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- Seb85, on 12/29/2008, -3/+130By the way, "Biergärten" is a pluralform, the german singular is "Biergarten".
- oli5993, on 12/29/2008, -1/+89Don't digg him down, he's right.
It's called a Biergarten. Biergärten is plural, so you can't say "a Biergärten".
/grammarnazi
/pun - wrathchilde, on 12/29/2008, -9/+72Oktoberfest? Looks more like a sausage-fest to me.
- m3mn0n, on 12/30/2008, -9/+71Do you seriously expect the average Digg user to know or even care about German grammar?
English is hard enough on these poor bastards. - LeviTheSmith, on 12/30/2008, -4/+63wat u talkin bout retrad. ad me on xbox livee il will smash u at halo nd cod4
- vitaspero, on 12/29/2008, -7/+57Where are all the women with their shirts being ripped off?
- theculchie1, on 12/30/2008, -0/+37I remember the German police being very efficient.
A drunken customer tried to trip up one of the barmaids in one of the massive tents just beside where we were sitting. She storms off and 2 minutes is back with 5 police in riot gear. They gave the guy no warning or chance to say anything. They lifted said customer out of his seat and carried him out the door on their shoulders. That was the last we saw of him. - mynameisjudge, on 12/29/2008, -0/+31I don't see people standing/dancing on the benches yet... must be well before 2 o' clock!
- Wohlduft, on 12/30/2008, -1/+31Video: Oktoberfest is complete Madness
http://www.bendecho.com/f6246e647c-hofbraeu-tent-m ... - dermeister, on 12/30/2008, -1/+24To be perfectly accurate this is not a Biergarten either. This a pic from inside a Festzelt (Partytent/Beertent). A Biergarten (Beergarden) looks similar, but is not covered by a tent, rather by trees.
- christoast, on 12/30/2008, -0/+23It's not about that. Europeans got used to alcohol as a culture long before we did/do. Its not spring break, its for everyone. I don't think you want to see grandma and uncle tom with their shirts ripped off.
- daimposter, on 12/29/2008, -0/+22In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
Our friends will be drinking all the beer - jamalama, on 12/30/2008, -2/+22Haha I like how MrBabyMan added umlauts over the a in "Biergarten", trying to look like he knew how to speak (or at least write) German. There are no umlauts in that word. Try looking it up next time.
- doublefelix, on 12/29/2008, -3/+22The idea is to drink until you can no longer hear the Oompah Loompah music.
- borez, on 12/30/2008, -0/+17I remember walking into one of those Bavarian bierkeller places once, I can't remember walking out though. Funny that.
- JustinHopewell, on 12/30/2008, -1/+18Shortly afterwards we heard a loud pop. We all pretended it was a firework. There were no fireworks.
- daimposter, on 12/29/2008, -2/+18Beerfest lied to me! In that movie it had tons of girls and many topless and acting provocative. I'll never trust another movie in my life.
- TruckStuff, on 12/29/2008, -3/+18wearing a red and white striped shirt?
- clintmaher, on 04/21/2009, -3/+16That guy near the back, to the left of the nice girl with the big smile, that's me!
- christoast, on 12/30/2008, -1/+14It actually literally is kind of a sausage-fest as well.
Würstel. - DiggItalia, on 12/30/2008, -1/+12I've been there.
8 euro for a litre (~$11) that takes ages to be served, but usually is brought to you by a really busty german woman.
It's incredible, but it takes you up to 2 liters to start feeling it.
after 7 liters usually you're at drunken standards and you can either sing in german with the people around, no matter if you can't speak it, or you can throw up your internal organs in a park nearby.
I think it's something to experience at least once in a lifetime. - techdever, on 12/30/2008, -0/+11relax marge, i don't even think they server alcohol here
- travelina, on 12/30/2008, -1/+11Reminds me of this painting by Brueghel:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96 ... - Enlightenment, on 12/30/2008, -0/+9
If you aren't from Germany, you will like the "Hofbraeu Tent" the best. I've been there on a weekend, it was incredible.
They would play this song about every 15 to 30 minutes, and everyone would stand up and sing it, then clank their glasses and drink at the end of it. The later it got, the more often the song played.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TTHtxt8FNw&fea ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o8cFgxnChA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R59XayDb4bs&fea ...
