Everyone who speaks German will know with such a title a thread only can be high quality. This video is a classic. When I was back in school this was very viral.
It is a young German gentleman who celebrates having the weekend for his own free from duties and work. And I relate to it for me tomorrow is my free day. My brain sometimes is stuck on viral moments, or situations I experienced, or videos I watched. I just repeat them a thousand times in my head and they can trigger very deep emotions. I think that is pathological. This video is quite old though and the major hype is over now. But I think SaSu is a good place to introduce this video to an international audience.
This young poet in the tradition of Goethe, Hölderlin in the language of Kafka and Nietzsche shares with us his moments of pure hedonism. His aphorisms in a concise shape capture the pleasure of heading home after an hard day of work. He will enjoy drinking some beer and try to forget all the sophisticated abstract concepts he battles with at work. (to be honest it is kind of smug of me to put it like that but I am already running out of jokes)
So to ruin the joke I will have to explain it. The title is very hard to translate word by word precisely. He just screams that he will get heavily drunk that he fucking hates his ("fuck all this fucking work" something like that "I become nuts")
I honestly ask myself which employer wants to hire someone like him. Maybe the employer has to live under a rock. Glad for him Germany runs out of workers. But a wreck like me hell no. Noone would employ me.
I think not a few people have watched this video on repeat several hours without stop. In American TV series I have often heard the joke all Germans would speak like Hitler. Always shouting, yelling, extremely rude etc. I could imagine Gerrmans tend to be rude in comparison with citizens from other countries. But we usually don't speak like that. Actually many people laugh at Hitler how he spoke because it is so utterly ridiculous in the present time.
Okay to make this thread even more weird. I will add another viral German youtube video. I first noticed it in a German satire show which is very popular. All my friends know this clip and we already discussed it a lot.
This happened on Shrove Tuesday something similar to carneval in Germany. I don't want to waste time for research how to explain it. This happened 1973. There is a comedia on stage who tries to make a joke. He shouts "Zicke zack zicke zack" and the audience shouts back "hoi hoi hoi". This is typical in sports for example. At soccer. It is an interaction to motivate the other side. And the dynamic is reinforcing. But then he makes the joke. After repeating "zicke zacke" with the right response he suddenly screams "Sieg" and the audience responds "Heil". Which is the nazi salute. He and the audience are completely shocked. He seemingly never expected the whole audience would give exactly this answer. He is shocked as you can see and says something like "... I can't believe there are so many comrades (reference to soldiers) gathered this evening". I think when this happened this was a big scandal. But it is a proof how deep rooted the propaganda was in the people who experienced that time.
So I wll add a further note. In Germany there are still like a handful over roundabout 100 years old people who actively participated in the holocaust. And there is a debate whether it really is the right thing to drag them to court. These people were brainwashed at a very young age. And it is probably a mechanism of self-defence to deny that you were part of such a despicable crime against humanity. But this actually is way too off-topic.
I just noticed it might be little bit weird to talk about genocide in a thread with this title. But I am exhausted. Don't gawk at me like that....oof. This week was pretty hard to swallow. And it will get a lot worse probably the next weeks.
In general another thread about good old Germany.
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