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[Hod]

[expatben]

Why can't we just agree that politics should not mean as much as it does? Has the American government killed needlessly? Yep and not just in Iraq either the Americans have killed in Grenada, they killed the natives and But both continents have blood on their hands. If it wasn't the French and Spanish killing protestants it was the Dutch and British killing Catholics-unless Britain decided to be Catholic that is.
Do I like Bush? No. Then again I do not like Merkel or Blair and I hardly think a country whos choice was between Chirac and LePen can comment on democracy.
Europe has gone around colanising and killing since the Romans.
Look, I am dualy North American and European and both are swell but this game we are playing for moral supriority is just dividing us when we should be uniting.

Oh, and to stick to topic is it just me or is the only song Germans know "99 Luft baloon" by Nena-come on every one sing along!!

[JZer]

And don't forget that France shot down some planes in the Ivory Coast in 2005 without waiting for a trail to see who had shot the French planes.

[expatben]

See thats what I'm saying EVERY continent has its gold stars and black eyes. But I know what you mean about the Bush thing. I mean, when I trained in France its not like I walked up to French people and said "So...Chirac vs LePen eh? Wow you guys really messed up that time!" Mainly, because I do not speak French well enough...and cause y'know its rude and all.

[JZer]

[expatben]

I totally understand. I mean, I dislike Bush and yeah I ask about Bush and such with my American friends and I even debate politics with them but I do not hold them accountable. Actually most of my American friends and family voted democrat in 2004 AND 2000.
As a Brit I do not like that Britain is in the Iraq war either and as a Canadian I do not like everything we have done but hey, as you said we are not politicians we have no influence on our government.

[Hod]

I think the gist is that yanks shouldn�t discuss politics in Germany.

Let�s face it, you yanks spend half a decade standing in queues to get a licence to live here, only to get 10 euros an hour teaching adults who were just too bone idle to learn English at school. I work in Germany now in a company with over 2000 German employees. Not a single one of them needs any English instruction whatsoever.

Your students, who know full well that Germany�s economy is about as successful as the Space Shuttle, would much rather ask you, the teachers, why you�ve travelled halfway across the planet to take home far far less cash than the most unskilled unmotivated and unemployed German.

I�m not just plucking figures out the air here. I know, from Arbeitsamt classes I taught when I was a teacher, that unemployed Germans will take home 60% of their previous income. That was way more than I ever made slogging my guts out in some classroom. It was time for a change.

If you want lively lessons, forget Bush. Show them your pay slip.

[Henry_Cowell]

[thrifty]

Practice what you preach.

[Henry_Cowell]

Similarly with thrifty/31/Mark Loyd: We hear nothing but incessant whinging about how he hates the lowest rungs of the English-teaching career ladder.

I would ask him also not to mention this ever again on these forums. But, really, does anyone think he has anything else to contribute? Nah. We need out perpetual whingers and crybabies -- to make the rest of us feel successful and fortunate to have the jobs we do.

[schminken]

I just don't want to hear a German/Austrian/Swiss blowing their nose as loudly as possible at the dinner table.

[JZer]

[JZer]

[Henry_Cowell]

[JZer]