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.
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.
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 where a Terminator SkyNet joke was made earlier today based on a NASA satellite getting a shot of a mountain in Antarctica.
[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]
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?
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.
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…