June 8th, 2006
I want my bicycle back
I never imagined that I’d post anything about the World Cup. I’m not talking Steve Peats domination of the downhill scene either, I am, yes, talking about that pointless activity of football. And my cuase for doing so is tenuous at best.
That was, until a Dutch insult that I’d last directed at Phaty and his Dutch collaborators when organising the SSWC 2004 came up in the news. It seems rthat the Brits aren’t the only nation that can’t forget a little local trouble 60 years ago. The Dutch remember that the Germans invaded, put their towels on the beach, and nicked all their bikes by learning a simple German phrase at school.
“Ich wünsche meine Fahrradrückseite.”
The above slogan, printed on Orange t-shirts - naturally - is a top seller in Holland right now.
“I want my bicycle back”, that should say. I’m not entirely sure that it does as I have had to rely on one of the various online translators to arrive at this, seeing as my own experience of learning German was a year of mind-numbing language labs and several years of reading Victor. I can’t imagine that “Achtung Spitfire!” and “For you Tommy ze var is over” are generally very useful phrases these days. Except perhaps in the boardrooms of global corporations, where the Germans have quite soundly beaten us.
Source: Reuters.
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