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Way with X and W!

Saturday, July 28, 2012

I know everyone knows that in Germany certain symbols are banned in public use: This has, at least occasionally, been extended up to the Celtic Cross. (The Odalsrune is permitted on uniforms of principal to top Stabsfeldwebeln, on promotional events of the Bundeswehr, but not on any demonstrations.)

Turkey, however, I could probably just to close a relevant education gap in their efforts to free the citizens of Ohngeiste, perhaps what we should recognize envy even a bit more than we do. Because it prohibits when the following quote from the FAZ to be believed, with us completely normal, ajar to the Latin alphabet letters:

"Just a court in Diyarbakir, the unofficial capital of the Turkish Kurds, the cancellation of 19 Kurdish name for parks and roads has decreed as the banned Kurdish letters were x or w in the names." (more ...)

Nazi Pops

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Brad Pitt, Skalpjäger in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," reviles now "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise as Stauffenberg as ridiculous movie while Master T. makes fun of the British actresses sizes, is miming Nazis, funny.

In tomorrow's star Pitt rants at all of Tarantino's film had "now put a lid on the pot" the theme of World War II in the cinema. Next: "The Basterds everything is told in the genre. The film destroys all symbols. The work is done, end of story. "Moreover, the film was incredibly progressive, in three languages, have power, and that he was" the first step in the future of filmmaking ".

Now it gets really funny. (more ...)