Was tun... wenn's jefeiert, wa? #partypolizei #sexorgy
July 7, 2017 1:54 PM Subscribe
After a particularly raucous night of partying, Berliner police assigned to the G-20 summit in Hamburg were recalled last week.
The police, who had not yet been deployed in advance of the summit were recalled, and the social media team defended their colleagues as only human, as a Facebook post (sorry, link is both FB and in German, but FB offers the option to translate) which explains that "Yes, we partied! ... at a closed site (a container-village about 70km north of Hamburg), our police drank, danced, pissed, and, as the press so lovingly put it, fucked. ... now #partypolice and #sexorgy are part of the story ... A lot is under discussion, but we'd like to invite you to look at their professional work... for (the work), we'd like to give them a thumbs-up and #goodjob.".
At least one Berliner organisation has welcomed their prodigal sons and daughters back with open arms, as the Clubcommission Berlin has responded: ""Barely 10 days before the meeting of the world's political elites, Berlin's operation team has fulfilled its function as role models and organised a great party - traditionally costumed in uniforms, with music and excessive live performances."
The police, who had not yet been deployed in advance of the summit were recalled, and the social media team defended their colleagues as only human, as a Facebook post (sorry, link is both FB and in German, but FB offers the option to translate) which explains that "Yes, we partied! ... at a closed site (a container-village about 70km north of Hamburg), our police drank, danced, pissed, and, as the press so lovingly put it, fucked. ... now #partypolice and #sexorgy are part of the story ... A lot is under discussion, but we'd like to invite you to look at their professional work... for (the work), we'd like to give them a thumbs-up and #goodjob.".
At least one Berliner organisation has welcomed their prodigal sons and daughters back with open arms, as the Clubcommission Berlin has responded: ""Barely 10 days before the meeting of the world's political elites, Berlin's operation team has fulfilled its function as role models and organised a great party - traditionally costumed in uniforms, with music and excessive live performances."
What happens in Hamburg...stays in Hamburg?
posted by Purposeful Grimace at 2:07 PM on July 7, 2017
posted by Purposeful Grimace at 2:07 PM on July 7, 2017
I think a closer translation of "gebumst" might be "bonked." Which is so much funnier than the f word (well, I'm laughing, at least).
I don't speak German very well, but this is now one of my favorite sentences in that language and is inspiring me to fire up Duolingo again.
"Dabei wurde getrunken, getanzt, gepinkelt und ja scheinbar auch "gebumst", wie es unser Pressesprecher so schön formuliert hat."
posted by AwkwardPause at 2:22 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
I don't speak German very well, but this is now one of my favorite sentences in that language and is inspiring me to fire up Duolingo again.
"Dabei wurde getrunken, getanzt, gepinkelt und ja scheinbar auch "gebumst", wie es unser Pressesprecher so schön formuliert hat."
posted by AwkwardPause at 2:22 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
"gebumst" in German is a derivative of a slang term for, well, bum. From when I lived there as an exchange student my understanding was literal meaning was "fucked in the ass". Although its meaning seemed to have widened to mean basically anything penetrative.
posted by hippybear at 2:26 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 2:26 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Bummer.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:35 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:35 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
Do you have a citation on the bum / ass association, hippybear? I'm not a very good German speaker, but my understanding is bumsen is slang for sex in general, and comes from a literal meaning of "thump" as in thumping a drum or piece of wood to make a noise.
That Facebook post is a thing of beauty. Can you imagine an American police force writing something like that?
posted by Nelson at 2:54 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
That Facebook post is a thing of beauty. Can you imagine an American police force writing something like that?
posted by Nelson at 2:54 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
Metafilter: Do you have a citation on the bum / ass association?
posted by Hypatia at 3:02 PM on July 7, 2017 [37 favorites]
posted by Hypatia at 3:02 PM on July 7, 2017 [37 favorites]
I think a closer translation of "gebumst" might be "bonked."
... or, as we USAians say, "boinked."
posted by ZenMasterThis at 3:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
... or, as we USAians say, "boinked."
posted by ZenMasterThis at 3:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
This meeting of the bum / ass association will come to order. *pounds gavel* in the butt
posted by Pallas Athena at 3:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [19 favorites]
posted by Pallas Athena at 3:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [19 favorites]
Do you have a citation on the bum / ass association, hippybear?
I only have my experience there as an exchange student in 86-87 and having high school students explain to me once I finally asked. They were explicit about "bum" being an English word brought in as slang and it meant "ass". German loves bringing in English words for youth slang. I can't give you more information than that.
posted by hippybear at 3:16 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
I only have my experience there as an exchange student in 86-87 and having high school students explain to me once I finally asked. They were explicit about "bum" being an English word brought in as slang and it meant "ass". German loves bringing in English words for youth slang. I can't give you more information than that.
posted by hippybear at 3:16 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
To be fair, they do not seem to have killed anyone, tried to kill anyone, beat anyone up (besides, maybe, each other), or, say, covered up serious life-threatening crimes, so that puts them ahead of many sober police departments.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:20 PM on July 7, 2017 [37 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:20 PM on July 7, 2017 [37 favorites]
"Yes, we partied, it was great, fuck you" - this is the most Berlin response ever and I'm so glad Berlin-ness extends to the Polizei
posted by thedaniel at 3:27 PM on July 7, 2017 [30 favorites]
posted by thedaniel at 3:27 PM on July 7, 2017 [30 favorites]
As a native German speaker the bumsen-bum connection is news to me. My understanding of the word's etymology is that bumsen is a case of onomatopoeia. The true equivalent in English would be banging if anything.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 3:36 PM on July 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Hairy Lobster at 3:36 PM on July 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
I'm not above admitting that the class I was an exchange student in wasn't shining me on. I've discovered more than one instance of this across the years. Upper middle class German high school students in the 80s weren't above feeding bullshit to those intrusive USians invading their school.
posted by hippybear at 3:40 PM on July 7, 2017
posted by hippybear at 3:40 PM on July 7, 2017
Well, it brings a new meaning to "Ich bin ein Berliner".
