Why AfD is the most important party in Germany

And still... tiny woman Merkel tells them where frog has its curls... :)

Is it some German idiomatic expression? Btw, how tall is Angela Merkel, do you know?

Gulliver is subdued for now. But you know the rest of story



Story about Serbians

Yeah....jemandem zeigen wo der Frosch die Locken hat, heh:)


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Serbian woman Tajana Tajcic that is married to Johann Gudenus, former deputy of Vienna mayor from Freedom Party also traveled to Ibiza.



Did Tajana Tajcic outplayed Strahe and Kurc?

And, do Serbians coming to repay the debt to Austria?

I think that in Polish the expression goes: jemandem zeigen wo die Krebse überwintern (however, the dictionary says its German counterpart is: 'jemandem zeigen was eine Harke ist').

Yeah...that's true! But I prefer the "frog" saying...it's so much funnier! :)

I think I heard it first during sport event comments....

"To reveal someone's weaknesses" would be a possible, if far less idiomatic translation, I think.

Definitely lookworthy:

youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI

"This video shows the borders and populations of each country in Europe, for every year since 400 BC"

With music and in easy colors....great work! I wish history education could be so concise!

Hach ja..my good ol HRE :)

Where is Weimarer? Without him, this thread makes no sense.

Very interesting, but I could see some minor inadequacies regarding the Polish-German border. There is no trace of the westward advance of Polish king Boleslaus the Brave who took Upper Lusatia from the Germans in 2002 and kept it as a Polish province until his death in 1025. A piece treaty of 1018 in Bautzen signed between the Brave and Henry II formally sanctioned this advance of Poland into the West (the Polish "Drang nach Westen"?), but eventually the disputed territory was re-gained by Germany in 1031. After the year 1018 the alliances changed, however, and Henry II supported the Brave in his raid to Kiev which he succesfully captured and installed a new prince of Ruthenia there.

Great post BB.
The historical accuracy may not be 100% as Ziem said, but as a quick overall picture it is excellent.
It shows how the major powers in Europe have eventually settled down.
It also shows that Germany and Russia saw Poland as a rising threat to their power and had to do something about it.
France on the other hand supported Poland only to fight German influence.
And we must never forget Turkey.

Only in the heads of the top a-holes. The guys who would eventually be used as obedient tools wanted to stay home, bang their girlfriends, and have a cig when done. They didn't even know or care where Poland was.

Somehow I knew you would say that (or any other Pole for that matter) ! :)

But the author stated: "Vassal states and colonies are not included in the count of a country's population"

So, maybe it's not 100% but still, the work he did put into it is astounding, and it gives a great overview over european history....


Definitely! But still...this settling down is just a very short time compared to the millennia's of ever changing borders and wandering populations.
Beg's the question if this now really is the "retirement"...or only a short respite.


Maybe! But I personally always have problems to see Turkey as european at all....

An interesting video, but it does simplify the depiction for the sake of modern viewers quite a bit. The reality for the people were often quite different, than we might think, and issues like religion (as in which religion their ruler had and thus what religion was legal in their country) was more important to them his supposed nationality (because that rarely affected them, no peasant was suddenly required to learn a different language). Rulers often prioritized territories that were outside their "national" realm. English kings spent often more time with securing their territoriy in France (where they were subjects of the French kings) than in England, with the famous Richard "Lionheart" a noteworthy example (they also spoke predominantly French for a long time). Many Holy Roman Emperors did the same with prioritizing Italy, Bohemia or Luxemburg, because those were the seats of their power.


A nice example for a conflict that has often been painted as the first example for a Polish-German enmity, when it was probably for Henry and Boleslaus a conflict between nobles like the countless feuds other each of them had fought before that. The roots of their conflict is also revealing because it was caused by Boreslaw claiming Meißen because of his familiy ties with the German nobles who ruled their. It was purely dynastic thinking that stood behind this claim, and he was in fact present at the election of Henry II as Emperor, and he was in fact closely allied with many nobles in Saxony. They did end up making peace within dynastic terms by marriage between their family members (it is disputed to this day whether Boreslaw received the lands as a fiefdom, or independently. The academical consensus right now seems to be that Boreslaw conceded to receive the territory as a subject of Henry II to help the later save face (securing their honor (latin term) was more important than anything for a king), but both sides knew that Boreslaw would rule there independently. But how could a video properly convey this?

von der Leyen as EU boss:

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Heh:)

"How the hell did they manage that one?"

An excellent question, to which the German electorate doesn't seem to have an answer, except vote AfD!

theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/04/germans-condemn-own-candidate-for-top-eu-job-ursula-von-der-leyen


Bad day for the EU I would say, but a good day for the Bundeswehr....our army will be glad to see her gone, surely...

Not like we have much of a choice here. France is strongly against Weber, and Eastern Europe is strongly against Timmermans.

Hilarious, sad and true!

But....vdL??? Seriously?

Has Macron thought that through???

politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-biography-career-inconvenient-truth/

...And yet a nagging question remains: Is she too good to be true?

In the German capital, the answer is clear.

"Von der Leyen is our weakest minister. That's apparently enough to become Commission president,"

PS: She reminds me about Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Altmeier....both total failures at their job. But their main strength has always been unwavering loyalty to Merkel, and they got rewarded for this with top jobs (and to keep them in spite of widespread mounting criticism).

Can't we praise away Altmeier to Brussels too? :)

Should sell him for parts down the river. Hell, even his parts are not good, rotten and useless. After all his usefulness for the EU masters ended with Tusk's failed return to Polish politicks. As they used to say in Poland - Tusk hopes to come back to Poland on a white Timmermans. ( mockery of saying - he will come back on a white horse i.e. as a victorious general.) No more. -


Hey. I think she is doing a great job. Admit it you want her out just because she is a woman.

....yeah...and you never liked our Bundeswehr anyhow! ;)

"Outta here!" would probably be the best translation of that caption.

Come '20, don't know if von der Leyen will even have maintained the momentum to run for Chancellor! She's not the right party anyhow,

I've been told by Merkel supporters:-)

Yeah, I remember times when vdL was considered chancellor material...a possible successor of Merkel....but that was loooong ago, before she and the army destroyed each others reputation!

Absolutely. That the best candidate for that position and good for Germany too. You BB should support it with all the right minded people in your country. Only stinking nationalist and some dull types who believe that women place is in the kitchen are against her ascendancy to the top position in Germany. I believe she will make a big return onto a main state of German politics.

By the way the word candidate derives from he Latin word that means white. Oh such a racist word.

Oh wonder.....I never heard you so gushing about our current WOMAN at the helm, Iron! Why is that??? ;)

And this is why I hate The EU.
People like her can get positions like this.
It is a corrupt mess.

Yeah well...there is no need to single out the EU for this...every other government has this kind of shady deals too (nobody voted for)...be fair!

I heard Macron uttered her name first....I would like to know WHY??? WHY HER???