Have you ever met a cat? They're extremely clean animals. There won't be poop or urine all over the place, because happy and healthy cats use their toilets.

There is plenty of evidence that using male forms as neutral forms for both genders isn't neutral at all, but is interpreted as referring to men only. German is a sexist language as are many others. (Source: I have a degree in this shit.)

I'm one of the skinny ones, too, and my experience was (and still is) a bit different. Up until my mid-twenties I was always underweight, no matter how much I ate. As a teenager I had a condition that resulted in daily sickness. Instead of properly diagnosing me my doctors just assumed that skinny, teen-aged and…

Ein Sternchen für Marc-Uwe Kling!

A couple of months ago blackface was featured on the popular German tv show 'Wetten dass'. The show always includes a bet where the host bets that the city they're currently shooting in can't accomplish something while the show is on air. When they were in Augsburg, home of a marionette show for kids, the task was for…

Identical twins don't always have a mystic bond either. Speaking from experience here.

And let me just add that Norway is the only Scandinavian country with a ski flying hill. Slovenia, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic are your other options.

It is incredibly awesome. The ski flying hill above is the smallest there is, others allow for jumps over 240 meters.

Just to show that women cannot only ski jump, but also ski fly, here's a video of Austria's Daniela Iraschko-Stolz flying 200m at the ski flying hill at the Kulm in 2003. It was the first time a woman jumped this far and it is still the official women's world record, because there are no official ladies ski flying…

Only three women are competing for the US. There are certain rules in ski jumping as to how many athletes a country is allowed to send, no country has ever had 10 ski jumpers in a competition.

Three out of 30 athletes are from the US: Lindsey Van, Jessica Jerome, Sarah Hendrickson.

Jag Kör Bil. Umlaut where umlaut is due. It's not even a metal umlaut, it really needs to be there.

I got a Star S9500 a few months ago, which is basically a Samsung Galaxy S4 clone, but a lot cheaper (amazon.com has it for 160$). The camera has less megapixel than advertised but still takes decent photos. Other than that it does what it's supposed to do and does it well. And it's a dual sim phone.

Viktor Klemperer's diaries.

1) The name's McKellen. With an e.

I would love for that to happen, but then she could never become their childhood friend Melody back in the UK.

I don't get it either. (I'll have to add, though, that I did like OTR, when I read it. As a teenager. I haven't read it since but I plan to now.)

My identical twin and I live in seperate countries and we don't mind. We never had this stereotypical twin thing that people often ask about. I sometimes wonder how much of a minority we are or whether it's quite normal but simply not as news worthy as stories like the one above.

Because the US really is the place to be. In Germany she would at least have the necessary health care plan to cover the hormone treatment and operations she'll need.

I was a tomboy, too. I spend more time in trees than in dresses, and even as a grown-up I like "boy/man-stuff" like cars, gadgets and sci-fi. There was however never a moment's doubt that I'm a girl/woman. The important thing is not what gender stereotyped rolls we fulfill, but how we feel about ourselves. I doubt…