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Manta Joke
In German humour, Manta jokes () is a joke cycle about the ''Mantafahrer'' ("Manta driver"), the male owner of an Opel Manta. His name is usually Manni (short for Manfred), who is an aggressive driver, lower class (typically from the Ruhrpott), macho, of lower intelligence, and infatuated with both his car and his blonde hairdresser girlfriend. A ''Mantafahrer'' drives with his elbow sticking out of the window, therefore the drivers side door is always rusty from the underarm sweat. His car is always lowered, tuned and decorated with a foxtail on the aerial and a " Kenwood" sticker on the rear window. The Manta owners also have a rivalry with Volkswagen Golf GTi owners ("''Golfkrieg''", which in German also means "Gulf War"), often racing them. His education level is generally at most limited to Hauptschule, where he may have had to repeat several classes, and he likes to use interjections "Ey" and "Boah". When speaking to women, he shows extremely direct flirting behaviour ... [...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 prior to its merger with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to form Stellantis in 2021. Most of the Opel lineup is marketed under the Vauxhall Motors, Vauxhall brand in the United Kingdom since the 1980s. Some Opel vehicles were badge engineering, badge-engineered in Australia under the Holden brand until 2020, in North America and China under the Buick, Saturn Corporation, Saturn (until 2010), and Cadillac brands, and in South America under the Chevrolet brand. 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 F ... [...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] |
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 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 stubble bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Kids
''New Kids'' is a Dutch comedy sketch series about a group of anti-social youths from Maaskantje, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. It was created by and . The show was first shown on ''Flabber.nl'', a Dutch blog, as a succession to ', which aired in 2001. Later, it was picked up by 101 TV and Comedy Central. It was named ''New Kids on the Block'' for the first two seasons. The show became highly popular in both the Netherlands and Germany and spawned two full-length movies, ''New Kids Turbo'' and '' New Kids Nitro''. Most of the locations shot in ''New Kids'' are filmed in the nearby village of Den Dungen. The main characters habitually use the word 'kut' ( Dutch slang for ''vagina''), usually at the end of a sentence. Overview The series follows the misadventures of a group of young men, who live in the small village of Maaskantje in North Brabant. Maaskantje's distinctly rustic and pleasant appearance as a traditional village is juxtaposed by the a ... [...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. Following 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoon
A hoon () is an Australian and New Zealand 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. Hooning is also sometimes used in the context of other activities involving high speeds such as ''skiing'', ''snowboarding'', ''skateboarding'', etc, in reference to young people going irresponsibly fast and endangering others. 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 ' (and its rhyming slang ... [...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 ( tr. ''novye russkie'') is a cliché term referring to members of a newly rich social class in the Commonwealth of Independent States who made vast fortunes in the 1990s (also referred to as "the wild nineties") in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union. 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. Not all New Russians are ethnically Russian. Initially a neutral designation, the term soon took on a negative and ironic connotation. It is used to describe people who became wealthy very quickly (often through dubious or illegal means), including major mafia figures, but who lack intelligence, culture, and sophistication. Despite their wealth, they retain the language and manners of the social strata from which they emerged. In the 1990s, "New Russians" became a staple of jokes that played on stereotypes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diesel Fuel
Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel. Therefore, diesel fuel needs good compression ignition characteristics. The most common type of diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillation, fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel are increasingly being developed and adopted. To distinguish these types, petroleum-derived diesel is sometimes called petrodiesel in some academic circles. Diesel is a high-volume product of oil refineries. In many countries, diesel fuel is standardized. For example, in the European Union, the standard for diesel fuel is EN 590. Ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DEA AG
DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG was an international oil and gas company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. It was a subsidiary of L1 Energy. In 2018, DEA owned stakes in oil and gas licenses in various countries and operated natural gas underground storage facilities in Germany. DEA is a derivation from ''Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft'', the original name of the company. On 1 May 2019, DEA merged with Wintershall to form Wintershall Dea. History The early years ''Deutsche Tiefbohr-Actiengesellschaft'' was founded in Berlin on 10 January 1899. In 1900 the headquarter was relocated to Nordhausen.James, H.; Müller, M.L.; Historische Gesellschaft der Deutschen Bank e.V.: "Georg Solmssen - ein deutscher Bankier: Briefe aus einem halben Jahrhundert 1900-1956" (Georg Solmssen - a german banker: letters from half of a century 1900-1956), C.H.Beck, 31 May 2012, references. The new company specialised in all types of mineral oil product and, among other things, raw lignite, briquettes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetten, Dass
(; German for "''Wanna bet that..?''") is a German-language Saturday entertainment television show. It is the largest and most successful television show in Europe. Its format was the basis for the British show ''You Bet!'' and the American show ''Wanna Bet?'' The shows were broadcast live six to eight times a year from different cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. There were also seven open-air summer shows, broadcast from Xanten#Antiquity, Amphitheatre Xanten, Palma, Majorca, Plaça de Toros de Palma de Mallorca, Disneyland Paris, Waldbühne Berlin, and Aspendos, Aspendos Roman Theatre. Each of the shows, which were shown without commercial interruption, was usually scheduled to last for about two to three hours, but it was not uncommon for a show to run as much as 45 minutes longer. The game show gained great popularity in the German-speaking countries through the presenters Frank Elstner, who was also the creator, and Thomas Gottschalk in the 1980s and 1990s. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Til Schweiger
Tilman Valentin Schweiger (; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor and filmmaker. He became known in the 1990s for films such as '' Manta, Manta'', '' Der bewegte Mann'' and '' Knockin' on Heaven's Door''. He went on to star in international film productions such as '' Inglourious Basterds'' and founded his own production company Barefoot Films. Films like '' Rabbit Without Ears'', '' Rabbit Without Ears 2'', '' Kokowääh'' and '' Head Full of Honey'', in which he was director, producer and actor, drew large audiences, making Schweiger the most commercially successful German filmmaker. 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. 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'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
