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HarmanKardon
10-23-2015, 02:19 AM
If you can sell crap, why shouldn't you offer crap! Well done, China.

Bastian Schweinsteiger (called "Schweini", yes this is "swinie"... ;)) is one of the most popular soccer players in Germany. He influenced decisevly the World Cup Final in Brazil in 2014, so that the team won the cup back then.

Schweini is a person of full integrity and he is engaged in several social projects. Despite his enormous successes, he remained a very humble man.
donquixote99
10-23-2015, 05:18 AM
Ambrose Bierce had it right. Commerce = piracy.

ON EDIT: Original version of my post attributed quip to wrong guy, and used wrong noun. Memory eventually got in gear enough for me to have doubts, and look it up....

Full quote is in the form of a definition:

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
HarmanKardon
10-23-2015, 06:30 AM
Somewhere in the attic I have a book by Bierce, with alphabetical evil definitions, I forgot the title. Very cynical - great!
donquixote99
10-23-2015, 07:54 AM
"The Devil's Dictionary." Mine's in a similar place, I fear....
finnbow
10-23-2015, 09:16 AM
I'm a fan of Mr. Pigclimber. He's an excellent player and model citizen.
HarmanKardon
10-23-2015, 11:02 AM
World Cup Final 2014.

First picture with cut, second picture about an hour later...
Pio1980
10-23-2015, 11:27 AM
The pic shows him costumed as a Wehrmacht soldier, not a "Nazi" as the ensemble lacks a party member's badge pin.
Perfectly acceptable historical protrayal, afaik, displaying/ promoting Nazi party regalia and symbols is still forbidden in Germany.
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HarmanKardon
10-23-2015, 11:52 AM
On his chest you see the Reichsadler with the Hakenkreuz. From my point of view - and the point of view of the German public as well - the puppet is rather a Nazi than a disciple of a Zen monastry.
HarmanKardon
10-23-2015, 11:59 AM
Hakenkreuz also on this cap, this is a NO GO in Germany, a NO GO!

However - the most annoying aspect for us is that the puppet connects a relation between the Nationalsozialismus and this honest, sincere person.
Pio1980
10-23-2015, 01:40 PM
The hakenkreuz does not show on the pic on my device, iirc still forbidden in Germany

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donquixote99
10-23-2015, 02:08 PM
They may well have altered the insignia design a bit. It's the sort of 'edge up to the line' game that is always played, when lines of censorship are drawn.
Pio1980
10-23-2015, 02:28 PM
This is 12 years of German history that shouldn't be ignored or forgotten, but any semblance of promotion of the source of this global and national disaster is not to be tolerated.

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HarmanKardon
10-24-2015, 01:32 AM
The hakenkreuz does not show on the pic on my device, iirc still forbidden in Germany

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Text on the left:

"On the forage cap of the fantasy uniform one can see the Hakenkreuz."

This is the High Speed Streamliner 01 1102 from 1939. Picture is from 1999. Below the Reichsadler the Hakenkreuz is covered. Meanwhile the entire badge has been removed.
HarmanKardon
10-24-2015, 01:33 AM
This is 12 years of German history that shouldn't be ignored or forgotten, but any semblance of promotion of the source of this global and national disaster is not to be tolerated.

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Great comment, thanks.
HarmanKardon
10-24-2015, 01:49 AM
They may well have altered the insignia design a bit. It's the sort of 'edge up to the line' game that is always played, when lines of censorship are drawn.

It is a Hakenkreuz imitation, anyway. No mercy for this crap.
Pio1980
10-24-2015, 10:49 AM
Text on the left:

"On the forage cap of the fantasy uniform one can see the Hakenkreuz."

This is the High Speed Streamliner 01 1102 from 1939. Picture is from 1999. Below the Reichsadler the Hakenkreuz is covered. Meanwhile the entire badge has been removed.

Enlarging the pic shows the Reichsadler still present fronting the bright metal streamline accents, minus the hakenkreuz of course.

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Pio1980
10-24-2015, 10:50 AM
It is a Hakenkreuz imitation, anyway. No mercy for this crap.

This magnification shows the hakenkreuz present.

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HarmanKardon
10-24-2015, 12:15 PM
Enlarging the pic shows the Reichsadler still present fronting the bright metal streamline accents, minus the hakenkreuz of course.

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Unfortunately I do not understand exactly your comment.
Pio1980
10-24-2015, 12:20 PM
Unfortunately I do not understand exactly your comment.

It's still there on the color photo.

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Boreas
10-24-2015, 12:23 PM
This is the High Speed Streamliner 01 1102 from 1939. Picture is from 1999. Below the Reichsadler the Hakenkreuz is covered. Meanwhile the entire badge has been removed.

Unfortunately I do not understand exactly your comment.

I believe what he's saying is that the Reichsadler, minus the Hakenkreuz is to be seen in both photos you posted. I think there may be some confusion as to your meaning when you say "Meanwhile the entire badge has been removed." Do you mean it was removed for one of the photos you posted or do you mean that, subsequent to 1999, the emblem has been entirely removed, swastika, eagle and all? (It has.)

By the way, that's a very cool locomotive!

http://gigantclub.hu/gigant_club/pic/hu/special/par/BR011102.JPG
HarmanKardon
10-24-2015, 12:26 PM
It's still there on the color photo.

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Look at this pretty new picture. The badge has been removed now, this is what I was trying to say.
HarmanKardon
10-29-2015, 08:01 AM
This is cool!
donquixote99
10-29-2015, 08:12 AM
Heh. Looks pretty 'developing world' to me. And the boxes look old. But, English on the cartons. So, former British colony, largely Moslem. Maybe Bangladesh or Siri Lanka?
Boreas
10-29-2015, 08:53 AM
Heh. Looks pretty 'developing world' to me. And the boxes look old. But, English on the cartons. So, former British colony, largely Moslem. Maybe Bangladesh or Siri Lanka?

Where everyone gets their own iPhone!
HarmanKardon
10-29-2015, 09:33 AM
The picture is actually bigger, according to the clothes the people are wearing Pakistan could be possible as well.
Boreas
10-29-2015, 09:38 AM
India

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/12/hitler-ice-cream-is-not-exactly-what-you-think.html
donquixote99
10-29-2015, 09:51 AM
Well, I was shooting around the bulls-eye....
Pio1980
10-29-2015, 10:20 AM
Look at this pretty new picture. The badge has been removed now, this is what I was trying to say.

History of the series for railroad buffs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRB_Class_01.10

FWIW, while I was stationed at Grafenwohr in 1968, the local scrap yard received a contract to scrap iirc twenty eight of the steam locos. I took a series of pics of the process that are in a safe place somewhere around here. I got one of the speedometers as a souvenir and mounted a jeweled platform clock movement in it, keeping the speedo dial. A friend who was a train buff got it decades ago.

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