Poll: Let's get real

[payasam]

If Leica have sense, they will listen to users of their products, wherever those products were bought.

 

[yanidel]

True. But consider what the rest of France thinks of Parisians. As they say in Brittany of incomers (non-locals who buy houses), "Mieux un anglais qu'un parisien." (Translation: better an Englishman than a Parisian.)

Cheers,

R.

Parisians don't care about what the other think about them, they are from Paris !
A bit like Leica owners I would hope.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Parisians don't care about what the other think about them, they are from Paris !

This may be part of the problem...

Amitiés,

R.

 

[M like Leica M6]

Parisians don't care about what the other think about them, they are from Paris !

That's a mistake. Parisians and other french people are often so afraid to disgrace themselves that they play arrogant and pretend not to have learned english at school.

 

[crawdiddy]

I sincerely hope this isn't becoming a "bash the French" thread.

Some of my best friends are French.

I agree, Richard. In the US, France gets picked on somewhat. France and the French are fairly polarizing, at least to Americans. People either love it or hate it.

I, for one, never abandoned French Fries, for the jingoistic Freedom Fries. That was mostly the right-wing talk radio crowd.

 

[M like Leica M6]

My point is that the Western World's 100 year love affair with the infernal combustion engine must stop soon but cameras are a fairly harmless luxury in comparison.

That is a sentence to remember. Pardon me for saying a few words that are "off topic".

The oil era ends:

1. Even americans consider buying cars that need less fuel
2. Airlines cut capacity

So, everyone has a choice:

• Ignore the crisis and just complain about high gas prices (nagging does not help)
• Ignore the crisis and be a "Mitläufer". Expect questions from your children in a few years
• Do something

I do not know whether the term "Mitläufer" is known here.

In 1945, after WW2 had ended, the allies classified the Germans into categories in order to sort out who was a war criminal, who was involved in other crimes of the regime and who was a "Mitläufer", e.g. running with the crowd, a fellow-traveler. Most Germans, especially the ones who were needed for the reconstruction of the devastated country, were "Mitläufer", even if there was some evidence that they were Nazis. Of course, everybody metamorphosed into a member of the resistance during that time, and nobody had ever heard of all those camps...

Some people here will hate me for that but I think today we all have a choice: get involved with ecology or become a Mitläufer.

Global warming and the global food crisis have the same roots. Ignoring the effects of our lifestyle and continuing means that people will die in many areas of the world - and it will not only be those exotic countries far away.

Some typical sentences that reveal that you think like a Mitläufer:

1. "I had no idea, heard about all that in 2040, the year of the great flood in New York."
2. "I didn't read newspapers and was not interested in politics, e.g. I did not know either."
3. "The politicians and Exxon told us that everything is fine."
4. "I just did what I was told."
5. "I did like everybody else."
6. "The chinese were much worse."
7. "As a single person I could not change anything."

What is your choice?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I buy my Leicas New from authorized dealers. I have the right to talk and to be listened to

Oh, ebus cripes.

 

[Ororaro]

Oh, ebus cripes.

Koj titoku rac zna ci

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Koj titoku rac zna ci

Soy botellita de jerez; todo lo que digas, alrevés.