What's been missing here all these years ...

[uwe]

But Michael can play with himself, he doesn't need Joey!

[godofthunder]

I'm nor sure but I feel I'm being summoned. 

[uwe]

You really think so, Scott?



Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

[exiledarchangel]

But Michael can play with himself, he doesn't need Joey!

Well, anyone can do that, company can help but it is not 100% necessary... 

[uwe]

You innuendo-drenched lecherous lout! 

[exiledarchangel]

I call that "a badge of honor", thank you.

[uwe]

Have you applied citizenship yet, you Söder-subject?

[exiledarchangel]

Citizenship? That step in the deepest ocean of true german bureaucracy? Well of course I have, since last year, and I dragged my poor kids along...

[uwe]

I'm extremely happy to hear that (once it's done, hopefully it won't take too long), we've always perceived us (wrongly) as natural descendants of Ancient Greece (the civilization, not the musical), once you and your family join, we've come full circle/achieved closure!



Bureaucracy, as you may have learned by now, belongs to Germany like the River Rhine and the Black Forest. There is no beauty in a process (and no bliss in its ultimate conclusion) unless it has been obfuscated by a sufficient amount of paper or online forms. Alles ordentlich!

And I won't be the sole German here anymore ... today ze LBÖ, tomorrow ze wörld !!!

[exiledarchangel]

we've always perceived us (wrongly) as natural descendants of Ancient Greece (the civilization, not the musical)

I know what you mean, never understood what a bunch of barbaric forest tribes have to do with the pinnacle of human intellect

Bureaucracy, as you may have learned by now, belongs to Germany like the River Rhine and the Black Forest. There is no beauty in a process (and no bliss in its ultimate conclusion) unless it has been obfuscated by a sufficient amount of paper or online forms. Alles ordentlich!

The whole process took me almost 18 months, because of that Corona human malware, and also those dorks in the Rathaus managed to lose my papers TWO times, so I had to reapply.

And I won't be the sole German here anymore ... today ze LBÖ, tomorrow ze wörld !!!

Now I am half greek-half german, I want everything to be perfect, but maybe tomorrow.

[uwe]

I know what you mean, never understood what a bunch of barbaric forest tribes have to do with the pinnacle of human intellect


   

[godofthunder]

    https://youtu.be/7twSjRSG6fE?si=lPhqNNYBhW4Gt1Q2

[Rob]

I know what you mean, never understood what a bunch of barbaric forest tribes have to do with the pinnacle of human intellect


   

Well. . . they have tags on their dogs.  Isn't that saying something?

[westen44]

One of my favorite quotes of Nietzsche is about the ancient Greeks.  It probably sounds more poetic in the original language.  But here it is in English:

"What suffering this race must have endured in order to create such beauty."

This is a paraphrase, but the first English translation that I read was one I like better.  It's the one which has stuck with me through the years:

"What suffering the Greeks must have endured to have become so beautiful." 

[westen44]

    https://youtu.be/7twSjRSG6fE?si=lPhqNNYBhW4Gt1Q2

It's good to be brought back on a thread to what's really important:  bass guitar.  And in a personal way, too.