Austria
The Republic of Austria is a country in Europe. The rural part of Austria is full of mountains, snow, goats and the like. Carinthia is full of lakes. Vienna is the capital of Austria, and Vienna is full of people, music, culture, coffee houses and such things. The cutlet dish Wiener schnitzel is also named after Vienna (it comes from the city's German name). Americans later ripped off the pork version of the dish (it was originally made with veal) in the form of pork tenderloin.[1] Sacher-Torte is also a famous Viennese recipe and closely connected with the Hotel Sacher in the city.
Austria is also rife with Roman Catholics.
On occasion, people get mail addressed to Austria mixed up with Australia, making it a dicey proposition when somebody in Austria wins your eBay auction.
Austrians speak German (and can even be understood by Germans to an extent, unlike speakers of Swiss German) and have a Germanic culture but the majority don't want to be part of Germany anymore.
Austria is occasionally the laughingstock/demon-harbinger of Europe, because they periodically elect a large proportion of neo-fascists to power. In 2008, Jörg Haider's party (along with a rival right-wing party) sent a large enough delegation to parliament that the two parties could have ruled with a majority.[2] A few weeks later, Haider died in a car crash, thus providing tentative proof for the existence of God.[3] In 2016 they almost elected Norbert Hofer, another neo-fascist, as president of the country after the main two parties lost the first round, this time only losing by 0.6% to the Austrian Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen.[4]
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[edit] Fucking
Fucking is a village in Austria. It's pronounced "FOO-king." This is because of intense petitioning from its Scottish residents. Or rather because of German pronunciation rules.
What did you think you would find when you typed "fucking" into the search box? And they want to make a light beer in the village, and in German, light beer is called 'hell'. Make of that what you will.
[edit] Famous people from Austria (Not necessarily from Fucking, Austria)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Adolf Hitler
- Ludwig von Mises
- Franz Ferdinand
- Sigmund Freud
- Karl Popper
- Felix Baumgartner[wp]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (though he lived in Salzburg when Austria didn't exist, and considered himself "teutsch" [archaic spelling of "Deutsch" meaning "German"] as well)
- Hans Asperger, namesake of the syndrome that has become known as "autism lite."
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of Venus in Furs, utopian, feminist and, as his name implies, trope namer for masochism. The Sacher-Masoch-Torte with red currants and almonds was named after him.[1]
- Maria von Trapp
- Erwin Schrödinger, quantum physicist of Schrödinger's equations fame, may or may not have lived here.
- Ludwig Boltzmann, statistical physicist
- Wolfgang Pauli, quantum physicist best known for the Pauli exclusion principle
[edit] The flag
Austria has had its current flag since before it became a country in the modern sense. Legend has it that it is based on one Hapsburg of yore who went out to battle in a white shirt with a broad belt and when he returned the shirt was soaked in blood everywhere but under the belt.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Wikipedia's Fucking article - You thought we were telling Fucking jokes, didn't you? "Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking — and it's going to stay Fucking."
- There's something very strange about Vienna.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Other countries have jumped on the Schnitzel bandwagon as well. See the Wikipedia article on Schnitzel.
- ↑ It was even worse in 1999[wp], causing the EU and Israel to sanction the fuck out of the country until it was ensured he couldn't get into power.
- ↑ Or perhaps that driving a speeding car while drunk is a pretty bad idea
- ↑ Austria presidential election result: Alexander Van der Bellen wins over far-right candidate Norbert Hofer, Samuel Osborne, Independent, 23 May 2016