RE: Ask ze German
May 21, 2015 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 2:55 pm by Pyrrho.)
(May 21, 2015 at 2:21 pm)c172 Wrote: Do you do Oktoberfest at all,or is that just for Yankee tourists?
They used to, and they used to have many little local festivals throughout the year, in which beer and/or wine flowed freely. I hope old buzzkill isn't going to ruin this one, too!
He should be out drinking with his neighbors, at some festival or other. If he does not do that sort of thing, then I think he is an unpatriotic German! It is his civic responsibility to drink at local gatherings.
When I was there for a few weeks, I attended a street party in one little town, and a bonfire gathering elsewhere, which was an all-night party in which food and drink were sold, to raise money for the local volunteer fire department. It seems like there was some other little gathering to drink and eat together, that I am forgetting about at the moment. But this was well over 30 years ago, so maybe the young Germans are traitors and don't perform their civic duty of drinking together.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
