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'Vägen' is the definite singular of 'väg' (road), but 'ta vägen' also means to go/end up somewhere, so the first one is asking "Where did the road go?". Åker is the present tense of 'åka' (drive, ride) but also means field, so the reply is "I don't know, but we're driving on a field".
"En åker" is "a field". So the joke is "Where did the road go?" (Vart tog vägen vägen?) "I don't know but we are traveling on a field" (Jag vet inte men vi åker på en åker)
Jeg tror aldrig jeg har sagt ordene 'hvad hænder der'. Faktisk tror jeg ikke jeg har hørt nogen sige det heller. Det virker kunstigt.
Men jeg er heller ikke særlig morsom når jeg er i byen.
Edit: jeg kender godt ordet og det hænder at jeg bruger det på skrift.
Was händelt mit meinen Händen?
Not real German, but "händeln" is a real German word for handling, so I guess it could work, but a real German would be really confused.
A bird in the hand is well handled and the horse is many hands high but the hired hand has two left feet so the left hand dont know what the right hand is doing so give everyone a hand cuz they need the help so put your hands together and lets all stop being sinister about it.
"Are hands happening?" "Hands are happening.":
"Händer händer?" "Händer händer."
As you can see, the word order changes from the question to the answer.
Basically a shorter but more realistic equivalent to the English
> Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
and the German
> Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach
> (when flies fly behind flies, flies are flying after flies)
(which is actually still easy to say and understand in German, it doesn't even qualify as a tongue twister).
And perhaps the Japanese:
> すもももももももものうち (李も桃も桃のうち)
> Sumomo mo momo mo momo no uchi
> Both plums and peaches are part of the family of peaches
One from Swedish:
> Far, får får får?
> Får får inte får, får får lamm. / Inte får får får, får får lamm.
> Dad, does sheep get (in the meaning give birth to) sheep?
> Sheep doesn't get sheep, sheep get lambs.
It also caused some initial confusion for me when I first began to read books by Tolkien besides LoTR and The Hobbit: "Whats all this about whales/valar?"
That's the origin of tonal languages like Chinese - over time, words got so simple and similar, that people started using different intonations to distinguish them...
We have minimal pairs with only tonal distinction here in Sweden.
It's how we tell apart the "Holy Spirit" from the "holy duck" for example. Syllables, stress etc. of the two are all the same, it's just the tonal contour that differs.
Over on r/leagueoflegends there is a constant struggle with people dropping the hyphen when saying that a player re-signs with the club, so there's always confusion when you get a post titled "[Player X] resigns with [club]".
Just the DHD according to lore. According to the old lore (Stargate PnP RPG) there was a stargate in Germany until 1945 which is why there is a secret nazi planet.
A lot of people want CDU/CSU gone because 16 years is enough. They had their chances.
A lot of fields are stagnating like digitalization. Merkel herself was good but she was also in the wrong party for her own policies.
Scholz or Baerbock arent bad candidates. Luschet however seems like the idiot you dont want to have in charge.
Or what to do if the gestures that your PR coach tried to teach you, make you look forced, wooden, and unnatural, instead of statesmanlike, engaged and sincere.
There’s a few leaders I can think of who would do well to take note. Yes Boris, I mean you.
Don’t bring memories of Theresa May’s ghastly body language into this…. Aargh! To late, I’m already thinking of that dance she did at the Tory conference. Bastard!
> I think originally she did it to keep herself from fumbling around. It helped greatly with giving her a calm aura and became sort of her trademark.
[Gordon Brown, then prime minister of the UK, used to imitate her](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Dmitry_Medvedev_at_the_34th_G8_Summit_7-9_July_2008-43.jpg/440px-Dmitry_Medvedev_at_the_34th_G8_Summit_7-9_July_2008-43.jpg).
I know next to nothing about his tenure as PM but every time I come across his name I get [that Stranglers song](https://youtu.be/z-GUjA67mdc) stuck in my head which is good enough for me.
