There is a commercial on the radio which makes fun of the British soccer team. You remember the Brits did not qualify for the Euro. You can listen to it on You Tube: Radio Werbung – Ohne England
Hello! This is a Radiowerbung for my English friends. I have a funny question for you:
What have Malta, [...]
We Germans may have a lot of anti-American prejudices, but we love using Anglicisms. “Public Viewing” is one of them, and now that the Euro 2008 ( = European Soccer Championship 2008) is approaching a very important one. Maybe I should rather say a Pseudo-Anglicism. Because when we use it we do not think of [...]
I was ROFL when I read this and it is not an April`s fool:
LONDON (AFP) - A holidaymaker was awarded compensation by a court because there were too many German tourists at the hotel he booked in Greece, newspapers reported Saturday.
David Barnish, 47, paid 4,000 pounds (5,100 euros, 8,000 dollars) to take his wife and [...]
Ausnahmsweise kein Beitrag zu Deutschen und Amerikanern, sondern zu Briten und Deutschen und die juristischen Hintergründe des „Handtuchkriegs“ auf Mallorca gefunden in Ralf Höckers Buch „Das Beste aus dem Lexikon der Rechtsirrtümer“ (S. 30 ff.):
Der durchschnittliche Engländer hat bei dem Stichwort „Deutschland und die Deutschen“ drei spontane Assoziationen, die das schlechte Image unseres Landes [...]