Systemd

[Porcia Silvia]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:04:39 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 07:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Btw. in Germany the 2CV is called "Ente" (duck),
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_2CV#Nicknames .
> > 
> > So if you yell out "Ente" in Germany, are they likely to look up, or 
> > crouch down quickly? :)
> 
> Young Germans don't know the 2CV anymore, even the original Volkswagen
> Beetle is a rarity in Germany. I haven't seen a 2CV for years and I only
> saw a few original Volkswagen Beetles (Käfer) within the last years.
> IOW, if you yell out "Ente", people assume that there is a bird and not
> a car. A man from Great Britten I know, often was joking about
> "auto-aggressive", since the German word for car is "Auto", so driving a
> car in a ruthless way for him was "auto-aggressive". He was a platonic
> friend of a former Girlfriend of me. This girlfriend was auto-aggressive
> by the psychological meaning and when she drove the car in a "sporting"
> way, he called her kind of driving "auto-aggressive". British humor :).
> 
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