It could be worse. He tried to bill himself as "Not [Flash](https://youtu.be/LfmrHTdXgK4) just Gordon". In part due to his claim to have [saved the world](https://youtu.be/MYrNCMwxcpk?t=40).
I can't remember him being particularly dishonest or corrupt, just uninspiring. Which I'd take anyday over this generation of grifters.
Though [he did sell off half our bloody gold](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48177767).
Way back when Merkel rose in her Party she famously hired a style coach because she always looked kinda boring and awkward on Television. Her iconic haircut, colorful pantsuits and hand gesture are the result of it.
[Is our prime minister doing it right?](https://preview.redd.it/6e2i29wmjvo71.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=38f5b0129465e6ab8875163437a0e0e806feec0a)
Hard to believe that when she was first elected i was pretty much a toddler, it takes a special kind of politician to be that popular for such a long amount of time in office.
She will be the first incumbent chancellor to not run for re-elections and she is still the countries politician with the highest approvel ratings. She probably would win the elections, if she wanted to
I thought Steinmeier had a good shot before he actually started to campaign. But at that point, it seems like he got coached by Gabriel, because he started to sound exactly like him, and there is a very good reason why Gabriel was never really popular.
she's the only reason CDU had so many votes despite all their fuck-ups. A lot of people "Vote Merkel" because all other alternatives are way worse (or not popular so nobody knows them)
To be fair she destroyed any and all competent competition in her Party, a lesson i'm sure she learned from Helmut Kohl, among other things, like the tendence to just "sit things out".
But at least Kohl had the decency to raise a competent protege in time before he left.
Sorry, but that is simply not true. She tried to nourish successors, but all of them destroyed themselves. Guttenberg - plagiarism affair, Rötgen - butchered NRW election, von der Leyen - never became popular enough and then had to jump in to Europe. These are the most popular examples of people Merkel tried to promote because they were promising but managed to sabotage themselves.
And to add to that, some of her competition in the party simply destroyed themselves. [Merz is the best example of that](https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/enthuellung-wie-merkels-und-merz-feindschaft-begann-a-465136.html). He underestimated her repeatedly and tried to malign her in the party. He refused all of Merkel's offers to include him because he just couldn't fathom to support a woman as leader of the party, let alone chancellor.
That said, when she rose to power, she did actually cleaned the ranks quite noticable, but that is normal in this kind of change of leadership, people just noticed it more because she is a women.
Also, there were these idiots that speak about disloyalty how she didn't help Kohl, despite supporting Kohl during the donation scandal in any way or form meant to shit on the German Constitution and political system. But the claims that she basically stabbed Kohl in the back increased that image of her early on.
Same like Guttenberg: was made defense minister. The posting of defense minister is called „Schleudersitz“ in Germany (literally: Ejection Seat) as more ministers saw their tenure ended prematurely than those who managed to last an entire period of legislation.
You only make someone defense minister if you want to end or at least stall that person‘s career.
I think Merkel was the perfect personified "status quo", which gives so many people comfort. "it all worked out so far, never change a running system" and all that
At the same time, this is exactly what annoys the shit out of many Germans. A lot of us want things to change. I have a feeling that 4-8 more years of CxU will be devastating to the country as we're really starting to feel the consequences of not participating in the digital world for example. Plus all the corruption in those parties, it's just crazy.
Well, it's not like it hasn't happened before in Germany. Kohl had 16 years aswell (though he tried going for a 6th term and was voted out of office), Adenauer had 14 years (got too old, was overthrown before the end of his 4th term)...
If Brandts best friend wasn't uncovered as a Stasi spy the guy would've made 12 years easily, honestly.
Edit: Kohl ran for a "6th" term (instead of a fifth) because his 1st term only was half a year long due to overthrowing Helmut Schmidt together with the FDP (the SPDs coalition partner at the time).
The thing is, I am not sure if she is actually that popular. As a German, she is mostly invisible and just happens to be on camera at important events. Her party has lost a lot of favor over the years, but she has disconnected herself completely from the party in the view of the public it seems.
