I am so embarrassed to be German when I see the age group results from Hamburg, Germany and the same is true for other results with Germans. Why do Germans have to have their titles with their names in results of races? For example Dr. Paul Kleinschwanz and Dipl. Ing. (Engineer with diploma) Frank Arschloch? There are plenty of doctors and professors and engineers in other countries (ie USA and Canada) who race and no one would know what they do. Plus what really has that to do with results in triathlons etc? I actually think our pro dentist Tom Evans in Canada should be having a title too such as Dr. Dent Tom Evans, like the German pro a few years ago Dr. Rainer Horner Mueller.
Along those lines a funny thing in Germany what I have noticed especially on the countryside is that the wife of Dr. Paulo Sousa (even if she has no high school diploma) is often called called Frau Dr. Sousa. By that logic I should really move back to Germany as my fiancee Amy is a surgeon and thus I could be called Herr Doctor Krabel in Germany. So no title purchase necessary here.
The question though is, in triathlons would a title make me faster?
I worked at a “good drug” pharmacy and it was a competition for the employees to see how many letters they could get on the phone list after their names. my buddy used to put CSI after his name (this was way before the shows). After about 4 years and 200 phone sheets the new secretary asked him what it stood for. He told her it was Certified Swim Instructor, a class he took when he was 14. I dont think she added it any longer.
M of S, Soon to be Dr. of S, Zachary Callahan
Are you racing at Nashville, if so I will see you there.
I guess it’s a superficial European thing. Over there they tell you very early (4th or 5th) grade what you can and can’t become. And the ones that get a good education feel the need to put their titles in front of their names. Idiotic. You can see those title abbreviations even in the phone book at times. A good friend of mine, a doctor, would never put his title in front of his name like that and doesn’t understand it either.
I guess it’s a superficial European thing. Over there they tell you very early (4th or 5th) grade what you can and can’t become. And the ones that get a good education feel the need to put their titles in front of their names. Idiotic. You can see those title abbreviations even in the phone book at times. A good friend of mine, a doctor, would never put his title in front of his name like that and doesn’t understand it either.
Stupid Europeans.
They do it in Mexico also so it must be more widespread than we think?
