They do these curious portmanteau documentaries on German TV made up of clips from different times/countries and overdub the foreign clips. Thus, if you understand both languages, it's like hearing 2 ppl speaking at the same time. You can't filter out one language and actually follow what's said.
I hope they are paying you royalties 🙂
@philipcball.bsky.social You are on radiobremen TV right now talking about water! (dubbed into German)
Oh no!
Gimme a T,
Gimme an R,
Gimme a U,
Gimme an M
Gimme a P,
What's that spell?
Yeah, c'mon on all you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
he's got himself in a terrible jam
way down yonder in old Iran
so put down your books and pick up a gun
we're gonna have a whole lot of fun
R.I.P. Joe
Come on all of you, big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books, pick up a gun
Gonna have a whole lot of fun
And it's 1, 2, 3
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn
Next stop is Vietnam
I started to revise the lyrics:
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What has always puzzled me about this is that it would have been impossible for wagons/carts/chariots to turn right or left at any of the junctions - even when the road is wide enough for 2-way traffic. So I wonder how the traffic system worked?
Last helicopter out of Saigon
Nobody seems to remember that the USA has waged war before against a far less technologically advanced country (with an authoritarian government) - torturing and carpet-bombing civilians (often with napalm) and breaking international law on a scale that would give Pete Hegseth a hard-on - and lost.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
And it's 1 2 3 what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn;
Next stop is [..] I-ran;
And it's 5 6 7 close down all the gates;
Ain't no use to wonder why;
We're all stuck in Dubai.
Well I suppose the last government never let a particular interpretation of national law limit their national role either.
We need safe and legal routes for refugees.
George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."
We imbue the days of the week with personality, so that they serve as cultural reference points. Every day is like Sunday. Garfield hates Mondays. TGIF, amirite?
Which is odd, really, because - unlike day, month or year - the week is entirely made up
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"God Was Never on Your Side"
Consonants can cause problems too. I knew someone who drove to Swindon* for a meeting in Swinton**.
(* West of London; ** Part of Manchester - for them who wouldn't have known)
Having grown up during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it feels - on many fronts - as though I'm living the later years of my life in reverse.
This is a rather heartwarming story on (at least) two fronts.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Also, how did they "restore control at [their] border" - given their open borders with Germany and Sweden?
I have just sent the following email to my Labour MP, Jeff Smith. Text is in Alt - feel free to use/adapt it. But whatever the case, write to your MP!
As with Vietnam, I suppose they will eventually declare victory and go home. But the corpses will be forming a rather large pile by then.
Since these treaties are bilateral, we can't take it as given that something like this might have been (or even be) possible to negotiate for the UK; but one can understand why they didn't even try - and thereby draw attention to the fact that we Brits were losing our rights.
Thanks. That's interesting.
That's interesting. Have you got any more information/links on that? I gave the e.g. of an Australian to @stevepeers.bsky.social by way of asking whether Brits would have similar rights in Gibraltar. You are saying that a New Zealander will actually have more rights than a Brit.
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1. It seems unfathomable to me that a British person who has spent 30 days in Spain, 30 days in Germany and then 30 days in Italy would be prevented from spending even one day in #Gibraltar.
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Well it does purport to measure wind speed. But you go out, and it's like rounding Cape Horn in an open boat during a comet strike, and the weather station will say something like "stiff breeze".
Just checked our weather station: "2.2°, feels like 2.1°"! What does it base that on? I mean I nipped out to check the garage door and it felt to me like ~-20°, but that's an entirely subjective impression, and I'm a human. It's just a machine. What feelings does it have?
Heard about this on Farming Today. Sheep shearers only make a living year-long by moving round the world with the seasons. But most of them are foreigners (usually New Zealanders) so our *Labour* government has decided "Fuck the sheep, we have to keep them out!"
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