Heh, Aus mit Lustig, That's not the Aloha Spirit, I would
like to see.
What the fuck. I don't excuse that. This school teacher on Maui sings the wrong words of the German hymn, on purpose, in a US uniform fatigue-style outfit, I mean more insulting it doesn't get. This can't be a "mistake".
Just listen to how the singer was introduced in the video.
Das war absolute das Letzte (the worst, last thing).
Can't and won't even translate that shit.
Wut nach Hymnen-Eklat: "Das Allerletzte"
So, Maui is well immersed with US military 'occupiers'? Or how do I understand this?
Can a teacher or a sports association be that ignorant?
Yack. Not a good way to wake up on a Sunday Morning and think of my son, whom I miss very much, who had to 'take the bullet' for the US as a German born, legal permanent US resident at that time for over 14 years, a black person, in the Iraq invasion, a war he was opposed to and said so, to his commander. I am disgusted. Fuck You, Will Kimble. You can't be that stupid and you shouldn't be a teacher for the kids in Hawaii.
This was no "unfortunate mistake". That was on purpose. How often had Will Kimble sung anthems in his 35 year career?
You tell me.
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My son is somewhere across the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks
So I get at least the missing son angst, but Dallas is not where I want to be. His girlfriend graduates from Dental School on May 23. Family pact we would go. Now my RN daughter thinks I will not be able to make it, with my broken foot. Really? I am still fighting. I can't give up entirely and move into assisted living. I am lonely, yes. I also get a kick out of what I can do, small-size, like re-wire a new plug. Or plant some tree. It's been several weeks since I have seen her, Unfortunate ER visit for me. I have 5 ER visits within 6 months. I can view them all, and be frustrated. Or look forward. And look forward to being well again, take the dog for a walk up the hill to see the view from my top property line, miles.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I hear you ...
my sister is going to need assisted living in the future and fights against that reality tooth and nails. Keep on fighting, riverlover. We are all lonely, one way or another. But we hear you. Sometimes it just overwhelms a bit. But heh, we go through it as best as we can, right? I will keep you in my mind and send you my best wishes. And I am still dreaming on that little place on the hill with a wide view on the Pacific in Maui. No matter what kind of stupidities happen there at times.
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Maybe they wanted the Trump Supporters
In the audience to feel right at home...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Free Speech and brain farts
Could it be a "not proud" life moment? I don't know this person and, unlike GWB, can't look into their soul, so ignore teh stupid or you will never have a free moment to enjoy life
Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever
I heard President Kennedy
had one line to deliver in the Berliner's language and he flubbed it. Have to take other's word on this. Mom and Dad each spoke a diiferent German. Probably because one's family came from the Hess area and the other's were Volga Germans (Russia, thanks to Kate the Great). They came over in the late 1860s, so probably a bit of English pollution, too, by time I came around. All I picked up was cuss words.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Four words, should have been three
"Ich bin Berliner" is how a German would say they are a Berliner/in sympathy with Berlin.
"Ich bin ein Berliner", taken literally, means "I am a jelly doughnut (Berliner pastry)".
It's a Google Translate type of error (or, back then, the kind that came from leafing through a bilingual dictionary and taking the words one by one, with no knowledge of local idioms). Everyone understood it as such and gave JFK credit for what he was trying to say, rather than what he literally said.
Of course, smartass humorists have never let go of it and probably never will.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Most days
I feel like a jelly donut.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
no, I have to disagree,
to say "Ich bin ein Berliner"(= I am a Berliner, ie a person from Berlin, a person home at Berlin or born in Berlin). It means exactly the same, as if you would say "Ich bin ein Deutescher" (I am a German). It's correct German grammar. That we have a sweet jelly filled pastry, called "ein Berliner" (same as a jelly filled donut) is just a side thingy and was at the time Kennedy spoke this sentence not an issue at all. That came, if at all, just as a side-joke by some kids later on.
What the NICE thing about it was that Kennedy pronounced this little phrase in 'Berliner dialect', which sounds round about like "Ick binn ehn Bahlinah". He pronounced the Berliner dialect quite nicely and it was cute and therefore much loved. Actually nothing was wrong about it, it was how he "bought the heart and minds of the Berlin population. And that was good so, really.
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I'll take the expert's word for it :-)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
hi, I am no stinking expert
but my family had their roots in Berlin. My Great-Grandfather founded a one-man business there, Grandfather developed it into 25 to 30 men/women business, my father met my mother as a teenager in Berlin in the early thiries, they went to schools with a 30 percent Jewish pupil proportion (gone according to my mom's stories within weeks and a few months after Hitler came to power). WWII destroyed everything and extended family was swept to Bavaria and Norther Germany Hamburg after that. They (four surviving brothers of my Grandfather) developed the company into one of the larger family owned brokerage companies in Germany, with offices all over Germany and later expanded to include former East Germany after reunification. After that growth the younger generations (ie mine) went 'nuts' (ie became too rich), though I was the black sheep of the family and disowned.. Now it's not much of a family company anymore, though a couple of nephews and nieces and cousins still work in it. The next generation (born in the seventies) just asked us, if Grandpa was a Nazi or not, and we didn't know, but believe he was not. The next generation has no clue about anything. So much for my expertise (in Berlin dialect or anything political or family anchestry) ...
My father spoke Berlin Dialect, when he was "happy". I loved Berlin as a student in the late sixties and early seventies and we loved Kennedy as school kids for his "Berlin dialect with an American accent". You didn't hear that often back in the days. Who cares about Grammar anyway? Just those
(Grammar)Nazis ... oops. /sI am having fun. Thank you.
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he didn't flub it, au contraire, he spoke in perfect
'Berliner dialect'. Heh, we loved him for that. My apolitical brother even bought his first 'political' book when he was in highschool after he was "taken" by Kennedy's heart and wanted to know more about him.
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hmm, I am over my "ranting outrage" and accept
that this teacher guy in Maui just made a stupid mistake. End of story. Somebody should check him out though.
Nichts fuer Ungut.
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