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Post by Pawian on Oct 23, 2007 11:52:17 GMT -7
The Virus of III Commonwealth Tusk`s Show
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Post by Pawian on Oct 23, 2007 11:55:47 GMT -7
Wprost is a major opinion magazine in Poland, quite serious in contents.
However, its covers resemble those of tabloid and gutter press. The combination is really unusual.
Does anything like that exist in Britain or the USA?
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Post by bescheid on Oct 23, 2007 12:26:01 GMT -7
Wprost is a major opinion magazine in Poland, quite serious in contents. However, its covers resemble those of tabloid and gutter press. The combination is really unusual. Does anything like that exist in Britain or the USA? I do not understand you people!!! Charles {Karl}
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Post by Pawian on Oct 23, 2007 12:45:46 GMT -7
Wprost is a major opinion magazine in Poland, quite serious in contents. However, its covers resemble those of tabloid and gutter press. The combination is really unusual. Does anything like that exist in Britain or the USA? I do not understand you people!!! Charles {Karl} hahahahaha I am pawian, not people hahahahaha What do you mean?
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Post by Pawian on Oct 23, 2007 12:50:57 GMT -7
That's a shame for Poland, but maybe also a lesson, vote for a better alternative next time. Weak Polish rulers and governments did Poland great harm in the past. But I am hopeful for the future, the will be a better government than this one and the previous one(s) one day! A new generation of realists is emerging! One day they will remove the "Old guard". Pieter Today the old guard is retreating...
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Post by Pawian on Oct 24, 2007 10:20:25 GMT -7
Dieses ist von, was? Irgendeine Art Scheiße? Für würde mich viel mehr von Ihnen Leute, aber diese Scheiße erwartet haben? Ok, wenn dieses ist, was gut erwartet wird, gehen dann zur Hölle mit Ihren Land... Charles {Karl} Charles, you gave me a lot of work with this post in German. I tried to decipher it by myself and I couldn`t, I got the meaning of particular words but I wasn`t able to understand the message - what are you against exactly?? So I took the text to my school to show it to my mate German teacher and she said that it is so slangish and ungrammatical that probably a totally careless yuong person wrote it. She was amazed to know that it was written by a good mature man. What did it mean at all? hahahahahahha
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Post by pieter on Oct 24, 2007 11:02:12 GMT -7
Wprost is a major opinion magazine in Poland, quite serious in contents. However, its covers resemble those of tabloid and gutter press. The combination is really unusual. Does anything like that exist in Britain or the USA? In the Netherlands we do have such a magazine, Nieuwe Revue, but I don't know about an English or American Wprostlike magazine! www.revu.nl/Maybe the Private Eye? www.private-eye.co.uk/And Punch was a marvelous satirical magazine with exellent cartoons: www.punch.co.uk/American: www.dccomics.com/mad/ ?
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Post by bescheid on Oct 24, 2007 11:12:11 GMT -7
Dieses ist von, was? Irgendeine Art Scheiße? Für würde mich viel mehr von Ihnen Leute, aber diese Scheiße erwartet haben? Ok, wenn dieses ist, was gut erwartet wird, gehen dann zur Hölle mit Ihren Land... Charles {Karl} Charles, you gave me a lot of work with this post in German. I tried to decipher it by myself and I couldn`t, I got the meaning of particular words but I wasn`t able to understand the message - what are you against exactly?? So I took the text to my school to show it to my mate German teacher and she said that it is so slangish and ungrammatical that probably a totally careless yuong person wrote it. She was amazed to know that it was written by a good mature man. What did it mean at all? hahahahahahha Oh dear Pawian It is of my sins of the past that are here once again. I have of 2 mistakes, 1. to have written in 1st instance whilst have a absolute rotten loused day, with this, some rather unsettling after mathe of your elections with some ripple effect thrown into my direction by my work. This in turn was redirected into your direction; of this my responsibility, was not fair. And for this of my responsibility, I am very sorry. 2. Have assumed you are proficient in German. For this I was very much deficient. Your associate is very correct. For my language was very typical North German sailer ship master gutter speak. Usually reserved upon instance of running aground and in process, banging the propulsion shaft out of alignment whilst back washing the propeller under ships hull for gravel extraction. It would of course be very proper of your associate of her/his response to you. For most probable, this person is only accustomed to class room structured high German teaching. But, unfortunately, this is not of the real world. As also I as a person am not so admired by my working associates. But when as the nuts work comes up, I am usually appointed to accomplish what is needed. I do have a reputation of never fail. This is not a good reputation to earn by. OK, you have asked of my self, and I am an honest Ex-Cuxhaven {Fisch Kopf}-fish head-. {Ok, this is what? Some kind of nuts? For I would have expected much more of you people, but this is nuts? Ok, if this is what best to be expected, then go to hell with your country}. I have wished to not be offensive to the folks here and with much respekt to and for the ladies. So now, you see as why we North Germans are not so admired by our own country people. But, when ever a friend is acquired by any of us, they {you} are stuck, for you are our {mine} friend from that period of time on, sorry... Charles
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Post by kaima on Oct 24, 2007 11:26:38 GMT -7
Aha, I must recommend THE FUNNY TIMES in the USA. They publish a monthly tabloid with good humor and accurate reportage on GW Bush. Warning: there is only political exposure, no breast exposure. www.funnytimes.com In addition my niece works there, so they have to be good people!
