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2008-09-01 Europe

Oktoberfest: Why beer and lederhosen don't mix

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Posted by mrp 2008-09-01 13:53|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Oktoberfest is a last-ditch but ultimately doomed attempt to show that beer still rules the world.

In the world of the mile, pound and ounce, [and the one the rest of the world turns when things turn less secure] beer still rules.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-01 17:27|| 2008-09-01 17:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd call those...ah...full kegs.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-01 17:46|| 2008-09-01 17:46|| Front Page Top

#3 great mugs

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-01 17:54|| 2008-09-01 17:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm presum RENSE's > THE ISLAMIC TAKEOVER OF GERMANY has nuthin to do wid it???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-01 20:53|| 2008-09-01 20:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The Munchen festival is too large. A much nicer one is the Stuttgart Fish Festival, which has all the good stuff of Oktoberfest, with a much smaller crowd and far fewer international drunks.

I would like to add that lederhosen are the finest pants for growing boys ever invented. They will outgrow them before they destroy them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-01 22:28|| 2008-09-01 22:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Every kid should have lederhosen.

Lederhosen are freedom. You can climb any tree with impunity, get dirty, never come home with ripped pants.

Oh btw people do not sit in pools of vomit. And it's definitely not "sexless" there.

And if you haven't owned lederhosen for 20 years don't bother buying one. You just look silly with a new one.

The cheap ones are made in China anyway.

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 22:35|| 2008-09-01 22:35|| Front Page Top

#7 an expensively tailored Dirndl

Clearly, Mr. Boyes is as ignorant as his prose is facile. It is the dirndl that is expensive in the Promi-ghetto, because that is not peasant garb, any more than the tweed suit milady wears at her country house. In fact, it is the Bavarian version of the tweed suit milady wears. I have one, and while it didn't cost the earth it is still one of the more expensive and hard-wearing suits that I own (trailing daughter #2 will inherit it in time -- trailing daughter #1 is too tall -- such things never go out of style in certain circles). Tailoring, however, was accomplished by my clever au pair in about half an hour with a pair of embroidery scissors and a friend's sewing machine.

As for lederhosen, nobody has a problem with tight ones, because nobody except stupid British journalists wears anything but the old ones they've had for years, which fit as comfortably as their own skin. Nor do Germans go to Oktoberfest to get falling down drunk. It's the stupid foreign tourists one sees lying in vomit.

Mr. Boyes is correct, however, that the Bavarians will be laughing at him long before the night is over.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-01 23:16|| 2008-09-01 23:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually you see both styles of dirndl... the real stuff is not pink or mint, but has subdued traditional colors and is definitely not made of polyester in China.

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 23:39|| 2008-09-01 23:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, I know, European Conservative. My skirt is a beautiful deer-and-forest pattern in forest green and black, with red rickrack trim in rows on the bottom, and red heart-shaped leather patches backing the horn buttons. The sweater picks up the colours and the leather patches... and of course horn buttons. I always get compliments when I wear it.

Oh, and I answered your question about sex ed in the other thread.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-01 23:46|| 2008-09-01 23:46|| Front Page Top

#10 And you can wear it at 20, 50 or 70... they never look out of date

Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 23:47|| 2008-09-01 23:47|| Front Page Top

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