Struwwelpeter: why raisin bread is so popular

SOME statistics abbreviated and offered without comment (Thanks Riaan):

Do we know how many blacks were killed under apartheid?

We do, and the source is the Human Rights Commission, submitted as evidence to the TRC in 1997. Their statistics relate to the number of blacks killed between the years 1948 up to the election in 1994. The total number was 21 000.

But wait, it gets interesting. It’s not the full story. The HRC report also makes a distinction between two periods.

The number killed for the period from 1948 until 1989 is 7 000. That means the number killed from 1990 to 1994, which is AFTER the unbanning of the ANC, is a whopping 14 000.

This was mostly due to black on black inter-party violence. Of the 14 000 killed during those four years, 92% of deaths were caused by blacks killing blacks. Only 5.6% were attributed to the security forces.

What this means is that during the apartheid reign of 41 years, 7 000 blacks died. Compare this to 14 000 who died fighting each other in four years!

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The mayor of Ath in Belgium has explained why he refuses to remove pork from the school canteen. Islamic parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens.

Marc Duvivier, the mayor of Ath, has refused.

This is why: Islamists must understand that they have to adapt to Belgium, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that’s where they chose to immigrate.

They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Belgians who so generously welcomed them.

They must understand that the Athois are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims. The reverse is not true – Islamists do not accept non-Muslim foreigners on their soil.

Like other nations, the Belgians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture. And if Belgium is a land of welcome, it’s not Marc Duvivier that welcomes foreigners, but the Belgian people as a whole.

They must understand that in Belgium with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain.

The municipality of Ath was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia. For Muslims that disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Belgium, there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world. Most of them are under-populated and ready to receive Islamists with open halal arms in accordance with Shariah.

Finally, if you left your country for Belgium, instead of for a Muslim country, it is because you have considered that life is better here. Ask yourself the question, just once, “Why is it better here in Belgium than where you come from?”

A canteen with pork is part of the answer.

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Some curious expressions:

Early aircraft had balls on the end of the throttle and in order to go full throttle, the pilot had to push the throttle all the way forward into the wall of the instrument panel. Hence “balls to the wall” for going very fast.

During WWII, US airplanes were armed with belts of bullets which they would shoot during dogfights and on strafing runs. These belts were folded into the wing compartments that fed their machine guns.

These belts measure 27 feet and contained hundreds of rounds of bullets. Often times, the pilots would return from their missions having expended all of their bullets on various targets.

They would say, “I gave them the whole nine yards,” meaning they used up all of their ammunition.

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A bakery owner hires a young female shop assistant who liked to wear very short skirts and scanty panties.

One day a young man enters the store. Noticing her short skirt and the location of the raisin bread, he has a brilliant idea. “I’d like some raisin bread please,” he says.

The shop assistant nods and climbs up a ladder to reach the raisin bread located on the very top shelf.

The man standing almost directly beneath her is provided with an excellent view, just as he had thought.

When she descends the ladder, he decides that he had better get two loaves.

As the shop assistant retrieves the second loaf of bread, one of the other male customers notices what’s going on and requests his own loaf of raisin bread.

After many trips she is tired and irritated and begins to wonder, why the unusual interest in the raisin bread?

Atop the ladder one more time, she looks down and glares at the men standing below. Then, she notices an elderly man had just entered the shop.

Thinking that she could save herself another trip, she asks the elderly man: “Is it raisin for you too?”

“No,” he stammers, “but it is quiverin’ a little.”

(Thanks BJ)