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Originally Posted by Ostfriese

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.

Swabians? Years ago I met a girl from Germany. When I lived on a boat I had a dog that I named Swab as in ‘swabby’ a.k.a. a sailor. She rolled her eyes and laughed when I told her, saying that in Germany Swab or Swabians were thought to be, well, considered sort of as not too bright and low rent. I replied that pretty much describes my dog too.