I am sure there is some anti-EU moral to be squeezed out of this strange song of worship for a big (and apparently real) German excavator built by Krupps, possessed of a artificial mind, feared even by Beelzebub and used for fighting Godzillas.
My title comes from a comment by one crashstitches79.
Perhaps there is more of a pro-EU moral? Or an anti-Godzilla moral. Awesome, regardless.
OMDGiH.
Now I’m getting Eva flashbacks. All it needs is an AT-field.
So is Blogger 288 one of the samizdatata?
I think we should be told.
A classic piece of rathergood.com 🙂
Awesome. Where can I get one?
That’s one of the more messed-up videos I’ve seen on Youtube in quite a while. And if you know some of the videos I watch, you’ll realize how scary that is.
Best video since the Honey Badger
Laird asks,
Awesome. Where can I get one?
Godzillas are not usually for sale to private customers.
To purchase a Bagger288, contact:
ThyssenKrupp Fordertechnik GmbH
ThyssenKrupp Allee 1
45143 Essen
Germany.
Price on application, but likely to be high, unless they’re doing a BOGOF promotion.
It’s just a bucket wheel machine for removing mining overburden layer: they have been around for at least 40 years no big deal.
You’re clearly about to b de-meated, you fool!
I couldn’t help recalling a trailer on Radio 4 for a discussion programme about European politics, and how, in the EU, Germany “is terrified of being considered terrifying”. If they truly are, they wouldn’t have built this – but as someone who appreciates serious engineering, I’m glad they did :-).
Curious thing, though – wasn’t Krupps Steel broken up, 60-something years ago, along with Rheinmetall-Borsig?
wasn’t Krupps Steel broken up, 60-something years ago, along with Rheinmetall-Borsig?
They had to reconstitute it when the Godzillas came.
Wait, didn’t the Godzillas confine their rampaging to Toyko and its environs? What have the Germans to do with it?
Laird, your ignorance of international affairs is quite shocking.
The Godzillas had started their rampaging (in Tokyo, obviously) before “the leader of the Germans* stood with a triumphant roar”. After that, no more rampaging, particularly not in Germany, because the world had the Bagger 288. Simples!
*Official histories have not yet revealed, however, which Chancellor is referred to. Note the gender is not specified in the song, although since it refers to a single leader of the Germans we can infer that these events were post-unification. It all depends whether one can more easily envisage Gerhard Schroeder or Angela Merkel roaring “I’ve got it! we shall build a massive steel leviathan with blades covered in gore! Beelzebub himself will fear the Bagger two-eight-eight!”
We are not worthy, Natalie!
We are not worthy, Natalie!
Do not de-meat that human, Bagger.
🙂
I bow to your superior knowledge, Natalie.
But tell me, Godzillas and Beelzebub are all well and good, but would the Bagger 288 protect us against The Giant Claw?
Laird,
Do we need protection?
“It’s attacking the United Nations building!”
Attamonster:-)