Man burns his head after mistaking iron for phone

telegraph ^ | 12-12-12 | Matthew Day

[LibertyRocks]

Reminds me of an old Helen Keller joke...

[Slings and Arrows]

“...tried to read the waffle iron.”

[AFPhys]

Oh GREAT! Thanks - I am mostly German myself, and amazingly have heard very few of those terms, though now that I thinka about it, I have heard them in some old war movies! Thanks for the response!

[Cronos]

As I said above, I live in Poland and the folks I meet still hate the idea of Germany -- the history of war and the horrors that Germany inflicted on Poland are too much to forgive so easily

However, nearly all bear no grudges to modern day Germans (the ones that do tend to be folks who lived during the war and to whom even the sound of German is a red flag -- and I can't blame them)

I live in Warsaw and on every street corner you'll see a sign "here in xx-xx-1944, Germans killed yy number of Poles" or even worse is the ghetto and then there is the Warsaw uprising museum

But Germans since the war have apologized continuously and to a large extent have atoned for this -- see Willy Brandt's act in 1970, leading to a lot of people-to-people healing

But I don't expect the Polish people to forgive the idea of Germany, if you understand what I mean.

The EU, for all the despise it gets did mean that Germany started investing heavily in Poland and now, surprisingly they are very strong allies. It may take another century for the animosity to finally end