Drang nach Osten.

maybe we need some sharks for them there waters!

That'll explain the fires in the Chunnel then. :)

(Hi Hueg - how's going chicken?)

Hi Shelley. :) Busy chasing after the last warm rays of sun at the moment. It's not only our assets that are getting frozen these days brrr

Life treating you well I hope! :)

Can you say ''strc prst skrz krk''?
It is a czech phrase actually.It means ''stick your finger down your neck.''

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk

very true ;)

Oh yeah... there're lots of such things in Czech. :) I actually love this west-slavic vowelless spelling. If you're asking about modern Russian, then only word "prst" (spelling "perst" in Rus) would be understandable. But it's more like poetical Russian... obsolete word you know... In a daily life we usually use "palez" instead of "perst". Z pronounced as in Deutsch.

Or the other ''pivo dela hezke tela''.(the beer makes beautiful bodies).

Apropos the 'Chunnel of Love', would the French ever be insane enough to demand land back which the Normans conquered back in 1066???

Food for thought-:)-:)

Whoa!!! Serbs, eat your heart out! :)

Hey, druzhe... How do you know? that's my second favourite Czech quote... :)) Pivo dělá hezká těla is a right spelling I think. Seems the topic turns to "chtete mluvit cesky" lessons of Czech. :))


Sure! :) Too bad we don't have something similar in russian...

I use this as a moto with the Diskoteka Avarya song ''piej pivo,pivo piej''.

Drang nach Osten

But of course the German 'volk' needed this 'living space' in the East...And, are not the lands of Poland and the Ukraine theirs by 'natural law'?

I trust you're being ironic. There are though still some lone hold out lunatic fringe supporters of a sort of beefed up 'Lebensraum' program. A German politician, originally from the former Sudeten area, now Czech Republic thank you very much, actually wanted to pass a bill in the Bundesrat or German Senate some years back, challenging the established postwar Polish-German border!!

And he was for real too--:)

Well...borders changed all the time in history...
Who knows about borders in hundred years from now...:)

German dreams.

..which will probably mean somebody else's screams.

I am just disappointed how Germans treat Easter Europe - like Russia dominated territory. Recently Ukrainian Ministry Of Foreign Affaires issued Note Of Protest against appearance of German Foreign Minister Mr. Erler on Russian TV with sentences against Ukraine's NATO membership. I would accept it as a confusion if I never watched German DW - very pro-Russian in everything towards E. Europe.

disappointed how Germans treat Easter

I tend to agree, they go slightly overboard with the whole egg thing and hide the chocolate ones even though fasting is over. Still they make up for it with donuts for all in the bank on pancake day.

Thinking about it is that how we got into this jam in the first place?

What was the question again? :)

Good point..but we have nuclear weapons now :) just let them try :)))) Them damn snail eating heathens ;-) But seriously we should thank the Normans they brought cutlery to Britain :) And thanks to the Romans they gave us roads, not sure what the Saxons brough but they did leave place names behind.

"Them damn snail eating heathens;-)....."

Tutt, tutt Shel! Musn't lose one's temper. (...even though I'm inclined to agree, he-he!!)

"But seriously we should thank the Normans; they brought cutlery to Britain :).."

Yeah, and a fat lot of good it did you! Now everyone had but another weapon to hurl at a potential adversary, after it had been used to spear food, that is--:)

And "seriously", while we're on the subject, had Will the Conquering Hero never set foot on Saxonland, our spelling wouldn't have become as f_ _ _ _d up as it is, and has been for some time. Hey, there's a good 'ol Saxonism -:). Sorry, I meant 'sullied'. Not as common sounding, plus it's Latin derived.

Drang nach Osten? Hmm...is this some kind of anagram? ;)

I'm an evil tory bigot, this was the best one. For who?

its reality, its process

I've read more about this, it was a major policy move. Quite tragic how cavalier they were about it too.

Where here? In Europe? I daresay we arrived in Europe at the same time, in Gdańsk? We, the Poles built it, in Poznań? Also Polish built, Wrocław? Built by Czechs and taken over by Poles (so even here we were before you guys) so BB where exactly were you first?


Even here you put a blanket statement, Olsztyn i'm forced to agree was first built by Teutonic Knights but for example Szczecin was built by Slavs and first governed by Poles and specifically Mieszko I and his descendandts, even Bydgoszcz is first mentioned as a Polish city in 1238 and later occupied by TO so where were you "first?"

You could probably argue about TO but they arrived to an area typically inhabited by Poles and other nations for over 4 centuries so no you were not first, not in Pomerania, not in Wrocław and Poznań.

:)

Now you are near Berlin...Polish "Drang nach Westen" tsk :)

*Yawn* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EasternEurope750BC.png

And here we have Lusatians well before that :))) We can play with proto expansion maps all day, including early slavic settlements in and around modern day Berlin the hard fact is that we built 90% of cities there, the first chronicles in the region are written in latin by our people, the first stone buildings are chapels built by Poles, the first roads, harbors, villages etc etc, thats hard archeological evidence.

Besides its not our fault that you're dying out, your border towns are peachy with Polish inhabitants, regardless of stereotypes we do work hard, pay our taxes and thats in time when you have less and less of your own people to do that.

I guess we won't have to worry about the next invasion. :)

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40% of German soldiers too fat






I couldn't edit my photo above because I get a message that it is being censored by Admin. Must be an error, right?

guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/06/germany.armedforces?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Nope, the Germanics were there before you! Before us there were only some Celts (poor sods).
You asked...:)


What invasion??? We just come over....:)
(So do you!)
There are no borders anymore. In the future the regional belonging will count much more in another generation or two.

I was in Olsztyn a couple weeks ago and it was full of German tourists. They are doing recon, I bet. :)

I was reading about the Buneswehr in Afganistan recently and they are limited by parliament to only responding when attacked by the Taliban. Nothing like waiting to be attacked. Politicians know best what goes on in the field.

In shorts and with white socks trying to blend in with the natives I bet!!!

Ain't gonna cut it. The natives have black socks. Very chic.

Really? Then what great cities have you built there? Poznań, Gdańsk, Szczecin all the major urban centres in the region have been built by Poles unless of course we include farming communities by the Germanic tribes as a claim virtually all civilized infrastructure we established?

The amusing bit about German premonitions about civilization is that we ddint kick out German tribes, we didnt take over the existing settlements, the places we mention are scratch built by Poles, we literally brought civilization and urbanisation to all lands we inhabit and you claim as yours (with the exlusion of Wrocław, that was the Czech domain).

The "German cities" you mention are all built by Poles and for the majority of their existence inhabited by Poles, but yeah i agree before we came and built cities, castles, roads and churches there were Germanic hunters-gatherers and some villages there, question is that does justify said eastern expansion if everything of note was built by us Poles.