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"First effect of Hartz VI: German takes over Polish man's job."

Hartz IV is a government policy allegedly designed to cope with unemployment and getting people back to work. Allegedly.

Date: 22/4/05 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toxicpixie.livejournal.com
It's either that or management; after all, it's not as if he has any actual useful skills!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

Date: 22/4/05 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I would be surprised if he wasn't any good at tapping a keg of beer.

Think of Bavarian monks what you will but you can't deny their brewing skills. "What, we aren't allowed to eat for 40 days? No problem, we just brew a beer that has the same nutritional value." ;o)

Date: 22/4/05 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toxicpixie.livejournal.com
So he's a substance abuser as well as a religous nut, marvellous.

At least this one doesn't have any nukes.

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

Date: 22/4/05 04:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
How do you know he doesn't have any nukes?

Date: 22/4/05 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toxicpixie.livejournal.com
Only by proxy, and I suspect G.W. is the wrong flavour of Christian nutbag for him :)

I can't see the Ayatollahs, the Rabbi's or the Confuciounists giving him access. In fact, Catholocism is probably the only major world relgion without it's own crop of nukes.

Bizarre!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

Date: 22/4/05 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
So he's a substance abuser as well as a religous nut,

How do you get abuse from that? Brewing & consuming beer is a godly pastime, and certainly not abuse. And anyway, nuts go well with beer (although it remains to be seen whether Papa Ratzi will prove to be dry roasted or ready salted...)

Date: 22/4/05 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toxicpixie.livejournal.com
Hahahahahaha!

If all you do is drink beer for 40 days, then I think that goes under substance abuse quite well.

if it doesn't, then I'm off to the pub for a month ;)

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

Date: 22/4/05 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
if it doesn't, then I'm off to the pub for a month ;)

welcome to the German philosophy of life

And they didn't just drink beer for 40 days- they prayed as well, you know

Date: 22/4/05 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toxicpixie.livejournal.com
"Oh Lord, deliver me from this hangover... ooo, a beer! Cheers Lord!"

And isn't supposed to be the English style of life? We're always getting accused of drinking too much!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

Date: 22/4/05 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
The English drink too much over a short period of time (i.e. three or four hours at the pub on a Friday or Saturday night), the Germans drink more in total but spread it out evenly over the day and week.
We don't binge drink, we drink all the time. ;o)

Date: 22/4/05 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
We don't binge drink?

Date: 22/4/05 03:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
NICE!

and Bild had a headline "Wir sind Pabst

Date: 22/4/05 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Yes, silliest headline ever.

Papst.

I know, I know, I make this mistake myself often enough.

Date: 22/4/05 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I know this one, too, one of the best Zwiebelfisches recently.

However, up until the papal elections, I didn't know it is "das Konklave".

Date: 22/4/05 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
ditto- it makes no sense either- all it means is "with key", and since when has the latin gender affected the German? I think it is just a conspiracy of newspaper journalists, as no one was sure and they decided to agree on something...

Date: 22/4/05 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophyq.livejournal.com
I read that as 'polish man' as in, erm... furniture polish. Hey, d'you think the pope-mobile would have duster attachments?

Date: 22/4/05 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
or french polish...

First I had "Pole's job" but that was equally odd.

Date: 22/4/05 04:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
German takes over job of a Pole

Date: 22/4/05 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
And why not? I still have a double CD Album featuring the Pope, so why not have some gyrating to those rhythms?

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