"See, Hegelicus? They don't even know how to drink a beer! It's not a schnaps, but it's not a glass of tar either!"

"Yes sir, those Babylonians surely..."

"Oh stop it, Hegelicus! You don't know the Babylonians! They are very nice people!"

"But sir, you said yourself they are not able to do pretty much any..."

"Shut up, Hegelicus! The only problem with the Babylonians is that I wasn't accepted cash the first time I was there. They just kept repeating 'kash, kash, kash, kash' - it was dreadful."

"So the Babylonians WERE a pain..."

"That does it, Hegelicus! Just be silent. We are in Germania now, and we are supposed to be blaming the Germanics for all of this. When in Babylon, you can tell them what poor beer-drinkers they are."