i have just returned from my weekend in krefeld at alice‚s home. still, i cannot calm down about the accumulation of idiots on the streets. ever had the feeling that actually you yourself are the one behaving against all rules and rationales of traffic just because the entirety of drivers around you move their cars like morons? ok, nevermind… nevertheless, this weekend turned out to be very productive. once again, i was able to make my move against mobile phone rip-off! after almost 2 years with my 6210 and high tariffs of a prepaid-card i decided to take the opportunity to take one of o2‚s grand 3-euro-per-month-student-contracts together with a nokia 6610. the guys from o2 wanted to give me the phone for 30 euro more than advertised because i chose the cheapest student contract. after one day of negotiations with myself i decided to do it anyways. but due to a packed shop, the original salesperson gave just my package and papers to one of his collegues to whom we had not talked before – and who therefore didn’t know about the 30 euro extra. guess how quickly i slipped my creditcard through the device and pressed ok when i found the normal price…. damn, that’s good luck! i should, however, mention that alice was kind of pissed about that because she paid the same for the same phone with the next higher contract…….. but hey, what a great little thing is that?! color display, ringtones that sound like c64 instead of the emergency-beep like your refridgerator, ultra-light weight – and simply way too stylish to let your mate touch it. just kidding. no, i really like it. the only stupid thing is that nokia bundles this nice toy with extensive software but does not include a decent data-cable. only laptop-users can get started right away… grrrr! now i only hope that the people from e+ are able to transfer my current mobile number to o2. i will let the usual suspects know whether they have to save a new number with my name in time.
news from the evil empireit’s simply incredible: our texas wanker is faced with a totally different scenario than he had expected the world’s greatest army to encounter. after the first days of only glorifying news from the gulf we have watched a different picture during the weekend: 25 us casualties and marines in saddam’s hands. or, us antiaircraft fire shooting down a british plane and helicopters crashing due to pilot’s mistakes. plus, baghdad bombed continuously but saddam alive and civilians dead. bombers in iran’s airspace. marines throwing granades at eachother at night and shooting journalists. -well, not exactly what the world expects from an upcoming superpower.
what’s the difference between the mad 9-11-pilots steering their 747s into the wtc and the b52 pilots dropping their bombs over baghdad? -the bomber pilot returns to his base for refill.
meanwhile, ‚old-europe‘ strikes back — webwise. pages like boycottusa or boycottwar need no further introduction, so let’s indeed reverse the ‚tea-party‘ the axisofweasels carried out some weeks ago! the german audience may also wanna read an interview with j. fischer. i believe he is absolutely right: the us did not have a verdun. but what really scares me is the high degree of visibility this war offers. we see a live-picture of baghdad at night, we watch bombs falling and hitting their targets, followed by intense explosions. we see soldiers firering their machine-guns, see tanks moving and firering their cannon, and helicopters releasing their rockets. what we -yet- do not see is the true amount of destruction of every round causes. soon, also live and in color…. having just followed a comedian’s program on tv, i cite one of the statements for your discussion and comments:
„the usa have liberated the germans from hitler and we should be grateful for that. but now the time has come to pay back our dues and to free america from george w. bush.“