Oktoberfest grounds can seat over 90,000 people at one time.
There is nothing like it anywhere! - mitch37, on 12/30/2008, -1/+9Cool vid, but wtf is with the ***** youtube wrapper?
Direct link: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcGhCmtavs - Slym, on 12/30/2008, -1/+8Strangely, the alcohol tends to solve that problem.
- Nackaroo, on 12/30/2008, -0/+7It depends on what beer tent you go to, if you want the crazy stuff you need to head to the Hofbrau tent. Check out what we got up to there!
http://ando1980.blogspot.com/search/label/Oktoberf ... - boozedrinker, on 12/30/2008, -1/+8I just came in here to tell MrBabyMan to ***** off.....
- hackop, on 12/30/2008, -0/+7It's not the umlaut specifically that makes a word plural. Just like in English, there are words with their own plural forms (Fish -> Fish for example). In German there are multiple ways to make words plural which all depend on the word or words that you're using. For example, Freunde is the plural of Freund, and made so by adding an 'e' on the end.
It's a goofy language just like English. - inactive, on 12/30/2008, -0/+7Ein Sausagefest Extraordinaire
- Heiminator, on 12/30/2008, -0/+7smoking will be banned next year inside the tents,its gonna be madness because you cant really leave the tent for a quick smoke once you are in,they have 1 hour queues at the entrance (because beer is only sold inside,you cant buy it outside the tents,so everybody tries to get in)
***** bavarian government lol - LeviTheSmith, on 12/30/2008, -1/+8"You nreed to step up the grammar."
- bubba9999, on 12/30/2008, -0/+7He died - that's why he hasn't been sending you Xmas cards lately.
- philz, on 12/30/2008, -0/+6Ein Prosit, ein Prosit
Der Gemütlichkeit
Ein Prosit, ein Prosit
Der Gemütlichkeit.
(that's the whole text actually) - thedivinelyevil, on 12/30/2008, -2/+8isn't it almost january?? but hey, it's by mr. babyman...
- inactive, on 12/30/2008, -1/+7All their backs are touching,looks really uncomfortable.
- JustinHopewell, on 12/30/2008, -0/+6Speak for yourself! There's nothing that turns me on more than beer-soaked Depends.
- charlietuna, on 12/30/2008, -0/+6Glad you have honest barmaids.
- da_bradler, on 12/30/2008, -1/+7This is seriously one of the lamest images I've seen Mr.Babyman force to the home page. it's just a bunch of 40+ year old people sitting at tables with 3/4 full glasses of beer. Very very lame
- cpsutcliffe, on 12/30/2008, -0/+6Bierzelt*
- dvsbstrd, on 12/30/2008, -1/+7Buried for MrBabyMan.
- Mujokan, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5In New Zealand they have quite graphic anti-drink-driving advertisments. Once when I lived there I was watching TV and saw a pretty disturbing one where the guy is drinking at a rural pub with his mates, then drives off, rolls his car down a bank and ends up trapped in his seat upside down and dying horribly. Then the camera panned upwards through fluffy clouds, through some elaborate wrought iron gates with the words "Beer Drinkers Heaven" above them, and moved in towards an idealized pub in Paradise. This all turned out to be another advert, where guys in a heavenly pub watch people on Earth on TV and decide whether they deserve a beer, but the transition was absolutely seamless, and it took me quite a while to realize it was a different advert. Not the message they wanted to send?
- jbmcb, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5It doesn't make the word plural, usually adding an -en does. However, Biergarten already ends in -en, so you have to say it differently to differentiate the singular from the plural, hence the umlaut.
I could be wrong - I'm hazily remembering this from high school German. - depro9, on 12/30/2008, -2/+7What do they do with all of the pee? Oh thats right, they sell it to American beer companies. How could I forget that?
- JustinHopewell, on 12/30/2008, -2/+7God forbid we actually learn anything.
- buckyballs, on 12/30/2008, -3/+8MrBabyman submitted..... Buried.
- sayntin, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5What? Only white people live in Germany?
- forladiesonly, on 12/30/2008, -2/+7i can't find waldo
- jehan60188, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5I actually don't see any Uncle Toms there. Just a bunch of white folks...
- strictnein, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5Sounds like a Green Bay Packers game.
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