Sky support dubs Germany 'Hitler's country' It seems that it's not just the Greeks who are comparing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Nazi-leader Hitler: Sky support seems to share the view that Germany is still in thrall to the long-dead dictator. An El Reg reader preparing to move to the country of lederhosen and oompah bands was explaining his decision to Sky's …
Is it just me, or does that Sky Rep fail the Turing test? His responses sound very much like ELIZA or PARRY.
It's more likely of course that English is a second language for him, (which with a name like Abbas seems likely,) and that could be why he was not aware of the emotional baggage associated with Hitler. After all, you don't need to teach sales drones about European history in order to up-sell Sky Movies.
Agree, people who mostly read from a script often appear to be candidates for failing the Turing test.
It''s like people who have obviously gone on touch-feely courses asking "where did you go on holiday" answer - "I don''t do "holiday", I'm in IT" ;) or "what did you do at the weekend" - answer, "nunya" and "you don''t want to know, mate" :P
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"If I remember correctly, it was once Hitlers country.."
So? This was once Cromwell's country, should everyone living here be blamed for a nasty military dictator long in the past?
And if you want to disparage people based on the actions of their government there's another country that goes round invading and occupying countries that have not threatened them in any way. Much more recently than 1945. Hint: It's not due East of here.
"So? This was once Cromwell's country, should everyone living here be blamed for a nasty military dictator long in the past?"
Yes, but are they? To this day I am still amazed by the brilliant PR machine that the Germans employed post WWII. It wasn't the Germans that did all those nasty things during WWII, oh no, it was the Nazis, or better yet the SS or the Gestapo. The Germans were just as much victims as anyone, apparently, victims of the evil Nazis. Every film, TV series, book and video game calls the Germans from 1933-1945 - Nazis, as if they were entirely different race to the indigenous Germans. The Germans managed, somehow, to extricate their name and race from all those abominable acts, and offer up another patsy - a political party.
One wonders if, in another 100 years the history books will record Hitler as having been born in Naziland and annexing Germany first, completely removing the Germans of all culpability.
It's a shame for the Japanese that they didn't have a PR man of Germany's calibre post WWII. All the heinous acts of WWII committed in the East, were simply committed by the Japs. I find that disparity somewhat troubling.
So given the choice of being shot for ignoring your call up papers or being given a gun and a chance of coming out the other end alive you'd choose to be shot? You cannot blame the people when a country goes to war. It's usually the politicians who are to blame. If ever there is a war with politicians and their families on the front line leading the battle then I might consider a war just. Whenever Bush or Blair went to Afghanistan, for their safety, it was not reported until they had returned to the comfort of their gin palaces. Did these two not consider the safety of the soldiers they were possibly condeming to death in order to puff their own self esteem?
" If ever there is a war with politicians and their families on the front line leading the battle then I might consider a war just. " The last British Head of State to lead hi troops into battle was, of course, George II at the battle of Dettingen. Presunably the Brits won the battle, hence Handel's Dettingen Te Deum.
Quite right. And Bomber Harris destroyed all those cities full of civilians single handed. We have a memorial to Bomber Command.
Even though it turns out that, not only was precision bombing with Mosquitos far more effective (about 6 times in terms of military effectiveness per £ spent) and safer for crews and civilians, but the statisticians knew perfectly well that the mass bombing campaign was hideously inaccurate and rather ineffective. One reason this country was so poor post-WW2 was that we spent so much money and resources on heavy bombers.
Pot meet kettle.
...To this day I am still amazed by the brilliant PR machine that the Germans employed post WWII. It wasn't the Germans that did all those nasty things during WWII, oh no, it was the Nazis, or better yet the SS or the Gestapo. The Germans were just as much victims as anyone, apparently, victims of the evil Nazis...
Ummm... I hate to enlighten you about this, but that PR trick was dreamed up and implemented by the Allies.
At the end of WW1 we stuffed the Germans. 20 years later they went for a rematch. So at the end of WW2 the one lesson we had learned was - 'don't stuff the country'. But the French still wanted someone to blame. So we made up the story that it was all the bad Nazis fault and ran a program of de-nazification. The idea was to treat the Germans well so that they didn't look for 'best of three'.
In fact, the main thing that stopped the Germans starting up again was having their country split in two and half occupied by Russia. I note that it has been about 20 years since German reunification, and with the Euro collapse it looks as if they are well on their way to a third attempt at European Hegemony...
"The German government has announced its decision to raise the aid it gives to Holocaust survivors. The reparation amounts for 2011 will stand at 110 million Euros per year, up from 55 million Euros in 2010."
Can you imagine American or English children agreeing to be taxed to pay reparations 65 years after the crimes committed by their parents?
Not likely.
... Presumably an inquiry to determine how the conversation could possibly have got this far without the customer being told that packages can't be cancelled or downgraded via any medium as customer-convenient as Live Chat.
The customer should already have been told by this point that "for his convenience" he needs to call back, and in a queue for 45 minutes, being pushed from pillar to post.
Outrageous!
If I were sad enough to have such a thing, that Fucking page would be my favourite page on Wikipedia:
"The Germans all want to see Mozart's house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed; the Japanese want Hitler's birthplace in Braunau; but for the British, it's all about Fucking."
"Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking — and it's going to stay Fucking."
Although the Germans are serious contenders in the places-with-funny-names competition by having a mountain called Wank where you can stay in the Wank-Haus, ride the Wankbahn, and you can also get yearly Wankpass. They also get bonus points for, at the top of Wank, being able to see the whole of the Zugspitze and the Wetterstein.
Yeah, I used to read Viz far too much! Fnarr Fnarr
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