I'm pretty sure the dude's just having a good time because he's at a concert and he's all young and shit. He's probably high, too. Look at that glorious blue sky! Who wouldn't be joyous on such a perfect day when they're all young and high and shit? Dude, I'm old, it's dark and I'm not even at a concert (full disclosure: I am listening to Lord Huron's new album and it's fucking amazing. There's some stuff that's not up to their other work, and a weird 14-minute filler piece at the end, but Drops In The Lake might become the most beloved Lord Huron song ever) and I'm totally joyous right now. I'm also stoned out of my mind, so take that as a plus, a minus or a none-of-the-above. Look, all I'm saying is there's a cute video video of a sheep standing down a Border Collie. Props to the sheep for having the kinda balls it doesn't have anymore, but fucking with a Border Collie is asking for that dog to fuck up your tax return later. So yeah, y'know, cute dog and cute sheep and some Welshman who knows he's getting some pussy tonight and if that dog screws this up, it ain't gonna be the sheep getting fucked. That's life in Wales, man. Those dudes will fuck anything. I mean, if I was stuck in Wales with nothing else to do, I'd be looked at our four-legged friends in a far more than friendly way, too. Also, they don't have vowel mines there so they're stuck spelling words with all contestants and chunks of coal for punctuation. NO idea how that little linguistic hiccup got passed the Proto-Germanic language tree, but people in Quebec speak a language that's completely similar to French, only without the word order, the grammar and any words that are actually in French. The French hate that shit because they're French and no one in Europe is being all shirty these day. Except that dude in Belarus who apparently doens't know what an utter fucking legend the guy who runs Ryanair is. Fucking hell this shit's good. Anyway, the whole point of this was that a dog, a sheep and a Welshman walk into a bar and the bartender asks the man what he wants. And the Welshman tells, in exceedingly graphic detail, what he wants while the sheep and the collie listen in horror, straining against their leads and praying Pop-Up Darwin will suddenly appear and gift them opposable thumbs, a cellphone, and a SIM card that actually works in fucking Wales, because those vowel-less cocksuckers have a totally different cell system than the rest of the UK. Shit, you try to make a call to anywhere in Gwfjhsrmflsslll, the first thing you notice is that numbers have apparently joined the vowels in being MIA, and you're trying to explain that you just want to make a call to London and the operator is speaking some language that'd scare the shit outta C'htulu and finally you just give up and hop back on the Ryanair flight to JFK while scanning constantly for Mig-29s.

Anyway, be happy.

Scheisse!

I love the German language

I'm just beginning to learn the German language, I love it and find it hilarious at the same time. Die Toten Hosen! Bwahahaha

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Hehe. I had to think about it for a second before I knew what he meant with "gopfertamti." A northern german would have been unlikely to understand the phrase, but my dialect (swabian) and his dialect (high alemannic) are related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German (It's funny to hear french people from the Alsace with a related dialect in a different language.)
That's also why you can't get a translation from the internet, it's more of a dialect than a variant.

In recent years the swiss got increasingly anti-german and their school-classes of high german language lose popularity. (Edit: Dunno why I wrote that, probably to underline the relation between politics and language)

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Thanks for your reply. I suspect a field trip would help me understand more, particularly in Oktoberfest season : Well, maybe one day.

Thanks also for posting the English translation of that Swiss German insult, google translate really had no idea (try it in yourself, but for me it passed it through unaltered and didn't even try to translate!).

>> ^luxury_pie:

The word "Kuhchen" doesn't exist in the German language. Although there is "Kuh" for cow and "Kuchen" for cake.
Though Kuhchen must be some mysterious cake-like item which contains some sort of cowish ingridient.


Oh, I read it as a diminutive of "Kuh" parallell to "Mädchen". But I'm new to the German language.

The word "Kuhchen" doesn't exist in the German language. Although there is "Kuh" for cow and "Kuchen" for cake.
Though Kuhchen must be some mysterious cake-like item which contains some sort of cowish ingridient.

>> ^Crake:
"All the other large and small tribes and peoples have the first mission to perish in the revolutionary world storm."
and here's the definition of the verb "zu untergehen" - compare the original German title of the movie The Downfall: "Der Untergang"
Sorry to harp on, but optimistic mistranslation of Marx' works isn't something the world needs


Sorry to harp on, but your lack of proficiency in the German language isn't something the world needs either. "Untergehen" can be, in some instances, translated as "perish" but only in the sense of material/conceptual destruction over a period of time. For example, you can say that a culture has perished or a now-ruined city comes from a civilization that has perished. I.e.: "untergehen" is figurative and much more soft than perish. In fact, the primary meaning is "to sink". Compare untergehen and perish in the Pons dictionary. Also remember that the film "Der Untergang" is translated as "Downfall" and not "Holocaust" or "Perish" or whatever.

