I remember one of my friends, who was just starting to learn German, asking me if I actually see a table as something "manly." It made me laugh so hard how genuine he was with this question and how ludicrous this idea was to see a random object literally as something "male" or "female"!

Oh my gawd, YES! The numbering particles are driving me insane! Especially since I don't always agree with what the Japanese consider round, flat, or whatever else there is (and then they always have something completely WEIRD in a category that made sense up to the point the weird thing came up!)... I REALLY want to…

Just out of interest, whereabouts in Germany do you live? Small town or big city? North, West, East or South? Attitudes towards working mums are vastly different depending on where you live I find. I moved from the West (near Cologne) to the South and find the people here SO much more conservative! And I don't think…

It IS weird - languages are weird anyway I always find! I'm trying to learn Japanese and their whole grammar is just so strange to a Germanic language person like me. (amazingly structured though!). Also kanji.

Yeah, my mum has been severely depressed all her life including a suicide attempt when I was still very little. She never really explained her depression to us or sought enough help to always properly care for us. I think now that my sisters have children and have also had to go through some mental health crises…

I have noticed that since my sisters have become mothers they are a LOT nicer to and more lenient towards my dad, though strangely they have become a lot harder on my mum. Weird.

I call my mother maybe every 3 weeks if she is in the country (she and her husband travel a LOT), and I try everything in my power to avoid haveng to call my dad and step mum because they are driving me mental and having to ring them makes me have panic attacks before and uncontrollable fits of sobbing after. If it…

The fact that you just called grown women "chicks" is indeed pretty complain-worthy, but meh, I can't be arsed really, chirp chirp chirp.

This is kind of weird to me. Firstly, Roman languages have different genders as well (only male and female though, not a third one, at least I know this to be true for Italian and French) and I don't hear anyone complain about it there (though the French are pretty over-protective of their language traditions as far…

It would be if you said "das Jüngchen" (also: "das Männchen")! Most things in a foreign language don't make sense to non-native speakers really because language is often completely arbitrary. English pronunciation is ridiculously all over the place, for instance.

I don't remember Dylan Farrow blaming an entire religious community and painting them as savages, but sure, this is totally the same thing and you are totally not missing the point of what I am saying.

Former bookstore employee here, and I would get that question when a) standing behind my desk and typing into my computer, or b) while shelving books. I was always very tempted to turn around and just go: "Nah, I'm a customer. I just love randomly re-arranging the merchandise in shops I visit."

Yes! What is it with people describing the colour of the book they are looking for??? My favourite bookstore customer EVER was this lady who came into the shop and said: "I am looking for this book... I saw it on one of your tables about a year ago, and it was blue and had a clown on the cover." She got SO upset and…

And also - do they wear it while working out at a gym chain?!

It is still such a bizarre story! Basically, the jet flew in the exact opposite direction it was meant to go without anyone noticing, and then it just crashed in the ocean. Just so strange (and scary and sad and I hate flying)! I really hope they will find out what happened, and that these poor relatives will find…

Because otherwise Jezebel would have about a gazillion less articles to write?

That picture of the karaoke bday party makes me SO happy! From the drunk guy in the background (who might very well be very famous, I just don't know him) to Jessica C. obviously being so into the song she is singing, right down to Hiddles being all ambitious focus while browsing the song choices. Love! Also, damn I…

Thank you for confirming my suspicions! I fell into the troll trap twice today, lesson learned... for now...

Logan (and his actor, urgh) was the WORST! That smirk of his...arrrrrgh. And I completely agree about Rory basically turning into a snobby elitist by the end of the show. She was so unaware of her own privileged upbringing it was painful to watch. And as I already commented somewhere else, this whole "Rory is so…

What is up with people getting personal in their comments today? Is it really necessary to become this personal and attacking my intelligence in such a base way in order to make a point? Geez, is it a full moon or something? You do not seem to know much about my country's history and the impact that the Third Reich…