The Battle of Britain Was The First Defeat For The German Luftwaffe.

[Rickusty]

Originally Posted by csThor

If I may remind you of the tasteless headlines and photos on british newspapers before the Euro 96 semi-finals, the equally tasteless "10 little Spitfires" chants propagated by british online communities before World Cup 2006 and actually sung by some (admittedly drunken) idiots in german city centers ... It's not just that the yellow press is so besotted with the topic but it's actually worse that it returns again and again and no voice is raised that tells 'em to STFU. Silent agreement or silent disagreement aren't distinguishable from the outside, you know.

As has been said, idiots are everywhere, in every corner of this sad world.

It's not war-related, by I still remember some of the offenses directed at the italian soccer team and at italians in general, in the 2006 FIFA world cup, made by some german newspapers.
IIRC they were written by some german tabloids, a-la "The Sun" ("Bild" and "Der Spiegel" I seem to recall), but still...
Some of them were reported even by our newspapers, and caused quite a little bit of a "national case".

Same as that lame "Nur Italien nicht!" song. I wonder really how many find that crap funny tbh.
Chanting "It doesn't matter who will win the world cup, as long as it is not Italy", or "pushes, spits and insults: that's the italian soccer" is astonishing.

No nation is immune to idiots, be that Italy, Germany, Uk or whatever.

As we say here:
"The mother of the imbeciles is always pregnant"

Cheers
Rick

[csThor]

Originally Posted by Rickusty

As has been said, idiots are everywhere, in every corner of this sad world.

It's not war-related, by I still remember some of the offenses directed at the italian soccer team and at italians in general, in the 2006 FIFA world cup, made by some german newspapers.
IIRC they were written by some german tabloids, a-la "The Sun" ("Bild" and "Der Spiegel" I seem to recall), but still...
Some of them were reported even by our newspapers, and caused quite a little bit of a "national case".

Same as that lame "Nur Italien nicht!" song. I wonder really how many find that crap funny tbh.
Chanting "It doesn't matter who will win the world cup, as long as it is not Italy", or "pushes, spits and insults: that's the italian soccer" is astonishing.

No nation is immune to idiots, be that Italy, Germany, Uk or whatever.

As we say here:
"The mother of the imbeciles is always pregnant"

Cheers
Rick

Bold part marked for truth.

As for BILD (or BLÖD = STUPID, as many people call it) ... it's Germany's foremost example of Yellow Press. Many people read it but denounce it as bad and claim not to read it. I don't read any newspaper (except when I visit my home village as my parents have subscribed to a local paper) and can proudly state I have never bought a BLÖD and never will. I am actually appalled by this type of media, regardles off its name, makeup and whether it's a print media, online or TV. They're all despicable IMO.

[Rickusty]

Hi Thor,
same as me: I don't read any newspapers. It's been like this for maybe 2 years by now.
I don't even like football tbh, so I'm an atypical italian in the end.

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by csThor

Bold part marked for truth.

As for BILD (or BLÖD = STUPID, as many people call it) ... it's Germany's foremost example of Yellow Press. Many people read it but denounce it as bad and claim not to read it. I don't read any newspaper (except when I visit my home village as my parents have subscribed to a local paper) and can proudly state I have never bought a BLÖD and never will. I am actually appalled by this type of media, regardles off its name, makeup and whether it's a print media, online or TV. They're all despicable IMO.

Unluckily, imho, we have a bit of a degeneration of all major newspaers into Bild style reporting. Stern, Spiegel, Focus, especially in regards to Greece went the opinionated emotional route. We can only hope this is not a long living trend.