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Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
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1:14a - Society wank or: WTFBBQ, don't talk bad about my fat ass!!!11!
First post. No one cares, so moving on.
These last few months, Germany suffered from a lot of wankery indeed... but the newest affair truly takes the cake. To understand this you'll have to know that some citizens of East and West Germany don't really like each other - terms like "Ossi"/"Wessi", "Zoni" and "Besserwessi" (all derogative) are floating around; a lot of Easterners call the Westerners stuck-up and arrogant, in turn a lot of Westerners think the Easterners to be lazy idiots with one collective shared braincell, sucking out their money and living on welfare. Additionally, the upcoming elections in Saxony and Brandenburg seem to bring both a depressingly low turnout and a massive increase of votes for the left and right radicals - especially the right wing parties DVU and NPD, with up to 5-10% overall. To make it short: There's a lot of bad blood in the air.
Recently, Germany got a new Federal President. His name is Horst Koehler and he has a history of dealing with money and politics - while not being a politician per se.
Really, people should have seen it coming when his first speech to the nation contained hints about differences between East and West Germany as seen by him... but apparently they did not.
Cue to the Focus (a weekly magazine mostly known for its... hm... infotainment, let's put it this way. Not exactly Yellow Press, but not far from it). Focus wanted an interview with Koehler - and they surely got more than they bargained for, as you can see here (original interview here - I really couldn't find a decent source in english*). Summing the whole thing up: There are lasting differences between East and West Germany, differences you simply can't remove overnight.
Continue on to much asshattery - especially from the East, of course - about the fact that Koehler supposedly implicated that people from the East have no right to complain about recent political developments (especially Hartz IV - a source of much wrath among the people), seing they're "being lazy" and "not cooperative" about necessary reforms. What he *did* say is that everyone in the country - easteners as well as westerners - has to work for their success and people who don't go to elections don't really have ground to argue on.
Amusingly enough - and the real wankery in this whole affair -, the magazine was only published today, yet people complained about the interview all weekend, calling it the 'worst scandal this year' - without even having read it. Now that the magazine is published, people start to agree all of a sudden, OMGBBQ!!!!!1! Turns out Koehler didn't imply the things he was accused of, woah!
I couldn't find sources, period. WTF, German politics, do you truly have to suck so much no-one wants to talk about you?!
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10:05a
Wank over a lawsuit between Apple Computers and Apple Corps (the Beatles' company). A number of years ago, Computers signed an agreement with Corps not to get involved in the music business, and now Corps alleges that through creation of their iTunes Music Store, Computers has violated this agreement. Ars Technica article here; teh wank here.
Drunk trolls! Dead bands! People who don't know how to read the fine print!
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4:27p - Nuclear wank
( The Dead Zone of Wank )
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6:45p - Movie Wank! [Anon request]
As requested by the anon in this wank.
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current mood: Candy-Coated (55 comments |comment on this)
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7:56p - War on Wank.
You know, I almost didn't want to report this one. However...
LJ user Insomnia posts pictures from Another Day in Bagdad where helicopters opened fire. Obviously, this upsets people.
dlill asks In a case like that, why couldn't the military use standard crowd control equipment? Tear gas and the like?
Enter lonestaryankee:
easy enough for you to say while you're sitting your little civilian ass back there in the states. you don't have a real clue as to what happened there that day!! etc.
dlill: "I have to be there to understand? Goodness, that means studying history is futile"
And here's something someone else said:
You know, the people who were burning partying on the disabled Bradley and the people who were watching (and filming) the show nearby just had it coming
Oh man.
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