Deviled Ham links to the website of the Red Devil Deaf Bikers of Antwerp.

Now some of my best friends are deaf bikers, doncha know, but the fact that they're deaf Belgian bikers has me picturing horny hearing-impaired hellcats humping hot hogs while slamming down 750ml bottles of Kriek Cherry Lambic, then running down stuffy Eurocrats and terrorizing them with insults hurled in sign language that doesn't conform to EU standards.

Yeah, the sinus medication is making me a bit loopy, why do you ask?

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This week, the German government will begin enforcing new grammar rules designed to simplify what many consider to be one of the world's more confusing languages (English being the most perplexing, naturally).

Being a sprecher of Deutsch myself, a lot of these reforms rub me the wrong way, particularly the one that calls for breaking up egregiously long German compound words like RECHTSSCHUTZVERSICHERUNGSGESELLSCHAFTEN (insurance companies which provide legal protection) and the whopping great classic DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITAETEN
HAUPTBETRIEBSWERKBAUUNTERBEAMTENGESELLSCHAFT (club for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services). They're also apparently getting rid of my favorite character...the Esszett...Scheiße!

What I can't understand is why they didn't streamline the bewildering array of male, female, and neutral articles along with simplifying the conjugation of verbs and the insanely confusing rules that surround the declension of adjectives.

"I'd rather decline two drinks than decline a German adjective" - Mark Twain

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