Anu Garg at A Word A Day posted this story of an upcoming mayoral election in the small town of Völklingen, Germany (near the French border, south of Belgium), wherein one of the candidates gave a spectacularly bad answer to a question in a recent debate.
Representative Uwe Faust of the political party Die Partei jokingly asked, “According to the building code, paragraph 126, each owner is obliged to label his property with the number given by the municipality. I find it alarming that in Völklingen many house numbers are displayed in Arabic numerals. How would you like to take action against this creeping foreigner infiltration?”
To which Otfried Best, running with the far-right NPD party, fell for the joke, replying, "You just wait until I am mayor. I will change that. Then there will be normal numbers."
Mr. Best apparently does not know what Arabic numerals are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @12:26PM (1 child)
As I was saying for a full year up to the election, the majority of the stupidity was coming from the anti-Trump people... They gave the election to him.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday September 12 2017, @05:06PM
Don't forget the media.
He bashed them all the time, but he loved the attention and they loved the ratings.
He's still bashing them now, and they still love the ratings.