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It's Hitler people, how about we just don't fucking go there?
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See, Hitler's childhood friends were playing this game where they took turns urinating into the mouth of a goat. When Hitler's turn came, one of his friends let go of the goat's mouth, and, well, you can imagine where it goes from there.
Please read the link. It may just be village scuttlebutt, but it's still a pretty good anecdote. There's also a great masturbation story involving Immanuel Kant.
10/06/09
Sung to the tune of 'Colonel Bogey March':
Hitler, has only got one ball,
Goering, has two but they're too small.
Himmler, has something similar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
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Adolph Schickelgruber, flop. No joke. (Not really love letters. That part was sarcastic)
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A cartoonish attack, but powerful...
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"Probably"? Glad to see the author cutting him some slack.
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It's fitting that Forbes is spreading a concept that has always hithertofore been spoken in cautious whispers by politically reactionary German retirees.
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I don't quite know if I agree, but it brought me up short when I read it.
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The author who wrote that is not a very accurate or broad-thinking historian, now is he?
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All of these events occured prior to 1936.
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told you it was weird.
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And I ain't your honey, sweetie-pie.
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Not to belittle Hitler's achievement as Perhaps the Biggest Asshole Ever, but the actions you cite -- the boycott and the restriction of rights -- wouldn't knock anyone off most historians' Greatest Leader list.
For example, Bismarck: great statesman, unified Germany, built it into one of Europe's most powerful powers, extended rights to the Jews -- but hated Catholics and fucked with their shit. You can't win with these Great Leaders!
Not that I disagree with you. Just food for thought.
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No hyphen in "sweetie pie," by the way. If you meant to annoy me with that last bit, you didn't. I'm from Jersey and we call everyone "honey," and not like you snotty Southern girls do it.
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But I do take some delight in your continued assumptions, which continue to be utterly wrong in hilarious fashion. I'm not Southern, I'm rarely snotty. (I'm not even a girl!)
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and, for the record, i'm a southerner. so go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious xenophobe.
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And I think xenophobia refers to people who live outside your country, not due south of your state. Heeyup! Fine Southern educational system shore does werk guuuuud! Keep it up, smart stuff!
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Good thing I wasn't comparing them.
I recommend you read my entire post, and the post to which I replied...
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"I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. Deadly by all means, but humane not cruel ..." G B Shaw; 7 Feb 1934 on "parasites" who do not produce what they consume. Ten years before Cyclon-B, which Eichmann described in the same term, "humane."
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Instead, the author clearly identifies Hitler as "probably the most evil man the world has ever seen". He concludes that folks need to be grounded in their values (i.e. genocide is bad) and not be blinded by impressive sounding accomplishments (such as making the trains run on time). Simple stuff, and not too controversial.
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Sorry for the length; Dame Rebecca, you know, but it's apropos.
The prosecutions of British persons charged with treacherous relations with the enemy during the Second World War under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, ended with a nonpareil, a case quite unlike any that had come before or were to come afterwards. One of the most famous litigants of the last half-century was tried and convicted for broadcasting for the Germans in occupied Paris: a man of exceptional gifts, who had been brilliantly successful in business, had offered up his life in martyrdom to an idea connected with insurance finance. Roughly speaking, he thought it wrong of insurance companies to invest in commodities, and he crusaded against the practice with a fervour which would have been excessive had it been the prime cause of cancer, and which brought ruin on himself and his family. He had been attracted to German because he believed that the Nazi government was sound on this issue = and he was hardly conscious of any other - and on the outbreak of war he and his family were caught there and were engulfed in a series of horrible misfortunes, which finally swept them into occupied France. There he took service with the Germans from sheer need; and after the war the British authorities might have overlooked his offences, had not he been betrayed into provocative actions by his indignant feeling that too much importance was being ascribed to matters which, in his mind, were only marginal to the great problem of insurance finance. It is to be hoped that in the hereafter a world will be constructed for him where the Pearl and the Prudential, the Scottish Widows and the Eagle, all alike toe a celestial line and invest their surplus as he thinks decent.