How Deutsch are you? Positive Germany thread

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Wooooooooo!,,, 4 3 2 1!!! Earth below. Drifting falling!

You know as a 1st generation half German I really wonder why male pattern baldness and thin hair is such a strong trait in our people.

And let's not forget THE THINNEST BOOK ON EARTH: '3 AGES of GERMAN HUMOR'

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Aldi = German
Trader Joe's = German
Pathmark = German

A nation that gave us giants like Leibnitz, Gauss, Riemann,
Schopenhauer, Goethe and Heisenberg is to be reckoned with.
Let's not forget Rammstein.

My Dad had thick black wavy hair, then of course it was salt and pepper but always thick hair.

German Inventions

X-Ray

Everyone’s favourite superpower was discovered by chance in 1895 in Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s laboratory at the University of Würzburg. The new part of the light spectrum was named simply Röntgen for several decades, a name that has stuck in several languages, including German, to this day.

Jet engine

This one might not do much for Germany’s environmental credentials, but the next time you go on holiday, you should thank the Germans that you aren’t wobbling through the lower atmosphere in a crate attached to a wheezing propeller. As with many major inventions, the development of the jet stretches over many decades (even centuries) and countries, but Hans van Ohain has one of the best claims. The German engineer began his own design for a jet engine in 1935. The idea took off – literally – when he met aircraft industrialist Ernst Heinkel, who immediately saw the potential. A series of prototypes reached their climax with a petrol-fuelled engine attached to a simple plane - the He 178, which had its maiden flight in the northeastern coastal town of Rostock in August 1939.

Car

If you don’t count steam-powered contraptions made in the 18th century France, the origin of the car is as German as sausages, sauerkraut and sandals. It was Nikolaus August Otto who first invented an internal combustion engine that could burn petrol in an internal piston chamber and he did it in 1876 in Cologne.
It took several other German geniuses to put Otto’s four-stroke marvel on wheels. The most notable of these were Karl Benz in Mannheim (1886) and Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart (1889).

MP3

While the German influence on pop music itself is limited to a few timeless songs about balloons and satellites, the influence on the music market has now become impossible to calculate. That’s thanks to the development in the late 1980s and early 1990s of the music compression technique that became known as MP3.
The MP3 was invented by the Fraunhofer research institute, which has become an immense European-wide hive of innovation and application-based inventions.

Computer

That’s right, the computer is a German invention. As The Local reported in April last year, the first computer was built in the living room of one Konrad Zuse in 1936. His “Z1” is now acknowledged as the first programme-controlled digital computer. It was the size of a double bed.

Zuse also went on to devise the first ever programming language in the 1940s, and many modern mathematicians regard him as a pioneering genius. Part of the reason you’ve never heard of him is that he failed to find commercial success. Hardly anyone in post-war West Germany recognized the potential of Zuse’s creations, and he failed to get investors to help with the enormous development costs. His company Zuse KG, founded in the state of Hesse, was soon overtaken by giants IBM and Siemens, who bought him out in 1967.

LCD

Now that we all spend approximately 60 percent of our lives ruining our eyes staring at them, it’s pleasing to know that liquid crystals were first discovered in cholesterol extracted from carrots. This was done by Austrian chemist Friedrich Richard Reinitzer in 1888, but the father of liquid crystal technology is now universally acknowledged as Otto Lehman from Karlsruhe in western Germany.
The main reason for this is that Lehman apparently had a better microscope than Reinitzer, who actually wrote to the German to get him to check what he thought he had found. Lehman’s microscope was equipped for study crystals at high temperatures, and after years of study, Lehman published his paper “Liquid Crystals” in Leipzig in 1904. Reinitzer went back to studying vegetables.

lol!

LOL! True. friend works for the Deutchlanders and they totally underestimated the size of the country when they launched their business here. And are now like, "it takes how long to fly to California"?

I thought that the Muslims had already taken over in the Netherlands.

I find the concept of an American "collective indentity-crisis" to be amusing. I am a Southerner, that is my Nationality, then an American. We feel the same way about people coming here from Yankeeland or anywhere else, you may live here for decades, but you will always be an outsider.

Less than 5% of the Dutch population are Muslim, and 0.001% of those want to take over Holland.

0.0000000001% of these 0.001% are capable of imagining a way of how to make a start doing so, and they have been extradited to the USA where they spend the rest of their lives in secret CIA-prisons.

I see your Raab and raise you a Schneider! (Jungend Frei - oben ohne!)




Es gibt Reis!

Last Edited by PiggyGalore on 02/09/2013 04:55 AM

how saxon am i? the hardest hardcore of the german feodorati against rome "on my command unleash hell"