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Brickbats

Brickbat: We Know Who You Are

Charles Oliver | 6.10.2016 4:00 AM

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German cabinet members have approved a new law requiring anyone buying a prepaid phone or sim card to show an official ID. The law must still be approved by the legislature.

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  1. Adans smith   9 years ago

    A German government demanding to see your papers.what could go wrong?

    1. straffinrun   9 years ago

      Taking shots at Germans for their history. SMDH.

      1. Adans smith   9 years ago

        Too,be fair,I do like their beer.

        1. straffinrun   9 years ago

          Already on number 3. Wonder if I can make it to am lynx.

          1. Adans smith   9 years ago

            Second cup of coffee for me.I have about 10 hours before the drinking lamp is lit.

            1. Radioactive   9 years ago

              it's 5:00 somewhere..

    2. WTF   9 years ago

      You know what other government demanded to see your papers?

      1. R C Dean   9 years ago

        Every one since the invention of paper?

  2. straffinrun   9 years ago

    They still make German Cabinets out of Yew?

    1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

      Where else would they store the fine bone china?

      1. Radioactive   9 years ago

        better to light one candle (made of some unmentionable material) than to curse the darkness?

  3. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    "You can now buy a prepaid phone under the name of Donald Duck," [Interior Minister Thomas] de Maizi?re said...

    Those people would then have bigger things to worry about than the Kraut government. Disney's attorneys would swoop in like death from above.

    1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

      Indeed, Fist of Parliament. Imagine the egg on Disney's face for this little ditty in response.

  4. prolefeed   9 years ago

    Sounds like an attempted escalation of the War on The Laws of Supply and Demand (aka The War on Drugs), to try and keep burner phones away from drug dealers trying to avoid being wiretapped.

  5. Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)   9 years ago

    Stay classy, Google. Mohammed Ali memorial is a mere obscure small text footnote intestine search portal today. Contrast with the full graphical celebration of the maniac Yuri Kichiyama.

    1. Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)   9 years ago

      *Kochiyama

    2. Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)   9 years ago

      Autocorrect "on the main" to "intestine." Makes sense.

    3. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

      That was ridiculously retarded.

      1. Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)   9 years ago

        Secured an AirBnB rental a stone's throw from the Beaudry metro station for Jul 2-5. Any recommendations? You mentioned rarely going into the city these days.

    4. kbolino   9 years ago

      Ali's birthday is January 19. Feting Kuchiyama was disgusting, but it was on her birthday.

      1. Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)   9 years ago

        Happy deathday, Cassius!

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