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Originally Posted by Skybird
Thats CARNIVAL.
Politicians do not only get targetted during carnival by irnocic omemnts and jokes at their cost, but also participate in it like many normal citizens, too. In some regions, carnival is a holiday, shops are closed, big festivities ihn the street, plenty of parties, cabaret shows.
Its not my thing, but its what it is. Karneval. Fasching. A bit like Halloween. Just XXL-sized. And far too serious a matter to laugh about. 
It comes and it goes. In the end, in Germany its just a limited season for dressing like a fool and do foolish stuff. In America, you can dress and behave like a Donald and do like fools do day in, day out, year in, year out. So no reason to mock Germany for its timely limited "Karneval" - it could be worse.  |
It's NOT all of Germany, please.
It's the Ruhr area, where people are strictly catholic for eleven months a year and go all bonkers in the one remaining month.
The Bavarians and Swabians have fun whenever they think their catholic God isn't looking at them (which is surprisingly often), and here in the north (in former Prussia) we laugh once the work is done.
