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Ask ze German
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No, but the wine used to be good, and so were the trains. If you let your standards slip in one area, maybe you let them slip in another.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Do you do Oktoberfest at all,or is that just for Yankee tourists?
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 (May 21, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Alex K Wrote: Those times are long gone. To be fair, the german train system is huge and horribly intricate, and budged cuts have left DB with dangerously little buffer overhead to compensate for mishaps. So delays of a quarter hour or so are frequent nowadays. Still, one can travel more or less reliably. 15 minutes?! 15?! We'll talk when your train is late over an hour and then stops for another hour halfway to the destination lol @ budged 
No speed limit in places on the autobahn sounds like fun, but Germany is heavily populated and full of cities, seems like going 200/300 kph wouldn't be as thrilling as it could be if you could only do it for 15 minutes to a 1/2 hour at a time.
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 RE: Ask ze German
May 21, 2015 at 2:42 pm
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(May 21, 2015 at 2:37 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: No speed limit in places on the autobahn sounds like fun, but Germany is heavily populated and full of cities, seems like going 200/300 kph wouldn't be as thrilling as it could be if you could only do it for 15 minutes to a 1/2 hour at a time. It really depends on the time and place, and there's always lots of construction. My standard speed is 100 mph usually.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
RE: Ask ze German
May 21, 2015 at 2:54 pm
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(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.
RE: Ask ze German
May 21, 2015 at 4:27 pm
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(May 21, 2015 at 2:21 pm)c172 Wrote: Do you do Oktoberfest at all,or is that just for Yankee tourists? It is something that is celebrated religiously by some of my acquaintances from Munich, so it is not just for tourists. Personally I've never been. But I've been to the Hofbräuhaus a few times  Since I come from the wine country, all villages in the vicinity where I grew up have a Weinfest, and during the Summer there are two every week on average. This is what that looks like ![[Image: theresienstrasse.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.pfalz-info.com%2Fimages%2Ftheresienstrasse.jpg) During the fall we celebrate the wine harvest, and there are specialized festivals for young "new" wine that is in the middle of fermenting.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 RE: Ask ze German
May 21, 2015 at 4:36 pm
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Federweißer? Sounds interesting.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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