the Ampelmännchen, shouting match

 "Will you shut up, man!"

Biden tells a raging Trump to "shut up", president yells over his challenger -- first debate turns into a shouting match 35 days ahead of the most tense US election in recent memory.

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Variations[edit]

There are three Ampelmännchen variations in modern-day Germany – the old East German version, the old West German version, and the pan-German Ampelmännchen introduced in 1992. Each German state holds the right to determine the version used.^[17] East Germans have changed the look of Ampelmännchen traffic lights as a joke since the early 1980s; this turned into media-effective efforts to call attention to the vanishing East German Ampelmännchen in the 1990s.^[18] The Ampelmännchen on several traffic lights in Erfurt were changed through manipulation of the template, showing Ampelmännchen carrying backpacks or cameras.^[15] In 2004, Joachim Rossberg invented the female counterpart to the Ampelmännchen, the Ampelfrau, which was installed on some traffic lights in Zwickau,^[19] Dresden^[20] and Fürstenwalde.^[21]

Ampelmännchen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen

DW Travel

 

On October 3, Germany will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of its reunification. Today, many GDR remnants have disappeared, but its iconic figure on pedestrian signals, the Ampelmännchen, has become more popular than ever. This is the story of its success:

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