Not the weirdest thing I've seen by far, but the grossest was the time my seatmate during my AM commute was a young kid clearly on his way home from a night out, puking into a massive trash bag his friends had helpfully supplied him.

Do not ask, it is clear from this that despite being thirsty like the Sahara they view any and all attention as attacks. Also do not make eye contact. Puff yourself up to look bigger than you are. Do not run, their eyes only track movement. If confronted, punch at the gills.

Young females ARE in fact the primary developers of new language across cultures!

Oh, that would've been good, especially since that would make me sound a bit like a bird myself: Ptak! Ptak! Ptak!

It's not bad at all - I think this is super-cute, and how most of us non-famous-people look for semiformal events.

Right, but even if she's paying for the procedure out of pocket, it's likely that the state propped up some of the incidentals and infrastructure related to her visit.

It's more like saying, I've covered this twice already, move on.

I agree as long as she had her surgery in a private hospital, with all doctors and nurses receiving their education outside of Germany, which is possible but not terribly likely.

You didn't read all the comments, and posted anyway! Have a cookie!

I actually think this is the problem - it explains the back thing at least.

In Eastern Europe, people are almost catatonically unlikely to interact with each other on public transport in any way. One time, I was on a tram in Prague, and a couple got on who had clearly just come from a Renaissance-faire type situation - Dressed in old-timey clothes, weird hair, and oh yeah, the guy also had a t…

I didn't read all the comments,

Conversely in my world there are only 3 ages: older than me (40-plus), my age (late 20s-30's) and kids.

The first time I went into one of these chatrooms when I was like 13, a guy asked me if I wanted to cyber. I had literally been on the internet for 5 minutes at this point, so I thought cyber = cyberchat = chat, right? So I said yes.

I love how, just like Gamer Gate, they're taking some not-terribly-damning commentary as permission to just go apeshit (like, seriously, was that article even mean or was it as I thought kind of a David Attenborough isn't-this-weird-nature-is-just-glorious-in-its-diversity document?) Just talking about them is enough…

Unless she gets it done at a private hospital, (which is possible) the infrastructure came from somewhere. Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to get, if her doctor was German-educated, his education was subsidized by taxes, too.

I mean, I get it, but the OP wasn't so rude I had to pull out my "I'm willing to take a minor financial hit so that people aren't dying in the streets!" picket sign just yet.

Maybe there's a sweet spot of breast size between too small and too large to pull this maneuver off. Because every year or so I give it a try, just to reaffirm that I'm not crazy, to feel immediately vindicated as the lower back and neck pain sets in.

How dumb do you have to be to assault someone who you believe is literally a trained assassin? Even if they didn't hand you your own ass in the moment, you'd never be safe anywhere else for the rest of your life.

Congrats, she's German. Which means the taxpayer is still definitely paying, but in general Europeans seem to have less problems with that system.