I have no words

[gothikmaus]

Great, my new mayor is the pig man. The right-wing alliance won and the mayor is the Lega Nord candidate, the very same person who walked all over the place with a pig a few years ago, because doing so the ground would be "contaminated" and Muslims wouldn't be able to build a Mosque in our town.

The list of reasons why I should get the hell out of this place is getting longer...

At least this made me smile. From the "Mail der Woche" on farin-urlaub.de. You can go directly to the last line if you don't feel like reading the whole thing. ;)

Zur Sache, Schätzchen!

Sehr geehrter Herr U, hallo Farin oder einfach ein kleines Gute-Nacht-Gebet an den 1,94-Gott!
Endlich komme ich dazu mein Lob und meine Bewunderung in Worte zu fassen - und das sogar noch vor Erscheinen der 3. Single, ich bin begeistert.
In den letzten Monaten konnte man glücklicherweise vieles in Sachen Farin Urlaub Racing Team beobachten. Nicht nur die schon länger zurückliegende Neugestaltung der Seite, nein. Es kam auch ein grandioses Album, welches sozusagen als Dessert eine kleine CD mit nicht minder grandiosen Liedern mitbrachte. Schon die erste Auskopplung und das dazugehörende Video ließen die Herzen der FURT Fans - mich natürlich eingeschlossen - höher schlagen.
Auch die zweite Auskopplung war perfekt gewählt, war \"Niemals\" doch ein Pendant zur ersten Single \"NichImGriff\". Und wieder war ein wunderbares Video zu sehen, dessen nicht-tödliches Ende fast schon überraschend war.
Die 2008er Krachgarten-Tour zeigte dann, dass das FURT in der Konzertfreien Zeit kein bisschen eingerostet war, sondern sich eher noch gesteigert hatte, sofern dies denn möglich ist.
Und vor kurzem erschien dann das Video zur kommenden Single \"Krieg\", welches viel Witz und Charme mit sich trug.
Aber egal jetzt, ich wollt eigentlich nur wissen ob du mit Bela oder Rod poppst

Comments

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

They want to be independent because the Nortern regions are richer than the Southern ones and their politicians say we should stop giving them our money. It's true that in the South politicians and institutions in general waste a lot of money and there's a lot of corruption (but we have corrupted people in the North too), but secession isn't the solution.

Aww, thank you, I'll keep the secret. ;)

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

And once again I feel reminded of Bavaria... Have they stopped wanting to become independent now?

If I only knew the answer... ;)

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Some days they want, some days they don't. You want to become a federal state? Perfect! Use a foreign country as example (Germany, Switzerland, the USA) and just DO IT, dammit. We already have regions, it shouldn't be so difficult to form a federal state. The truth is, they simply use the secession argument to threaten their Government allies. *sigh*

Oh, but we all know the answer to that question... ;)

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

... Bildungslücke! (Whatever this is in English, the dictionary tells me it's "gap in education", but I don't really trust it...) Till now I didn't even know Italy wasn't a federal state. I thoight that's what the regions were for...

*snickers*

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what the regions were supposed to be for. -__- But our old politicians would lose a lot of privileges if Italy was turned into a real federal state, so it's just a weird hybrid: the health system is federal, the school system is partly federal, all the rest is managed centrally.

And "Bildungslücke" is a cool word! XD I'm really curious to know what they teach about Italy abroad...

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh no, we sure can't let those poor, wealthy politicians lose any privileges! That would be disastrous!

It is indeed. I have many. xD
In Germany they teach absolutely nothing about Italy. Except when you pick Latin. Then you get to know some stuff about the Roman Empire, and what difference do those 2000 years make? :/ (Or maybe when you have a History teacher which chooses to teach the Roman stuff instead of the Greek stuff. Which I never had. But I'm very informed about things that happened in Greece. 2000 years ago. Gah. :/)

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

HAHA, 2000 years old information, very useful. ;)

Well, I guess I learned a lot about Great Britain and Germany because I attended a foreign languages school and beside literature and grammar we learned about British and German society too (the school system, the state form etc.) And of course we learned about Bismarck and the German unification, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the East-West division in History class and about German art in Arts class.

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

I wish we would have learned something like that as well. In English we did, maybe. But we didn't even really get to know something about other countries in history. For example the only thing I learned about Italy, I found out "accidentally" when studying for my final exam. Something about the "Marcia su Roma", but you bet I had never once heard anything about it. :/ It was always only "Germany, Germany, bla bla". :(

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Oh, we studied a lot of foreign history. Maybe because Italy was "colonial territory" for such a long time: first under Spain, then under France, then the Austrian empire... We weren't a "real" nation, so we concentrated on what the important European nations did while we were still struggling to become a state, mostly Great Britain, France and Spain, then, from the XIX century on, Germany too.

