Notice the number of Germans cars there? No German ones in the Top 10 MOST reliable. The reliability of German cars has become as much a myth as the perceived superiority of British cars, etc in the 1960s. There is no basis in reality.
Notice the number of Germans cars there? No German ones in the Top 10 MOST reliable. The reliability of German cars has become as much a myth as the perceived superiority of British cars, etc in the 1960s. There is no basis in reality.
Post subject: Re: German inflexibility of thinking
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:12 pm
Mintball
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Scooter Nik wrote:So apart from Hegel, dialectics, and gassing the economicaly unproductive, what have the Germans ever done for us?
Off the top of my head?
Luther, Grünewald, Bach, Schubert, Haydn, Handel, Bach (there was more than one), Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Strauss (Richard), Brahms, Mahler, Neitzche, Schopenhauer, Kant, Marx, Brecht, Weill, Eisler, Grass, Mann (Thomas and Hienrich), Dietrich, Lang, Pabst, Goethe, Schiller, The Brothers Grimm, Dürer, Kraftwerk, Gutenberg ...
That's off the top of my head. And it ignores science and medicine, of which I have limited knowledge. But every one of those have influenced culture way beyond the boundaries of the German lands.
"You are working for Satan." Kirkstaller
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Post subject: Re: German inflexibility of thinking
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:27 pm
Dally
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Mintball wrote:Off the top of my head?
Luther, Grünewald, Bach, Schubert, Haydn, Handel, Bach (there was more than one), Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Strauss (Richard), Brahms, Mahler, Neitzche, Schopenhauer, Kant, Marx, Brecht, Weill, Eisler, Grass, Mann (Thomas and Hienrich), Dietrich, Lang, Pabst, Goethe, Schiller, The Brothers Grimm, Dürer, Kraftwerk, Gutenberg ...
That's off the top of my head. And it ignores science and medicine, of which I have limited knowledge. But every one of those have influenced culture way beyond the boundaries of the German lands.
Marx - was that Groucho or the lad from London?
Kraftwerk - I once saw them live. The Beatles they were not.
Post subject: Re: German inflexibility of thinking
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:36 pm
Mintball
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The Marx in question was from Trier - and his work on capital is being reassessed in recenyears as a lot of his analysis/predictions seems to be coming to fruition.
"You are working for Satan." Kirkstaller
"Dare to know!" Immanuel Kant
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" Elbert Hubbard
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde
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