What Makes The Germans Today's Most Effective Society In Europe?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2686828/The-awesome-chilling-genius-Germans-From-soccer-supermarkets-factory-floors-battlefields-European-cousins-force-reckoned-with.html

Yes I know they lost two World Wars, but one has to admit that almost everything they do or make is the 'tops'. Why?

[Svejk]

in the 70s I worked in a pre-cast(concrete) yard in Bridgend. Although I wasn't allowed in the hallowed portals of the offices I'd guesstimate there were at least as many managers as 'workers'.
A bit later I worked in a similar yard in Hamburg. Although it was twice as big, one manager(with secretary) seemed to run the whole place. He even found time for avuncular chats re lodgings, transport or anything else he could assist with. (I think he liked practising/showing off his English. And why not, it was better than mine, lol.)

[retrocop]

Your English or German Svejk?

[bookbinder]

I have friends in Germany, and I have been there several times (on holiday). The Germans, as a nation, won't accept anything that's second-best, and they don't want to be viewed as being second-best, either. That might account for the fact that 'almost everything they do or make is the tops'.

[ToraToraTora]

sorry, I seem to have entered a strange parallel universe, Gromit praising Britain? AOG denigrating? surely this is the AB equivalent of anti matter!

[Svejk]

English(but I am welsh)

[retrocop]

Cywmr am byth Svejk

[retrocop]

Deutschland Uber Alles. Thats what their National Anthem is entitled innit.Answers the title of the thread.

[Svejk]

cant speak Chinese^ neither.

[retrocop]

me Cantonese speak chinese either

[Gromit]

Tora

:-)

[Gromit]

Germany v Argentina

Is that about the worse possible World Cup final from a British point of view?

[royfromaus]

I just hope it is better than the 1990 one.

Get out of the city and you will see many parts are like the UK in the 1970's.

[shaneystar2]

I've been married to one for 42 years .He's been very effective :)

[Sqad]

Efficient....hard working....entrepreneurial.....disciplinarians........I just admire the Germans.

I would like to have been an Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe.

Cant stand the hairy armpits of the women though.

A stirring National Anthem.

Excellent health service and talented surgeons.

[craft1948]

This one wasn't so great...............

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/04/doctor-daniel-ubani-unlawfully-killed-patient

[Sqad]

craft....he was Nigerian.

How about Shipman....now he WAS English....;-)

[craft1948]

Well.............he was effective.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes it's good they chose an English Hymn for their tune.

[Khandro]

Gromit
//If it is so great, why don't you go and live there.//
I did, 10 years ago and I like it, and have no intention of leaving. The people are extremely friendly, generous, and hard-working, and the British type class system is non-existent.
retrocop "Deutschland Uber Alles." does not mean what it is mistakenly thought to mean. It means, (freely translated), My country before everything. Jingoistic perhaps, but so are most national anthems, Rule Britannia included, and probably more so