I guess abroad they don't teach Italian history because Italy stopped being important after the fall of the Roman Empire (it was all your fault, you barbarians! XD)

Well, the "Marcia su Roma" was important because it was the final step that allowed Mussolini to become what he did, maybe foreigners aren't really interested in it. But I remember we learned a lot of German history to understand how it was possible that Hitler did what he did, starting from the Weimar Republic and World War I.

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Germany wasn't a real state either till 1871, but that didn't stop my history teacher going on and on and on about it. :/ But now that I think about it, we did learn quite a lot about France, French Revolution and everything related. And about Great Britain with the Industrial Revolution. I would have liked to learn more about other countries. :/

At least everyone still likes Italy! xD

I don't see why people shouldn't be intrested in it, I think it is interesting.

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Well, we studied a lot about Italian history, of course, but my teacher wanted us to understand the "European balance" that involved the most important countries. Italy was always the "little sister" so to speak.

I was such a history geek back then... XD

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Being a history geek is a good thing rather than a bad! xD

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Hehe, the Bayernpartei was one of the first organisations which congratulated to the independent Kosovo because they hope for support in their own independence. :D

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

They're so strange. When I first saw ofe of those election campaign spots, I thought it was a parody!

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

It's impossible for me to imagine they really mean it seriously. A real tragedy. :D

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

I just don't want to imagine it. But what if others do and vote for them and they win? (I'm good at worst case scenarios.)

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Hm, that would be funny. Then they could cooperate with "Die Partei" and part Germany again and found West Germany, East Germany and Peoples Republic of Bavaria. XD

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

And everyone would be happy! Not!
Maybe they only have such weird opinions cause they don't wanna get votes?

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

We could found a party too. Our interests would be Slash and an answer to the question mentioned above. XD

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I want to support this party too! XD

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Juhu :)))

Two members in only a few minutes. That sounds like a track record! :D

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Now that would be principles! Who needs world peace when a question like that is unanswered?! xD

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Haha, three members now. That brings us close to world domination. And every politician has to admit that our programme isn't worse than their's. XD

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

I bet if you would ask around, it'd be five members at least! xD
At least we have an uncomplicated one! xD

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

We should search for a Spitzenkandidatin to send her to the talk shows. :D

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

We should indeed! Any suggestions? :)

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

You want to see a poster that looks like a parody?

http://polipetto.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/esterne071438430703143856_big.jpg

It says: "They couldn't stop immigration and now they live on reservations. Think about it!"

Sickening.

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

This is a joke, isn't it? O_O

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

No, sadly it's not a joke. D:

The Democratic Party used the same poster to make fun of them though, because they're letting the Malpensa airport slowly die now that the "new" (HAHA) Alitalia moved a lot of flights from Milano-Malpensa to Rome. They used the same picture and wrote something like "They didn't have airports... now we don't have either." At least that's a parody...

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

OMG :(

I couldn't believe it when I read how succesful Berlusconi and his coalition were again. We have strange politicians here too. But not that strange.

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe it either. D:

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

It's weird. He has a lot of media power, but is it enough to fool everybody? Or were the others voters just fed up with the alternatives and stayed at home?

The voter participation was terrible in my city, only 35% and that was even 3% more than the last European election! :(
The people don't seem to care, it's almost 75% participation on Bundestagswahl.

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

And they still get votes? What?!

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Not only they get votes, they get A LOT of votes. They're the third biggest party in Italy, after PDL (Berlusconi's party) and the Democratic Party. :( Only the central and northern regions support them, which means a lot of people vote for them there...

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it and I don't want to either. I just... why? The longer I think about it, the more confusing it gets...
But maybe now I begin to understand why Italian politics get frowned upon here. D:

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

And maybe you can understand why I don't like saying I'm Italian when I'm abroad... =/

My only consolation is that people usually react saying "Really? Are you making fun of me? I'd never thought you're Italian..."

[urania-chan.livejournal.com]

Really? I wouldn't have thought that people don't like Italians (apart from that it's incredibly stupid to judge people according to their home country which I can't even begin to understand). It's only that for some reason Italy only ever makes the news it's something dumb the politicians have done.
But I usually don't tell people I'm from Germany either. :/

Really? And wouldn't they?