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Walter Röhrl

She's really cute, he drives like my mother.

Happy Halloween 2013!

Udmurtia in Russia appears to be a hot-spot for red hair.

Don't worry. I enjoy joking around. You weren't totally bumming me out to the max. Re: conformity; There is a lot of conformity towards class expectations. Taking class barriers out of the schools as much as is practical would reduce such conformity. Children are unique individuals in more ways than...

Folks, The UK government has announced the provision of free school meals to all primary school children between ages five and seven. We have already been providing free meals to the children of poorer families but now the programme will be extended to all, regardless of parent’s income. Proponents...

Obviously more evidence of Obama's incompetence

One would imagine that's how Spengler sees it.

For those of us in need of a laugh Spengler's unintentionally side-splitting column on Russia Some humdingers: "in 2008, when America backed Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's attempt to incorporate Russian-majority provinces on Georgia's borders" Those provinces are South Ossetia an...

Folks, The UK government has announced the provision of free school meals to all primary school children between ages five and seven. We have already been providing free meals to the children of poorer families but now the programme will be extended to all, regardless of parent’s income. Proponents...

Slavs and Germans fought endlessly for 1500 years, culminating in the most destructive war in human history, specifically not to be united. I know what I'm betting on.... Ditto. Mark you, as a Polish politician said recently, Poland is now a normal country , which historically is way abnormal. Unco...

Sorry to hear about the accident. I hope you get better soon. Take it easy.

Slavs and Germans fought endlessly for 1500 years, culminating in the most destructive war in human history, specifically not to be united. I know what I'm betting on.... Ditto. Mark you, as a Polish politician said recently, Poland is now a normal country , which historically is way abnormal. You'...

Good idea, indeed. Diluting that Germanic arrogance with a bit vodka might work... And all the Polabian Slav blood may be why the people of Berlin are so much more pleasant than most Germans. I'm a bit disappointed that nobody got my joke: Lucky Walesa. Lucky he didn't have an accident. :twisted:

How do you cure a nun of hiccups?

Tell her she's pregnant.

Lucky Walesa may be on to something. The Germano-slavic union seems to be working out pretty well for the Sorbs.

We're not in retreat. We're playing an outside game, like the English at Crécy.

Being British is about driving a German Car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, on the way home, you grab an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab to sit on a Swedish sofa and watch USA shows on a Japanese TV. And the thing that nails it? Being inherently suspicious of anything foreign! (with acknowledge...

The end of the Berlusconi era PM Letta wins vote after Berlusconi U-turn Berlusconi had initially promised to topple the government by withdrawing his party's support - a move which prompted the Senate vote. But he backed down when it became clear that several of his senators would back the governme...

Don't mention Kaliningrad

What idiots!

And now they're in NATO (unlike Georgia). So we'd have to defend Lithuania if their stupidity got them in to a war.

In Soviet Union, citizen can write question to Pravda and get back proper communist answer. Someone writes to ask: Is it true that in Moscow, Mercedes cars are given to citizens? Pravda replies: In principle, yes. But not in Moscow, but rather in Leningrad. And not Mercedes cars, but rather Lada ca...

Advice column

Question: Every time we go on vacation, my husband chases skirts. What should I do?

Answer: Take your next vacation in Scotland.

In Soviet Union, citizen can write question to Pravda and get back proper communist answer. Someone writes to ask: Is it true that in Moscow, Mercedes cars are given to citizens? Pravda replies: In principle, yes. But not in Moscow, but rather in Leningrad. And not Mercedes cars, but rather Lada car...

Berlin Owes Greece Billions in WWII Reparations By Georgios Christidis in Thessaloniki A top-secret report compiled at the behest of the Finance Ministry in Athens has come to the conclusion that Germany owes Greece billions in World War II reparations. The total could be enough to solve the countr...

Oh wow! A military coup!

I think it's a hoax. Another military coup in Greece is something I'd have to see on TV to believe.

Then again, we merkins tend to be pretty insular.

Perhaps the U.S. can take them.

Dianda's Italian Bakery and Cafe in Fair Oaks village in California has half a dozen young women from Moldova serving customers.

Russian man shot in quarrel over Immanuel Kant’s philosophy Attacker now faces ten years' incarceration to contemplate the ethics of his actions A philosophical argument over views on Immanuel Kant descended into violent mayhem in southern Russia, leading to a man being shot several times. The disp...