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Foreign Policy Analyst Extraordinaire (FPAE) & Political Dissident (PD)

This is acknowledged by Heribert never having put a substantive dent in my analysis and the ongoing commentary from people like Yulia Latynina and Taras Kuzio.

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To quote Dizzy Dean: “It aint braggin if you’re good.”

Heribert reminds me a bit of a German contact of mine in Moscow.

I have no job, sniff. Ich bin nur “Unternehmer”.

Jau, der war gut. Zeig mal Deinen blauen Helm

Aich te bheal – Póg me hón!

Now stop hatin’….:D

Ihr seid alles Saukoeppe. Da, fuehlt Euch beleidigt!!!!! Dammich.

Thank you!!!!

Heribert -you can dish out poison
”Hey, I am not judging you. I have a hell of a time laughing about you. Please keep up the good work !’

But you cant take it. Andreas Brehme clearly you aint, or Klaus Augenthaler for that matter. These were fine Germans who could sure take a good thump and give it back as good. You have that priceless tone of righteous indignation. Funny, you werent so righteous above in your attacks on Mike earlier.

Nothing slipped my attention Heribert. What caught my attention is you ridiculing Mike because of his publishing claims in the NYT and your cheap, childish, two rouble insults at him. No-one is saying you claim to be a journalist or a critic. But you do seem to have an unhealthy fixation with Mike’s claims, resulting in those enormous, meandering, humourless and frankly caustic rants above(sodium hydroxide is a very cheap chemical). Hence my questioning your big interest in his journalism and wondering out loud if, just maybe, you were really a hack in disguise..after all, journalists spend more time mouthing off about each other than anything worthwhile. You seem to fit that bill.

As for Germans not buying me pints, now that hurt. There are few ways to insult a Paddy better than not buy him a pint. After all, we’ll die of thirst and have to return to our cottages to eat potatoes and wait for the next EU cheque. From Germany. So one way or another we get drink from you)

taking horrendous long distance bus journeys instead of paying a few extra euros for the train and wearing the same clothes for two years.

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Actually, taking the bus is cheap AND educational. Done it FOUR times so far, and never got bored.

And what kind of wasteful rascals are you working with? Half of MY wardrobe is AT LEAST F I V E years old, and that’s NOT counting that great cardigan I inherited from my uncle…

you may have your ideas about Germany and Germans. That’s perfectly ok with me. I understand why your German workmates didn’t buy you any drinks. I wouldn’t either

Back to the point of being published, I am not claiming to be a journalist or author, not claiming to be an analyst or critic. This is why I do see no need to write to any newspaper and demand to be published. Maybe this has slipped your attention.

I take back the latter half of the first paragraph above. It was too much. The rest stands though.

nice try, but well wide of the mark. You wouldnt be raising the touch-judges flags with that one. Apologies. My tongue slipped. I meant to say Germans ‘arent’ funny rather than ’supposed’ to be funny. Because frankly you arent. And I’ve worked with plenty of Germans to know that. They’ve certainly got their talents – frugality, avoiding buying rounds of drink, taking horrendous long distance bus journeys instead of paying a few extra euros for the train and wearing the same clothes for two years. But, I digress.

Your attacks on Mike were cheap and nasty and dont get too upset now that someone is flying in with a cheap and nasty tackle for you. And by the way getting a letter published in the NY Times is no small achievement. Around 20 million people read that newspaper so as you can imagine they get a lot of mail. Well done Mike. Did you get published anywhere, Heribert? Der Bild maybe?

‘Wellingtons’, ’sheep’…are you thinking of New Zealand maybe? Can you think of a good one at least? Our drinking and fighting maybe? Our atrocious football team?

I will not remind you, being an Irishman, what you are supposed to do according to some. This involves “Wellingtons” and “sheep”.

Heribert, who’s being a moralist? I was just asking you to stop acting like a twat, to put it more explicitly. You were ranting. LR style. Give it a rest, as Brian’s mother told him in ”Life of Brian”. 90% of what you were saying was just personal insult, trying to denigrate a man rather than what he had to say. Again to put it firmly to you, i dont give a s**t who’s in charge(apologies Andy). Some of what you said above was caustic and totally unnecessary and I’ll have a cut off you whenever the mood takes me for out. I just asked you politely/ I’ll know in future which tone is better with you. And by the way spare us the humour. You’re German. You’re not supposed to be funny and frankly you arent. With the exception of the mother-in-law/war-on-terror line, the rest of it was about as funny as a dose of the runs with no toilet paper. It’s like the Irish and cricket. Sometimes it works but really its just not meant to be.I’m telling you that I think what YOU said above was inappropriate, regarding Mike and Wendys. It was bloody atrocious. And unlike you, when I go over the top I apologise and withdraw what i said. I guess its all in the rearing.

For the record, when I get posted at JRL,it’s a great accomplishment in lieu of the well documented biasaes there.

The not so funny bozo here can’t seem to make it anywhere and has yet to successfully debunk any of my points.

He has also insulted blogs by suggesting that they aren’t as worthy.

Some of my best material has been posted at blogs and establishment venues take some the leading blogs seriously.

I know that both of you are pretty laid back, and neither will take too great offense from each other’s insults, but I have a problem with people throwing around personal insults on this blog, and its clear that others do too.