Going Pippi

News travel slowly, but it has now come to my attention that a proposal has been made to change the Swedish coins to feature the face of Pippi Longstocking, instead of the current image of the King. As a long-standing Republican I would of course offer my support, if I did not consider the issue some-what of a non-priority.

I do however feel that the Germans would offer their fullest sympathies. Check out the film below of some Football-fans (attending a match in Denmark) displaying their feelings for Pippi and really rocking the house. (Make sure your sound is on)

I cannot believe they made the stadium shake like that. Scary.

Equally scary are they eye-brows of Martin Walser. He is a German author who was the single voice of reason on a discussion programme I watched on Germany TV during my first couple of days here. The programme made quite an impression, not because of the topic (the pursuit and science of Happiness) but because one of the four participants would get to present their case, then the moderator would say “Good, lets reflect on that for two minutes” and then they dimmed the lights, started playing classical music and nothing happened on screen for subsequent two minutes. Amazing! That is how it is, in a Kulturland.