Posted on 06/21/2024 11:27:07 AM PDT by DFG
The Euro 2024 soccer tournament is under way in Dusseldorf, and in the U.K. there has been less attention to the games than hand-wringing over the likelihood of English fans singing “Ten German Bombers.” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has denounced the song as “offensive” and urged Brits not to sing it, as has England’s team manager. A German police chief has warned British fans, “Don’t be dicks.” Only a few voices have been raised in defense of English fans and their chant.
So, seeing such consternation, I wanted to hear the song. As you no doubt assumed, it counts down, like the classic “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” as RAF fighters shoot down German bombers during the Blitz:
To be honest, I like it. Sure, we are all allies now, and World War II has been over for a while. But as soccer hooliganism goes, it is pretty mild. And some criticisms of the song, like the claim that it “mocks German casualties,” are ridiculous.
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In 1990 when England lost to Germany in the 1990 FIFA semifinals Margaret Thatcher was asked, “Isn’t it terrible about England losing to Germany in our national sport?”
Maggie replied, “They may have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century”.
“How is this considered offensive? The Scottish anthem talks about Bannockburn and sending the English “home to think again” “
They had to change the words in the Gum Territorial anthem when they opened the place up for tourism in 1980
The words chorus used to be “Sam, Sam, my dear uncle Sam, come kill all the Japanese on Guam!”
Look, I don’t consider myself a racist, but I f***ing hate little greasy ******s and ****s and gaw-damn slop-eating, f***ing fat ******** **** and those ***** *** ****** are worse than ******ing *********** *****, but the absolute worse are the gap-toothed ****** **** ******* and creepy *** *** ***** ***** but the dripping-wet ** ****** are the worse and their women smell like *** ****** *****. And don’t get me started on the fake-ass **** ********* who have the IQ of a **** ****** **** and the common sense of a low-level ***** ****!!!!!”
“TEN GERMAN BOMBERS”
They’ll likely get a taste of One Russian Bomber if they don’t come to their senses.
I thought they whistled “The Dambusters Theme.”
That woman was a Germanophobic POS and I laughed, I must admit, when that hellish being finally croaked.
And she should look at all the wars of her country in the course of history (no, propaganda writings from the World wars don’t count) and then at those of my people. She would have been surprised, but as a dumb creature, she could only follow her ideology, and that was coupled with feminine vindictiveness. But she was a liar from day one, starting with the perjury when she took her oath of Office.
I hope the Britons on this forum, who are lovely people for the most part, may forgive me 😄 - but to me she was Hitler with lipstick.
That is not known in Germany, but maybe…they can dish it out, but not take it.
I replied once to an English fan on the internet, who was saying that there were 150,000 English invaders coming for the 2006 championship, thirsty for German blood.
I replied: Fine. You will all be welcome. We shall turn you all into meat loaf, so we shall all have enough for a huge dinner party. With mint sauce, mashed peas and Yorkshire pudding on the side, mind you 🤣🤣🤣
He somehow didn’t like it. They can dish it out, but they can never take it - though this is, needless to say, a general human character trait; it’s not particular to the English.
That is not known in Germany, but maybe…they can dish it out, but not take it.
I replied once to an English fan on the internet, who was saying that there were 150,000 English invaders coming for the 2006 championship, thirsty for German blood.
I replied: Fine. You will all be welcome. We shall turn you all into meat loaf, so there shall be enough for a huge dinner party. With mint sauce, mashed peas and Yorkshire pudding on the side, mind you 🤣🤣🤣
He somehow didn’t like it. Most people can dish it out, but they can never take it - though this is, needless to say, a general human character trait; it’s not particular to the English or any other nation.
Individuals who can take a „ribbing“ and not be filled with hate afterward are, alas, few and far between. Among the English, and among all nations of the world.
I am no human being, at least I never have identified as such, or with humankind in general. I am an autistic, that’s all.
Still I would like to apologize to all Englishmen on this forum. I didn‘t wish to sound hard.
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Sorry, double posting 😔
Be careful what you wish for.
Another world war is not too unrealistic, considering the present state of the world.
Furthermore, with all the nukes in the hands of Russia, China etc., it is highly unlikely that the Anglo nations will escape with a mere scratch this time…
Yes. Propaganda swing. Crazy, but true.
Isn’t it fascinating, how in wartime, all ideological compunctions (here, even against African-American music) can suddenly be waived? 😀
Fascinating indeed…
American Pilot to Frankfurt ATC. “American 459 requesting instructions for landing...”
ATC “Use runway 45L and approach at blah, blah, blah, and watch out where you park. A lot of you Americans are cowboys, after all.”
American Pilot “American 459 wilco, been to Frankfurt before - but didn’t land.”
An attack on the United States or Britain with nuclear weapons would be suicidal to the attacker.
No doubt about it, but what about the thermonuclear damage inflicted on both countries first? The aggressor always has something of an advantage by striking first. Tens of millions of dead would have to be reckoned with in any case.
Of course, the attacker would suffer similar losses in a retributive strike (the Cold War term of “mutually assured destruction” comes to mind), but what about the tens of millions of dead Americans or Britons? The immeasurable destruction of material and cultural goods?
The traumas of countless survivors, like the Japanese Hibakusha?
Thus,a new world war is something that can, hopefully be avoided.
Whether it will come about, however, will be decided in Moscow, Peking, DC and maybe London, I think.
Lord, have mercy!
Wouldn’t that be “Lighten up, Franz”?
That is what we have lived with for decades. Putin and the Russians know our fear of nuclear war and threaten it in order to induce the US and NATO to act weakly.
P.S.:
When you get nearly destroyed and the rest of you enslaved, as we are until now, you might be a little touchy as a nation…😀
But, as it is, some people in the Outer World simply cannot give it a rest. I think their propaganda writers aka „historians“ never tell them more than a few bits about the other side.
Propagandists in my country always take the side of the outerworldsmen, that’s what they do, and that’s why I don’t listen to them. They are just as credible as academia - or media outlets as „Pravda“ and „Isvestiya“ - were in the late, unlamented Soviet Union.
Strangely, this point of view, this changed perspective, seems to have taken hold in the US and UK too, nowadays.
There is, in these times, so much talk of illegal immigrants‘ rights and of Anglo-Saxon imperialism and collective guilt and all that in the media and the academe - and even in the governments in DC and London et al.
Just a few ramblings of mine. Have a blessed Sunday🙂
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