German lawmakers embarrass their envoy in S.F. (Germans Gone Wild!)

San Francisco Chronical ^ | August 24, 2008 | Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross

[buccaneer81]

I work for a German-owned company. This article is spot-on as far as behaviour I have witnessed at my office. Germans are some of the most arrogant people on Earth.

[phrogphlyer]

Sounds like the “ugly American” might have some competition from the “ugly European.” (Not that we didn’t already know that.)

[SandRat]

Try working with a Frenchman especially a Parisian.

[Veto!]

Funny. I’m in the middle of an extended email chat with my German friend from SF who always insists that Germans are much more civilized than Americans, have better food, manners, everything.

I rather like how arrogant and spunky she is — we’ve had lots of fun, though every time we get together she insults me right off the bat and I have to remind her that she cannot talk to me that way. She looks surprised, apologizes, and we go on to have a great time.

A Hillary supporter, she’s not going to vote for Obama — nor for McCain.

[Ben Reyes]

“Germans are some of the most arrogant people on Earth.”

Would that be like ‘Democrats without PC’?

[Berlin_Freeper]

(Germans Gone Wild!)

“theater and concert events and shopping,”

If you call that wild you never been to Ibiza.

[dfwgator]

Just don’t mention the war.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Germans are some of the most arrogant people on Earth.

Perhaps the real reason Germany invaded France in 1940?

Couldn't stand the thought of being in second place?

[stripes1776]

Try working with a Frenchman especially a Parisian.

Or a Swiss German. Achtung!

[kcvl]

The group were due to take a sightseeing trip around San Francisco, but one delegate, Annette Widmann-Mauz, 42, had broken her foot. When Mr Schütte provided her with a wheelchair, the Christian Democrat MP complained that it was “a chair for the sick with small wheels, the kind you see in old US movies”.

Concerned that she would not be able to move the chair, her colleague, Randolph Krüger, a Social Democrat from Potsdam, reportedly said: “We need a negro who can push the wheelchair.”

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[MovementConservative]

Whatever. So they came and acted like a bunch of conventioneers in Las Vegas. In San Francisco how can anyone embarass themselves? That city doesn’t have any shame, as evidenced by their mayor and those so-called gay pride parades.

[MovementConservative]

Whatever. So they came and acted like a bunch of conventioneers in Las Vegas. In San Francisco how can anyone embarass themselves? That city doesn’t have any shame, as evidenced by their mayor and those so-called gay pride parades.

[OCC]

"We need a n- who can push the wheelchair,"

A non-Jew?

[kcvl]

Annette Widmann-Mauz

[kcvl]

Asked about the racist comment by Der Spiegel, Krüger merely said he “wouldn’t rule out that I said that. If they produce such a fabulous contraption then they should have at least helped out.”

[buccaneer81]

Would that be like ‘Democrats without PC’?

Yes, but with nicer suits.

[buccaneer81]

"The special tonight is Eva Prawns..." LOL!

[buccaneer81]

Ahh...those Aryan eyes!

[RichInOC]

“The people at the consulate appear to be used to getting drunk tourists out of prison, but are unaware of the sort of service they should give to German MPs,” Krüger said.

“We don’t do that here, sir. You’ll have to go to the Castro for that.”

[buccaneer81]

Whatever. So they came and acted like a bunch of conventioneers in Las Vegas.

Yeah, but when your own consulate rats you out, it has to spectacularly bad behaviour.