Amiga listings on eBay Germany

[Iggy]

I have never bought anything from Germany, but I have shipped several items.
I had a few K6-III+ processors that would clock at 550MHz that my German customers paid a premium for (might have something to do with the Global Foundries fab facility they have over there - that and it seems they prize being able to buy something other than the most common product on the market).

And I would not be too worried  about translating your messages to German.
There are far more Germans that speak English than Englishman that speak German.

[Iggy]

I'm now bidding on one eBay item which was listed as being available only to Germany!

Hopefully after checking with the seller first.

[Iggy]

I do speak German, anyway. I'm a linguist.QUOTE]

I envy you. That seems like a tough language to learn. But it would be cool to actually converse with some of my friends in their native tongue.

Good luck with the auction.
I've bought a lot of neat things via Ebay.

[Iggy]

Hmm, possibly a result of events that occurred on 7-MAY-1945?

A tad unfair bringing that up with a generation too young to be held responsible for it, don't you think?
Besides, most Germans I know carry a lot of unresolved guilt about that.
And who bought up all the British automotive nameplates?

A lot of Japanese speak English fairly well too.
And I don't think it had anything to do with WWII.

In fact, I would lay the responsibility on the US.
After that war, we made it our business to export and adapt our business practices to these markets and helped those countries structure their recoveries.

English is just the language of business. And we didn't invent the language, but at least when we speak it we don't sound like Jason Stathem mumbling an unitelligible line from 'Blitz'.

[Iggy]

What country are you in? USA?

What? The bias shows?
Just to level off, this country is NOT what it used to be (and at times we've been downright evil).
The problem is I grew up in the '60s and '70s when people were still optomistic,  the economy was still working and our politician had only gone slightly bull goose looney.
I make  no excuses for the things we have done wrong, but from the time right after WWII right through my formative years all we did was export technology.
I remember reading a biography of Soichiro Honda where he marveled at the fact that we would give plant tours, and other information out freely.
You don't think the Germans let people walk through their plants, do you?

And my bias against the British starts with really turd like poducts like the Norton motorcycle. Something that had to be made virtuarly by hand because the parts weren't sized consistently.

But it is not my intention to draw fire here. I just don't think the Germans constantly need WWII rubbed under their noses. How many people did our ally Stalin kill?

Finally I'm hoping our economy recovers, because we could take everything down otherwise.

[Iggy]

Anti-British sentiment is taught in American schools, it becomes part of the American psyche.

Actually, I think it has more to do with history.
They did burn our Capitol to the ground in 1812.
Besides, I'm Irish so I'm already inclined to  dislike the British since during the potato famine the British holdings in Ireland still made Ireland a mass exporter of food.
When I think of England, I don't think of noble things like Common Law, I tend to think more about Dickens.

But when it comes down to it, I think we get more anti-French indoctrination.
And the French came to our aid during our Revolution.

Don't expect people in the US to make sense.

[Iggy]

Ow, you turned my own argument on me!
I relent, you're right, blaming the sons for the sins of the fathers is stupid.
Here's to a more gobally tolerant culture.

I appologize.
But we are SO far off target we risk shutting down the thread, so I'll just shut up.

[Iggy]

I do not believe that cliche for one second.

We now agree on a second thing.
History sometimes serves to indoctrinate prejudice.

Besides, I have not run into too many Germans that hate us.
Nobody likes an invading military force.

Perhaps, considering the tensions in the regions around Germany and Japan, it is time to let them build up their defenses.

[Iggy]

Make that History and Religion.
Its amazing we are still here.
And no great wonder that we have always predicted our eventual fall.
Hope I don't live to see it.

And I hope, when I am gone, that this is over for me.

The idea of eternal life terrifies me.