Friday Ephemera
Miracle engineering breakthrough. (h/t, Liz) // This is how the robot uprising starts. // Real estate of note. // House spider embryo. // The Shadow stalks his prey. // Frozen lake ice pile-up. // Californian topiaries. // Earplugs of note. // Upbeat Vader. // A video catalogue of every known vertical landing jet aircraft. // A brief history of the shopping trolley. // Beer keg of note. // Good question. // Minefield. // The north-east megalopolis. // “A Hawaiian mushroom that allegedly induces orgasms in women who sniff it.” // I don’t think we’re alone in the snow. // Nine things you (probably) didn’t know about The Silence of the Lambs, from casting could-have-beens to impressive prosthetic nipples. // And finally, expertly, a three-year-old girl reaches in deep and delivers a baby lamb.
R. Sherman,
Funny you should say that. My grandmother hailed from Bavaria, and indeed she used to insist on that as well. Those damn Prussians, they’re German. Bavarians? Nope. Not German. Not really.
PiperPaul,
I’m not sure how to react. Do I have to convert in order to fully enjoy the experience?
I am also with R.Sherman’s
” I’m a heterosexual male of longstanding. I just have my wife pick out my clothes before I show up to comment. ”
Except I may be even more hetro in that all my clothes are ordered by part number and I have been wearing the same stuff for the last 25 years for most occasions (Blundstone boots, Levi jeans, Hard Yakka shirt). I only go “off catalogue” when forced and then only after a lot of muttering and whinging on my part.
The point is, I don’t think anyone minds around here , and if they do they are to polite to mention it.
I think the Germans tend to think of the Bavarians as not quite German, too. (I seem to recall a lot of Bayernfeindlichkeit when the CDU ran Edmund Stoiber for Chancellor back in 2002.)
@Ted S.
I think it was Bismarck who said, “Bavarians are mankind’s link to the Austrians.”
Bavarians are mankind’s link to the Austrians.
I didn’t know that. I like it. But Bismarck also said this:
“Bayern ist vielleicht das einzige deutsche Land, dem es (…) gelungen ist, ein wirkliches (…) Nationalgefühl auszubilden.” – Bavaria is likely the only German Land (state) that has managed to establish a real national identity.
I sort of think of Bavaria as the Texas of Germany. Which is high praise for some (myself included), but tends to be rather a put-down in the rest of the U.S. Not unlike the Bayernfeindlichkeit mentioned by Ted S.
@Hedgehog,
Thanks for the translation, though those six years of German Lit made it unnecessary. And you’re correct with the Texas comparison, I think. I’ve used that myself actually.
The premise of the show being that straight men are uncouth creatures prone to grunting and likely to, say, pee in the sink
*shifts uncomfortably in chair*
*shifts uncomfortably in chair*
I learn so much from these discussions.
I’m not sure how to react.
Be very still. Their vision is based on movement.
I’m STILL laughing at this.