i thought you said you are opposed to stereotyping?

I think NY'ers and Germans (and everyone else for that matter) are equally capable of being racist schmucks. how 'bout the situation at softball involving Dipak?

...there are schmucks everywhere in all shapes and sizes
deion | 05.09.06 - 1:45 pm | #

I was sort of kidding about the stereotyping/extrapolating thing, I know none of my observations hold any water as anything more than observations.

...but read again, my question`is not about the dude himself -- I agree, schmucks like him are everywhere. it's about the reaction of the crowd, which was basically approval. my question was, in a more diverse place such as NYC, would he have gotten away with his horseshit?
hans | 05.09.06 - 1:58 pm | #

Haagen-Dazs = Doppelbock Dunkel
rj | 05.09.06 - 3:24 pm | #

The EU is filled with dipshits.
Joe | Homepage | 05.09.06 - 6:27 pm | #

Oh, and DazsDat? = Liver and Onions.
Joe | Homepage | 05.09.06 - 6:27 pm | #

the majority of germans, and french for that matter - living in their father and motherlands, are racist fucks. There are racists everywhere, but those stereotypes about nazis and their once conquered counterparts are more fact than fiction. Americans are responsible for our current situtation by electing and re-electing the current schmuck in office. Germans allowed one crazy MF named adolf roll over their country and exterminate millions - can't forget that-not til all those people who were alive and able to choose differently, act differently- are incinerated and place in their nazi vase or put 6 feet under. We are responsible for the dumbfuck in office and letting him do so much wrong, just as the Germans(mostly 60 and over) are guilty and loathsome for their inability to pull a dumbfuck like hitler out of power before he did what he did.
America may be evil but not quite yet at the level the German mother/fatherfuckingland was during World War II, though if you add up all the shit we've done, it's probably getting closer. FUCK the RHINELAND. They hate Amercians because they couldn't finish out the master plan, in part due to American Intervention.Thugs never die.
WP fields | 05.09.06 - 6:28 pm | #

i got back with my cubicle dinner just in time for the new 'bungle. nice ... i like the +5 hour time differential.

a good post. here's my thots, from six+ years of living there:

- racism is alive and well in germany, verily. the whole bar is set at a different place than in the u.s., largely because german society is more homogeneous.

- germans (and austrians doubly) also have a bad inferiority complex vis a vis the US. this isn't new to the bush era, btw, i got harassed right and left while i lived there in the early 80s. had to even fight once or twice.

- and you are also right: there is very little jaywalking.
pbdotc | Homepage | 05.09.06 - 6:41 pm | #

Lamb Vindaloo (haagen-dazs flavor)
Dipak | 05.09.06 - 7:40 pm | #

To answer your question about the crowds reaction. No, it would not go over very well in NY. But then again, we have resigned ourselves to muddle through this time of our administration, and Europe is pissed that it has made mistakes, but the Bush administrations still boldly announces that it's doing the right thing. That kind of sucks cause I like Europe.

Didn't you read the Bush administrations announcement for Americans traveling abroad? (this is true!) Don't be to conspicuous American in your dress. I say get on down to Loden frei and get yourself a jager jacket and some lederhosen. And don't try an play frisbee in the street, you could get arrested.


schmuck, isn't that a little Jewel, a trinket even? (Obviously we all use the yiddish version)
Douglas | 05.09.06 - 7:55 pm | #

Haagen-Dazs-dat: Black Forest Cake? Potato Salad?
gweb | 05.09.06 - 8:43 pm | #

I hung out in a bar run by some Turkish guys in Vienna. They said the Austrians were mean to them.
Joe | Homepage | 05.09.06 - 9:29 pm | #

did the guy do all this slurring in English?
crsmal | Homepage | 05.09.06 - 9:38 pm | #

Dazs-dat: vanilla saurkraut.

i haven't spent much time in deutschland, but agree there's a healthy racist undertone thing going on there. but for my money, the japanese really know their racism. take that shit to a whole new level. also no jaywalking in japan. coincidence?
Finn | Homepage | 05.10.06 - 12:13 am | #

You're sort of fabulous, Hans.
Archie | 05.10.06 - 1:51 am | #

Something streusselish.
Dan K. | Homepage | 05.10.06 - 10:35 am | #

Germany is a huge country with a little of everything. However, they seem to be used to being able to label everything - and get frustrated when they can't. Sitting on a train one day several years ago, I noticed some people staring at me. I was asked innocently where I was from and my heritage. When I danced around the subject, they got more serious and wouldn't drop the question. Harmless really but weird if you think about it.
Lex | 05.10.06 - 10:57 am | #

In the mid nineties there was a (not very popular) generic Chicago band called Fig Dish. They were sort of a Replacements ripoff. I recall hearing that they took that name because it means "Fuck You" in German. German speakers-is that true?
kissel | 05.10.06 - 12:43 pm | #

that would be 'fick dich' i believe...
deion | 05.10.06 - 2:34 pm | #

close enough for the double meaning i guess...
kissel | 05.10.06 - 3:43 pm | #

Hans, when do you get back to the US of A?
Joe | Homepage | 05.10.06 - 4:58 pm | #