Walking around in general public in only Speedos.
the use of towels as a territorial marker
The automobile - pronounce it out loud, you’ll say it something like “ow-toe moh-beel”, i.e. in a German accent. Because Germans invented cars.
The assault rifle. They invented the concept, a handful of prototypes without the relevant doctrine (or for the 1890s one, even a detachable magazine) is irrelevant. Fight me, @bluewing.
I think the otto & diesel cycles are a better claim than the automobile, given there are like 100 different competing “first automobiles” to chose from
Zyklon B?
The Berlin Wall, putting beach towels on recliners at the crack of dawn, sauerkraut, lederhosen, frankfurters, doner kebabs, hamburgers, donuts, cheese, iron gates, macerated cherries, aardvarks, the car, the bicycle, diesel, the moon, beer, lager, tamagotchi, the letter ‘a’, the number 25, serrated saw blades, cantilever bridges, ice cream, hand lotion, galoshes, the ipod, bilateral symmetry, the dawn, goths, the parachute, that sizzling noise meat makes when you fry it, hats, gloves, left socks, altitudes over 1,773 feet, postmodernism, and geese.
You forgot ‘digging holes at beaches’ and The Sound Of Music. For the rest you nailed it.
Made my day!
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The Haber process.
The Zweihänder and Aldi
Ps: I DuckDuckGo’ed this
The US Army. Given the history, you might expect it to based on either the French or British model, but no, they mostly took notes from Prussia.
You might also think it’s a very top-down authoritarian model for a military, but also no. That notion mostly comes from the legacy of Nazis. Both before and after, the German model of the Army is one of the least top-down authoritarian militaries.
The no card payment sign.
Fanta?
TV and TV propaganda
We invented the car
The car, the bicycle and Spaghetti icecream are the three most notable inventions from Mannheim Germany.
alas, the fr*nch invented the bicycle, germans merely invented the dandyhorse.
I’m from the US and never heard of spaghetti ice cream. I just googled it and it looks pretty delicious!
Gutenberg printing press
The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.
That’s why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing…
The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.
Touche
Don’t say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<
Those cool windows that Americans mistake for broken. I’m American and I want those windows… also a bidet.
What windows are you talking about? I tried searching for it.
Just need to combine those windows with built-in bug nets and we’re solid.
I have several at home
V2 rockets
V1 rockets
V0 rockets
