Are you Degenerate?

[barrk]

German Paper Mocks 'Degenerate' Brits
Thu Jun 13, 8:02 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - A respected German newspaper weighed into a war of words with the British press on Wednesday, describing Britain as a "degenerate country, riddled with complexes."


The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) launched its tongue-in-cheek tirade in response to an article in the British Spectator magazine this week which said Germany was an "insufferably dowdy country."

"Great Britain is a degenerate country, riddled with complexes because of its loss of power, inhabited by fox-hunters in ludicrous costumes and hypocritical lefties who send their spoiled children to private schools," the German paper said in a column.

"The British have bad healthcare, bad teeth and bad skin, which they regularly burn on southern beaches because they find suntan lotion unsporty. Their food is inedible, and their beer tepid and tasteless."

The insult-swapping started last month after British newspapers attacked Germany's Der Spiegel magazine for describing Britain's Queen Elizabeth as a "nondescript housewife of 76." The FAZ editorial came as Prince Charles visited Berlin.

Earlier this week, Spectator journalist Andrew Gimson launched a scathing attack on Germany's economic, cultural and political failings.

"Germany, in the opinion of many Britons, is an insufferably dowdy country, inhabited by perpetual students with bumfluff mustaches and satanic fetishes," Gimson wrote.

He acknowledged that not all Germans, whom he described as "the second fattest people in the world," shared Der Spiegel's view of the monarchy, writing that many of them looked on the royal family with as much affection as the English.

The FAZ struck a conciliatory tone at the end of its column. "The above could be our reply... but even in times of strife, one thing we won't give up is our Anglophilia," it said.

[parksie]

Tepid and tasteless?!!??!?!?!?!!??! That's because we don't CHILL it to death!

Excuse me while I open my keg of ROOM TEMPERATURE Abbot Ale




PS: Definitely degenerate over here though

[chrisjk]

lol, biggest bunch of stereotypes I've heard yet...made me laugh

writing that many of them looked on the royal family with as much affection as the English

so...no affection for the royals either then?

[spetnik]

The only way I can drink beer is ICE COLD. Sorry guys

Guess u dont like Iced tea either?

[parksie]

Originally posted by spetnik
Guess u dont like Iced tea either?

I like it, actually

Just to be confusing to everyone else, I drink lager cold (from the fridge), but real ales like Bishop's Finger, Abbot Ale, Bombardier, etc. I have at normal temperature so I can taste them

[Wally Pipp]

too cold kills the taste. Beer should be chilled, not ice cold

[spetnik]

It depends on the beer, by me. When I drink a beer like Guiness, it doesn't need to be so cold. The really light beers like miller, corona, budweiser, etc.. i need ice cold, and something like a becks or a heinekin, grolsch is somewhere in the middle.

As for ahrd liquor, I like my vodka from the freezer and my whiskeys, malts, bourbons (yeah!!!) at room temp.

[parksie]

Originally posted by spetnik
It depends on the beer, by me. When I drink a beer like Guiness, it doesn't need to be so cold. The really light beers like miller, corona, budweiser, etc.. i need ice cold, and something like a becks or a heinekin, grolsch is somewhere in the middle.

As for ahrd liquor, I like my vodka from the freezer and my whiskeys, malts, bourbons (yeah!!!) at room temp.

I don't know why people drink "lite" [sic] beers

Grolsch - I have it in the fridge at the moment.

Vodka - good man, it should *always* be in the freezer

[spetnik]

I classify my beers as follows:

American light beers (not "light" beers tho, just plain old bud and the like) - just to chill, enjoyin the game or watchin bugs bunny
Middle beers (heineken, becks) - good with food
Strong beers (guiness) - only with a big, heavy meal.

[parksie]

Things like Guiness are more a stout or bitter than "beer" as such.

You ought to try some of our real ales Don't know what sort of availability they have over there.

[spetnik]

Gimme some names, I'll see if I can pick any up tonight.

[parksie]

Well, the ones I mentioned are good ones.

Bombardier is my personal favourite: http://www.bombardier.co.uk/

[barrk]

Originally posted by spetnik
I'll see if I can pick any up tonight.

You can't do that with beer.....I think they require money!

[parksie]

Originally posted by barrk
You can't do that with beer.....I think they require money!

So does what he normally picks up

[spetnik]

Is Samuel Adams like an Ale>