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GEIST : Grand English speaking International other
Stammtisch,
DMF : Deutsch Mit Feinden,
GEA : German Elderly Association
A [grim] fairy story inspired by clubs we know ;-)
Once upon a time, a long Long time ago ... there was a
club called GEA = German English
Association... It was young, lively, & Very successful,
& they all met in a cellar ...
- Full of mainly youngish English speaking engineer chaps,
sinking beers after a hard week & mainly German girl
students practising their English, they got on famously,
& all brought more friends.
- Lots of beer got sold; parties & weekend trips got
arranged, mountains got climbed & skied, lakes got
sailed. Some even married each other. In fact ... but that's
a story over another beer ;-)
-
The Stammtisch cellar was so full
you couldn't even get down the stairs !
- Sometimes they sneaked down the side stairs direct to
the bar to order a beer before stopping to speak to
friends... Cos otherwise it took 30 thirsty minutes from
the 6th step on the main staircase, the few yards to the
bar.
- The bar was manned by 2. occasionally 3 very busy
quite attractive bar maids often in Dirndls - (not one
very bored bar man with virtually no customers
later).
Aside:
The Boom Years passed ... Ronnie Ray
Gun across the big Pond declared a "Peace Dividend"
(for tax payers & society, not for Engineers ;-) which
tidal wave swept a whole lot of engineers out of Munich,
who used to be well paid to design things with sharp front
ends that could whiz through the air incredibly fast &
go Bang! ;-)
They didn't come any more, nor their girl friends. The
GEA shrank.
More Time Passed ... Some dinosaurs fossilised but
stayed, Some dinosaurs passed on. ... Then ... Surprise!
... A new dinosaur joined, & recruited more pre-aged
older dinosaurs for company, & forced words "Young
thinking" off the programme !
(Ageing was partly intrinsic, & partly imposed &
accelerated by one `Pushy' members who forced the words
"Young Thinking" off the programme despite 60% + against
removal. ( Guess who "Pushy" was, who shoved that
through. A clue )
The GEA's Cellar Bar
Stammtisch got labelled by one disappointed young German
girl (one of many disappointed a prospective new members -
leaving permanently after one visit) as a " Rentner
Verein".
The GEA struggled on, ... & still
had some lively activities, including Skiing & Walking
etc, (even though the Stammtisch
was an emptying ghost of its vibrant past).
Then one day a silly old devil (GEA had
reprobates to spare ;-) started massive ongoing damage to the
GEA, increasing already copious existing
internal tensions:
`Mike Cock' first created :
"DMF - Deutsch Mit Feinden"
DMF didn't seem Friendly, as it parasiticly used the same
venue as GEA Stammtisch venue, but arrived
first, drew on those GEA who could also
speak German, & scared off younger newcomers &/ or
those looking to speak English at the GEA's
Stammtisch.
Mike Cock's militant DMF attitude to force innocent GEA Stammtisch early comers to speak German,
even if they couldn't, (& could for example only speak eg
English, Swedish & Arabic etc), did a hatchet job on the
GEA, deterring new English speaking
recruits to GEA.
Deutsch Mit Feinden, got to be recognised as a
parasite on the GEA, & Mike Cock
got called the Black Spider for pouncing on GEA newcomers.
He built more protective camouflage, while he continued to
poach on the GEA, he created a parallel
disguise to pretend there were also lots of English speaking
people with his DMF, he created:
GEIST = Grand English speaking International other
Stammtisch" ;-)
( ... Grand name; Shame about the reality. ;-) )
Later Mike Cock `graciously' announced to his
`Friends'
He would allow GEA people to individually
return to their old venue he'd taken over, provided GEA could not operate under its own name
anymore, & that 3 GEA people: {the
Chair of the GEA committee
,
+ The guy who'd run the parties the last 20 years os so
, + She'd who'd done the bonfire tent for
decades }, were all banned.
(A tellingly eclectic Ban list of people who didn't
agree on lots of other things, but all agreed with many
others, that DMF was probably the worst thing ever to to
damage the GEA.
& They All Lived Happily Ever After ... Or did they
?
In Reality
- The GEA did not return to boost DMF's
lack of people & lack of single remaining bar man's
turnover/ trade.
- Weekly GEA Stammtisch died, remnants
meet once a month.
- DMF & GEIST were under constant threat of closure
from barman with insufficient turnover.
- GEA dinosaurs who revolted, & killed GEA democracy, & degraded GEA to German Elderly Association, became so so
desperate they rehabilitated Mike Cock, (the one guy they
& others had previously all agreed was the most
troublesome), & he starred filling out the GEA programme with Deutsch Mit Feinden
events.
- Mike Cock, showing his ingratitude to the full,
continued to parasitise GEA: was last
heard refusing to move to let the GEA tent woman do
announcements.
- Most English speakers & many Germans legged it from
GEA:
- Plenty of lively International speakers of English
still in the Beer
Gardeners Group ( inside in winter, every week in a new
place).
- Many are also on activities like walking & skiing
& mail lists
- Some left Munich
- Some went to other groups such as ToyTown
- Some Beer
Gardeners further split,
- There was a global recession (or was that out of
chronological order ? & some foreign ie English
speaking Engineers again left Munich
- Some people got older, & less people skied & did water sports
- Numerous still hiked & Biked
- Then there was Brexit, (harder for
new Brits to find employment in Munich
- All reducing total number of English
speakers in Munich, (but there's still quite a
lot @ 2020-08: Almost 5,000 Brits + 6,647 Americans etc
)
- Then Corona
hit
- But that's a whole lot of of other stories, yours to hear over a beer
best at at a Beer
Gardeners, but possible also at some other events
announced on a subset of these
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