KaylNaris Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2005 02:33PM

Hi There,

this was in carneval this februaryprobably in Cologne or Mainz. The woman "inside" is a well known poliician (Angela Merkel), who would do anything to get in touch the USA and/or Bush (as you can see ... this picture isn't really far away from the reality).

I Think it's kind of funny if you know what is going on in Germany's politics :-)

Greetings from Stuttgart,

Kay'l

KaylNaris Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2005 02:35PM

Sorry for the spelling errors, i typed too fast :-(
Here's the corrected Text:

this was in carneval this february, probably in Cologne or Mainz. The woman "inside" is a well known poliician (Angela Merkel), who would do anything to get in touch with the USA and/or Bush (as you can see ... this picture isn't really far away from the reality).

I Think it's kind of funny if you know what is going on in Germany's politics :-)

Greetings from Stuttgart,

Kay'l

toonigel Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2005 02:57PM

I am a pedant:
This was taken during a carnival this February, probably in Cologne or Mainz. The woman "inside" is a well known politician (Angela Merkel), who would do anything to get in touch with the USA and/or Bush (as you can see ... this picture isn't really far away from the reality).

I think it's kind of funny if you know what is going on in Germany's politics :-)

Greetings from Stuttgart.

What is going on in Germany's politics?

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 23, 2005 09:06PM

So Europeans see Americans as having small, flag waving, German women in their asses?

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2005 03:10AM

looks like hilary clinton with the flags

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2005 04:04AM

What's laura bush doing up uncle sam's ass? Isn't it bad enough her tardo husband's cornholing the rest of the country? Fucking librarians...

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2005 08:28AM

No offense meant, here is my translation of the text:

This was taken during a carnival (street demonstration/protest?) in February, probably in Cologne or Mainz. The woman "inside" is a well known politician (Angela Merkel), who is an ass-kissing Bush-lover (So you can see, this picture isn't really far away from reality here).

It's funnier if you know what is going on in German politics right now. :-)

Greetings from Stuttgart.

--Rock on Kay'l

My only question is, did they have to write "USA" on the hat? Wasn't it obvious enough already?

KaylNaris Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2005 03:44PM

Thanks for the translation :-)

Carnival in Germany ( we call it Fasching / Fasnet / Fasnacht ) is an old tradition (about 500 years old). It's celebrated in early February. It was meant to bring some color to the grey winter days and to help nature "chase" the coldness away so spring can begin. This is a relict of the time, when food was rare in cold winters.
Many people dress like whitches or cobolds, sometimes it reminds me of the American Halloween.

Today it is more like a huge party, everybody just wants to have fun. There are always big parades in the cities, as on the picture above. This wasn't a real traditional parade, as you can see ...
Often caricatures are used in the parades just as this one.

Germanies politicians have quite different meanings about Bush. Most of them don't really love him, some of them really worship him. Angela Merkel (the woman with the flags) is one of the Bush-Lovers. Sometimes she almost appears fanatic about him, that's what this caricature wants to show.

A German phrase says somebody is climbing up the ass of someone else if he would do anything for him. So that's why Miss Merkel is inside the USA-guy.

I don't know why there is "USA" printed on the hat, i did't even recognize it. Perhaps it's just there for people who don't know stars&stripes or Uncle Sam (Although I doubt these people exist ... )

I hope you can understand what i wrote! Translations are welcome :-)

Greetings from Stuttgart,

Kay'l

P.S.: It's fucking cold and outside are about 50 cm of snow, so this years Fascbing didn't really work :-)

KaylNaris Report This Comment
Date: February 24, 2005 03:48PM

woops didn't know the slashes make cursive text. So Carnival in German means Fasching, Fasnet or Fastnacht, it differs from region to region.
It's called Fasching in Cologne or Mainz, in the south west it's called Fasnet, Fastnacht is used rarely

Joe49 Report This Comment
Date: February 25, 2005 07:18PM

can't be a German woman holding the american flag there is no hair under the arms.

Jinx138 Report This Comment
Date: March 14, 2005 01:17PM

ever saw heidi klum with hair under her arms?

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: May 31, 2005 06:29AM

More like the other way around, "How the Europeans see themselves".