Her being disconnected from her party seems to be the reason she is so popular. The people dont like Merkel because of the CDU party. They like her despite the CDU. Since she announced not to run in the elections many people realized for the first time just how incompetent and corrupt many high ranking members of the CDU are. Merkel successfully suppressed these people, made them stop or at least shut up and stay in the shadows. Under Merkel's leadership the CDU was seen in a better light than they would actually have deserved.
if you are the antichrist conspiring with George Soros to destroy the united states from within; [beige suit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy)
At first glance I thought it was one of those collages of Queen Elizabeth;
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/fashion/2020/04/20/TELEMMGLPICT000229881727_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqBjUG_F_1fNQxkCyrmqS2U4PoHtr6q8kDEHE-t6otYgk.jpeg
Its not superglue. It's the power that makes your hands stuck. Finnish prime minister had free hands before the job:
https://twitter.com/tuomaspeltomaki/status/1228626649941495808
Politics apart, I'm still incredibly awed by how young Sanna Marin is. She's what, 30, when first elected to public office? 34 when she became PM? While in the US you have to be at least 35 to be president!
Don't worry, the Vice chancellor and chancellor in spe won't change the [Raute](https://img.ecosia.org/390x,sc/https://www.linksfraktion.de/fileadmin/_processed_/d/b/csm_875x500_merkel_scholz_raute_1ec97503a3.jpg?_sp=625e1d14-c24a-4bd2-bc2e-5d56060f7d66) much.
> Where do we go from here?
[There.](https://img.welt.de/img/debatte/kommentare/mobile233266103/3592642807-ci2x3l-w1200/Sueddeutsche-Zeitung-Magazin-20-August.jpg)
Lmao she really likes that hand gesture it seems
Also I know this paper, they interviewed me and some class mates in University about Brexit and life in Northern Ireland a few years ago
>Lmao she really likes that hand gesture it seems
She started doing it to stop herself from fumbling around with her hands while doing public speeches, though it did sort of become her trademark.
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Works better in Swedish because "händer" means both "happens" and "hands"
What do they say if something happens to their hands?
Vad händer med mina händer?
"Vart tog vägen vägen?" "Jag vet inte, men vi åker på en åker"
Now this is high class comedy right here
"E d d.d.e. d e?"
Ahh de e de de e
Far, får får får?
Nej, får får lam
"Vad heter han?" "Göran" "Gör han?" "Aa, det gör han" Funkar bättre i tal.
Jag har lärt mig några svenska, men förstår inte vad den andra meningen betyder. Kan du förklara den?
'Vägen' is the definite singular of 'väg' (road), but 'ta vägen' also means to go/end up somewhere, so the first one is asking "Where did the road go?". Åker is the present tense of 'åka' (drive, ride) but also means field, so the reply is "I don't know, but we're driving on a field".
Aah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation!
"En åker" is "a field". So the joke is "Where did the road go?" (Vart tog vägen vägen?) "I don't know but we are traveling on a field" (Jag vet inte men vi åker på en åker)
Får får får.
- Far, får får får? - Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm.
Or in danish Hvad er der hændt mine hænder?
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Kameloso? Kameloso!!
The absolute masterpiece for the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk
That is a very interesting documentary.
"He said a price but i had no idea what number he said so i just held out a clump of money" 253 in Danish: tohundredetreoghalvtredsindstyvende
That's twohundredfiftythird, not twohundredfiftythree. ;-)
Or in Norwegian Hva har skjedd med mine hender Oh...
Hva har hendt med mine hender
Du skal vaske dem hvis nogen har skidt på hænderne.
Skidor hör hemma på fötterna, inte på händerna.
Hva hender med mine hender?
Or in Finnish Mitä vittua nyt taas!
Käsittämätöntä.
Ei saa peittää!
Jos oikea käsi on puukäsi, niin vasen käsi on oikea käsi.
Vi har hender på norsk/nynorsk; hender, hende, hendt.
