Germany is finally paying off the last of its reparations for World War I, so we can now close that chapter of world history with a bitchin’ victory party. Yes! We did it! Those Krauts paid out!
The principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, John Maynard Keynes, resigned in June 1919 in protest at the scale of the demands.
“Germany will not be able to formulate correct policy if it cannot finance itself,’ he warned.
Haha, GAY. Like that’s going to happen. So what do you say, boys? Now that we’ve won the war, how about going for a World War Two? That Germany still has some sport in them, eh? Should be an invigorating experience. [Telegraph]
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No doubt the French are up to it! Hee, Hee!
Now that we've co-opted their latest, "Ingot We Trust," I'm feeling especially optimistic and patriotical.
I'm glad they paid off that debt before it became some sort of flashpoint for popular resentment.
I hear the Sudatenland is nice in the fall.
Lucky for us, the Germans are level-headed and not vengeful at all.
We've already kicked their favorite Star off our little dance contest, so the Germans may be itching for revenge as we speak.
The teabaggers warned us Obama would demand reparations, but did you libtards listen?
Is it time to dust off the Mission Accomplished banner and take a few more pics? I can't wait for another bulging flight suit . . .
Ha ha, that'll show the Kaiser.
Say what you want about the Kaiser, but I know for a fact that he never gave a left-handed hand job.
The repo-man that collected that debt must have some monster kahunas.
The life of a repo man is always intense.
"Haha, GAY." I believe Lord Keynes was indeed a participant in alternative lifestyles there at that Bloomsbury joint. Along w/E M Forster, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and other boring personages.
Polyamory in the "stiff upper lip" crowd!
"I'll show you something about decline and fall, Gibbon. Doff those breeches anon!"
Brilliant, witty, charming, erudite, excellent company. But hot? I wouldn't fuck any of 'em with TS Eliot's dick.
This is the only place in my life where I get to converse w/people who have any idea what I'm talking about, at least when I talk about early 20th-Century academic circles about whom more books were probably written than the group itself produced.
I once walked past the Algonquin Hotel!
Note that after a long period of focusing on a diverse lifestyle during his university days and later, JM Keynes up and married a beautiful ballerina, if memory serves. As I recall, this change in lifestyle angered some of his former inamorata.
The Iraq/Afghanistan adventure will also take about 90 years to pay down.
The debt was repaid with gold from a vending machine.
Big deal. Just wait and see how long it takes Germany to pay off its student loans.
Good, maybe we'll stop hearing from that German Workers Party. Didn't they recently change their name to something else and get some new guy to lead them?
Now they can get on with paying for the Greeks.
Take that, Kaiser Whatchamafuck!
If World War I is actually over, why am I still seeing Walnuts picture at the top of the page?
Needs more Woodrow Wilson giving a PR stunt speech in front of a Mission Accomplished zeppelin
There are still a few WWI veterans still alive. In 2110, someone will be writing on wonkette about the last surviving Iraq War veterans. When we "bring it on" with war, we obligate ourselves to honor those who died, care for wounded, pay the costs and remember what might have been. For years, decades and generations to come.
Now they can start paying the late fees.
Slow news day?
As a token of our gratitude, can we give them David Hasselhoff?
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