FOAK: A month in Stuttgart

I'm off to Stuttgart for a month. Besides the obvious, what could a
man find to do to amuse himself?

 

Call in on my ex and tell the bitch that she gave rotten head.

D.

 

Take the bike if you can - the northern part of the black forest is
supreme biking country.

For a weekend away, the Bodensee (Lake Constance) makes a nice place to
go to but in summer it's very touristy - I know, I grew up there and it
got worse since.

 

I can only agree having lived in the mountains south of Freiburg for a
few years.

 

I was bringing it anyway but thanks for the Black Forest tip.

 

.... wet.

We went there camping last year, and it pissed it down almost continuously.

 

That was special order for you, I'd say .

 

Invade Poland.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tigtona 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

The first time I was in Berlin, visiting Rolls Royce, we were taken
out to dinner. On the minibus, as we were going round the Berlin ring
road, our host said `And you know it's only 80km to Poland if we keep
going in this direction ...'

<bite tongue>
Handy that
</bite tongue>

 

*Lovely*

I know I've posted this before, but wtf:

My closest mate is a professional fire tester: he burns things for a
living, for British and international standards testing, presides over
the European committee for such things, etc etc.

Anyway, this committee meets once a month or so, and each country takes
its turn to host it, and naturally they like to show off their latest
kit and facilities.

The first time he went to Germany for a meeting in Munich, they loaded
him and the other bods into a convoy of cars and said: "Und now ve are
off to see zer ovens."

"Where?"

"In Dachau."

And they were, too (Dachau being, as any fule kno, the name of a
district).

Cue the Brits stuffing handkerchiefs into their gobs in desperate
attempts to avoid overt hysterics....

I can't actually think of another nation which would have that kind of
glorious insensitivity.

 

<perk[1]>

Would he be a suitable person to talk to wrt the mandatory
fire-proofing requirements when converting a house into flats?


[1] We're not talking yer ordinary perk here, no siree bob. This is yer
genuine massive, bouncing up & down, licking the screen & shouting 'OH!
OH! OH! OH!' perk.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tigtona 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

You bet. Email me, watching for the spamtrap, and I'll give you his
details.

 

And once again ukrm provides a solution to a fairly obscure request.

 

<emailed>

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tigtona 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

Indeed - good innit. All I need now is a friendly estate agent with a
Rightmove contract & a solicitor who doesn't double their rates when
you need conveyancing done within 28 days :-/

Any takers?

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tigtona 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

That doesn't show German insensitivity but rather English immaturity and
ignorance.
The ovens at Dachau (concentration camp) were where they made the bread.
There was a crematorium or furnace but no gas chamber.
If you snigger at 'oven' you must be confusing 'gas chamber' with 'gas
oven',
the preferred method of suicide for pregnant spinsters before the swinging
sixties and North Sea Gas.

 

It's more something of a language barrier, actually.

Yes there was.

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/GasChamber/interior00.html

No, I'm not.

 

The Allies won the war; I can't understand why the English have to keep
rubbing the Germans' noses in it. This racism (there's no other word for
it) even resulted in a complaint by the German ambassador to Britain a few
years back, IIRC. As soon as there's a football match between an English
team and a German team, all you hear is 'don't mention the war, har, har,
har!'

D.

 

Why is it funny? The war ended over sixty years ago, and the guide
probably didn't even _think_ of the word 'invasion'. Why this <nudge,
nudge, wink-wink> humour every time Germany is mentioned?

D.

 

Right. That's the second time in a week that a UKRM post has reminded
me of a set of books that I read / owned when I was younger. It was a
set of 3 books, written almost entirely in the 'any fule kno that..'
about either a small bunch of kids at school or similar[1]. There were
illustrations that I thought were very cool (when I was 8) and I got
the impression that the books were old when I first got hold of them.

Your starter for 10, FOAK, what were the books called / who wrote
them ?



[1] It might have been a diary style book - I can't remember.