A more literal translation is this: "All other tribes and peoples, large and small, have from their inception this Mission, to sink in the revolutionary global storm." It simply means that all cultural differences between men and women over the world will be erased when the proletarian revolution takes effect globally. They thought once a critical mass of workers got together, the proletarian revolution would suddenly take the world by storm and bring equality/liberty/autonomy, hence the metaphor here of cultures going down the drain in favor of the "dictatorship of the proletariat".

As edeot already mentioned, I also believe nested comments would be great. The threads would be more interesting and/or entertaining if this were available. Other ideas:

1. I've said it a hundred times before, but it bears repeating: More video hosts. Here are some solid hosts that have had a presence on the internet for over a couple of years already:

- FunnyOrDie
- 5MinLife
- blip.tv
- MyVideo.de - Sure, it's a German-language host, but they already have many videos here.
- Current TV
- Reuters - hopefully that will encourage more world news videos

BTW, none of those are region-blocked

2. Fix Vimeo and CollegeHumor so that sub-Gold members can post videos. It's my understanding that they're unable to post videos from them right now.

3. Replace the iFilm logo with Spike TV, because that's what iFilm became well over a year ago. Go ahead and type in 'www.ifilm.com' and see what happens. iFilm is no más. And then fix it so that sub-Gold members can embed their videos.

4. Thumbnails, thumbnails, thumbnails! I'm not talking about thumbnails for every video site under the sun; just give us thumbnail pictures for all of our approved hosts. Right now none of these approved hosts have thumbnail pictures:

- Google
- The Onion
- VideoJug
- Spike TV (formerly iFilm)
- MySpace
- Yahoo!
- DailyMotion
- NBC
- MTV Music
- Comedy Central
- Hulu
- Game Trailers
- Veoh

In fact we only have seven out of the 20 approved hosts that have thumbnail pics. Those are CollegeHumor, YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo, Break, Revver, and LiveLeak. If you want people to post from more approved sites, I think you need to give us more thumbnail pics. They usually boost vote tallies, as most experienced members already know.

BTW, both Atom Films and Comedy Central use the MTV Music player, so if you can get thumbnail pics for MTV Music videos then you should be able to do the same for Atom Films and Comedy Central, which are both owned by Viacom. Viacom also owns Spike TV, but they still use a different player than the others I just mentioned.

5. Get rid of both the hobbling and Siftquisition features. Like I said before, they're good ideas in theory, but in practice they've done more harm than good.

6. Give us the option to block any user from commenting on our profile pages. This should hopefully lead to less squabbling.

7. Put up all the unassigned channels for bid, going to the members with the most star points. We have too many unassigned channels, and many of those get misused because of this.

8. Provided it doesn't significantly increase bandwidth or other operational costs, give us a game room. The membership was in favor of it, so make it so, but ONLY if it doesn't increase your costs significantly.

9. Crown members get the privilege of prima noctis with probationary members, as God has ordained it our right.

Oh this video has so many things going for it:
* Insane waterslide I'd LOVE to go on
* Cute female in bikini
* The german language... which to my ear that understands nothing other than the counting heard 'testies' and 'shaft' at points during that... but I think that speaks more to my mindset than what was actually being said

tee hee...since partial is copied here, I feel I must share some banter, if it's ok with jonny...

took too long-
"hehehe.....Now the admins will have to take away the star point-I'll tell dag er Lucky, cause I'd feel real bad to have stole-(not really, I fixed a bunch of Simpsons clips with Spanish and German language versions.....Cheers jonny"

-copied from a pm to jonny....

better Czjeck all my fixes-some are good, some are spot-on, some are better.l Never a dull moment!

bimmer vs beemer is a car vs bike thing i think.

Source: Wikipedia
The term "beemer" started as an acronym for the abbreviation "BMW," adapted from the early-20th century British pronunciation of BSA (as "beeser" or "beezer"), whose motorcycles were often racing BMWs. Over time, the term became closely associated with BMW motorcycles.

The term "bimmer" was later coined to refer (exclusively) to BMW automobiles. As such, use of the word "beemer" to refer to a BMW automobile is frowned upon by some BMW enthusiasts, because it is the term used for motorcycles. Although the distinction is completely arbitrary, to this day, the media, movies, and most people still use the term "beemer" to refer to the automobiles. Interestingly, in the German language, the common pronunciation of the term "bimmer" is "beemer."