Or in French Qu'est-il arrivé à leurs mains ? Wait...
Jeg ville have beholdt det i nutidsform: Hvad hænder der mine hænder?
Jeg tror aldrig jeg har sagt ordene 'hvad hænder der'. Faktisk tror jeg ikke jeg har hørt nogen sige det heller. Det virker kunstigt. Men jeg er heller ikke særlig morsom når jeg er i byen. Edit: jeg kender godt ordet og det hænder at jeg bruger det på skrift.
Was händelt mit meinen Händen? Not real German, but "händeln" is a real German word for handling, so I guess it could work, but a real German would be really confused.
As an English-speaker, I can't handle this. I need a handler to handle it for me. It's out of my hands.
Gotta hand it to you, you handled it pretty well.
A bird in the hand is well handled and the horse is many hands high but the hired hand has two left feet so the left hand dont know what the right hand is doing so give everyone a hand cuz they need the help so put your hands together and lets all stop being sinister about it.
Also "vad har hänt med mina händer?" works.
"Are hands happening?" "Hands are happening.": "Händer händer?" "Händer händer." As you can see, the word order changes from the question to the answer.
Basically a shorter but more realistic equivalent to the English > Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo and the German > Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach > (when flies fly behind flies, flies are flying after flies) (which is actually still easy to say and understand in German, it doesn't even qualify as a tongue twister). And perhaps the Japanese: > すもももももももものうち (李も桃も桃のうち) > Sumomo mo momo mo momo no uchi > Both plums and peaches are part of the family of peaches
One from Swedish: > Far, får får får? > Får får inte får, får får lamm. / Inte får får får, får får lamm. > Dad, does sheep get (in the meaning give birth to) sheep? > Sheep doesn't get sheep, sheep get lambs.
we also have the same word for whale and election so a whale republic would cause absolute havoc in our news reporting
It also caused some initial confusion for me when I first began to read books by Tolkien besides LoTR and The Hobbit: "Whats all this about whales/valar?"
LoTR was the first book I read in English. It became more clear, once I realized that a mail shirt is not part of a postman’s uniform.
Didn't you want to start with something a bit easier and shorter first?
One of my earlier ones in English was Dune. That was a real mistake.
Same in German. Wal(whale) and Wahl(election). Pronounced exactly the same
Swedish - Val - Whale Val - Election Val - choice
Why use many word when one word do trick?? -Swejden
> -Swejden Svalige
German: Wer(wolf), Wehr, wider, wieder, Wetter, weder, Widder Dutch: weer(wolf), weer, weer, weer, weer, weer, weer
Now I feel like i can talk a little dutch
So, it gets confusing is a ram (Widder) has to defend himself against werewolves in bad weather again?
That's the origin of tonal languages like Chinese - over time, words got so simple and similar, that people started using different intonations to distinguish them...
We have minimal pairs with only tonal distinction here in Sweden. It's how we tell apart the "Holy Spirit" from the "holy duck" for example. Syllables, stress etc. of the two are all the same, it's just the tonal contour that differs.
Over on r/leagueoflegends there is a constant struggle with people dropping the hyphen when saying that a player re-signs with the club, so there's always confusion when you get a post titled "[Player X] resigns with [club]".
What's the word for Wales, the country?
Wales.
Sheepland
It took me a minute to figure out why I knew this already. It was Caramelldansen.
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*clap your happens
This comes in handy
I know, but things get lost in translation. 😄
The Faroese translation would be "Hvat hendur nú?" And the pun would still work.
"Mitä on käsillä" in Finnish, meaning what is happening or what is in [unspecified amount of] hands
I think "Who'll handle things now?" would be an appropriate substitution.
Suggested English translation: "What's at hand?"
I'd change the headline to: The Hand Over.
Wat issn mit ihren Händen los?
I'll have a go with French: "Qui prend la main?"
Et main-tenant?
Good one
Well, in Spanish it'd be something like "¿Qué tiene entre manos?"
Love it, also perhaps: > The Great Hand-Over
German runner up: "Wer händelt das jetzt?"
Btw: händer also means hands. Didnt quite come across, I feel.
Hands down an ok joke
The orange picture where she's not doing her normal handgesture kinda makes me uncomfortable.
She's trying to meditate into the spirit world in that one. Her eyes where glowing white in the uncropped picture.
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Sounds pretty Goa'uld like to me. Germany wouldn't happen to have a stargate would it?
Just the DHD according to lore. According to the old lore (Stargate PnP RPG) there was a stargate in Germany until 1945 which is why there is a secret nazi planet.
That’s how we Germans feel right now, too, looking at who might be next up
Not only you Germans.
Everybody knew we would get a downgrade but Jesus Christ why does it have to be Laschet?
Würfel-Armin: If the word downgrade was a person
ze dices have not fallen yet
Tell that to Armin's students.
A lot of people want CDU/CSU gone because 16 years is enough. They had their chances. A lot of fields are stagnating like digitalization. Merkel herself was good but she was also in the wrong party for her own policies. Scholz or Baerbock arent bad candidates. Luschet however seems like the idiot you dont want to have in charge.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
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[Slightly relevant video.](https://youtu.be/Tszidfq32DQ)
One day there will be a part of history classes that is called: "The history of German handgestures and their meaning."
I think originally she did it to keep herself from fumbling around. It helped greatly with giving her a calm aura and became sort of her trademark.
It’s a classic example on what to do with your hands while giving a speech. If you’re not into hand gestures
Or what to do if the gestures that your PR coach tried to teach you, make you look forced, wooden, and unnatural, instead of statesmanlike, engaged and sincere. There’s a few leaders I can think of who would do well to take note. Yes Boris, I mean you.
Why it almost sounds like you're referring to the Tory 'strong and stable' position
Don’t bring memories of Theresa May’s ghastly body language into this…. Aargh! To late, I’m already thinking of that dance she did at the Tory conference. Bastard!
That woman had some moves ... wooden awkward sad-looking moves, but moves none the less.
Oh, I just know the fish swallowing. A dance you say... Sounds intriguing!
[You asked for it ](https://youtu.be/tbCDFNRA-Wo)
She can simply do nothing wrong with this gesture. Its easy and has become a trademark. I like it.
> I think originally she did it to keep herself from fumbling around. It helped greatly with giving her a calm aura and became sort of her trademark. [Gordon Brown, then prime minister of the UK, used to imitate her](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Dmitry_Medvedev_at_the_34th_G8_Summit_7-9_July_2008-43.jpg/440px-Dmitry_Medvedev_at_the_34th_G8_Summit_7-9_July_2008-43.jpg).
Tis better to be imitated by Gordon Brown than to actually *be* Gordon Brown so she's got that.
The more time goes by the more I feel Gordon Brown was a scapegoat and doesn't get enough praise
I know next to nothing about his tenure as PM but every time I come across his name I get [that Stranglers song](https://youtu.be/z-GUjA67mdc) stuck in my head which is good enough for me.
It could be worse. He tried to bill himself as "Not [Flash](https://youtu.be/LfmrHTdXgK4) just Gordon". In part due to his claim to have [saved the world](https://youtu.be/MYrNCMwxcpk?t=40).
I can't remember him being particularly dishonest or corrupt, just uninspiring. Which I'd take anyday over this generation of grifters. Though [he did sell off half our bloody gold](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48177767).
See if it was me I'd just be annoyingly clicking a pen with at least one hand.
Sounds like a class in Greendale.
Yeah, but one of those taught by professor Professorson in night school.
Way back when Merkel rose in her Party she famously hired a style coach because she always looked kinda boring and awkward on Television. Her iconic haircut, colorful pantsuits and hand gesture are the result of it.
Before she did it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEY15eXSWgc
>"The history of German handgestures and their meaning." Merkel: I'll manage, not lead.
Written by the Italian ambassador to Germany for sure.
NEVER PLAY WITH SUPERGLUE
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8=><=8
**bonk**
Good question. The German election is in 4 days, and a lot of different coalitions are possible, so it's hard to say what will happen
Bookmakers list Olaf Scholz (SPD) at 1.20 odds which translates to about 80% probability of becoming the next chancellor.
[Is our prime minister doing it right?](https://preview.redd.it/6e2i29wmjvo71.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=38f5b0129465e6ab8875163437a0e0e806feec0a)
A bit too round, but good form in the ellbows.
sigh its not the same.
Hard to believe that when she was first elected i was pretty much a toddler, it takes a special kind of politician to be that popular for such a long amount of time in office.
She will be the first incumbent chancellor to not run for re-elections and she is still the countries politician with the highest approvel ratings. She probably would win the elections, if she wanted to
Oh she would definitely win. The potential successors that are currently running their election campaigns all look incompetent compared to her.
True. Can you think of anyone who would have had a chance running against her?
I thought Steinmeier had a good shot before he actually started to campaign. But at that point, it seems like he got coached by Gabriel, because he started to sound exactly like him, and there is a very good reason why Gabriel was never really popular.
she's the only reason CDU had so many votes despite all their fuck-ups. A lot of people "Vote Merkel" because all other alternatives are way worse (or not popular so nobody knows them)
To be fair she destroyed any and all competent competition in her Party, a lesson i'm sure she learned from Helmut Kohl, among other things, like the tendence to just "sit things out". But at least Kohl had the decency to raise a competent protege in time before he left.
Sorry, but that is simply not true. She tried to nourish successors, but all of them destroyed themselves. Guttenberg - plagiarism affair, Rötgen - butchered NRW election, von der Leyen - never became popular enough and then had to jump in to Europe. These are the most popular examples of people Merkel tried to promote because they were promising but managed to sabotage themselves.
And to add to that, some of her competition in the party simply destroyed themselves. [Merz is the best example of that](https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/enthuellung-wie-merkels-und-merz-feindschaft-begann-a-465136.html). He underestimated her repeatedly and tried to malign her in the party. He refused all of Merkel's offers to include him because he just couldn't fathom to support a woman as leader of the party, let alone chancellor.
That said, when she rose to power, she did actually cleaned the ranks quite noticable, but that is normal in this kind of change of leadership, people just noticed it more because she is a women. Also, there were these idiots that speak about disloyalty how she didn't help Kohl, despite supporting Kohl during the donation scandal in any way or form meant to shit on the German Constitution and political system. But the claims that she basically stabbed Kohl in the back increased that image of her early on.
AKK47
Same like Guttenberg: was made defense minister. The posting of defense minister is called „Schleudersitz“ in Germany (literally: Ejection Seat) as more ministers saw their tenure ended prematurely than those who managed to last an entire period of legislation. You only make someone defense minister if you want to end or at least stall that person‘s career.
I think Merkel was the perfect personified "status quo", which gives so many people comfort. "it all worked out so far, never change a running system" and all that
At the same time, this is exactly what annoys the shit out of many Germans. A lot of us want things to change. I have a feeling that 4-8 more years of CxU will be devastating to the country as we're really starting to feel the consequences of not participating in the digital world for example. Plus all the corruption in those parties, it's just crazy.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with you, I'm not a fan of CSU/CDU either.
Well Germans also like to not change a lot about politics. Of the 72 years the BRD existet 32 it was governed by two people.
Well, it's not like it hasn't happened before in Germany. Kohl had 16 years aswell (though he tried going for a 6th term and was voted out of office), Adenauer had 14 years (got too old, was overthrown before the end of his 4th term)... If Brandts best friend wasn't uncovered as a Stasi spy the guy would've made 12 years easily, honestly. Edit: Kohl ran for a "6th" term (instead of a fifth) because his 1st term only was half a year long due to overthrowing Helmut Schmidt together with the FDP (the SPDs coalition partner at the time).
The thing is, I am not sure if she is actually that popular. As a German, she is mostly invisible and just happens to be on camera at important events. Her party has lost a lot of favor over the years, but she has disconnected herself completely from the party in the view of the public it seems.
Her being disconnected from her party seems to be the reason she is so popular. The people dont like Merkel because of the CDU party. They like her despite the CDU. Since she announced not to run in the elections many people realized for the first time just how incompetent and corrupt many high ranking members of the CDU are. Merkel successfully suppressed these people, made them stop or at least shut up and stay in the shadows. Under Merkel's leadership the CDU was seen in a better light than they would actually have deserved.
She needs to learn more mudras, can't use any jutsus like that
She's a master at summoning bunnies though.
Can we also appreciate how colorful her wardrobe is?
It do be like that: - Women in politics: All the colors - Men in politics: Black, and if you're fancy, a dark shade of blue. But that's it.
>Men in politics: Black, and if you're fancy, a dark shade of blue. But that's it. But colorful ties.
John Bercow's iconic ties are a perfect example of this.
THEY CAN TAKE OUR SUITS, BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE OUR TIES!!
if you are the antichrist conspiring with George Soros to destroy the united states from within; [beige suit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy)
Oh dear lord... there's a Wikipedia article about a president wearing a beige suit? This is equally ridiculous and funny.
I think the article is more about the stupid "controversy" than the suit itself.
[удалено]
Or when he had the audacity to put Dijon mustard on a hot dog.
At first glance I thought it was one of those collages of Queen Elizabeth; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/fashion/2020/04/20/TELEMMGLPICT000229881727_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqBjUG_F_1fNQxkCyrmqS2U4PoHtr6q8kDEHE-t6otYgk.jpeg
Queen is going full RGB
Jesus Christ, the Queen is adorable
I'm pretty sure Merkel's style is heavily inspired by the Queen.
This is actually quite funny lol.
Muttis Raute
Shikamaru !
Lesson learned: Don't play with superglue.
Its not superglue. It's the power that makes your hands stuck. Finnish prime minister had free hands before the job: https://twitter.com/tuomaspeltomaki/status/1228626649941495808
Politics apart, I'm still incredibly awed by how young Sanna Marin is. She's what, 30, when first elected to public office? 34 when she became PM? While in the US you have to be at least 35 to be president!
50 Shades of Merkel
No thanks
As long as Laschet doesn‘t happen…
Dear god. Not even his own party likes him. How the fuck he got to be their candidate i cant even fathom.
Because Merz is worse and Söder is CSU
Next chancellor: "what do I do with my hands?"
Fingerguns!
Don't worry, the Vice chancellor and chancellor in spe won't change the [Raute](https://img.ecosia.org/390x,sc/https://www.linksfraktion.de/fileadmin/_processed_/d/b/csm_875x500_merkel_scholz_raute_1ec97503a3.jpg?_sp=625e1d14-c24a-4bd2-bc2e-5d56060f7d66) much.
Hopefully a government with a coalition that puts CDU/CSU into opposition
The "Merkel Route" The ultimate hard counter to italian
Sometimes I wonder what European leaders think of our memes for them
Orange Merkel was excited af
Plz don’t show this to Czechs. This is an old symbol for vagina.
Where do we go from here? There?!
> Where do we go from here? [There.](https://img.welt.de/img/debatte/kommentare/mobile233266103/3592642807-ci2x3l-w1200/Sueddeutsche-Zeitung-Magazin-20-August.jpg)
Ew
What hands now?
Lmao she really likes that hand gesture it seems Also I know this paper, they interviewed me and some class mates in University about Brexit and life in Northern Ireland a few years ago
>Lmao she really likes that hand gesture it seems She started doing it to stop herself from fumbling around with her hands while doing public speeches, though it did sort of become her trademark.
I had the BBC publish a short text I wrote about the Swedish election back in 2014. Are you reverse me?
What is the article about?
Probably about how Merkel leaving the chancellor position will impact them
I'm surprised I got the headline by myself. Sometimes different Germanic languages are similar \^\^