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Post by Pawian on Oct 24, 2007 11:30:39 GMT -7
Thanks for your effort, I appreciate it. I tried to find covers of the Dutch magazine but I couldn`t. Can you help? Punch and Mad are different kinds of magazines than Wprost.
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Post by Pawian on Oct 24, 2007 12:03:35 GMT -7
Aha, I must recommend THE FUNNY TIMES in the USA. They publish a monthly tabloid with good humor and accurate reportage on GW Bush. Warning: there is only political exposure, no breast exposure. In addition my niece works there, so they have to be good people! No breasts??? Count me out!!! hahahaahhahaha PS. Funny Times is not like Wprost. PS2. Your niece? Hey, will you share with us your free subscription of The Funny Times one day?
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Post by Pawian on Oct 24, 2007 12:16:08 GMT -7
Oh dear Pawian It is of my sins of the past that are here once again. So, you are a mature man with the past... hmmm... hahahahaha it is OK, everybody has a bad day from time to time.... I never mind such trifles hahahahahha Aaah, sailor`s jargon! Now I understand! hahahahahahahaha Yes, she is. She is a very proper and righteous woman, when my jokes become too nasty she puts on a forced grin on her face but I know she suffers a lot ahahahahahaha No, it isn`t. That`s what school teaching lacks - real language. We have to teach students this proper, official, polished one. But there is no other way. The time devoted to teaching languages forces us to give students certain rudiments only, some foundation on which, later, if they want, they will build other kinds of language like slang or jargons. Well, Germans certainly know how to deal with problems at work. Organization and discipline rulez!! OK, that`s what I was able to translate for myself. However, I still don`t know what it was about and against. What made you so upset? Was it my presentation of covers? Didn`t you like any of them? Or didn`t you like my comments on those covers when I said that Wprost combines tabloid covers with serious contents? That`s what I want you to explain. Everything else doesn`t really matter. Nobody got offended here, we just need some clarification. You must forgive me for asking you to explain it, you might think it is unwanted pressure, but it isn`t. I am simply a very curious person, I never cease asking until I know people`s motives, that`s what interests me in people most - to understand why they do what they do.
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Post by jeanne on Oct 28, 2007 17:18:17 GMT -7
Your associate is very correct. For my language was very typical North German sailer ship master gutter speak. OK, you have asked of my self, and I am an honest Ex-Cuxhaven {Fisch Kopf}-fish head-. Charles, Can I conclude by these comments that you were at one time master of a fishing vessel out of Cuxhaven? If so, did your vessel ever call at Gloucester, Massachusetts? During the 70's I worked at a ship's agency there which serviced many of the big German factory fishing vessels. I wonder if perhaps you were on one of them. Jeanne
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2007 18:06:48 GMT -7
Charles,
Powerful swearwords or expressions (Krachttermen in Dutch Kraftwörter in German) that's something we Germanistic peoples (Germans, the Dutch, the English and the Danes) are good in. I am an intovert person and have a secundairy reaction, and sometimes people test you, try how far they can go to get on your nerves. Often I stay relaxed, closed, stoic (pokerfaced), emotionless, sometimes in real sometimes played, but sometimes people (colleages) go to far and then suddenly I *explode and they get frightened, because all frustration, irritation and sorrows were saved for a while. The colleages can than react in shock or in suprise, 'hey you are a human being after all'.
I hope that we can see Charles Germans outcry in such persective!
* shouting and a stream of swearwords!
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Post by Pawian on Oct 29, 2007 3:00:40 GMT -7
Charles, Can I conclude by these comments that you were at one time master of a fishing vessel out of Cuxhaven? If so, did your vessel ever call at Gloucester, Massachusetts? During the 70's I worked at a ship's agency there which serviced many of the big German factory fishing vessels. I wonder if perhaps you were on one of them. Jeanne Yes, that was him and his ship mates!! While anchoring in Gloucester, they went out to paint the town red. The residents barricaded their houses but to no avail. Dutch encouraged German sailors smashed everything on their way. I remember reading about it in a paper in 70s. It was a great scandal then. Where did you hide at the time: in the basement or in the attic? Did Gloucesterians rebuild their ruined city yet?
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