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:42 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:42 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's not like false etymologies never spring up and get widely accepted in English. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, anyone?
posted by Four Ds at 3:50 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Four Ds at 3:50 PM on July 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, anyone?
This is only espoused by the Knights In Satan's Service
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 3:59 PM on July 7, 2017 [7 favorites]
This is only espoused by the Knights In Satan's Service
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 3:59 PM on July 7, 2017 [7 favorites]
In the ear?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:06 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:06 PM on July 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
In the ear?
Let's not kinkshame, hey?
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:09 PM on July 7, 2017 [7 favorites]
Let's not kinkshame, hey?
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:09 PM on July 7, 2017 [7 favorites]
Good way to get earworms, that's all I'm saying. Use protection when fucking KISS in the ear, kids.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
Well, it brings a new meaning to "Ich bin ein Berliner".
Shouldn't that be, "Ich bin in einem Berliner"?
posted by MikeKD at 6:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [4 favorites]
Shouldn't that be, "Ich bin in einem Berliner"?
posted by MikeKD at 6:13 PM on July 7, 2017 [4 favorites]
Ich bum ein Berliner?
posted by Devonian at 6:18 PM on July 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Devonian at 6:18 PM on July 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
As an American who learned schoolyard German at the age of thirteen, my memory is that "bumsen" is indeed, as Hairy Lobster confirms, the way that middle-schoolers talk about sex, and well translated by "banging." I recall in particular that it was considered very witty in chemistry class to refer to the gas flames invented by the nineteenth-century discoverer of cesium as "Bumsenbrenner."
posted by sy at 8:10 PM on July 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by sy at 8:10 PM on July 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
I lived in Berlin for a short time, about ten years ago, and reading about this makes my heart swell with joy at the memory of that city and its beautiful people. I miss it dearly.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 12:24 AM on July 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 12:24 AM on July 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
IMO, this was a genius move: they got to party till 6:30 AM (impressive!), had outdoor sex, got on the door of all the Berlin clubs, and were relieved from street fights in Hamburg which regardless of one's political opinion probably weren't a nice experience for the police. What's not to love?
posted by mumimor at 12:44 AM on July 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by mumimor at 12:44 AM on July 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
In the ear?
Aural sex?
I'll get my coat :/
posted by merlynkline at 12:45 AM on July 8, 2017 [4 favorites]
Aural sex?
I'll get my coat :/
posted by merlynkline at 12:45 AM on July 8, 2017 [4 favorites]
'Bumsen' is boinkin' or bangin'. My kids let this fly when they're testing boundaries, though thankfully not with grandparents around.
The news had way less fun with this than I expected - there's pretty good tabloid press here and they were pretty blasé about the whole thing. Part of Berlin's reputation is that it's isn't as 'professional' or 'civilized/westlich' as the rest of 'normal/ western' Germany. So this was all a little 'peinlich' 'embarrassing for the home team. To which the FB reply was the absolute pitch-perfect reply.
posted by From Bklyn at 1:10 AM on July 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
The news had way less fun with this than I expected - there's pretty good tabloid press here and they were pretty blasé about the whole thing. Part of Berlin's reputation is that it's isn't as 'professional' or 'civilized/westlich' as the rest of 'normal/ western' Germany. So this was all a little 'peinlich' 'embarrassing for the home team. To which the FB reply was the absolute pitch-perfect reply.
posted by From Bklyn at 1:10 AM on July 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
From my 54yr old Hamburger OH 'definitely from bumsen, doesn't have the humourous connotation of bonk or boink....until kids started owning term it used to denote low class, uneducated speaker....'
Interesting our cousin is with HH police force. She thought this was hilarious, didn't get why they were sent home.
posted by Wilder at 2:02 AM on July 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
Interesting our cousin is with HH police force. She thought this was hilarious, didn't get why they were sent home.
posted by Wilder at 2:02 AM on July 8, 2017 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I don't see why this is a problem. Pepper-spraying someone in the face, now that's a problem. Having a party with coworkers outside of work hours? Not a problem.
Once again, we've got our priorities totally ass-backwards.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 6:41 AM on July 8, 2017 [8 favorites]
Once again, we've got our priorities totally ass-backwards.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 6:41 AM on July 8, 2017 [8 favorites]
Not exactly what I meant by "fuck the police" but I'll take it!
posted by en forme de poire at 9:07 PM on July 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by en forme de poire at 9:07 PM on July 8, 2017 [1 favorite]
Seriously, if only our cops were this fun and benignly naughty.
posted by en forme de poire at 9:07 PM on July 8, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by en forme de poire at 9:07 PM on July 8, 2017 [4 favorites]
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posted by hippybear at 1:58 PM on July 7, 2017 [37 favorites]