Author Archives: Seba Roux

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Favourite German Insults

Posted on 21/10/2023 by Seba Roux

“Hast du Tomaten auf den Augen?”Have you tomatoes on the eyes? (Are you blind?) “Hosenscheiẞer.”Trouser-shitter. (Coward) “Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.”I only understand train station. (That’s all gibberish) “Korinthenkacker.”Raisin-crapper. (Anal pedant) “Du hast einen Vogel!”You have a bird! (You’re crazy) “Bananenbieger.”Banana-bender. … Continue reading →

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Favourite Irish Proverbs

Posted on 20/09/2022 by Seba Roux

“Éire ar phingin agus cá bhfuil an phingin?”Ireland for a penny and where’s the penny? (So near and yet so far) “An rud is annamh is iontach.”What’s rare is beautiful “Ní neart go cur le chéile.”No strength until we come … Continue reading →

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Glückskekse mit Fussballsprüchen

Posted on 22/07/2021 by Seba Roux

Fortune cookies with football quotes “In einem Jahr habe ich mal 15 Monate durchgespielt.”– Franz Beckenbauer (In one year I’ve played 15 months.) “Der Ball ist rund. Wäre er eckig, wäre er ja ein Würfel.”– Gyula Lorant (The ball is … Continue reading →

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The Avoidable Cataclysm of Barbarossa

Posted on 22/06/2021 by Seba Roux

When Nazi Germany and her allies attacked the USSR on the morning of June 22nd 1941, Soviet frontline forces were taken completely by surprise and quickly decimated. Precise surgical strikes obliterated command & control before ground units advanced in a … Continue reading →

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The Three Day War

Posted on 18/03/2021 by Seba Roux

This is the story of an Imperial Power and its Colonial Possession. The people in the Possession, did not want to be possessed. The Power wanted to possess these people at all costs. A very simple conflict, when described in … Continue reading →

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Firlstraße 12459

Posted on 08/12/2020 by Seba Roux

There once was a tailor in Dresden. He had three sons; Wilhelm, Herbert and Hans. The tailor was a Lutheran, and whether by accident or design, the values this faith instilled in him were in turn absorbed by his boys. … Continue reading →

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Why is Call of Duty WWII so dreadful?

Posted on 03/06/2020 by Seba Roux

Once upon a time I was an avid devotee of FPS games set in the Second World War; Hidden & Dangerous, Day of Defeat, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Hidden … Continue reading →

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A New World Disorder

Posted on 01/03/2020 by Seba Roux

When the dust settled on the Third World War, the entire framework of global politics had been utterly reshaped. Just as in 1945 & 1918, the outcome of cataclysmic conflict was a devastated arena of battle along with borders unrecognisable … Continue reading →

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Ich bin

Posted on 27/01/2020 by Seba Roux

Ich bin vierunddreißig Jahre alt. Ich bin Ausländer. Ich bin Arbeitsscheuer. Ich bin Amateur. Ich bin heiß und ich bin kalt. Ich bin hier und da. Ich bin Sozialist. Ich bin Kommunist. Ich bin Anarchist. Ich bin Antifa. Ich bin … Continue reading →

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Hero of the Meat Grinder

Posted on 14/11/2019 by Seba Roux

  Try as they might, the exhausted troops of the U.S. First Army could not understand what purpose was being served by their presence in this god-forsaken forest. For almost 2 months, the men had endured horrendous conditions as they … Continue reading →

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