Kristho's Schland! - Off Topic

[Rucksackfranzose]

37 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

What was the reaction back in Germany when German team played that draw against Austria to get Algeria out ? 

I've heard one German player said I'll score one goal for my girlfriend one for my dog before match against Algeria lol

Anger towards the manager and team mixed with embarassement for them. Many of them players were still critized for it, when the WC was long time gone.

Edit: This match is still labeled "Schande von Gijon" (translates to "Gijon shame") in Germany, by the way.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Rucksackfranzose

[Rucksackfranzose]

45 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

What was the reaction back in Germany when German team played that draw against Austria to get Algeria out ? 

I've heard one German player said I'll score one goal for my girlfriend one for my dog before match against Algeria lol

So a side note the match didn't end in a draw but 1-0 for Germany. Also you'll  might find it interesting some papers only reported about it in their criminal reports section.

[Azeem]

An intimidating language

[Tommy]

6 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

An intimidating language

Not really though. Unless you trust those youtube videos where someone compares German to other languages while shouting in German and trying to pronounce everything exaggeratedly rough. 

[Coma+]

46 today 

Edited September 30, 2022 by Coma

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Just now, Coma said:

Happy birthday!!!

[Bluewolf]

6 minutes ago, Coma said:

46 today 

Happy Birthday mate.. all the best.. 

[Rucksackfranzose]

Have a good one!

[nudge]

@Coma you know who else has birthday today?...

 

[Tommy]

Happy Birthday @Coma! I'll dedicate my first beer tonight to you. 

[Rucksackfranzose]

28 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Happy Birthday @Coma! I'll dedicate my first beer tonight to you. 

Why wait til tonight? Have you first beer now!

[Tommy]

12 minutes ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Why wait til tonight? Have you first beer now!

Not a massive fan of daydrinking. 

[Viva la FCB+]

7 hours ago, Coma said:

46 today 

Happy birthday bud!! enjoy yourself.

[Spike]

11 hours ago, Tommy said:

Not really though. Unless you trust those youtube videos where someone compares German to other languages while shouting in German and trying to pronounce everything exaggeratedly rough. 

It sounds different to foreigners though mate. I don’t know the accents too well but some sound a lot more guttural than others, how Austrians (Puck, Scharzeneggar) talk for instance is a lot more macho sounding than say Timo Werner who has that accent is in the English world is the ‘effeminate sing songy sounding German Eurotrash’ accent, I don’t know really how else to describe it. Our perceptions of what German sounds like is completely different to you, and I assume @Beelzebub’s would be completely different to mine as his first language (which I’m not sure what it is, Punjabi? Pashto? Pakistan has a lot of languages, he probably speaks several) is even further removed from the Germanic language groups. 

[Spike]

@Tommy this is pretty much how we hear it, right or wrong. Werner to me, sounds like the first clip.

 

 

[Rucksackfranzose]

25 minutes ago, Spike said:

It sounds different to foreigners though mate. I don’t know the accents too well but some sound a lot more guttural than others, how Austrians (Puck, Scharzeneggar) talk for instance is a lot more macho sounding than say Timo Werner who has that accent is in the English world is the ‘effeminate sing songy sounding German Eurotrash’ accent, I don’t know really how else to describe it. Our perceptions of what German sounds like is completely different to you, and I assume @Beelzebub’s would be completely different to mine as his first language (which I’m not sure what it is, Punjabi? Pashto? Pakistan has a lot of languages, he probably speaks several) is even further removed from the Germanic language groups. 

Surprising to hear, since the Austrian is one of the softest sounding German dialects. Much less guttural than Swiss German eg.

On a side not Werner sounds effeminate when speaking German as well. Lot to do with his voice and his lisp less with his dialect. , which is actually standard German.

Edited September 30, 2022 by Rucksackfranzose

[Spike]

5 minutes ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Surprising to hear, since the Austrian is one of the softest sounding German dialects. Much less guttural than Swiss German eg.

On a side not Werner sounds effeminate when speaking German as well. Lot to do with his voice and his lisp less with his dialect. , which is actually standard German.

Interesting. I would have thought otherwise with the big strong voices of Wolfgang Puck and Arnie. But maybe I did know that as I know recall in history class the teacher showing us recording of Hitler and then stating that Hitler [would speak closer to a Bavarian (sic) accent as it was commmanding then his native Austrian accent]. I may have the particulars wrong but that is the general gist of it. Kind of amusing really, as if kids in rural Australia can pickup on the idiosyncrasies of the accents of the German language from 60+ years earlier.

[Rucksackfranzose]

2 minutes ago, Spike said:

Interesting. I would have thought otherwise with the big strong voices of Wolfgang Puck and Arnie. But maybe I did know that as I know recall in history class the teacher showing us recording of Hitler and then stating that Hitler [would speak closer to a Bavarian (sic) accent as it was commmanding then his native Austrian accent]. I may have the particulars wrong but that is the general gist of it. Kind of amusing really, as if kids in rural Australia can pickup on the idiosyncrasies of the accents of the German language from 60+ years earlier.

Well Hitler is actually a bad example for the sound of German language since he had a, and can't stretched that enough, very personal intonation and was shouting half of his speeches anyway.

[Spike]

1 minute ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Well Hitler is actually a bad example for the sound of German language since he had a, and can't stretched that enough, very personal intonation and was shouting half of his speeches anyway.

That was the point the teacher was trying to make, that he suppressed his natural accent for a personal intonation. 

[CaaC (John)+]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @Coma

[Azeem]

Germans saying Ja is very pleasant though.

[Tommy]

This German politician though. Praised himself on twitter, but forgot to log onto his alternate account. 

Wolkenkuckkucksheim tho. 

[Azeem]

Is it true customer service is very bad in Germany? like customer is hardly ever right. 

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"Customer is always right" is a bad policy which caters to sociopaths and narcissists, and breeds entitled assholes. My former company's policy when I was working in customer service was basically this - if it's our mistake, we'll apologise and make it right. If it's your mistake but you're nice and polite, we'll do what we can to help you make it right, often at our expense. If it's your mistake and you're a rude and entitled cunt, good luck with it, you're not getting any help. 

[Rucksackfranzose]

26 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

Is it true customer service is very bad in Germany? like customer is hardly ever right. 

It's a cliche brought to the world by English speaking people used to customer services being ass kissing whatever the customer's behaviour. German customer services treat people like they're treated from them.

Edited October 3, 2022 by Rucksackfranzose