The initials BMW are pronounced "beh emm veh" in German. The model series are referred to as "Dreier" ("Three-er" for 3 series), "F

That's actually a good question. the swiss have always felt kind of being isolated in europe and it's still pretty much this way. first, in the middle ages, they were a bunch of farmers who ruled themselves (instead of having nobles to do so) and gained their independence in lots of wars against their neighbours (territories of noble families such as the habsburg-dynasty) between 1300 and 1525. (imagine how popular you get, when your "army" of 1500 peasants beat 4000 well equiped knights) and later, the swiss where the only one in europe to transfer their republic in a modern democracy (they basically copied the us-constituion in 1848) while the other countries were still monarchies. there were numerous occasions where a war could have broken out (with germany). only england and the "sister republic" USA (as ben franklin once called it) supported the tiny country (30'000 sq. miles(!) so this whole "not being a part of europe, being the lone wolf", is deep in the swiss psyche and manifests itself by switzerlands hesitation to join international organisations (un not until 2002, eu no, nato no) and vice versa by the lack of understanding by many european countries for the basic democratic system in switzerland (all important issues decided by referenda, no full-time members of parliamet, no single "leaders" - mayors, governors, presidents - but only collective bodies - town council, governmental council - federal council) with that in mind and especially the experience of being rounded up by a hostile force in the 2nd world war, it's no surprise that the swiss always felt they had to be armed and well prepared. but things were worse than today. during the cold war, (where switzerland strongly opposed the soviet union but wasn't part of nato) there were 650'000 (militia)soldiers, 500+ battle tanks, 1500 m113-apc and 300+ jet fighters awaiting the red invasion. nowadays, the army, reduced to 200'000 with 300 leo2 battle tanks and 50 F-18 and 100 f-5, shrunk considerably and is desperately looking for new tasks. (note: there's a peoples initiative called "gsoa - movement for a switzerland without army", that urged for a referendum to abolish the army that was approved by 30% of voters in 2001).
but it's a long way to go until we'll be a "normal" country, i'm always reminded of this when i see my automatic rifle in the closet. (they hand out the full equipment to the soldier - every man between 20 and 35 - to be able to fully mobilise in 48 hours). strange? yes, indeed. but of course, beside that, the country offers great things: the highest quality of living (according to a study, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich), extensive public transport - trains running to and from everywhere from 5am to 1am, low taxes, a liberal (gay marriage approved by referenda) and in general environmental friendly policy and a society, that is able to integrate 1 million refugees only with minor problems, one of the lowest crime rates in the world and so on....probably not the worst place to live - at least as long as more money is spent on public transport than on defence. and if life gets too boring, you're in paris, berlin, rome, within 4-8 h, by train or car...

and because of the ill-gotten wealth. that's an tough point. are your refering to the banking deals with the nazis? well, that's a point. but banks are not the most important companies that contribute to our wealth (i only mention insurances, chemical industry, tourism, machine industry, computer industry - guess where the tft-lcd display technology was researched and where logitech was founded). in 1848 - see above - switzerland was the poorest country in europe. with democracy and individual (economical) freedom there came growth and by 1914 it was an industrialised country just as the rest of europe. then this rest decided to go to war, to kill each other and to end the world as it was known. switzerland took care of the refugees and feared german invasion, but not more. so our country survived relatively unharmed. then a few years later, the nazis took power in our neigbour country to the north. the first anti-nazi comments where published the same day in the zurich based german language newspaper "neue zürcher zeitung" what had the consequence, that swiss newspapers where banned in germany from then on. switzerland was also the only country in europe, where extremist parties (left and right) were NEVER in the parliament. lot's of german (jewish or not) refugees came to switzerland but most moved to the US when the war broke out. when the war broke out, suddenly there were only germany and german occupied territory around. as a country heavily depending on imports (no natural resources except water and stone), switzerland had to arrange itself with germany. the swiss were guaranteed coal and steel imports and germany got the right to ship goods in sealed trains through the country to its ally italy. the swiss struggled to produce the necessary food that was needed. football stadiums, parks and gardens were used to plant potatoes. 20'000 bunkers and 10'000 km of anti tank walls were built because the only question in peoples minds was when the germans invade, not if. german air force planes flew into swiss airspace to provoke airfights. (ironically, the swiss shot down several of them). but as it was pointed out in recent years, other things happened. a super dutifully swiss bureaucrat suggested the "j" stamp in german passports for jewish citizens! a bunch of right wing politicians said "the boat is full", meaning that no more refugees should be allowed to cross borders. and banks (independent companies) made business with slaughters. but what did the government do? they tried their best to keep switzerland out of the war without giving up freedom and democracy - there was no censorship - facing the immense problem of imports. and the people? german speaking swiss (60%) are traditionally anti-german, french speaking (30%) saw the fate of france and the italian speaking strongly opposed the italian fascists as well - also because fascists both in italy and germany always kind of pointed out that the swiss who spoke their language should actually be part of their respective "reichs". and there were not at least brave individuals, such as border-guards who - risking their own lives - helped refugees whether jews, gypsies or socialists cross the border "illegally". after the war, sure, switzerland was the only country whose cities were not destroyed. and that gave us a advance in the economical recovery. but i think, much more than this cruel examples of immoral, disgusting and greedy behaviour, the fact that switzerland is a very stable country with grass-root-democracy and a highly skilled labour force (in minimum speaking 3 languages, 2 of the country and english) as well as its geographical position in the middle of europe are responsible for the economical success. of course, we should never forget what happened, and we must keep on studying our past, that such things will never happen again. but i think thats more or less true for every country or society....

sorry 'bout the much too long answer. hope your question was not a rhetorical one...