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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The Berlin Wall, putting beach towels on recliners at the crack of dawn, sauerkraut, lederhosen, frankfurters, doner kebabs, hamburgers, donuts, cheese, iron gates, macerated cherries, aardvarks, the car, the bicycle, diesel, the moon, beer, lager, tamagotchi, the letter 'a', the number 25, serrated saw blades, cantilever bridges, ice cream, hand lotion, galoshes, the ipod, bilateral symmetry, the dawn, goths, the parachute, that sizzling noise meat makes when you fry it, hats, gloves, left socks, altitudes over 1,773 feet, postmodernism, and geese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sauerkraut is way older then Germany. People have been fermenting food a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Especially when you consider Germany as a country is not really that old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The bicycle was, in its present from, was invented by a Brit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You forgot 'digging holes at beaches' and The Sound Of Music. For the rest you nailed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Made my day!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Walking around in general public in only Speedos.

[–] Ummdustry 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the use of towels as a territorial marker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

They draped one over the back of Poland that time.

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[–] PuddleOfKittens 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The automobile - pronounce it out loud, you'll say it something like "ow-toe moh-beel", i.e. in a German accent. Because Germans invented cars.

The assault rifle. They invented the concept, a handful of prototypes without the relevant doctrine (or for the 1890s one, even a detachable magazine) is irrelevant. Fight me, @bluewing.

[–] Ummdustry 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the otto & diesel cycles are a better claim than the automobile, given there are like 100 different competing "first automobiles" to chose from

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The Wankel engine is also a German invention. Though you could argue it's an improved Otto cycle. Also the inventor is problematic to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Zweihänder and Aldi

Ps: I DuckDuckGo’ed this

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