Watching the Tagesschau
Nov. 25th, 2007 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leaf... good God, Claudia Roth looks like somebody's mad scary aunt.
And the Young Greens actually write their banners out by hand. It looked strangely like something from forty years ago, and probably something that should have been accompanied by red flags rather than green.
Also: please, no more rail strikes. Though Deutsche Bahn isn't helping, either, and why anyone thinks privatisation on the British model is going to help can only be guessed.
ETA: OMG fire on the Thistle Alpha oil platform. Thank God, no-one hurt, but that was frightning and revived bad memories of the Piper Alpha (my heart rate went up at the start of the report!). That's one of the things I'll never forget hearing about on the news as a child (along with Challenger, Chernobyl, the Lockerbie bombing and, more happily, the Berlin Wall). But I had nightmares about Piper Alpha, and the stories about people jumping from the burning partner into the burning sea...
And the Young Greens actually write their banners out by hand. It looked strangely like something from forty years ago, and probably something that should have been accompanied by red flags rather than green.
Also: please, no more rail strikes. Though Deutsche Bahn isn't helping, either, and why anyone thinks privatisation on the British model is going to help can only be guessed.
ETA: OMG fire on the Thistle Alpha oil platform. Thank God, no-one hurt, but that was frightning and revived bad memories of the Piper Alpha (my heart rate went up at the start of the report!). That's one of the things I'll never forget hearing about on the news as a child (along with Challenger, Chernobyl, the Lockerbie bombing and, more happily, the Berlin Wall). But I had nightmares about Piper Alpha, and the stories about people jumping from the burning partner into the burning sea...