Let them eat Wurst

New York Post ^ | July 13 2003 | Ralph Peters

[knighthawk]

MY heart breaks: Sniffing in Teutonic superiority, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has cancelled his Italian vacation!

Apart from the fact that Italy, the home of grace and beauty, doesn't need any more loud, fat krauts polluting its environment, there's an even more important matter involved: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi doesn't take any crap from Eurocrats and the self-righteous sons and daughters of the SS.

[knighthawk]

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[freedumb2003]

In a related post....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945236/posts

[Support Free Republic]

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[aruanan]

The grunting, barking duo were a mockery of all things decent about humankind.

Ha ha ha. And yet I know at least 5 Germans who are some of the sweetest people I've ever met. I also know one who goes more toward the description above.

[dr_who_2]

Bloody fat German tourists.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Forget the fact that the German contribution to the Renaissance was the realization that you could fit more beer in a bigger mug

Uh....this was sort of an important contribution....because at the time..it put a lot of French dishwashers out of work.

[egarvue]

Did you ever notice that in television commercials, the Italians are the only ethnic group left where its ok to stereotype them? I'm thinking of the Olive Garden commercials especially. Notice there's no Irish or Black or Hispanic or Asian stereotypes in commercials; but man, if its somthing remotely Italian, then-a you have-a the stereotype-a Italianos with-a food obssesione. Maybe its because the Italians don't play the victim game, I don't know...

[habs4ever]

Now Ralphie, Dusseldorf is about the prettiest,most affluent and gracious city in Germany, and Germany doesn't lack for beautiful places to visit.Leipzig in the other hand...

[Tin-Legions]

I just got back from Rome. Loved it. However, Italy is no place of grace or supreme culture anymore. Rome was the dirtiest city I've seen in Europe, besides Skopje, Macedonia. There are beggars on every corner. The place reeks of human urine on a hot day. You don't see that in Germany. A friend of mine said the rest of Italy is the same. I did notice they have made Mussolini as kind of a cult figure down there.

Don't read me wrong. I've lived in Germany for three years now, and cannot wait to leave. I cannot stand these lazy, rather incompetent socialist goofs that now populate Germany. But the Italians are not much better-just a little nicer to tourists. They smell just as bad, though.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Jesus boots (that combination of sandals and dark wool socks so beloved by northern Europeans).

LMAO!! What a funny, well written article. Go Italy!

(this article is much more enjoyable that the one about the fried penis)

[knighthawk]

And what about the Russian cat killed by a contract killer?

Russian sniffer cat killed in alleged contract killing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945254/posts

[tom h]

I agree with you -- Germany is cleaner and more affluent than Italy -- but I think you missed the point of his article, which was meant to be both biting and tongue-in-cheek.

[jocon307]

"Maybe its because the Italians don't play the victim game..."

They don't, this is true. Very high self-esteem group, the Italians. But, it cannot be denied, they are obsessed with food. And not without good reason. I read the other day that if you want to live a long life, not be thin, but live long and stay healthy, you should eat a Mediterranean diet, what the Italians and Greeks eat.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Rutsiq was originally adopted as a stray at a police check point in the Stavropol region, but he quickly became Russia's only sniffer cat when his ability to find hidden sturgeon was discovered.

To think that some people around here think cats are worthless. Poor kitty!

[fightinJAG]

Poor Gerhard may have to settle for that incomparable paradise on earth, Dusseldorf in July.

HAHAHAHAAAAAAHHAAA

[McGavin999]

BRAVO Italia! It's time they stood up for themselves and stopped allowing the Germans and french to paint them as almost third world. The country is beautiful and the people are gracious, and there's no reason to strike a subserviant position to the french and Germans.

[elhombrelibre]

Yes, but Germans really do stink. All the money they save on soap could fund a really good army. They are now talking about an ad campaign to show how sexy they are and what swell hedonist they are. Just take a bath, Hans. Take a bath.

[elhombrelibre]

The ad campaigned is aimed at showing the world that Germans are not like the stereotypes presented of them. They don't fit those old sterotypes. Now, they're mostly lazy and anti-Americans who think Schroeder is a real stud.

[Prodigal Son]

Yes, but Germans really do stink.

My wife doesn't stink.