Ludicrous

20.04.2006, 10:12

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans to sing
their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite for the
Germans.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006180295,00.html

20.04.2006, 10:39

Jim Scott

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:12:29 +0100, Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 + wrote:

> Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans to sing
> their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite for the
> Germans.
> [..]

It seems unlikely.
We don't even speak English up here.

20.04.2006, 10:57

Rabbit

"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
news:b1u1
> Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans to sing
> their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite for the
> Germans.
> [..]

Surely they'll need to teach them the words in English first ? All I've ever
seen ( at any sporting event and most countries) is lips moving but not the
way they would with the right words :-)

20.04.2006, 11:09

Aries

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 + was thinking very hard :
> Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans to
> sing their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite for
> the Germans.
> [..]

You don't believe everything you read in the Sun do you :eek: :-?

20.04.2006, 11:34

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Rabbit wrote:
> "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
> news:b1u1
>> Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans
>> to sing their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite
>> for the Germans.
>> [..]
>
> Surely they'll need to teach them the words in English first ? All
> I've ever seen ( at any sporting event and most countries) is lips
> moving but not the way they would with the right words :-)

How can you tell? you don't know the right words either.
Buy the Sun today, they've printed out the words in English and given the
translation into German too. :)

20.04.2006, 11:36

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Aries wrote:
> Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 + was thinking very hard :
>> Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans to
>> sing their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite for
>> the Germans.
>> [..]
>
> You don't believe everything you read in the Sun do you :eek: :-?

Of course - no one else will tell you the truth.
You aren't suggesting that all the animal cruelty reports they report are
figments of their own imagination, are you?

20.04.2006, 11:41

Rabbit

"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
news:qou1
> How can you tell? you don't know the right words either.

You can see the way people's mouths move that it's often just a gesture and
yes the same thing happens with *Flower of Scotland*

> Buy the Sun today,

I'm not going far enough away today to be able to do that without worrying
about the embarrassment :-)

> they've printed out the words in English and given the translation into
> German too. :)

Well then you could post them 'cos I admit I don't even know what the
*English* anthem is.

20.04.2006, 11:57

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Rabbit wrote:
> "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
> news:qou1
>
> You can see the way people's mouths move that it's often just a
> gesture and yes the same thing happens with *Flower of Scotland*
>> I'm not going far enough away today to be able to do that without
> worrying about the embarrassment :-)
>> Well then you could post them 'cos I admit I don't even know what the
> *English* anthem is.

I can't do that it woud infringe the copyright.

20.04.2006, 12:21

Rabbit

"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
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> I can't do that it woud infringe the copyright.

Excuses, excuses :-)

#10

20.04.2006, 13:23

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Rabbit wrote:
> "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
> news:f0u1
>> I can't do that it woud infringe the copyright.
>
> Excuses, excuses :-)

Go out and buy one, you can afford it. And who knows what little
educational snoppets you could pick up? :)

#11

20.04.2006, 13:35

Aries

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 + explained on 20/04/2006 :
> Aries wrote:
>> Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 + was thinking very hard :
>>> Apparently our Foreign Office are advising the English soccer fans to
>>> sing their World Cup songs in German since it will be more polite for
>>> the Germans.
>>> [..]
>>
>> You don't believe everything you read in the Sun do you :eek: :-?

> Of course - no one else will tell you the truth.
> You aren't suggesting that all the animal cruelty reports they report
> are figments of their own imagination, are you?

Those animal cruelty reports have been all over the television news too,
but as for the Sun newspaper, I reckon it's just a comic on the whole, I
would never buy it, sawry if that offends you.

#12

20.04.2006, 13:38

Rabbit

"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
news:7ju1

> Go out and buy one, you can afford it.

Oh I can afford to buy The Sun, I just couldn't live with the embarrassment
of doing so :-)

#13

20.04.2006, 13:50

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Aries wrote:
> Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 + explained on 20/04/2006 :
>> Those animal cruelty reports have been all over the television news
> too, but as for the Sun newspaper, I reckon it's just a comic on the
> whole, I would never buy it, sawry if that offends you.

Well to have made such a momentous decision I assume that you have
researched the newspaper in extremely intricate detail in the past.
[..]

#14

20.04.2006, 13:51

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +

Rabbit wrote:
> "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
> news:7ju1
>
>> Go out and buy one, you can afford it.
>
> Oh I can afford to buy The Sun, I just couldn't live with the
> embarrassment of doing so :-)

Where's that thick skin gone then? :)

#15

20.04.2006, 13:55

Rabbit

"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +" <flyingnun> wrote in message
news:5iu1
> Where's that thick skin gone then? :)

I'd need an Elephant's hide :-)

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