Austria Totally Flips Its Shit
Again.
I got home from babysitting last night, soaking wet from the rainy bike ride home, and every single one of the town's 63 Catholic churches' bells were pealing to high heaven (originaly that pun was unintentional, but... ). So, at 6:30pm--my time--they announced the new pope, after only using two of their fifteen possible days. Don't you think they'd want to take full advantage of those fifteen days? I'm sure it wouldn't have been too bad for the economy of poor little Vatican City.
ugh... this is a little too cynical for 9am.
Okay.. so the bells go crazy, for the second time. When the pope died they went almost all day long (not kidding... it was nuts), this time they only went an hour. I guess they're waiting for him to prove himself.
Watching the new pope get named with a room full of Catholic mid-twenties Austrians was pretty interesting. I think they may have actually had bets running on it. Definitely none of them had put money on the German--practically heresy. When they named the German they flipped out, swearing and grumbling about the "verdammte Piefkas", which is about as rude as you can get within EU countries these days.
Let's just say that Austria and Germany have a huge rivalry of the sort that fuels the hearts of most Austrians, but that most Germans are completely unaware of. An example:
Austrian Newspaper Article: "Oh those smartass Germans, they think they're so great. Well, let's just compare the two, shall we? Oh look their unemployment rate is in the shitter; our's? Couldn't be better! Their economy is on a slow, but certain spiral downwards; our's? Couldn't be better! Crime?! Don't even start with us on crime! When was the last time somebody even tried to make eye contact with you on the street???!! Verdammte Piefkas!"
German Newspaper Article: "?"
Austrians: "God, those Germans think they're soooo great." (Insert completely undistinguishable accent, so that all vowels are flipped to sound like some other vowel randomly.)
Germans: "Can any of you understand what they're saying?"
So now, to make it worse... Germany's got the pope. A 78 year old hyper conservative who's been in charge of "interpreting" John Paul for the last twenty four years. Who's in for Vatican III?!!!
I got home from babysitting last night, soaking wet from the rainy bike ride home, and every single one of the town's 63 Catholic churches' bells were pealing to high heaven (originaly that pun was unintentional, but... ). So, at 6:30pm--my time--they announced the new pope, after only using two of their fifteen possible days. Don't you think they'd want to take full advantage of those fifteen days? I'm sure it wouldn't have been too bad for the economy of poor little Vatican City.
ugh... this is a little too cynical for 9am.
Okay.. so the bells go crazy, for the second time. When the pope died they went almost all day long (not kidding... it was nuts), this time they only went an hour. I guess they're waiting for him to prove himself.
Watching the new pope get named with a room full of Catholic mid-twenties Austrians was pretty interesting. I think they may have actually had bets running on it. Definitely none of them had put money on the German--practically heresy. When they named the German they flipped out, swearing and grumbling about the "verdammte Piefkas", which is about as rude as you can get within EU countries these days.
Let's just say that Austria and Germany have a huge rivalry of the sort that fuels the hearts of most Austrians, but that most Germans are completely unaware of. An example:
Austrian Newspaper Article: "Oh those smartass Germans, they think they're so great. Well, let's just compare the two, shall we? Oh look their unemployment rate is in the shitter; our's? Couldn't be better! Their economy is on a slow, but certain spiral downwards; our's? Couldn't be better! Crime?! Don't even start with us on crime! When was the last time somebody even tried to make eye contact with you on the street???!! Verdammte Piefkas!"
German Newspaper Article: "?"
Austrians: "God, those Germans think they're soooo great." (Insert completely undistinguishable accent, so that all vowels are flipped to sound like some other vowel randomly.)
Germans: "Can any of you understand what they're saying?"
So now, to make it worse... Germany's got the pope. A 78 year old hyper conservative who's been in charge of "interpreting" John Paul for the last twenty four years. Who's in for Vatican III?!!!
posted by Jenna @ 11:16 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:24 PM ,
Anonymous said...
i printed the ones of you withe the purple flower, with your roommate, drinking beer. and on the last train home.
whoville looked cozy. and a cafe?!
you live an amazing life. hope the visit goes well.
love
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