This popping-of-the-bubblewrap had to have been going on before we see it here. I mean, how could you NOT?
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Erich should have really put the sarcasm on ’em hard. Maybe they could have paddled hard enough to get them that fourth place spot anyhow.
Do Germans do sarcasm? I honestly don’t know the cultural applicability of things like sarcasm. What about the various Asian cultures? I’d be fascinated to know how much sarcasm plays a day-to-day role in, let’s say, rural areas of India, or high-density population areas of China. Whattaya think? Can you picture a Nepalese guy saying, “Oh, SURE! I’d LOOOOOVE to carry your junk up Mt. Everest so you can tell your friends YOU climbed AAAAAALL the way up there without mentioning that I HAD YOUR TENT AND STUFF ON MY BACK” That’s put ol’ Edmund Hillary in a squirmy sort of mood, wouldn’t it?
Admit it, if you had to train for a canoe race, there’d be certain things you’d focus on. And, if the instructions to the race were in a language that you have not been seen using in this particular comic strip, you might not work out that there was more to the canoe race than, say, racing canoes. So, if you were, let’s suppose, in the middle of said canoe race, and making your way toward the big red banner on the other side of the lake and going well, you might not have any reason to suppose that anyone would suddenly reveal that you would shortly be loading a bike in your boat, donning a blindfold, and trying to make your way BACK across the lake on verbal commands.
In fact, you might be stunned at the information.
And you’d want people to cut you a little slack about it, probably.
I’ve seen people become upset when learning skills.
I’ve watched a student hurl an expensive new airbrush into a concrete wall.
I’ve watched a young skater lie on the ground and explain to everything within shrieking distance that, and I quote, “I can’t DO it!”
I’ve watched more than a few people, sweaty and perplexed, assume that they never could and never will ride a unicycle.
The upset doesn’t come from trying to learn the skill.
I think the upset comes from thinking you were gonna be really, really amazing at it naturally (or supernaturally?), and then discovering that you’re a perfectly normal human who’s gonna need a minute to practice.
I took only enough high school German to read Sgt. Rock comic books and generally appreciate the fact that Germans can string a hell of a lot of nouns into one very particular word.
…Hans Gruber would have been so proud.
Seriously, “Hans” was the bad guy’s name in Die Hard. There was also “Karl”, and “Heinrich”, “Kristoff”, and “Fritz”. And a few others, but really… that’s a LOT of stereotypical names for deadly germans, ain’t it?
I don’t think there’s a correct use of umlauts in this whole comic.
