Friday, September 21, 2007

St. Pauli Girl without the St. part

In a sensational bid for leadership of the staunch and stuffy conservative German Christian Social Union (CSU), sensational looking Gabriele Pauli has suggested that marriages automatically dissolve after seven years.



Everyone here is shaking their heads in disbelief at her naiveté (or chutzpa, if you prefer) as nobody has yet figured out how to get a marriage to last even that long. With 38 percent of Germans marrying today getting divorced (herself included, twice), Pauli believes limiting the affair to an affair would be more efficient in the end and save everybody a lot of heartache and pain, not to mention all the dammed paperwork and drudgery that goes along with filing for a divorce.

Her idea actually makes sense somehow, somewhere, in a way, sort of. If you don’t do love, family, religion and all that, I mean. Hmmm, maybe that’s why she joined a party called the Christian Social Union, hard to say for sure, though. At an rate, her suggestion is officially doomed to failure from the start and that’s probably why she made the suggestion in the first place.

That and to get a little attention, I mean. Although I can’t understand how this woman would ever need to pull publicity stunts to get any of that. After all, she did get her start here, didn’t she (1990, I think)?

Und nach acht Jahren werden die Kinder automatisch ins Heim geschickt.

PS: Thanks for the values link, Indeterminacy.  

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Posted by clarsonimus at 06:50:54 | Permanent Link | Comments (4) |
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1 - She's just reflecting the trends in Germany. With employment these days, most jobs are on a time-contract. No more permanent positions, then you hope your option will be picked up after the one two (or seven) years is up. Even in America the Republicans (conservatives) are pretty much on the cutting edge of trying out new, experimental forms of relationship:

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Examples_of_Republican_hypocrisy_on_moral_values

Hey, credit where credit is due. (Comment this)

Written by: Indeterminacy at 2007/09/21 - 07:12:27
2 - I think the stunt was pretty successful. Reuters English picked it up, it's gone world-wide. (Comment this)

Written by: letters at 2007/09/21 - 16:48:35
3 - How about she become an actual conservative, and not just the goofy "values link" caricature of one, and imagine a world where Germans don't discuss management and the "leistung" of every noticable metric and feature in people's lives.

Chicita Paulita! Hola man! Remember that "free will" thing, cha-cha? Or have you been drinking the historically approprate German Kool-Aid? (Comment this)

Written by: Joe Noory at 2007/09/22 - 20:47:22
4 - I think it's cool and interesting that there are so many CDU mayors who are openly gay. At least there's no hypocrisy about that. (Comment this)

Written by: Indeterminacy at 2007/09/25 - 05:47:54
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