:German Engineering:

[Bronezhilet]

Putin, help us, save us, against the corrupt, enemy of the state, BRD-regime as well as against America and Israel!

So you hoped nobody here spoke German so you could sprout your political hatespeech under the pretext of a "translation". Too bad some of us do speak German. And you know what's too bad as well? Some of us are professional translators.

 

So take your bullshit and get the fuck out of there.

 

 

Edit for those who are going to whine about it being a literal translation, here's the liberal (hue) translation:

Putin, help us and save us from the corrupt, people-hating BRD-regime as well as America and Israel!

Edited February 29, 2016 by Bronezhilet

[Belesarius]

Yeah, we're not really accepting of blatant lies.  Disagreement is fine.  I don't agree with the Russian folks here on a lot of stuff, but outright falsification is just not on here.

[Sturgeon]

Just for the record, guys, he was IP banned 20 minutes ago, so he can't read your posts.

[Bronezhilet]

Just for the record, guys, he was IP banned 20 minutes ago, so he can't read your posts.

For some ignorant reason or another I'm giving him an IQ high enough to figure out how to use VPNs or proxies.

[Toxn]

So you hoped nobody here spoke German so you could sprout your political hatespeech under the pretext of a "translation". Too bad some of us do speak German. And you know what's too bad as well? Some of us are professional translators.

 

So take your bullshit and get the fuck out of there.

 

 

Edit for those who are going to whine about it being a literal translation, here's the liberal (hue) translation:

The funny thing is that I only speak afrikaans (badly) and can still parse the language on that sign really easily. It's not difficult stuff.

 

Like, pretty hateful. But sure as fuck not "Putin save us from the Gay American Jews!".

[Vanagandr]

I had figured he was joking with the translation, drawing on the image in the left bottom corner of the placard thing since the words didn't mention anything about homosexuality. As far as very inflammatory stuff, in the bottom of that same placard thing, you can see "Israel's Genocide", and while I don't agree with nearly anything the state of Israel does, they're far from having committed genocide.

[SuperComrade]

I too assumed the reason why he wrote that was because the poster had pictures of gays, Americans, and Israel

I'm not sure how to translate "volksfeindliche", since the BRD is the state after all...

[Sturgeon]

Kruger's had it coming for a while, so it's not really about the translation.

[SuperComrade]

Oh, I'm aware of that, just somewhat surprised that this was apparently what went over the limit

[Sturgeon]

It wouldn't have been, if it hadn't pissed off Bronez enough for him to ask me to do it, or if he'd gotten under someone else's skin earlier.

Mech and Tied both hate the guy, obviously, and would have had me nuke him on day 1. I wanted to give him more of a chance then that.

[SuperComrade]

I think that's fair enough, I was surprised he was still around after his, uh, work on the Ukraine/Syria threads

[Sturgeon]

I actually hadn't seen that, as I haven't kept up with those threads.

[Bronezhilet]

Personally I don't really give a shit about someone's views, but someone is abusing 'translations' for personal or political benefit, I will tear that someone a new one.

[EnsignExpendable]

He's cleared out of the Ukraine thread ages ago, thank god.

[Vanagandr]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Didn't feel like starting a new topic; this one seems most relevant

[Beer]

Guys, I didn't find better thread so my apology for putting the question in this long-time dead topic. 

 

A friend of mine showed me today this device which looks and works exactly same as any common dial indicator. The only issue is that the inner range is in kilometers and since there is a Reichsadler at the back of the gauge I post it here. Any idea for what it was used? The wire at the top clearly isn't original part of the device and was most likely used only to hang it somewhere.