What is an Ossi’s favourite sport? The bobsled: there’s a wall on one side, a wall on the other, and it’s all downhill.
East and west Germans, crudely nicknamed Ossis and Wessis, have been trading ostensibly harmless jokes about each other for decades. They are part of the cultural furniture of reunification, a way for people on both sides to smooth over the difficulties of rebuilding a nation after 45 years of division.
