Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Five German News Stories

 1.  Watching RBB (Berlin public TV today)....polls started up for the forced new election for the city.  According to the polls....it'll be a more tight election, with the Greens, SPD and Linke Parties all pulling in the 20-to-22 percent range  each.

2.  N-TV talked over a Brit report this AM....saying these Kamikaze drone attacks in the Ukraine have ended.  The suggestion?  Russians used up all of the stock.

3  Kinda funny....World Cup game was on TV last night.  It should have taken bulk of viewing statistics.  ARD ran against....a comedy-krimi show called 'Die Kanazlei'.  It's mostly a show that the over 50 age group would watch (not material for the under 25 folks).  The krimi pulled in better numbers than World Cup soccer.  I doubt this has ever happened....in the history of German public TV.

4.  N-TV this AM talked about a real estate 'bubble' in Germany....that prices for properties (to sell) will drop by a minimum of 10-percent.

5.  I sat and watched some news story off N-TV news this AM.....hyping up the idea of buying re-treaded tires.  Currently....around 1-percent of German society does this.

An environmental thing?  Well....it came across this way.  

In my entire life....I've done this on one single occasion....tire shop offered up premium winter tires (retreaded)....for what would be 40-percent off the new price.  It's not something that tire shops are that interested in.....lesser profit in the end.  But they get the tires for free and simply pay a retread company for the situation....maybe they can find some retread company in Poland or Czech that does this cheaply.  

2 comments:

Daz said...

Given the game was Australia vs France, I'm not surprised no one watched. Australian's generally watch about 45 minutes of soccer per 4 years. Usually we remember how boring it is after one half and go do other things!

Schnitzel_Republic said...

It'll be curious who watched from Germany, for the game against Japan (Germany lost).