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Mantawitz
In German humour, a Manta joke (german: Mantawitz) is a joke cycle about the ''Mantafahrer'' ("Manta driver"), the male owner of an Opel Manta, who is an aggressive driver, dull, lower class, macho, and infatuated with both his car and his blonde hairdresser girlfriend. Jokes poke fun at a stereotype of the working class owner of a second-tier muscle car, typified by the Manta.''Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough: Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity'', 1999, pp.172-173/ref> Mantas were targeted at buyers who yearned for a sports car but could not afford a status car such as a BMW or Mercedes. Proud Manta owners often decorated them with chrome, G-T stripes, racing tyres, or high beams to mimic the exclusiveness of race cars.''That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the "new" Germany''p. 167/ref>''Metonymy in Language and Thought'', 1999, p. 325/ref> Example jokes are: *''What was left after a fatal Manta accident? - A gold chain and a hairdresser in mourning. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Humour
German humour is the conventions of comedy and its cultural meaning within the country of Germany. German humour encompasses traditions such as Kabarett and other forms of satire as well as more recent trends such as TV shows and stand-up comedy. Germans distinguish between "Comedy" (using the English word) and "Komödie" (the German word of the same origin). "Comedy" refers to post-1990s TV-comedy, which is characterized by comedic entertainment in the form of stand-up comedy, stage shows, modern satire, cabaret and adaptations of foreign comedy concepts, including airing of foreign shows. "Komödie" refers to films and plays. Culture German humour often follows many conventions which, due to similarities in cultural perception of events and day-to-day life (and other such universal themes which may be discussed through comedy), may be readily interpreted by natives of other countries. Some German humorists such as Loriot used seriousness as a source of humour. Another notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opel Manta B 6
Opel Automobile GmbH (), usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile manufacturer which has been a subsidiary of Stellantis since 16 January 2021. It was owned by the American automaker General Motors from 1929 until 2017 and the PSA Group, a predecessor of Stellantis, from 2017 until 2021. Opel vehicles are sold in the United Kingdom as Vauxhall. Some Opel vehicles were badge-engineered in Australia under the Holden brand until 2020 and in North America and China under the Buick, Saturn, and Cadillac brands. Opel traces its roots to a sewing machine manufacturer founded by Adam Opel in 1862 in Rüsselsheim am Main. The company began manufacturing bicycles in 1886 and produced its first automobile in 1899. With the Opel RAK program, the world's first rocket program, under the leadership of Fritz von Opel, the company played an important role in the history of aviation and spaceflight: Various land speed records were achieved, and the world's first rocket-powered fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rice Burner
Rice burner is a pejorative term originally applied to Japanese motorcycles and which later expanded to include Japanese cars or any East Asian-made vehicles. Variations include rice rocket, referring most often to Japanese superbikes, rice machine, rice grinder or simply ricer. Riced out is an adjective denigrating a badly customized sports compact car, "usually with oversized or ill-matched exterior appointments". Rice boy is a US derogatory term for the driver or builder of an import-car hot rod. The terms may disparage cars or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance. The term is often defined as offensive or racist stereotyping. In some cases, users of the term assert that it is not offensive or racist, or else treat the term as a humorous, mild insult rather than a racial slur. Early usage 1917 to 1930s Examples of "rice burner" used literally, meaning one who burns rice or rice fields, as in stubb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondeo Man
Essex man and Mondeo man are stereotypical figures which were popularised in 1990s Britain. The "Essex man" as a political figure is an example of a type of median voter and was used to help explain the electoral successes of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. The closely related "Mondeo man" was identified as the sort of voter the Labour Party needed to attract to win the election in 1997.Ollie Stone-Lee Who's the new Mondeo man? ''BBC News'' 2 January 2005 Basildon man and woman are narrower terms being used synonymously. Background Although the Labour Party was traditionally considered the "natural choice" for the working class, there has traditionally been a group within that class who have voted Conservative, who are distinct from the "Essex man" phenomenon. After the Second World War, there was considerable social change in South East England. Working-class English families were encouraged to leave the war-damaged slums in inner London and move to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoon
