Comments on: Sucks to be German

By: Carlos U.

Carlos U. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:44:12 +0000

Or I can just start making all my postings en el hermoso idioma de Cervantes, el maravilloso Castellano.

By: Carlos U.

Carlos U. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:43:15 +0000

Well, what’s the translation of the SS toilet german guy, already??!?!?!?!?!

By: matt w.

matt w. — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:28:10 +0000

I like that indy has done judaism, hinduism, christianity, and now scientology

By: amri

amri — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:11:00 +0000

I like Franny and Zooey a lot.

Otherwise, he could have stuck to rottentomatoes.

By: MikeInWeHo

MikeInWeHo — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:13:19 +0000

It's wrong to call Steven Spielberg a Germanophobe. He's a remarkable man who has done so much more than make a bunch of hit films. Are you familiar with his Shoah Project?

By: gst

gst — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:01:25 +0000

BTW, I agree with Steve E. that as a novelist and short-storyist, Salinger is a hack. I think he missed his calling as a movie critic.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:59:49 +0000

Mark B,
Well, yes. And?

By: gst

gst — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:57:08 +0000

I appreciated JD Salinger's keen review of Raiders of the Lost Ark. On the money.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:43:56 +0000

Yeah, Hitler was born in Braunau, just across the river from Germany. And Beethoven was born in Bonn–he just moved to Vienna for the Sachertorte.

And, if anybody is yammering about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, get over it. If wholesale slaughter of civilians by aerial bombing is a problem for you, that line had long since been crossed by the Germans (Warsaw, anybody, or Guernica, or London, or Rotterdam), the British (“area bombing”, a euphemism for “we can’t hit a damn thing anyway, so we’ll just push these out the bomb bay doors when we think we’re over the city), the British again and the Americans (Hamburg, 1943, or Dresden, 1945), the Americans again (Tokyo, March 1945, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo again, Yokohama, all in the spring and summer of 1945).

The only difference was that Hiroshima and Nagasaki took fewer planes and fewer bombs.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:10:34 +0000

TMD,
I am pretty sure Peter knows that Hitler was born in Austria. I bet he’s even been to Braunau.