...are three things I like when they’re German. After watching the sullen crowd in Hamburg declining Shakira’s repeated requests for hip undulation on Live Earth (seriously, poor Shakira - why was she in Hamburg? In the rain? It was very un-Shakira...), you might think the Germans are a pretty uptight bunch.

But check out this hilarious commercial for Epuron, a German wind power company, which won a Gold Lion in last month’s Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Seriously, watch this to the end; it’s brilliant: