Herr Scouse

[Keith at Tregenna]

Today I Found Out the fate of the survival of Hitler’s bloodline rests in the hands of just five family members: the two sons (Peter Raubal and Heiner Hochegger) of Adolf Hitler’s half-sister Angela Hitler, and the three remaining sons (Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston) of Adolf’s half-brother Alois Hitler Jr.

More available if anyone is interested: K

[John Gill]

Didn't Eva Braun invent the Herrdrier?

[Keith at Tregenna]

Would have been: Haartrockner


Though my own country was not allowed to speak it's own language was encouraged to take up German. Guess the deciscion was made when failure seemed likely ? German was fairly easy as another phonetic language - Nos Da meine freunde.

K.

[Peter F Chard]

I have contact with a work colleague, a Tug engineer, here in Auckland, whose grandmother was once Hitler's secretary when the Nazi party was on the up and up. Amazingly the family are of Jewish origins but it took Grannie several years to realize that she had no future in that position and resigned. Regards Peter in NZ.

[Keith at Tregenna]

http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/Eva_Braun/cousin.html

Will private mail, as any serious attempts on site, just get corrupted.

If you like 'banter', you are an idiot @

Never my words:

"Banter". Can we end it? Destroy it, cleanse it with fire, encase it in lead and hurl its charred corpse into the North Sea? It is, and I am speaking as someone who recently decried the use of hyperbole in public debate, literally and without question the single worst thing in the history of the universe. Worse than the SN1987A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which wiped out six planetary civilisations (you probably didn't read about that at the time, though).

Banter is not humour; banter is what people have when they lack a sense of humour. Banter is a catch-all word for idiocy that warns the rest of us that Here Be Lads. Banter is Soccer AM. It is Andy Gray. It is middle-aged men on Top Gear pretending that they are edgy outsiders by mocking society's weakest, then going home to Chipping Norton where they live two doors down from the Prime Minister. It is an English stag do in Dublin or Amsterdam with matching T-shirts. It is cruelty unleavened by wit but which is excused because it is a bit like wit, if you look at it from a certain angle. It what is left when humour has died, and just the rotting, stinking carcass remains, bearing a resemblance to the living being but lacking all that made it good. Banter is the Dunning-Kruger effect writ large. If you like banter, you are an idiot.

I'm not a fan

[happy daze john in oz]

Well bugger me dead said uncle fred, it's barnacle bill the sailor.

Banter is what we did at sea and still do, if you do not think it funny then do not read it.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Will private mail, as any serious attempts on site, just get corrupted.



Banter is not humour; banter is what people have when they lack a sense of humour. Banter is a catch-all word for idiocy that warns the rest of us that Here Be Lads. Banter is Soccer AM. It is Andy Gray. It is middle-aged men on Top Gear pretending that they are edgy outsiders by mocking society's weakest, then going home to Chipping Norton where they live two doors down from the Prime Minister. It is an English stag do in Dublin or Amsterdam with matching T-shirts. It is cruelty unleavened by wit but which is excused because it is a bit like wit, if you look at it from a certain angle. It what is left when humour has died, and just the rotting, stinking carcass remains, bearing a resemblance to the living being but lacking all that made it good. Banter is the Dunning-Kruger effect writ large. If you like banter, you are an idiot.

Well who ever the author was he/she certainly had no sense of humour nor had they been in dangerous situations, banter is what kept morale up in many a service who have to deal with dangerous or unpleasant situations, it was a way of coping with tragedy whether it be military/merchant service/fireservice/police/ ambulance etc etc, without banter a lot of people would never have survived mentally things they witnessed. Long may it continue. The author certainly had a chip on their shoulder about something and was a poor misunderstood soul.

[robpage]

Just out of a passing interest the Dunning–Kruger effect is process where sensory input is transferred to memory , Memory which can be recalled , used , or stored in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.

Yep that applies to some here !!! Not that I would name names !!!

[Louis the fly]

Laugh and the world laughs with you...........

[robpage]

Cry and everyone takes the .....