# Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146 "2004-06-25T04:01:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/41 "2004-06-27T07:44:30Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Ah. OK. I apologize for not reading the link closely enough. Y’all apologize for being way too easily offended over absolutely nothing at all? Maybe you consider it “absolutely nothing at all” but for every German born after WWII, they cannot travel anywhere on earth without some idiot calling them a Nazi or making some kind of slur. Hitler is dead, the war is long over and Germans have learned their lesson. Happy now? Unlike us, they were quite able to see the fallicy of marching into Iraq and they are, for the most part, pacifists. I thought one of the rules of SDMB is not to bash nationalities, and specifically, not to thow Nazi and Hitler into threads. One of the major pluses about SDMB is that it is international. Slamming Germans by calling them Nazis (Simpson “joke” or not) is simply rude and inconsiderate at best. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/42 "2004-06-27T14:08:20Z")
Ahhhh, tell it to the [Great Debates thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=263619). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/43 "2004-06-27T15:19:07Z")
**Thaumaturge** thanks for the info. The popular press makes it sound like it somehow stops muscle growth, which strikes me as an odd thing for a protein to do. The break down function makes more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Whiter\_Carpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Whiter\_Carpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiter_Carpet)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/44 "2004-06-27T20:08:45Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > so, if he was from Israel it would be ok to say “Jews now have their SuperJew Messiah!” > > the OP made a crude joke. you might find it funny, I doubt our german contributors find constant comparisons of “german = Nazi” quite so humorous. I do :). The town my grandmother grew up in is now part of Poland, by the way. On the other hand, I also frequent [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) where a _Terminator_ SkyNet joke was made earlier today based on a NASA satellite getting a shot of a mountain in Antarctica. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/45 "2004-06-27T20:28:54Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Actually, _you’re_ the one who mentions Germans; the OP only makes a Nazi joke. The Head Nazi, if you’ll recall, was an Austrian, so I think it’s _you_ who owe Germans the apology. Except of course, that Austrians ARE German. Other than that, I got the joke right away. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/46 "2004-06-27T20:58:07Z")
[Basil Fawlty] Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it. So it’s all forgotten now and let’s hear no more about it. So that’s two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Herman Goering and four Colditz salads…no, wait a minute…I got confused because everyone keeps mentioning the war. [/Basil Fawlty] ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/47 "2004-06-27T22:56:36Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Except of course, that Austrians ARE German. Errr, huh? Did I miss a meeting again? ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/48 "2004-06-27T23:03:47Z")
I used to date an Austrian who had Czech and Hungarian ancestors. Don’t think she qualified as German. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/49 "2004-06-28T00:23:53Z")
The article says that the kid is “not yet five,” which probably means he’s four, and therefore not a toddler. But if you click on the link for the slideshow, it says that the pictures of a baby less than four weeks old were released by New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday June 23, 2004, and “represent the first documented human case” so is this the _same_ kid or not? And if is, why would it take them four years to get around to publishing the pictures? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/50 "2004-06-28T01:00:34Z")
> [@Thaumaturge](#): > > There is an entire _breed_ of cattle with this condition, called the [belgian blue](http://www.doping.dk/db/filarkiv/34/belgianblue.jpg). They make He-man look positively wimpy. I shudder to think how muscular this kid will be when he grows up. Sweet mother of cattle!!! :eek: How come the Belgians didn´t let loose those monsters on the Nazis on WWII? I picture a trail of mangled panzers all the way to Berlin. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/51 "2004-06-28T13:25:15Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > The article says that the kid is “not yet five,” which probably means he’s four, and therefore not a toddler. But if you click on the link for the slideshow, it says that the pictures of a baby less than four weeks old were released by New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday June 23, 2004, and “represent the first documented human case” so is this the _same_ kid or not? And if is, why would it take them four years to get around to publishing the pictures? Because maybe it wasn’t until recently that the family consented to have any pictures published, whether taken at birth or at nearly five y.a. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/52 "2004-06-28T18:56:42Z")
> [@bughunter](#): > > I think he’s testing the boundary conditions for Godwin’s Law. I’m not from around these parts. What is Godwin’s Law? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/53 "2004-06-29T00:24:10Z")
Godwin’s Law is from USEnet (IIRC). It states that as the length of a thread increases the probability of someone comparing one of their opponents to the Nazis approaches 1. It has mutated into a version claiming that the mention of Hitler/the Nazis becomes more probable as a thread’s length increases. Many also cite it to say that an individual has “lost” the debate by making a comparison between an opponent and the Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/54 "2004-06-29T03:19:10Z")
Well, don’t people in Austria speak German, and at one time it was a rival of Prussia-who would be the leader of the Germanic peoples? (If I’m wrong, please feel free to hit me) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/55 "2004-06-29T04:17:38Z")
Where does a muscular 4 year old that can hold 5 pound weights go pee? Anywhere he wants. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/56 "2004-06-29T07:22:35Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, don’t people in Austria speak German, and at one time it was a rival of Prussia-who would be the leader of the Germanic peoples? > > (If I’m wrong, please feel free to hit me) I don’t mean to hit you, but your language analogy would render quite a few nationalities irrelevant. To give an example close to my side of the world: I might know a few Pakistanis who would object to being called basically Indian. I mean, we do share the same culture, language (some of them, anyway), and much more… ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146/57 "2004-06-29T07:25:44Z")
> [@gouda](#): > > …and much more… Make that “…and some more…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-supermen-are-our-superiors/252146.md?page=2)