Couldn’t they put a lock on the cage that the passenger can’t open themself?

Or ask any other arriving passenger if they want a hamster.

I assume it was meant to be some kind of parody. The band was called Space Curls and never did another song to my knowledge.

That picture is 10 years old.

I felt similar when I learned English. English songs are hardly ever censored on German radio, even the not so subtle ones, because kids and most adults can’t understand the lyrics. As a teen I really appreciated that my mother doesn’t understand a single word of English, I got away with stuff a lot of…

Vanessa is a name Jonathan Swift invented (a mix of his lover’s name Esther Vanhomrigh) that was later used to name some types of butterflies. There is a Greek god named Phanes though. He is the god of light and creation.

I just googled his real name and WFT he is younger than me and only 5 years older than Kylie??

Are that cousin’s parents German sailors? Kutter is German for cutter as in the type of ship.

There seem to be many parents who choose a name they either only heard and don’t know how to spell or a name they’ve only read and don’t know how to pronounce. There are some very let’s say ‘creative’ interpretations of English (and some French) names here in Germany that I can’t put into writing without inventing…

You’re joking, but my aunt actually did that in the 70s. I don’t know what she did during her pregnancies, but she would always give my cousins a sedative when it was time to sleep or when they were annoying her in some way. They are/were all functioning adults, but they all seem to have/had issues to varying degrees.…

On a funny note: My mom drowned all of her food in mustard while she was pregnant with me and I love mustard. I often put it on fries in place of ketchup or just on plain bread. My family jokes that this is because of my mom’s cravings.

Now I wonder if there is any connection between dauphin, dolphin and Delphin (German for dolphin).

In the 50s there was a tonic called Frauengold (women’s gold) that was marketed to stressed housewives to make them more ‘level-headed and objective’. One of the main ingredients was alcohol. They took it off the market in the 80s when they realized that one of the other ingredients causes cancer. One of the…

I simply can’t stand the taste of alcohol. It’s on the same level as the disgust some people have for liquorice or vegemite (coinidentally I love salty liquorice, haven’t tried vegemite yet). The only times I drank were during big celebratory moments (weddings, births etc) and there were no polite options to decline.

There was a segment on Last week tonight where they showed a lottery winner from another country who wore a bag on his head.

Wow, from tomorrow on I’ll be older than she ever had the chance to be. I’m often surprised how young some celebrities from the past were because they seem older to contemporary eyes.

I’m just glad that it isn’t my name (it’s also the name of a type of butterfly) and that the baby wasn’t born on my birthday (8th).

I’m adding that to my list of ‘things I didn’t know about babies’. They’re getting weirder the more I know about them.

It’s also the name of a character from a show I loved as a kid.

Donald Duck’s nephews are called Tick, Trick and Track in the German translation (those are not real names over here).