Anti German Xenophobia? Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann...

[Mission]

You all love it really, it just gives you the opportunity to practice your flaming skilz.

 

[Declan]

Basil Fawlty and Fawlty Towers..

Hey - Basil Fawlty! He's a funny fella - was rofl when I first watched it..oh wait, I'm supposed to be offended, aren't I?

 

Now, the all important question in this thread is: What the fuck has it got to do with "Local News"? Who started a topic that's got nothing to do with the news over here, makes no sense and makes me regret having clicked on it?

 

Oh..sorry..I see. Carry on!

 

 

Forgive me but isn't the but of the humour in the Germans episode Basil himself. If you laugh at it you aren't laughing at Germans and the war but at the Englishman unable to cope with dealing with foreigners. If there is a national stereotype at play it is the socially inadequate, uptight Englishman.

[Amadeus]

Forgive me but isn't the but of the humour in the Germans episode Basil himself. If you laugh at it you aren't laughing at Germans and the war but at the Englishman unable to cope with dealing with foreigners. If there is a national stereotype at play it is the socially inadequate, uptight Englishman.

I agree - maybe that's why I found it so funny

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Forgive me but isn't the but of the humour in the Germans episode Basil himself. If you laugh at it you aren't laughing at Germans and the war but at the Englishman unable to cope with dealing with foreigners. If there is a national stereotype at play it is the socially inadequate, uptight Englishman.

 

I thought that was it too

 

The same reason you laugh at Alf Garnett, not for his racism, but for the ridiculousness and stupidity of the little Englishman.

[the mo beats experience]

Stan Boardman's World Cup Song is awesome,

"Singing ay-yay-yippee,

the Germans bombed our chippy,

ay-yay-yippee-yippee-yay"

 

Pick the bones out of that 'chatterbox!