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BBC News - Office chair racing takes place in Germany
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gmc;1357853 wrote: BBC News - Office chair racing takes place in Germany


Looks fun - though I suspect mine would collapse before halfway
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The German sense of humour has always defeated the rest of Europe. Not, that is, in the Monty Python Lethal Joke sense defeated, but.

I'm tempted to turn this into a thread discussing German attempts at humour. Or Vorsprung durch Fassungslosigkeit as they might call it.

Two Microsoft programmers meet each other in the park. One has a new bicycle with him. The other one asks him, "Where'd you get the bike?".

"It was free.".

"Really? Tell me about it."

"I was walking through the park yesterday. Suddenly a woman riding a bicycle comes by. She gets off the bike, takes off her clothes and tells me I can have anything I want."

Says the other: "Good choice. Her clothes would never have fit you."

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Like bryn, I don't think i'd even get a quarter of the way.......
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What a pleasing return - good day to you, young Wopster.
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When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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woppy71;1358142 wrote: Like bryn, I don't think i'd even get a quarter of the way.......


Wahey - you've made it back here and that's the important part :-6
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