Maybe we can trade families?

Yeah, they were gearing up to introduce more non-smoking laws and then decided to let that go due to the backlash and media hoopla about people trying to take away cigarettes.

SNL is/was not broadcast here but maybe it's on youtube.

She was always on my 'awesome writers I need to read' list and then she started defending Paula Deen on her twitter during that Paula Deen controversy. I was disappointed.

Nothing gets between the average German and their wurst.

Do you also include their love for cars, beer, barbecue and soccer?

Yep, and right next to schools too.

In my experience political parties who are not right wing go exactly two ways.

I was about to ask the same thing.

Why yes I had people I asked to please not smoke when they were in a room with me reply that I had no right to ask that since I presumably did take the bus and thus contribute to murder. (It wasn't made clear if that was due to pollution or car accidents)

A while ago I passed a 'missing' flyer about a young girl posted to a wall and the upper middle class 18 year old girl I was with replied to my visible despair and anger upon seeing it with a flippant 'I've just seen a report on tv about that. It's not like she was kidnapped. Most of them just run away from home so…

Now realize that France is actually better at changing their smoking culture than Germany and you get an idea. I had a few conversations with people here because I despise smokers since all I ever known is the kind who doesn't give a shit about non-smokers and it is ingrained into German society. I got so frustrated…

Most absurd situations for me:

Just to let you know my comment on this/our conversation has also been deleted.

Just to let you know that our conversation has also been deleted by Jez so we can only see it in our private view function. It's not on the page anymore.

German healthcare actually sucks. It's nowhere near the Canadian system.

If it had anything to do with trolls. They had a pretty good system in place to keep trolls at bay. They did away with it to let people deal with that on their own.

Men.

I've heard of that happening a lot. Disagree with one of the writers? Your comments will miraculously disappear. It doesn't really bode well on Jez' reputation.

I'm kind of wondering...I can't see this comment show up either. So they might have deleted it from the page as well and it only shows up to me and the people that replied to me when we look for it.