RE: Ask ze German
May 21, 2015 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 2:03 pm by Pyrrho.)
(May 21, 2015 at 1:58 pm)whateverist Wrote: Is it true that german trains run like clockwork?
I know they used to. When I was in Germany, my father was talking with a conductor at a station, so he lost track of the time. When the conductor noticed that we were maybe half a minute to 45 seconds late leaving the station, he hurried up and got the train moving.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.