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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 some may know
;-)
Copyright Julian
Stacey, Munich, 2010 - Draft
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 now).
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
;-)
They didn't come any more, nor heir 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 "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 ( a prospective new
member - leaving permanently) 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 various 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 bar man's turnover/
trade.
- Weekly GEA Stammtisch died, remnants meet once a
month.
- DMF & GEIST 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 now stars
filling out the GEA programme with Deutsch Mit Feinden
events.
- Mike Cock, showing his ingratitude to the full,
continues 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.
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