Post #354988 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jan 15, 2008 7:06 AM

Oh good, you can vouch for the fact that even in Germany, Heino is an anomaly :)
Regarding that family, you were lucky they were wearing underwear. I remember running around nekkid with my girlfriend at home, my mom did not mind. Germany is the birthplace of nudism after all.. During my research for the BOT, Oceanic Arts told me about a customer of theirs known as Herman The German who had an elaborate Tiki Bar in his backyard (called the Bar-I-Hai). He and his wife were professional ice skaters, and the whole family was also into nudism, and sent out Christmas cards like that. :D

Regarding Tiki culture, it is really not a rigid doctrine, its earmark actually is that it has an incredibly wide bandwidth for individual interpretation, that is what got me so fascinated with it in the first place. But if it looses all relation to its roots, it becomes sort of pointless, and is not funny anymore. It's humor depends on its cultural context. -Hmmm...Germans are nude intellectuals, I guess. :)