read the reasoning for a verdict from December 2019 against a former German Army soldier, SEK (Special Deployment Commando or SWAT) member and "prepper" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism). He was in possession of an UZI machine pistol (weapon of war), which was stolen during his service at his army base. To be prepped, he had some grenades and other explosives, some illicit weapons and some cozy 55,000 rounds of ammunition, laying around freely accessible in his car and in his own house. He was also active and connected in various chats with right-wing extremist background. He got a lenient sentence on probation, which is no longer a rarity in Germany. However, the reason for the mild sentence almost made me fall off my chair laughing. It reads like pure Monty Python script: " (serious voice) The appropriate consideration, taking into account in particular of the foregoing leads, with further consideration of the following, against the assumption of a particularly serious case of circumstances not leading to the presumption of the same: (increasingly excited voice): The accused has not been exposed to an excessive, so to speak, unbelievable amount of what he considers illegal weapons, ammunition and irritant / explosive devices (unauthorized). This is also clearly by the testimony of the witness H., who stated that he had already worked with other persons who (still) owned or would have owned more than the defendant. Finally, the defendant did not possess any particularly heavy weapons of war such as guided missiles, battle tanks or warships or any other (significantly) heavier weapons, all of which are also listed in the list of weapons of war, than the submachine gun Uzi". Original in German: here THAT made my day, German judges for stand-up comedy. Humor is so important these days sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted June 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2020 Hilarious! Tea drinker? Coffee expert? US woman sparks transatlantic tea war with brutal online brewhttps://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jun/24/us-woman-sparks-transatlantic-tea-war-with-brutal-online-brew? Confused and sphinxsix 1 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Sarcasm par excellence ... Shapps feels the pain in Spain on holiday from hell Minister becomes immediate victim of government’s new quarantine policy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/27/shapps-feels-the-pain-in-spain-on-holiday-from-hell Link to comment
DuckToller Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Who said Germans lack a certain sense of humor??? Especially Berlin is kinda different ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/german-nudist-chases-wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Some British humor I've learned to love. This is the Gunnersaurus. To add assault to battery, the guy doing the Gunnersaurus job was laid off recently. Consequentially, the most contoversial player of Arsenal FC, Özil, started paying for his annual wages of 50k GBP. Özil earns 7 times the annual salary of Gunnersaurus in a week and just had an 8m GBP loyality bonus end of September, even he hasn't hardly featured in any game for his club in 2020 (no, he hasn't been injured) and might not feature in the team until ... You couldn't imagine that for fiction, I'd say ... Hail, Gunnersaurus Link to comment
DuckToller Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Another find from this weeks Guardian's website Ian Gillan, for his 75th anniversary, remembers some episodes ... "Nevertheless, he duly joined Sabbath for one album, Born Again, and a tour that has passed into legend as one of rock’s most disastrous. At the opening show, Gillan had a notebook with lyrics propped up against the monitors; he’d been using it in rehearsals, too. Just one thing: “With all the money being spent, they had never used dry ice at the rehearsals, but then this wall of shoulder high dry ice came out.” And so Gillan was reduced to bending down to try to read the words. “And as I leaned down to read the first line, the floor lights came on, blinding me. I was swatting at the air to wave away the smoke. It was pure Spinal Tap, a moment of panic.” Happy reading sphinxsix 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 52 minutes ago, sphinxsix said: The Tuesday election is near, time to touch on some political topics in a more serious manner.. Trump takes to Amazon campaign trail but is backing Biden. Doesn't he look more like Boris with a strange haircut ? That may have been the implicit message from the Guardian ? Link to comment
DuckToller Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Here is why a big bass sound may help you with your mating problems ... Fascinating 😄 elcorso 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 6 hours ago, kumakuma said: Comirnaty Bylvay, Truseltiq, Zynlonta, Qelbree Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted October 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2021 22 hours ago, sphinxsix said: This OTOH is complicated.. Not funny.... joelha and sphinxsix 2 Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted October 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2021 1 hour ago, sphinxsix said: Just upvoted your comment.. That is very nice, my friend. The topic is quite sensitive, and even I love sarcasm, black humour and all that stuff, I find it quite insensitive to provoke laughs with the terrible misery of Palestinians. There is not anything humourous about their living conditions. I may feel that you can find it insensitive as well from the perspective of the other party involved ... sphinxsix and cambridgehank 1 1 Link to comment
DuckToller Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Just now, sphinxsix said: Agree, my friend. We perceive the hole thing like twin brothers Tried to PM you but your PM-box seems to be closed for messages.. thats new .. need to investigate ... Link to comment
DuckToller Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Xmas charts in the UK 2021-12-24 Wondering why No.5 is the single one from the top ten that can't be bought/listened to directly from the officialcharts page ... Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted February 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2022 Somewhere between BMW and tube amp there's eventually air space for planes and ships (and Diana) ... 😄 PYP and fas42 1 1 Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted February 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2022 38 minutes ago, R1200CL said: Here some guys from Norway with their contribution to Eurovision Song Contest. (We’re not sending them to the final yet). I couldn’t believe my eyes. Crazy. That is quite PINKY!!! I can sense somehow that - if they don't qualify - they will come back next year with a unicorn piece... PYP and sphinxsix 2 Link to comment
Popular Post DuckToller Posted March 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2022 That's my favorite from Scotland PYP and Confused 2 Link to comment
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