A hoon is an Australian term describing a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers. Hoon activities (or hooning) can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts, or screeching tyres. Those commonly identified as being involved in hooning are young and predominantly male drivers in the age range of 17 to 25 years. Hoon control laws are beginning to be extended to dangerous hoon behaviour using boats and other vessels, particularly jet skis. The Australian state of Victoria passed legislation in late 2009 to control hoon activities using recreational vessels. Etymology At the turn of the 20th century in Australia, the term ''hoon'' (and its rhyming slang version "silver spoon") had a different meaning: one who lived off immoral earnings (i.e., the proceeds of prostitution, as a pimp or procurer of prostitutes). Linguist Sid Baker in his book ''The Australian Language'' suggested that ''hoon' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Racer
Boy racer is a term given to a young person who drives in a fast and aggressive manner; it has become a broader term (often pejorative) for participants in modern custom car culture who tune and modify cars with street racing-style aftermarket cosmetic and performance parts such as body kits, audio systems and exhausts. The culture encompasses a broad range of car types including sport compacts and economy cars typical of the import scene, this is in contrast with the hot rod culture of previous generations. Some car enthusiasts and modifiers feel the term labels them as deviant and anti-social and are keen to distance themselves from the term. Boy racer is a term mostly but not exclusively associated with the UK, in Australia and New Zealand hoon is sometimes preferred. In the US, "Rice boy" or "Ricer" is a derogatory term for the driver or builder of an imported hot rod, or someone who modifies their car in a cheap way to imitate the look of a higher performance vehic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Russians
The New Russians (russian: link=no, новые русские ''Novye Russkie'') were a newly rich business class who made their fortune in the 1990s in post-Soviet Russia. It is perceived as a stereotypical caricature. According to the stereotype, "New Russians" achieved rapid wealth by using criminal methods during Russia's chaotic transition to a market economy. Etymology The exact time and place, as well as the authorship of this expression, have not been fully established. Some consider that the expression Новый Русский (lit. "New Russian") arose in the Russian-speaking sphere in the demonstrated English-language form of "New Russian", and was then calcified into the Russian-language form.Костомаров В. ГЯзыковой вкус эпохи. Из наблюдений за речевой практикой массмедиа. – 3-е изд., испр. и доп. – СПб.: Златоуст, 1999. – 319 с – . – (Язык и время. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Til Schweiger
Tilman Valentin Schweiger (; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor, voice actor and filmmaker. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin. Early life Schweiger was born in Freiburg, West Germany, to two teachers. He grew up in Heuchelheim near Giessen in Hesse, where he went to school. Later, he took acting lessons at ''Der Keller'' in Cologne and graduated in 1989. Career Schweiger's debut as a producer and (uncredited) director came in 1997 with ''Knockin' on Heaven's Door''. He also directed and produced '' Der Eisbär'' (''The Polar Bear'') in 1998. Schweiger won a Bambi Award for ''Barfuss'' (''Barefoot'') in 2005, which he wrote, directed, and starred in. He also won a Bambi for his lead role in ''Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1''. In 2007, ''Keinohrhasen'' (this literally translates to "no ear rabbit" while the English title is ''Rabbit Without Ears''), written, produced, and directed by Schweiger, became the most successful film in German th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manta, Manta
''Manta, Manta'' is a 1991 German language action comedy film directed by Wolfgang Büld. The film features Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland, Stefan Gebelhoff, Lena Sabine Berg and Michael Kessler in the lead roles. Singer/songwriter Sylkie Monoff makes a small appearance. It was released in Germany on October 3, 1991 and in Hungary on April 17, 1992. The English title of the film was ''Racin' in the Street''. Four weeks before the film was released '' Manta – Der Film'' was shown in theaters, which also focused on Opel Manta in a comedic way, see "Manta jokes". Actors Til Schweiger, Tina Ruland and Michael Kessler started their film acting career with ''Manta, Manta''. Plot In the Ruhr area: Bertie (Til Schweiger) is the proud owner of a well-tuned Manta. Together with his friends Gerd (Stefan Gebelhoff), Klausi (Michael Kessler) and Hakan (Ömer Simsek) he enjoys driving in his Opel Manta as a hobby. One day, while Bertie was driving his car in a peace race against a VW Golf GTI, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Beams
A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, ''headlamp'' is the term for the device itself and ''headlight'' is the term for the beam of light produced and distributed by the device. Headlamp performance has steadily improved throughout the automobile age, spurred by the great disparity between daytime and nighttime traffic fatalities: the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that nearly half of all traffic-related fatalities occur in the dark, despite only 25% of traffic travelling during darkness. Other vehicles, such as trains and aircraft, are required to have headlamps. Bicycle headlamps are often used on bicycles, and are required in some jurisdictions. They can be powered by a battery or a small generator like a bottle or hub dynamo. History of automotive headlamps Origins The first horseless carriages used carriage lamps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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