I'm quite sorry, Vdiamond, I didn't think I had said anything uncomplimentary about sear himself, for whom I actually feel some sympathy, but about his writing style and his veracity, which is only in question from his own statement:
Sear is telling us that he "spent years in Germany" but that he was not a resident of Bavaria, but that he spent most of his time "north of Munich," which would place him, oddly enough, directly in the center of Bavaria, and surrounded by Bavaria on all sides. How did you manage that, Sear? Did you never notice that the weather maps on TV showed you that's where you were, or that the newspaper was called "Bayrische Post?" Or that the highway signs were so marked? Or that the visa in your passport gave your local address? Or that for purposes of military readiness you would have been briefed on where you were in relation to where the enemy was? In other words, your story is quite hard to credit.
Whether you were in the Army or the AF, they are all soldiers. Or were you in the Bavarian Navy? It still doesn't clarify or explain the amazing geographic feat of having spent most of your time north of Munich ... yet not in Bavaria.
I'm not even interested in the explanation, whatever new hedge it will be. I see from a note dropped in myEZ inbox that I'm wasting my breath, Sear has already been outed on other forums for similar claims regarding having served in Vietnam , being a law enforcement officer, etc. I'm not trying to humiliate the guy, but there is a limit to how far you can bend the truth and expect people not to notice.
Quote:I suggest that anyone who has an interest to consult the map of Germany. Munich is located in the south of Bavaria ( also called Bayern on some maps), on the edge of the Bavarian highlands, called the Oberbayern. If you draw a line north from Munich, you will see the territory is all inside Bavaria, until you come to the southern border of the state of Thuringia. Thuringia from 1946 until 1992 was surrounded by a fortified wall called the Iron Curtain, so we can presume Sear was excluded from residence there, or maybe not, depending on his powers of fantasy.
sear said:
In addition, while I visited Bavaria (and even drove a BMW Bavaria) I did not hold permanent residence in Bavaria. Therefore even if true, the relevance (if any) of jb's point regarding Bavarian "volksmusic" escapes me. I spent most of my time in Germany north of Munich.
Sear is telling us that he "spent years in Germany" but that he was not a resident of Bavaria, but that he spent most of his time "north of Munich," which would place him, oddly enough, directly in the center of Bavaria, and surrounded by Bavaria on all sides. How did you manage that, Sear? Did you never notice that the weather maps on TV showed you that's where you were, or that the newspaper was called "Bayrische Post?" Or that the highway signs were so marked? Or that the visa in your passport gave your local address? Or that for purposes of military readiness you would have been briefed on where you were in relation to where the enemy was? In other words, your story is quite hard to credit.
Whether you were in the Army or the AF, they are all soldiers. Or were you in the Bavarian Navy? It still doesn't clarify or explain the amazing geographic feat of having spent most of your time north of Munich ... yet not in Bavaria.
I'm not even interested in the explanation, whatever new hedge it will be. I see from a note dropped in myEZ inbox that I'm wasting my breath, Sear has already been outed on other forums for similar claims regarding having served in Vietnam , being a law enforcement officer, etc. I'm not trying to humiliate the guy, but there is a limit to how far you can bend the truth and expect people not to notice.
