i actually really dislike watching people kiss... so i'm with you!

german humour is underrated, seriously! we are not very good on the comedy department - slapstick jokes are awful here - but everything political, or social satire can be great! usually you have to understand german very well though in order to get the jokes, and you have to understand various slangs and regional…

EDEKA is a slightly "better" supermarket - you pay a little more for the products, but service is excellent, it's always really really clean and you get a lot of different brands and products. And the seated cashier: we have that everywhere, but they are trying to change that in some stores, which makes me feel…

to be fair: this is not a male thing. unfortunately, many people don't believe you, or think you exaggerate until they have experienced it themselves. from very minor things like "it's really hard work to get good grades in highschool" to major issues "racism does exist/it's hard to get a well-paid job while being…

absolutely right. i wrote this here already and want to add this to your list: female characters are written as "strong" characters by making them fans of football, boxing or other "male" sports.

i hate how american women are portrayed as "strong". it's not only about kicking doors in, they are also mostly nagging ladies. no matter how legitimate their "nagging" is, it always annoys the hell out of people. you always realize: ah, this is supposed to be a STRONG female character. if you look at japanese movies…

i am from germany and i can tell you that especially with the older generations, showing feelings is considered "cheap" like it wouldn't be the real thing. the fact that she is so sober about shows "us" german-speaking folk how earnest she really is.

it's been a while since you posted this, but i still want to share: my mom was a heavy smoker in the 70s. She smoked five packages a day - not five cigarettes. she was a true chain-smoker. the moment she found out that she was pregnant, she quit completely. totally. never smoked one cigarette in her life again! now…

i think the "joke-part" of this joke is the offensive part. as in: "i am going to africa. hope i don't get aids. no of course i won't get aids, this is just a joke because you see: i am white. only black people get aids in africa. lolz" did i misread?

well, it's definitely good to let a kid make some choices and not overrule them, i'm all for that. in that particular situation however, where she was taking her kid home from daycare with public transportation, it was just not the time for that.

my thoughts exactly... but there is some form of "modern parenting" going on where you presumably traumatize your child by not letting it be the boss of everything!

i was thinking the same thing!!

i admire those women for even managing to LIVE ON and not kill themselves!!! how... what... how dare this person turn this into a catfight????

my friend is a very reasonable person, and when her toddler threw a tandrum because she didn't want to go to some place (this of course happened in public), my friend told her kid: "we are going there, and that's that!"

didn't expect to find this on jezebel, wondering if anyone is even slightly interested ;) except me of course, being from germany...

person from germany writing: you are right, age of consent is 14, as long as the older partner is not in a position of power over the younger one. so teachers, coaches etc. are not allowed to have sexual relationships with their students, trainees. still, there was a very disturbing case last year or so, where a…

when i got married, his ex-girlfriend wanted to have a say in the whole thing. she is very manipulative and looks like a girl who couldn't harm a fly, so that both me and my husband fell for her stories. she played us, played our families, she played her husband (whom we didn't know about, it just came out later). she…

yeah, you are backing it up with more facts ;) but i basically wanted to point out that the UK are going a different direction with many things and that for some of my friends who migrated to the UK from Germany, health care issues were a little difficult to resolve (but possible, nonetheless). Saying that this…

the UK is part of the EU, but not like other major partnering countries (e.g. France, Germany etc.) because they don't accept the European currency (EURO). Nevertheless: I am a citizen of the EU and I couldn't get free healthcare in the UK - this is not how the EU works. The UK is an exception, and even if it were…

i love how he mentions the turkey. what about drone strikes? what about guantanamo? it's not that i don't think you can't say something against animal cruelty - but i would imagine that obama is much more at fault directly and personally (what with the kill lists etc.) for drone strikes than for thankgsgiving. "And…