Germans: Like them or Dislike them?

hehe ASk and you shall receive.
"I lurve the Germans" (Piefkes is Austrian slang for Germans, derogatory before you ask) and "they make great cars."

i like them like i like my portugese, or italians or british....in the EU

oh boy, political humor, here we go, its ok, ill shoot myself.

(oh and 200 posts baby!!)

Nationalisim is a stupid concept. You cannot classify people by the country they live in.
The offspring of Nationalisim is Racisim.

well said paddy! :P

could have used your support last night, check the BNP thread!

Nah, Frank....don't need any sympathy-----actually lost that 5 lbs and then some over the weekend......guess there's someone else out there a little heavier today.....of course, I'm sure I reclaim it after my vacation


Frank, I could never get bored with you.....as for Daffy, I don't really know him but I do love cartoon characters!

have fun over the weekend, ranj....?

Definitely got rid of a lot of built up tension.....feels like it's starting to come back though.....wonder if I could score a massage later?
Morning, sunshine......or I guess I should say, good afternoon to you!

Dont like them... dont hate them.... better off without thinking about them

Germany now....equal to Afganistan after 20 yrs.

This one for the americans

Right, of course.

You mean because Germany is the world's number one heroin supplier?
Or did you mean because Afghanistan in the future will also be a financial centre, a leading car manufacturer and will soon challenge to become the world's third biggest economy.


Yep that'll be it. Phew glad we got that sorted.

I'm fascinated with Goethe, , Teutonic Knights, German expressionism in cinema, Prussian fortresses, Erwin Rommel, Kraftwerk and even those red brick factories but that's not enough to say that a truly love Germans. That's why I go for 0.

Both of my granparents were in Oswiecim, one of them was in the first transport to that place with 135 number! During the proccess they saved one kapo telling that if he would shoot them with the one bullet for every LEAF of bread they stolen for patiens (another my grandpa was a medic there)they could look like a sieve. My grandparents had a lot german friends later, my granpa was travelling in Germany to teach about war young german people. One of them said that his granpa was a officer in Oswiecim, but his is not proud of that anymore. I have also german friends, we remember about consequences of the war, but we try to repair old mistakes and be open to the new times.

My sentiments exactly!!!

That was a peaceful solution to prevent future wars, the same solutions made in Turkey and one of them was givin a Nobel Prize. They had to go out from Poland that is obvious, In Poland country there should be more Germans then Polish peoples, what are you talking about?

i am talking about contnued free movement within the EU and the right to live anywhere i like within the EU without hassle for who i am and where i am from

Nice but we opened our market to all EU ppl, Germany keep it shut in front of us!

Wrong forum daf

germany have not opened borders to the polish now you are inthe EU...i dont believe that for one second sorry ola

Don't forget Daffy, this forum works to the Rumsfeld principle, unfortunately. You're piddling into the wind.

of course they keep it shut, polish ppl cant work there, its illegal

true, i will always piddle into the wind if it is the morally right think to do but i know its messy

ok? my girlfriend working in Karlstrue for a month, she is from wroclaw

What is your evidence they keep EU citizens from working in Germany?

I, as an EU citizen have no problem working in any EU country DE and PL included

Of course you are from britain, but germany did not open jobs market for Poland, polish people have to go and get permission to work there, we can go to UK without permission, we can go to Sweden and Ireland but the rest of EU including Germany do not allow polish ppl to work in their countries.

Its like UK didnt open jobs marked for Romania and Bulgaria.

oh you are trying to offend me? :P i am from Ireland ola

I'm with you mate. Deutschland did keep their labour market closed to the 2004 accession countries, that does not however equate to poles are illegal aliens in Deutschland. Ola's trying to make it sound a lot worse than it actually was.

Oh Huegel......
Thats interesting to know....I wasn't aware......I assumed if a country was part of the EU its people could go freely to other countries of the union and work. Thanks for the info.

thanks huegel

My twopenny worth on the German position.

Germany

Like Austria, Germany has insisted on continuing restrictions on workers from the former communist states, beyond its eastern borders. Workers from these countries will have to apply for work permits until at least 2009. However, the country issued 500,000 of these permits between 2004 and 2006. "In practice Germany has given as many people work as other big countries," EU Employment Commissioner Vladimir Spidla said on 2 May 2006. Germany has also imposed restrictions on workers from Bulgaria and Romania.

They stink, should take a bath more often.

Hmm, I'm not the biggest Roman Giertych's supporter, but calling him a nazi isn't... let's say a very fortunate thing to do.




Who is telling Germans to get out? Have I missed something?



Daffy, it doesn't mean that a military conflict will take place. Russian have different ways to tackle their problems these days, namely through gas supply to Europe! Whenever they don't like some actions made by their neighbors, they just simply refer to blackmail. Russian government wants to be treated serious. They miss the glorious days of CCCP, and when Poland joined first NATO and then EU it was like a slap on a cheek for them. A territory that they treated as their rightful area of influence since the end of the 18th century managed to separate from them and worse of all, joined their "opponents", the West. That really must hurt them.

PS: And what Frank had in mind was that "History likes to repeat itself." And I actually agree with him.

What ?