Ah, Fred Astair! I mean, yeah--ruined. ;-)
I was actually in three musicals in addition to seeing several, and it is different--but I think musicals in general are "you like it or hot it" kind of things. I was referring in my column to a Canadian friend who absolutely loathes musicals. What the heck, we all have our things.
German sounds like Spanish in that way--masculine and feminine versions of words, and such. It's getting ridiculous with the hoops they're jumping in English, so I can only imagine the problems the PC crowd is having over there.
Well, I don't feel like wanting to spend a lot of money to see a proper live musical. They show mainly in the big cities, like Berlin, Hamburg and so on, so its quiete a job for me to go there. And that was even in normal times - I don't know if they are open at all now, with the Covid scare and all.
Yeah, it is pretty crazy with the remodelling of the language to make it PC. Just as crazy as some other stuff that is criticized, thing that were appearantly wrong for decades, without anybody noticing it.
Some you may have heard as well, like the movie "Gone With The Wind" being racist, or the "Tom&Jerry" cartoons. It wouldn't surprise me if Twain's "Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn" needs to be censored soon, too.
Here in Germany some companies had to rename products already, to avoid being boycotted by activists.
There are some words for black people that cannot be used any longer, like the oldfashioned word "Mohr". A chocolate manufacturer, Sarotti, had a trade mark for hundred years or so - but now they are getting so much flak for it that they consider to change it:
Another issue was caused by those:
Forever and a day those were called "Negerküsse" (negro kisses) - not any longer! The manufacturers had to come up with some silly replacement names, to avoid getting hassled. May be someone should have told the PC guardians that "negro" is just the spanish word for black...
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Yeah, Broadway's shut down--the cast of "Hamilton" has been getting together to do singalongs online.
Those Negerkusse's look delicious! I'd try it whatever the name. Over hear we have a brand of butter that's had a Native American woman on the packaging for many decades, and now she's gone, leaving only the landscape behind. So the joke is, once more white men kicked out the Indians and kept their land! I'll bet anything that if the company removed her without saying anything about it, the PC types would be attacking them for that, too.
As for Mark Twain, various people, libraries, and groups have been trying to ban his works ever since he first wrote them.
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I guess such events are closed here as well, especially since things are going south again and new restrictions are being issued. Its all drifting towards a new total lockdown again. Well, at least I have enough toiletpaper this time.
Negerküsse are delicious! Only, they are for calories what white dwarf suns are for matter - extremely high density on a small space.
I wonder if you can't find them in the US, I think they would fit the taste quiete well. Its a thin wafer as a base with white, soft, foamy... stuff on it. I don't know what it actually is made of, but lots of sugar is in it for sure. And then the whole thing is coated very thin with choclate.
I just checked, you can get them - but only really expensive:
https://www.germanshop24.com/sweets/perishables/super-dickmanns-9-pack/
In Germany they cost about $2, for the box of 9.
Yes, I know Twain was much criticized - but mainly for the opposite reasons. Well, and because he was not a big fan of the church, politicians ect.
Someone who demands to ban his books for racism just shows that he has not understood what he said. It wouldn't surprise me if some of those people have not even read his books.
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Oh, I suppose I'll pass on those things--the last thing I need is still another high calorie treat I'm supposed to be avoiding!
Mark Twain poked fun at politicians a lot, so I'm a big fan. His most banned book is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which has a lot of talk about slavery and throws the "N" word around a lot. Of course, anyone who actually reads it discovers it's an ANTI-slavery story, but everyone's too busy getting attention by being offended to realize that.
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Well, its only a matter of giving it the right label, I guess. Instead of calling it "eating sweets", call it "discovering german culture". And there is much to discover... :)
I often have the impression that many so called "activists" have no clue about what they are complaining about. Its just a way of avoiding being a nobody.
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Sometimes when you're young you just want to rebel, and don't much care what you're rebelling against. Organizers take full advantage of that, unfortunately.
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Yes, young people hate to think that they are insignificant. That makes them vulnerable to clever people who want to use them.
Over the years I learned that it's a good thing to be insignificant, at least officially. It's a bit like being invisible. Nobody cares what you do, because it's not interesting. It's like being a stone among piles of poo, you appear to be boring - but the flies leave you alone.
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That's excellent reasoning, and a great idea!
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