I knew the Germans were a special people, along with the Japanese. It takes something special to rush head-long into self destructive war and to gas a whole bunch of pseudo-semites on the basis of conspiracy theories. And I am not talking about the usual nonsense about racism or militarism. I mean they were eccentric.
Yes, those highly efficient types sure are funny. Not insightful enough to know that foreign policy based on conspiracy theories and deity-countries is nonsense, but efficient enough to keep triplicate records of their war crimes to facillitate their own hanging later. Anyway...eccentricity...
Everyone knows about the Japanese tentacle fetish. The Japanese have made no secret of what they think about when not keeping schedules and working themselves (or POWs) to death. It's purple-haired girls with huge eyes and giant cephalopods having their way with them.
But what about the Germans? You'd almost think the Germans had gone prudish given how politically correct and benign they try to be. I mean neo-hippie techno music festivals? Whatever happened to the nation of the twisted Joseph Mengele and the pedrastic Goethe? What happened to the nation that was trying to steal Scandinavian women all the while claiming racial superiority all for itself? Those funny wankers.
Well, I got part of my answer when I discovered Rammstein, which is a German rock band if you are as clueless as me. Watching the hulking lead singer looking drugged approaching the mic with lazily distracted eyes in the video of "Amerika" was a bit unsettling, but watching 6 grown men living as the drug mining slaves of a giant, sexually abusive (and beautiful) Snow White was what really opened my eyes. The latter interesting scenario is shown in the video of Rammstein's song "Sonne", and the video has smeg-all to do with the lyrics.
Obviously Germany is back in form, and so is their particular style of efficient-nation psycopathology. It took a few years (maybe the American sunshine-in-a-bag that the Japs got in '45 gave them a kick-start?), but a famous cannibal, a butch dyke PM, lots of techno-tracks later the Germans have finally started heeding the call of those voices in their heads they've been ignoring for so long.
Get ready to trip in Wunderland!
Medieval Japanese print (before huge anime eyes came into fashion). Edited to protect the innocent.
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Where did you find an image of the Japanese print? I feel as though I've seen it before (Mad Men?) and am curious as to who the artist is...
Got it from the internet. It's medievel Japanese, so the artist, if known, would not be alive. The kitties are added by me for comic effect.
Thanks! I dug around a bit and found it online too. It's by Hokusai.
Rammstein is certainly an extreme example, but you can find this kind of thing in any country you wish to. Most Brits seem to have a genuine neurosis when it comes to Germans, and would do well to get to know some of them before making such comments.
Anonymous...I did not mean to insult Germans. Actually I admire both the Germans and the Japanese. I was merely pointing out for fun how both nations are very efficient, and have certain eccentricities.
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