I love that show. There is also a similar one that doesn’t go that far back in time and it features a family, ‘back in time for dinner’.

‘Do I have to remove the head before or after baking?’

And the things they passed off as ‘salads’.

I have some old recipes from my great-grandmother (no idea how old they are, parts of the cover are missing) that never mention temperature because they were meant to be baked in a fire. Trying those is always an adventure. I also saw a show recently where they explained that before people had clocks, they would…

I never had that illusion. My grandmother’s and mother’s recipe folders are full of clippings from magazines, parts of packaging or photocopies.

There are some countries where traditionally women don’t change their name and others where all the children get the mother’s name. We’d need to compare data.

A few other examples would be Cinderella’s, Alice’s, Wendy’s and Sleeping Beauty’s (the fairies fighting over pink/blue makes much more sense in that context) dresses in the Disney movies. You can also find old magazines that advertise baby clothes or tell you how to furnish a nursery in the ‘correct’ colours.

A friend got so annoyed by people asking ‘what she was having’. One time her bf snapped and just said ‘a baby’.

Up until the early to mid 20th century pink was a boys colour and blue was a girls colour. Pink was seen as a softer variety of the dominant red and light blue as a variety for serene blue. Spanish bull fighters often wear pink for the same reason. Little boys also wore dresses because it made changing diapers or…

Well, even if you did have a boy. Who’s to say that he wouldn’t change his name when would get married? I know a guy whose father never provided anything but his name and he happily took his wife’s name.

My dad once told me that he had hoped that I’d be a girl because then I wouldn’t have to fight in a war or do compulsory military service. (Germany has abolished compulsory service a few years ago btw.)

The Habsburgs kind of managed that. They became so inbred that their last member was sterile.

Does she know what opinion the Nazis had of Eastern Europeans? She might want to read up on that before she starts claiming their values.

It feels aeons longer.

I don’t know how much filters mess with your face, but the freckles move in a different way than the rest of her face. They don’t move the same way as the glasses either though.

From what I’ve seen, apparently every second you spend on yourself (make-up of any kind or just getting dressed nicely) is a second you don’t spend on your child and therefore EVIL.

Whereas the joy of seeing them fail so spectacularly is Schadenfreude.

My hometown had an event where the Catholic and the Protestant church work together and have a joined service. The Protestant priest happened to be a woman. They had a weird quarrel where the Catholic priest demanded that the Protestant priest could lead part of the service only if she didn’t wear her robes, but…

Ebay is your friend.

Here in Germany violent video games are handled like cigarettes or alcohol. You have to be an adult to buy them (technically friends or parents can’t buy it for you either, but there are always loopholes) and the really hardcore ones can’t be openly advertised, they have to be in a special section or you have to ask…